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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • For gaming, Bazzite is the best, most hands off, set and forget distro I have tried. I would really recommend Bazzite.

    Not sure if it runs Unreal Engine 5, but it has Lutris installed and configured by default, so if it is as other commenters claim, you should be good.

    It also has Steam amd Heroic launcher pre-installed, so everything is just there ready to play.


  • One of my previous jobs required we updated our personal phones and ticked a box in a document every month so that the company chat app was “on a secure environment/device”.

    I normally keep my phone up to date, but my employer shouldn’t be telling me what to do with my private phone. I removed the company chat app since I didn’t want to comply with them controlling my personal devices.

    After that they couldn’t reach me after hours. Great. After about 6 months they allowed me to use the chat app on my private phone again without insight or control over it. It may sound petty, but I think it’s an important distinction.









  • For development i understand using package.json or whatever.

    But when providing the finished solution I think it should be provided as a deb/rpm/flatpak.

    I don’t want to manage sources and keep the installation in a cloned git repo. That is what my OS package manager is for. For example, Spotify would never distribute their client as a package.json. It is just not convenient.

    Of course I love that the source is available, but I prefer the conveniance of a deb/rpm when I am just consuming software.

    I seldom do work with node/npm. It is not my domain and I won’t learn it for the purpose of using this software.


  • Looks great, but I don’t like having to install dependencies manually.

    Call me lazy, but I would prefer a real package for my package manager that resolves and installs all dependencies for me.

    For development, sure I’ll use npm, maven, or whatever to get what I need.

    But when I install anything to increase my productivity, I feel the “requires this and that” off putting. I want to become more efficient, not have more work to do and more stuff to keep maintained.

    The tool looks really nice though! I love simple file formats that allow for keeping stuff in Git 😄





  • I find the left one better, but still very cluttered.

    Many categories could be merged to keep it more glanceable and create less choice paralysis.

    The list to the left is the way to go, but maybe we should have subcategories or some other type of grouping within them?

    I don’t know UX design, but I know I feel they both are a bit much to take in and not intuitive to navigate.

    I like the Gnome settings app better! 😄