Maybe one of the Fedora Atomic distros would be up your alley? https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/
I don’t think NixOS meets the bill. You’d be learning and troubleshooting a whole new language just to setup your system and modify the core configuration.
How did you manage to convince them?
Neither of these are IDEs (nor is VSCode), but it’d be Zed and Neovim for me. Zed is fast and pleasant to use, but also will enshittify eventually. Debug support is in progress but not live. Neovim is fun and it’s nice to be more in control of what is going on, but I haven’t made the necessary progress to be productive in large projects with it yet. I was excited for Lapce but it fell short, had too many issues in a short time.
I think btrfs ticks all your boxes. I would suggest yabsnap for snapshots. Then if you want a backup off-disk use borg or btrfs has a way to transmit (sync) to a remote. Yabsnap has a command which will make a script to restore from backup, which you can review and run.
I have a Canon MX340 (maybe pixma?) that works with gutenprint. The ADF is a bit messed up but it otherwise works as intended. If you have a similar model, it will probably be supported.
I have DS4 working in Arch with Wine. As someone else mentioned, the hid-playstation kmod just worked out of the box. The key for some games to work properly was to add a SDL2 gamepad mapping.
Also see section 3.10 here which may be relevant: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamepad
I believe you can set dolphin to be like this. I have it so I can either double click to go into a folder, or expand it for the tree view.
Both the T14s and X1 Carbon would be good options. I also have an x390 which I quite like.
It’s increasingly harder to exchange for fiat anonymously, especially when you consider XMR or other privacy coins. Once the people in charge of money realized they were a bit subverted, you got the huge crackdown.
I still use it for various things. Buy LTC from a legit licensed exchange. Move it around a bit. Change to XMR through an exchange that doesn’t care. Maybe move it around some more. It’s a giant pain, but I don’t know a better way. This method isn’t perfect, more of a balance of risk, but it’s better than just handing your entire entity over for a simple transaction.
I don’t know how steamos works, but if it’s arch-based, can you just do pacman -Syu to update?
kitty, nvim, fish, zed, mpv, btop, borg. Weird how all the gone ones have short names. Depending on the system, I would add tlp as well.
yetCalc?
I don’t know if it’s on the play store.
Rofi is cool but don’t forget about qalculate (the backend)
That was my first thought, why is this not written in a scripting language. Any one.
For my desktop, I have two disks. One is root, one is home. They are single BTRFS filesystems with automated snapshots, compressions, and a few subvolumes. Works great.
For a laptop, similar but with only a single disk/partition and FDE. Also works well.
I went through and built a license, then read through it.
I don’t think most of the things contained would be legally enforceable. We barely even have traditional open licensing that works, much less one that tries to enforce an ethical framework. Instead of this, we should work toward wide-reaching law that protects people’s rights, something that has teeth. Asking people to please not enslave someone with your library will never work, they will do it anyway or just not use your library, as they already do with copyleft licenses.
Arch on desktop/laptop because I’m very comfortable with it, and I can set it up the way I like.
Debian on servers because it’s stable and nearly everything has a package available, or at least instructions for building.
Same as OP, but I’m not likely to change them out. I’ve tried a lot of distros over the years and this is what works best for me.
I would just backup to an external drive or whatever locally. If you want a NAS, a simple SBC will do. If you really want RAID, get an old optiplex and hook up a couple drives in RAID-1.
For drives, get some CMR WD drives under warranty.
Keep one copy encrypted in the cloud, one offline local, another offsite not overly near you.
There is not, but I will add one.
The one thing I wouldn’t agree with is ffmpeg.
It does not do one thing. It does a thousand things. The way different functionality works is inconsistent. In some cases you need to read the source code to understand how or why something is happening, as it’s not generated in the already expansive documentation. To me, it’s the antithesis of the UNIX philosophy.
That said, it’s a brilliant piece of software.