My external drive is NTFS. It might randomly cock up occasionally but there are guides online on how to fix drive errors, usually just using the native disk management tool. Or just plug in to a windows computer to fix errors. Never an issue, and you might want to keep it NTFS should you need to plug into a windows computer.

As expected, ThinkPad. I have a Yoga X1, the stylus and touch works fine. But if you’re installing Linux take great care of to have copious amounts of swap or swapfile because ram is low.

Reminds me of an alias error in building a package on AUR. By 1am I was done looking for solutions. In the morning, lo and behold, an AUR update revealed a new package released at 3am prior to fix the alias error.

Bazzite is KDE plasma based, it’s a desktop with some additional tweaks and up to date functionality to run steam and games out of the box. It’s still virtually the same as Fedora. Good pick in my opinion.

First boot may create problems (especially with legacy nVidia) so dual boot makes the blame not fall on Linux.

I only see maths as really examinable, but other forms of knowledge should be garnered from experience, such as using a microscope and identifying cells, etc.

This is actually the crux of why education needs to be reformed. Are exams really testing our intelligence?

I’m using it on my laptop as a teacher. My gaming PC with steam is linux. I see improvements in performance every half year.

Had a student want to use it. I told him he needs to dual boot. Keep his options open. Then time will tell whether he will make the great leap.

I had 3 files installed and one was proton when I downloaded my first game.

Started my EndeavoursOS gaming PC. Oh no, my new-Steam lists the game as windows only?

Proceeds to install proton and related software and bam, I can game.

I know it’s not Bazzite but there is sure as hell little reason not to use Linux any more except for enterprise computers and laptops.

“beginner level”

That sounds like a very specific user case, I’m using a laptop for teaching with a smallish screen so gnome actually improves my workflow and the visibility of the OS. I don’t need theming either. Gnome is really aimed at productivity imo.

I only play older games, opensource games (like Pioneer Space Sim, Luanti), and emulate PS2 mostly (could do PS3/4 you bet) so AMD is fine for my use case and works out of the box. I know Nvidia Linux support has improved which means the latest graphics cards also pretty much work out of the box too. But by principle, I support AMD for the work they put into working on Linux.

Older graphics cards (like mine in a laptop bought in 2014) were not supported by Nvidia except through the open source one. So the performance would be sub par.

Doesn’t it have an eMMC drive. A card like that might be slow as hell, but it would load up a live iso eventually.

That horse is grinning I can tell

Ah yes, I knew I was messing two words up and forgot preceded! 👍

Oh hot damn, first time I used that word.

Maybe presaged?

I get the joke, but the sundials of ancient civilisations precluded clocks.

You could still distrohop a bit if you want. Debian (as well as mint) is stable, loads of deb packages out there. I really like Fedora (less packages for my use case but COPR is similar to AUR in that there are thousands of packages outside of the main repositories). Ultimately like they said, Arch is really out there with the rolling releases, but sometimes you’ll need to reconfigure. Recently firmware packages got split up and that required manual intervention. Haven’t had any breaks so far, so EndeavourOS is a good choice imo.