Sort of bad that we never tell newbies what to base their distro choice upon, but rather just tell them what we personally like.

Maybe the installer ease of use is an important factor, buy not the most. Nobody explains the biggest difference which is how up-to-date the stack is (conservative base vs. rolling base) and that the choice of the DE is even more important choice than the distro. How come that pre-installed NVIDIA drivers are selling point even when their version is behind?

I’m baffled on how many people recommend something like Nobara, just because they preinstall a ton stuff, while it’s just a hobby project with Discord server. Maybe they improved it now, but not so long ago it was very very bad at handling updates, so the system was super easy to install, but very difficult to keep in shape over time. Even if they fixed it now, this is NOT an established system that has proven over time that you can rely on it.

In case of LTT, the choice should really be immediately cut down to just Fedora or Arch with Cachy or Endeavour as an options for “easier” Arch and Plasma as the desktop.

Fingers crossed they will go even further and make it even more intrusive than win 11, I pray for AI all over that thing

Diagnose for ADHD

I also find LLMs decent for translating text between languages, though for serious use it still requires human review

How is that still a reason to brag about

Just in the right moment when windows got so reliable and safe /s

Yeah, a dream: dumb TV with awesome modern panel and range of connectivity ports like HDMI, DP, DP over USB-C, composite, scart

First, proper NVIDIA drivers and improved hardware support in general

Oh, so my sceptical, uneducated guesses about AI are mostly spot on.

My usual approach when trying Debian on a desktop or workstation: if I have to install a single package from testing or sid, fuck this and just use Arch or Fedora.

HL3 announcement before GTA VI release?

It boils down to D3D12 being slower on NVIDIA on Linux and it’s a known issue. There is some work being done on this by NVIDIA and VKD3D-Proton, but I wouldn’t hold my breath knowing how long things take to improve on NVIDIA side. If you get good deal on RDNA2 or newer, it works incredibly well today.

At least it’s not korn

Won’t work for me, just like anything immutable, because I rely on one DKMS driver for my motherboard PWM sensors. But the project itself is pretty cool

Don’t distrohop too much, at one point there won’t be much more to explore with other distros other than wallpapers and themes

No, not really. If it’s set up right, it pretty much just works. I use it on my work computer and never mess around with anything, just use it and sync packages every month or so.

Honestly a distro called Nobara was a huge let down for me compared to Arch. It was effortless to install and came out with cool tweaks, but in just 6 months of usage it randomly broke like 4 times, every time I was supposed to check their discord server to get info on what broke and how to fix it. From Plasma not loading and opening crash report window indefinitel, to bootloop with update screen, to experimental drivers being shipped causing hard GPU crashes. And this is recommended for newbies? I’d rather give preconfigured Arch (like CachyOS) to newbie than this.

Fedora’s almost rolling though

Yeah, I’m normally an Arch guy, but gave Fedora with KDE a shot when I bought Framework. It’s pretty sweet, does everything I want and never bothers me

Yes, but forget about VRR unless you want to flash a custom firmware and with that the adapter is finky as hell. I use one for 2 years now. It kinda works

Basically no modern TV has displayport except for few that come with USB-C