Girl? Do you even Linux?

Wait till you realise the size of SSD sectors

That’s pretty much it afaik. Owner sold it, new owner didn’t know what to do with it, owner bought it back.

You can go for an Intel B580 and an AMD 7700 and have a decent gaming experience for well under 1000 $/€, even ignoring used parts. A Steam Deck is 420€.

It’s not like gaming is unavailable, but everything above low-end has a premium price tag at the moment. What people don’t seem to realise is that this low-end is still on paar with current gen consoles and games still look pretty good without spending 2k+ on a computer.

KDE Plasma offers a UI similar to Windows out of the box, I would say that’s a good start. Introduce them to the endless customisation options and they might start to dig it. Maybe take a distro aimed at gaming like Bazzite.

Other good options inlcude OpenSUSE or Linux Mint, the latter with another, but also similar feeling desktop.

Although caution is advised, this is a slippery slope to becoming a programmer.

Any intel on affected, high-profile software?

Afaik most people who seriously want to have a local LLM start of off a pre-trained one from the internet…?

How does your boot setup look? Reinstalling the bootloader or regenerating the boot image could help. Should be easy, not matter whether its GRUB2 or systemd-boot. Config is managed separately. Might want to have a look at that as well.

With Dracut it’s also very easy to generate and configure your boot image. Don’t know how it works with that Arch native tool.

To correct some oversimplifications in this thread, let me just summarise some facts:

Crypto is exactly as worthless as money.

Not all crypto is bad for the climate, see for example Etherium and Solana.

Crypto has legitimate uses, especially as a replacement for traditional bank transactions, which to remind everyone, are basically made up numbers and ‘trust me bro’-s. And I will explicitly include smart contracts and NFTs here, just to annoy people who don’t get them.

Not all crypto is private. In fact, it was designed to be the opposite, hence most crypto isn’t private at all.

While not all crypto is private, even less ways to spend or exchange crypto are private. A simple and also very private thing is cash.

I think the main complaint is that it seems like Canonical is trying take control of Linux packaging. Don’t they handle their stuff in a way that pretty much prevents third party ‘Snap Stores’? Like, their backend being closed source and their software only accepting their own signatures?

Imagine having a thing like that but with a touch screen. Like, a rectangular assistant you can always carry with you! Oh, wait…

Aren’t they installed by default on Mint? Definitely are on some distros, I think EndeavourOS and Garuda Linux for example

“That’s neat, I wonder whether I can configure it…”

Pointieststick, Itsfoss, GamingOnLinux, KDE Blogs

Linux basically cannot damage hardware in any way that Windows couldn’t. The hardware/firmware decides what interfaces it offers and what you can configure. If any hardware puts these roadblocks only in the driver or some UI, and (for whatever reason) only the Windows version, I guess you could.

Would be a really strange thing to do tho, since most just implement a generic driver that works everywhere and then at most an interface on top of that.

Package: Uses version of other package dev told it to

User: Complains

There is no such thing as a feature that doesn’t need documentation. Anyone who thinks so is asking everyone else not to use it

Connecting to any trustworthy VPN at the very least:

1. Encrypts your connection entirely and ensures you are connected to a party you trust
2. Limits snooping in your traffic to one party you trust

Which is objectively not a scam and a desirable thing to do. Not as desirable as hosting your own VPN, but 100% better than not having one, no matter what some guy on the internet says.

I mean, why support another API if you have already implemented one, right? Pretty sure there is a Flatpak Version of Proton, wo you can somehow bundle it as well

Bruh, you need a new name. “EU OS” is both terribly bland and super hard to pronounce. I guess they got screwed by EndeavourOS and e/OS already occupying EOS already, but you can do better. Let me try:

EurOS (self-explanatory) Ios (as a play on Io, the mythological ancestor of Europa and, in my humble opinion, a brilliant mocking of iOS) BoIS (Boring Independence System… Why yes, I do like Rust and Arch, how did you know?) PlutOS (Lowest layer, ruler of the underworld, get it? Get it? Okay, it mainly sounds cool.)