For real. Like I do understand and respect why AES countries make it difficult for anyone to just move and remain, because the imperial core would 100% utilize that to infiltrate, but damn I wish it was easier.

Basically, I work in academia, and it’s at least feasible for me to move to Vietnam through that. It’s not perfect, and still suffers from Vietnam not having very long visas, but I’d still take it if it comes to fruition

They’re definitely tough for long term residency! I have a narrow pathway that could work, so I’m thrilled. But I really wish moving countries (especially just leaving the US at all) was easier

Oh, what are some of the concerns with Manjaro?

Oh definitely for sure. And I objectively see that CachyOS is great. Will try it out eventually haha

Fascinating! Thanks for your thoughts!

I tried out Void for a bit back in the day, but bounced off of it because of the DE, so it felt arcane to me. Very admirable group though, so I respect their work.

Yeah the Nvidia stuff has been a really tough one in the grand scheme of things to manage. I’ve been an AMD person from the start, so it never crosses my mind, (and now I’m constantly looking at the Chinese competitor market for when they overtake AMD and Nvidia).

Niri is really fascinating! I have yet to experiment with it or the other tiling styles, but one of my friends uses Niri and loves it. I think I’m just so used to my normal workflow at this point.

Oh, that makes sense. I don’t have a SteamDeck, but that makes a lot of sense. I wouldn’t want to be tied to steam/valve, but the stability and interface makes a hell of a lot of sense.

I’ve been intrigued by CatchyOS, but it might be the contrarian in me that I side eye it because “that’s the popular OS at the moment” lol

Love seeing more openSUSE in the wild. Pairing it with Debian seems clever as well!

Woohoo! Love KDE Neon as well, and I was torn between KDE Neon and Kubuntu for my desktop, but landed on Kubuntu because I was less concerned about immediate updates to KDE.

Nice! I haven’t messed with Arch based distros much, only used EndeavorOS for a while back in 2021 for awhile.

I really appreciate it for a lot of things and think that the design is elegant.

Just a general life update thing: I’m at a bit of a crossroads in my career. I’m currently at an institution that is not great, but pays decently. In the future I have been wanting to apply for jobs in my field in Hanoi, or back to the UK. Move and settle.

But I have been leaning towards Vietnam overall. But a position is open, that basically aligns with NY skills very closely, back in Scotland. I’m obviously applying (but not expecting much). It just feels like a crossroads of "If I do this, it basically locks out my moving to Vietnam, which sucks. But it’d suck as well to lock out UK.

Anyway, just a lot to process. But the UK job probably won’t even pan out, so I shouldn’t worry too much anyway.

Wow, I wasn’t an active poster or commenter there, but the writing on the wall really made me decide to finally move to Lemmy.

Greetings comrades!

(photo is how I’ll feel when I’m arrested for Marxist-Leninist memes)