be sure to leave out sensitive things like passwords, names, etc.

can you type the command history into your terminal and share it with us because it’s important to know where the package comes from since it’s unlikely that any of proton’s products are already in your repository list.

to be fair: men with privilege & bodies like that get to treat the whole world as their playground. lol

i was going to extol the virtues of making your own brownies; but now i won’t because i know i’m not as cool as the guy in this video. lol

btw: where is this video from?

beverly hills is like mexico city: they’ve both got a lot of americans in them right now thanks to money, but that will change with time when their original inhabitants re-surge and reclaim both places for themselves again. lol

the proton package was already in your repository list?

are you able to share your yum repo configuration?

this and also this sounds like a project ripe for teaching yourself configuration management with something like ansible &/or terraform; which will get you paid since they’re in such high demand right now.

also: the little panics if it shows who tried to reach you and it’s a ceo; so you wake yourself up; get out of bed; log in to your computer and see that it’s just an “lol”. 🤌

is support a factor in your decision? if so i would go with opensuse since it has options to let get enterprise support should you end up needing it. (anecdotally: redhat & canonical’s support are better; ESPECIALLY landscape since you mentioned nvidia & proprietary codecs, but it is very pricey)

Lawyers cost A LOT more than developers

I sometimes have macbooks from work; but I gave to my last one in favor of a Linux laptop from a Linux company and the sailing has been smoother than any of my macs in the past.

In the future I’m going to insist on Linux laptops or they can find someone else to do the job and Linux is the only reason I have the leverage over an employer to make such a requirement and the best part is that they bought the high end Linux laptop since it was so much cheaper than the macbooks.

Did you download it using yum or dnf?

i too merely flirted with linux for years until my windows me started boot looping and then i was forced off that fence 25ish years ago and has been the biggest reason i’ve been able to stay employed since then.

the video is right about the reasons why people don’t want to switch and part of me wishes he used a sink or swim story like mine since the worst case scenario is trying to swim again later on when it comes to linux.

a quick place to start would be the systemd services that get automatically started when you boot your system. when i did this in the past, i would google each service that was running to determine if i needed it and remove the associated software if i decided that i didn’t.

(since you’re using debian): if it’s a fresh install, it would make more sense to start with a minimal install first like the netinstall image and then pick and chose what you want to put on top of it.

if your issue is that the distro is too bloated: there are other minimalist distro’s out there (some are based on debian) and they’ve already gone through the hassle of figuring out what the bare bones minimum is for fully functional distribution that can serve a viable daily driver.

did you download & try to install it or is it coming from your package manager?

i don’t have a mac anymore; but this exactly why i’m pursing this project: the last time i did this fedora atomic didn’t exist and i’m likely to encounter that it’s more rock solid than the fedora distros that i used to daily drive with before buying a linux laptop directly from the linux factory.

laptops can be hit or miss because of all the custom proprietary stuff in them.

my experience is the same and that’s why i’m going with a laptop; i wonder if the skills i’ve picked up since the last time i tried are going to help any since they’re the kind of skills that get you paid in the linux world.

i’ve learned that if you grease yourself up enough (VERY important that you’re greasy enough); you can just canon ball your way through. lol

Please buy laptops and desktops from tuxedo, system76, framework, etc, and recommend them. They’re doing a great job and do deserve the support.

amen. i’ll continue to buy from them for the things that i depend on (eg low cost personal servers and high end work laptops); but i plan to use a generic low-spec windows laptop for daily driving to teach me what the general linux user experience is like these days since lemmy is showing me that i still get something out of helping other people while i simultaneously get to leverage my knowledge and experience in an arena that’s been enabling my life for these last 3 decades to do so.

it’s bit like the mandates that i get from my management as an individual contributor; but more “WTF” and the “TIL’s” that i get from it makes it more fun for me.

very much so in addition to creating a new project for myself that’s exciting; that’s a big deal to me because i can’t remember the last time in decades that i felt any excitement over any linux based project.

i learn best by challenging my knowledge and it teaches me where i’m ignorant and i can use that specify which areas to focus my self education.