TheModerateTankie [any]

Team Monsanto’s Lead Junior Red Dawn war re-enactor/co-ordinator for Anniston, Alabama

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Cake day: November 6th, 2020

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  • I just switched to a ublue distro (bluefin) and think it’s great. These are designed from the ground up to be an “install it for a family member or friend and never have to touch it again” experience. They are based on Fedora. Bluefin has been the most trouble-free install of linux I’ve ever tried. I can’t say enough good things about it.

    I would go with Aurora (essentially bluefin but with KDE instead of Gnome), unless they do a lot of gaming, in which case Bazzite-kde would probably work best (bazzite is more up-to-date which can mean more instability).

    These are set up to use flatpak with a software center, so all gui apps can be installed from there and is similar to windows. It updates everything automatically in the background and only requires rebooting whenever you want to switch to the updated system. Also the immutable nature makes it hard to break, but if something does go wrong it makes it easy to roll back to the previous working install. There are also GTS versions of bluefin and aurora available, which are pinned to more stable releases so there’s even less chance of breakage.

    Live USB installs aren’t stable yet so that might be an issue if you want to make sure hardware works before install, but you can install to a usb harddrive and boot off of that to check it out that way.






  • I’ve been running bluefin for about a week and I agree. One of the best things about these different distros is they install and configure a lot of things for you. Bluefin installs with flatpak, homebrew, distrobox, podman/docker, devcontainers configured and running on install, good peripheral support, good desktop tweaks, and sensible but easily removable default apps. Bazzite does something similar for gaming installs. It’s great. If there are common apps or configs that their users want they try to implement it and get it set up and running on install, if possible. The most friction free linux install I’ve ever had.






  • This seems to be a direct response to the us covid website turning into a wuhan lab leak conspiracy page.

    Its not surprising that covid was first detected in a country that actually tested and was looking for SARS, and had previous outbreaks due to wildlife in the region carrying the virus. The US certainly wasn’t looking.

    Covid was in the US earlier than officially recognized, but no one has bothered to try and determine how much earlier.

    If a virus was going around killing people in retirement homes, and it wasn’t the flu, they would just shrug and go “old people just do that”. Its what they did in the later months of 2019, and its what they’ve been doing “after covid” too.

    I guess the question is how long could covid be in a country before hospitals started getting flooded?