PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]

Debian 12

Understood, although I have had good luck with either using the Flatpak or installing the .deb distributed by the app developer for packages where the Debian version is too old.

But like…yeah, that’s kinda it IMO. None of the distros come out of the box absolutely perfect for me and my use case, but Debian is close enough, well-documented enough, and flexible enough to be configured into a “perfect distro”. I haven’t really had a reason to distro-hop on any of the systems I installed Debian on.

KDE Plasma. It works for me, and it has enough features so that I can adapt it to my workflow as my workflow changes.

But I don’t know what I’m doing

2 years out of date is usually fine for me. When it isn’t, I haven’t had a problem using the Flatpak or a .deb directly from whoever released the software.

You are probably a boy. You either have a PP, or are storing PP for later use, or both; only you have this sacred knowledge.

Edit: the person to whom I am responding is literally named PP_BOY.

For my use cases (audio, programming, engineering school, watching crap on FreeTube) I value stability and predictability over security and shiny new stuff. In the rare cases that things break, they break in ways that are already well-understood, so usually have workarounds or solutions.

In the few cases I do need something newer than the Debian repos provide, I just use Flatpaks or get an updated .deb from the devs of the particular software.

So yeah, zero rush for Plasma 6 for me. It looks nice, but I’ll just be chilling on Plasma 5 until it comes out.

live spongebob AI youtube stream

Please I need the link

*Laughs in Debian

I still need that Windows partition for two reasons:

(1). I need Windows because my audio interface uses a proprietary driver only available on Windows. It simply does not perform as quickly on Linux. It’s for real-time audio recording and production, so I need absolutely every clock cycle I can possibly spare. For that reason, a VM is out of the question for this particular application. On Linux with JACK, it uses JACK’s default USB audio driver, which is really good but not as fast as the custom driver ostensibly using FocusRite’s hidden features. It’s not Linux’s fault, it’s FocusRite’s for not supporting Linux and mine for “backing the wrong horse” about ten years ago when I bought it. To my knowledge, Linux pro audio was simply nowhere near as developed as it is now. It is only this exact piece of hardware, which I currently cannot afford to replace, that requires me to keep any copies of Windows alive. Other than for similar reasons where users are trapped, Windows sucks as an audio production operating system, whereas Linux with JACK is great.

(2). I need the Windows partition as it is because there is some old but important work there that I need to finish. I wasn’t very organized about where I saved my work, i.e. things are all over the place. Eventually, I have to spend several hours moving the project files and effects off the drive. Since these projects were recorded on Windows, I will probably have to move all my Windows-exclusive effects to Linux. Yabridge actually does an excellent job for this, but it’s not painless.

I’m currently in grad school for engineering, so I won’t have time to bring over my project files until at least the summer. But even then, all the compatibility layers are starting to add up on Linux. The projects I want to work on were nearly maxing out the CPU and RAM on Windows. Really, I need a hardware upgrade, but I can’t afford that for a long time.

I’m on Debian and that kind of stuff basically doesn’t happen. For the first couple weeks I broke stuff every once in a while because I didn’t know how Linux worked, but it’s basically been smooth sailing on all my computers for about six months.

Contrast with the Windows 10 on the same laptop which just the other day decided it doesn’t want to play anymore. I guess I ran an update the last time I touched it (like a month ago) and now it won’t boot. Debian boots perfectly. Even in safe mode, I can’t boot into Windows and Automatic Startup repair refuses to work even using both the recovery USB and installation media. Probably going to have to reinstall Windows from scratch.

Which Linux distribution should I run on my Arduino Uno for maximum performance?

That’s literally been the types of jobs I’ve been applying for, and they always want me to be an instant expert in their proprietary SCADA/DCS/PLC software even for “fresh graduate” positions. Not using proprietary software is tantamount to not working in manufacturing engineering.

Considering I have no income right and I’ve been rejected from ~150 jobs, I need to take what I can get.

Because a handful of programs and likely my job will force me to use Windows. I’m interviewing next week for a position where they’ll give me “all IT equipment”, and there were several technical questions about Windows in a prior interview, so no Linux there.

Still, whenever I can choose to do so, e.g. at home, I pick Linux.