And no mention of gpg or s/mime support either.

That’s why I have disabeled it for vim. Infact I disabled mouse support alltogether.

I am guilty of using scp. Glad to see that there is a reimplementation going on.

Warning, this is my opinion:

No, a distro with a modified depricated non-upstream window manager is not a good introduction to Linux.

I am looking at you Cinnamon. Cinnamon is for Linux users who don’t want to use Gnome 3 or KDE Plasma, I think.

I always recommend Fedora to newbs and Debian to newbs with existing Linux knowledge, because all the desktops are as close to upstream as possible. This is why I cannot recommend Ubuntu or any Ubuntu based distro for the desktop. ubuntu-server can ve good enough on servers only.

This lets Gentoo look like a beginner/user-friendly distro next to NixOS.

The fact that my OS should not be a project anymore made me switch to Debian instead to NixOS. But I need to try an immutable distro some time.

I am close to #1, but I have a 16:10 not 16:9 monitor. My laptop lid is always closed. I am a 100% one monitor person.

I am considering an ultrawide at home, but I fear that I will get problems at work if I cannot have the same there. I am not sure, if the linear window manager I am using makes sense with an ultrawide. And third issue: My existing monitor is still good and and awesome features which seem to be rare on other except gaming monitors: auto brightness and presense sensor. At work I can live without these two things, because the desk space has alsways the same brightness.

Despite what Alan has written I want the ability to disable snaps in Ubuntu entirely. Are there any options?

While going full ZFS is certainly interesting I would already be glad if zfs-dkms would rebuild automatically on every kernel update including pulling in the corresponding linux-headers on standard Debian 13.

I cannot automount my ZFS mirror, anyway, because I decided to go with encryption. I know, there are ways with a key file on a usb-stick. Maybe I’ll do that for my next ZFS-related project.

I think, I will borrow the idea, but I likely will use more a log-style date format in the persistent history file like this: [2026-01-09 12:34:56] command

I had it when I was still using Gentoo.

I should generally make more use of things lile podman and systemd-nspawn. Thx!

I guess running Bedrock Linux inside podman wouldn’t work, I guess. Not sure how well nesting works with containers.

I have seen at least one person moving from Gentoo to Exherbo. Would I leave Debian behind for it? No, not currently, but maybe there is time for an experiment in the future.

I’ve tried Sabayon briefly, but not seriously. At the time, it was interesting to have more pre-built binaries. Looking back now, the Gentoo binrepos are the better solution, I think.

The only thing I have found, is, that Microsoft now have a multi-installer themselves, but it can only install a limited selection from their own store.

I hope, Ninite did not become “sketchy”.

How much can one trust this Ninite thing? Sounds like the thing I want for work for easier Windows client management.

We know, who is clicking at MX Linux? And the other distros that are currently at the top?

My top distros:

1. Debian
2. Fedora
3. Gentoo

How well does waydroid run on PostmarketOS?

neat

The Gentoo user who does not encrypt their boot drive

I game on Debian; it is absolutely up to the task.

It is called the universal operating system for a reason.

Thx, I decided to not use raid for shipping.