Yes. Gentoo is always a good idea :)

Let’s see how this goes then revisit the question.

Not a mistake, I’ve got an ender 3 and a cr10. Both are fine, keep your expectations realistic and calibrate each axis, especially the extruders. Use PLA, consider getting a new build plate if your prints won’t stick. I recommend flashing firmware on the ender 3 unless you know what was loaded onto it last, doesn’t have to be fancy firmware just something you know for sure is configured for your printer. A cr10 should probably get firmware as well but I never loaded new firmware on mine and the controller is older so I’m not sure if it’s a good idea.

Don’t forget the cost of filament, if you print a lot you may spend more on filament in a year that your printer budget.

Renoise is sweet as far as trackers go.

Ardour was always my go-to although it’s been crashing on me a lot.

Shout out to BespokeSynth for being amazing, I forgive the crashes because it’s so cool and strongly foss.

Totally possible.

I recommend making room on your drive using windows tools to shrink the windows partition before letting your Linux installer add new ones, or doing it manually. This is just so that no weird filesystem bugs show up after resizing your ntfs filesystem with Linux tools. Never had a problem with them but it’s probably good to use Microsoft tools to mess with the Microsoft filesystem just in case.

I used to use Gentoo on my laptop, mostly for fun but also because I kept having issues on other distros (Ubuntu mostly) where I wanted to run the latest blender release but my libraries were out of date. On Gentoo I could easily get the most recent builds.

My money is on VMware

Maybe watch your system logs on the server when it’s having trouble, could be something random.

Mostly just try Linux on it 😹 Don’t install it just run from a flash drive or something

10/10

Excellent comment, I completely agree.

Anyway I want to add that Linux does not seek market share, it’s an escape hatch for those of us fed up with commercial software.

Linux is used to build plenty of commercial distros like Ubuntu and rhel that do seek market share which is something their companies can worry about.

Plus, more Wayland support won’t break existing X software. If you want to use old systems, don’t expect new software to run on it.

Since 6.12 the Preempt rt patcheshave become canon.

As for older kernels, there’s a thread Here but idk what the current situation is

What level of involvement are you looking for in setting up the host os?

I’m a NixOS fan because once you painstakingly get the configuration file set up you basically never need to do it again. If you don’t need anything outside of nixpkgs it’s easy, otherwise it’s terrible. Docker is available in nixpkgs.

On connectbot for Android I really appreciate the feature that saves port forwarding settings for each connection. If you can add that and the option to start forwarding on connect that would be great.

Also it would be nice to be able to specify a custom command to run instead of the user’s shell.

Looks great! Nice work

My only input is gitlab is very complicated, never used the others

My bios doesn’t need to know what year it is

The Android way to do this is to open the file from some sort of file browser app and select Firefox from the list of apps that registered for that file type. Unfortunately it looks like Firefox doesn’t register itself for html files.

Heeby deeby what about the various ways to build fhs environments in nix. My largest complaint is actually that the nix ecosystem has disjointed, incomplete, and incorrect documentation. You can get through it, but it’s often best to try reading the code in nixpkgs when things aren’t working like the docs say. I’ve been getting by for a few years now and I don’t really even know the nix language, I really should put the time in to learn it but I will when I need to.

I’m very happy with how much nixos just works and doesn’t let me break the whole os just because I want to try the latest version of blender 😅

Nope. I bailed when I read the words NFS and kerberos in the same sentence.