I’m currently reading Planetary Omnibus, one of my absolute favorite graphic novels ever, before starting The Dragon Reborn, the third book in The Wheel of Time series, by Robert Jordan.

The Wheel of Time is a bit curious to me. Even though the books are long, they feel a bit too dense, meaning it feels like there’s constantly something happening with no breathers, and new characters and concepts are constantly being introduced. I’d love if Jordan took a bit more time to paint the picture, so to speak. No wonder I’ve forgotten almost all of it in a few decades. But despite all that, I’ve really liked reading the books so far. I might finish this series yet.

Turns out this is also available in Alpine repositories, so I went ahead and installed it on my phone. Could come in handy when browsing from public Wi-Fi or such. Thanks for the tip.

I turn it off every night or if I’m away for many hours, so about 10 minutes right now.

I do have a Raspberry Pi that’s been up 12 weeks, 5 days, 19 hours, 59 minutes. I believe there was a planned power outage when it was lasted turned off.

For a slight change of pace, I’m reading Shou Arai’s manga At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender before starting the second book of The Wheel of Time, The Great Hunt.

Yup, Konsole is good enough.

Jules Verne is good for a beginner, I think. Yes, the books are old, but they still stand up. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas is great.

For graphic novels, I feel like recommending Transmetropolitan and V for Vendetta. Both are dystopian sci-fi.

When I was a teenager, in the long-long-ago, I started reading the local translations of The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. I would sit at the kitchen table, drinking big cups of water and reading while everyone else had gone to bed already. Sometimes our cat would wander in to kitchen and I’d pet him. It is a fond memory. I think I eventually got almost half way through the series when I dropped it for what ever reason, I forget.

I recently bought the first three books and I’m reading through The Eye of the World, the first book in the series, in English. It felt like the right time to see if I’d still like the books. They are heavy tomes, so I can’t guarantee I’ll read all of it, but I’ll give it a go.

“There is no God and we are his prophets.” I quite liked that book. I hope it’s hopeful world helps you escape reality for a moment.

Now does flatpak get it’s programs from the same place that terminal would?

I usually install Flatpaks from the terminal, but as to your question: no, the distro’s package manager and Flatpak have different repositories (servers with software packages) and formats. While distros like Fedora have their own Flatpak repositories, most people use Flathub. You can install apps as Flatpak on any distro that supports them, but native package managers generally don’t support other distros’ repositories.

for some reason everybody hates snaps because canonical owns it.

As I understand it, Snap server software is proprietary and doesn’t support independent repositories, so you have to install Snaps from Canonical. This is not exactly in line with Free (as in Freedom) Software principles. Canonical has done many questionable decisions in the past.

Edit: Never mind, I misunderstood something. From what I remember, this post is more or less an accurate description of what to expect.

It’s a really good game. Check it out!

KDE Plasma. It makes sense to me and everything functions more or less how I prefer it to. If I need something, it’s usually easy enough to find. Plasma being flexible is a plus, but I rarely need to do any modifications.

I loathe GNOME. Any time I use it it’s like pulling teeth. On a touch surface I can maybe get it, but on desktop I honestly think it has some serious usability problems cooked in. And since GNOME extensions can break at any time, trying to “fix” GNOME is a losing battle. If I had to use GNOME, I’d install GNOME Classic which is ok. Or better yet, use XFCE or MATE. GNOME is highly opinionated and that’s fair enough, they can do their thing and people seem to like what they offer, but boy is it not for me.

Are you on Wayland? Because I don’t think that’s possible yet.

From quick reading, SteamOS 3.0 is only really available for the Steam Deck. As such, I would not recommend it for a desktop user. Earlier versions of SteamOS are no longer supported. Don’t take this as gospel, as I may be mistaken.

Still, I would personally suggest looking in to a more desktop oriented OS for now.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes

Edsger W. Dijkstra

I think he already sent a letter.

I think I was about 12 when I first read The Lord of the Rings. So I suggest giving him The Hobbit and seeing how he likes it.

After quite a bit of agonizing, I eventually landed on openSUSE Tumbleweed. I chose a rolling release distro because on my desktop I want to be up-to-date. Having used Gentoo a long time ago, I didn’t want a distro that takes effort to install and set up. openSUSE is somewhat popular with an active community and decent documentation in case I run in to issues. I also considered the fact it’s based in Germany, because EU has at least some decent privacy laws. I was put off by the fact its backed by SUSE, but that’s a two-edged sword.

Right now I’m content with Tumbleweed, but I’m keeping an eye on OpenMandriva Lx if I feel like switching.

openSUSE Tumbleweed has served me well for some time now. Maybe give it a look-see?

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Someone mentioned the book on Lemmy and I guess I got curious. It’s been pretty good thus far, but it is on the long side.