It doesn’t usually matter, though you could have a script in your dotfiles to bootstrap the installation of everything needed. I haven’t bothered because I very rarely set up new machines, but for a VM warrior that’s what I would recommend for sure. You can use chezmoi templates to automatically use apt/dnf/yum/zypper/brew/whatever and export different envs depending on your platform and shell.

I use chezmoi which syncs via my private Gitea instance. I can’t imagine not using a VCS for dotfiles, the number of times I’ve edited my ZSH aliases file or my VSCodium settings.json on both my desktop and my laptop and then had to merge the changes together is… a lot. A new setup is as simple as installing chezmoi, logging in to Bitwarden, downloading my Gitea SSH key, and cloning. The templates handle customizing things to the platform I’m on. I can do it over HTTPS using any backend the Git credential store supports too.

It is strange that many, many farmers are simultaneously millionaires and dirt poor. Not that it’s a problem exclusive to farmers by any means, but ya know. Slim operating margins.

Konsole also supports split panes, support would be awesome if it isn’t in already.

Eh, maybe God just has a sense of humor. After all, platypus.

Mint is FOSS and free of hardware restrictions, so if you don’t mind having to teach yourself how to fix the odd issue here and there, it’s probably the better option. That said, macOS is definitely a more seamless and full-featured experience (whether that matters to you is personal preference). I use it plenty at work, it’s pretty nice for the average user. Personally, I switched from Windows to Mint years ago, but now I’m on KDE Neon because I needed Wayland support and fell in love with KDE Plasma in the process. Mint/Cinnamon should be stable on Wayland within the next year or two though, so that’s cool.

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The problem is asking a fundamentally subjective question in a way that presupposes it to be objective truth.

If you instead asked,

What are some advantages that Linux Mint and macOS have over each other?

…you might get more useful answers—from people, that is. AI will just give you what you think you want to hear.

How many wagons per minute of small disturbed children were you making? 😅

I just use regular ol’ ed for jotting my thoughts on the AI-related news I see each day. After all, it is the standard text editor.

…was that not the question?

/s

I mean, aliases do exist. For example, with my typical alias schema I might shorten it to sudo syc lsu-s. But yeah, on foreign systems (e.g. random VPS’s) I can see your point.

Nostalgia is a powerful thing, like a rank body odor or a French cheese.

I have to agree.

I wouldn’t think this would cause any data loss either, it just wouldn’t find your media or it would throw an error. Very alarmist indeed.

KDE Neon on desktop. I want to be on the latest Wayland I can for feature support (and Waydroid), without being on the bleeding edge for stability, and it checks all those boxes. Based on Ubuntu LTS, with latest Wayland and KDE software.

For my home servers I like to try out different distros. I have a thin client on openSUSE Tumbleweed running Portainer, a couple Armbian SBCs for reverse proxies, my main Unraid storage server, and a thin client running NixOS at my parents’ house for backup storage and remote troubleshooting access.

For desktop, I’ve liked Lato, Source Sans Pro, and Inter to name three.

For terminal, I used Iosevka’s customizer to create a gorgeous Fira Mono-like variant that I call Iosevka Firesque:

[buildPlans.IosevkaFiresque]
family = "Iosevka Firesque"
spacing = "term"
serifs = "sans"
noCvSs = true
exportGlyphNames = false

  [buildPlans.IosevkaFiresque.variants]
  inherits = "ss05"

    [buildPlans.IosevkaFiresque.variants.design]
    capital-g = "toothless-corner-serifless-hooked"
    capital-q = "crossing-baseline"
    g = "single-storey-serifed"
    long-s = "bent-hook-tailed"
    cyrl-a = "single-storey-earless-corner-serifed"
    cyrl-ve = "standard-interrupted-serifless"
    cyrl-capital-ze = "unilateral-serifed"
    cyrl-ze = "unilateral-serifed"
    cyrl-capital-en = "top-left-bottom-right-serifed"
    cyrl-en = "top-left-bottom-right-serifed"
    cyrl-capital-er = "open-serifless"
    cyrl-er = "earless-corner-serifless"
    cyrl-capital-u = "cursive-flat-hook-serifless"
    cyrl-u = "curly-motion-serifed"
    cyrl-capital-e = "unilateral-bottom-serifed"
    cyrl-e = "unilateral-bottom-serifed"
    brace = "straight"
    ampersand = "upper-open"
    at = "threefold"
    cent = "open"

Fwiw, you can change the shortcuts for nano in your ~/.nanorc. Most of mine are the same as standard desktop editors, except undo is Ctrl+U because Ctrl+Z is commonly bound to suspend, and quit is Alt+Q instead of Ctrl+Q because in browser window terminals (e.g. Unraid) Ctrl+Q usually closes the whole browser (oof).

You can change that in the nanorc along with changing key binds, colors, and the like.

To be fair, you can easily rebind all the keys to be more normal by adding a .nanorc. Though, Ctrl-Z conflicts with suspend in many terminals, so I keep that one as Ctrl-U. A .nanorc also allows turning on mouse support, changing the color scheme, etc.