the idea is that the superblock ends up getting corrupted, whereas a standard RAID5/6 on ext4 wouldn’t, lol

Just do a search on your favorite search engine for “btrfs raid5/6 write hole bug” and you’ll see. If power gets cut, any file on the set of disks could be missing, or just have bunch of garbage.

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One for XFCE. A reasonble workflow with lots of customizability. Default is a Windows XP workflow, but with extensions you can emulate any desktop, including MATE. The XFCE apps are light and stable with poweruser features, while being reasonably easy to approach.

I literally daily drive btrfs. Just don’t use a crappy drive or use raid5/raid6.

That was just a side effect of crappy consumer CRTs. The N64 took advantage of it somewhat well.

if something’s artistically pixelated, KEEP IT THAT WAY! I can’t stand pixel art being ruined by computer algorithms that “smooth” it out.

just be careful and review what tab-suggest shows.

Garuda Linux. It’s like Manjaro, in fact some utilities are forked from it, but done right.

You can also try EndeavourOS.

If you’re into immutable distros, try Bazzite.

I use this icon pack. A very good GTK/Qt/Kvantum/whatever is Simplewaita. It goes together well with the icon pack.

If you have to use Windows 11, and don’t mind Windows 11’s taskbar design, then take a look at LTSC.

Yes. I love this meme template.

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Because then people file bug reports for ages old software. Ancient does not equal stable!

Endeavor’s problem is a Calamares problem in specific.

Pro tip: use an external partition editor before the install. For endeavor, this used to be gparted, but is now partitionmanager. (It even comes with the ISO!)

It’s decades old is is probably broken. Run from the console and see what happens. More than likely it’s a core dump.

There’s even more money to commit genocide.

openSUSE Tumbleweed. Or EndeavorOS if you want to join the Arch side.

Don’t. They usually have annoying line of sight remotes, buffer all the time, and try to send spam email in your name.

This is not even a correct chart.

Fedora requires less maintenance which is important in a university scenario. But then you have those Exam Safe Browsers which don’t run on wine anyway.

If you’re going to miss AUR-levels of package count, my advice is to grab openSUSE (preferably non-Leap), get familiar with zypper and yast, then add the Packman repo. Combined with the OBS (basically the openSUSE version of the AUR), you’ll have pretty high package availability.

openSUSE also requires less maintenance than Arch.

But generally, I recommend EndeavourOS, just add the chaotic-aur so you don’t spend hours compiling, and have fun!