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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I’ve only spent a few hours on my wife’s MacBook Pro which was still running Catalina (now Fedora) back in the days, and I didn’t think Gnome and MacOs were so similar.

    To be honest I felt a bit lost on MacOs Catalina and felt like everything was difficult compared to Gnome.

    But I guess Gnome is taking a lot of inspiration from the MacOs aesthetic, and it’s okay with me because it looks great.

    I don’t have a lot of experience with other DE on Linux, but they lack the clean aesthetic of Gnome.





  • I would want to « force » my relatives to use Linux. My wife had an unsupported MacBook Pro from 2012, so I managed to convince her it would be safer to switch. Since then, she hasn’t used macOS, but she also hasn’t used Linux because she can use her work provided windows laptop 😅

    I also proposed to my mom to provide IT support remotely to her via Linux, but she prefers using windows and relying on an old friend who is forcing her to buy a lot of Microsoft products otherwise he refuses to help her.

    I hope I’ll at least be able to teach my kids that Linux ain’t scary 🙏



  • I’m also thinking a lot about the best way to move everything from one computer to another if one day I buy a new computer.

    I thought I had found a way with Clonezilla, but after trying to clone my Surface Go 1 to an old laptop I had, it didn’t work. Could be because I hadn’t removed the surface specific kernel. But now I don’t feel safe anymore.

    Some people are suggesting to copy my home folder which I did, but I’m not sure it would fit my needs.

    Basically, my files are taken care of with cloud storage (kDrive by the way), but I’d like to keep the way all my programs and extensions are setup.

    So I ain’t sure I was a big help😅

    I hope one day we’ll just have some program to prepare an archive to unpack for your next system to make the transition seamlessly. Or just putting the computer side by side and sending everything wirelessly.

    I feel like we need this with all the personalization we can have on Linux.





  • As you seem to know a lot about Clonezilla, I’m allowing myself to ask you something.

    Would Clonezilla work for doing a backup and reinstalling it on a completely different device?

    I’ve already used it to backup and restore on the same device. I also tried to install my Surface Go device backup on an old Acer Computer but it failed to boot afterwards. I’m not sure if it’s because of the surface specific kernel or because it doesn’t work from one computer to another.

    Would you know that?






  • If installing the surface kernel (kind of necessary for my Surface Go 1) and installing a few appimages didn’t look so difficult, I guess I would already be on Silverblue.

    I’m kind of the opposite of OP and just having nightmares about breaking my system 😅

    That’s why I’m doing clonezilla backup but I think the custom kernel would be a problem if I reinstall on another non-Surface computer. Maybe I should just go back to the normal kernel before doing a backup…




  • I guess a lot of it depends on the hardware you’re using.

    I now use a Surface Go 1 and it suits me really well.

    But getting it to boot on a usb drive was difficult and I would have given up if it was just to try Linux.

    Fortunately, I had already used Linux on many other devices and I knew that the reward was worth the struggle and that the difficulties were not related to Linux.