If your PC has multiple ssd slots, then you can consider dual boot so that you can just keep the windows install there for using such programs.

If you do not have that option, then connecting to your printer should work without the proprietary program, you just need the correct drivers. Then linux programs will be able to print directly to the priner.

Scanning is a different issue, this depends on your printer, the distro you use, and the available programs. You will have to do some research here.

The PC settings can sometimes be accessed in bios, and sometimes there are open-source versions of such control apps on github or similar sites. Again, here you will have to do some research.

I agree 100%. It’s amazing how stable these distros are.

I agree that those issues can be frustrating (I came from arch and now use bazzite, so I do have some cli headaches sometimes), but most newbies are not going to even open a terminal imho. For them it is unmatched in terms of stability and ease-of-use.

I do agree with you that anyone who tinkers with electronics or software should start with something else though.

Cool, thanks! I’m just getting started with self-hosting, so I doubt that I will need such on-demand scaling, but now I know where to find it if that changes.

I’m not disagreeing with the opinion that imperialism is one of the biggest large-scale problems facing humanity, and that the US is the current worst offender.

I’m just pointing out that at the root of imperialism are a few powerful people attempting to rule over the rest of us. Tech-feudalism in the digital world is another huge problem, as is the rise of fascism. And they all come from class warfare, at least in my humble opinion.

But I am also not pretending to be as informed on history and current events as many other here, and I am no attempting to lecture anyone as if I know better. That would just be decisive and counterproductive.

I agree, I just like to remind people what the end goal is.

The only conflict that matters is the class conflict. Everything else is a distraction. Eat the rich.

And still worlds better than standard android.

Nice rant!

I’m not going to nitpick, agree with you. Like you said, nuance is everywhere, you can’t talk about general things without leaving out a load of details.

I think you have the right focus. So many people are focused on false dichotomies. Right vs. Left. Innovation vs. Tradition. East vs. West. The list goes on. But they are all distractions. Trivial differences that are magnified by the 1% to keep the masses at each others throats.

The class war is the only real war. The 1% (quickly becoming the 0.0001%) vs the rest of us.

Eat the rich.

You just called luddites idiots, and then proceeded to suggest they embrace…the core tenants of luddism.

Hmmmmmm…did you read the atricle?

I have been using bazzite for over a year, and I am very happy with it. It works very well for gaming, and I have had zero troublehooting outside of getting some mod managers to work.

But immutable distros are different, in general you can’t just install GUI programs if it has no flatpak option. (for CLI stuff there are distroboxes). There are ways, but depending on what you want to do other than gaming, I would check first. Also there have been some episodes of drama among the maintainers, which makes me worry a bit about the future of the distro.

Mint is a great distro too, and from what I hear it for sure it will work well for gaming. I’d say the main differences are:

Bazzite:

• immutable, so you never have a broken setup
• lots of gaming setup done out-of-the-box

• some package installation restrictions
• some maintainer drama

Mint:

• flexible to use various methods of package installation
• No drama (?)

• Not immutable, so it can break if you fiddle with stuff and are careless
• no out-of-the-box gaming setup (but it is not a giant project to setup)

Understood.

THIS IS AWESOME!!! I’ve been working on using an obsidian vault and a podman ollama container to do something similar, with VSCodium + continue as middleware. But this! This looks to me like it is far superior to what I have cobbled together.

I will study your codeberg repo, and see if I can use your conductor with my ollama instance and vault program. I just registered at codeberg, if I make any progress I will contact you there, and you can do with it what you like.

On an unrelated note, you can download wikipedia. Might work well in conjunction with your conductor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

It’s easy to attack him for it, but the truth of the matter is: the Zionist billionares that fund the Democratic party won’t let him say anything else if he wants a chance at the white house.

And those zionist billionares have been using Israel for decades to suppress socialism in the middle east, while using campaign finance to do the same in the US.

He is helping those that he can by playing the game in a deeply flawed system.

I have been using bazzite for over a year after starting with ubuntu, and then doing a “I’m doing everything myself” arch install (I learned SO MUCH).

I love it. I got a little frustrated about some of the package installation restrictions, but then I read about distrobox, and now I have an arch box, a ubuntu box, and an ollama box running a local LLM. No more problems with finding CLI programs. I even used the arch box to run adb and fastboot to flash android stuff, it worked flawlessly.

And of course gaming and standard desktop tasks work with zero problems. Next I’m going to convert my wife’s Windows 10 PC to bazzite, and setup excel and some proprietary software for her.

By hosting software that helps people communicate about the location and activity of government-sponsored paramilitary groups like ICE.

Hosting media that helps people be self-reliant, like gardening or home-repair guides.

Hosting state-forbidden media like banned books, that help people to be educated, which in turn saves lives by people not being so suscceptable to propaganda.

I suppose I could think of more, but I think those are some of the most clear examples.

Note: apologies about the spelling errors, my spellcheck is currently not working.

Nix is such a cool project. If I had more time I’d definitely give it a go.

I ran bazzite on a Lenovo flexpad with Intel und 630 graphics and it ran perfectly. I even ran mechwarrior 5 on it, albeit with the graphics details turned down so low that it looked like a mechwarrior game from the 1990s.

I’d give bazzite a go. Learning about how to install and use distroboxes is also lots of Linux fun.

Edit: also, you literally cannot break any of the immutable fedora distros. Very newbie friendly.

I made the jump to signal, and those that refused to come with got relegated to SMS.

But it’s not always that easy. Sorry that you have to deal with that BS.

Wow, that’s quite a lot of content to go through. Thanks!