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Just looking to expand my tech knowledge. DevOps, Linux, Ansible, IaC, python, aws, etc.

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🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · Feb 4

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🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah I've never used AUR. Not knowing what people are uploading without reading the code... and I don't have time for that lmao

🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 23h

Sweet. Sounds like a winner

🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 23h

Sweet. Thanks for validating these for me.

🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 1d

And that only broke pacman updates.

🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 1d

Or obsidian

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🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I figured. My 1st thought was Libreoffice. I'm sure there's no shortage of options.

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🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 1d

I assumed so since it's widely used and not an obscure app. Thanks for the verification

🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 1d

I update every time I use the PC. I don't check their homepage or mailing lists. Maybe I should knock on wood, but I've only had one issue that a quick Google search led me to a fix on their user forum. It was the Nvidia kernel issue.

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🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah probably start him with bazzite to see how he handles that. And then branch out later if needed.

🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah he said gaming and Journaling (libreoffice was my 1st thought). I'm hoping Libre pretty stable.

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🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 1d

I think 6 ish months. But stable for me doesn't give me the urge to start a 13 year old boy on arch based systems. Bazzite is leading suggestion in the comments, but pop_OS being Debian based gives me familiarity. But also an excuse to play with immutable so 🤷‍♂️ lol

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🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 1d

I thought it was fedora based, but have never used immutable. So I figured DNF/YUM would still work. But using flatpak makes sense. I'm familiar with it at a high level, but not at a user level.

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🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah definitely would be several litmus tests before I'd throw any more "difficult" ditro on it for him. Vanilla Arch has been remarkably stable for me, but I'm a pretty basic user. But need to figure out a good starting point for him.

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🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 1d

I'm assuming there's still a package manager, but libreoffice only available via flatpak? I've only messed with Debian and arch. Used to do a little with RHEL at a previous job, but not the same lol. That was server support and not gaming lol

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🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 1d

Sweet. Thanks for the recommendation!

🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 1d

Or do I set him up with a gaming distro? I'm thinking bazzite since it's immutable, but have never messed with it personally. Maybe Pop_OS? Probably move him to cachyOS later on? Just not familiar with gaming and want him to be successful from the start. Thoughts?

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🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, my nephew is wanting a PC, so I'm going to set him up with Linux. He wants to game (steam) and use office. I'm familiar with libreoffice, but don't game. I want this to be as easy of an on-boarding as possible. Do I just give him mint and install steam manually?

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🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 1d

My work here is done then lol

🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 1d

I can't figure out why forums are dying 🤔

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🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 1d

support.microsoft.com/en-us/surfac...

Surface Pro 3 specs and features - Microsoft Support

Learn about Microsoft Surface Pro 3 – the bigger, lighter Surface for serious work, play, and entertainment on Windows 10

support.microsoft.com

🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah think that's right. Not in a place to boot and confirm

Next-gen power for your ideas

Surface Pro 3 uses the 4th generation Intel® Core™ processor (i3, i5 or i7). Choose from one of the following:

64GB or 128GB storage with 4GB RAM

256GB or 512GB storage with 8GB RAM

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🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 1d

Ah I think mines an i5 w/ 4gb? About to go look now.

🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe because it's a pro, or the fact we don't do any heavy lifting with it, but seems peppy enough. My daughter just uses it for a web browser

🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 1d

What distro did you use? I recently read that someone just loaded Manjaro (I think), and they needed the surface kernel. So maybe just arch based distros need it? No clue honestly. Just speculating

🅱🅰🅽🅳🅸🆃 @heavilybauxite.bsky.social · 1d

I bought a surface pro 3 with Ubuntu preloaded on it and it works flawlessly. He said he didn't even need the surface kernel from github.