I’ve never woken up the next morning regretting greasy food

+1 for Bookstack. Very simple and easy to learn.

Oh I see thank you for the explanation. I missed that the university network was called a VPN.

I’m pretty sure “Block” is derived from “Blockchain”

This may sound dumb, but wouldn’t it appear to anyone listening between the client and VPN as though all traffic is coming from the VPN and not the website? Isn’t that the point of a VPN?

The highly abridged version is that Red Hat pays for and helps with developing Fedora and makes their money from providing support to companies that use it.

If they stopped supporting Fedora (would kind of kill their business model but let’s pretend) anyone could “fork” it and continue working on their own version just like other distros.

They were called that for most of their history until Jack Dorsey wanted to change the name to hype some crypto.

Yes, Square is a product that Block sells. Block was actually called “Square” until relatively recently and Jack Dorsey became obsessed with Blockchain.

Immutability just means the system files can’t be edited easily. Basically every time you update you’re updating the entire OS all at once. Which is a good way to keep things stable while also modern!

Unless there’s an application not available via Appimage or Flatpak (“app store”), most users will never even come up against the immutability aspect.

They own Square which is a card processing service typically used by small vendors. If you’ve ever gone to a festival or concert merch table or farmers market and they accepted credit card, it was probably Square.

That’s only a small part, they own Square.

They own Square which you’ve almost certainly used if you ever paid a small vendor via a payment card (as opposed to cash).

Are you kidding? It’s excellent as an everyday desktop! It is basically Fedora Kinoite with a bunch of quality of life stuff for gaming.

Very cool!

Don’t get me wrong I love what Zorin is doing but I still think Bazzite is going to be much more “set it and forge it” for gaming than Zorin.

You must be thinking of something else, they just pushed an update last week and are arguably rapidly becoming the closest thing Linux has ever been to mainstream. I just saw that my Life in Gaming (a channel about console gaming) just made a video about it.

Yeah I agree, Mint used to be my recommendation (and it’s a good choice for sure) but now I say Bazzite or Kinoite (for a newbie used to Windows) because KDE Plasma is better than Windows and the immutability adds another layer of stability.

Yeah Bazzite is excellent all around. It’s usually what I recommend to anyone with Nvidia.

Mint is for sure an excellent option but I recommend Fedora Kinoite (or Bazzite) these days for someone used to Windows because their immutability makes them even more solid and harder to break.

Zorin is great for a grandma, but for someone who knows computers I think it’s too simple.