I would highly recommend the Framework 13. I’ve had it for a bit more than a year now. The only problem I’ve faced was that the WiFi card was a bit unstable in EndeavourOS. But that was fixed by replacing wpa_supplicant with iwd. (I hear that it was only an issue for the AMD version, and that it’s fixed now.) Battery life is fine for me. I limit charging at 70%, and that usually lasts me the whole day.

I love how Linux friendly it is. On my last laptop (an HP), it was pretty much impossible to upgrade the BIOS from inside Linux. Now it’s trivial. There’s also good support available when you face issues. (Both from Framework, and community members.) The hardware is pretty nice. I actually like how it’s MacBook-like, because it just looks nice in most settings. It’s portable too, I really hope they don’t make it bulkier like some folks here seem to demand.

There IS one of these for everything, eh?

Yep.

Slightly off topic, but man, I wish there was a nice way to track all changes in all settings. I don’t really wanna go immutable. I also know about software that tracks directories like /etc as a git repo, but that’ll only track the newer changes. I want something that can help me replicate my current setup easily.

It’s fine. I’m not a professional, but I’ve used it before. It was enough for what I wanted to achieve.

AFAIK, it’s still in closed beta.

You’re spot on. The same people complain endlessly about Rust being used in the Linux kernel, even though the actual experts are happy with it. It’s just culture war bullshit.

I didn’t know how much of a change Lunduke had had until recently, when I watched a video by Nicco. I used to watch his Linux Sucks videos 4-5 years ago, and he genuinely seemed like a chill dude.

Oh, definitely. Its syntax is so simple, you can basically learn the basics over an afternoon. Outside of applications where consistent low latency is critical, if I can spare some extra RAM and CPU, I prefer Go to Rust.

Also useful for scripts to be executed inside containers. Alpine doesn’t have Python installed by default.

Been there, done that lol. Nowadays, if I think that some script is getting too long, I just rewrite it in Go. It’s faster to write than Rust (in fact, I find it almost as easy as Python), and performant enough for replacing scripts.

I have no experience in sysadmin work, but have some understanding of the Linux tools used. Can you eli5 what exactly is it that AD does? (Feel free not to, I just couldn’t find a good article, so decided to ask.)

Omg please kill me 😭

KDE is great but do give some “better” distros like Fedora, or EndeavourOS (basically Arch) a try. Canonical, the company in control of Ubuntu, is a little bit shady.

I have a Framework 13 with the super button instead of Windows button, but I’ve set it up similarly to how the Windows buttons works in Windows. Pressing it by itself opens the KDE app menu, super+D goes to desktop, super+L locks screen, super+[ or ] moves around virtual desktops, super+W shows overview, supe+T shows tiles config, super+arrows do snapping, super+PgUp/PgDn/X for maximize/minimize/close etc.

This, but I use bat since it seems to be faster for this.

Edit: I should clarify that I only use bat as the MANPAGER, since bat uses less under the hood for paging anyway. But with support for a built-in pager in the new release, perhaps it makes sense to set it as the PAGER too.

It literally is. Please get out from under your rock.

I like quadlets, but I wish podlet could handle translating external networks. Right now, it just fails, and needs manual intervention. Also, afaik, there’s no way to preserve comments when translating.

For me, it’s the opposite. I vastly prefer the compose syntax. In general, I guess I prefer yaml based syntax to toml or json based ones. It’s just more readable due to the indentation.

And they have a great community too. I especially like their off-topic threads e.g. the photography and music ones.

IIRC, no. But I’m not sure, it’s been a couple of years.

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