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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Caravan Palace.

    I’ve known “Lone Digger” for some years now, but never listened to their other songs until quite recently, when i was browsing bandcamp and “re-discovered” them. I think all of their stuff is great, but i found the most recent album (on bandcamp), “Ganbusters Melody Club” to be absolutely fantastic, with some of my favorite tracks in general, ever.

    Due to a conversation with a good friend about music i had recently, i’ve compiled a list of my favorite songs, ever, with separate filtering steps narrowing the selection down to first 300, then 120, 60 and finally 20 songs. My favorites from that Caravan Palace album, “City Cook” and “Reverse”, both made this top 20 list and I honestly can’t recommend them enough.




  • I like the GeekOSDaw Audio packages (especially QJackCTL);

    I prefer KDE Plasma over Cinnamon (I know you can use Mint with Plasma);

    It’s stable, reliable (apart from some issues with Nvidia drivers, though they’ve gotten less frequent and easier to fix), and up to date.

    I probably could have tried more distros, but I’m perfectly happy with where I am and thus see no need to experiment all that much.

    I’ve previously installed CachyOS on the PC I’ve now got Debian on, to use it as a guest Gaming PC, and that was fine as well.

    I’m mostly using X11 since everything runs on it (I’ve got a 3-to-4 monitor setup - 3 normally, with a beamer I can additionaly connect). Wayland works well for the most part, too, but some things are more glitchy on it.

    Also, i found it pretty nice to have a centralized control panel (Yast) for things I didn’t/don’t know how to do in the terminal yet.

    A Point of friction: Printer Drivers didn’t include the one we had when I installed Tumbleweed. Our roommate took the printer when he moved out, so it’s irrelevant for now, but i’m thinking of getting a laser printer sometime.


  • I tried Mint and Bazzite on my laptop, installed Bazzite on my Desktop, wasn’t happy with the atomic style (wanted to install a lot of stuff and switch to the low-latency-kernel for music production),

    switched to OpenSuse Tumbleweed and stayed there. I got a second Desktop PC for cheap from a friend, took out the GPU, installed Debian on it and run Game Servers (Minecraft, Satisfactory, TF2) on it now.

    Very happy with both Tumbleweed (as a daily driver) and Debian (for my server).