I stand corrected!

I’m glad you’re famliliar with it. I am pretty new to Linux on the desktop (used it on work servers a lot but all shells), and I found a chorus of people hyping Bazzite then too. I tried it out and immediately crashed into the immutability thing.

Once I realized what the ostree was actually doing, I realized it was not ideal for my purposes. To my thinking, if you need to ostree at all, you may want to question your choice of distro. I guess a ton of people just never hook up or install anything at all weird!

If they’re asking about this script, they don’t know to even ask that question. The fact is that immutable distros pair best with fixed and very mainstream hardware, which we don’t know this guy has or not.

I think these types of discussion as are always a mess because it is difficult to gauge the user’s knowledge and needs based just on a single, often limited post, but I also think that many Linux distros are for a specific use case or set of use cases, such as the immutable ones.

I think it best serves the OPs of questions like this to ask them follow-up questions before recommending something like that, because they can be quite restricting. It is awesome you’ve never had to ostree, so you must be exactly the type of user that immutable distros are for, but please do understand that what they mean by immutable is “you can’t mess with the kernel at all without a performance impacting ostree”, so asking whether that is a dealbreaker is a good move.

Bazzite is immutable, though. I don’t have anything super weird and I’ve had to ostree half a dozen times on the first day.

I think Bazzite and other immutable ones like it are never a good “just use this” recommendation if you don’t have a good picture of their setup and its uses.

I’m sure the fact that it is immutable has a lot of stability and probably even performance benefits, but I don’t find them appropriate for much other than very static workstations or single-purpose rigs that are not expected to ever support random hardware or special purpose software.

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Have you encountered anything weird with the wired input on those? I have the KK Pro Max and I get all sorts of random rogue inputs when using it wired on Linux. I have 3 of them and they all do it, and on every distro I’ve tried. It is the strangest thing, like even when its sitting there it presses random buttons.

It must also be really durable if you played Super Meat Boy with it and couldn’t break it in half out of frustration!

Maybe it is one of those “victim of their own success” situations. They have more complaints than some other brands because they sold so many more products that theres bound to be someone with a problem somewhere by statistics alone.

What they have on them is money. Palantir, specifically Peter Thiel, are among those leading this charge, and since their cause is wildly unpopular, they’re hiring their army instead of them enlisting on their own.

All these people that talk nonsense on TV and YouTube, and have no evident logical consistency while advancing authoritarian thought are paid spokesmen. Notice how washed up celebrities in need of more cash often take a right-wing “heel turn” to get in on grifting the uneducated and uninformed, and the only people talking like them for free are members of the working class that have been fooled. You know they’ve been fooled, rather than genuinely holding those beliefs, because they can never, ever support their reasoning, and nearly always become increasingly agitated when engaged in debate when trying to defend those points only to realize they’re completely unarmed.

I’ve always been a big fan of a variation of this for hiring for skilled entry-level jobs, though it is hit-and-miss getting management on board.

Specifically, the process and reasoning is that, in many cases, a new hire is not a good company fit either for personality, work ethic, or skill requirement reasons, so hiring just enough workers almost always ends in there still being not enough. Instead, I find that hiring a surplus of temp-to-hire people allows you to select from a larger candidate pool, then only bring on permanently the people that make the best fit from that group.

It costs slightly more up front, but eliminates prolonged manpower shortages and lengthy on boarding, which often cost more over time, and instead of that money going directly to waste, it is “wasted” on temporarily employing people that might otherwise have remained jobless for those 90 days.

Bam?

Truly, you have led a blessed life.

That’s just really good emulation at work. Alt+tab crashes tons of games in Windows, too!