Javi

100%. It’s the goto starter distro for good reason. Ux is familiar, and it works ootb.

They’ve also got the LMDE, which is mint based on Debian rather than Ubuntu. Haven’t tried it personally, but I’ve heard good things from people who are determined not to touch anything Ubuntu adjacent for whatever reason, whilst still providing an ootb environment that is stable and ux friendly.

Ubuntu is Debian based anyway, so I’d imagine parts of Ubuntu have been pulled out to bridge the gap between Debian and mint, but given mint are anti snap; that’s something that definitely wouldn’t be copied over to LMDE (and like you pointed out, is disabled in standard mint anyway).

I’m running a volla Quintus. It’s a bit pricey, but is made within Europe, and offers a preloaded Ubuntu touch option.

It does everything perfectly in terms of what you need a phone for, and can load waydroid; which is essentially an android VM for any apks you can’t do without.

I did order a Jolla phone, but ended up cancelling the order after 10 weeks or so, as I never received any updates even after attempting contact. I didn’t necessarily have a bad experience, it was just a non starter in my eyes, but can’t recommend them due to their infancy as a production firm; they’re already drowning under the demand they have, which doesn’t bode well for future development (imo ofc).

Conversely, I was able to pay for my Quintus with IBAN (avoiding visa & MasterCard’s cuts.) and it arrived in the UK from Germany after around 4-5 days.

As for the user experience, Ubuntu touch does everything you need it to do; I can make phone calls, text people, but it is very light on the app side; you won’t find native apps for stuff like Facebook or WhatsApp etc…  but open source software tends to be more prevalent; an example being the cinny app I use to connect to my matrix server (which I use as a replacement for WhatsApp due to privacy concerns; but that’s a whole different conversation).

The big thing holding Linux phones back (and de-googled android like LineageOS for example) is the lack of banking applications. I don’t know of a bank that offers their own apks, which makes loading them via waydroid pretty impossible too. I’m in the process of switching banks to one of the few remaining UK banks that still offer web based banking to navigate around this; but until mass adoption occurs, I doubt it’s a situation that will change much.

I had the same situation with kenshi. I can only imagine how much worse it would be on Helldivers lol

Me, fighting with using an am5 chipset & nvidia graphics card for Wayland based distros because damn it, who needs a working machine anyway: “Heh, guess I’m not a clown”

Congrats! Out of the usual suspects, (nginx, traefik & caddy), id say nginx has the steepest learning curve, so it’s definitely something to crow about mate! I know professionals in the tech industry that have a hard time with nginx config, so an enthusiast getting it down is a bigger deal than you’re giving yourself credit for.

I host various services for friends and family; and here are a couple I think will be of particular interest to you:

• matrix server with element clients. (Self hosted discord/WhatsApp alternative which is open source unlike TS).
• Drop server and client setup (self hosted steam like experience).

Another thing I would strongly suggest doing, is setting up a single sign on Auth server. Something that will allow your friends and family to have one login for anything you setup. Personally I use keycloak. But there are other options like authentik and voidauth that are worth looking at too!

Congrats again on the progress mate! You’re smashing it so far.

“Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my distro. Prepare to die”

Ah yeah that fits the description, thanks.

Go on, I’ll bite.

children dying of dysentery because I decided to be a carpenter.

What’s this in reference too?

Yeah that was my first thought too.

Haven’t there been cases of legal US citizens being detained by ICE? Surely they wouldn’t fit into any of those categories…

Nosism is well established in the English language; I can’t even see what you’re talking about in the OP; but had I seen ‘we’ in place of ‘I’ or ‘Me’, I would have taken it to mean the context is the application, rather than the developer.

Also, a team can be one person.

I spent a week trying to work out why my traefik instance wasn’t forwarding http & Https traffic to any of my docker containers. By the fifth day I remembered that the week before I’d decided it would be a good idea to test locally before uploading to my vps, by adding my site URLs to my hosts file. (All except traefik: which meant I was able to access the dashboard and see all my routers online… I just couldn’t reach any of them, with no logs for access etc… drove me insane.).

It was only until I tried accessing from my mobile that I realised what I’d done.

Should’ve known better, but that’s the price we pay for “good ideas” at 2am.

Sure, they’re not designed solely for gaming. But they’re focused on graphical performance which is what makes them suited for gamers.

Pop! Os has a focus on graphical performance, with versions containing preconfigured AMD/nvidia drivers depending on the users build. To claim that gaming hasn’t factored into the decision to focus on graphics would just be silly.

Doesn’t really feel as though that pedantry has added anything to the conversation if I’m honest, as the question was what would be suitable for gaming, and you yourself also recommend 76?

System76 laptops are built for gaming.

They also created their own Linux distro called Pop! Os, which is designed around gaming, and fairly popular within the community. All their laptops come with Pop! os preinstalled