I don’t like App Image because I have to manage everything myself or use a helper that may or may not be able to manage everything about all App Images.

But sometimes the dev supplied package is the only way to get an up to date package.

You’re probably not talking about landlines. Some routers can act as voip servers which you can connect to with clients like Twinkle. I use that with my Fritz!box.

Even without BTRFS it is possible to just delete every folder on root except for /home. Haven’t encountered any distros that couldn’t handle it.

The funny thing is that it actually used to be the other way around when it was still ATI. The ATI drivers sucked ass so nvidia was almost mandatory if you wanted to run Linux.

Really, no need to. Go AMD when you want to upgrade anyways but don’t throw away a perfectly fine GPU. The difference between AMD and nVidia is that AMD works out of the box and for nvidia you would have to do one click or command to install the driver. That’s it.

Sure, if you dig deeper it is much more nuanced. But unless you have some unusual use case beyond gaming (which might actually compell you to go nvidia) just stick to what you have.

I’d say stick to what you know. So one of the Debian or Ubuntu based distros. Like Ubuntu, Mint or Pop OS.

Stay away from Valve’s Debian based SteamOS. That is horribly outdated and has nothing to do with what people nowadays mean when they say “SteamOS”. I’m always surprised to learn that it’s still available.

In the end it doesn’t really matter which distro you choose. All of them should have no problems with running WoW.

Nvidia graphics aren’t terrible. AMD graphics are just much better. The nvidia drivers still work.

Unfortunately my Intel card craps out when trying to color correct the display.

Can you see with top or ps what program is eating up all the RAM? Probably some bug you may report.

I often exit a shell with ctrl+d. And I often see if a shell is still connected by pressing enter. They are definitely not equivalent.

Yeah, another good example of the XY-Problem.

I did that. Turns out my error had nothing to do with space. I was just booting into a read-only snapshot by default. Rolling back to a later snapshot fixed everything.

You are actually kinda right. My error is that / is read only. The other subvolumes are writable. No idea why or how I can find out why.

If I understand subvolumes correctly they share their space when they reside on the same device. I only have two partitions. One for /boot/efi and one for the rest.

Small tangent, I didn’t have the energy to read your whole post, so you might have addressed that. But often it’s cheaper to go with an established multi purpose device instead of building something new.

I used to build and sell Raspberry Pi gaming handhelds that were as cheap as possible and literally just held together by some string. My purpose was to get enough money through the sales to be able to build one for myself. Sure, the building process was fun. But when I crunched the numbers just buying a cheap smartphone and controller was much cheaper and more performant and versatile than the self-built solution.

Just buying a cheap phone or tablet is often the cheaper solution.

Heck, even Valve just bought off the shelve tablet displays and turned the image in software for the Steam Deck.

For VR with Oculus (Quest or older?) you can use ALVR. It can be a bit fiddly but it also gets better with each release and it’s been a while since I tried it out. Steam Link might also work. I couldn’t try that because it only works on Quest 2 and upwards and I only have a Quest 1.

You mean as a file server? I’d probably use a minimal Debian installation. But almost any distro should have a minimal flavour.

That’s what Luxtorpeda is for. It automatically selects an appropriate source port for your game.

Did you know that most big anti cheat systems actually do run in Wine when allowed to by the developer?