Veraxus

Historically, Debian.

Right now, openSUSE.

Stop stealing my brainwaves!!!

But you are correct, nonetheless.

Oh fuck. I didn’t realize they’d been bought… let alone by another god-forsaken cloud-subscription-based business model.

Affinity is as good as dead.

Affinity really needs to start making official Linux ports. It’ll work in Wine, but is a bit janky.

Fair. In that case I’d recommend openSUSE.

I try to avoid things with Red Hat or Canonical stink on it (which is why Kubuntu and Fedora are out)… and it’s more friendly than something more barebones like Arch.

Debian + KDE Plasma

I’d say literally any distro other than Ubuntu.

I even avoid downstream distros now.

I’ve mostly settled comfortably on Debian due to it’s stability. Nothing whatsoever against Arch, though.

Does lemmy have any communities for unintentional “yo mamma” jokes?

I have. It mostly works, but the network drivers are a pain at best and simply non-existent at worst, often forcing you to add a USB dongle.

If you absolutely MUST use Windows, use it with AtlasOS.

Otherwise, Debian w/ KDE Plasma is your panacea.

US Government: “Anti-trust? Pfft, keep that bribery lobbying train coming and we will absolutely trust you.”

The Public: That’s not what “trust” means… oh…

Always were. These days I’m a big fan of Rocket Money.

Any sufficiently skilled developer has a bunch of things they hate about the language they use the most, and are happy to tell you about it.

This is a characteristic I unironically keep an eye out for when hiring.

This is why I prefer live interviews. I tell them they can use whatever tools they want, search for anything they want, there are no restrictions. All I ask is that they share their entire screen (if not in person) and try to “think out loud” as much as possible. I then time-box each step (usually 15m ea in a 1-hour interview).

I am most interested in HOW they solve the challenges I set out for them. Whether they complete it or not is usually irrelevant.

Edit: Lately, though - I warn against AI. I don’t ban it, but every person that has tried to use AI in an interview has gone down in flames. AI simply cannot be trusted… and if you haven’t learned that lesson, and you can’t even tell when it’s giving you bad information… yikes.

I just want native Linux support in Affinity, which is both better than Photoshop AND reasonably priced.