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Two Australian teenagers and a British woman have died from suspected methanol poisoning after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos. An American man and two Danes also died, though their exact causes of death have not been released.DAVID RISING (AP News)
Ukraine’s parliament has canceled a session as security was tightened after Russia deployed a new ballistic missile that threatens to escalate the nearly three-year war.ILLIA NOVIKOV (AP News)
Long shot but... I'm selling a Fender Squier Affinity Telecaster MN BB BKPG (02/2011) - solid alder body, maple neck, 21 frets, 2 single coil pick-ups, chrome hardware, black pickguard. With Fender standard gigbag for Strat/Tele guitar, and strap. It is a nice guitar, but I don't play it anymore and I need to free some space.
Did setup this year, action and intonation. Collection from Bristol, UK. DM me if interested. May do a swap for a bass.
A white male CEO Was Arrested for Refusing To Pay Taxes!
British mining executives held in Mali freed after $160m deal to settle tax dispute
Resolute Mining chief executive Terence Holohan and two employees had been held since 9 November
(The corporations will push, the US will designate Mali as terrorist, and then overthow the government that is trying to get taxes from the people stealing their own countries resources. They also arrested a couple guys from the second largest gold trader in the world. It will not stand.)
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Dal 23 novembre al 1° dicembre 9 appuntamenti tra giornalismo, cinema, poesia, cucina, arte e teatro, che si snodano tra Salerno e Napoli per conoscere da vicino la Palestina e le sue tensioni sociali e culturali
L'articolo La Palestina protagonista di “Mediterraneo Contemporaneo” proviene
Gegen Überwachung: Millionenfach verschlüsseln
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Pop OS works with zero issues on gaming laptop with NVIDIA card.
May be the problem is Fedora.
Well Debian is the only distro to participate, but they kinda sorta let it die on the vine. Perhaps now with all this polititzation and weaponization of sold-out-to-Microsoft Linux, development will re-start and continue. I hope so!
I'm super-enjoying GhostBSD, by the way. It's practically as easy as MX-Linux has been, which is saying a lot! GhostBSD is doing for the BSDs what Ubuntu once did for Debian - make it usable for "the rest of us" who aren't so technically-inclined.
That said, though, it's certainly wise to learn at least enough CLI stuff to maintain your copy of the OS and customize it to your liking. You almost cannot help but learn a little just using it. Yesterday I was comfortable enough with GhostBSD to just go ahead and install it, wiping away my old Linux OS.
« La France est le pays le plus généreux au monde, c’est un aimant à fraudeurs », a dénoncé ce mardi sur CNEWS Nathalie Goulet, sénatrice Union Centriste de l’Orne, qui rappelle que 848,9 milliards d’euros de prestations sociales ont été versés en 2022.
Cette somme représente tenez-vous bien 12.550 euros par an et par habitant !
http://echelledejacob.blogspot.com/2024/11/849-milliards-daides-sociales-soit-12.html#
Moi j'aimerais bien avoir un détail pour regarder... j'y crois que moyennement, très moyennement. y'a que les gogos et les mougeons qui avalent ce qu'un député éructe à la télé. union centriste c'est macron
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🌍 LA CARTE DU MONDE DE NETANYAHOU SE RÉDUIT
Le monde de Netanyahou se réduit, il ne pourra bientôt plus se déplacer dans la plupart des pays du monde. En effet, le mandat d'arrêt émis par la Cour Pénale Internationale doit être respecté par les 124 États qui ont ratifié le Statut de Rome, qui est à l'origine de la CPI.
Notre article à lire ici : https://contre-attaque.net/2024/11/22/la-carte-de-netanyahou-se-reduit/
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Una nuova ondata di violenza a Port-au-Prince ha causato nell'ultima settimana 150 morti e 20.000 sfollati.
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L’effondrement industriel de la France reprend. C’est voulu. Tout est fait pour aboutir à ce rés...echelledejacob.blogspot.com
We must urge Biden to do all he can to get ERA published as the 28th Amendment.
Codifying gender equality would help protect women from the p***y grabber-elect.NewsHound Ellen (Crooks and Liars)
RFK Jr. said his anti-vax nonprofit Children's Health Defense financed 'Plandemic,' a viral conspiracy-theory film about Covid-19.Miles Klee (Rolling Stone)
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Secondo il rapporto della polizia brasiliana, l'ex presidente era a conoscenza di un piano per mantenere il potere dopo l'elezione del suo rivale e successore Luiz Inácio Lula da https://pagineesteri.it/2024/11/22/america-latina/brasile-bolsonaro-incriminato-per-tentato-colpo-di-stato/
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I don’t know man, I run Linux on all my stuff and I am lazy as shit.
I run Arch on my desktop with a 3090 and xfce (forced xorg) and have had no issues.
I run Opensuse on my laptop that gets really great battery life and isn’t even listed in the Wikis. This is my primary work laptop
I dual boot Asahi on a MBP.
I agree with the sentiment of your post being doing go balls out on a work machine but it’s not nearly as bad or unstable as you make it sound
I can't tell if you're serious, but if so - you're the literal opposite of a noob transitioning and making their first steps. if you're like any of the things you mentioned - arch, nvidia, xfce, let alone all of them combined - is something a noob should even entertain of doing, then I don't know what to tell you.
the post is aimed at people a) transitioning and subsequently b) doing actual work, based on a bunch of people I've converted over. the input of dudes like you, while welcome, is in no way indicative of the path they should be taking.
I'm not a Fedora user (Debian and Mint are my go to) but I don't have a similar impression. Also, my own NVIDIA GPU has always worked OOB (even without installing its proprietary drivers, it just works better after installing them) and still is, but it's also considered old being a 970.
Imho, a simpler advice would be along the line of what you mentioned already. Something like: don't rush for the latest/greatest hardware. Often, new stuff will lack support.
I agree with the idea of not wasting time but configuring the theme/look (which is part of the OOB experience, on Mint and Debian at least) can be essential to work in decent conditions.
As a matter of fact, theming is one of the technical reasons why I switched to Linux from Mac. The ability to have the text as large as I wanted it to be: getting older, one slowly
... toon meerI'm not a Fedora user (Debian and Mint are my go to) but I don't have a similar impression. Also, my own NVIDIA GPU has always worked OOB (even without installing its proprietary drivers, it just works better after installing them) and still is, but it's also considered old being a 970.
Imho, a simpler advice would be along the line of what you mentioned already. Something like: don't rush for the latest/greatest hardware. Often, new stuff will lack support.
I agree with the idea of not wasting time but configuring the theme/look (which is part of the OOB experience, on Mint and Debian at least) can be essential to work in decent conditions.
As a matter of fact, theming is one of the technical reasons why I switched to Linux from Mac. The ability to have the text as large as I wanted it to be: getting older, one slowly realizes that small thin light-greyish designer cherished fonts lose a lot of their appeal in favor of those non-fancy but larger and bolder dark fonts that are more easy to read 😛
So, I would object that theming can be a very legit, like 100% legit part of the process of turning a Linux machine into a usable working machine one will be able to work on for hours (like tweaking the keyboard layout would be for anyone, like me, writing in more than one language). And that is not even mentioning people with disabilities.
Unless one has too, sure. Try running any recent edition of Photoshop in Wine and do real paid work...
My own solution was to keep a dedicated machine for anything like that: Photoshop and video. Note that for video one may decide to let go of FCP or Premiere and switch to DaVinci Resolve, instead.
Why would that be a good idea?
I mean, I do my best to avoid all those third-party installer (like Flatpak) because they are not as well integrated to the system as the native installer is (in my case it is 'apt'), and because they also waste much more disk space for the reason that, like you said:
Which, sometimes/often, means a real lot of extra stuff.
That's the exact reason why I use the native installer and not those third-party ones. That and the faultless integration with the system (menus, themes and stuff like that).
And in the odd case I would have to reinstall Linux (an even stranger need on a work machine, since that machine I would not tweak it beyond what I deem necessary for me to be able to, well, work on it and therefore it would be rock stable), even in that case I would need to reinstall it, I find it so quick to reinstall all my apps by typing a single line: "sudo apt install app1 app2 app3 app9999", no matter how many apps.
I am keeping such a list in a text file, I update every time I start using a new app, just in case one of those days I truly am forced to reinstall my system. So, I know it would only be a matter to copy-paste said command line in a new shell. Not pretty but real easy and quick ;)
Once again, I'm not a Fedora user but does Fedora really need to reboot after updating a bunch of apps? I have hard time imagining that.
Sorry if my comments sounds critical, it's not my intention. But while I was reading your post I was very surprised how affirmative you were on certain decisions/choices and how much my own personal experience was different.
And if you're wondering, nope, I am not one of those 'real user' either even though my beard would be grey, if not plain white now... if I had one. I come from 35+ years (happily) using Apple hardware and software for work and for personal stuff ;)
Edit: clarifications.
is this really that bad? I remember seeing a Win7 theme for KDE, and I really want to install something like that on a spare laptop. will it break something with each update from the distro?
As someone who slightly customize his Linux DE, I would say that the real but potential issue when using some non-official theming (or very niche ones) is that one does indeed risk having issues after a major system update, thing breaking off or just plain not working anymore. It's no 100% certain, but the risk is real. And that is something that, on a work machine at least, is never an option (the machine is supposed to be available and work in a predictable and reliable manner, hence why I'm so madly in love with Debian plus it's so well optimized 😀). On a personal machine? Well, that's up to anyone to decide what their priorities are.
Luckily one is not required to use extreme theming. Personally, I limit myself to whatever is provided with my version of Linux in order to change font size, colors/theme, wallpaper, cursor appearance and so on. So, everything is easier to see for my old eyes.
It works very well and since it's part of the distribution I know it will not break after an update. The downside is
... toon meerAs someone who slightly customize his Linux DE, I would say that the real but potential issue when using some non-official theming (or very niche ones) is that one does indeed risk having issues after a major system update, thing breaking off or just plain not working anymore. It's no 100% certain, but the risk is real. And that is something that, on a work machine at least, is never an option (the machine is supposed to be available and work in a predictable and reliable manner, hence why I'm so madly in love with Debian plus it's so well optimized 😀). On a personal machine? Well, that's up to anyone to decide what their priorities are.
Luckily one is not required to use extreme theming. Personally, I limit myself to whatever is provided with my version of Linux in order to change font size, colors/theme, wallpaper, cursor appearance and so on. So, everything is easier to see for my old eyes.
It works very well and since it's part of the distribution I know it will not break after an update. The downside is that it's often much more limited than what some other dude may have done somewhere on their own machine and then decided to share online. I don't mind it ;)
Nice list, thanks for sharing your experience.
Do you have an opinion on opensuse?
Not sure I get this. When did you need reboots for upgrading user-facing apps?
Where are those settings and data for flatpaks? Is there no separation between default settings (systemwide) and user-defined (in $HOME)?
Does flatpak work well on Ubuntu and is it easy to get rid of snap?
this is not a "which distro is better", this is which is appropriate for a noob. you want something that has a lot of attention devoted to preventing issues and that when you search "distro + problem" you get a solution, or close to it. it's way more likely you'll succeed with ubuntu than with opensuse.
once you're an intermediate user and don't need the kiddie wheels no more, you're free to wander further, replace DEs, rice, switch distros, whatevers. but a noob will have his hands full with the transition and doesn't need the extra baggage.
a user doesn't discern user-facing and system apps, to them it's a notification asking for a "software update" and that shit pops up daily. the mess that's Gnome software, a horrid creation that's OOB configured to prompt for reboots for every tiny little thing, because it updates system shit along with apps, is the number one complaint generator for converts; they're used to a couple of those per annum (macOS) or per month (windows).
flatpak apps settings are in
~/.var/appand as such easy to include into backups.I myself have been using linux for 15 years and disagree with what you've said.
Fedora always breaks on me, whether it be nvidia or amd. I used to love Fedora but found it breaks far more than otherwise.
The Linux vernal is designed to work on up to current gen hardware. If anything the current gen nvidia stuff is rough (40 series). I've had no issues with 30 series or 7000 series amd GPUs.
- Why? Nothing wrong with using extensions. They're usually updated within a week if Gnome or KDE breaks them. With gnome I've had 10+ extensions with 0 issues across multiple computers.
- Not true. My dual boot has never broken on multiple computers. Whether is be Debian, Ubuntu, fedora, or arch.
- Also not great advice. I found Endeavor OS, which is Arch to run the best. PopOS was the only other one that just worked.
- This I do agree with; hyprland, i3, etc take a long time to fine tune. While tiling managers do help with
... toon meerI myself have been using linux for 15 years and disagree with what you've said.
Fedora always breaks on me, whether it be nvidia or amd. I used to love Fedora but found it breaks far more than otherwise.
The Linux vernal is designed to work on up to current gen hardware. If anything the current gen nvidia stuff is rough (40 series). I've had no issues with 30 series or 7000 series amd GPUs.
That's great, but it's still shockingly common and not something newbies should have to try to fix
It's a personal list for newbies and it's probably a good idea to follow this list for them. However end users are a much bigger cluster, I'm an end user too. Last time I checked I didn't have a grey beard.
It's my workstation and I'm using it as how I'm comfortable with it. It just requires a familiarity which newbies don't have.
Because it's less standard
The more default and mainstream you go the easier it's gonna be to do things and get help
I tried getting a friend of mine on silverblue a while ago, worked for a bit but he hated how the package manager worked and I wasn't able to help him much because I'm on nix
Ubuntu, various versions of, fedora for a bit, suse for a bit, Debian for an RPI
Nixos is my home distro and I've spent probably double the amount of time with it as I have all other distros combined, the distro hopping phase a given distro lasted about 2 weeks before I threw it out
I'm not comfortable enough with other distros to able to help someone who already knows enough about Linux in general, and given he's familiar with fedora silverblue seemed like an obvious choice
Maybe because your friend isn’t the average user (specifically when you mention they don’t like the package manager).
In Fedora silverblue on KDE, all updates are handled through the discovery store which is similar and as easy as on windows.
Please don’t theme our apps
stopthemingmy.appMake me
Actually don't it's hard enough with certain web apps
Who hurt you?
Oh, right. I see.
here's a combo reply that doesn't need to be there, but people have issues reading titles, I don't know...
first off, do you realize where we're at? normies don't frequent lemmy, you have to put in considerable effort to find it and interact with it. your average lemmyst's tech expertise is way, way above the average user, compared to say reddit or, heaven forbid, facebook or such.
I'm not answering dudes (no gender inferred) who are like "X years linuxing". have you read the title of the post? can you deduce who it's directed at? you're seriously suggesting endeavor and arch and friends to people who've opened the command prompt a total times of never and don't understand what regedit is/was for?
this is a post directed towards people transitioning from windows and macOS. people who have issues comprehending bootloaders and kernels and DEs, WMs, etc - and frankly, it's 2024 and they don't need to. people who close the laptop when they're done and open 'em in the morning, basically people who don't do a lot of sysadmining in their daily lives.
when was the
... toon meerhere's a combo reply that doesn't need to be there, but people have issues reading titles, I don't know...
first off, do you realize where we're at? normies don't frequent lemmy, you have to put in considerable effort to find it and interact with it. your average lemmyst's tech expertise is way, way above the average user, compared to say reddit or, heaven forbid, facebook or such.
I'm not answering dudes (no gender inferred) who are like "X years linuxing". have you read the title of the post? can you deduce who it's directed at? you're seriously suggesting endeavor and arch and friends to people who've opened the command prompt a total times of never and don't understand what regedit is/was for?
this is a post directed towards people transitioning from windows and macOS. people who have issues comprehending bootloaders and kernels and DEs, WMs, etc - and frankly, it's 2024 and they don't need to. people who close the laptop when they're done and open 'em in the morning, basically people who don't do a lot of sysadmining in their daily lives.
when was the last time you handed over a laptop with a fresh install to a linux illiterate being? I did so three times this week, and that's below average; can't get cheap SSDs right now to upgrade the the discards we get. my point is, I know what they come back with in terms of problems and grievances and none of them include "spending more time tweaking xorg.conf" or "learning systemd". they have issues printing and sharing files and laptops sleeping/waking when they're supposed to and counter-intuitive touchpad gestures and the like.
I've also had my share of devs trying to convert their issued laptops with fully functioning installs to this weird rice after reading DHH's blog and the amount of lost time and productivity spent undoing that crap is staggering.
linux has this problem of experienced users raining downright useless and often counterproductive advice on noobs. the shit that works for you doesn't work for them and you know that; the same way a racing car driver's advice is useless in everyday traffic
No need to be passive aggressive, but if you think all people on lemmy are so tech savvy, then why post it here?
Not to be rude, but you might want to take your own advice. I see a lot of hyperbole in your two, frankly, rants. "Greybeards" might have ruined your experience, but most people around here just want to help.
I'm going to actively voice my support for this mentality, more than just an up vote. People saying things like dual booting and rolling distributions are good ideas for genuinely new users who, like you said, have never opened a command prompt or regedit, really shouldn't be suggested those types of things.
The average dev/tech enthusiast has a horribly bad habit of drastically over estimating the average person's technical ability. While I believe it's reasonable to expect new uses to want to try and learn (I'd hope everyone would want to learn sometimes), the reality is that most folks won't.
The one that just makes me want to scream is when people suggest installing Arch via the wiki. I did this around 2015 or 2016 on a VM and couldn't get it working. To be fair, I wasn't terribly motivated to really dive into what was wrong, but people act like it's really magically simple and clear cut when it's not. (With the major caveat that perhaps it's gotten better since last time I tried.)
I think so many of these discussions go to shit because of who the ta
... toon meerI'm going to actively voice my support for this mentality, more than just an up vote. People saying things like dual booting and rolling distributions are good ideas for genuinely new users who, like you said, have never opened a command prompt or regedit, really shouldn't be suggested those types of things.
The average dev/tech enthusiast has a horribly bad habit of drastically over estimating the average person's technical ability. While I believe it's reasonable to expect new uses to want to try and learn (I'd hope everyone would want to learn sometimes), the reality is that most folks won't.
The one that just makes me want to scream is when people suggest installing Arch via the wiki. I did this around 2015 or 2016 on a VM and couldn't get it working. To be fair, I wasn't terribly motivated to really dive into what was wrong, but people act like it's really magically simple and clear cut when it's not. (With the major caveat that perhaps it's gotten better since last time I tried.)
I think so many of these discussions go to shit because of who the target audience is intended to be and who the responders believe the target audience to be.
As far as stability goes, its hard to beat my nixos setup. I use the venerable xmonad with xfce in no-desktop mode, and the command line for things like wifi and etc. Because I do most stuff with the command line I can get around fine on servers with no GUI. There's no bling and hardly anything ever changes.
I used to fancy up my desktop and so forth, but those things break eventually and don't really help me get work done. I don't want to waste time on that anymore.
That said, getting it set up has been a gradual evolution and there have been awkward times. Like zoom screen sharing goes kind of insane with a tiling window manager (stop helping, zoom). And of course nixos itself is fantastic if what you need is already packaged and ready to go, and doesn't do anything weird like download binaries. Stuff outside the norm, well now you have two problems - understanding how the software expects to be installed on debian or the like, and understanding how to subvert that process to make it work on nix.
The all flatpak thing took me aback but, you are right the app maintainers fix their stuff there first.
Solid advice.
1: Agree, mostly. I bought a Thinkpad E16 for its Linux support, though I accidentally got a Realtek one that had few bugs that I've since ironed out. My only thought is if you own existing hardware that is still usable, it is worth your time at least trying.
2: I somewhat agree. On my note taking laptop, I go by this philosophy. On my desktop, though, I theme away and still get lots done.
3: I sort of agree with you; I think like you said, if you have one drive for each OS, you won't have problems - dual booting is fine. I've got 2 internal drives in my Thinkpad, though honestly, I hardly use the Windows one. I remember 2 partitions being livable on my Surface Go, but again, I barely touched Windows, so I don't think it had much chance to bork the bootloader.
4: I agree on the Arch and Gentoo part - after trying to use Debian Testing on several laptops, I found rolling release just isn't conducive to a no-frills productivity device. Honestly, though, I don't see that much problem with immutable, especially if you go with Flatpak. I also think any stable distro y
... toon meer1: Agree, mostly. I bought a Thinkpad E16 for its Linux support, though I accidentally got a Realtek one that had few bugs that I've since ironed out. My only thought is if you own existing hardware that is still usable, it is worth your time at least trying.
2: I somewhat agree. On my note taking laptop, I go by this philosophy. On my desktop, though, I theme away and still get lots done.
3: I sort of agree with you; I think like you said, if you have one drive for each OS, you won't have problems - dual booting is fine. I've got 2 internal drives in my Thinkpad, though honestly, I hardly use the Windows one. I remember 2 partitions being livable on my Surface Go, but again, I barely touched Windows, so I don't think it had much chance to bork the bootloader.
4: I agree on the Arch and Gentoo part - after trying to use Debian Testing on several laptops, I found rolling release just isn't conducive to a no-frills productivity device. Honestly, though, I don't see that much problem with immutable, especially if you go with Flatpak. I also think any stable distro you like should work so long as it has a backports kernel - I'm using Debian 12 that way on an E16 and it's been pretty smooth (besides the Realtek thing at the beginning, but I fixed that months ago).
5: Wholeheartedly disagree, mostly because XFCE was excluded. 😭 I feel like X11's still not that far off the beaten path. This feeling will probably change when XFCE switches; 4.20 comes out with preliminary support in a few weeks, and my bet is 4.22 in 2026 will have full Wayland support.
6: I don't totally agree with this either. I feel like when it works well natively, go for the native package. If you're having trouble, switch to the Flatpak. I've actually had problems with the VSCodium Flatpak on my laptop not using system environment by default, though there is a fix.
I think I agree with most of what you said. My one doubt is about Wayland. I was under the impression it was still a relatively new/niche thing that had problems. Is this no longer the case? I ask because you recommended against things like immutable distros because they're not super mature yet.
Note: I'm technically inclined but don't use a Linux distro daily. My personal laptop is my old work Mac and my work laptop is a Mac. My older personal laptop runs Xubuntu.
wayland is default on fedora for 5+ years, similarly on ubuntu and is plenty battle-tested and more than ready for everyday use, edge cases notwithstanding.
there's an argument to be had against every major switch in recent years (systemd, pipewire, etc). progress isn't achieved by waiting until there's full feature parity, it's by forcing it onto users and working out the issues in vivo; those who won't deal with it can keep using the old stuff, either by using conservative distros or ripping out the new stuff and replacing it.
be that as it may, the point of the post is directing converts to the easiest, safest, and most straightforward path through this scary wonderland, and preventing them from wasting time on "true scotsman" endeavors, not changing the habits of seasoned veterans.
I've addressed it in another comment; it's not a big deal as such, but the result is a huge distraction for people who just want to open their laptops in the morning and start working and I hear about it constantly. the standard install has a barrage of notifications to update this and that and it wants to restart for every tiny little thing, be it necessary or not. by separating all "apps" and putting in a systemd timer that auto-updates all flatpaks, all user-facing apps are always the latest version and then the system stuff can get updated bi-weekly, when they eventually reboot.
edit: this is them, to the letter - https://redd.it/1gyirfw
Immutable was the only thing that got me to switch back from QubesOS on my desktop. I was doing Qubes with a win10 HVM with my 3070 passed through and it was a couple frames off from native performance. Still keep Qubes on my T480 for infra specific work but my "dev" machine with no creds is the desktop now.
Couldn't get the performance quite right for a Linux based HVM and was wanting the HW accel for some of my work (CAD, figma) so I loaded Bazzite with KDE which runs Fedora Atomic and it's been amazing for both gaming and work.
Distrobox with boxbuddy and rootful containers where needed has been extremely pleasant and they all live as a subdirectory of my home with a ZSH install script I have to load the terminal styles I want into any new containers. Any apps you install in the container you can export to your start menu and launch seamlessly without tainting your host with any weird dependencies you might need for a project.
We use ddev a lot so needed a rootful container for Docker but other projects I just treat like a VM almost (R projects for instance),
... toon meerImmutable was the only thing that got me to switch back from QubesOS on my desktop. I was doing Qubes with a win10 HVM with my 3070 passed through and it was a couple frames off from native performance. Still keep Qubes on my T480 for infra specific work but my "dev" machine with no creds is the desktop now.
Couldn't get the performance quite right for a Linux based HVM and was wanting the HW accel for some of my work (CAD, figma) so I loaded Bazzite with KDE which runs Fedora Atomic and it's been amazing for both gaming and work.
Distrobox with boxbuddy and rootful containers where needed has been extremely pleasant and they all live as a subdirectory of my home with a ZSH install script I have to load the terminal styles I want into any new containers. Any apps you install in the container you can export to your start menu and launch seamlessly without tainting your host with any weird dependencies you might need for a project.
We use ddev a lot so needed a rootful container for Docker but other projects I just treat like a VM almost (R projects for instance), install whats needed to get an env going real quick and fire up the IDE in the container and get to work.
EVERYTING I care about is in /var, including my home which makes backups and snapshots stupid simple which I love coming from a traditional Linux distro