Yep. I’m running bluefin. I just went from a fedora 41 base to 42. Didn’t get a notification or have to watch progress bars, just rebooted into fresh new base. Nothing wierd happened. Nothing broke. So good.

There is nothing about the tech they are using that makes it a requirement to base of fedora, either, so in the future it is possible to have the same experience under linux mint.

Andor makes a better prequel to the original trilogy than the movies, but you don’t have to be familiar with any of the films or other tv series to enjoy it.

For ublue they want you to use brew for cli apps, so yeah, you would be stuck with a copy of python you may not want. They want all user apps be containerized for security and stability.

Or for yt-dlp you could always try a gui flatpak.

https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.mhogomchungu.media-downloader

https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.unrud.VideoDownloader

So, yeah, if you have limited space it’s an issue. I installed a debian distrobox for one app, and it downloaded 1-2 gigs worth of files to set that up. Overkill, sure, but it works.

But distrobox is something I see recommended all the time, and with ublue it’s set up and works by default. You don’t have to follow a guide which may or may not work, and then have to troubleshoot permissions or realize you’re on a newer version of the OS than the guide was written for and something changed and try to manually undo the changes you made and start again, which is something I’ve experienced on linux multiple times.

The best part about ublue is how little time you have to spend troubleshooting stuff. I thought the “immutability” aspect would be limiting, but so far it only limits the amount of time I’ve had to spend trying to get shit to work right. If you are comfortable installing cli apps or using the terminal for package management, it’s not really much of a difficulty spike to start using brew or distrobox or devcontainers.

The downside is it uses more hd space and containerization sometimes breaks the usefulness of certain apps without having to muck about with permissions in flatseal or something, but to me it seems very much worth it.

Ideally you would have a way to back up your files. If you want to stay on win 10 you will need to reinstall the ltsc version and should back up your files just in case.

You can install Linux to an external HD and boot off of it that way, then you don’t risk any data loss with partitions or reformatting. From there you can copy files over. After that you can swap out the HD, install Linux over the internal HD, or install Linux to dual boot with windows.

I don’t know how you can get to the end of lou2 and view it as any sort of endorsement of revenge, or of justifying Israeli violence. Did i miss something?

If you are wondering about compatability for a certain game, search for if it runs on the steam deck. If you can run it on a steam deck you can run it on any Linux install.

https://www.emudeck.com/

Bazzite

If you have to stay on windows for some reason, this is the way to go. There is also a win 11 ltsc version without all the recall and copilot shit.

But if you aren’t reliant on proprietary apps that are locked to windows for a job or creative endeavor, just try linux for a while first. If you know enough to get ltsc installed and registered, you can get linux installed.

“We fight to win. That means we lose… and lose, and lose, and lose. Until we’re ready.” - Luthen

That makes me feel better about losing all the time.

I liked Season 1 but thought Season 2 was great. Maybe I need to rewatch season 1.