Intel i7-1360p. Specifically, the Zenbook Flip (UP3404)

It’s strange, since I’m currently running Fedora and scaling works fine. Live booting Fedora also has scaling work. Like does EndeavourOS require a driver to be installed?

*bony fish

We are closer to your average fish (I don’t know any specific ones) with bones than they are with sharks (non-bony, cartilage!)

I do not, I am using a laptop with an Intel iGPU

At least we have Localsend

That’s pretty cool!

Unfortunately I don’t use Discord, hopefully somebody else finds them useful!

If you can’t decide between distros, I would test them out with live boot (you could use VenToy for this) and mess around in them, see what works and what doesn’t. That’s how I did it, I hopped from Mint to Fedora Workstation then landed on Fedora KDE. I am currently thinking of switching to EndeavourOS later (nothing wrong with Fedora, I just want to try out something Arch-based for a change!)

Also, one thing, if you’re installing Fedora, make sure to enable third-party repos when setting up in the little guide! This will allow you to install Steam and, if applicable, Nvidia drivers. It’s pretty stupid that they make it sound all scary, it really would be better if they just asked whether you want Steam and Nvidia drivers, but it is what it is.

For me, my recommendation is:

• slightly older hardware, go with Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu, so will have slower updates than something based on Fedora so will not support the latest hardware)
• if you have newer hardware, I would go for something based on Fedora.

Fedora Workstation (GNOME) and KDE are both great well-rounded options.

If you want a gaming-centric distro, Bazzite is a nice option (if you have nvidia GPU, pick the option that has those drivers!). Bazzite is atomic, meaning it’s slightly harder to break the OS and it’s easy to roll back (there are a few limitations though, like most apps will be installed via flatpak rather than with dnf). If you have a living room PC, Bazzite also offers a console-like experience with Steam Big Picture Mode.

If you like tinkering and want to squeeze out performance, CachyOS is a great option, it’s essentially Arch Linux that is easier to install and has a bunch of performance tweaks.

TLDR: Mint for older hardware, Fedora/Bazzite for newer hardware, CachyOS if you know what you’re doing

While I was using GNOME (with Fedora Workstation), the three finger gesture worked for me out of the box and was quite nice indeed. I switched to KDE for better customisability, but if you prefer the padded libadwaita aesthetic of GNOME, it’s also a great choice! They’re both much better than Windows 11 in my opinion…

It would be fun to tinker around and such. There are also a couple programs that are packaged for Arch (but not for Fedora as rpm) that I would love to try.

Got it

Damn so I just rsync the home directory? That’s pretty neat. I will stick with KDE then.

School break. It would be very bad if I messed something up when distro-hopping during the school weeks, as being able to use my laptop is quite important for schoolwork.

Interesting. I just found out that you can just use alias to use please instead of sudo which is cool!

I am currently using VSCodium, which is basically VSCode built from the VSCode repo without the Microsoft bits. Somebody else has also suggested Eclipse Theia (the website pushes hard on AI because investors or something like that, but the editor itself is pretty okay. It is also compatible with the same extensions as VSCode/Codium which is pretty cool) but I’ve just gotten used to using VSCodium.

Of course, you have the people suggesting vim and its derivatives, which are apparently super powerful once you get used to them. Helix is another one that is kind of like Neovim but preconfigured with features that most people would want built in. I’ve only tried neovim once, it seems pretty cool, but I’m personally not bothered enough to go through the steep learning curve. VSCodium suits my needs just fine. If you’re the kind of person who likes that sort of stuff it would be nice though. Kate (by KDE) is also a good code editor esp. if you use KDE Plasma.

One gem I found was Lite XL. It’s a really lightweight editor written in Lua, super barebones, and there’s a whole plugin ecosystem around it!

hang on, there’s one called please? Are there any downsides with using please instead of sudo?

I have checked my function buttons again, yeah, the camera on/off one doesn’t work for me. The microphone mute does work, including the orange indicator light.

Fair enough, catapults catapult things. Slingshot with a tiny angry bird should work though? It’s cube shaped, like in the game, so it has to work!

You Americans don’t always have to go for the gun you know. These objects are quite small so a gun is kind of overkill. A teeny tiny catapult maybe? Or a slingshot? Maybe one of those spitball things?

Four the overviews of all the Latest ndows, what I like to do is use the cornor hotspot feature, so I just fling the mouse to the bottom corner to open the overview of all the windows (it’s in the settings, you can customise what each of the corners do!)

Nice that you got the numberpad thing working! I might need to try that soon

I really had to go digging for that Howdy fork, once I get back to my laptop I will let you know the link for reference

Hopefully you will eventually join the penguin side!

edit: I found the Howdy fork link! It’s by user “starfish” and bundles the dlib dependency with it https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/starfish/howdy-beta/

Then if you want to use Howdy for login, sudo, etc., you just have to change the corresponding pam files