It depends.

A 2-5 year-old laptop, you want to web browse, maybe watch some videos, use google docs or open office, you probably never need a terminal

If it’s a really new laptop or you want to get the most out of video drivers and push it harder, you’ll probably need to be ready for some light terminal crap. Gets a little janky if you have a dual-video-card setup. Nothing hard to handle, but if you’re not looking to have to handle anything…

I think the numnber of available packages is better on the Debian side. Mint or Kubuntu run newer hotter stuff, debian runs older more stable stuff.

To be fair, the fact that most of them pass right through the earth without interacting with anything, it knowing even that much English is excellent.

My laptop and a thunderbolt dock can do 4, a 4k panel, 2 qhd and a 1080p all at 30fps

Every Screen adds on bandwidth needs, the more pixes and faster refresh, the fewer screens you can handle.

You can get there with multiple gpus, or if you have lower demands, usb->html

Good grapics cards have 3, you’re not limited to one graphics card

Yup, I know just where that happens. It’s probably a joy to work in your IT. They probably have a keyboard macro for “no”

Not accounting for any interesting custom choices you made under the hood, the default file browser for both os’s use libfuse3 for MTP. My point is, it shouldn’t have crashed, there are open issues in libfuse3 for possible crashes, so you might just have hit one at the wrong time, but at that, it REALLY shouldn’t have f’d over your journaling filesystem enough to keep you from logging in. A breaking read/write to fuse should not have been able to f your journal over beyond a simple automatic recovery. Most of the design choices in Linux over the last decade have been made specifically to prevent that kind of thing from happening on a healthy system. One can argue that one distro is more stable than another because they take, or refuse to take newer packages, but for your specific issue, they use the same piece of software under the hood.

The wipe and new OS might have just moved the problems to a less visible area.

My primary anger with Wayland is the security issues that broke AHK that they’re just now considering. There’s been lots of finger pointing over the years, but now that most OS’s are ditching X11 support all together, we’re going to see a lot more compatibility coming in the next year or two.

And everyone telling dear reader to change distros is doing it from a position of ignorance.

Even the least reliable of those distros should not be seeing anything but the keymap issue. MTP crash, unable to login afterward, That reeks of ram/disk issues.

Time->TLS errors aren’t handled well anywhere.

As critical as they are to 2fa and TLS, you’d think every OS out there would poke around a few time servers and scream bloody murder if the time was off.

Honestly, I think we, as a society, have leaned a little too hard into time as a precise critical failure point. It’s fine for things like GPS that actually require it. but our clocks don’t need to be precisely the same to tell how recent a request and response are and we can certainly make better hashing algos

Oddly enough, giving the general public exact error messages ends up costing you in support and reputation.

They obscure the messages because the inexperienced masses start digging up red herrings. Knowledge to someone with zero experience causes a lot of confusion.

The experienced and capable users look up the codes and think about it for a minute, check their vpn, maybe a health dashboard, maybe reboot.

Just about every complex machine out there give error codes instad of real messages, even when they have large displays capable of telling you exactly what the condition is.

yeah, back when I was maining windows, I went through a lot of trouble to install non-store versions.

Of course, some places lock down their employees too much for them to do that

Don’t be too mean, but make sure your admin feels the heat.

Linux is good enough for the desktop for a fuckton of businesses. gentle pressure may get us there in a generatiohn or two

They’re preparing to rent people desktop access over the internet. Gotta trim up that you don’t own shit store code.

That combination of errors sounds suspiciously like hardware problems.

MTP crash, unexpected but not overly so, it’s old code. Authentication issues post reboot on error is super sus.

Wayland can be a little slow, but it seems to be ok for all of my ancient candidates. Keymaps kind of expected, that’s the kind of stuff that wayland is actually not great at yet.

Put that all together, I’d say you have something going on with the box.

Their idea is interesting, but there’s plenty of material out there that’s absolutely loaded with drama, sex, and violence that no one cares to watch.

But religious people do love watching religious material. Those Hallmark films don’t make themselves.

I mean, it’s a job, you can quit any time you want.

it’s not a good idea to quit…

Yup, racism hasn’t changed that much; you just hear about it now, which I suppose is a tiny change.

I just wish I had leaned in when it was reasonable to mine. I had a couple of computers running it, it I would have just let them run it for a couple of years…

Pyramid schemes are fine, but you need to be at the very top.

i regret that I have but one upvote to give

I had that exact pitcher. I used it for iced tea for about a decade.

One day, the pitcher disappeared. IT’s a BIG fucking pitcher.

The lid is still here. I have the lid. How the fuck the pitcher left the kitchen without the lid, then disappeared, I have no fucking idea.

I’m not entirely sure where the lid is at the moment, but every time I see it, I go, ohh that’s the lid to that pitcher, wonder where it went, but never manage to throw the lid away. But i know, deep down, as soon as i throw that lid away, the pitcher will appear magically.

Wow, AI’s come a long way.

getting “some” clear words on a logo is quite an improvement.

Installing is only easier once you understand compose.

DB maintenenace is more complicated

DB and File backups are more complicated

DB and File restores are more complicated.

Logs are more complicated. Config changes are more complicated.

There are a lot of apps that are ideal for Docker. Critical data storage for the home-gamer in containers isn’t easy.