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  • Second impression of Garuda (Arch based). My first impression was the dragonized version, which is KDE with lots of mods to make it Mac like, but with extra window animations.

    I like things simple, so when I tried Garuda again, I installed the Gnome version. Other than some weirdness getting my Nvidia card working with Wayland, it has run better than anything else on my laptop.


  • Fully agree with this. There will be a slight learning curve since it will be different from what your used to, but it’s friendly enough to figure out.

    If you know the windows program you want to use just search something like “Linux alternative for x” (sometimes there is specific KDE or Gnome progs)




  • Ha, I did the same thing. Was getting really tired of pip issues and attempting to use pyenv and messing up a lot. Figured I’d start clean.

    Didn’t realize so much depended on python and ended up needing to rebuild the whole thing.

    Now I don’t mess with python on my host and only use VMs for Dev or messing around.








  • Any Ubuntu affiliated distro is required to use snaps, so Kubuntu will use them. Startup times are terrible, but running performance should be the same.

    Another simple distro to try would be either Mint or Pop-OS. Both are still Ubuntu based, but without snaps

    Mint’s interface (Cinnamon) is similar to Windows, Pop-OS uses a modified GNome



  • Self hoster of Invidious, I’ve just setup a docker instance with a Watchtower docker container running too for auto updates. No real maintenance needed.

    NewPipe on Android

    There are definitely times where things will stop working for a bit (due to Google shananagans) but the devs seem on top of it. So it doesn’t take too long before it’s working again.