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themadcodger

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    I maked a maymay. I mint fan.

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  • Can't help with saved game data, but Bazzite is a solid choice, not just because it's a gaming based distro. It's one of the immutable distros, so all the important stuff that keeps it running, you can't mess with (easily). And all your personal stuff that doesn't keep the computer running, it doesn't touch. So your computer is always up to date ( faster than steamOS, and if something goes wrong, just reboot into the previous) and you can't screw it up without trying.

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    I maked a maymay. I mint fan.

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  • You're not. If you're happy with what you've got, don't worry about it. Or join the great Linux tradition of distro hopping. But Mint gets a lot of praise for noobs, but much like Ubuntu there are much better distros out there. It just has name recognition at this point.

  • Trump White House Considers Dropping Nukes on Iran

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  • They're waiting to see if we can get past this stage on our own.

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    US Army appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI execs as Lt. Colonels

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  • Wasn't it also Fall of Rome playbook too? No, that can't be right, they would have learnt that lesson.

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  • Agreed. New users often either go Ubuntu or Linux Mint because they're well known, but really aren't the best options out there anymore.

  • New COVID variant NB.1.8.1 could be more than 1 in 3 cases, CDC projects

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  • I got it in the last month after a week-long in-person all staff. Am up on my vaccines.

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    This is — and I cannot stress this enough — a real government website

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  • It's seemed like this was the only way out for a while now, but how do we Balkanize peacefully? Or at least with as little conflict as possible? Or do we have to collapse first and the. band together afterwards?

  • Southern Baptists target porn, sports betting, same-sex marriage and 'willful childlessness'

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  • And since Blue States contribute more to taxes than they take, and vice versa for red, we are literally funding them dragging us back to the dark ages.

  • Southern Baptists target porn, sports betting, same-sex marriage and 'willful childlessness'

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  • Since you brought up salad, any lettuce other than iceberg, lest we forget arugala-gate

  • FBI discovers cache of guns, armor and Nazi paraphernalia while raiding home in Washington state

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  • Except they were seen as property and not part of the state.

  • FEMA staff confused after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say

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  • What's it from? Because Poe's Law…

  • Capitalism is killing us

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  • I took the Empire Builder from Seattle to Chicago, and then I forget which through W Va up to Philly. It was a great few days watching the countryside roll by.

  • The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink

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  • Hundreds have already fallen out of orbit this year alone.

  • The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink

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  • But just think how blazing fast the speeds will be! When they're hurtling out of orbit and crashing into your house!

  • Want switch to linux

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  • Bazzite is just kinoite / silverblue repackaged as Universal Blue, and then modified to preinstall some qol apps and settings. So if you like the original, but don't want to start with a blank slate, want the nice things out of the box, start with Bazzite/bluefin/aurora (gaming/gnome/KDE).

    For people who know what they're doing/want, starting blank slate makes sense. For newbies or people who don't feel like dealing with that 🙋🏼‍♂️ the latter is a better recommendation imho

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  • Okay good, you also included Aurora. I agree almost completely with your previous post that mint is outdated, and an immutable is much better for someone who has no idea what they're doing. No reason to blanket recommend Bazzite, hence the aurora comment.

    I'm on Bluefin though, so that's where we disagree 😏 Don't know what it is but I've never liked KDE.

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  • Yeah, honestly I don't get all the love for mint whenever this question comes up. Bazzite's a good choice, I'm running Bluefin it's sister (same thing but not geared toward gamers) and it's been great from a set it and forget it perspective. One caution is that they don't always play nice with dual booting, so make sure you do your due diligence backing up what's important to you.

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  • Agreed. It was good for that for a long while, but there are much better options for newbies nowadays.

  • What's your recommendation for a small NAS?

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  • I have a 220+. It works well for what it's supposed to be. If you want a set it and forget it nas, this is a good one. However, after a year and a half, I'm ready to move on for the same reason I don't like Apple: too walled garden. It was a great starter nas, but it's too limiting now. But again, of you don't want to think about it and just have it work, it's a good choice.