That was actually preinstalled by IT at my workplace! It’s a pretty nice little archiver. Seconded.

To make the desktop experience bearable: AltTab, Forklift, Rectangle, Ukelele, MonitorControl, Amphetamine, Firefox, Thunderbird, qView and duti to set the latter three up as the defaults.

As a package manager I’m pretty happy with nix-darwin, now I get all the CLI tools there, and what isn’t packaged, like wireshark for example, I get through my nix-controlled homebrew.

Coming from a Linux userland you might want to replace some coreutil packages with their GNU variants. I ran into one case where the GNU grep was much faster than the BSD version preinstalled in macOS for example.

What I haven’t found a good solution to yet is Filesystem support. Both NTFS and ext4 are missing. I currently have a Linux VM just for that. I think Paragon sells a driver, have been meaning to look into it more, but haven’t.

Edit: To be fair to macOS the App called Preview is a pretty good PDF reader in my view.

PS: If you ever need to use dd on macOS, be aware that there are /dev/rdisk handles instead of /dev/disk for the un-buffered access. Its significantly faster for dd shoveling.

PPS: You will probably have to turn off what they call “natural” scroll. macOS inverts the default for some reason.

when I look at Gnome I don’t doubt for a second where I want to be

Yeah me neither, from the other side, lol

I’m also not familiar with how these things work. But it looks like the problematic commit was reverted:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=765f253e28909f161b0211f85cf0431cfee7d6df

All these naysaysers in the comments here… It’s obvious you have to keep the development pipeline moving. Just because we have one free codec at the stage of hardware support now does not mean the world can stop. There are always multiple codecs out there at various stages of adoption, that’s just normal.

Not sure about the enconding

Right click on video -> Stats for Nerds

Did you misread? They wrote “the only reason left to boot from a DVD”, so the use case you replied with has nothing to do with the topic.

ORB: Off-World Resource Base https://www.gog.com/en/game/orb_offworld_resource_base

I assembled the links for OPs entries:

ORB: Off-World Resource Base https://store.steampowered.com/app/281390/ORB/
Ookibloks https://store.steampowered.com/app/399910/Ookibloks/
Paper Monsters Recut https://store.steampowered.com/app/314540/Paper_Monsters_Recut/
Curse of the Crescent Isle DX https://store.steampowered.com/app/365120/Curse_of_the_Crescent_Isle_DX/
Space Moth DX https://store.steampowered.com/app/425340/Space_Moth_DX/
Z.A.R. https://store.steampowered.com/app/351820/ZAR/
Demon’s Crystals https://store.steampowered.com/app/454610/Demons_Crystals/
Hyper Sentinel https://store.steampowered.com/app/640880/Hyper_Sentinel/
Katana Soul https://store.steampowered.com/app/1028300/Katana_Soul/
Timberman: The Big Adventure https://store.steampowered.com/app/2589910/Timberman_The_Big_Adventure/

For me things actually became easier when I got myself a native Linux install instead of Windows. But I guess it depends on your college.

The size difference is not significant. This is about the maintenance burden. When you need to change some of the code where CPU architecture specific things happen you always have to consider what to do with the code path or the compiler flags that concern 486 CPUs.

Here is the announcement by the maintainer Ingo Molnar where he lists some of the things he can now remove and stop worrying about: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250425084216.3913608-1-mingo@kernel.org/

Wow Nvidia, it’s really that bad? You didn’t have to shout it from the rooftops with your actions like that!

It’s quite cruel of that compiler not being happy until you’re exhausted.

Or they could just have been infected. Especially the ones on Windows 8, which has been EoL for over a year.

Hey OP, regarding Minecraft: It’s a Java program that uses OpenGL for rendering. Therefore it’s not a Windows game, but inherently cross platform. Here’s the official .deb package https://launcher.mojang.com/download/Minecraft.deb

the school’s IT

I wonder if that even exists. A mix of Windows 8 (EoL) and 10 (almost EoL) running on Haswells with students freely installing Roblox… all gives an unmaintained vibe.

I like how their release announcements always kind of read like press releases. Even when it’s just the third maintenance release for some normal release train.

You’re not alone in this:

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/usb-tethering-stopped-working-after-f42-update/148809

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-42-tethering-from-my-phone-stopped-working-after-upgrade-device-recognized-as-wwan/148927

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220002

https://lore.kernel.org/all/e0df2d85-1296-4317-b717-bd757e3ab928@heusel.eu/

When Debian upgrades to this kernel version you might run into the issue again. Unless there is a fix deployed before then.

I wanted a mainstream option but not Ubuntu, and one that was preferably offered with KDE Plasma pre-packaged.

So I ended up deciding between Debian and Fedora, and what tipped me to Fedora was thinking: Well SELinux sounds neat, quite close to what I learned about Mandatory Access Control in the lectures, and besides, maybe it will be useful in my work knowing one that is close to RHEL.

Now I work in a network team that has been using Debian for 30 years, lol. Kind of ironic, but I don’t regret it, now I just know both.

And fighting SELinux was kind of fun too. I modified my local policies so that systemd can run screen because I wanted to create a Minecraft service to which I could connect as admin, even if it was started by systemd.

2. Ah that makes sense then. I was confused why you would wipe your ESP over and over when it was shared.

I don’t know why it comes off as hostile, it wasn’t intended that way. Sorry for not expressing it better!

If the last sentence came across badly, that was more meant to be incredulous that people accept all these workaround instead. There are other comments in here that go to ridiculous lengths to enforce separation, like using the UEFI boot menu to select a disk manually. To me even having two ESPs seems overly cautious, and against the design philosophy. Sharing one ESP is really not an issue (at least as long as you know you’re doing it, as you unfortunately found out the hard way).