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Dunno where you are but the carbon steel pans from De Buyer are very high quality and awesome, for a reasonable price in Europe.

Thanks !

Super interested in the graphite bed, could you share some links ? I would love to avoid heat soaking mine for half an hour before each print ;)

Think of the OS as a sum of hundreds of components. You have a kernel, a boot manager, a boot and service manager system, a shell, some command line utils, drivers, a display server, a graphical interface, a sound server etc.

On a classical OS, all these components are distributed individually as packages. Which means that there is a risk of failure at any update: discrepancies on dependencies or compiler versions, failed updates, power outages etc.

“Immutable”, also called “atomic” or “transactional” OSs, distribute the whole stack as a single image. If it reminds you of Docker, that’s because it’s exactly the same thing. An update can’t fail. It’s either fully applied or not at all. And that’s because it’s not an update at all, it’s a complete system image deployed alongside the one currently in use. If it doesn’t work, you can simply “downgrade” by selecting the previous image.

Yes. It’s awesome.

Bazzite on my gaming rig: no time lost on applying updates and doing mantenance, only games.

Bluefin on my dad’s laptop. He’s super happy with it, and it looks enough like MacOS to satisfy his tastes. He’s been using it for about a year and he hasn’t broken it yet. And he’s able to break every single piece of software he looks at.

FYI my main laptop runs Fedora, which is already low maintenance enough.

French is even weirder with “sentir”.

For feelings, french usually uses a reflexive form: “je me sens triste” (I feel sad). That’s the easy part.

Now the real fun is that you can say stuff like “je sens tes pieds”, and it could mean “I can feel (touch) your feet” or “I can smell your feet”, or even both at the same time.

Amazing !!

*Metal illnesses

You could either add emulators as non-Steam games to Steam and launch it in Big Picture mode, or use RetroArch which is exactly made for this case

Why do you want to run emulators through Heroic? Most emulators run natively on Linux, most of them are available as flatpaks or native packages.

I feel like you’re trying to do too much at once. Installing Linux for the first time and immediately trying to use and understand containers and virtualization is like trying to fly a fighter jet after getting your first drivers license lesson. For example, Docker is useful in server contexts when you want independent, isolated servers running next to each other on the same physical machine, much less in desktop environments.

Take the time to understand the concepts first. Proton/Wine are translation layers that let you run Windows applications/games on Linux almost as native applications, Steam and Heroic are storefronts to download and install paid games, Docker/Podman are used to run containers, virtual machines are fake computers inside your real computer that can be easily managed with Gnome Boxes for example, etc.

My take:

For gaming:

• run emulators as native Linux executables
• use Steam + Proton to install and run most windows games (even non-steam ones)
• use Heroic exclusively to install games from Epic and GOG. Run them through Steam if you want.
• use Lutris as la last resort as it’s the least plug-and-play option out there
• avoid plain Wine

For Windows applications:

• install a windows virtual machine in Gnome Boxes, install and run those programs as usual in the VM. Performance will suck.
• only use Wine/Bottles when you understand how they work.

That’s why those fuckers love LLMs so much. They don’t understand anything remotely technical, and it makes them believe they can just cut out the grumpy, uncooperative middleman and push shit code in production they are unable to audit.

Unfortunately Fusion360 has no official Linux support and is not easy to download and install, while Onshape is browser-based so OS-agnostic.

Yeah FreeCAD has a pretty rough learning curve. Especially since you need to learn parametric and its UI at the same time. I still mostly use OnShape because it’s become second nature, but last time I tried FreeCAD it was much easier since I only had to learn the UI.

Maybe give OnShape a try. Its interface is really good and will let you learn parametric CAD in one of the best conditions possible.

Yes this is normal. You have to group shapes to make them a single object.

On an unrelated note, TinketCAD is ok to make simple shapes quickly, but once you start working with complex geometry, it quickly becomes a nightmare. Parametric CAD (Onshape or FreeCAD) is infinitely superior in this regard.