What desktop environment are you using?

What’s mandos? I don’t find anything useful when searching for it.

Most recent episode is 17th Jan. Did they stop?

Substack is Geocities for the Tumblr generation.

It was a while ago that I compared them so this may have changed, but one of the main differences that I saw was that borg had to backup over ssh, while restic had a storage backend for many different storage methods and APIs.

apparently something in Firefox broke and disabled all my plugins because they can’t be verified

This sounds like the root certificate expiry that just happened. You need to update Firefox to get the updated root certificate.

I’ve been using it for just over 6 months and it’s perfectly fine as a desktop distribution. I’m enjoying that it’s based on Debian Sid and I get a more up to date GNOME release than I would have with Ubuntu or Debian. The update process is a bit slow but you can just leave it downloading in the background and then reboot when it’s ready. If you know that you want an immutable desktop distro based on Debian then I would definitely recommend it.

If you’re using it for development then it’s a bit more complicated as you’ll need to get used to working in a distrobox container and understanding when it can and can’t access the host system or communicate with programs running on the host system.

If you have the time and basic understanding to be able to switch your dev workflow to run inside a container, or if your dev environment never needs to interact with the base system that you’re running it on, then it’s perfectly usable for dev work - just a bit of a learning curve.

For the most part, large open source projects are worked on by adults not children.