I have no personal experience, but I’ve heard rumors that hybrid architecture (performance cores + efficiency cores) doesn’t work well with linux.

That might be completely outdated or only relevant for Intel. But maybe it will help if you look into that in more detail.

I also recommend Zorin OS. It’s a bit easier to set up than debian.

ooh I didn’t know that, thanks

what do you mean?

I have an epson ecotank and use it on archlinux with the epson scan software via usb. I select a dir and it puts the scan result there.

I am just trying to illustrate why posting personal anecdotal evidence is useless.

Linux and it’s software is in a state where you can expect every user to have a vastly different experience and set of issues or the lack thereof.

The bugs I have right now have nothing to do with hardware.

1. Window rules just refuse to work no matter what (wayland)

2. A single GTK app stays in light mode, while all other GTK apps are dark. On my laptop, same OS, same settings, same apps, (I dd the ssd) the app is dark…

I’m on a rolling distro so newest updates always.

I experience lots of bugs that only a handful of people share and the majority has never seen. And they are different from OPs.

Not selfhost but I use Hibiscus https://www.willuhn.de/products/hibiscus/

borgbackup has great versioning, reduplication and compression

Doing it the way a person would requires the file manager to understand context, which requires a lot more logic for arguably little benefit.

I’m so glad KDE Dolphin has a “natutal sorting” option. Not sure about this specific case, but I have never been surprised by the order with that setting.

Would be interesting to check the code behind it.

Not even Microsoft has a Windows distro without a terminal.

https://mindustrygame.github.io/

https://veloren.net/

Mindustry and Veloren are also pretty big and fun games!

afaik Linus is against GPLv3 in his Linux project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaKIZ7gJlRU

https://github.com/QiuYannnn/Local-File-Organizer

hyperbola

they have a wiki with insane nonsens about why they don’t package certain things. Example:

pam
Package has different security-issues and is not oriented on the way of technical emancipation as Hyperbola is trying to adapt lightweight implementations.

https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:incompatible_packages

My IDE can do that for me. And it was able to do that pre AI boom. Yes, the code ends up more verbose, but I just collapse it.

So from a modern dev UX perspective, this shouldn’t be a major difference.

There is probably no out of the box solution, but if you want to give it a go and hack it together, this combination might work (or it might not, I don’t think anybody tried yet)

https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-webtop

&

https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer

Sorry for the link dump - I just glanced over the content and it seems like this might help you:

https://www.warpbuild.com/blog/docker-mirror-setup

https://medium.com/@shaikrish27/deploying-a-docker-registry-mirror-as-a-container-59565ff92c48

https://blog.alexellis.io/how-to-configure-multiple-docker-registry-mirrors/

https://stackoverflow.com/a/41593925

the window rules one really fucks me up.

It stopped working at the beginning of the year for me and nobody gave a shit about the bug reports.

Now I have to keep juggling windows and their sizes every day like a caveman.

Depends on the career path. Some need only the very basics - for example in frontend development, you’ll mostly use % and basic +/-.

tbh. Most of the useful programming related knowledge you’ll learn at yoyr first job, not at uni.

The curriculum sometimes will force you to learn something unrelated to your career and it has multiple purposes:

People learn the fastest in the topic where they already know a lot. And the slowest where they know very little.

Learning stuff outaide of your comfort zone literally works out your brain. You learn to learn. And your thinking becomes more flexible.

You should not become somebody who is only good at one narrow singular task and a complete idiot at anything else.

You never know if it becomes useful later in life. So I suggest still trying to do your best at any topic. And studying more for the exams where you are not as proficient.

As to which career path to go for:

Don’t be afraid to change midway, but make sure that you enjoy it. If you enjoy compsci, keep at it. (Or if you have student loan, put some more thought into the cost of switching).