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Yeah that is one of my favorite parts of Debian. You can just pick a DE in the installer or even use no DE in the install and apt install one. I don’t understand why so many distros try to lock you in to one DE.

Please for the love, hate, indifference, or whatever of god switch to Endeavor OS. I try not to criticize people’s distro choice but Manjaro is Endeavor OS with more bugs. If you have some reason that you can’t switch that’s fine, but if you can, please try Endeavor.

I’m not familiar with systemd’s but as long as you use a firewall and configure it properly you are fine.

I am not sure. I personally don’t trust selinux because it was developed my the nsa, though that is just me being tinfoil-hat-ish about it. I am a fan of clamav / clamtk for files you think are sketchy (“alternatively obtained” games and things.) I also use ufw but that is more of a thing for servers if I’m not mistaken. If you use ssh server on your laptop, you should get fail2ban or sshguard. While the whole “Linux can’t get hacked” thing is wrong, as long as you stay updated and don’t be stupid you should be protected from automated scripts which is all desktop users really need to worry about.

AFAIK open source and drivers are integrated into the Linux kernel just like the nouveau drivers but good. Unless you are having issues I would just leave it alone.

but I heard rm -rf /* made my computer faster. (This is a joke never run this command. (outside of a vm that you are willing to kill))

I love the pinetime from pine64. It lacks some functionality but costs practically nothing (for a smart watch) and runs completely FOSS firmware and software (there may be a binary blob or something but nothing that would be a huge privacy concern imo.) You can also put a custom os on, including wasp-os which is written in MicroPython and you can find custom builds for various features. The new release of infinitime, the os it ships with, looks great too though.

A similar method is to buy a cheap ssd, swap it with your current one, and put your old one into an enclosure so you can mount it like a usb drive and still access all your files. It has the advantage over dual boot and backup that you never wonder “did I back that up” or “did I format my windows partition?”

Yeah their headlines are always great or terrible. “EU requires iPhones to use usb c” “eu is trying to ban encryption” “eu requires devices to have repairable batteries”

I believe jellyfin has an option to ‘burn in’ subtitles so they are part of the video. I don’t know how this effects performance or anything but it should work for what you described. I believe you can turn it on through the admin web ui.

I think they mean it would cache the data and release it if you ever had to remove the screen for whatever reason.

I am not too knowledgeable on different encoders, but I don’t know if using cpu and gpu is an option. Av1 and vp9 are open standards, meaning basically anything can implement them, but av1 is new so older devices haven’t. The tv will probably handle vp9 fine, but I would still recommend transcoding a test video and looking if it plays back natively. With that gpu av1 is definitely not supported so I would recommend vp9.

First, just to be clear because codec terminology can be weird, x264 is a h264 encoder, not a separate codec. H265 is not an open standard so it may not play back properly if you use a Firefox or a Firefox based browser. I would recommend av1 if you can encode it, as it is good for quality and file size, however only new GPUs can encode it. CPUs can encode it slowly, but if you don’t have a new gpu (like 40 series Nvidia, arc, or AMD 7000 and maybe 6000) I would recommend vp9. It is a bit worse for file size but it won’t take a year to encode and should be compatible with most browsers.

GPU passthrough was the next thing I tried! Do you know any good tutorials? The one I found tells me to do mkinitcpio but I don’t seem to have that. I think I mentioned this is Debian but in case I forgot its Debian.

I am already spinning up a Debian vm. I had a minor issue with file permissions but it it is working great now and is definitely faster than I remember virtualbox being. I am so glad I saw your comment and I would switch to this even if Richard Stallman himself wrote Virtualbox and all the extensions.

Wow I didn’t even know it was closed source. Thanks for pointing this out, I will definitely be getting virt-manager.

What is wrong with using virtualbox?

I would say Apple > Google > Microsoft (I think) but if it is possible I would recommend using it for the absolute least amount of stuff possible. I have to use Microsoft stuff for school and I simply do everything in LibreOffice then check the final copy in MS Office to ensure that nothing is broken. (Also a quick side note: F Microsoft for creating a giant obfuscated document standard and bribing the ISO to force everyone to use it.)

This is it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/random_user_agent/

It breaks some sites but is very configurable and you will probably be able to get it to work. I believe it is GPL but it may be Mozilla license.