It would be nice if you used Lemmy’s builtin “crosspost” feature: that way you can share across communities to reach everyone, but (some) client software we use won’t show it to us 7 times, because it knows it’s the same post.

Now I get this:

Sure, you can buy Windows 11 Pro and follow these steps, or just install any modern Linux distro and tick the box “encrypt disk” in the installer.

It provides a way to share “web” pages (text, images, links) that can be read by a simple minimal client. Without needing a web browser

it’s not the prompt that’s the issue

No it’s not, it’s the underlying philosophy/expectation that you want to be aware of and in control of every single package/library that’s installed on your system.

And that is not true for the vast majority of people who are getting CachyOS as a recommendation when they search for a “Linux for gaming”.

I think CachyOS is great, and I use it myself, in spite of the ArchLinux base, but I know the pain it brings and have consciously accepted that, and I have fallback plans: I make sure it is easy to re-install my system without losing my home dir or game files. I could even pull in all the important stuff in my home dir from my dotfiles repo.

But this is something you have to want.

On the other hand, I did have to compile xpadneo from source on my wife’s Mint pc in order for her to be able to use an Xbox controller, because there is no deb or PPA of it. So far for Ubuntu-based distros being “GUI only”. On Arch, you could install it from AUR through a GUI.

This is why I think we shouldn’t recommend any (mutable) ArchLinux distro to gamers who come fresh from Windows. Including CachyOS.

Not implying you are one, IDK your experience level, but these kinds of prompts being shown to the user about packaging are a core feature of ArchLinux. This can happen anytime you update an Arch-based system.

What an emotional rollercoaster of a blog: pride, sadness, nostalgia, anger and pride again.

Wow

PostmarketOS allows you to use upstream Linux

It’s copy-pasted, not linked, but this is essentially a crosspost of: https://lemmy.ml/post/36614892

There are some good answers there already

TLDR: If you’re using Element X or SchildiChat Next, update them outside the official F-Droid repo:

SchildiChat via SpiritCroc repo: https://s2.spiritcroc.de/fdroid/repo/

ElementX via Github: https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-android/releases/tag/v25.08.3

Maybe Signal drains battery when it can’t use Google Play Services for notifications and falls back to keeping a connection alive to Signal servers instead?

Tell your buddy you can play Helldivers with him!

Helldivers 1 and 2 are platinum and gold rated on ProtonDB with recent reports on both confirming they work well.

https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Helldivers

Random uneducated guess: Could it be some cache/shaders stuff? Depending on the game, it could take a while until the cache is warm and everything runs smoothly.

You’re both right: one doesn’t exclude the other.

• Yes we need to be more careful about privacy and who we trust with our data
• Yes we need to protest and take a stand against fascism

Had to DDG that, I could only think of (tofu plan)[https://opentofu.org/docs/cli/commands/plan/]

No idea why you’re being downvoted, it looks like an interesting concept:

https://garbagecollected.org/2017/10/24/the-carmack-plan/

French Guyana: “Am I a joke to you?”

Thanks for the review, very informative!

You are absolutely correct. I’m not sure if it’s different now but back when I bought my Fairphone 3 they were very clear about this. Website filled with stuff like “The most sustainable phone is the one you already have” and emphasizing that not buying a phone is much better than buying a Fairphone. They merely claim to do better than other phone manufacturers.

Also, IIRC, their goal is not so much to beat the sector, but to move the whole sector in the right direction. When they first got fairtrade gold into a Fairphone, they set up a company to sell fairtrade gold for electronics, so other manufacturers could decide to follow their example.

Yep, as for the last point: the problem was not so much the devs but data going through a Chinese server

If Mint works for you, just stick with it. No need to try a different distribution to compare. You’ll know when you need it.

I would only go to Fedora if you need it. For example newer drivers (kernel, mesa). Don’t go change the kernel and/or mesa on a distribution, probably better to switch at that point. Or if you need KDE or GNOME for some reason. Wayland is disabled in Mint by default, but can be enabled. It’s been over a year IIRC since they added experimental Wayland support so it may be fine by now.

Differences between Linux distributions are exaggerated.

Mint is a great choice, it is very stable, and it really holds your hand via the Software Center.

However, stable also means old: it does not support the latest hardware.

If you have hardware that released after (rough estimate) April 2024, consider something based on Fedora, such as Bazzite, instead. It comes with modern drivers and should support modern hardware much better.