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Suggestions to switch a daily laptop to linux.
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That was a secondary point to just ignoring the "gaming" distros, but this thread alone has a bunch of people pushing Bazzite because someone simply said the word "gaming", and not recognize the majority of what OP said he would be doing is not gaming.
Immutable distros are a PITA for coders for a number of different reasons, so should not be recommended simply because of that. They have no benefits to workflow, only extra overhead to the other work OP is asking about,.who even said they are largely unfamiliar with anything except older releases. Suggesting they jump right into the fire with an immutable distro is bad advice.
Legitimately if you're a programmer and you think using a container is a pain in the ass, you should stop programming.
Source: 20 plus years software engineer, if I didn't have containers I would go ahead and hurry along my retirement.
Using a container isn't the issue. I'm an upstream developer on containerd and I just don't want to have to think about it. It's a needless hurdle. Containers have their place, and it's not for the desktop and doing desktop things.
Heya! I'm one of the ublue maintainers. I run the Project Pavilion at KubeCon, any chance you're going? I love to talk about this stuff in real life! Our project is based on bootc, which is going into sandbox into the CNCF, so there's lots of stuff to talk about!