Debian Stable + Backports, with a few customized flatpaks. I don’t care that my desktop apps are not bleeding edge. My system always works, and games run great.
I didn’t use this method, I have a persistent Linux install on a USB, but at least it’ll point you in the right direction to figure out what you want to do.
You can use ubuntu, debian, or a few other live distros with "persistence" which is relatively easy to configure. This is neat because live versions usually come with cool features like auto configuration of devices and displays. You can even create a persistence boot of live isos on ventoy, which is honestly what I'd recommend.
I think you can simply install a Linux distro on a USB drive. You should use something fast like a USB-C hard drive and you’ll have to think about where to put the boot loader. But if you’re careful, what you have in mind should work.
Absolutely doable. I have had an Ubuntu on a 16Gb stick for years that used any time I had to log into my gmail from a borrowed/friend/relative computer.
When people complain about crashes, that is usually the first thing that springs to mind. Of course, your hardware is fairly new, so I think you should be good in that respect. The problem might just be a Xwayland/Gnome thing, now that I think about it.
I don't really understand why you find chrooting hard or what's wrong with the tutorials you found. Can you point out which step of it is difficult. this is the first tutorial I get for Manjaro, is there something missing or left ambiguous?
I use btrfs + encryption. The tutorials just state "you have to do this and that", but not exactly what any of that means or how I apply it to my system, since the commands obviously need tinkering to make sense for my specific use case. It's not really a step by step, but a step by step jump to step X for this and then to step Y for that but make sure to do "something you don't understand / know" to be sure that "something you also don't know". It's basically all just a cryptic mess if you don't know any of it beforehand and I don't think the authors have tested their tutorials on people without prior background knowledge.
Steam can't be closed properly as it ends up sitting unresponsive in the task bar and needs its task to be killed.
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I found out the Firefox spellcheck somehow fetches its dictionaries from "/usr/share/hunspell". How do I make FF fetch the regular dictionaries I added to it through Firefox, or what is the proper way to find dictionaries for that folder (I assume I can just delete the excess English variants)?
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You can just remove the folder in about:config, however it now shows only the US spelling, despite having another language installed...
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Managed to get the other spellcheck dictionary to show up.
Evolution mail client fails at 2 factor authentication. Window just shows "OAuth2 secreot not found" and no matter how many times I try it does not send a verification request to my phone.
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"Files" can't jump to folders starting with letter X because it immediately uses the (still crashy) search function.
Can't drag & drop files from my Firefox download manager (pop up, not extra window) onto a folder without having to manually tab to it. Tabbing starts AFTER the "Files" process though, so you have to tab all the way through. Under KDE I could just drag it onto the file manager in the panel, which would focus the file manager and then drop the files in or onto the folder I wanted.
"Archive Manager (also known as File Roller)" can't even drag & drop files from an archive into a folder. I don't even know how people can use Gnome with it lacking such basic functionalities. What the hell are you doing with your lives?!
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OpenRGB now suddenly works as intended. Not sure if there was an update for it or if that's a temporary oddity but for now I'll take it.
Right? Like it or not, we live in a society dominated by money. A very small number of Linux distributions have found a way to sustainably produce an excellent product. That's a good thing. The alternatives are either burnout or insecurity.
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