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  • Brewchin@lemmy.worldtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.worldTrying Out Pop OS on my laptop
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    2 months ago

    Although it’s certainly a popular distribution, my understanding is that Bazzite’s future is currently uncertain due to Fedora’s decision to remove certain 32-bit libraries in future and the folks behind Bazzite saying they may need to end the project because of it.

    I don’t know the details, and it’s possible that Fedora will reconsider, someone may make those libraries available downstream, or the Bazzite folks may have been hyperbolic, but it’s worth looking for the details and potential impacts. (Don’t take my reply as an accurate assessment).

    As an alternative, I can recommend an excellent game-friendly distro: EndeavourOS. It’s based on Arch, rather than Fedora. I use it on my gaming PC and my general use laptop. I’m approaching the 2 year mark with this distro.








  • Can’t speak to Fedora specifically, but most package managers let you configure the number of concurrent download threads it will use. Most are 3-4 it seems. Finding yours and setting it to 1 will probably do exactly what you’re asking.

    Another option is to set it to only download the files, then install manually once they’re local to you. The options for this differ (eg. when installation order matters), so an RTFM is worth the time spent.



  • Brewchin@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlLibreOffice is pretty damn good
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    3 months ago

    Your initial response got peoples’ backs up because of its dismissive tone and (it seemed to me, as you hadn’t provided context) apparent advocacy for web-based tools like O365 or GSheets.

    Many office application users wouldn’t consider vim as an “office application”, as they have their word processing app, their spreadsheet app, their email app, their chat app, their file explorer/manager, maybe something other than Notepad as a text editor, etc, and don’t really know much beyond some of what each of them can do.

    The fact that vim (or Emacs or vim/nvim with plugins, or LazyVim or Doom Emacs) can do all of those things would blow many minds.

    But the setup effort and learning curve is still there, and also requires that they have sufficient permissions/policy to be able to install things.