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Brilliant!
Neat idea. Reminds me of microdots.
5·3 days agoDamn, way to go. That’s some talent. Stick with it, and you’ll go places.
You’re gonna want to upgrade that cooler to the Peerless Assassin 120 or the Phantom Spirit 120 SE. The Assassin X won’t be able to handle the 105W CPU.
I have a 5700X3D, which is also a 105W CPU, and smaller coolers just weren’t enough, even with undervolting. I was always pushing max temps doing prime95, and upgrading the cooler to the Phantom Spirit fixed that.
Good luck! I’ll be there with you, figuring things out. See you on the Arch Wiki 😉
First of all, I’m not trying to tell you how you should live your life. My following commentary is well-intended and in the spirit of making informed decisions, of which I believe everyone has a fundamental right. At the end of the day, follow your conscience. It’s your life to live.
Spoiler, because I'm long-winded
Honestly, not knowing enough about how linux distros are funded is part of it.
Every distro is different. Some have zero financial investment and only volunteer labor. Some have community donations only. Some have funds from non-profit foundations or trusts with specific philanthropic qualifications. Some have corporate sponsors. Some have a mixture. Since you’ve narrowed things down to Ubuntu and Fedora, I recommend exploring where their money each comes from, how they use that money, what kind of governing bodies they have, etc. Though Canonical is based in London, for example, they have a reputation for being the Microsoft of the Linux world.
It’s simpler to just dismiss all projects with American ties, but FOSS is unique in its collaboration, and drawing a hard line will make life in the FOSS space difficult, if not impossible. On top of that, it’s very unlikely to have any effect towards boycotting the billionaires and politicians that make all our lives awful.
FOSS is unique in that it does best when everyone works together. This is antithetical to most governments, most corporations, and practically every billionaire. I get your desire to diminish American influence, and as an American myself who’s trying to do the same, I have to be careful that I don’t inadvertently harm the philanthropic efforts still happening in my own back yard.
To me, FOSS is a way to rebel against the kind of polemicizing and politicking happening across the globe, because working together without their approval is the last thing many of them want us to do.
Lastly, good luck with your transition! I hope you figure it out and love whatever you ultimately pick!
There’s a saying: “Don’t break Debian.” It’s considered among the most stable options, and that’s in part because of its extremely long test cycles (which can come with its own set of problems, on occasion).
I do find it curious that you’ve chosen to divest from even American FOSS projects. Like, Microsoft makes sense; they have no qualms about doing whatever they want with user data for profit, which inevitably goes towards billionaire machinations. But why draw that same line with FOSS?
84·10 days agoThis is not an example of leopards eating someone’s face. Unless those projects threw their support behind Trump’s admin, and I have no reason to believe they did, this is simply falling victim to fascist idiots.
I understand that, but what they do with user data is governed by their Privacy Policy, which again, is unchanged. The ads they buy are the same Sponsored ones that show up on blank tabs—the ones that have been there since before they made that change.
They made the change to the ToS, because a California law expanded the definition of “sale/sell” beyond what most people understand the word to mean. There’s enough vaguery in the wording of the law that the way Firefox works, it could land Mozilla in hot water the way the ToS were worded. It’s stupid, Mozilla did probably the worst job possible communicating why they were making the change, and the internet freaked out.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t leave. That’s up to you. I’ve been running LibreWolf since then, because a company that has $37M in investments and pays their CEO $8M should have the means to have a decent marketing team, one that could warn them it would be stupid to abruptly cut out a section on selling user data. However, it’s simply not true that they’ve suddenly joined ranks with the likes of Google.
Again, do what you want, but I hope people do it because they’ve been informed about the facts, not because the internet brought out the pitchforks again.
It’s what I have done. They’ll work slower, but you’ll get a sense of what they can do, how hard it is to do things, etc.
When you’re ready, I think all but Bazzite have Live ISO options, so you can see what it’s like on bare metal. When you’re satisfied, install your favorite!
First, gaming distros are vanilla distros with opinionated tweaks and additions to support the hobby of gaming. It might be as simple as having Steam pre-installed to as complex as having unique kernels or custom package repos maintained by the distro maintainers.
But that doesn’t mean vanilla is always the best choice, because not everybody wants to spend time optimizing everything. Some distros even have easy setup scripts for otherwise complex installations (like for Davinci Resolve). Don’t feel like you need to pick vanilla to be a “true user.”
Some easy to set up Distros for gaming that are ready ootb:
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Bazzite: Fedora Atomic, practically bulletproof, just works. Downsides are that adding new packages is not the same as other distros, and there’s a learning curve to it beyond flatpaks. Some software can’t be installed at all if it doesn’t come as an RPM or AppImage (Private Internet Access’s VPN client, for example).
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CachyOS: Arch with an optimized kernel and optimized packages. Comes with some easy-install scripts. Tool to easily select different kernels and schedulers. Currently another very popular choice. Like the above, this just works. There’s some debate about how significant the optimizations really are, but they’re there nonetheless.
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Nobara: Traditional Fedora. Like Bazzite, just works. Has a custom update manager that acts as a GUI wrapper for your usual cli tools. Maintained by GloriousEggroll, a widely respected user that maintains the GE versions of Proton.
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PikaOS: Debian (not Ubuntu). Combines the philosophies of Nobara and CachyOS and puts them atop Debian. Better setup scripts than even CachyOS, a more user friendly update tool than Nobara’s, and has the same kernel selection and scheduler tools as CachyOS, plus the same package optimizations. Don’t let the fact that it’s Debian underneath fool you. This has the latest kernel and drivers.
I would try all of those in a VM and see what you like about them. They’re all unique and worth a look.
ETA: all of these have Nvidia versions, so all of them should work with your card.
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That’s fine. Do what you want. I’m not here to judge your choices, just point out that Mozilla only fucked up the communication, not the policy itself.
Right? I just do my best to ignore the bot and only enter queries any first year CS student would know. The rest comes from my memory and a few bookmarks I have saved.
Thus far, the local models I’ve worked with have gotten a C- on coding, but an A+ on bullshit.
I work at a company that won’t allow us to use a search engine but has a local model we’re allowed to use, and this is a pretty apt summary.
If you’re referring to that fuckup with the ToS or whatever, that’s not what they’ve started doing. You can verify this by their Privacy Policy, which hasn’t changed in almost a year.
But if you are pointing to other examples, I’m open to learning.
27·17 days agoGotta have something to do when we’re unable to retire. 😉
As will I, but those look like legit release notes and not a joke. Nothing jumps out as too good to be true or just bizarre.
Fr, though, duck typing in Python is one of my biggest annoyances.
Ubuntu isn’t a good choice, since Canonical is essentially the Microsoft of the Linux world. Suse makes sense, though. NixOS would be good, too, since you could scale your deployments.