least they can do

no, no, no

least would be 0. Capitalists can always do 0.

tldr:

flatpak - good

linux people arguing over other ways to package and distribute - bad

uuuuh just bash with some simple bashrc and inputrc settings

don’t drink and root

Artix is patching many packages anyway, so one more package patched to remove age stuff or add a dummy interface that always returns 18+ won’t be too difficult.

Then you probably meant “former” not “formal”.

“formal” means something like wearing a suit and signing a contract.

I’m pretty sure you can just right click the firefox icon and it will have a profile manager menu entry.

Maybe it is just an arch linux thing, but it is defined in the .desktop file on my system and in the installed package.

it is developed by nerds not product designers that want to maximize handholding

skill issue

Which is kind of the point of the video.

They explicitly said: they could get expert opinion and support.

But when you use a search engine as an everage joe to find what distro to install, popOS comes up a lot on those shiticles sites.

manjaro is no good. It breaks more often than arch and then you still need the whole arch knowledge to fix it.

EndevourOS or CachyOS are somewhat better options.

Any linux distro is significantly more lightweight than windows. But I’d say that there is not much difference between arch and for example the most bloated distro: ubuntu.

If you are a coder, the CLI will be easy. Most of the time the use of CLI is comparable to a single line in your code where you call a function with some parameters.

But arch is difficult for a beginner. (I wrote some more about my experience with it here: https://lemy.lol/post/61578059/24360161 )

If you have time, interest and discipline to read the documentation and learn a lot, then arch is great.

If you just want to use a Linux OS, install Mint and just use it. It’s no big deal, just a normal OS. It’s very intuitive, low friction and no microslop bloat.

here is an interesting read: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003687016302459

why you don’t need to be concerned with quantum computers hacking your encryption just yet:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjABILVAz5Y

this dude twitch and yt streams from linux and everything you listed seems to work for him

This doesn’t really prove it.

Running ths game multiple times will do the same, because the pages will stay cached. Operating systems are smart with RAM. Things that were recently used stay in RAM, even though the OS reports it being “free”. Read this for some more info: https://www.linuxatemyram.com/

And preload might swallow the filepath arg without doing anything with it.

Instead you could share the output of

preload --help
preload --version
sudo preload --verbose
# followed by running a game

What you describe can actually be done with another tool https://hoytech.com/vmtouch but not with preload.

Are we talking about this preload?

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/man8/preload.8.html

Cause if so, it doesn’t actually let you manually add specific files to RAM. It’s an adaptive daemon that automatically learns which files your applications use frequently over time and prefetches them. So when you launch it and then play games, it’s observing patterns and making predictions.

This also explains why there’s no “remove files” command. The files preload loads into RAM aren’t locked there; they’re in the page cache, which the kernel manages freely. If something else needs that memory, the kernel will evict those cached files automatically. Killing preload via htop should not really do anything, except it not doing it’s thing anymore.

read https://develop.kde.org/docs/plasma/theme/quickstart/

You can use existing themes for reference, just download the source and look at it. https://github.com/topics/kde-plasma-theme

There is also nanoKVM which is open source and quite a bit cheaper.

There is also nanoKVM which is open source and quite a bit cheaper. Should do the job just as well.