smiletolerantly

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[โ€“] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Start with Linux Mint. It should be a very pleasant and straightforward experience right out of the box, and is just in general very beginner friendly. I recommend to create a live USB (basically, download the ISO from the Mint website, then use something like Balena Etcher to put it on a USB stick). You can then boot off that stick, and try Mint out to your heart's content, without risking your Windows install or data at all.

Can I ask, what are the programs you wager you'll have to emulate through wine?

[โ€“] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

๐Ÿ‘€ (to both of those statements)

[โ€“] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, getting LSP + Linter + Formatter for basically any language set up is very straightforward with NvChad.

Debuggers/testing framework can be a little more work, but if that's not required for you, all the better :D

I bet there's also plugins available that help with integrating Unity and nvim (I know there are for Godot).

Good luck, and have fun with this rabbithole ๐Ÿ˜„

[โ€“] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I had multiple failed starts with (n)vim, always getting frustrated way before I had a usable setup, until I just used NvChad. It's basically a preconfigured version, with all the plugins, keybinds,... you could probably want.

It gave me something usable right out of the box. I continued tinkering with it for almost two years before moving on to my completely custom configuration.

IMO the people that say you should start with bare (n)vim in order to learn everything from the ground up are delusional. There's no reason you can't learn all that stuff after you've actually experienced how nice the entire thing can be.

(Not OP) Been using Borg with a Hetzner Storagebox recently.Easy and cheap!

[โ€“] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I've recently switched from Backblaze to a Hetzner Storagebox. 5TB for only slightly more than I was paying for Backblaze.

They support BorgBackup out of the box, so super simple to set up encrypted, differential backups

[โ€“] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 42 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Laughs in nixpkgs

[โ€“] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. It's also just so incongruous with everything the EU usually (tries to) stand for.

The best thing would be if the courts decide that mandatory client side scanning is plain illegal. But for that the measure has to pass, so someone can sue. Not a pleasant prospect.

[โ€“] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It's a good day to be an EU citizen.
Just like yesterday.
just like tomorrow.
Just like any other day ~~except whenever some asshole pushes for ChatControl~~

[โ€“] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Germans on the flight from Cologne to Palma, too.

I'm waiting for the Proxmox NixOS project to take off. I like the (network) seperability.

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