Freelance/Consultant Web Dev, EVE Online Player, Linux/FOSS advocate.
I mean I haven’t noticed any real differences and the performance on both have been great. If you’re using CachyOS they’re in there by default so no need to install something like ProtonUP-QT to easily get the GE protons if you don’t want to.
same. I have over 300 games in my steam library that i’ve bought over the years and the vast majority of which I never launched. So now i’m going through them. combine that with finally getting retroarch/libretro all PROPERLY set up I’ve also got a shit ton of roms from various consoles to play also, games I couldn’t afford as a kid.
Like right now I’m FINALLY playing Ocarina of Time for the first time ever and it’s a blast, now I understand why people love it so much. Also started playing New Vegas and System Shock on the PC which I’ve owned for years and never played and both those are great too. New Vegas is REALLY fun.
absolute workhorse of a card, still have one on a very old Dell with CachyOS on it.
CachyOS is also a fantastic distro. I use the CachyOS kernel on my NixOS laptop. And the recent CachyOS Protons on steam are great. Also have some great Arch repos. It’s just a great distro that tries to improve just about everything and does it well.
it’s because with Archinstall it tells you what to do/setup as opposed to the user having to utilize something like the Arch Wiki to set it up. So it acts almost like any other distro install. It walks you through the process.
I would suggest when you decide to give Arch a go for the first time to start out with something like CachyOS to get your legs under you so you can easily understand it. That being said Arch is painfully easy to install now thanks to Archinstall but going the CachyOS route it’ll install the packages you need and then you can understand what you do and don’t need when it comes time to install regular Arch. Otherwise you might just install Arch and then wonder why some stuff doesn’t work because you didn’t install certain packages.
Well they’re clearly not taking it all that seriously as it should be an Opt-IN feature, not an Opt-Out. They’re banking on a majority non tech savvy userbase to not even bother disabling it. fine, whatever, that’s on the user.
But it’s just more Firefox bloat that I have zero desire to deal with. If I wanted bloat in my browser I’d go use Vivaldi.
you don’t even need AI for that and can do it on your phone. Piefeed for example asks you when initially setting up an account “Hey do you want to see stuff about Trump, Musk, etc? no? cool we won’t show you that” and that’s it. works great.
yeah +1 for Niri. I love it. in most cases I don’t even bother with workspaces anymore because of Niri, makes things easier and the vim nav is perfect. great documentation, it’s fast, and very easy to configure.
yeah CachyOS is my go to if I want to use Arch. great distro. If i’m not on NixOS then I’m on Cachy.
start with Mint, get your legs under you, after a couple weeks or so if you want to explore try something else. it’s as easy as that.
Thanks for posting this and I believe a lot of people think that when you’re online in China you’re CONSTANTLY monitored by someone assigned SPECIFICALLY to you or something.
There used to be like I guess a modern day old wives tale where if you’re playing an online game with someone from China and typed into in-game chat “Tianamen Square Massacre 1989” it would knock the person from China offline. I remember doing that a few years ago and the other guy, from China, took awhile to respond and when he did he simply said “that’s our history”.
It’s like you said, the vast majority will follow the rules and won’t use a VPN but others will just be like “ok, what are you going to do?” and do so. It’s like pirating stuff in the US. I’ve heard stories of people getting sued out the wazoo by movie studios for pirating and sharing but those stories are few and far between and generally the people doing it aren’t smart about it. I’ve been pirating content for decades and have never gotten a notice or email or letter about anything.
about 1 or 2 times a year, consistently, Windows for whatever reason would kill my wifi on my system. uninstalling and reinstalling drivers wouldn’t work, hard resetting wouldn’t work, nothing. Just randomly disabled my wifi and looking online the ONLY solution was a complete reinstall of the OS. I don’t know why it did this, but it was an annual thing for me to have to reinstall the OS just to get wifi working again.
I had enough. decided to try a live usb of Linux Mint and I liked it so I installed it on my system. after 2 weeks I switched to CachyOS and now i’m on NixOS.
it’s not though. I just tried it and you can’t highlight text and then scroll through fonts. you still need to know specifically what font you want or know all the fonts installed on your system. Unlike photoshop where you can highlight text and then scroll through the fonts you have installed which will change the highlighted text to whatever font on the fly. Gimp still to this day doesn’t do that.
if this improves how gimp handles fonts I’d use it.
now that is one VERY controversial and brave opinion. I admire you for it.
I use Vaultwarden hosted on my private server. It’s great, will never use another PW manager. and yes it’s cached locally so you’re good. on PC, at least via the bitwarden CLI, you do a one time login and that’s it. you’re logged in until you tell it to logout, logs you in automatically on restarts and what have you. plus it’s very easy to access on whatever pc or phone you want to use. for pc you can just add the bw extension and have your passwords where ever or just simply login to your vaultwarden page remotely. this has been a life saver for me a couple times when I needed a pw for something but I wasn’t on my machine and borrowing someone elses.
maybe I’m just old fashioned or just simply old but I don’t get the new trend of using shells. Isn’t the hole fun of using a compositor the customization? the configuration? opening up your config file in vim and just going to town on it?
to me it just looks like a neon mess of guis with an over dependence on the mouse which, to me at least, defeats the purpose of using a tiling compositor. It’s just faster for me to navigate using the keyboard and the terminal. If I’m tiling, I’m going to have a terminal open, so I configure on the fly via that…why would I need a panel and moving the mouse around to change things?
Again, if you like this sort of thing kudos to you but I don’t get it and I feel like it would slow me down.
I use NixOS myself and I love it, i’ll never use another distro again. plus with distrobox I don’t even need to use another distro, I already have all the major ones on my NixOS System.
If you do decide to go the Nix route keep in mind there’s really no right nor wrong way to have your system set up. it’s all personal preference. Some people will say flakes are the way to go, some people will say the opposite. Some people like having their system in modules, some don’t. Some like using the home-manager, some don’t. It’s all up to you. All I will suggest though is if you do try Nix set up a Git repo somewhere like on codeberg for it. Just makes things easier.
what’s that say about you?
that’s insulting. It’s one thing to try and be nice and send a genuine email to Dr. Pike thanking and acknowledging their outstanding contributions but to have your crappy LLM write the email?
Surprised Claude didn’t hallucinate the majority of this because it certainly hallucinates everything else on a daily basis. Boggles my mind how one LLM that used to be praised for coding assistance can turn into such garbage in the span of like a couple of months. You’re better off having your cat help you with coding than utilizing Claude or Claude Code at this point.