microsoft's copilot (open an LLM helper) key might be the last straw to me going to linux

Submitted by hollyhoppet in technology

my music production workflow is now fully on osx, proton seems absolutely awesome. running out of reasons to stay on windows aside from inertia.

this isn't the first time microsoft has made OEMS put pointless keys nobody cares about on keyboards, and it probably won't be the last. but dang i'm tired of it lol.

anyway probably going to go with debian cause i'm in my mid 30s and that seems to be the old person distribution lol

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twovests wrote

I'm a longtime Linux user here. If you're looking for any distro recommendations, I can write a really long annoying post about it. (luv luv luv popos)

Proton IS awesome. If you told me in 2017 that "Linux desktop is going to be a viable platform for Gamers" I would have thought you were a delusional Linux stan.

But now, videogames which don't work on Linux are the exception and that's increasingly rare. It's mind-boggling. Most of the exceptions are competitive online games with anticheat enabled.

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hollyhoppet OP wrote

Hmm maybe i'll have a tiny dual boot partition but I don't believe anything i play uses anti-cheat.

Also I really just want something stable that I don't have to fiddle with much aside from mouse speed/acceleration settings which is why I'm looking at debian. If you have any other recs that would fill that role though I'm open to hearing them

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twovests wrote

Ya! My only arguments for pop os ("Pop! OS") is that i love the defaults, so i'll just list the defaults i like

it's based on ubuntu, which is based on debian, has no "snaps" (bad package manager system that has caused my a lot of problems), and it's custom GNOME-based desktop environment has builtin window tiling and stacking.

i like tiling a lot because i dislike the other tiling WMs which all expect you to memorize shortcuts.

i have an nvidia GPU so the ISO that comes with the appropriate drivers builtin is very very nice

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hollyhoppet OP wrote (edited )

yeah pop os looks pretty damn snazzy. might give it a try. how long have you been using it for?

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twovests wrote (edited )

I want to say at least two years now. I used Ubuntu for >10 years before that, but I kept running into issues with snaps which drove me to Pop.

On the side, System76 (popos people) is making a new Rust-based "Cosmic" desktop to eventually replace the GNOME based one. If you've used cosmic-text in a Rust project, that is what it's from!

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emma wrote

it's so funny they named it copilot. the ejection seat and plane wreck jokes quite literally write themselves.

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winter wrote

do it do it do it join the linux fanclub

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