DidacticDumbass

Sure. I personally have not noticed a difference. Then again, I recently got a new computer, and all my other computers are over a decade old, so everything feels luxurious.

This has officially won me over. I am not a minimalist, nor do I have some principled view of package management. I care about computing, and I am all for anything that makes it easier. I am the kind of person who wants all the software I will ever think to use already installed. I see my computer like a library. It is a castle, not a tiny home. I don't give a shit about "wasted space." I can always buy more.

Containerization is awesome, and I will embrace it.

Just curious, what distro are you on right now?

The quality in all factories just keep rising. It is awesome what you can get for the price.

My Epiphone is the newer line (Inspired by Gibson) with the redesigned headstock that looks closer to Gibson's. The quality is excellent. The finish is something special, it actually feels like a nitro finish, but it poly.

I am officially done buying guitars, save for a high quality acoustic which I never invested in. I can't predict the future, but I like what I have. Same with amps.

Now I am turning back to a past love, the Clarinet. I adore it, but never got to practice it due to family telling me to quiet down, which sucks. I hope to start a lifelong journey getting intimate with this instrument, and will be saving up for real wood upgrade.

If I ever get bored of Mint I am jumping back on there. OpenSuse is as perfect a linux distro I have ever used, excepting my graphic driver woes.

Gorgeous!

Nice setup! I also use Skinny Top/Heavy Bottom, but keep it in standard. I love the tightness, but will probably move back to a regular set up strings when I replace them. I bend a lot.

I recently scored a 2020 Black Epiphone Les Paul Standard at a pawn shop, and it was pristine! Half the street price.

I love it so much. I alternate between that and a black PRS S2 Standard 24. Honestly, they compliment each other.

I hope one day to own the genuine thing.

Nice! May I ask what is your base system?

That is probably the most important use case. It is good not to allow proprietary software to extend their tendrils beyond the sandbox.

That makes sense. Thank you for clarifying my misconception. I think I will set that up. I have a couple of Dell Optiplexes that are bumming it out right now. I can put one to work with Gentoo.

I was about to ask if Kagi is worth paying for, but their website does a tremendous job of selling it. I am going to have to give up a subscription to afford it, but I think it will be worth it. Actually... maybe not. I pay for everything annually when I can. Too bad they don't have that option, but it makes sense when their are hard limits to searches and features between tiers.

That is actually pretty cool. I know about portage, but I think it defeats the point of gentoo. Compiling from source is the point, right? That way the user gets all the speed benefits and optimization for their particular hardware.

Flatpaks are a great preview to see if the compiling is worth the time! Or a permanent solution for some software. I am happy that people don't seem to have qualms about mixing software managers.

Whoa. I had not considered backing Home that way! That is slick.

Honestly, reinstalling or moving to a new distro is such a bear precisely due to the time setting up my environment and all the software. I KNOW I can script all this, or at least have a list of packages I use, but it does not really work when different package managers use different naming schemes.

That is a cool use case! I am learning so much about the benefits of Flatpak, not just an easy way to get software.