If some has to know to unplug the internet, try to sign up, and force an error to bypass sign up…

It is forcing.

Microsoft sucks for this, outlook, “open source vscode”, and many other reasons.

That said my current workaround is to use sourcegraph.

I’m curious if “must use browser X” is a deal breaker for many people.

Would you quit a job for forcing a specific browser?

So my intuition and guesses from what I’ve heard is that Fedora might be the best for you.

Here are some links:

https://labs.fedoraproject.org/jam/ https://linuxmusicians.com/ https://archive.ph/hYxrO

Not sure if oudated:

https://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/fdocs/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/Musicians_Guide/index.html

https://fedoramagazine.org/configure-fedora-to-practise-and-compose-music/

If you want to use NixOS, the one I recommend elsewhere, I’m not sure what your experience will be whether good or bad. Probably more fiddling, but more flexible/stable in the long run.

Here is a matrix room if you are interested in asking more knowledgable people about that path:

https://app.element.io/#/room/#audio:nixos.org

Oh, well when you spoke of convenience I thought it was less likely you had self-hosting in mind ;)

I just want to make sure people to know how easy it is to avoid youtube with the further prooliferation of their enshittification.

Thanks! Do you know if an equialent of this exists for nitter?

Probably logseq or Obsidian, but… if you like plain text and really need customization you might go with what I use: emacs + org-roam

https://orgroam.com

Guides

text: https://jethrokuan.github.io/org-roam-guide/

video:

Start Using Org-roam Today | Install, Configure, and Use https://piped.video/watch?v=AyhPmypHDEw

Intuitively, without doing a detailed comparison, I agree that Guix and lisp would make things easier.

Network effects so far has been my reason for not trying Guix sooner along with the free software only… though free software only has also simulatenously pushed me towards it :)

Distrobox, is something, I don’t think I’d be too interested in. However I’m probably just annoyed at being forced to use unreproducible docker images all the time and biased against containers because of it.

I’ll have to give it a try!

NixOS, and hopefully soon SnowflakeOS which makes it more approachable for more casual users.

https://snowflakeos.org/

Another user mentioned Guix, which I’d like to try soon to compare to NixOS.

It’s hard to compete with how much there is in nixpkgs though… as much as I… a professional Haskell programmer… hate to acknowledge the realities of network effects.

You don’t install piped or individious, they are websites you simply navigate too:

https://piped.video

Or you even can install a firefox extension to redirect all youtube links automatically for you. Here is one that has minimal permissions required:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-redirect/