TheMadCodger

Imma do it. I’ve started exporting and backing up settings, I just need to find a free couple of hours to do it and then play with it. This weekend at the latest.

Well damn, that’s even better than I thought!

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How long does it take to switch between profiles? Or am I still misunderstanding since you said they all are active at once? So like each of those profiles are available at the same time, but are sandboxed from each other?

So like, you create a sandboxes profile for Google and log into that in your car and use android auto, get to your destination and switch back?

I haven’t quite pulled the trigger on installing Graphene yet. How is it.as a daily driver?

I heard the opening notes and bolted off the couch. My partner did not understand.

ESO, but in desktop mode. Otherwise, Disco Elysium when I’m on the go.

Well, it is handy for those sailing the high seas…

The only other suggestion is to figure out whether KDE or Gnome desktop environment is right for her. Former more Windows-like, latter more Mac-like. And then just make sure to grab that version of Bazzite.

Bazzite should work with your nvidia and everything else. And from the way you described yourself, you may like Bazzite’s immutability better, since it’s much harder to break than kubuntu is. Just make sure you get the KDE version. I also installed it on my steamdeck and love it.

That’s really the gist of it. For the 96% who just need a working computer and aren’t messing with system files, immutable is perfect. You really can’t break it unless you try.

Go with Bazzite. It just works, she can’t break it, and as long as she reboots from time to time, it’ll always be up to date. And she won’t have to learn anything to use it.

Eh, Ubuntu used to be a decent desktop distro, but they’ve made some… choices. You can do better. Mint gets recommended a lot, but that also feels dated. It depends on what your use case is. GNOME vs KDE is a lot more important, find the one that you like better because that’s how you’ll be interacting with it all day. KDE is more like Windows, GNOME has a more Mac feel.

If you don’t want to tinker with it, you just want it to work and want to use your apps as is, go with an immutable distro (e.g., Bazzite like OP suggested). You can’t easily mess up the important bits that keep it running and as long as you reboot it from time to time you’ll always have the latest updates. IMO, unless you actively want to mess with the underpinnings of your system, an immutable is the best way to go.

Bazzite is gaming focused, but if you’re not a gamer, there are others (e.g., Kinoite). But in my experience, they just work leaving you to do what you actually want to do, not fight with it to make it work.

Yeah, I’ll take an appimage if that’s what I can get, but it’s not my favorite way to deal with it. I’m on Bluefin, so it’s flatpak and homebrew for me.

In the Lemmy word, sure. I was referring to Mastodon where there is no hot or rising. It’s just based off of who you’re following and when you check. Hence likes doing nothing but informing the poster of your appreciation.

Your edit is a bit like that in the Fediverse in general. Since there’s no algorithm, liking a post in Mastodon does nothing beyond letting op know you appreciate them. I like that.

Wait, what? I want to know more. A dehumidifier acts as a 5x wattage heater, but we don’t feel it?

In general, you should treat anything you post on any social media like an op ed in a newspaper. Once it prints, there’s no taking it back.