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chroot · 2026-05-08 12:50:56

Pinhead wrote:

What is your opinion on atomic distributions? Fedora Silverblue, Bluefin, Bazzite?

The "automic" may be a good idea for business servers. It cuts the dowm time in case something went wrong. For home users, it's probably an overkill. A manual roll back or have timeshift running in the system can get the job done.

DeepDayze · 2026-05-08 20:09:27

Pinhead wrote:

What is your opinion on atomic distributions? Fedora Silverblue, Bluefin, Bazzite?

Bazzite is mainly geared for gamers but these immutable OS'es are overkill for most users and best use case are for enterprise users where a base image can be created and updates are merely overlaid on top of it.

Martin · 2026-05-12 14:42:56

Colonel Panic wrote:

Does Canada need its own distro? This looks interesting anyway;
https://maplelinux.ca/

Rainy day here so I downloaded it and gave it a spin (live session only) on a virtual machine (Qemu).

Tidy looks. Uses Cinnamon. A bunch of games are included. Other than that 'the usual suspects': Libreoffice, Thunderbird, media player, gimp... Chromium seems to be the default browser. When I test it using https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ it performs poorly despite the claims of respecting privacy on MapleLinux' web.

At first I only allocated 2 GB of RAM to the virtual machine. That was too little for smooth operation. With 4 GB I was fine.

Just for fun I moved over to Pop!OS using the same Qemu settings. It is a different experience in a fun way. Their Cosmic desktop is not just a re-skinned something as far as I can judge. Its RAM footprint is slightly smaller than that of Maple's Cinnamon.

/Martin

Colonel Panic · 2026-05-12 20:45:22

Thanks for replying Martin. It doesn't look like Maple is very strong on privacy despite their making a point of it on their website.

I agree that Pop!OS looks good - I may give it another go soon.

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Colonel Panic · 2026-05-15 20:35:12

I've just installed Sparky 8.3 KDE, and it works well. It's still not the best-looking distro in the world though, although I'm sure it can be modded.

Pinhead · 2026-05-16 16:38:49

Fedora Hummingbird Linux Brings Agentic Linux to Builders

Sector11 · 2026-05-16 17:01:24

AI
GRRRR!

Hey! It's an opinion.

F3 · 2026-05-17 00:22:38

Sector11, You know the worst thing about AI? It's not especially intelligent at all.

DeepDayze · 2026-05-17 01:02:39

F3 wrote:

Sector11, You know the worst thing about AI? It's not especially intelligent at all.

Makes good sense as AI is only as good as the data it's trained on.

Pinhead · 2026-05-17 04:33:22

The Four Horsemen of the LLM Apocalypse

MarkW · 2026-05-17 10:35:05

AIpocalypse

Sector11 · 2026-05-17 13:09:50

DeepDayze wrote:

F3 wrote:
Sector11, You know the worst thing about AI? It's not especially intelligent at all.
Makes good sense as AI is only as good as the data it's trained on.

Accidentally-on-purpose Idiotic
Absobloodylutely Iffy

But really these Syntheticly Smart programs, known as AI, are only as good as the person/people that wrote the code and then the human input it trains on. So that's a double point of error right there, and if they get info from me you're in trouble.

EDIT:
Thinking about it, it should be:

But really these Absobloodylutely Iffy programs, known as AI, are only as good as the person/people that wrote the code and then the human input it trains on. So that's a double point of error right there, and if they get info from me you're in trouble.

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Sector11 · 2026-05-17 15:03:57

Pinhead wrote:

The Four Horsemen of the LLM Apocalypse

EXCELLENT READ!

Pinhead · 2026-05-18 04:49:43

2nd point of view.
@corenominal has no problem with that
Exploring AI tooling, model runners, cloud gateways, and local setups

Pinhead · 2026-05-18 05:01:40

Aluminium OS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_OS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXmFIfv_tIA&t=469s

MarkW · 2026-05-18 18:09:41

Why is it using the British English name?

Colonel Panic · Yesterday 11:24:46

"You say to-may-to, we say to-mah-to", etc. Maybe it's because they're the ones I've always been used to but I think the British spelling and pronunciation of the word are superior - that extra syllable in the British version provides more opportunity for rising and falling intonation.

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hhh · Today 03:07:05

I say aluminum and also Caribbean (<-- ?!??) Also, I say pecan, but I say pecan pie.

Sector11 · Today 15:12:02

Colonel Panic wrote:

"You say to-may-to, we say to-mah-to", etc. Maybe it's because they're the ones I've always been used to but I think the British spelling and pronunciation of the word are superior - that extra syllable in the British version provides more opportunity for rising and falling intonation.

The short simplified version is that both words were derived from Spanish but they entered the English language several hundred years apart, before and after something called the Great Vowel Shift. During this time, the way we pronounce vowels changed and became more standardised.
Potato had already entered the English language by the time of this shift so its pronunciation changed.
Tomato did not enter until later, so it retained its Spanish pronunciation.

Interesting my argentina (argentina = female Argentinian) wife says toe-mah-tay
And potato in Spanish is the same as "the pope" = papa

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