[bakoo]

Just finished installing it in a VMware Workstation VM:

* The installer lags unless you temporarily disable 3D acceleration until open-vm-tools are installed

* The Norwegian keyboard layout defaults to Dvorak, which I suspect isn't the most common one ;)

* The default installer resolution was a tiny 800x600. Click Activities and type Displays to get to the relevant settings.

Now for the more exciting stuff, like testing if Tailscale works out of the box.

[jyrkesh]

Good data for VM folks, but I really have accepted at this point that the VM experience is almost completely distinct from the bare metal experience.

I'm really looking for a dependable pseudo-desktop/server OS for the monolithic legacy box at home. In terms of immutable, NixOS is it right now, but tbh it's had enough random uptime issues as of late, I'm starting to doubt my decision. Though I still haven't narrowed it down to this machine as opposed to some network/routing/storage problem

[bogwog]

Have you tried Fedora Silverblue or Kinoite (the KDE version)? They also offer a fully immutable file system. The only hard part is adapting to life with an immutable filesystem, getting used to running things in containers/toolboxes, using flatpaks/appimage/snaps, etc.

I've been on it exclusively on my desktop and laptop for the past couple of months and have grown to like it a lot.

[nix23]

>dependable pseudo-desktop/server OS for the monolithic legacy box at home.

OpenVMS for x86_64 should come out for the community in May ;)

However in the meantime, try FreeBSD.

[b112]

The Norwegian keyboard layout defaults to Dvorak, which I suspect isn't the most common one

Sorry, our mistake. Several focus groups with Norwegians, left us assuming they thought in dvorak.

Will revert to qwerty.

[buu700]

Just to clarify, you were told that Dvorak was the dominant layout in Norway?

I'm curious because I (an American) have been using Dvorak for longer than I'd ever used qwerty, so I would find this pretty interesting.

[bakoo]

I suspect bbarnett is joking.

Dvorak being the default layout was a problem because it was completely hidden due to the low screen resolution.

[jacooper]

Why wouldn't it, its just Ubuntu

[saghm]

Probably for the same reasons that they encountered the issues above?