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Like Jeremy said, don't go for a rolling release (OpenSuse, Fedora and their derivatives).
Best choice for development is, imho, a distro like Debian or Ubuntu (or their derivatites) which have LTS releases.
Most derivatives are just based upon Debian or Ubuntu (which is Debian-based but with tons of changes/additions) with a different desktop environment.
So that is another choice to make.
I personaly prefer a distro with a Cinnamon desktop, simple and not in the way.
KDE is too graphical for me as is Gnome (this may not be the best term to describe it, maybe visualy intrusive is better).
As stated in an other thread about Linux I use LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition).
A stable Debian release with the Cinnamon desktop.
I leaves out all of the middle man (Ubuntu) stuff which is in the standard Linux Mint and goes straight to the base.
Before LM I used Fedora with Mate as desktop but that was not a very stable environment for me, certain applications (Eclipse comes to mind) didn't like the combo of Fedora with Mate and caused all kinds of UI problems.
I don't care about Wayland or X11 on my development machine as it is not relevant nor do I need a heavy AMD or NVidia graphics, I am not gaming on my development machine.
I use a dedicated computer for that.
To find a distro that is to your likings just download a few live images, make a bootable USB-stick and boot your computer with it and play around.
That's what I did and so I found out that Cinnamon is best for me but maybe not for someone else.
Support in case of trouble is never far away.
You can even most of the time fall back to the base distro (LMDE -> Debian, LM -> Ubuntu -> Debian)
And finally, don't go for a more advanced distro like Arch. It is a very good distro but absolutely not for beginners.
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Pick a distro for support/release. Bleeding edge: Fedora. Staid, conservative: Debian, Arch, etc. Ubuntu (seems influenced by your pals), mint and such are on top of Debian. Many others.
Then pick your desktop, usually easy to set up so that you pick it when logging in. My current set up allows Gnome/Gnome Wayland, Classic Gnome/Classic Gnome Wayland, Mate, XFCE and something else. Choose which ones during install.
Do yourself a favor, try the different distro's and desktops via VM's. I have tried most. I keep coming back to Debian (now on 12.5) and have another boot SSD running LMDE (Mint on Debian instead of Ubuntu) for backup when I break stuff.
Internet Law #1: Whichever one you chose, you were wrong. 
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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I'm happy with PopOS!.
It's based on Ubuntu, with some stuff stripped away, and designed to work well with Nvidia.
I switched from Ubuntu to PopOS! because Ubuntu Snaps pissed me off to no end. Particularly their refusal to allow users to stop automatic updates, which had me jumping through hoops and crippling my Ubuntu installation to achieve.
I vaguely remember I read that they eventually backed from that paternalistic policy but I will still try to avoid Ubuntu in my future endeavors. It just felt way too Microsoft-y to me.
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pushing updates all the time is EXACTLY what I want to avoid. Thank you for the head's up.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Yep.
In their mind it's safer to force-push updates of not only OS programs, but also *any* third parties whose software I installed at one point in the past.
I don't automatically trust every new version that comes out, and for many programs I don't even need the security fixes (which often come together with all kinds of regressions, new issues, and sometimes even worse security holes).
As a sophisticated user I want to decide what gets installed on my machine and when. But some people simply lack the ability to think critically beyond the (admittedly often justified for novice users) mantra of "keep everything updated at all times".
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I have a coworker who swears on ArchLinux, but is the OS alluded to in one of the replies below. This is supposed to give what you exactly need, no more and no less, i.e. no crapware/bloatware, etc, but of course steep learning curve and all that jazz.
Personally I use Debian as I am not as daring (and sometimes Ubuntu, as it has some favourable features like command line tab-completions preconfigured) . More important for me is the minimalistic i3 window manager that helps navigation between windows extremely smooth. I am playing with Qubes these days. It helps separate your activities into different Qubes for security (each Qube will have its own border colour). Clipboard transfer between these Qubes can be restricted, so you can relatively securely have your work and personal qubes on the same machine. I like it that i3 customized for Qubes is also there.
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For game dev. Ubuntu because its what large companies test their stuff on.
PopOS if you use Nvidia hands down nothing is more stable IMO. And install Rider, Clion etc with Snap.
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Yes, seriously, Colossal Cave is now a 3D adventure[^]. Part of me wants to hate this but another part is saying, go on buy it.
What next? The Hobbit in 3D? (Still one of my all time favourite games).
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Ah yes, Roberta Williams of the Sierra Online games of ancient 80's and 90's lore. I bought the new version of Steam and like it, but I don't have a VR setup to play the 3D version. I'm sure it would be cool to play.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Almost want to buy a game machine to play...almost!
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The trailer only looks vaguely how I saw it when I played in the 1980s. 
I can't remember where I heard it, but there's a saying I remember from years ago which applies here...
"You get the best pictures on radio" (or text!).
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I got lost when I went UP when I was in a maze of twisting little passages, all alike. Or was that twisty, all alike, little passages? In any case, I never found my way out, so I am not yet ready for another cave tour.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Pete, check out this DOS relic. 
Open sourced here[^]
/ravi
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Oh wow, that's much more like it.
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I'm pretty sure I brought this up a few months ago, but nothing really came out of it.
I'm subscribed to the BBC's news RSS feed. Old school. It's at https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml
I use that feed with Thunderbird.
Since a few months ago, every time they "re-publish" an article to make corrections - no matter how minor...it's my understanding that they re-publish it with a different internal ID, so even though it has the same title (and publication timestamp), because the ID is not re-used, republished items are essentially duplicated in the article list. And sometimes triplicated, and quadruplated, and [N+1]plated and so-on.
Right now I'm looking at a screenful of titles, and the majority is repeated 2, 3, 4 or even more times. It's annoying, and inflates the number of unread items by hundreds, in a single day.
I've settled on Thunderbird as my RSS reader for years, and it's only within the last few months that the BBC link - and only this one - has started showing this. I've even contacted what I think is probably the most technical people at the BBC over the matter, and they didn't even acknowledge receiving anything.
Can someone with Thunderbird try subscribing to that feed for a few days, and report back whether they're seeing the same thing? Or someone with a different reader confirm it's okay with theirs?
I'm not bringing this up to solicit suggestions for alternative readers. I might be willing to switch readers if I knew for sure the problem didn't manifest itself. But really, and please don't take this the wrong way, I honestly don't want to hear about everybody's favorite RSS reader if you don't know whether the same problem is there or not.
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My RSS reader (I wrote this long ago using Angular !!  ) and publicly available shows the items one time.
try it out at: FreedReadR[^]
I added your RSS link to the top edit box (RSS link) and clicked the button [Load (from textbox)] and I saw titles only one time.
Does that help at all?
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You have to let it re-fetch. If an article is updated 3 days after the original publication, that's when it starts to show up as a duplicate.
I do appreciate the feedback.
[Edit]
Given the way your implementation (probably) works, I don't think you'll ever encounter what I'm describing.
You have to have previous results stored locally, and then a re-fetch should try to merge the new stuff with what it already had.
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If it's that important to you, you can spin up a Node.js application as a proxy to actually consume the RSS feeds with something like rss-parser and then re-export them to you however you want via rss for your client to get them.
You'd need a way to serialize them, given the fact you're parsing RSS into JSON, then NoSQL is the perfect choice as you can practically serialize the JSON directly.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: If it's that important to you,
...not to the extent that I want to start writing my own middleware to fix another program's failures.
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Years ago, a couple of Norwegian newspapers claimed to be open to readers' comments without any censorship. But whenever someone posted a comment they didn't like, they made a small 'edit' of the article, giving it a new article number, a new URL ... and a new, initially empty, list of user comments. If you read the original URL, while still available in your history list, you would see it with the first user comments, up to and including the one that offended the editors. If you selected the same article from the teasers on the front page, you would see only the new comments, submitted after the offending one. There was no way to access the original version (and comments) unless you happened to have saved the article number/URL. The free text search function only returned the most recent version, with no back link to the older versions.
In those days, I did write a few comments, and I certainly didn't always agree with the editors. So I got used to articles being 'edited' after I added my comment. Therefore, I got several chances to save a copy of the article before I submitted my comment, so that I could compare it to the subsequent 'edited' version with a new comment chain. In every case I checked, there was no edit at all. For the one newspaper - one that I even subscribed to the paper edition - I made a complaint to the newspaper. They were so rude that they returned to me the URL of the old, original article, with the early comments up to mine, pointing: Look there, your comment isthere - we are not doing any censorship! But anyone who opened the article from the front page would find it without my comment.
That pi**ed me off so much that I canceled my subscription to the paper edition and stopped reading the web edition.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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I always thought a Thunderbird was some sort of American Indian symbol for a diety. I have access to RSS BBC however and the list of current 49 headliners (beginning with the word "Tributes" and ending with "sweeps in" show exactly zero duplicates.
I'll keep an eye on the feed as you request; given that the weekend is upon us ... and let you know how things are going ... shall we say ... next week.
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