theshatterstone54

Okay, my concern was that if I have, say 1.4G in zram, that would unpack to, say, 2G, which, when added to 7G, would go over the 8G limit. I was worried that RAM might be saved in its uncompressed manner, when saved in the swapfile for hibernation.

So it IS possible, as I already found out. If the Arch wiki isn't saying things like "doing this can break your system" then it's fine by me.

NixOS is immutable, so I can't compile from source (I needed a specific Assembly Editor for university and it only supported full system installation, I could not get it working on NixOS). I desired a static release, so I was switching to NixOS, but then there'd be something I can't be bothered to figure out or weird issues, so I'd switch back to Arch. But then my desire for a stable static release would return.

So on and so forth until I figured out Fedora is perfect. It lacks the 1337 Haxor feel of an advanced distro, and dnf is super slow (First thing I do on a new Fedora install now is get dnf5), AND my SDDM theme broke on Fedora but worked everywhere else (something to do with qt5-qtgraphicaleffects), but I rewrote the theme, aliased dnf to dnf5, and I still get the 1337 haxor feel by using my own scripts, including a bemenu logout script, which makes me feel like a boss when I use it, for some reason, probably because I wrote it myself.

Windows XP -> Windows 7 -> Windows 10 -> Linux Mint -> Manjaro -> ArcoLinux -> Arch -> Arco -> Arch -> Arco -> NixOS -> Arch -> Ubuntu (beginning of 2023) -> NixOS -> Arch -> NixOS (summer 2023) -> Debian (for a month when beginning University), -> NixOS -> Arch -> NixOS -> Fedora (in Jan/Feb 2024, seems like it could be the one) -> Void (wanted to love it but I hated my few days in it) -> Arch (temporarily, waiting for the COPR repos on Fedora to update its packages for F40) -> Fedora 40 (where I still am)

Going from Windows XP to Linux Mint took over a decade. Going from Mint to Fedora 40 took about 2 years.

I'm far from an enjoyer of snaps BUT snaps do support other custom stores and aren't tied to the snap store, contrary to popular belief.

Also, the fix for making snap startup times has been developed and released but most existing snaps haven't patched their snaps to support it (last I heard, the only notable exception (aka the only known snap to have good startup times) is the Firefox snap).

Completely unrelated but your use of FP really confused me at first, as I've been studying for a Programming exam, half of which is on FP (Functional Programming).

Oh, my bad. I just assumed he would upvote his post, as it does it for me automatically lol

I feel almost obliged to ask: what are you running on this monster of a setup?

Ooh, good point.

He's happy with it so I'm happy for him!

Interesting point, however, is that the only major issues he had were with OBS and him macro keypad, and everything else worked for him. That is a very good thing imo. It's a testament to how far Linux has come. Now we just need to ensure all the Wayland work gets completely done across all desktops and then it's a matter of time before even stable and "conservative" systems like Debian and Mint get it all supported, at which point Linux will be ready for all, and we can move our focus to Mobile Linux and whatever else the next new big and shiny thing is on the desktop (Personally, I think the only issues after these would be making sure accessibility is all well and good, getting GNOME to finally support VR, and that's about it. I can't think of anything else).

This is the first time I ever find myself kind of disagreeing with the Mint team. As others have said, some of the most popular packages on Flathub are unverified so popular programs like Inkscape are not going to show up as Flatpaks?

I think just a warning, like what Flathub does, and maybe a dialog before installing, warning the app is packaged by an unverified packager, would have been enough.

It's a good looking config, and the lack of bar is unique but I think you're getting downvoted because of calling this: asthma