I haven’t ty for the tip (I’ve book marked both for later reading!)

I feel you have on this post. I often need my tech guides to start 3 steps before earlier. Usually have a few tabs open to refer to; I would also love a self hosting guide that talks to me like I’m a little dumb 😂

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Good, there is nothing wrong with the current gen. I want major leaps every few years not marginal improvents every year.

Don’t changes into proton help both up and downstream? Valve also invests into this project which obviously amplifies the # of people working on it and can only lead to more breakthrus for the side projects associated with this tech.

Timeshift plus the package that automatically takes a snapshot on system update is so clutch.

I started on mint years ago and it was an okay foot in the door, but would not recommend to anyone (including beginners). Fedora is my goto for new users these days. I use arch (btw) and have had much more luck on rolling release.

Not gonna try to convince you off Mint, but it does sound like you’re having issues with it.

Is that a Mint Cinnamon issue primarily?

Sounds like you forgot to instruct it to do a good job.

Yeah, or trim some of the portable apps in medicat since a few are redundant, to make room for a couple more ISOs.

The cool thing with ventoy is you can just drag and drop isos in the folder, no need to reflash.

Ventoy with medicat

Just installed cachy on my partners PC. They just play games, I handle the maintenance.

So far they are impressed at how quick it feels and how fast and unintrusive the system updates are.

Any rolling release will do, doesnt actually matter the flavor.

Steam has been investing into Arch (btw) which is nice but really all you want is quick updates. Graphics drivers on other distros may not be updated quickly enough for you to enjoy the newest releases.

I’m not subjecting anyone to anything. I acknowledged that this practice is risky, however these scripts are maintained by a community of other nerds just like every other open source project you enjoy. If you’re going to use these proceed with the same caution you would anything else on the internet, but in my experience they are safe.

Good advice but ime these helper scripts are legit.

OP is talking about dreading major kernel updates because shit might break. I’m not talking about tinkering (though I’d argue against that point too, btrfs and timeshift exist).

Arch updates so often I barely even notice a kernel update; I’m certainly not dreading it.

Also side point, super huge updates on arch are normally an indication that you didn’t perform a full system update in a while. If things are going to break it’s when you dont perform regular system maintenance.

No personal experience with Fedora but if that’d been your experience why not shift to Arch (btw) or something similar. Been daily driving for 3~4 years, super stable and always on latest releases.

Yeah that’s true. At least on mine (Drop Shift V2) only the right side function key is a little smaller, the rest fit perfectly.