It worked fine for years tho?

Yep, I do, as well as all permissions

Thanks for the summary!

https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx

I’m constantly switching between Gnome and KDE (Bluefin, Aurora, Bazzite, Kinoite, Silverblue, whatever) and I never had any issues.
The only thing that gets messed up a bit is theming, where I have to change the GTK theme, and sometimes the window buttons when I go from KDE to Gnome, which is also reverted in just one click in Gnome tweaks.

You can check out !balconygardening@slrpnk.net.

I’m doing !hydroponics@slrpnk.net, but I also have quite a few pots of soil (dirt) there.

They are mainly there for co-plants that attract beneficial insects and help to improve the biodiversity of this concrete hell I live in.

This “intact” ecosystem with healthy organic living soil, beneficial plants and other stuff also has the benefit that it attracts predatory insects like ladybugs, which naturally kill any lice and other harmful pests without any pesticides.

Oh, and it looks nice, and I always can gift other people I like some flowers if the need arises, for example as a last-minute birthday present ;)

I will also create an insect protection community here on SLRPNK if you’re interested :)

100% AMD, for sure. AMD won’t make much problems and works ootb.

Nvidia on the other hand… if you already have a Nvidia GPU, then the proprietary drivers work pretty well, but even those won’t work flawlessly and still cause problems for many people.
And the FOSS drivers are still in the early stages and won’t cut it. So why spend lots of money for a piece of hardware that won’t give you the performance you paid for?

Also, Nvidia clearly doesn’t care about PCs or its’ users, so why support such a shitty company with your money?

I’ve also got my first “Hot chicks in your area, click this link for a hot chat 🥵” message in my inbox.

Guys, we’ve made it. We’re officially mainstream now! Yay!

1. Distro choice

I would recommend you either Aurora or Bluefin.
Both are pretty much the same, but differ in their desktop environment.

Traditionally, Gnome (Bluefin) always has been the champion in terms of being tablet-like, but from what I’ve heard, KDE has surpassed Gnome in terms of how well it works as a tablet UI.

You can install the one or the other, and then later “rebase” to the other variant without needing to reinstall anything if you want to try the “competitor” or if you’re unhappy.

This basically switches out the base system, but your installed apps and pictures are decoupled and kept. Like just doing a big update :D

Why do I recommend you exactly that, and not just base Fedora or Kubuntu or whatever?

Simple - you need to install the linux-surface kernel (and stuff), because without it, nothing will work, no stylus, no sleep, no battery, basically nothing.

But said modified kernel is nothing ordinary, and might shit itself randomly.

Not only would you have to install everything by hand, which was a task that not only let me return to Windows once, but twice as Linux noob! It also causes a lot of headache when you have to spend your evening fixing it via CLI or whatever.

Here uBlue comes handy: you can “fix” your system with just one click.

• Smort silica rock not thinking?
• Grub says “NØ” after system update?
• Me not care, me pressing space while booting, me selecting yesterday image, me watching YouTube when eating because me don’t care, knowing that dev daddy is already working on fix that ship tomorrow.

You don’t even have to do manual updates or whatever, everything is done in the background for you, just like on your smartphone.

You have to select the “I have a Surface device” option, and then everything comes pre-bundled and (hopefully) just werks™

2. Note taking and PDFs

I don’t know 🤷

3. SD card

🤷

4. Stylus

I believe KDE is better, because it has many wacom tablet input settings and features, but I sold that crappy Surface ages ago when Gnome was the obvious choice. The 🤷 also applies here I guess, because it was two years ago and felt like a completely different age compared to today.

I’ve tried pretty much any FOSS launcher out there, and I always return to Kvaesitso.

It feels very natural and smooth, while being minimalistic and extremely functional.

Especially the search is the best there is. The built in calculator (“1+1”; “3 inch in cm”; etc.) is so fucking useful and finding stuff is blazing fast.

I recommend you doing so, but not as a security measure, more of so as a “keeping everything organised”-measure.

I like to keep my host OS clean and install everything containerised

You did everything right. Boot into the image that works, and then apply rpm-ostree rollback. This reverses the broken image and the working one, so you’ll boot into this one the next time you boot up until you change something in the order, e.g. by updating.

In the meantime, wait a day or so and then update again.

On what channel are you on? bazzite:latest or bazzite:stable?

Same. I still really love Gnome with my heart, but it just felt… inferior… compared to KDE 6.

Everything looked sharper, like if I had switched from 720p to 4k, I could access my hardware better (e.g. control the brightness of my monitor, etc.) and much more.

Sure, mushroom spores can be unhealthy. But they’re only produced by ripe fruiting bodies, and in this case, we have mycelium, basically the “root structure”.

The cool thing about it is that you can form it to any shape you want.

For acoustic insulation, you need more than just a nice material. You need physical structures that allow the sound waves to break and dissipate. I already thought abour the puffed up concrete, but as a sheet only being a few centimetres thick, it weights too much and reflects too much noise.

Acoustic foam, you know, those with pyramids, is great, but often flammable, and, you guessed it, another source of non-recyclable plastic trash some day. I will definitely consider it, but only if I don’t find something else.

Both the plant fiber based/ supplemented concrete and mycelium are more eco friendly and have great properties, like being non-flammable by nature, not having unhealthy chemicals (formaldehyde, etc.), being shapeable, and more.

Dried mycelium is supposed to be inflammable, since it is made out of chitin, not wood. That’s why it is quite hyped as building material. Usually, with most other, you have to add flame retardants, but those chemicals can be a bit harmful.

Also, I just love mushrooms (as an organism) and think, that they can also be very useful for things other than food.

Androids home screen is just another app, and you can replace pretty much anything.
Your default phone caller app, camera app, and as mentioned the launcher. Even the default icon pack! I’ve already posted my Android customisation here, I’ll see if I can find it :)

Regarding backups: check out, if your WiFi router supports network sharing. If so, you can just plug in an USB or external drive and share it over your local network

For the Android home screen I can wholeheartedly recommend you Kvaesitso. It has a very similar workflow to Gnome, you will love it :)