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Do you have zram set up?

Easiest would be to get a VM frontend like Gnome Boxes. You just download the installation iso of the distro you want to try, create a new VM in Boxes, point it at the iso and when it boots install the distribution normally.

It will be completely separated from your normal system. It’s a second computer inside your computer. When you’re done testing you can just delete the VM.

If I recall correctly there were years when Microsoft was a top contributor to the kernel. Long before Azure. I think it was mostly for Microsoft hardware like joysticks and mice.

Cats have beans, duh.

I wanted to reinstall my Gentoo system. A SUSE (back before OpenSUSE) disc was the newest distro I had lying around. I thought it shouldn’t matter from which system I do the install, Gentoo won’t care.

So I repartitioned /dev/hda, installed the base system and went to set up my mount points. Only to discover that my data drive was gone. Stupid SUSE labeled the drives differently. /dev/hdb was my old system drive and I had repartitioned my old data drive.

Taught me to really check which drive was which. I wouldn’t touch SUSE again for decades because of this.

Around that time we had the Nokia N900. For me it was the perfect phone. Debian as a base with Nokia’s (unfortunately proprietary) apps on top of X11. You could just recompile Linux apps like Gimp and it worked. Apps that were made for Palm’s WebOS worked.

Pidgin’s libpurple was used for all the instant messaging so just about any protocol just worked without any need for extra apps. You could easily hack the underlying system. People added functionality like using the light sensor as a button. Angry Bird’s first release was on that phone.

I miss it dearly. It was killed by Microsoft. Nothing ever managed to come close. That little 128 MB RAM machine had better multitasking than modern 8 GB phones.

Doesn’t Pop!OS do that already?

The first one that came to mind was fli4l (Floppy ISDN for Linux). Originally a distro of German origin that fit on a single floppy disk to turn a 386 or 486 PC into a router for ISDN connections. Last I looked it’s still actively worked on.

There are probably tons of more obsuce ones. But this is one I actually used.

I love Did I take my meds? to remind me take my pills but also show me if I already took them that day.

If I wasn’t using so many other Nextcloud apps besides the file storage I would switch.

My cousin programmed a simple labyrinth game on my C64 by randomly placing symbols on the screen and you had to get the cursor from the upper left corner to the lower right without bumping into a symbol.

I was so impressed.

The only problem that I see with this is that images and especially videos take up vastly more space than plain text.

And does ActivityPub include client APIs? I haven’t looked at it, but my completely unfounded impression has been that it only handled server to server communication.

Nextcloud as the server and DAVx⁵ with Fossify Calendar as the client on my phone. On my laptop Kontact, but I haven’t looked at that in ages, so it could be in shambles for all I know. I think I’ve also used Thunderbird with some plugin.

And my Fritzbox router uses CardDAV to populate the phonebook of all connected phones.

Yeah, the trouble was that this show was explicitly produced for Amazon. Maybe the writing was already on the wall and that is why they didn’t put in any effort.

Guess I was always using the right combination of apps. Never had any problems with CalDAV and CardDAV. Except for frustration at outright missing support.

That shit was even bad if you had it ad-free through Prime. Watched a show there and it would have a half second black screen at the place where an ad would be. Sometimes in the middle of dialogue.

Pft, just enable wobbly windows and Linux will be the shit.

For everything else God invented cloud gaming.

But seriously, my kids had the choice between Windows and Linux. They chose Linux because it looks nicer. The older one is even on Discord with friends who live further away. He finds enough current games that have anti cheat for Linux enabled. And in the end they both always get back to Minecraft and Roblox.

Yes. But in terms of gaming Steam seems to have problems if your games are on an NTFS (Windows filesystem) partition. Everything else should work.

Yes.

But every other year Windows seems to “accidentally” mess with Linux bootloaders on other drives/partitions.