Mint is Debian based. Mullvad supports debian.

Note that they give you a different ISO when you choose AMD vs Nvidia on the bazzite website. So when you do the reinstall, make sure to grab the ISO for AMD.

gparted is a straightforward partition editing tool, in case you’re not aware, OP.

I’m convinced 90% of them have never run either and just like to complain about stuff.

Yeah, but I’m assuming there are many gains to be had if your compression method doesn’t need to be stream decoded for real time playback.

They would probably compress pretty well, I imagine.

i prefer google maps yet i still don’t want google and make do with OSM

Do you see the important difference between your example of preference and mine? My preference is a specific set of features, yours is a specific product.

fork it

Hah, I felt I already poked a dozen holes in that position. If you’d like to actually back up your position, I welcome it.

and an active discord

You keep bringing up their discord like that’s relevant to me. It’s not.

im going to overlook the problematic maintainer im going to give clout to

Yeah, I’m fully convinced you didn’t read my previous comment. For the record, I’m not downvoting you because I disagree with you, I think it’s valid to criticize others in the community for their behaviour, and I respect that. I’m going to downvote you because you’re not contributing to the discussion.

I agree they’re restrictive and arbitrary reasons and they’re also the reasons every single hyprland user has for chosing it. You have a different set of arbitrary reasons for setting your system up the way you like. It’s called a “preference”.

In order to fulfill this preference, is it ok for me to fork hyprland and call it something else? Or do I need to rewrite hyprland’s functionality from scratch and pretend it was all my idea? Can I reference hyprland during the rewrite or does it need to be clean room? Should i make a fork available for people who disapprove of the hyprland devs? But what if I’m not a good enough person? Oof, just noticing, i forgot to check the ideologies of each maintainer of the thousands of packages in my system.

I think it’s possible that the boycott idea makes more sense in a capitalist setting than a communist one. The reason we stop supporting JK Rowling or Chick-Fil-A is because being a customer directly translates to their success and thus the success of their ideology. But no one is making a profit from developing and maintaining a Linux package. In fact, typically the more people use your package, the more thankless work falls on you.

I’m simply interested in having control over my PC, and the FOSS community exists to exchange learnings and code to enable each other to do that. And like all of science throughout history, there are problematic people who contribute useful ideas, and I think we would be cutting off our own noses to reject those ideas just because they come from people we otherwise disagree with.

What other well supported wayland tiled window managers are out there with smooth animations? I would check them out for sure, but I only know about hyprland.

Heh, I’m probably in the minority, but I like the idea of different windows “modes”. I’ve long wanted msft to make versions of windows for different users rather than a one-size-fits-all product. I just wanted it because I’m a power user who wanted something more stripped down and configurable, not a boomer who wants something that won’t act as a conduit between my ignorance and scammers.

But it’s cool, they can do whatever they want with windows now, they’ve made it clear they don’t want me as a user.

Ah, like a “stable” mode? Honestly it makes sense from a user support perspective. More locked down, more predictable, easier to secure. In the same way that you can’t hack a brick, and similarly useful.

It also opens the door to experimentation too. If you’re comfortable with using a terminal to undo a change you made and restart your DM/windower, suddenly you’re not afraid of trying things out that might hang your windower.

Not working. Maybe if i do Ctrl+Alt+F3

Yeah, virtual ttys can be a lifesaver! Definitely something to keep in your back pocket.

I’m guessing you’re playing on a laptop? If so, it sounds like your Fn Lock is on. Usually laptops have some Fn key combo to turn it off, Fn+Esc is a common one.

And IMO if one of those students can get Roblox working on Linux, they have solved a harder problem than any homework they would be given 😆.

I’m curious how ootb mint works out for this usecase. Any chance we could get a 6mo update later? I’m particularly curious how well it holds up against non-admin users who may constantly be trying to get root-level access. There’s almost certainly going to be one student who figures out a local privilege escalation.

You can always live boot from a USB drive and try everything out that way.

IMO bazzite is too focused on gaming for people to be daily driving it for everything, but hey whatever works. Just hope they’re not upset when something breaks and the response from bazzite is “well yeah, that’s not something we bother testing for”.

(I have bazzite on a HTPC in my living room, and I think it’s perfectly suited for that usecase)

IMO Mint, Fedora, or OpenSUSE is going to offer the more stable, user-friendly experience long term. Install Lutris through the distro’s package manager, launch it, install bnet through lutris, launch it, install wow through bnet, launch it, Thrall’s your uncle 😉.

Edit: to answer your other question, yes Lutris runs as an app similar to how battle.net or steam works on windows. It’s just that instead of having a storefront and downloading data directly from a central “lutris” server, it’s basically a bunch of community-written scripts to automate the installation and configuration of games from all sorts of places. So when you tell lutris to install bnet, it’s running a script that goes and downloads it from blizzard, then locally creates a wine environment, launches the installer in that environment, you install it like on windows, and then it creates a lutris launcher entry for the bnet executable so that when you click play on it in lutris, it will automatically launch it in a wine environment each time.

And it should all work in KDE plasma, gnome, cinnamon, or whatever window manager you’re using (the window manager on msft windows is called dwm and it’s responsible for the same job).

I played WoW through Lutris (and later Bottles) with minimal issues for all of classic TBC and WotLK. Basically use either platform to install and run the Battle.net client, and then use bnet to install any blizz apps like normal. I used WowUp to manage addons. WoW should not be a blocker for you.

That said, I’m thoroughly done with blizzard’s shit and won’t be playing wow anymore.

Package managers tend to assume they are the only ones touching files in /usr/share. You will find if you try to change any files there, the next update may delete or download a new version of the file, stomping your changes. Instead your local changes should go in /usr/local (if you want something system-wide) or ~/.local (if it only applies to a specific user).

Ex. If you made a custom .desktop file to show up in your app launcher, or a custom .xsession file to show up in a login manager.

A CSV file should work.