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The problem hasn’t been compatibility for a long time, it was developers intentionally blacklisting Linux in their anticheat. Turns out a lot of people hate their customers having freedom in their software

It’s one of the 3 things highlighted in red, I don’t know how to help you there. I’m not repeating a slur. Look up words you don’t understand; it’s really not hard to find.

I feel it’s a red flag that you don’t find the blatantly transphobic slur a “problematic statement”, let alone the belittlement of other project members and defense of “abusing” people, as he put it. Not to mention he’s been banned from other projects for violating their codes of conduct.

These screenshots don’t do justice to his aggressive behavior and mistreatment of other project maintainers, including his own team.

Thanks! I’ve saved this so I can check it out later. I’m interested in learning about how to use and package flatpaks

This is remedied for me by the clipboard history in the system tray in KDE. I can have a lot of things in my clipboard and access any one of them whenever I want

Is this not a thing in Windows? It’s such a wonderful convenience, and I swear I’ve always used it, but I guess I haven’t touched Windows in well over a decade at this point, so I can’t say I remember.

I’ve got a Raspberry Pi 4B 8GB, and I’ve never had a problem with speed, really. The only issues I have with speed are when I do things from outside my home network, which is a limitation from my ISP, not my hardware.

EDIT: Just checked with a quick dd and it seems my drive’s sequential write speed is about 250MB/s, far exceeding USB 2.0. It’s not a great SSD, so that’s a pretty expected value, tbh.

Someone more knowledgeable about the older gen Pis could probably help you a lot more than I could. I have a Pi 4b 8GB for my server, so that’s gonna be a bit more capable than what you’ve got, but I imagine you can probably still find lots to do with it! Setting up a basic headless server should be no problem at all.

I have an entire home server running on my pi; it’s just going to depend on what model you have and what you want to do with it. Personally, I run my pi from an SSD kept in a USB drive enclosure because microSD cards suck and I want my system to be responsive. I host websites and ssh into it all the time for a great number of random tasks. I have a custom Fedora install, but Raspberry Pi OS or whatever they switched the name to after Raspbian is probably fine for most people. It’s based on Debian, or at least is was many years ago when I last saw anything about it.

Honestly, my recommendation for new users who are into gaming is Bazzite. Just install everything through the software store and it just works. Well, everything that’s available as a flatpak at least. Steam comes preinstalled, as do all the drivers (among some other various gaming-oriented things like kernel optimizations and Lutris), so it’s basically just install and done. The software store, Bazaar, will find basically anything a normal user needs. The nice thing about atonic distros is that you generally don’t need to do anything through the command line,as installs are perfectly consistent across all computers (so no random things breaking in the background without someone else noticing and either filing a bug report for you in the beta, or fixing the issue outright). After over a decade of Linux use, I’ve never found an easier distro. I honestly have switched to it as my main distro because I love Fedora, and the atomic features are nice (and Bazzite is just a little nicer for my use case than Kinoite).

When I set someone up with Bazzite, I just tell them to install everything through the software store, and I rarely get questions other than “how do I install this software that isn’t available on Linux”, which I usually meet with a recommendation for an alternative, or if it’s really critical, I’ll have them install through Bottles or something. I always mention the “no Adobe or Autodesk” caveot before they install, so I never really get questions about that except for “well, what would you recommend I use instead?”

As to answer your questions directly:

1. It is very common, so you can find Bazzite specific answers,
2. As far as I’ve used it (which is a couple years now) things never break, so finding solutions that work in other distros doesn’t tend to apply for me (except for when I want to make custom scripts like when I bound a mouse button to hard mute and unmute my mic, though I just had to look up generic Pipewire stuff)
3. Everything installs as a flatpak, so selinux is essentially completely unnoticed. I’ve never had a single issue with selinux and I’m a power user. I’ve used Fedora-based distros for many years and only ever encountered selinux issues on my server, and that was for low-level processes that aren’t relevant to desktop use (for instance, setting up NUT to automatically power off all devices on my network during a power outage when the UPS battery is low)

Yep, it had native Linux versions, and is even available as a flatpak (though not through Flathub iirc)

I use Bazzite as my only desktop OS at the moment (I have multiple headless servers with either Fedora or Debian), and have been using Fedora atomic for awhile before that. I noticed no significant change in general purpose computing when switching from Fedora atomic (Kinoite) to Bazzite, other than all the non-free codecs and drivers I would have installed in Fedora already being present in Bazzite. If anything, that improved my experience. I don’t even game much, it’s just something I do occasionally, though I’ve been using Linux exclusively for over a decade now, so I can’t say I get frustrated enough fixing minor things that I’d really remember things that are easy for me to fix, but potentially difficult for someone new to fix. Honestly, the only time I’ve really had to fix stuff in my recollection is from bash scripts I wrote in other distros no longer working, and since it’s atomic, I chose to rewrite for the tools available instead of layering unnecessary packages. Certainly not something I’d imagine someone new doing.

As far as most software goes, you install it via Flatpak, so the experience should be identical across different distros.

That’s a completely fair point, I just do some really wacky stuff on my servers that doesn’t play well with immutable.

With rpm-ostree systems (Fedora and derivatives), you do. Well, technically you can apply them live, but it is highly inadvisable to do so, and sometimes you actually can’t at all

I use the terminal for updates too, I just use the store when I want to install new software, and that’s how I noticed. There was also a dead icon on my taskbar.

Yeah, I have the same experience. Barring sudden changes to included softwares (like changing Discover out for Bazaar), my Bazzite installation just works without any intervention, and major version updates are applied in regular updates.

I find that I have to adjust files that would be immutable quite often for servers. The immutability tends to get in the way of configuring some parts of the system, and having to reboot to apply updates results in downtime.

I’d agree with that take. I think that immutable distros can appeal to everyone, and after a decade of Linux use, I feel I’ve toned back how much I need to edit the finer details of my system. I still thoroughly customize my desktop environment, but small tweaks to the root filesystem are generally unnecessary for me. /etc isn’t immutable (at least not in Bazzite), and that’s where much of my customization happens, at least what’s outside of my home folder. I find myself writing plenty of bash scripts that I can just keep in ~/.local/bin/ instead of /usr/local/bin/. Beyond that, KDE has so much customization built in, that the only thing I’ve done before that required an overlay to change was the login screen background, which was a simple conf edit with a one-liner overlay command, and has been rock solid ever since.

I think the main difference is that immutable distros just require you to think differently about how you customize your system. You can do anything you want to it with overlays, but I find that I simply don’t need to do any of those things with a distro like Bazzite. It already has gaming-oriented kernel tweaks, including tweaks to the scheduler, so I’m getting what I would have done anyway, but done in a way that is tested and stable. Granted, I’m sure some of it depends on which immutable distro you use, but that’s true of mutable distros as well.

I’d like to make a counter point to this. I’m an enthusiast who hosts my own servers and has been using Linux for well over a decade exclusively. I personally love having Bazzite on my main desktop, as it always works as expected. Of course, I wouldn’t use immutable on my servers, but I think it’s perfectly fine for a desktop OS. I always have rpm-ostree overlays if/when I need to change something immutable, though I’ve found myself not really needing to do so. I get by with only making changes to my home folder.

Immutable distros just have a great user experience, and don’t ever break on their own. I personally recommend them to everyone for desktop use.

I don’t have one. In its place I have a meta key with a diamond design on the keycap. Why would I need a “Windows” key if I haven’t used Windows in over a decade?