Those icons are definitely for someone, just not me.

I run Rancher Desktop on Windows… But only because my company won’t let me use Linux, and I only use it for Dev and testing.

All that to say, I have no idea why else you would be running a container engine on a Windows host.

Gaming really benefits from up to date kernels. So Ubuntu just isn’t a good choice for that.

I started on Bazzite but transitioned to Aurora for my personal PC and wife’s laptop. God I wish I could use it for work. I’m forced to use Windows or Mac.

Joke’s on you, Jorge. I use U-Blue just for the great general purpose desktop experience.

He’s not talking about Bazzite, though. Bluefin and Aurora are built from the same cloud tech as Bazzite, but are more focused towards devs, specifically devs who use containers.

I got to update my WSL on my work machine to Debian 13. Very exciting.

Bazzite is great, but take a look at Aurora and Bluefin, too. All built from the same community with slightly different goals.

I started with Bazzite and ended up staying with Aurora.

I own a tiny bed and breakfast. We don’t even use OTAs like Booking.

We probably lose business by not doing it. But fuck them.

+1 for Ubiquiti, but I’d suggest one of the cheaper models with built in WiFi unless you plan on having an intricate network.

Spectacle is absolutely the best snipping tool I’ve ever used. I love it.

Bazzite is phenomenal. Just know that it works a little differently than what I’d call “legacy” distros. So when googling things, just know that a lot of instructions for Linux won’t work for you.

If you run into trouble, hop on the discord and someone will help you.

I’ve been on Linux for 10 months or so, but I still have Windows installed on a separate disk. I guess if I needed the space I’d worry about deleting it, but I’m good for now. I have booted into Windows only a handful of times over those 10 months, and the stretches get longer and longer.

I chose the middle option for things I’m not hosting, but could see myself hosting in the future.

The worst part about quadlets, IMO, is that they don’t use the same key words as podman run does. So turning a working podman container into a quadlet can be challenging.

I’m in a similar boat. The difference for me is that I can definitely tell times where I’m faster. But there are still times where I fumble around. I know that eventually, I’ll be way faster using vim motions than I ever was without them.

When I first started actually trying to use it to do work, it felt pretty bad. But once I got over the hump it felt better.

I think I’m at the point where I’m at least as fast as I used to be, if not slightly faster.

I work in Java almost every day, and I’ve never once thought it looked like porn.xml

The ease of switching really just depends. Myself, I’ve had several stumbles switching, but I’m still so happy I did and I’m not going back. My wife on the other hand, has had no issues switching from her Chromebook, because she’s a super basic user who spends all her time in the browser.

Check out Tailscale. It uses Wireguard under the hood, but it’s magic.

containers should be immutable and not be able to write to their internal filesystem

This doesn’t jive with my understanding. Containers cannot write to the image. The image is immutable. However, a running container can write to its filesystem, but those changes are ephemeral, and will disappear if the container stops.