In my mind when I see MySQL somewhere it actually means MariaDB. It’s also the default in Debian. Probably in other distributions as well. Or maybe Percona.

Many people equate the DE with the distro they tried it on. So yeah, DE is a huge factor. There’s a lot of them out there and too many people think you have to switch distribution to try a new one.

If you don’t like KDE, can’t you just stay on Gnome?

BTW, in general you can change your desktop environment without switching the distro. They just often come with a default. But installing another is usually one command away and then you can choose at the login screen.

KDE’s Activities could help you. They are basically completely different desktop layouts and open programs for different tasks. You could set up one for each website with a different Firefox and Thunderbird profile and desktop wallpaper and other things.

Firefox recently added a new profile manager to do just that. Thunderbird should also support having multiple separate profiles.

Yes, of course.

No, not at all. By default Wine should offer your whole Linux drive on Z:, so you can choose whatever location you want.

Heroic puts the games in ~/Games/Heroic/gamename but the .wine folder in ~/Games/Heroic/prefixes/gamename. Steam does something similar.

You should also consider using a helper like Lutris, Heroic or Bottles. They create a separate .wine folder for every game. That way it is easier to manage multiple conflicting libraries and Wine versions. If your home is on BTRFS or other deduplicating filesystem the additional space needed for multiple .wine folders is almost zero.

If you don’t want to use a helper program you can still utilise multiple non-standard .wine locations with the WINEPREFIX environment variable.

SUSE has had graphical administration tools for literally decades. Somehow people always forget that.

Gwenview when it’s really small.

Most of the time, we’re not so starved for pixels that we have tp be stealing from the title bar.

Plus, when we actually are starved for space SSD allow the system to make the necessary adjustments.

If they would just take it a step further and embraced the Kernel’s most important “don’t break userspace” rule.

Who knows what bugs in other programs this fixed. This is great news!

This happens every few years. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has the nvidia drivers split into generations for this reason. I think they’re up to G06 by now. Guess they will add G07 now.

I usually make ~/Packages for various binary packages that I can’t add as repos for whatever reason. And ~/Packages/src for stuff I compile myself.

And ~/Games for games.

I just call it ~/Porn.

Also penguins continue bringing pebbles to their loved ones as a sign of affection. Hence sending memes to your loved ones has been called “pebbling”.

The script would place its own version of sudo in your $PATH and wait for you to enter the password. Then it has it and can do what it likes with the information.

Then it’d just tell you “wrong password” and forward you to the real sudo so that you can keep on working like nothing happened.

Edit: Or even better, pass your own commands to take over the whole system to the real sudo.

Yeah, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed automatically creates a new snapshot before and after installing or removing any packages. It’s great. I currently have some weird dbus bug. With the snapshots I can easily go back and forth to analyse it.

If the Frame is as open as the Deck it will be the perfect device for VR devs to play around with and make awesome stuff with. i think one of the things holding back VR was that almost every headset was super locked down.

If the Quests had been more open we’d have had much more experimental games. Maybe the Metaverse would actually be a thing. But Meta prefers to keep everything under their control not realising that this hampers development and adoption.