I would say probably the FP6 if you care about sustainability, fair materials and working conditions, etc. It also seems to be a solid phone with decent cameras and performance, though with a higher price than phones with equivalent specs due to the first point. The FP cameras have improved a lot since the 3, they seem very usable in the few reviews I’ve seen.

I will say that, since you care about both battery life and camera quality, you might want to check out the Xiaomi 15 if it’s available at a good price. I’m certain Xiaomi doesn’t have the fair working conditions and materials like FP does, and they definitely don’t aim to make their phones ultra-repairable.

I also self-host a forgejo as a local backup as well as codeberg, so if codeberg ever goes down for some reason or another or if my internet is down, I still have a backup of my projects.

o ok. I made an edit

oh god, win12 is going to be even worse

oops, one more thing, an easier way to get to bios without figuring out your bios key is, from windows, find “restart with advanced options” (it’s in the “restore and backup” section) which will restart directly into the bios.

1. choose your distribution. If you want something similar to Windows 10, go for Mint Cinnamon as it’s user-friendly and easy to set up. If you like gaming (considering it’s an Asus ROG you have there) go for Bazzite. You can either go with KDE Plasma (which is more customisable and, out of the box, looks similar to Win10) or GNOME (which looks clean and more like MacOS with a new coat of libadwaita paint). If you want something that looks really clean but don’t really game go for Fedora Workstation (that’s what I use), which has a nice implementation of GNOME. There’s a bunch of others like Pop! OS (also popular with gamers) and, of course, Ubuntu (which uses its own customised version of GNOME). Kubuntu is a KDE version of Ubuntu.

TLDR: Mint Cinnamon if you want something familiar and Win10-like, Bazzite if you want to game (given it’s an ROG), Fedora Workstation if you like GNOME but don’t really game. Pop! OS, Ubuntu, and Kubuntu are also both good options too depending on your preferences.

edit: I guess not Mint? Go for either Fedora (KDE or Workstation is fine) or Bazzite (if you focus on gaming)

2. If you would like to try out a few different distros before picking one, I would highly recommend “VenToy”. Just install it in a USB drive (making sure the USB drive doesn’t have any important data and/or it has been backed up as it will be erased on installation) and put all the downloaded ISOs (which can be found on the websites of each distribution, if you find two options select x86 or amd64 (the two are the same), that will be compatible with your ROG. Bazzite also gives you options depending on what GPU you have to install the correct drivers!) on the Ventoy drive.

Then, restart your computer with the drive plugged in and press your bios key (usually f2, f10, or f12, sometime it’s escape. I usually just press all if them and hope for the best lol). Go to the section where you can choose where to boot into, and boot into the ventoy drive (usually labelled as the model of usb drive you have) Then you will get the Ventoy menu and you can select a distribution to try out. Play around in it, but remember nothing is save as it is running off of the Usb drive!

If you already know what distribution and desktop you want to use, you don’t need to bother with ventoy and can just use either rufus or balenaetcher to write your chosen ISO which can be found on the websites of each distribution, if you find two options select x86 or amd64 (the two are the same), that will be compatible with your ROG. Bazzite also gives you options depending on what GPU you have to install the correct drivers!)

As with Ventoy, make sure your drive doesn’t contain any important data as it will be overwritten. After you set up your drive, you can boot into it with your bios key and select the USB drive at the boot device. That, like VenToy, will allow you to play around in a demo version of the distribution.

3. Once you find a distribution you like, double click “install” and go through the installation steps. MAKE SURE YOUR DATA FROM WINDOWS IS BACKED UP (either on the cloud or a separate USB drive/an external ssd) AS IT WILL BE LOST AFTER INSTALLATION.

The installation steps are pretty intuitive, just select your region, keyboard layout, language, wifi network (if you have that), etc. If you come across any prompt relating to disk management and partitions, click the option that lets the distribution handle where everything goes and select overwrite everything given you don’t want to leave any Windows behind. MAKE SURE YOUR DATA FROM WINDOWS IS BACKED UP IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT

Continue with the installation, and once you’re finished, it will notify you to remove the USB drive and the device will restart. Boom, you now have linux installed.

4. Some distros have post-install steps you have to do as well, so you might have to do that.

For apps, you can either install using the terminal (it’s less scary and more magical the more I use it) using “sudo apt install (program name)” or “sudo dnf install (program name)” for Fedora.

Some apps are available as flatpak (using “flatpak install” - see that sudo is not required!), which in a nutshell, is a form of package that is universally compatible with any distro, all dependencies are bundled in with each package, and the apps are sandboxed. General rule of thumb is CLI apps, drivers, etc. using apt or dnf while desktop apps are fine to use flatpak. I like to use apt or dnf wherever I can as sometimes flatpaks have issues with communicating with each other due to the sandboxing, but that’s because I use a lot of programming and development specific apps. This probably won’t be much of an issue for you.

Many distros like Mint and Fedora offer a software installers that are GUI based, but I would reckon use the command line as the GUI software maangers are slow and is the same thing under the hood anyways.

I like the penguins!

I don’t have a dGPU to test that, sorry. One thing about the intel igpu though, I had to install a few drivers to get hardware acceleration to work with OBS

But what should it be called? “MacBook”? “MacBook SE”? “MacBookE”? “MacBook AirE” (airy!)? “MacBook Mini”?

I use codeberg as well as a self-hosted local forgejo for backups. On codeberg, lots of people use woodpecker-ci to automate building static pages but I just manually build with jekyll

I happen to have an Asus laptop with an intel igpu (one of those flippy 2-in-1), and Fedora Workstation works for me since I like the look of GNOME. Fedora also has a KDE version if you prefer that. Keep in mind that Fedora uses “dnf” and “.rpm” instead of “apt” and “.deb”. Lots of people also like to use Mint (which is based on debian like Pop_OS) but I haven’t tested that with my laptop.

I’ve been running the developer beta for about a month or so now, the updates have made the phone run cooler (good) and things have become more readable. Good that Apple is working on it, but there’s still a bunch of issues. In the clock app, when there’s the bubble in the swipe menu, the text and icons switch between yellow and orange and there’s also VERY small slivers of orange whenever you hover the bubble over the alarms and stopwatch icon that drive me crazy. The bubble effect is a bit overdone in my opinion and could be toned down a bit. The lockscreen swiping still has issues, as when you swipe down the lockscreen background doesn’t appear, but notifications are still adjusted to the colour of it so if you have a darker lock screen background and on a lighter/white web page and you swipe to see you notifications, it looks unreadable until you swipe all the way down where the lockscreen background reappears.

I use SearXNG, which is a “metasearch” engine that aggregates results from lots of different ones (you are able to choose whether you want to include google results, ddg results, etc.) and there’s also a bunch of options for searching images, videos, files, and more!

It can be self-hosted or you could always use a public instance (but then that means you have to trust whoever is hosting it with your data)

just installed it, and it works great :D

I’ve got LibreTranslate installed so don’t need another translator, but Mozhi seems pretty cool though :D

update: I’ve installed forgejo! Super easy once I figured out I had to create a new user. I’ve set up a second origin for my repos called “local”, since it will be a nice local backup for all my code.

How do I set up backups for Immich, Nextcloud, and Radicale? I see lots of different options, I can’t pick!

Should I get Gitea or Forgejo? Forgejo seems to be a more free/libre fork of Gitea, the latter of which is influenced by a for-profit company. Is Forgejo functionally equivalent to Gitea, and if not, what are the differences? If they are basically the same I would probably go with Forgejo over Gitea. Is Forgejo’s documentation and setup similar, better, or worse than Gitea?

that makes sense, not having all your eggs in one basket.

hence keepass :D

might set up syncthing too so I can sync my passwords p2p…