I’m not trying to convince anyone, just explaining why I do the things I do and why I think the way I think. Fixing it easily misses the point, for me personally. If I can just undo my mistake then I miss the strong incentive to figure out what went wrong. Immutability itself is a wonderful thing. I love to write code using as much immutability as I can but thats for work. In my free time I want to raw dog a mutable linux distro because it’s fun for me.

I like the fact that linux is so easy to poke around in, even if it breaks. Breaking can be a good thing since that way I learn the most. I enjoy rebuilding my entire setup from time to time. I diskile the additional complexity.

May I suggest you change email providers then? You get to hurt google by not giving them your data and support smaller european companies. Here’s a list in no particular order. I personally use Tuta it’s not as feature rich as Gmail but the company is miniscule in comparison. https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers

I personally liked them. I feel they were a nice challenge without being too time consuming.

Here are some I can think of at the moment, these are most likely local to Estonia and local to Tallinn for the choclate store:

• https://karukombucha.ee/ if you are into fermented drinks this one is the best available in Estonia in my humble opinion. It is a living food so qualitiy varies a little, batch to batch.
• https://orto.ee/en/products Cosmetics and cleaning products. I like their soaps and shampoos, not quite Japanese/Korean level but better than most supermarket stuff. My fave Orto products:
  • https://orto.ee/en/product/strengthening-shampoo-puhas-loodus-burdock-250ml/ Works well for my sensitive scalp, better than fancy/expensive shampoos.
  • https://orto.ee/en/product/gentle-cosmetic-cream-soap-3-l/. My one soap for all my hygiene needs. Feels nice on my, prone to overstimulation skin. I dislike most creams and lotions so I need a soap that doesn’t dry my skin too much.
• https://karamelle.ee/kontakt/ My source of high quality dark chocklate in Tallinn. They also make my favorite flavour: cinamon dark chocklate. Other notable products: many flavours of hand crafted zefir and pralines. If you really like dark chocklate try their 100% coca choclate, very smooth texture and strong flavour, not sweet.

Yup, “Thinkpad” not the other Think… or …pad. The consumer targeted stuff is bad, even the Lenovo sales rep I got my P14s told me so.

I second used or new Thinkpads. They have good linux support. I use a p14s with arch (btw).

Spent half the day debugging wifi and kernel panic issues during boot. What finally fixed it was adding 5 sec delay to iwd service so wifi card firmware can do it’s thing (or at least I think thats why it helped).

I guess it depends what she does on her pc.

But ignoring that, Mint without sudo. Throw in flatpaks and appimages.

Immutable distros are probably fine too but in my experience they tend to be a bit fussy if you need to change something in the system config.

Ubuntu, always a solid choice for beginners but Gnome shell is a bigger change from windows conpared to Cinamon.

P.S. I have Mint on our TV PC and my SO handdles it without issues.

I just got a Thinkpad P14s Gen 5 with ryzen 7 8840HS/Radeon 780M, 32GB of ram and 1TB nvme ssd. I haven’t even installed the os yet(tried live boot Mint, but I’m going with custom Arch Hyprland setup). I choose it for linux use, because all (enterprise?) Lenovo laptops have linux support, afaik. I was close to going with framework but it’s a bit pricy for me personally.

My editors

• Professionally I use Jetbrains stuff (intellij, pycharm, etc).
• At home I use Neovim because I like to have lsp support, I’m too cheap to pay for IDE’s and I dislike VSCode for personal reasons. For quick edits I use default text editor e.g. kate/gedit.

My opinions on learning new editors

• If you need to go fast now, use what you know best.
• If you have time to learn just try whatever looks cool. Learning a new editor/way to edit text will broaden your horizons even if you don’t end up using it.

I tend to agree, it did glitch out in the past when I held it by one corner between meetings(old work laptop). Not the smartest way to hold a laptop. Interestingly it is working fine now with windows. I gave it away to someone that needed a pc and have been keeping an eye on it.

Pixel polishing. A term we use for frontend code at work (all backend developers).

Like dotfiles. Where most of the customizing happens.

It is not immutable, but use Linux Mint for my tv computer. It is similar enough to windows that my so has no promblem using it. I use it with a 2 in 1 keyboard/touchbad from logitech.