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Can You Use Linux Without the Terminal? (How to Geek article)

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  • https://manjarno.pages.dev/

    TL;DR, ddosing AUR multiple times, poorly maintained certificates, and a generally bad take on Arch that causes lots of problems for the uninitiated.

    • Wayland usage has overtaken X11

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  • To temper your expectations you'll likely have some problems. But you'll have the ability in future to make use of new display technologies, like VRR and HDR

    • "I want to live forever in AI"

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  • Borrow checker intensifies

    • Are we Wayland yet or Whats missing?

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  • The problem is it's completely unwatchable. Streams are 2 fps no matter how low or high quality you set the stream :c

    • Modern web bloat means some pages load 21MB of data - entry-level phones can't run some simple web pages, and some sites are harder to render than PUBG

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  • You mean Web3? Yeah Web3 is going to do jack shit to solve this, if anything it'll make it worse

    • How to choose your first distro - A guide for beginners (flowchart + text post)

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  • I agree, endeavor doesn't do anything special with its packages to make it any more reliable. In fact it's really just Arch but with a DE setup out of the box

    • Mercury - a Firefox fork with compiler optimizations

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  • Tried this myself, performance differences are non existent. In fact I noticed more regressions on speedometer than improvements.

    Don't bother, use Floorp instead.

    • Are there any studies done on how much linux can save governments money if they do a whole migration?

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  • Just hold your breath silly

    • Considering Starting Linux

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  • This, you should always default to your package manager for app installs. I believe it's available on their Ubuntu repos

    • Considering Starting Linux

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  • Linux mint is a really easy and simple starting point. Fedora and openSUSE tumbleweed are a tad more advanced but allow more selection on your desktop environment (mint uses cinnamon, while Fedora and SUSE have both KDE and Gnome options) and thus can potentially support things like variable refresh rate and, when it gets support from KDE later this year, HDR.

    For peripherals, if it's razor or Logitech, it'll just work and have community apps made to configure them. I personally like Keychron's stuff so that's what I use and that's fully Linux compatible, it does require some setup to work though. HDR is unsupported for the time being, but variable refresh (gsync/freesync) is in the KDE Plasma desktop environment under Wayland. On the topic of Wayland, if you want to make use of this new display protocol you'll need an AMD graphics card, as NVIDIA has been slacking with their Linux drivers. NVIDIA is getting better but it's not stable enough on Wayland for the laymen. In the case of only having an NVIDIA, X11 works fine, but it's just missing some features.

    Also you won't need JavaScript, 90% of what you do will be through the GUI (depending on the distro), especially once you're set up. I know Fedora needs to enable rpmFusion, NVIDIA repos if on NVIDIA, and install codecs for hardware accelerated playback. Mint doesn't have these issues for the most part, though you'll want to enable flatpak's and consider disabling snaps. Mint already includes a graphical installer for NVIDIA and includes the codecs needed for hardware accelerated playback

    • Hacking into Kernel Anti-Cheats: How cheaters bypass Faceit, ESEA and Vanguard anti-cheats

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  • My sweet summer child, I will see you in 5 years when Valorant cheating is as bad as CS:GO cheating at its peak.

    Kernel AC circumventation will only improve, as there's many cheaters putting money in this technology. In 5 years this stuff will be commonplace and mean that these solutions will be ineffective.

    • Is it only me, or do you find all those "I deleted Windows"-posts annoying too?

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  • I also like hearing good news about Linux. With how negative social media can be hearing some good news, especially about something I like is just a generally nice change of pace.

    • Mosh: Like ssh, but better (e.g. local echo and persistent sessions across sleeps / network changes)

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  • Hopefully talking about it more will interest more people in the project and possibly interest more people in contributing

    • How to gift a video game if I don't know the platform

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  • This, Amazon gift cards can be used online to buy any gift cards you want. It's our go to gift for that reason in our family

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  • I highly recommend you try Linux Mint or Fedora, both are simple to use, stable, and well supported.

    I personally use Fedora for development and gaming, but you might enjoy mint more for your use case

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  • Only office is what I use for school and it's excellent, otherwise the full MS suite is available in the browser.

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  • Highly recommend against Manjaro for anyone for any use case

    See: https://manjarno.pages.dev/

    I can corroborate the article from my personal experience, Manjaro is a terrible OS with constant stability issues

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  • Manjaro user?

    • What feature are you dying for to come to your DE - Linux?

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  • You need the game scope session, which there's only a package for Nobara and I think Arch too but don't quote me on that

    And the session will require you to log out, which can be a massive pain in the ass.

    • What feature are you dying for to come to your DE - Linux?

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  • This, waydroid is excellent, I use it all the time