TL;DR: Try installing some on virtual box, by all means try Linux mint cinnamon but also try Ubuntu and Fedora KDE.

Linux has some jargon and since you want to learn I’ll give you a quick rundown of how a variation of Linux is composed.

“Kernel” is what makes Linux Linux. It’s a way of interacting with the hardware.

A “distribution” or “distro” is a one of the many flavors of Linux.

They are usually “based” on a common foundation like Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Nix and whatever. These also work like an onion where Mint is based on Ubuntu which in turn is based on Debian, all of which use some version of the Linux kernel.

A that’s just a base will just get you a terminal (also called a shell or console) and is very useful to make a server for example.

What most people think of as an OS is the user interface (i.e. clickable shit). The terminology in Linux for that is “desktop environment” (DE).

You’ll see a lot of distributions mix and watch between a base and a desktop environment such as Fedora with KDE, Ubuntu (Ubuntu with Gnome), Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE), Bazzite (Fedora silverblue base with either gnome, KDE or deck DE).

You mentioned Cinnamon. Cinnamon is a desktop environment for Mint so a Linux Mint Cinnamon contains the code of the following:

Linux kernel, Debian, Ubuntu and Mint as a base and Cinnamon to interact with it by using a mouse and keyboard.

There are currently three bases that are really popular right now, Ubuntu, Fedora and Arch. In the DE there are currently two that are most advanced, namely KDE and Gnome but Cinnamon is not far behind.

In all honestly, none of this matters all too much, just install a couple of popular distros on a virtual machine like Virtual Bok and do a vibe check.

Take a couple of these, install some programs and fuck around with the settings for a bit, install themes and whatever or watch a quick YouTube video on it:

• Ubuntu (gets hate for being corporate but is solid, uses Gnome)
• Linux mint Cinnamon
• Fedora KDE
• EndavourOS (an arch based distro that’s supposedly easy, haven’t tried it)
• Bazzite (weird way to install programs through the package manager but hard to fuck up beyond repair)
• Something with the Xfce DE just to see the “lightweight” look.

Renaissance exterior of building. Carvings in concrete. Stone block buildings. Gargoyles. Corner decorations on ceilings.

That’s a porn name for a company.

Soon Linux will be big enough that stores will offer a selection of operating systems. It might be possible already to ask for a custom built PC deal with a discount for no bringing your own OS or having them install it for you.

You’ll probably like this proposal for the flag for Antarctica then

I like Canada 🇨🇦, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and Bhutan 🇧🇹

Also most Ubisoft games in the last 10 years overall

I’m up for installing Linux on my last phone when it’s added to the list of devices that have official/unofficial support. I’m not going to install anything until WiFi and mobile data is supported tbh.

I tried installing Ubuntu touch for fun a couple of years ago but it didn’t boot. I just want to get to a point where I can install the OS and send bug reports.

LineageOS is based on android so it gets a lot of goodies with it.

I’m very open to being an early adopter of mobile Linux phones. I’ve been unable to because of a couple of factors. I last seriously checked about half a year ago so take this with a pinch of salt.

• Limited support for specific models. This means that the phone will work as a computer but won’t have the correct drivers for gyro, sim and whatnot.
• Lack of extensive driver support. Phones turn off components to save power, this was not supported the last time I checked and halves the battery life compared to stock android.
• Waydroid support incomplete. Many apps will work but some apps will bug out. Waydroid also has performance issues so it’s not as good as WINE for example.
• Not big enough community. A lot of models are maintained by a single dev that checks in every blue moon.

To get a Linux phone to be competitive on performance we’ll need to get driver APIs and component lists open sourced so it’ll be easier to gather the appropriate info and make drivers.

There has been tons of progress though, Gnome and KDE have really strong touch support now and the apps scale decently.

It’s coming but now fairphone is the only phone that openly supports Linux mobile distros and is open sourced.

Important note: This release can only be upgraded to if you’re on 10.7 or later. Make sure to update to 10.10 soon or the process might become more manual.

It’s the other way around. Windows will stop supporting kernel level anti-cheat because of Crowdstrike

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I use terminal commands to open relevant ide for the project

Having a bunch of plugins built-in means also supported in updates and play nice with each other

I also had issue when I was working on a pycharm project back when I was on windows. During setup it asked me “What’s your name?” and my name has a cheeky accent which Windows was decided should be the name of my Home folder. Home folder also has appdata and whatnon so which the build system didn’t expect to have a an accent in the folder path.

I ended up having to create a different folder and link to it then move all the path configurations to that folder link just so I could get imports working.

I use Jetbrains IDEs now for 5 years, I’ve used VSCode, Sublime, Atom, Vim, Neovim but I feel like Jetbrains IDEs are just better if you have the RAM to run it.

1. It’s a setting.
2. Doesn’t happen
3. Doesn’t happen
4. Searchable actions, just search for “encoding” in this case.
5. That’s an LSP/project mismatch usually just a setting. Most things are supported but worst case you can remove the error.
6. Happens if you run out of RAM or open a very large file.

So it’s not all bad, but comes with a lot of good such as “invert if statement”, “use template strings” and “extract method” thingies along with a load of plugins.

That’s all because Wine is not an emulator

Don’t get me wrong, I still write more than 98% of code by hand and of course, I can write those functions myself in 30m myself but I can get it in 60s with the AI. LLMs can write code to that does parse - > model - > map - > format with only one or two easy to fix bugs.

It’s in the very niche cases where it’s just tedious to write something out that LLMs actually work. “Write an API client that uses [library] that handles these requests/responses” comes also to mind as something that would work.

I’m using now also to learn react native where I get bugs I’m very unfamiliar with and SO doesn’t give me a good answer.

I’ve also had decent success at having it review my code with “how would I further optimise this code” and it gives me some pointers and then writes buggy code but the approach is correct usually and I can implement it myself.

These AIs really suck at writing correct code but I’ve had good success in having them write code generators. I recently made it write a script that takes a SQL create table statement and converts in to TS and gives insert update, delete and whatnot and also creates a simple class that handles the operations.

I had to write the original code by hand but having it write code that writes boilerplate which I correct is pretty good.

Other code is hit or miss IMO