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[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

Before I continue, you should probably specify your budget explicitly.

With that said, almost anything older than a few years should do what you need to just fine. I have a Lenovo Yoga 710 from 2016 that works decent, and had an old Fujitsu Lifebook from 2010 that wasn't too shabby as well. Heck, I once booted Linux off a cheap piano black Toshiba laptop originally made for Vista.

Just choose a random old laptop and you'll most likely be good.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Question: What are you developing?

With that said, NixOS would probably be fine, if not better than fine. From what I can tell, I don't think Guix would be a good idea - the packages appear out of date, according to their package manager. They're still on Python 3.10.

However, I might recommend Debian Testing to you for your purposes. Most of the time, packages are pretty recent, maybe a few months old at the most (sometimes just a few weeks), but you still get most of the stability of regular Debian. The only asterisk is when the freeze happens. I think apt may have gotten some updates as well.

I've been using it on my desktop PC for over two-and-a-half years. I will say I have grown a bit weary of it, as it gets so many updates and software changes so fast. On my laptop, I went with stable and plan to switch or stable on my desktop once Trixie gets stable.

In brief, Testing isn't bad. I'd almost recommend a development VM.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago

Besides cheating and choosing a Star Trek novel, I can think of several.

Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl might not be a bad one. Almost no matter who I chose, I'd have a comfortable life style.

Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn would be miserable to live in, but if I was a character with allomancy, that might be acceptable.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 13 points 3 months ago

Additionally, I think 3.18 onward doesn't even support theming engines. As said, though, GIMP is stuck on GTK2.

If you're having a lot of trouble, perhaps just go with the Flatpak.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 17 points 3 months ago

No. GTK 3 was a breaking change, and so was 4.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Please specify:

  • What distribution
  • What architecture
  • What desktop environment
  • What you have done so far to try to resolve the problem (e.g have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the package?)

Based on your host name, I'm assuming it's Arch. From what I can tell from the terminal output, Ghostscript is missing (thus the libgs.so error). Maybe try reinstalling it with Pacman. Did you update your system and it somehow got autoremoved (I don't know Arch that well)?

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

Actually, according to LD:Twovix, didn't it become a museum ship?

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 43 points 3 months ago

I almost had a panic attack until I realized this was for UBlock Origin Lite rather than the normal, manifest v2 version. Still mad at Mozilla,though.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I owe a lot to Wheaton. For one, if my mother hadn't gotten a crush on him that was the final prod she needed towards Star Trek, then I by extension might not be a Trekkie as well. In addition, although I didn't watch Tabletop, some of my family did, which is what got me into board games.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

I could be totally delusional, but I think it's just something like dd if=whatchamacallit.dmg of=whatchamacallit.img. I think you can get a net install image through macrecovery, which is a utility included with OpenCore packages.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think this VM is still on Sonoma, actually. I still need to upgrade.

I can't remember exactly what I did to get an installer image, but there's a million shell scripts online for downloading macOS installer images. For booting it, I use this premade OpenCore for KVM/Proxmox. I have to check if I made other modifications (I run on an AMD CPU), but I think I mainly just had to set the serial and model - I personally used a 2019 Mac Pro.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My university's introductory CS course has us using Java. It's a web IDE within a textbook, but weirdly enough, I found it's actually just connected to an AWS instance of Ubuntu.

I myself have been daily driving since my sophomore year of high school.

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