Very interesting read.

Is this an off season April Fool’s joke?

No, they don’t. Its actually described. Distrowatch just tracks how many clicks the pages on Distrowatch has. That’s all. But lot of people don’t understand and take these numbers as general popularity index.

And on DistroWatch (last 30 days) its still place 16, just above NixOS. :D Shows again why DistroWatch shouldn’t be used as a generalized popularity comparison: https://distrowatch.com/index.php?dataspan=4 (Note the link will have different data after time goes on.)

Last 30 days on Dec. 4, 2025:

Rank    Distribution        HPD*
---------------------------------
1       CachyOS             4695>
2       MX Linux            2460<
3       Mint                2325>
4       Debian              1611<
5       EndeavourOS         1536>
6       Zorin               1420>
7       Pop!_OS             1316>
8       Fedora              1080<
9       Ubuntu              1061<
10      Manjaro             1045=
11      AnduinOS            914>
12      Arch                853<
13      openSUSE            729<
14      antiX               726<
15      Nobara              714>
16      Bazzite             692=
17      NixOS               647>

How is it bloated if you decide what to put on? Gentoo isn’t a traditional distribution, its what you make it to. Still you have to answer for yourself why you even want to switch to Gentoo. And if all the extra work for compilation is worth it. Do you even want to compile everything and customize the compilation process? If not, maybe Gentoo is not for you. That’s the thing. Only you can answer that.

Why do you want switch to Gentoo in the first place? I think its a good idea if you want to customize and build lot of applications yourself. Besides heavy hitters like browsers or the Kernel. So only you can answer if this is a good idea for you.

Linux is not a lifestyle

I have to disagree about this point.

I’d love to some of the Bazzite users migrate to Bluefin or Aurora.

Why?

When do you need a newer or older version of Bash to target? I mean usually this is not a thing to concern about.

I want to say, it takes a while to learn many stuff in Linux. You didn’t learn everything of Windows in one video or blog post either. And in Linux, its even “worse”, as it is open ended with many operating systems and replaceable parts. That means its by design more to learn than on Windows. I’m just setting expectations. “Learning Linux” is not a single event or product you learn, and you hopefully never stop learning.

1. Maybe start at high level “What is Linux?”.
2. Go into “The Linux Filesystem”.
3. Learn about “Linux Philosophy and Shell Tools”.
4. That should lead you into scripting with “Bash”.

That should give you a bit of background and basics to start with. Just search these terms and start learning and experimenting. Plan years into learning…

If you are concerned about a program you installed spying on you, then why do you use that program? If it can access a personal directory in Mozilla, what does it stop from accessing all the other files on your system?

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This question is probably as old as Linux itself. While many (me included) do not like Ubuntu anymore, I still think its a good operating system for newcomers to Linux. Not at last because of the community it has. Ubuntu is only by those dislike who are long enough in this game. There are also different variants with different user interfaces and such (like Kubuntu).

This title is a bit funny. :D You had me in the first halve, not gonna lie.

Nice list. I’ve added it too, can’t hurt. Although with these third party blocking lists we get dependent on what we can see and not based on others “taste”. But I guess this is the price we pay.

This is a search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT’s first public release on November 30, 2022.

https://tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader , the linked source code on Firefox extension page seems to no longer exist: https://github.com/tegacodes/slop-evader

So it literally cuts off everything after that date. Why the need for an extension in the browser? One can add max date to any search engine search terms and limit the results too. At least this works with Google, in example before:2022-11-30. This could be a bookmark in example: https://www.google.com/search?q=before%3A2022-11-30 Note I do not use Google myself. You have to try this with your favorite search engine yourself.

While I think the idea is good to search everything before, I am not certain we need a closed source extension for if we could just add a search term to it manually. And this does not really solve searching the web with content after that date. Still need a better solution to this, especially if time goes on.

I don’t trust this company, as they hate Linux. Wouldn’t use their engine if I target Linux, as we don’t know how they will support it in the future. I am not against open sourcing it, that’s not my issue. In fact I applaud it. But can’t trust them. Anyone supporting this project will help making their games better, who do not give a shit about Linux support.

Is there any technical reason to use s&box engine over any other Open Source engine? I ask that from a gamer perspective and don’t know all the differences.

Definitely not like OUR (in the sense of owning from community perspective). No seriously, I pronounce it like most do and say each letter on their own like a pirate.

Like a pirate.

BTW there is also the package (Bash script) downgrade to do this job. It is in official EndevourOS repositories, but also in the AUR. And if you want do it manually, head over to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Downgrading_packages .