If your Linux distro is using btrfs you can format it to btrfs and use btrfs send for backups. Otherwise the filesystem shouldn’t be to big if a deal unless you want to restore files from a Windows machine. If that is the case use ntfs

Different distros build their packages with different options and have different versions of those packages so the Ubuntu and fedora php packages might have an optimization the arch one didn’t

Seafile or nextcloud are my choices. I like seafile because it has an official and documented way to install it but nextcloud works well too just installing it can be tricky. One thing I like about sea file is they have a remote filesystem app that supports Linux and works better than nextcloud and webdav

Debian testing or nixos

Have A zsh shell with fzf history and zsh syntax highlighting installed

What’s under the skirt?

Sometimes it’s easier to start over than unbreak an existing project. Gnome is old and big so it’s harder to change. So starting over where you don’t have to keep existing features or care about existing users is way easier than fixing gnome and rewriting it in rust. Plus system 76 can. There’s no single party that can stop them from making a desktop

Most operating systems mostly work find something that has a release cadence you like and is close to what you want then you will have to customize it to fit your needs

Tips Fedora 39

If you are using nixos try home manager. Otherwise Ansible is nice for plopping templates and files into your own home directory

Yes but the less freedom respecting since the kobo is non free software, but man is it nice to add a book to a shelf in calibre and it appears on my kobo

Yesterday I couldn’t download stuff from Ansible gateway because my lists blocked the object storage URL but there’s a query log in both tools that makes troubleshooting easy and Adguard has a disable protection button that can disable filtering and can disable it for a set amount of time so you don’t forget to turn it back on

I have had better luck with Linux updates applying faster and they are more reliable than Windows. You can customize your desktop to have whatever theme you want. Also the privacy benefits are great too

It you have a functioning dual boot don’t worry about it. Next install it’s worth looking in into and pretty easy to setup. It has trim support for ssds and is way easier to resize on a live system than lvm with another filesystem

Either evolution nheko or console. Even though a terminal emulator is a cop out

There are philosophical and technical reasons to not like snaps

Technical

• Slow startup time
• Makes lsblk look really ugly
• For awhile users didn’t have a lot of control over when things updated
• Not designed to work with third party repos by default
• Requires apparmor so it doesn’t work well on selinux distros.

Philosophical

• Backend is proprietary and controller by a single company
• Has made the same amount of effort as flatpak to work on distros that aren’t Ubuntu
• Some people just don’t like Ubuntu