nottheengineer

Distrobox was made for this exact use case.

Refer to the other comment for where it is. The release cycle depends on your distro. If you use arch, you'll always get the latest stuff as it releases. That's the thing that makes arch a good choice for gaming.

Other distros are generally more delayed or only release major versions that don't break anything.

For nvidia this means you have specialized distros created for the sole purpose of having a working nvidia driver that come in different versions because even the 'stable' versions aren't very stable. With AMD, you basically don't need to worry.

If casual means relaxed to you, factorio. Their new controller integration is great. But be careful, it's highly addictive.

Looks great, but I get a lot of SSL errors without real tine downloading and one every 5 or so songs with it.

It'll take a week or two to download 3000 songs, but running it periodically after that should be fine.

Sounds like a good idea. Zotify keeps throwing meter-long stacktraces at me about SSL errors that I assume are API rate limits because there's less of them when I use real-time downloading.

Maybe it's even a nice project for an android app because zotify doesn't run there yet.

I'd expect a developer to understand that. A stack trace works the exact same way.

I use bluetooth headphones, 300kbps is enough.

I do manage to feel very uncomfortable if I don't stop myself from drinking too much.

I have the opposite problem. The water bottle/glass is my fidget thingy. If I need to think for a second, I'll take a sip. During workdays I during about 4l a day.

Automatic updates that need reboots but run at any time other than when shutting down?

Sounds like something microsoft would do, but even they get that part right.

LTS does have a place on the desktop: Learning how to daily drive linux. I started with kubuntu non-LTS and didn't know you needed to manually start a full-upgrade to not get moved to backport repos. Of course that came crashing down on me at the worst time and I took a break from linux. But I did learn enough that I can use arch now and it's been great.

Same here. Ubuntu almost made me believe that linux is a pain in the ass to use and you need to fix some shit after every update.

Now I use arch and it's great. Nvidia is very annoying because they constantly publish drivers that break things, but you can just roll those back and wait until they fix it again. And that gets worse as GPUs age. Apart from nvidia, I've had exactly one update issue (telepathy-kde being removed and causing the pacman dependency resolver to get confused) that was fixed in about 2 minutes of googling.