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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • Exactly. At the end of the day it is the human behind the computer that clicks send/post. Use AI all you want, just proof read the the stuff before publishing it. Some people don’t have a great vocabulary, and in some respect using AI can help to grow their vocabulary. Just don’t publish things you wouldn’t normally say, especially things you don’t fully understand.

    I’ve used AI intermittently to draft emails when time poor. It’s much faster to give ChatGPT a sloppy prompt with the gist of the message for it to then instantly spit out a full draft. The responsible thing to do then is to proof read it and make changes that make it more “you”. I think that’s fine.


  • I have always enjoyed good punctuation. And being a bit of a nerd myself, I used em dashes throughout University in my essays. To me it felt like a cool little keyboard shortcut that only few knew about. I still use them today—in emails and reports. I haven’t yet been personally called out for using AI, but I have noticed a lot more people using them.

    So what if people use AI to help them with their grammar and punctuation. At the end of the day, people are still sending messages they endorse—even if it’s not one they could have articulated without some help from AI.






  • See my other comment above. I’m quite comfortable using a terminal, but for the purposes of tweaking system files in their POSIX location. I don’t want temp files or symlinks or sandboxed/containerised packages. I want binaries, I wanna compile software from source. Immutable distros make this quite difficult. The file system is setup differently (on purpose of course).

    I guess it’s less a criticism than it is a preference.







  • I kinda hope one day there is a “easy mode” Immutable distro, or perhaps atleast some kind of point-and-click GUI tools for managing something like flakes on a NixOS like system. I love the idea behind NixOS, but don’t want to learn a new programming language just to configure my system. It’ll get easier in the future I suppose. And when it does, I’ll be here for it. Obviously Bazzite is trying to be more beginner friendly which is cool, but it’s still quite a complicated system underneath the limited GUI options.


  • Of course it can be tinkered with, but it wasn’t really designed to be tinkered with in the same way that you can with a traditional Linux system. It’s designed to keep users from messing with system files with its strict containerised workflow. It’s certainly not targeted at users who’ll want to hack systemd services, customise kernel modules, tweak system files under /etc and /usr, or even compile software from source.

    I acknowledge that it’s possible to create highly customised and reproducible systems with immutable distros, but it’s a paradigm shift compared to a traditional *nix system.

    I’ve spent 20+ years refining my knowledge of linux and BSD, I haven’t got the patience to start over with these types of systems.

    Please don’t get me wrong, I’m not at all criticising these systems for being different. They serve a completely different purpose —one that’s just not for me.


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    I did the same a few months ago. Installed bazzite just like you. Then installed fedora 42 workstation over it one week later.

    While it’s designed to be plug and play, I found bazzite frustrating. But then again, I’m a Linux vet and I’m a tinkerer. I like to customise system configuration files. Immutable distros just weren’t for me.

    But if you’re happy then that’s all that matters. Happy gaming!