Blaster M

Linux is like that spider swatting meme where the spider gets squished, and then it explodes into a million smaller spiders that run every direction.

1: WINE and Proton 2: Wayland switchover 3: Linux kernel features and fixes

1: You’re not yet ready for Arch and Arch derivatives (CachyOS, EndeavorOS, etc.)

2: Fedora KDE

3: Fedora KDE

4: Fedora KDE

Linux Mint is good, but it, like Ubuntu and Debian, are “vintage” linuxes that are very behind on software versions. Things are moving very fast right now with a lot of back end linux stuff changing rapidly to support more people and programs coming off Windows. Fedora is the best “middle ground” in that it’s not Arch bleeding edge, but it is also not Debian stable “vintage”.

You do need to install RPM Fusion for Fedora to go from nvidia open source driver to nvidia proprietary driver, though.

KDE is a fully featured desktop that will give you familiarity with Windows-like layouts. Some other desktops, like GNOME, tend to reinvent the wheel and have very different desktop workflows. You’ll have to boot the live discs / sticks and poke around to understand what I mean.

To make a boot disc, use an 8GB+ usb stick and rufus - https://rufus.ie/

Fedora has been implementing an optional ML API. It’s up to you if you install it or not.

They have a ML API that can be added to the system. It’s up to you if you install it or not.

This tier list looking quite sus

I found on the 42->43 upgrade, Wine 32-bit was removed, and the upgrader errors out instead of fixing it. Wht I did to fix was immediately, manually (via dnf) uninstall wine*, then immediately run the upgrade again, and it fixed itself, finishing the upgrade with 64-bit Wine installed.

Same. Quest 2. Fedora 43. 5700X3D / 9070 XT. Steam Link can’t find AMD video decoder on the pc to run. ALVR has death wobble-like reprojection jitter. WiVrn works when Envision feels like it, which is never as it constantly errors out compiling due to some dependency I can’t find for the life of me.

I know compiling from source is preferred as “the linux way”, but I would like to spend more time actually using my pc than fixing it. There’s no reason the VR software needs to be recompiled just to change a setting. Maybe bake in the ability to change settings instead of hardcoding everything.

Wine would be super helpful if they can find way to make older (2019 and older) Quickbooks run reliably. Lots of small businesses locked into old platforms because the accountants or the people who do accounting themselves can’t learn how to use anything else, and the linux alternatives require a phd in linuxology to learn and don’t offer the easy business-in-a-box functionality.

Waydroid is neat, but poorly integrated in the desktop. It runs as a full screen app, and doesn’t task switch easily.

Please, Valve, make Steam a 64-bit native client! So few people use 32-bit systems that the few that do probably aren’t running Steam to save on memory.

Pipewire audio devices and webcam support needs to be smoother. I’ve never seen so much console shim hacks just to get a virtual webcam working.

I haven’t even begun to try my NXT Gladiator flight stick in linux… that might be a whole nother can of trouble to open.

10.42.0.0/16? How saturated is your network that you need a /16?

ReactOS is not Linux. It is a ground-up “We have Windows at home” OS.

Add YellowDog and Clear Linux to the valley of the lost

RX 7600, comes in 8gb and 16gb variants. GL getting anything that isn’t ancient for under $200

Marketing is everything. I bet if Fedora or Mint or shoot, even Arch spent even a sliver of what Zorin is on marketing, they’d get the downloads too.

My guess is a lot of people give Zorin a try, and find out it’s both Freemium and also kinda jank, and end up with somethign else later.

About time! Waiting for this feature for literal decades

Move TempleOS to a floating sky temple, and make where it is Portable Bay, where various portable linux ships are moored, named Knoppix (a galleon), Puppy Linux (a fishing boat), Slax (a little sailboat), and TinyCore (a rowboat or kayak)

TLDR: Swap is useful to minimize memory contention, put it on your fastest drive, and set vm.swappiness to 100 for ssd swap for optimal swap operation, or leave vm.swappiness alone or set it between 1-50 for spinny bois (lower is better for slow rando. reads)

The first Unifi Video NVR. It was a device with an Atom D525, running Debian 6, when Debian 6 was about to EOL. It went on the market for 6 months and then was pulled.

Arch users: “Well now I’m definitely not using KDE”

Sunset Coastline INTENSIFIES

Wait unti you have to upgrade Zorin to a new release. I still haven’t gotten mine to work. Stick with Mint or Bazzite if you want a Windows alternate