Tetsuo

Honestly, I would prefer if a video projector wasn’t tossed as garbage if you can just buy a cheap adapter and put it in a box next to the podium.

We have enough electronic waste as it is!

Not that it matters much but isn’t there cheap adapters to/from VGA?

I think it wasn’t for APT but I once worked for a business with a lot of RHEL, the script that was updating hundreds of servers was using the user wrapper instead of the binaries. A warning was displayed in the script to warn not to use the wrapper for scripts.

I warned my team leader of the issue and was completely ignored and was said that it was an issue for the team that made the script in the first place.

I gave up.

A few weeks later, the poorly designed script botched a major update on hundred of servers because the wrapper had a tiny change and the update script didn’t handle it well.

It’s insane to me how much money a business can waste for stupid shit like that. The devs warned us not to use their wrapper to script on, the linux team did it anyway, my warning was ignored, many hours of engineers work was wasted fixing the chaos that ensued.

I tried doing manually a gamescope command line arguments for Overwatch and it didn’t work.

I activated the necessary flags and took close attention to the resolution in game and of my display, made sur the game had HDR enabled etc and it never worked.

So if I can’t get HDR to work even with gamescope on a stable game like OW…

But your tip to setup gamescope for the session is interesting. I might try that out sometimes.

But honestly HDR is quite anecdotal for me. It’s not that visible. I much prefer to focus on optimizing FPS and input delay than tweaking for HDR.

I never tried Garuda so I can’t help with the comparison.

Is Garuda debian based ?

Cachyos is the first time I touched an Arch based distro and I was very impressed by how stable and “fresh” it feels. I guess Arch deserves its good reputation.

I have been updating my cachyos like two times each week which is a quite high update rate and the only problem I had was this :

Steam stored his cache by default on my home partition and filled the disk completely. I then updated with pacman without noticing I had no space left and the process failed. The system wouldn’t boot which was scary. I took a bit of time to think about it and remembered that I can revert the system with BTRFS snapshot. So I checked the cachyos wiki on how to revert and in 2mn i was back to the exact state before my failed update. It broke once because of Steam and the system was very easy to fix.

A beginners could learn to use snapshots easily in the GUI for it and I think would succeed in restoring the system. Would the same be true if a Windows didn’t boot ? Honestly I don’t think so.

I even was able to setup in the GUI for how many snapshots I want to keep so i constantly have around 30 snaps ready to recover my system up to a month and a half ago.

Pros :

• Reliable, I have nothing to fix and no unusual behaviors or settings on Cachyos. If I set something up the setting won’t change on its own.
• Private, no telemetry. No NVIDIA service sending all the apps I launch to HQ.
• No forced software. I can choose to remove most components I dont like and replace them.
• Gaming works as well or better than Windows once its setup.
• I can revert to a previous image of my system right at boot. Very reassuring to know it’s easy to revert to a previous state/version of my system.
• More lightweight system, I use way less RAM on idle than on Windows. That’s more RAM to use for actual useful stuff like gaming.
• it’s free. Doesn’t require an account to use.
• it’s secure. Much less risk running a linux system than windows. You are a harder target and also a less attractive one for hackers.

Cons :

• I can’t play games with kernel level anticheats.
• I sometimes have to spend 10mn when installing a new game to set it up on proton.
• You are still expected by most people to handle their proprietary files coming from Microslop. You have to be able to sign PDF files and return office files.
• HDR support is not really good for games and it often is difficult to have working.

Overall, having switched 4 months ago, I have no regrets and honestly it was a great upgrade for me. Beside the money lost on a game like BF6 I’m very happy to be on linux.

I was really annoyed by my W10 setup anyway. I constantly had settings that would change on their own. I often had bad days where you feel the system struggling even though nothing changed. It was very frustrating. Linux solved that. I dont have bad days on my system. It runs exactly as I left it when it was shutdown. And this expected stability is very comfortable for users.

Highly recommend the switch to cachyos for all Windows gamers. And even for non-gamers it’s a very functional and reliable operating system.

While cachyos doesn’t have immutability, it has BTRFS snapshotting fully working so it’s very easy to revert stuff.

But both are definitely good options.

I’m more on the side of “never stop an adversary from making a mistake”.

If they give their dirty money but have no control or power over you, take it and use it for your own agenda.

But if the PR goes through that means it’s in active development !

I think he should do a PR to change back the readme

Meh it’s not like Linux is one static block of immutable code.

It’s modular.

So it’s not like all linux distros will evolve the same way. And OP points it out that some distros are affected by age verification laws while others are not at all.

So I think it makes no sense to panic and thinking all linux will converge to some Windows ersatz…

I think the fact there is so many distros out there is our strength but also what prevents people from discovering the right linux for them.

So this will be the year of linux discovery imo and all linux user should help out new users finding their way to a linux that fit them for their journey to freedom.

I think you choose a poor example.

When I say long name I wasn’t implying meaningless ones.

Most business with a lot of machines uses long names where everything as a logical meaning.

[Site][service][Rack][User selected 8 chars name]

I mean you dont have to use such obtuse names. But if you have a lot of servers you have to have a long name or you will risk exhausting the available names.

I’m just saying long names dont have to be obtuse or confusing. You can use user selected names as a suffix to a more functional initial prefix. So that people who work this area of the infrastructure can have clear names but at the same time some other sys admin that never worked on it can still know where and who is responsible of the server.

My initial point is just that the namespace and length of hostnames mostly depends on what you want to do. For a homelab you dont need wide namespace. But for a large business using short names wouldn’t be practical either.

In a business with tens of thousands of servers, it makes sense to have long complicated names.

For a homelab ? Not really.

I did the switch to full time linux gaming a few weeks ago.

Initially I was on PoP OS but I wasn’t happy with it. I reinstalled everything on Cachyos and it has been very good so far.

Here are the main “hurdles” that I think I should not have encountered in my “liberation” :

• I activated FDE in cachyos but the LUKS decryption prompt was never on my keyboard layout so I could never decrypt with the original key. I should not have to handle keyboard layout issues when decrypting FDE. This would be fatal to any beginner.
• I still think the tinkering with proton is too involved. Some command line arguments should be activated automatically depending on your setup. Players should be able to anonymously opt-in to sharing settings for all the game they start.
• Mouse sensitivity is wonky on many linux distros for gaming. Mouse acceleration should not be a default if you target gamers. I dont care if original Arch has this default. 99% of FPS players avoid it.

That being said, leaving Windows makes me incredibly happy and I’m very thankful for the great opportunity the open source community has given me through great free software.

Nowadays everyone accepted the name “Discord” but I think it’s a pretty poor choice of branding too.

A communication app called Discord is pretty weird too.

A stoat is a pretty cool animal.

I think without prior knowledge of any voice chat Discord would probably rate worse in perception than Stoat.

I think Bazzite is the “easiest”. But I think it would be very difficult to tinker for someone not used to Linux. It’s the plug and play option. For me the fact that bazzite tries to be immutable is a very good plus for stability on the long run. And somehow fits well for gaming on Linux. The drawback is that these immutable distro are hard to tinker with if you dont have experience with immutable package managers and so on.

CachyOS has maybe a more traditional structure but should offer good performance too.

There is also Nobara and Pop OS.

I’m on PoPOS but it’s too recent for me to give feedback for gaming. But it should work well too.

I suppose to some extent that it depends on how aggressive you clean up after system updates.

It seems like on both Silverblue and NixOS there is stuff you can do to prune and cleanup unnecessary stuff.

By spreading I meant thar if there is an underlying manufacturing defect it would be really difficult to predict where and when it would happen on memory. And if there is already a fault detected more might come later.

But I’m glad you documented how to do these types of workaround. It might be helpful with memory prices skyrocketing…

Very cool to be able to do that even though I’m not sure it’s worth it to run a RAM module that has a known defect.

If the fault spreads there will be corruption again.

I would say it doesn’t exactly say that AI is bad moreso that shoving it forcefully in people’s throat is not the way to do it.

If all the BS AI of Windows would be exclusively opt-in I would be “” fine"" with it.

Then there is also the “telemetry” and the random updates, or settings changing on their own and…

Anybody got the feeling some games may be negatively affected by a PiHole ?

It’d not really the reason I stopped using it but I suspected that some games didn’t like it when PiHole was up…

Anyway this post motivated me to reinstall my RasPi.