Maybe one of the Fedora Atomic distros would be up your alley? https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/

I don’t think NixOS meets the bill. You’d be learning and troubleshooting a whole new language just to setup your system and modify the core configuration.

How did you manage to convince them?

Neither of these are IDEs (nor is VSCode), but it’d be Zed and Neovim for me. Zed is fast and pleasant to use, but also will enshittify eventually. Debug support is in progress but not live. Neovim is fun and it’s nice to be more in control of what is going on, but I haven’t made the necessary progress to be productive in large projects with it yet. I was excited for Lapce but it fell short, had too many issues in a short time.

I think btrfs ticks all your boxes. I would suggest yabsnap for snapshots. Then if you want a backup off-disk use borg or btrfs has a way to transmit (sync) to a remote. Yabsnap has a command which will make a script to restore from backup, which you can review and run.

I have a Canon MX340 (maybe pixma?) that works with gutenprint. The ADF is a bit messed up but it otherwise works as intended. If you have a similar model, it will probably be supported.

I have DS4 working in Arch with Wine. As someone else mentioned, the hid-playstation kmod just worked out of the box. The key for some games to work properly was to add a SDL2 gamepad mapping.

Also see section 3.10 here which may be relevant: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamepad

What the hell is typical latency? To what?

Yeah qBittorrent does

Several do, specifically Radiance and Torrust-Tracker that I know of off-hand. There are definitely others.

A recent project of mine was a utility for creating v2/hybrid torrents, and I’d like to follow it up with a client and maybe tracker in the future.

I have a storage VPS and use Borg backup with Borgmatic. In my case, I have multiple systems in different repos on the remote. There are several providers, such as hetzner, borgbase, and rsync.net that offer borg storage, in the event you don’t want to manage the server yourself.

I believe you can set dolphin to be like this. I have it so I can either double click to go into a folder, or expand it for the tree view.

Both the T14s and X1 Carbon would be good options. I also have an x390 which I quite like.

I don’t know how steamos works, but if it’s arch-based, can you just do pacman -Syu to update?

kitty, nvim, fish, zed, mpv, btop, borg. Weird how all the gone ones have short names. Depending on the system, I would add tlp as well.

rin is pretty much the place for stuff like that

It is alive on their home tracker, BLU, with 4 seeds.

It sounds like you just need some good release groups to focus on. Ditch automation and sort out what exactly you want, then phase back in radarr.

For my desktop, I have two disks. One is root, one is home. They are single BTRFS filesystems with automated snapshots, compressions, and a few subvolumes. Works great.

For a laptop, similar but with only a single disk/partition and FDE. Also works well.

I went through and built a license, then read through it.

I don’t think most of the things contained would be legally enforceable. We barely even have traditional open licensing that works, much less one that tries to enforce an ethical framework. Instead of this, we should work toward wide-reaching law that protects people’s rights, something that has teeth. Asking people to please not enslave someone with your library will never work, they will do it anyway or just not use your library, as they already do with copyleft licenses.

Arch on desktop/laptop because I’m very comfortable with it, and I can set it up the way I like.

Debian on servers because it’s stable and nearly everything has a package available, or at least instructions for building.

Same as OP, but I’m not likely to change them out. I’ve tried a lot of distros over the years and this is what works best for me.