Oh, then yeah, Fedora is closest. But I’d recommend at least trying an immutable distro --, immutable distributions have been excellent to me (and I dig in my systems a lot), so much so that I’m considering moving my server over, and we already use them on our Linux fleet at work.

I have run Fedora for over a decade and switched to Bazzite a couple years ago for my desktop (Fedora still on my server).

In short, yes, but I wouldn’t recommend it. You can learn what you need to directly on Bazzite. If you’re looking for help, Bazzite is most similar to Fedora Silverblue (not regular Fedora) under the covers. The differences between regular Fedora and Bazzite are substantial enough that you’ll run into some things you’d need to research twice, once for Fedora then again for Bazzite. Keep it simple and just use Bazzite.

If you want or need a distribution with a different focus, you should look at the other Universal Blue (ublue) options. Bazzite is built on ublue for gamers, but uBlue also builds for other use cases. Aurora for general desktop, Bluefin for workstation, and uCore for servers.

https://universal-blue.org/#images

About a decade ago, Linux switched to proactively swapping out inactive memory pages.

Yup. Some are doing well (like Microsoft with Halo, surprisingly…), others are actively denying doing anti-cheat on Linux. Here’s the website to track them:

https://areweanticheatyet.com/

Bazzite was the distro that got me to kill the Windows 10 install on my gaming machine. Steam Deck catalyzed the move, but Bazzite was the final piece. Steam comes pre-baked in Bazzite, as does your graphics drives, and some multi-store frontends (I forget which atm), and some other quality of life bits. And Jellyfin Media Player is on Flathub, so installs easily via Flatpak.

*Socially Awesome/Awkward Penguin

Definitely fewer interesting products.

Steve:

• iMac, especially the first couple
• iPod
• PowerMac
• iPhone
• iPad

Tim:

• Apple Watch
• Vision Pro

… and the idea for Watch may have started during Steve’s time, too. And I’m probably forgetting some of the ones during Steve’s time.

The video addresses this. The biological term “fruit” is not accurate for culinary use. Lots of things we eat are biologically fruit, but you’d get weird looks for calling it a “fruit” while eating it. The video gives a lot of examples of botanical-fruit-but-not-culinary-fruit, including cucumbers, peppers, corn, eggplant, peas, pumpkins, and broccoli (specifically the buds).

Fruits vs vegetables is an arbitrary, near-meaningless distinction. See here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=E8mcTIEVKUU

The Archer clip is wrong. Webster literally lists biennial as a definition for biannual, along with twice a year.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biannual

Cambridge says the same:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/biannual

Oxford put their stuff behind a paywall.

Yes. I’m not sure what you think makes you bad at writing bug reports, but here are tips I give to everyone (my day job involves working with bug reports).

Nominally, a decent bug report should have:

• the steps that got you the bug
• whether you can reproduce the bug
• what you expected to happen instead of the bug

Doing any of these things makes bug reports so much more actionable. You can do it. I believe in you!

Edit: Including a contact method so the software developer can have a conversation with you can also be helpful but not strictly required. Some bug reporting methods do this implicitly, like email bug reports and GitHub issues.

It’s exactly this. The policies put in place by “healthcare administrators” (MBAs and such with healthcare flavoring, not people that actually know how to care for people’s health like doctors and nurses) are designed to process the most patience in the least amount of face time possible, so that each doctor and nurse can see more patients per day, meaning more office visit fees, meaning higher profit. My dad calls it the “cattle shoot” and I feel that’s a pretty apt analogy. It’s the same general reason that fast food restaurants and pharmacies and department stores are perpetually understaffed: fewer staff members means lower “overhead” costs.

The team I was on at work number of years ago had to hash this exact thing out because we had a “biweekly” status and was confusing people. We ultimately landed on not using the term.

Bimonthly and biannually have the same problem.

Misread, but I’m leaving it!

“May you live in interesting times.”