Hey, you forget about Gentoo Linux!

The real distro for newbies… (Provided the newbies are expert cs graduated and crazy nerds…)

All depends on what a beginner is… Not all beginners are tech illiterates or people who only want to use office.

Its like running a marathon: you do it for the journey, not for the medal at the end.

(Disclaimer: you do it for the medal. But you would do it anyway, even if there is no medal, because its the journey that makes it worthwhile)

Thanks for the fun read! You made my day.

And in a lifetime on linux I never noticed the Ctrl+y stuff.

I don’t see anything wrong here. Ram is supposed to be always as full as possible.

What is not needed by running programs should be full of disk pages cached. A system with lots of free ram is oversized or abnormal.

Also, today’s kernels require swap space. On disk is a must for a server, and maybe consider even zram.

Having swap will allow the kernel to organize it’s memory usage even better.

Don’t over think ram as that is a field in which you will be wrong and the kernel will be right 99%.

… Or you learn how to download, configure, build and deploy your kernel build…

Can be fun!

Keep on your “windows mindset”, won’t be very good on Linux i guess.

Maybe a fresh install could help if you made too much of a mess, who knows.

Still won’t fix your problems unless you find a way to address the issues. Maybe post them here so that we could help.

I think you are addressing the issues wrong.

Unsupported hardware is a reality in Linux, even if I didn’t find any in the last 10+ years, my needs are much more limited.

Controllers do work just fine, as well as Bluetooth, in my experience. Maybe share some issues and let’s see why.

Troubleshooting in Linux means understand why stuff don’t work as you expect, not copypasta 50 different solutions. There are 50 solutions because there are 100 ways to do stuff and different distros and versions out there. The “unified” experience is from the windows world, not the Linux world.

Nvidia is a known issue on Linux, prrprietary drivers kind of sucks and there are no good open ones, at least for newish nvidia cards. But again, my experience with nvidia has always been very good, with proprietary drivers.

Steam, I used it trough wine to run windows games on Linux, with good success (1 game, so YMMV), and I found it amazing that it was even possible to do. But never used controllers

there is a brdieg even for imessage… just saying…

Setup a matrix instance with a meta bridge and use that to slowly get rid of meta altogether. Works both for messenger and Instagram dms.

How do I follow loops.video contents from pixelfed?

See my note taking solution https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Anotes

Basically silverbullet on web, markor on android and syncthing to keep stuff updated. Yes syncthing is very well alive on android.

This is one of the most spot-on replies in this thread. Thanks! I think what you wrote is basically correct.

Only people who cares on how the basics is Linux stays compatible and fully free (as in freedom). But that’s fine, as far as systemd can be optional.

Sys’Tem’d ? /s

For any kind of remote GUI access you definitely need a desktop environment on the pi…

Very interesting! I didn’t known about ghidra.

Thanks! That’s hilarious…

Yes, i hope your view is correct. Indeed he can work for whatever company he likes, but i would see that as a conflict of interest of some kind. Remember also that when you sign up with big tech companies its common that you sell them the intellectual property of all your works, even outside work hours, specially if in the sale related field. Maybe it’s not his case, i have no idea.

I was concerned. Maybe i still am a bit. But the fact that systemd can always be forked (or ignored, as that is still possible today) its a comfortable thought.

I don’t even use sudo, so i will certainly not use run0. I have nothing against run0, it make even sense if the footprint is actually smaller than sudo. I was only reporting the article posted on telegram, as i have added a note to the original post, i did not share the view reported in the copied text, but i choose to report it verbatim for clarity.

That is true, it’s open source after all. But i am maybe too old to remember Microsoft strategies to embrace and extinguish… So i am a bit worried, like i was worried that Magisk would be crippled since the lead dev was hired by Google (and indeed, there have been very few progress on Magisk, with Kernel SU getting all the hype lately).

Thanks! Interesting read