I forgot the exact number but while installing Debian (Bookworm and Sid) this weekend I was shocked by how small the base install, with a window manager ("big" one by your standards, i.e KDE), was. Maybe 2Gb, definitely less than 4Gb. It all worked fine, I could browse the Web, print, edit rich text, watch video, etc.

I installed a ton more stuff since, e.g Steam, Inkscape, Python libraries for computer vision, etc and it's still not even 10Gb.

So... my suggestion is the same as I shared earlier in https://lemmy.ml/post/20673461/13899831 namely do NOT install preemptively! Assuming you have a fast and stable connection I would argue stick to the bare minimum and all add as you need.

In fact... if you want to be minimalist I would suggest to do another fresh install (it's fast, less than 1hr and you can do something else at the same time) and stick to the bare minimum right away.

TL;DR: don't get rid of, just avoid adding from the first place.

True yet still not OK.

That's also why a lot of us do try to avoid, as much as is realistically feasible, to provide any data to any company that should store it. Hence why a lot of questions here are about self hosting, no cloud, etc. It's not paranoia, it's because companies cut corners and as you correctly point out, fail to keep us safe. So it's not about Tile specifically, they are just yet another poor example. Let's not defend them nor this kind of practices. If people in the Privacy community are OK with that, we have a rather deep problem.

Care to unfold a bit more what's hilarious? Which metrics from the article are wrong or irrelevant for example? You might disagree with the conclusion, and maybe rightly so, but are you saying the data itself, e.g number of companies funded is false? Or it does not matter and something else could help better understand the situation?

Yes if

• the environment you would work on is Linux based, obviously (which it often is when servers are involved, even with Microsoft due to Azure cloud and containers)
• you master the command line, i.e you know a bit of e.g bash, can write your own scripts that do basic functions
• you understand how the OS works, i.e permissions, services, package managers, etc

but not really if you are mostly clicking through buttons of the window manager and/or would work in a Microsoft environment with its own set of tools, conventions, etc.

Which brings up obvious suggestions :

• do improve your mastery of the command line
• apply to jobs that put Linux forward (but that might bias to a sysadmin position, which might not be what you prefer)

Feels good to know that with my dedicated /home partition I can re-install my OS in about an hour. So the very notion of "system" feels strange to me, I mean I feel no attachment to it.

PS: yes I have NixOS install on my slow HD but still didn't take the plunge. I imagine it "feels" even better to have "it" declarative.

I’ve broken my Nvidia driver 4x this week

Genuinely confused by that statement... been using an NVIDIA for years, both closed (to play and work) and open drivers (to test only) and beside having the "wrong" version for CUDA and some graphical bug in specific situation, e.g ALT-Tab out of game or resuming from a game leading to some minor visual glitches, I've never encountered even a reboot. I also have relatively recent drivers but I don't even know which version I have (checked out of curiosity : Driver Version: 525.147.05 CUDA Version: 12.0).

So... I don't get it, what leads you and others to such situation? Are you reverse engineering the drivers? Are you overclocking? Are you changing some specific parameters that are not stable?

I'm asking because this is so different from my experience that I don't get it.

Naive question but what does Davinci Resolve do that Kdenlive does not?

I'm asking for a "normal" user, not somebody who is trying to master the latest Dune for a production environment (even though I'd still be curious).

the crashes hurt and people can be killed regardless of the participants

Not what I recall from accident stats, assuming Belgium is somehow representative. Bike and pedestrian hardly lead to death, same for bike and bike, only bike and cars did.

I'm obviously not advocating for bikes to go anywhere without respecting others (my own rule of thumb is to be always be more mind of the small or slower people share the space) but I don't think considering risk regardless of participants is realistic either.

TL;DR: yes I prefer separation whenever possible but there is a big difference between separating car with others.

Is Linux pretty much unusable with an Nvidia GPU?

So clickbait title?

I've done it few times (with Google Glass, Glass2, Vuzix Blade, Monocle) relatively easy to do but the latency IMHO is what makes it unusable.

Being able to developer a personality, your personality, yourself basically.

IMHO Shoshana Zuboff explores this quite well. Imagine all the time there was an entity who was able to watch over everything you do, all the time, and could act on it, either by telling your government or companies, would you truly do everything you want to do? Note that this doesn't mean anything illegal or immoral, especially as a young person when one does not even know what that means. I also would link that to the chilling effect, for example if one does truly believe Google or Facebook can know a lot about you and if say you want to reach a position of power, say become a politician, would you dare criticize them knowing they might give information to your opponent?

So... IMHO some of the perceivable benefit of being private is that you can become an individual, not a transparent clone of what some commercial actors of society today expect you to be. That is particularly important in a democracy where we collectively decide what is right or wrong and how we define our own future.

Glad to hear. Few remarks that I hope will help. I'll start with Wine to clarify it's a clutch. Sure it's a useful one but IMHO the beauty of Linux is that you are in control, you have more agency. Wine per se is great because it gives you more options. Unfortunately most of the time Wine is used to run what is not available in Linux and that is usually not open source. Consequently you bring with you little black boxes, spaces where you lose again control. The deeper problem IMHO is that you assume there are no alternatives. In truth in most cases there are numerous alternatives, they just aren't clones because having more freedom to explore means they can be genuinely new solutions with interfaces that are thus unfamiliar. So... yes enjoy Wine but I'd suggest to take just a bit of time to search and try open source alternatives. This lead me to an example. I work in VR so when you mentioned desktop view I thought it was interesting. Yes you don't have whatever M$ is proposing (honestly used it years ago with WMR but can't even recall it) but you have "simple" things like ALVR (I even use SteamVR on Steam Deck) and IMHO deeper explorations like XRdesktop https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xrdesktop/xrdesktop that allow you to manipulate actual windows in space, not "just" on a 2D plane. Anyway enjoy the discovery it's a worthwhile adventure. I work and play, VR or not, on Linux for years now, it's literally liberating!