Machine is a HP ENVY x360 Convertible 15-eu1xxx with the touch screen. Ryzen 7 5825U, touch screen 16gb RAM.
Top recommendation of within one hour of me posting this decides what distro I install. Please not Hannah Montana linux or even worse, Arch.
I leave the decision up to you.
Edit:
The winner was linux mint. I've downloaded the ISO and am installing now. I hope my boss doesn't get pissed.
Go to the deep end with NixOS!
GNU Guix is where it's at
Can't install proprietary apps --> useless as a work machine.
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Distrobox with Arch for proprietary apps?
Makes about as much sense as buying a mac with apple silicon to develop x86 linux apps or windows to develop linux apps.
this is not how Guix works - please don't blindly spread misinformation
Install firefox on stock guix please.
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add channel nonguix install firefox
since when is "adding a channel" not part of the "stock" system? if that were so nothing would ever be part of debian based stock systems
my point being: you can and probably should try to bring it into your workplace
That's literally what it is? You're trying to make a Theseus ship argument where there is none. By your logic, ubuntu would be stock debian. "it's just a few apt repos with their packages installed"
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I took a look at NixOS. Am I correct in the assumption that I'd need to take a bachelor's degree to actually get how to use that thing and I'm shit outta luck because I'm an embedded programmer?
Just taking Advanced Functional Programming should be enough.
I have taken such a course, actually, but frankly my NixOS configuration is just a bunch of copy paste from all around the place. I think I could've pulled it off before going to college.
So it's the natural heir to Emacs?
No, not even slightly.
I played around with it for an hour and had the whole thing figured out.
There's one config file, you add the packages you want to it. Done. Once you've got the syntax the rest is a piece of cake.
I know about the config file. But updating, flakes, home-management, etc make my head spin.
OP gonna have a fun ride, Nix got me good.
But there's Guix
Gonna do him dirty like that.
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