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I use fish, I had to learn some new syntax and modify some functions since it’s not POSIX-compliant, but it was pretty painless.

Oh, great! I didn’t know that.

If stability is the goal, you really can’t go wrong with Debian. I have about 10 containers running on Debian 12 (through Podman) at any given time.

I’ve heard good things about GameMaker (the engine Hotline Miami 1 and 2 use) for beginner devs. It’s hard to recommend an engine without knowing how familiar you are with scripting. GameMaker is 2D-only and isn’t free though.

Godot can be very confusing if you aren’t much of a coder or have trouble with complex workflows. But one thing it does very well is allow you to get a barebones structure up and running quickly, and that really helps with setting up scenes and iterating on them. So if that sounds like your thing, Godot is free and can do 3D as well as 2D.

There’s archive.is.

I’ve used Ulauncher in the past, it looks nice and it’s launched with a keybinding, but I don’t know if you can configure it to only include certain apps since I don’t use it anymore.

Absolutely. The brand is very important. So many no-name brands out there putting out complete junk that can be straight up unsafe in addition to offering poor (or no) performance.

As far as I know, it includes all installed packages, so the latter.

That’s not really different than Windows. If you do a clean reinstall, all your application data is gone unless you have a backup.

This is why I have my home folder on a separate drive; all of my application data is there and not on my system drive, so a reinstall basically just requires generating a text file of my installed packages, installing the OS, and then installing the packages from the text file.

dpkg --get-selections > package_list.txt

Or just generate a list before you reinstall. Other distros have similar commands.

For me, when I hear about display issues like that I think of either the GPU or the power supply. It could be memory-related too, as others have said, but if memtest doesn’t give you any insight you should also do diagnostics on your GPU and inspect your power supply for wear or damage.

If you were on a budget and went a little cheap on the power supply, which I’ve done tbh, I’d really think about replacing it even if there’s no obvious signs of wear, especially if you got it secondhand. Use a power supply wattage calculator (Newegg and PCPartPicker both have one) and give yourself at least 20% overhead, e.g., if the calculator says 500W, go for at least 600W.

I would seriously advise you to double it to 50 GB each if you’re intending to use these installs for more than web browsing and simple tasks using the packages that came with the distro. The exception to this would be if you have external drives/partitions that you’re mounting into system directories (like your 20 GB of shared storage) because that data is obviously stored elsewhere.

The minimum requirements are for the installation and basic use of the operating system as-is; actually using the system and installing other packages will generally require more space.

I really don’t think 60 GB will be enough for daily use unless you have your home folder on a separate drive, which it doesn’t seem is the case from your screenshot.

I have mine on a separate drive and my system partition (150 GB) is half-full. Is there a reason for your 25 GB per Linux installation rule?

I like KOReader for my Kindle, but it’s available for Android too. Have you tried it?

I keep hearing this, but I don’t really want an Arch-based distro because I don’t want fixing my computer to become a hobby. I have a 10-year-old PC running Debian 12 that can still play (some) games that came out this year, so it doesn’t feel like I should switch.

I basically use Mbin as though it were Lemmy, so personally that would be fine. Thanks for the quick response.

Would you consider supporting Mbin in the future? I like Lemmy, but I’ve become used to Mbin (I was originally on /kbin) and I’m somewhat attached to my instance.

Okay, so keep looking elsewhere? Not sure what I’m supposed to do about it.

Try WOSONHJ or the Nexus/STC Telegram group. There’s also /r/scholar.

Well, it could be that their electrical design or engineering teams have a bigger budget for prototyping and R&D. It’s not just the battery that affects the charging function.