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Anyone running Nobara who can answer these questions? in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately I can't help you with Nobara, but I'm surprised you're having troubles with EndeavourOS.

EOS has been working out of the box for me for almost everything.

I have to teach my daughter different things than my son in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Thanks for summarising.

I wish your anus well.

I have to teach my daughter different things than my son in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Am I out of the loop?

Why don't people like Pizzacake?

Always follow 3-2-1 backup rule in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Not really. Exceptions are a controlled way of indicating something went wrong in an application.

The only point where you wouldn't know about the possibility of one is when you don't know enough about the language features you're using or when you use a badly documented library or framework.

Always follow 3-2-1 backup rule in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I had a similar case with some authentication middleware I used that was part of a library.

It would always throw an exception when a user wasn't authenticated instead of just giving me some flag I could check.

Wouldn't have done it that way, but it was okay for an API controller.

Companies are not your friend in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Another upside of Jetbrains over Adobe is that you can get edu-licenses that allow you to use every software of theirs.

The best deal our university could get from Adobe was 25% off on Photoshop if at least 200 students bought it.

Always follow 3-2-1 backup rule in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 77 points 1 month ago

Meme is funny, but that exception used as flow control hurts.

So I installed EndeavourOS ... in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Fair point. For me using a distro dedicated to making Arch accessible just is more attractive than having an installer and being on my own afterwards.

But yeah, EndeavourOS is pretty much just an installer with purple space theming.

So I installed EndeavourOS ... in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Definitely. For now every fix that worked for Arch, also worked for me.

So I installed EndeavourOS ... in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I think EndeavourOS profits greatly from being so close to Arch, because right now every fix that worked for an Arch user also worked for me.

So I installed EndeavourOS ... in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Idk much about other distros, but maybe try Pop OS first and see if you like it.

As I mentioned I've ran into really weird issues with steam because of some missing dependencies that are mentioned on page 49 of google search results.

So I installed EndeavourOS ... in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

This will send me down another 4h rabbit hole today, thanks 😬

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... and I absolutely love it.

After my previous post where I asked for advice on distros I have tried Mint and EndeavourOS first as VM's and afterwards I gave them their own partition and tried it on my real hardware.

Something about EndeavourOS just sat right though and I promptly replaced my windows install with it. KDE Plasma also blows me away with the amount of customisation that is possible.

I've spent some time configuring today but mostly aesthetic stuff as my hardware worked 95% out of the box. Some odd dependencies were missing for steam to work properly but I'm really not missing anything that windows had right now.

I'm curious how my uni workflow will look like now, but I'm sure I can make it work.

Thanks a lot for the support and advice you've given me. I really love the community on here.

I'll get back to customising my bash prompt now. 😄

Edit: Due to popular demand:

I use Arch, btw.

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Which distro is the right one for me? (infosec.pub)

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Hey guys, I'm an entry-level IT professional and tech enthusiast.

I'm getting a bit sick of windows for a multitude of reasons and want to try out some Linux distros.

I use my pc for web browsing, university (which uses office 365) where I study software design, software development (vs code, visual studio, jetbrains stuff) and gaming (99% of the time via steam).

My main concerns for switching are that I'll have a hard time with university work because we mostly use teams for video conferences and work together with word, and other office stuff. We also are required to do some virtual machine stuff where we use virtualbox.

Also I'm a bit worried that some games on uplay, epic and other platforms aren't available anymore.

For distros I've been mainly looking at Manjaro, Linux Mint or plain old Ubuntu. Can you recommend anything that might fit for me or will I maybe run into any issues with my chosen three?

Edit: Thanks a lot for all the replies. I've read through all of them even if I didn't reply and it was very helpful. I will test most of your suggestions in a VM before I jump into completely changing my OS. And I'll probably try booting from a USB Drive first. What I didn't mention is that I've already worked with Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS, so I'm not scared about having to use a CLI.