SavvyWolf

Don’t know if this is true for all environments, but you might be able to just create a file in ~/Templates for it to show up in that list.

Remember folks: Gender fluid is flammable.

And then there’s the guy whose like “this comic could be two panels shorter!” because timing and pacing is a myth, apparently.

This is why you use Arch/Nix because the package is likely in their repos.

The software probably still won’t work, but you can waste more time on it.

Dual booting is fine. Bitlocker just makes it so that the installer isn’t able to resize the Windows partition (since it’s encrypted), but you can resize it in Windows to create enough space to put Mint on. You can also disable bitlocker entirely, but your files will no longer be encrypted.

There’s worry about the bootloader being nuked, but I think that’s a bit of an overreaction. Now everything is EFI, Windows shouldn’t touch other OSes. If it does, then that doesn’t require a full reinstall; it’s possible to boot from the live USB (the installer) and reinstall just the bootloader.

I don’t know if they still do it, but Mint used to do staggered updates (through their update manager) for some packages. They would start out making the update only available for, say, 10% of people and then slowly built up to 100% if no issues were discovered.

One thing that many guides tend to skip is how to install software. People coming from Windows might try to install software the “Windows way” by going to the website and downloading them. That is just likely to cause pain and suffering for a number of reasons.

Instead, every beginner friendly distro has its own flavour of software centre that users should be encouraged to use instead. Maybe even include a link to flathub in the guide or something.

Nowadays I find myself checking changelogs to see what features they’ve broken and what AI features I now need to disable…

Encryption and offsite backups. If someone nicks it then they don’t get any private information. And with backups it’s easy enough to just push the data onto a new device.

Ubuntu 25.10 entered beta on September 18th. It releases on October 9th. It’s still in beta.

… Yeah? Beta software having bugs isn’t the hottest of takes.

I’m willing to bet that if the GNU coreutils getting bumped a minor version caused widespread issues for a day, nobody would even bother reporting in it…

So, to address the elephant in the room… Why does commenting on a blog post need any kind of account? Why not have fields for “name” and “comment body” and use capcha and/or manual approval to guard against spam?

Like, why does everything need to be tied to an account nowadays?

I’ve always done things bare metal since starting the selfhosting stuff before containers were common. I’ve recently switched to NixOS on my server, which also solves the dependency hell issue that containers are supposed to solve.

Average xdg noncompliance moment.

Rust and C are the same “tier” of performance, but GNU coreutils has the benefit of several decades of development and optimization that the Rust one needs to catch up with.

This would never happen if it were licensed under GPL. /s

Is the only reason they don’t have AI because they just don’t have the resources to set up and run their own models and bots?

Syncing software is not a backup. I’ve had cases where they get confused and end up deleting data. They’ll also blindly copy over corrupted or randomwared files.

Exfat does not support permissions, so when it gets moved to the drive, that information is lost.

If permission information is important to you and compatibility with non-linux devices isn’t, you can reformat the device as ext4 to support all linux features.