slowbyrne

Definitely not just for handhelds. Check out Universal Blue images which are built ontop of Fedora Atomic (the immutable variant). Bazzite is an awesome gaming distro that's rock solid. Bluefin is awesome for Devs and more technical people. But even for non-devs it's awesome since the images are purpose build with and without all the devs tools. You pick your preferred DE (KDE or GNOME), and your graphics drivers.

Almost everything is setup for you that you would have to do mannually compared to Fedora Atomic, and additional quality of life tweaks are included as well.

Been running, Bazzite on my gaming rig for months now and it's been great. Running the Cosmic/Gnome UBlue image on my framework laptop for months and its also been amazing.

I've had installations hang a long while before eventually succeeding. I would also ensure Windows has hibernate turned off and quick boot disabled.

This should add the flathub remote to the system and then install all the existing user packages into the system level. Then removes all the user level packages.

flatpak --system remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak --system install $(flatpak list --columns=application)
flatpak --user remove $(flatpak list --columns=application)

Personally I would just pick all the ones you'd like to be global (system level) and leave the rest at the user level.

Check out GrapheneOS. They sandbox google play services so you have a lot more control over what is sent to google. Might be a good middle ground.

Now that apple has their own silicon, all the older intel based MacBooks are pretty cheap. I just replaced my wife's 2013 MacBook Airs battery, upgraded the drive, and installed Linux. It's been a solid little laptop. Not the fastest but there's probably a few pro models within your price range. Just make sure to get at least a 16gb model since the ram is soldered. Might have issues with the webcam, but the wifi drivers are pretty good.

Even though I don't typically recommend an immutable distro to people with minimal Linux experience, as a dev and a gamer I've been pretty happy with the various uBlue images. Bluefin is a great out of the box image for devs and the uBlue images have a lot of compatability improvements over the Fedora ostree image their based off of. Bazzite is another good one specifically built for gaming.

My personal definition of "the year of the Linux desktop" is when we hit a market share % that starts to convince companies to take Linux support seriously. I don't think we're that far off from that happening and if Microsoft keeps adding in these terrible "features" to windows, more people will move over. Is 2024 the year for that? Probably not but I wouldn't be surprised if it happens before 2030.

The core argument is that capitalism pushes for this outcome, which your link actually confirms. I also find it a bit odd to claim that "x is a myth" and link to an opinion piece article as if it's a peer reviewed study.

Don't give up, try a scrapper if the finish sits on top of the vaneer. If the finish soaks into the vaneer and you don't want to sand through, you can always sand back a bit and then use touch up markers with a fine tip using a close match to the wood grain colors shades to mimic the wood grain pattern overtop of the stained sections. Then reapply finish. Or just live with it as others have said. You are hyper critical of your work but others who admire and don't know about the "mistakes" likely wouldn't notice and/or care.

I remember something about Ontario basically saying that they are waiting on New York to stop switching back and forth. They would just stick with DST.

Reminds me of the Kurzgesagt video "A Selfish case for Altruism". If all those people were educated and working on making the world better, that would mean more people curing diseases that you personally could die from in the future. More people solving global warming and other future unknown global issues, that could harm you or you kids in the future. Etc...

Even from a self serving angle, it's better to have more people in the world well fed, well educated, living well, and contributing to society.

The author in the article talks about how most of the wealth is either coming from capital gains and/or inheritance. They know wage isn't the thing to cap, the article is likely just trying to maximize clicks. The subject is still worth exploring and the author is very well informed.