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  • Not a boat owner, but trained on sailboats: if you feel like it, take sailing lessons and get a feel for it, it’s fun and relaxing. I hate motorboats for the noise, the environmental impact. And it’s kinda dull.

    In any case, navigation and boating in general has rules, depending on where you are you may have to get a license.

    Got to your local sail club, take lessons. When you’re trained you will be able to rent boats from time to time. Almost nobody sails enough that buying is reasonable. And anchoring in a proper port means an annual fee to pay.










  • ReallyZen@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml[QUESTION] Flatpak or AUR?
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    1 month ago

    An AUR package has been done for Arch by (supposedly) someone who knows what they are doing and needs it on their Arch Machine

    A Flatpak is something done by someone, to (supposedly) work everywhere, untested on Arch, that may or may not work. And crash (Ardour on Asahi). Or waste hours or you life to render files incorrectly (kdenlive on arch and asahi).

    Native versions work perfectly.

    I thought I was clever in using arch/aur for everything, but pull KDE or QT apps from Flatpak to keep my gnome install a bit more tidy… For this, you’d have to have those Flataks to work, and sometimes they don’t.




  • My wife has a T480s on standard 2022 LTS Ubuntu, it is a machine old enough to not need the latest edgy mint ; a friend of mine has had to install it on his 2023 X1 tho.

    Standard Mint will do fine. Default DE is boring as hell, be sure to look at others like Gnome. I love Gnome.

    Also, using “live” USB keys OP can try several distros and check what they find more attractive in the default state of a distro.

    PopOS, Elementary, Fedora, Tumbleweed… So many of them.

    I say Tumbleweed is best because of the perfect, seamless integration of BTRFS / Snapshotting / Rollback system. It is truly the best way to dip your feet into Linux and get it back working in a single click when you (inevitably) fuck up.


  • I do. It’s not my only machine, but it is booted into Asahi 90% of the time. I run mostly Ardour, it is my main mixing workstation & then my exports are shared via SyncThing to Backup and Playback machines. It seems to be able to pile up tracks and vsts pretty comfortably. The excellent Pipewire implementation allows me to switch monitoring equipment quickly, be it wired or BT.

    As an everyday thing, my only issue is the power consumption while sleeping. When I’m not just moving from here to there, I just shut it down, it boots fast enough really.

    2023 M2Pro MBP 14 16G



  • ReallyZen@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlCool distros to try
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    2 months ago

    That’s how I was on Slackware at the time. Reputable, functional, stable - and totally tailorable to your exact needs.

    Everybody talks about Arch as a “pedagogic” distro, but you’ll learn a lot working with Slackware. I wonder if Lilo is still around.