If you can wait just a little longer I would seriously consider the Framework 12 that is going for pre-order next month and being shipped “mid-2025”.
Of course, this isn’t an option if you need a laptop right now. In that case the current Framework 13 offerings are the best you can get but of course are not as affordable and possibly a bit overkill for a simple browsing machine.
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Keyoxide proof: $argon2id$v=19$m=64,t=512,p=2$/Bxo7QiXHH/MThwxZ1irnA$S8IDyQY5+tRZjnqvqnYcGQ
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SunRed@discuss.tchncs.deto Linux@lemmy.ml•Haven't booted this machine for a month or two... look at these updates!101·5 months agoYes, I am amazed that quite a few people in this thread are saying they ‘had to completely reinstall the os’ and that it broke everything after not much time. As long as one doesn’t rely on the AUR for system critical packages or much in generel, it is incredibly hard to break an Arch system (Manjaro and other Arch-based distros don’t count). This is due in part to Arch being quite reproducible but it also having very good maintainership.
It doesn’t hurt to apply new package configs by going throughpacdiff
once in a while though.Edit: Typo
SunRed@discuss.tchncs.deto Linux@lemmy.ml•What's the most obscure distro you can think of7·5 months agoI see no one has mentioned Bedrock Linux yet. Not sure though how others would rate its ‘obscurity’ though. It’s definitely a standout among distros.
KDE for its Wayland performance and features and occasionally I switch to hyprland if I need a more focused work environment.
In the past I used Cinnamon but it became ever more buggier on Arch and due to lack of Wayland support still it was a dead end anyway.
Regarding your question, you can just clone the package’s git URL or download the
PKGBUILD
file directly, make your edit and runmakepkg
ormakepkg -sirc
as the wiki suggests to produce the package and install it.
You can also install the package tar withpacman -U <file>
.Relevant Arch wiki pages:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_build_system
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_RepositoryBut looking at the comments it seems you are using an AUR helper that has a cache you might want to clear as the git repo for that package has an unstaged change for the license file for some reason (or you reset that file so git doesn’t complain when pulling).
Edit: I see you figured it out already.
Well, Minetest also can hardly be compared to Minecraft as Minetest is only an engine or platform for voxel based games like Minecraft. What you rather have to critique is something like Mineclonia that is apparently a more active fork of the MineClone2/VoxeLibre project that try to perfectly replicate Minecraft (without using Minecraft assets that is) on Minetest. Allegedly it’s pretty good now but I haven’t tried so myself. As already mentioned, the community for Minetest as a whole is pretty small and that additionally split among so many different games building on that. But it’s good that viable alternatives exist in case Microsoft ever considers shutting down the Java edition.
Edit: Typo
It’s also good to mention that it’s an open source game and they do indeed plan to release it on Steam later.
Fourthing, my absolute favourite game.
SunRed@discuss.tchncs.deto Steam@lemmy.ml•God of War Ragnarok will require a PSN account17·11 months agoThis is arguably less about us few privileged having to create an account on a shitty platform, just like with ea and ubisoft, but more about people from 175 countries not even being able to buy the game just because Sony doesn’t offer their services there even though it’s a singleplayer game distributed through Steam like many of their past games.
SunRed@discuss.tchncs.deto Linux@lemmy.ml•NVIDIA switching to open kernel modules by default in future driver update for Turing+17·1 year agoYou have to keep in mind that this is only about the kernel module (and only for Turing GPUs and newer). The userspace components stay proprietary. You are still not going to use the mesa graphics stack using an Nvidia gpu anytime soon.
I guess it’s good to mention alternatives but imo Kyoo seems to be overkill for a homelab use case as its design goal appears to be to scale much better and serve a high user base and huge library. Just looking at the dependencies or
compose.yml
should make this apparent.
Consequently the setup is much more complex and heavy to run compared to Jellyfin e.g.
SunRed@discuss.tchncs.deto Linux@lemmy.ml•Linux users with uncommon or unusual setups: tell us about it3·1 year agoI could mention that my bare metal server runs a rather unusual setup in that I use Arch Linux on ZFS headless as a kvm hypervisor and lxc containerisation host. I maybe want to migrate it to something else like NixOS at some point since I use nix on Arch on my desktop already but since I know Arch the most of any Linux distro I just went with it and it’s running rock solid for quite a few years already.
Most shells usually default to a truncated version of the hostname that only uses the hostname up to the first dot. Of course one can change that by setting the
PS1
env var and using (in case of bash)\H
instead of\h
.
SunRed@discuss.tchncs.deto Linux@lemmy.ml•Reminder to clear your ~/.cache folder every now and then1·1 year agoHonestly the reason I’ve put yay/paru’s build directory into ram/tmpfs long ago. It’s almost never worth it keeping all those packages checked out. You also do your ssd a favour by not hammering it with compile workloads.
SunRed@discuss.tchncs.deto Linux@lemmy.ml•Reminder to clear your ~/.cache folder every now and then7·1 year agodu -sh ~/.cache/* | sort -h
Basically servers and Pis.
If you wanted to host your own site and services, a Linux vps was (and still is) the only choice. Back then it was Debian, nowadays I use Arch on everything. Same with Raspberry Pis when the first one became available in 2012. With university I started using Arch on my laptop and later when Proton and Wayland became good, I moved to it on the Desktop as well.
+1 for OVPN. I switched to them from Mullvad for the same reason. They are also one of the more trustworthy VPNs in my book ever since they actually won a court case proving that they actually practise what they advertise.