Then I needed something in Power Bi.

A reason to not harm yourself?

Tell me about it: I have great ideas that I just need other people to bring to fruition so I can use it.

One option is Atuin which you can also use with a server connection (self-hosted or not) to sync bash history across computers.

Does LMDE do wayland? If not, I wouldn’t bother.

Bazzite or some other Fedora variant. Nobara has some tweaks for nVidia, full codec support, and specifically supports programs like daVinci Resolve, KDenlive and OBS Studio in the Welcome screen. Not an immutable distro like Bazzite though, which depending on how you like to install stuff, might not be a bad thing.

Fedora/Nobara.

I always thought the more developers you added the higher the likelihood of stalling.

… that depends on this FOSS app.

Good. Redhat seemed like it was going the other direction given it’s dropping of Plasma from the RHEL packages. They certainly support Gnome with money and developers, maybe we’ll see some of that support extend to KDE going forward.

You might want to look at BlendOS. It’s not up to NixOS’s level of complexity, but it gets you atomic rollbacks. It might meet your time constraints better than the learning curve on NixOS.

Having pulled a toilet out to fix something more than once, the bathtub is exactly where you want to put it while you work.

Burn Snap out of there and I’m in.

Edit: looks like they’re not putting much towards snaps, it’s mostly Flatpak and systemd-sysext. I’m good with that.

I was a sysadmin with some Linux usage in 1998, does that count?

I upvoted this because I hate it.

Just playing a Collective Soul compilation on repeat does the same for me.

This is cool too, though.

Plasma.

When I try Gnome, within a couple minutes I encounter the Save dialog that defaults the cursor to the Search field instead of the Filename field, and the top of my head goes spinning across the room, and I uninstall it.

Carry it printed on a sign behind your back until he pops up, then whip it out after the first question. Then walk away after he’s read it, while conspicuously taking handwritten notes and looking back over your shoulder.

You forgot -XNG

I see what my friends have with their kids and grandkids now, and really wish I had people that care for me that much. Honestly, it’s kinda gotten to where I don’t want to go to events because it just reminds me of how that chance is lost now.

I wish we had. I’m regretting it more as I get older.

If you’re on Mint still, that’s X11 fucking you over. AFAIK, Mint hasn’t moved to Wayland, though you might be able to install an experimental session, but I wouldn’t trust it like a distro that’s all-in on Wayland.

I used to contend with monitors jumping around like a jack russell terrier with X11, never keeping settings, dropping out due to ACPI. Wayland has fixed pretty much everything I had going wrong with that stuff.

Boot a live USB of some distros that default to Wayland like Fedora, and see how it reacts to screensaving, then make some choices from there.