Endeavour OS is exactly es stable as arch, and Manjaro tends to break more often than arch due to dependency issues. Debian and Arch are questionable for beginners, I would always recommend Mint as the first option for beginners. Also Mint has an easy NVIDIA setup, so I don’t think that is an advantage of pop OS compared to it. Nowadays NVIDIA is fine on Linux, especially on distros like pop OS, Mint or Aurora that makes the setup easy.

You could create a live usb on another device and then use chroot

But lmstudio isn’t FOSS no?

Way more models available, faster in my experience, more reliable, local ChatGPT compatible api and advanced fine tuning features. There have been some additions to Alpaca since I last used it, so maybe I will try it again soon but since I don’t use it regularly I use GPT4ALL because it just works, and when I tried Alpaca didn’t.

I have used Alpaca in the past, but personally I prefer GPT4ALL as it seems to be more complete.

I’m currently on a atomic distro, so how I get my software from favorite to least favorite is this:

1. Flatpak
2. Appimage
3. Fedora distrobox
4. rpm-ostree

Sadly only for US and UK, or am I missing something?

As far as I know this a display bug, discover sometimes swaps the numbers of the new and previous version. You should be fine updating them

The main problem with Manjaro is they hold updates to the repos back for to weeks, which in itself isn’t a problem but they don’t do the same for the AUR, meaning you’re almost guaranteed to have dependencie issues at some point. And a, very minor, issue is that in the past they have broken their forum site, but that hasn’t happened for a while now.

Not OP, but for me bazzite has been great. The only issue I encountered was with a KDE extension breaking KDE on the next update, but I could just rollback and remove and admittedly you could only encounter this problem if you tinker with the desktop a lot

MacOS collects a large amount of data compared to Linux (although not even close to windows). Take a look at their tosdr page and this

A VM doesn’t change the underlying OS collecting data from you

Politely: fuck no

Donations? Sure, but there already is stuff that does exactly that.

Subscription for microblogging? Absolutely no, especially not with a centralized, proprietary platform. Don’t start making mastodon twitter. Build your own platform or make your own instances if you have to, but don’t plug into instances without asking and if you ask pay them for the infrastructure they are providing for you service.

If you had problems with fedora atomic aurora likely isn’t for you. Its main changes are adding stuff like codecs and drivers to the image and making distrobox more accessible. What tools do you use? Aurora-dx comes with brew preinstalled so maybe they are available there. Also using distrobox completely skips flatpak permissions so maybe that would help you

For me that would be Fedora (preferably KDE). I currently am on Aurora (Kinoite fork), but that’s because I value stability very highly (except for immutable and Debian nothing is stable enough).

One of main reasons I want to try Mbin is having lemmy style and mastodon style content in one place and afaik piefed doesn’t offer that

If you are interested maybe look at this post I made comparing search engines

They are trying to have it as a preinstalled OS on PC handhelds that want a more dedicated gaming experience. They are already working on a device made for it

Funny to see this published at springer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Nature#Controversies

I recommend to use bottles. It creates sandboxed bottles with wine and directx support and offers a gaming optimized preset