I feel dirty
I feel really dirty and bad
why
because I switched to no I won't tell
you but I switched my daily driver
and it is dirty just dirty
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now let me tell you about my struggles
and my decision making process and what
I ended up with Daddy
I'm running my daily driver as a VM on
my proxmox cluster this gives me the
best of both worlds the flexibility of a
virtual machine combined with the ease
of it just a very small performance hit
my machine has an RTX 3060 and I have a
focusrite Scarlet attached to the
machine for my audio concerns I do PCI
pass through so I can use these
components natively within the machine
and the same is true for all of the USB
ports by the way if you want me to do a
video on that just let me know in the
comments below my use case is a lot of
OBS studio with screen sharing software
and infrastructure development my daily
driver has been arched for the past one
and a half years and it went well I had
major issues for like three times so I'm
perfectly fine with that again worked
great and I truly love Arch but over the
past weeks things became worse for no
apparent reason my camera stopped
working with the VM but worked
flawlessly with other installations my
sound broke over and over again the VM
slowed down and all of my efforts of
fixing that did not have any sustainable
success and since this is my daily
driver I don't have the time to fiddle
with it and as I'm running Linux have my
data in my local next cloud on my Nas on
my proxmox ABM is only some sort of a
unit of work if it breaks I won't fix it
and install a new one instead so I
decided to set up a new daily driver
you know that I'm loving DB it is after
Arch my go-to distro so I decided to
give it a go downloaded it installed it
and converted it to dbn sets and by the
way if you want to know how to do that
let me know in the comments below I
happily create a video on that so I
installed the drivers for my GPU which
is pretty simple with new iteration of
Debian I installed OBS via flat pack and
I delete it DVM I did have issues with
screen sharing in OBS underway land and
I had to adjust too many things and had
to work too hard to circumvent that
again daily driver right you don't have
any time to waste it just needs to work
so no not dbn
you might know that I have a somewhat
long but complicated relationship with
Susie and open Susie the OS actually is
pretty elegant but just I anyhow decided
to give open to the Tumbleweed a girl
and I downloaded their net install
version installed it which took like 90
minutes because it downloads a lot of
data reboot it and was greeted with an
error message stating that the evi BIOS
driver thingy would not be accessible
from the bootloader and therefore the
system could not boot I did not
investigate into that I just backed out
of the VM and did he did it sorry
next I decided and figured it would
probably make more sense to go a bit
more like a mainstream and stable route
so I figured why not try out Fedora I
don't like Fedora because of its red hat
ownership but apart from that it's a
pretty elegant and pretty
straightforward and modern distribution
so give it a go it is for the daily
driver that is basically not the machine
that you love to work upon it is the
machine you have to work upon right so I
installed it I updated it I installed
NVIDIA drivers which is pretty terrible
with Fedora I installed OBS and
immediately had the same issues as Swift
dbn black screen sharing on OBS under
Weyland and when I switched to X11 as a
fallback the performance became truly
sluggish so no not fedora not too
unhappy about that to be honest
so back to archden I mean I walked on it
for like one and a half years and I
truly love it it is on both of my
framework laptops and on my ThinkPad but
as a daily driver I already decided this
time I wanted to have something more
stable so no no Arch here although I'm
pretty sure this will change pretty soon
but for now no no Arch
okay here we are no Debian no open Susa
no Fedora no Arch what is left well it
now gets truly messy talking about
Ubuntu I really don't like Ubuntu their
take on gnome and on many other things
is abysmal and they have a preference to
snap while I prefer flat packs so
definitely no no Ubuntu desktop for me
but then I remembered something I did
back in the days when I disliked a
desktop operating system or a desktop
focused distro I went with the server
version of the respective operating
system so I installed Ubuntu server and
I added vanilla gnome on top of that so
no Ubuntu gnome crap just plain vanilla
gnome by the way if you want to know how
to do that let me know in the comments
below I then installed flat packs and
starting there driver installation
generally no issues I easily installed
and configured my NVIDIA drivers OBS via
flat pack not an issue at all I
installed it I started it and in fact
even The Watcher camera worked out of
the box without me having to install
additional components or to configure
anything screen sharing in Wayland not
an issue at all and even X11 as a
fallback looks awesome it's fast
responsive and fluid there are still
many things I dislike about Ubuntu be it
server or desktop but I settled with
Ubuntu Server as my new daily driver for
the time being I would not have guessed
that previously and in all honesty I
feel dirty that is ah Way Beyond my
comfort zone but it is not about
personal preference here it is about
having an operating system that just
works and frankly when it comes to that
Ubuntu Server current at least ticks all
the boxes for me but I feel dirty
so what do you think do you decide for
your daily driver by heart or with a
rational approach let me know in the
comments below and let me know what you
run as your daily driver I'm truly
interested and while you are there don't
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you next time
ciao dirty oh