Fonzie!

So their laptops were running Android?

Reading the article it was a closed source OS, with their own closed-source Linux-based kernel.

I once freed 28 GB using find ~/Downloads/ -mtime +30 -delete

Honestly, I could do and have done Unreal, Unity and (easily) Godot development on less!

But that’s the minimum to spend for a very comfortable experience, I’d say; RX7900 and GTX 4090 are only there for bragging, while an on-board GPU would not be comfortable running game graphics in my opinion but I’ve seen people do it and not complain :/

Off-topic but:

Linux Mint
GPU: AMD RX7600XT
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800x
RAM: 16GB DDR4

That’s surprisingly mid-range, I don’t think I ever see that; just budget specs or bragging-level specs. As someone with almost the same build (Ryzen 7 4700GE, RX7700XTX, 16 GB DDR4) I’m positively surprised!

Checking their profile, they do seem to be a furry, yeah!

Xubuntu is Ubuntu with the XFCE desktop, after all ;-)

This is not a good place to recommend commercial services.

Adding that this would work even if OP uses full disk encryption, as it’s encrypted with a passphrase; just double-click the drive in the file manager and enter the encryption passphrase when prompted (NOT a sudo password!)

It’s more like, the distro is the actual “under the hood” OS and the DE is the looks and user interaction.

I would say XFCE and Cinnamon; no two XFCE’s look alike and Cinnamon can easily be molded into something very different as well.

I see a lot of people recommending KDE and Gnome; I’ve found those surprisingly rigid, although there are more guides on how to “rice” KDE into the most non-KDE things so there’s that.

Ah I guess that makes more sense!

Now if it was Debian with the Gnome DE vs Ubuntu, that would’ve been ironic!

I never had good luck making hardware work right with ubuntu Debian, […] always worked way better out of the box on bare metal

Oh the irony!

I’ve been running Mint on my Dell XPS 9370 (methinks) for years and it’s always worked just fine. Only the fingerprint scanner just won’t work, not even with fprintd; it can set up a finger but never to use that same finger afterwards.

I love the customisability of KDE

I read this often but found KDE so difficult to customise. XFCE or Cinnamon is what I’d consider extremely customisable, KDE doesn’t even consistently listen to what theme colour I set :-(

Calm down, he isn’t the sole regent of the kernel, you know.

That’s really, really out of character for Apple.

But then, so was releasing seriously powerful computers.

Maybe that’s cause FLAC encodes audio instead.

It’s really just atomic Fedora […]*

Ah, I do use Mint on my dev laptop but Bazzite on my gaming PC, each has their own usage.

It’s really just Fedora with different defaults, pre-installed software (mostly for Steam, MangoHUD, etc.) and a welcome-screen that helps you set up different software.

There’s an atomic Fedora spin made for gaming, Bazzite, and the experience has been to install, and just go. Everything works, everything is set up for gaming and performance monitoring, it’s actually baffling how good this is!

I realise I’ sounding like a shill, but genuinely it’s great and seems to be what you’re looking for. You can always just try it in a VM!

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