Nixos too

Screen sharing from Linux is amusing though, so far I’ve yet to have anyone even mention it (hyprland so looks very different to Windows)

Sounds like some pretty serious cons

Out of curiosity why do you like qubes? Having everything in a VM doesn’t sound that great to me

I get that the main concern of it is security but what do you do that it demands that level of hardening? I’ve only ever got one virus in my life that I know of as it is and that was on windows

Generally I think “I agree with *.hexbear.net” is a pretty telling sign for the opinion that’s about to come next

The reason people say stuff like this though is because while you can try to force it into behaving like windows, you’re going to get a much better experience if you let go of that and embrace the differences

Tiling window managers, package managers and command line tools are all examples that you just don’t really get properly using windows and they provide a lot of the reasons people want to daily drive linux

Pretty sure they didn’t want to go for command line editors but helix has a much more intuitive search and replace feature nowadays where you don’t need to type a whole sed command

It’s not that it’s not widely usable, it’s just that you should be open to different workflows

An oven and a toaster can both toast bread, but you wouldn’t expect someone who’s just bought a toaster after using an oven to complain because it doesn’t have a door or shelves

I’ve found vscode generally doesn’t open as fast as np++ did

Check protondb instead of winehq, it’s normally accurate and something like 95% of games are playable now

Though no games outside of steam, personally I don’t have many games on anything other than steam that I want to play so I don’t know how other launchers fare (though heroic is a thing for epic and gog)

Notepad++ I couldn’t say because I only really use terminal based stuff now with the aforementioned million shortcuts, but I think kde’s built in one (Kate) does exactly what you want

Nvidia drivers aren’t that much of a problem anymore, last big issue for me was explicit sync which they fixed a couple months ago (though some distros make it a bit of a pain to install them)

Rdp not an issue unless the machine you’re rdping into is using strict AD settings that only allow connections from other AD machines, you should use Remmina imo it’s very good

Xbox one controllers should work fine, I don’t own one but I’ve used controllers that present themselves as Xbox one controllers

Only controller that hasn’t just worked perfectly straight away is PS5 and that was because of a Bluetooth setting

As for distro, bazzite is probably a pretty good one to look at, it’s immutable so there’s a limit to the amount you can break it though sometimes it can make more technical things difficult to do

MPV is a frontend by itsself, just set it as your default in your file browser and it’ll play video files if you open them

Depending on the game modding can be a challenge. If mod organizer supports it you can usually get it to work fine, anything that supports mods by default will generally be fine and Minecraft is pretty much the exact same modding experience as windows

While you can do a lot on Linux without the terminal now you shouldn’t be afraid of it as it can often be the quickest and easiest way to do things. It’s one of the big advantages of Linux in general that the terminal experience is so good

This is unfortunate for new programmers cause I think it’s some kind of learned instinct rather than a hard rule

Error between chair and clock

Programmers don’t get given the leeway to make the work they do of good quality if it doesn’t directly lead to more profit

“tells the user the current time” would be an excellent comment for a clock

I’m not the best at commenting my code, but generally I just try to think of what information I’d want to know if looking at this 10 years from now

Imo comments are best used sparingly, don’t bother commenting something that anyone with a basic understanding of programming would understand straight away by reading the code

Functions should generally be commented with what parameters are and what they’re for, plus what they output

use reqwest::Client;

// create a http client class that all other files can import 
// so as to only create one instance globally 

pub struct HttpClient {
    client: Client,

}
impl HttpClient {
        pub fn new() -> Self {
            HttpClient {
                client: Client::new(),
            }
        }

        pub fn client(&self) -> &Client {
            &self.client

        }

}

Here’s an example where if I were to stumble onto this file 10 years from now, I might think wtf is this looking at it out of context, the comment explains why it exists and what it’s used for

(we’ll ignore the fact I totally didn’t just add this comment because I suck at commenting personal projects)

Just because you can take a hammer to it doesn’t mean that’s the best solution

In the right situation I imagine it could be a useful tool, much more subtle than just smashing the thing, less time consuming than taking it apart

Not that I know of, I meant it could be put in a pressurised spray bottle, for example a deodorant can

If it’s bolted to a wall and unattended neither of those things are an option

You don’t necessarily need to put it into the air supply, could just bathe the specific device you want disabled in helium from a deodorant can or something

I suppose I could write a custom script that runs sudo echo or something so it’s cached

Have tried using it this way though the glaring issue for me is that I have to type the password at the end rather than start, meaning I’ll start a rebuild, go for something else then it’ll time out on the sudo password

Does seem that way

I’m not sure real people can be compared to fictional in that way, as your friend has infinitely more character because he’s a real person

If you were to ask your friend what his favourite food is, or what his opinion on pineapple on pizza is, or what he has for a desktop wallpaper he’d have answers for all of those questions or a reason he doesn’t have an answer

If you were to take one of these hollow characters I’m talking about and ask them that question the answer would just be made up on the spot

If your friend showed up in a TV show for 5 minutes just as himself in a situation he would realistically be in I can guarantee he’d feel real and natural because he is a real person with a history

What does remote sudo actually do I thought it was meant to be for doing remote builds over ssh