qweertz (they/she)

tech-savy geek and queer disaster
(I also hate capitalism and have a general interest in social sciences)

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  • My first was Ubuntu 14.04. and then 16.04. at school 💀. as early as 2015 iirc

    Though Blackbox or Kali might be a contender too (one of the distros my father had installed for fun)

    I had rly cool CS teachers, which also administered our infrastructure

    then we used Linux Mint in the “Linux” club run by one of said teachers

    For personal use, my first one was Manjaro in 2018 (I switched to it with a Windows dual boot, I got rid of Windows entirely in 2020 I think?). Somewhere I switched to Endeavour OS, tried out OpenSuse Tumbleweed on my laptop and eventually settled on Fedora bc of the Grub fiasco Arch had. Am using it to this day.
    Though it’s in the form of Nobara on my desktop; I also plan on switching to Bluefin eventually



  • On Fedora, Btrfs has been the default for years now iirc. It’s modern and rock solid too (as long as you avoid Raid 5/6) and has some features I can’t live without nowadays:

    • Copy-on-write (prevents file duplication)
    • Snapshots (your systems broke? most easy rollback you will ever experience is with Btrfs in combination with Timeshift)
    • on-the-fly compression (I’d recommend “–compression-force=zstd:3” as a mount option. Last I checked Fedora defaulted to using the lowest compression level, which is not the Btrfs default, making you lose some gains. FYI about the “force”: btrfs by default checks whether a file is compressible or not, this is redundant with zstd, which does the same thing but quite a bit faster AFAIK)

  • I (unfortunately) have to heavily recommend against using Nobara, especially if you have an Nvidia graphics card. It’s an amateur distribution in the original sense of the word and also lacks a large community, neither does it have a company behind it.

    This leads to a lack of proper QA and testing in general. It’s OK but I would not recommend it to anyone

    If you want to go with a “traditional” distro, go with Linux Mint, simply the most solid out there. I’d also recommend you check out Bluefin, it’s atomic (meaning that you are basically guaranteed to always have a working system, even after upgrades) and quite modern





  • Luckily I’ve always kinda seen (at least aspects of it) as an interactive book on steroids, which is why I always read everything lol
    But I rly regret save scumming in my first play through, took quite a bit of magic away as in “I’m bending the experience to my will and not enjoying it fully” which I’m trying to remedy now

    But ye, it is truly a masterpiece and a wonderful work of art. The experience is just 👌.
    The fact that we’ll never get a true successor might just be the most disco thing about it all…

    But I’m always save-scumming to get Kim on the dance floor no matter what

    “understandable, have a nice day”


  • Mostly “Disco Elysium” (translates from Latin to “I learn [the world of] Elysium” btw. OFC it’s disco AF too)

    And yes, it’s been 6 years since release and 4 years since “The Final Cut”… ((:

    I love this game SM. It’s such a welcome break from the neoliberal postmodernist slop, being a genuine piece of art. I love it’s materialist and politeconomic perspective on society; in general, the writing is just superb (there is no going back after it too, most games and art in general (including novels and films) might just seem mediocre afterwards)…
    The writers did their research about basically everything they wrote about (even racial “”“science”“”, OFC depicted negatively), with a focus on psychology, political economy, sociology and philosophy.

    Initially played it in 2021 (but save scummed a lot :/ ). Both me as a person, and my understanding of political economy and philosophy have grown quite a bit since then.
    I tried replaying it in 2023, but didn’t get very far (mostly due to mental health) Recently my interest in the game rekindled and I’m trying to play as a progressive social democratic superstar hobocop this time lol


    I’ve also been getting back into Counter Strike 2 the last few eeks, but it’s taken a major backseat to Disco Elysium (a large factor being: I want to make a deck of Anki flashcards to memorise util lineups of the current map rotation; but I just can’t summon the motivation for it, so it “blocks” me from playing)