really? i thought one of the main benefits of gamescope was that it can be nested inside an existing DE?

bazzite is probably the better choice.

you can most likely get all of the same benefits from your existing install, though. just need the right configuration.

it’s 300TB

when you install a DE as part of system setup it’s usually preconfigured by the distro maintainers. otherwise you need to do that configuration yourself, which is more difficult.

cringe

of course but it doesn’t help the “this isn’t that hard” case.

yeah but that’s a step removed. if i’m helping someone set up a machine i will usually make the media beforehand, but they need to be present to set up their name and password.

idk if you’ve ever tried to guide people unfamiliar with computers through troubleshooting over the phone, but my experience is that the more explanations are given the more they despair, and the more choices are given the more confused they get.

reading the manual is sort of compulsory if you want to do stuff like changing DEs, and for most people (read: the 99% that don’t know what “operating system” means) the mere existence of a choice is enough to cause paralysis.

i really do like the new wave of “opinionated” distros like kalpa, cachy and aeon where the system takes care of most issues rather than the user having to deal with them. shows maturity. but this selector screen sort of runs contrary to that. either be opinionated or be fully free, imo.

i think that’s calamares, so any distro that uses it can technically do this. the reason most don’t is that you can just add more DE’s after install. i know endeavourOS and openSUSE do this, and i think fedora has something like this too?

but the main reason is to keep install size to a minimum. if you want your system to be installable without an internet connection you can’t just ship every DE known to man.

does it work at all on 5v?

fourth pin is an output i think.

https://glkinst.com/cables/cable_pics/4_Wire_PWM_Spec.pdf

if you bypass it you don’t get a signal from the rotation speed sensor and the fan should run at 100% given 12v.

easiest solution is probably one of those 12v inverters for cars but that seems overkill. 5v fans are most likely cheaper.

it’s quick, it’s easy and it’s free

i mean i haven’t signed anything…

we’re in web 3.0 now, apis and data access are a thing of the past. so scraping it is!

yeah this project has been on github for six years and seems to have been closed source before that. it’s a graphical automation tool.

like, everything can be used with ai. github itself has “ai agent” plastered everywhere. it’s just a buzzword. doesn’t mean it’s built specifically for ai.

could be one of those cases where the product predates ai but some c-level asked an engineer “could we use this for ai” and the engineer said “i mean, technically yes” and then marketing changed every single mention of the product

one of the funniest (and sadly accurate) things i’ve heard said about linux backwards-compatibility is that its most stable API is Win32. you can run really old windows software on wine because they support stuff even windows doesn’t anymore.

of course this is because the expectation is that you can just recompile old software to work on new systems, which is not really a thing on window.s

i like how everyone got hooked on the cgnat thing when i gave the actual solution in the main post. but yeah there’s always the option of not doing anything until i see issues.

i’ll worry about the nat traversal when i get my bouncer back up, but it will probably be less full-featured than pangolin. previously i just used a reverse ssh setup but that was a bit too rudimentary.