Yeah I’ve been recommending Arch based did for a while. Personally I’m on void and Alpine, but as a first distro things like Cachy and Endeavour are unrivalled.

Yeah if it’s just for Plex something like Endeavour OS would be pretty much painless.

Definitely easier than fighting a key.

How does this compare to auto111?

Yeah spotiflyer is great

Emacs is a rough experience for one.

A lot of ML stuff does not, e.g. Microsoft DeepSpeed.

Lots and lots of CLI programs as well.

I would recommend arkenfox over librewolf, that way you can use an up to date browser, with the same privacy and greater flexibility to enable features you may want (e.g. no letterbox etc).

Honestly, Switch to a basic Linux distro and use docker directly.

I ran TrueNAS for a while and it’s just too complex and janky. I dropped back to void (for ZFS) and have a directory of compose files for radar/sonar, jellyfish, mediawiki, Lemmy etc.

Sqlite and duckdb are great, I don’t know about shitty.

You don’t get the visual feedback but the query language, reliability and python interface are all top notch.

Except every scientist and analyst. Stats, data sci and ML is done in R and Python, be it astro, health data or genomics.

If someone has been taught stats in spreadsheet software, they have have been taught wrong, period.

Also, programming is a very strong term. we’re talking about stats in a scripting language, not software development in CPP.

Imagine an investment firm looking at a property market. They need data like price trends in the surrounding area.

Real estate API is expensive, scraping is free. By hiring an employee the can save money.

If you want something more Unix like and less PowerShell (but absolutely not POSIX), checkout Elvish.