Thanks, I’ll keep openSUSE Tumbleweed in mind. I think I’m going to try this after two weeks of Mint

Thank you all for the many replies!

I’ll summarize it as followed:

• Ubumtu: one does not use Ubuntu any more
• Linux Mint: always a good start
• Fedora: also always good and would be good for a Thinkpad
• Bazzite for gaming
• Gnome really is not for everyone

Since I already tried Fedora, I’m going with Linux Mint for the moment.

(In fact, the installation of Mint is running right now and I’m using the whole SSD, no windows boot manager partition will survive!!!)

Since Mint is Ubuntu-based: do you know if Mint will have the same AI crap in the OS?

AI backed into the OS? No thanks, that’s really a reason to NOT go for Ubuntu. Edit: corrected typo

Thank you very much for pointing that out. Highly appreciated. That’s exactly the VPN case for my setup. I’ll keep that in mind.

what made you decide to use Fedora and not Ubuntu. Or Linux Mint?

I’m not a big fan of Gnome on Fedora either. Everything is just so big and needs so much space. CachyOS is a tad to new for my taste for using it as a daily driver.

and sorry for the ragebait. I’m just a little bit frustrated and had to write it down

obviously not you ;-)

unfortunately, I’ve already watched the series. I was not aware that the story originated from a book (well, books). Is this a problem? Do the books have substantially more story than the serie?

OMW is just very easy to read (because Scalzi writes easily and funny) and it has a lot of action in space. However, not all books are equal good. I think the first one was the best.

hmm, interesting. I’ve only heard that Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is the only story where the movie is better than the book. Therefore, I’ve never considered to read it. Maybe I should give it a try nonetheless…

Heeyyy, I did not expect that to blow up like this! Thanks for all the recommendations.

Here is a summary of the mentioned books / series (in case someone is also searching for a new good book)

• Starship’s Mage series by Glynn Stewart
• Larry Niven’s Flatlander
• Red Rising saga by Pierce Brown’s
• The Expanse
• Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama
• The Bobbiverse Series
• Children of Time/Ruin/Memory/Strife - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars (other books from the same autor are Aurora and 2312)
• Peter F Hamilton: Nights Dawn Trilogy
• Ian M Banks: Culture Series
• The Void Trilogy
• Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
• Teixcalaan duology by Arkady Martine
• Gideon the ninth
• Becky Chambers’ Wayfarer
• Redshirts by John Scalzi
• The Mote in God’s Eye
• CJ Cherryh’s Foreigner series and Alliance-Union universe
• Neal Asher’s Agent Cormac series
• Nnendi Okorafor’s Binti
• Expeditionary Force by Craig Alanson
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The Interdependency Serie
• Foundation from Isaac Asimov
• The Inverted Frontier series by Linda Nagata
• Project Hail Mary
• Dan Moren’s Galactic Cold War
• Alan Dean Foster: The Damned Seies
• Little Fuzzy - Fuzzy Sapiens - Fuzzies and Other People
• The Man Who Never Missed - Matadora - The Machiavelli Interface
• The Ancillary serie

very very bad. I’m using an old PS5 (the thick one) with a CD drive. I do buy my games on the second hand market and I do share the CDs with friends.

If I can’t do that with the next gen PS, I will not buy it. as simple as that.

Thanks, I’ll give Immich a try.

Thank you for all your replies! I really appreciate it 😀 I’ll try Nextcloud (the AIO container) with OpenProject. Or Leantime.

I’ve seen that. But then I need to spin up a VM. Nextcloud provides this AIO docker container…

Thank you for the github list. I have not seen that.

Regarding Taskjuggler: I thin I understand the advantages. However, it seems a little bit over the top for planning some work in our voluntary non profit association.

I kind of like the idea of havin a Nextcloud instance. Thanks for the suggestion.