I love the vertical task bar in KDE. It does exactly what I want it to, and that’s so refreshing.

Sadly I’m in this boat. We use Oracle database and have stored procedures all over the place. For us, the cost to convert everything would probably be huge.

I’d love to switch to PostgreSQL.

Bazzite already fills this niche. It just doesn’t have the Steam name on it.

There are subjective reasons to not like Mint just like there are for every distro.

I, personally, would not use Mint. But it’s great for a lot of folks.

There’s nothing wrong with Mint and there’s never been a better time to move to Linux.

There is a better way. Instead of compiling when you launch the game, you can enable background processing of shaders. This will happen while you’re not gaming. If you don’t do other stuff on that computer while you’re not gaming and it is turned off or asleep instead, it might not help.

I had some issues with Bazaar, but it’s easy to switch back to Discover or back to Bazaar.

People think I’m crazy to not claim free games from Epic. I don’t, and won’t even have an account on that cursed platform.

Instead of Kinoite, I’d suggest either Bluefin or Aurora. They’re made by the same group as Bazzite.

Bazzite was my first attempt at really daily driving Linux. I ended up on Aurora dev and I don’t have any reasons to move to something different.

The U-Blue OSs really feel like the future to me.

Incredibly cool tech, but it just works.

Those icons are definitely for someone, just not me.

For me, Linux wasn’t viable as a daily driver until Valve made gaming work.

But now that they have, it’s great.

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.