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  • There’s so much incompetent advice here.

    CPU is fine.

    Linux is booting and tries to connect to TPM (trusted platform module).

    It has nothing to do with graphics card. Fact it is booting means CPU is most likely likely unaffected.

    TPM is most likely fried.

    Linux can run without TPM. Plenty of old boards were shipped with TPM socket, but without TPM itself.

    Best option is get manual for your motherboard and pull out that TPM.

    Any passwords stored there are lost, if you used it.

    If TPM is fine, then board pathway to it may be damaged. If that’s the case and you really need it, then board replacement is your option. But that’s only after good TPM was tried.

  • When i tried it 6 months ago I didn’t like how UI apps took more time to start. Then I realized it is all flatpak or similar. Package management was slow. Installation process took very long time. I assume it tried to auto detect my hardware.

    And went back to Arch.

    SUSE Feature set is the best.

  • Given that my monitor is HiDef, no I have no size issues in Gnome.

    KDE apps under gnome look like kde apps.

    Gnome look like gnome.

    After I installed KDE, vscode title bar got bigger.so, KDE impacted look of some apps. Not gnome itself.

  • Good reason to have external drive backup and remote site backup.

    $18.49 + shipping from newegg for new 500 gb sata drive would have saved your data. At these prices it could have been your new drive. Use rsync for quick drive backup.

    Remote site backup is cheap these days.

    Roughly $5 per 1 Terabyte per month. You can get lower for 160 gb of data with initial upload price spike. Use rclone for offsite backup.

  • My intel laptop on kde is unreliable, but gnome is super stable.

    If you want windows like taskbar, you can turn it on gnome and other features that will make it more like windows.

    On desktop with AMD video card I saw no difference between kde and gnome.

    I ended up back on gnome. Because it was less distracting. I am a long time gnome user and kde was a curiosity. Latest versions of both (Arch Linux).

  • I tried it on my laptop. Apps that used to run without any problems would terminate randomly. I also tried it on desktop with AMD video card and didn’t observe this issue.

    Overall i went back to gnome 3 days later.

  • It is not likely to be XFCE specific.

    Make sure you have properly configured swap space and its size is larger than RAM. Because this will be the easiest cause. Some people stated as much as twice the ram size.

    There’s a wiki page on arch wiki trying to help with this issue. In short, prepare for a lot of work and good luck.

  • Jellyfin has mobile and desktop clients.

    For me for a long time it was a coin toss between Plex and Jellyfin.

    For some long forgotten reason I ended with Emby and eventually migrated to Jellyfin as its true free open source fork.

    With jellyfin DLNA server i can play same music on Apple TV, etc. although DLNA clients are certainly not as nice as native apps. One can offset problem with playlists.

    Both have quick start wiki pages like this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Jellyfin

    Official documentation: https://jellyfin.org/docs/

  • Downvotes shall list better headphones.

    I myself have not found a better solution.

    I like apple headphones and i settled on similar shaped non-apple brand at a fraction af the price, but it is lower in quality compared to apple. Microphone is crap and I stopped trying to use it. Headphones level is good at low level and high level sound reproduction, but it is not as accurate as apple.

    In the end the trade off is worth it to me for the price, but i will not claim at is better.

    So, bring on your alternative and price of it.

  • I would argue that statement here is misleading.

    Popular Chinese movies acknowledge high price of real estate in large cities. All theses movies are available in US, have subtitles in English and can be accessed using popular streaming services.

    Examples:

    Some of dialogue involving parents, if i recall right:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_O2O_(TV_series)

    In the following show lower income aerospace engineer and high income actress. They directly state that he could not afford small apartment if not for money grant for being the best:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Are_My_Glory

  • Arch is good for home server, because you will not have to do major update ever again and because at home one usually doesn’t mind restarting after updating.

    Debian is a good option for private virtual server on the cloud. Because Debian is frequently an option there, while Arch is not an option due to its rolling nature. Debian supposedly can update without restart, but I never trusted that.

  • Docker images are immutable and if you run lots of images there will be overlap of commonly used layers.

    Docker has BTRFS driver, which will efficiently reuse layers on BTRFS.

    Basically, there’s good chance to waste less drive space with Docker on BTRFS.