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I also think Gnome is much prettier than KDE but KDE is a fully working desktop environment that does not need extensions to get it to a working state so here I am.

(Although I would not call KDE ugly)

and thought Microsoft was fixing up their filesystem.

NTFS now comes with Copilot integrated, automatically placing your files where you will never find them again.

Did you never get a replacement by the mainboard manufacturer or AMD?

Speaking of whales, you might like https://games-on-whales.github.io/

It creates virtual displays on the fly and runs completely in the background. Requires a little bit of setup as well as Docker running but it’s pretty neat.

EXcept all mail programs suck to an unexpected degree, but that is literally my only complaint.

What’s wrong with Thunderbird/Betterbird?

It does work via Flatpak, you have to give Freetube the “D-Bus session bus” permission and then put the following in your external player settings (this launches the flatpak mpv):

External player

mpv

Custom External Player Executable:

flatpak-spawn

Custom External Player Arguments:

–host flatpak run io.mpv.Mpv <any mpv arguments you need>

syncing to the clown, none of that

What did that clown ever do to you?

You self host the full Deepseek R1? What’s your hardware?

Also, you might enjoy !localllama@sh.itjust.works

Up until recently, there was no HDR support at all on regular desktop Linux. Now Wayland has HDR support and Kodi is getting it soon.

CoreELEC on Odroid (and many other ARM boxes) is able to switch between HDR/SDR, different resolutions and passthrough all audio codecs. All of which I need for proper media playback in my home theater.

Neat, I might finally be able to use a proper Linux PC as HTPC instead of an Odroid running CoreELEC once HDR switching works.

Bazzite has a version for legacy Nvidia GPUs (including the 10xx series). I would start there.

SteamOS, even if it releases anytime soon, most likely will not support your GPU.

I switched from Fedora KDE to Kinoite a few months ago. Both were 100% stable for me as well.

The main reason I switched to Kinoite is because I’m a digital hoarder and after 5 years or so all my systems are completely trashed with various libraries, 12 different PHP/.NET versions, custom builds and a bazillion Python packages.

In the end it always causes issues like my builds stop working because I have some ancient version of a library stashed away somewhere.

Immutable distros are really easy to return to “factory defaults”. It keeps a list of all the packages that are installed on the system and everything else now goes in Toolboxes, Distroboxes or Docker containers. If I mess up my C++ environment (again) I can just delete that toolbox and start from scratch.

I still manage to bloat my home directory but that is much easier to clean up than looking through all system files.

We have the same “loop hole” around here.

People started doing protests by sun bathing in front of the rich folks gardens.

That’s a shame. Still very cool and much tidier than doing it directly but I thought you could actually pull windows:latest now and get going.

Wait, Docker and Podman can create Windows VMs?

I had winapps setup using QEMU quite a while ago but this seems like a much tidier setup.

But more users need Linux.

Intel is really struggling right now.

They haven’t been able to compete in the CPU market for quite a while and their GPUs are also not really taking off.

As a result, they have to let people go and outsource more and more of their manufacturing to TSMC, which only deepens the hole they have dug for themselves.

They are on their sixth consecutive quarterly net loss and things are only getting worse if they don’t have a new architecture (that can compete) ready soon.

Them shutting down their Linux support is just the result of years and years of mismanagement at Intel.

If your device supports it, you might want to encode to Opus instead. Opus produces much higher quality files at much smaller file sizes than MP3.

For example, Opus at 128kbps is considered transparent when compared to the source file. You can probably go down to 64-96kbps when its just for playback in your car.

https://wiki.xiph.org/Opus_Recommended_Settings

As for transcoding them, you might want to check out ffmpegfs: https://github.com/nschlia/ffmpegfs

It can create a “virtual” drive based on your source files and automatically transcodes them when you drag & drop files from there onto your device.

ollama, ComfyUI, vLLM, opensplat, and nerfstudio can exceed 24 GB VRAM fairly easily. Memory leaks in games are also sometimes an issue.

To this day I still wonder why they manage to do a reliable GPU reset on Windows but not on Linux.

With every timeout there’s a 90% chance that it takes the whole system with it on AMD.

Luckily I’m on Plasma and the timeouts have gotten really rare on a 7900 XTX. Most of the time my cause is exceeding the VRAM limit, which eventually causes a freeze, pretty much every time.