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honestly any distro you want. Try a few out. Load a bunch of live ISO’s on a usb drive and give them a spin. Distro hop until you find one you really like. that’s the beauty of Linux they’re all pretty easy to set up (hell even Arch is easy to set up now) so you can try a bunch of different ones.

You want to tinker and play around with your system? try an Arch based distro. You want something that has great support and will just work out of the box? try an Ubuntu one. Want something really unique that you can take with you where ever you go? give NixOS a shot. There are a ton of options and they’re all pretty good.

I would suggest you get one that’s arch based, one fedora, one ubuntu, maybe nixos, one debian, etc and see which one you like best.

self host? it’s not expensive and generally will be cheaper then paying $12+ a month with other places

For example I’m in Canada and while I do have my own dedicated ubuntu server I also have a web hosting plan with a local company here. I pay $50 a year for a decent sized server to host my portfolio and various other websites as well as unlimited IMAP and/or SMTP emails. I just went with that. the domain was included with the price of everything. So now I have personal email account, a client facing email account, a general inquiry email account, and a bullshit spam/account verification email.

You pretty much summed up the problems with Peertube and why I feel it’s the weakest amongst the fediverse platforms. it is SO hard to find a decent instance unlike Mastodon, Piefed, lemmy, etc. And some of the decent Peertube instances you wouldn’t even know are Peertube with the way they’re branded.

I mean I still can’t find a good peertube instance. I’ve considered setting up my own much like I have my own Akkoma/Mastodon instance but I don’t want to bog down my server with it. And I think that might be the root of the problem overall for Peertube.

Prices are too high for essentially shoe boxes. Add to the fact the majority are so poorly built. Buddy of mine is a plumber, owns his own business, started out taking house calls and what have you. Eventually he got on retainer for like two companies and that’s all he works for now. the calls are daily for only 3 condo buildings. you can’t completely fix the problems for these buildings, just essentially patch them.

So why pay an arm and a leg for a wet shoe box held together with duct tape and hopes and dreams?

yeah all the Borderlands games are CONSTANTLY either on sale or in bundles or hell just given out for free on like amazon prime gaming or where ever. NEVER pay full price for Borderlands games, just wait like 2 months.

Hell all the Borderlands games have been in SO many bundles I literally own like several copies of each game without really even knowing it.

the other night a friend of mine wanted to switch to Linux and was dead set on using Pop!_OS after reading about COSMIC and seeing some images of it on unixporn. He even asked an LLM about the best distros for his rig and what he liked to do and the answer was Pop!_OS. So he asked me to help him install it. I suggested other distros but no, dead set on using pop.

Live boot USB and the entire time during the install it’s complaining about not being able to connect to the internet while being connected to the internet. After the install, it locks up immediately on logging into the OS. try again, ok not locking up now. start doing some apt installs/updates - it crashes. Finally get it to a stable state and try installing steam and a game to test out the nvidia stuff that the LLM claimed Pop was fantastic for. Game crashes. system locks up again.

I eventually say “dude, I got cachyos on this usb too…wanna try that instead?” fine, install CachyOS (which gives you the option to install COSMIC during the install) everything just works. no more crashes, everything is smooth, his games work flawlessly. COSMIC crashes. just the DE. switch him to KDE and that was that. no more issues.

I’m honestly a bit worried about System76. They put all their focus on COSMIC and it feels like with each alpha release it progressively gets worse. I mean during the early Alphas I was seriously considering daily driving it but with each alpha release it just “felt off” and a bit slower/worse with more features added (and there aren’t many). the OS has noticeably gotten worse because it hasn’t been worked on. Even the distrowatch reviews for it have gotten worse.

But hey if you want GNOME with a tiling toggle then have at it. It’s just weird that its taken them this long for something that doesn’t have much to it and it’s not very good.

yes and the reason for that was the massive security risks to users systems that Deepin refused to resolve. ALSO their community packager utilized workarounds to bypass the RPM packaging mechanisms to install “restricted” assets.

yeah, don’t use this distro AT ALL. I’d trust RedStarOS over this and friggin RedStarOS is proven to modify your files.

you can easily get the entire SNES and Genesis library roms which alone will give you enough. Those alone will give you some awesome RPGs like Chrono Trigger, Secrets of, Final Fantasy, Phantasy Star, etc.

shit all you have to do is try to update/upgrade the thing and it’s like rolling the dice if it’ll bork your system or not so they’ve done an excellent job in people hating them for that one reason.

without fail whenever they roll out an update you’ll see threads on mastodon or bluesky with people saying “welp, my Ubuntu is fucked” after an update.

that’s a massive IF.

As a Canadian…where are you planning on living exactly? We don’t even have enough housing for Canadians and unless you’re prepared to pay upwards of $2000 CAD a month in rent or over a million dollars to buy then good luck.

I mean I know it sucks down there but it ain’t exactly sunshine up here. There’s no housing, we don’t have any jobs, the cost of living is WAY higher than the US. I mean sure we’re not going to toss you in a camp for being LGBTQ+ but you’ll be sleeping under the gardiner expressway in Toronto…

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that’s what I did when I moved my stuff to codeberg and my private forgejo instance. I knew deleting the repos on github wasn’t going to do anything, they would likely still have them. so I just pushed a bunch of claude code AI slop into all of them. let Microsoft’s AI gorge itself on the waste from Anthropics. Literally just opened up a Claude Code CLI and had it do a bunch of absolutely dumb crap and when it’d get confused and say “this isn’t right” I would correct it and say “no, NO! you’re completely right! keep going!”

It was actually kinda fun. like teaching a kid to ride a bike wrong on purpose.

yeah I don’t get it either. tiling I guess. the problem is, they’ve progressively made it worse.

There’s just something “off” about Cosmic that I can’t but my finger on. In the early alphas it was good, decent for being an alpha. But with every release, to me at least, it just feels like it’s gotten worse. slower, features that haven’t really been expanded on, etc. It just looks/feels like GNOME with the option of tiling. the options for customization, much like GNOME, are limited. no where near what you could potentially do with KDE. the thing is though if you want a DE with basic tiling then it stands out. its good for that. I mean sure you can get tiling with KDE if you use something like Krohnkite but that on it’s own is pretty janky for certain things.

I dont’ know it’s weird. I once went from early alpha using COSMIC as a daily driver to now trying it out again and immediately getting rid of it. maybe I’ll give it another swing today.

weird requirements for sure. sounds like they want an investigative journalist that also has a few years of web development under their belt which is…an odd mix to say the least.

good luck to them I guess. they’re going to get either journalists or web developers applying but doubt they’ll get they’re magical Clark Kent that takes their glasses off and then becomes Web Developer Man.

yup and now many of those places are realizing “oh fuck…”

My client base for the past year has been those “oh fuck…” moments. “Hey our app that we built with a junior dev and Claude Code isn’t really working and we really don’t have anyone available to see why, can you come in for a consultation and review the code?”

“sure thing client, I"m going to nickle and dime you for this but sure i’ll code review it” I then proceed to tell them how fucked they are, how much money they DIDN’T save, and how much it’s going to cost them to start over. not fix it, you don’t fix this slop, you have to start from scratch.

It’s the same song and dance for these places. They get a license from anthropic, keep a couple junior devs on board to be vibe coders/prompt monkies and then axe the rest. And always a few months to a year or so down the road they realize they fucked up and how much money they DIDN’T end up saving. Then they hire people like me to come in and clean up the slop and then in turn end up having to look for actual devs. then once people realize they’re hiring they get absolutely blitzkrieged with resumes (many of which are AI written and fake themselves) thus costing them even MORE time and money to deal with. Then they hope they can find a REAL developer in time (which they never do) and then their investors get pissed and eventually they end up getting fucked over. Not before I get my cheque though.

All these places think in the short term, think of immediate savings, but always it will come down to massive tech debt as a result of leveraging their LLM’s that WILL cost them a hell of alot more money in the long run.

he said he never heard of Nix or NixOS. that’s it. it’s a dumb article that just poorly sums up a few youtube videos of his talk.

in your case I’d say Fedora with a DE you can customize to your liking. Honestly just go for a KDE Fedora then you don’t have to think about it.

I’d also say CachyOS but that might be out of your ballpark. Cachy just works. yes it’s Arch based but it’s by far the best Arch based distro out there. Monthly, on the dot, updates and works with whatever DE/WM you want to throw at it. Hell during the installation it gives you a bunch of DEs/WMs to install with it and all have been customized to work with CachyOS so you don’t even have to think about it.