PainInTheAES @ PainInTheAES @lemmy.world

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I use their toaster NAS. The HC4 I think. Not the best multimedia server but it's a serviceable file server.

Rice cake flavors are kinda mid but they do have a cheese popcorn flavor and some brands make little ones that are like slightly spicy sweet and sour. My personal favorite is cinnamon sugar, it's hard not to finish the pack.

Just to be pedantic you could use su -c "$command"

Bloons, Papers Please, Shattered Pixel Dungeon. But yeah not great compared to Steam.

Hack the planet!

The diameter of the Internet pipe

Yeah they're doing AB testing right now

I mean at the end of the day it's all Linux so it's not so different and just a minor convenience.

This is just for Fedora: comes with non-free audio/video codecs, non-free driver repos.

For other distro: It comes with nVidea drivers, WINE, OBS, Blender, Proton, Lutris, and Flatpak set up/preinstalled. (drivers detected on install I believe) there's also package and kernel tweaks to boost gaming performance, supposedly.

In comparison to Mint: Fedora packages and kernel versions get updated a little faster than Ubuntu/Debian based distros.

So Nobara takes a lot of the "pain" out of system setup for people who are new to Linux and gamers/streamers.

I haven't used it personally though I'm currently running EndeavorOS and using a SteamDeck for gaming.

I like Arch as well but there is a higher learning curve than with other distro and if you go for Arch go for EndeavorOS or another Arch derivative (except Manjaro).

However, if you're looking for something to let you game. Nobara is a distro that comes with all the gaming comparability layers and drivers preinstalled. It's based on Fedora so it's relatively up to date but not rolling like Arch.

Just a heads up OpenSUSE is phasing out leap so it won't have a stable release "soon" unless the things with ALP shake out well.

Great! I use Debian for all my server VMs. I'm not saying it's bad or anything and I definitely think it's worth a shot once the user enters the distro hopping phase.

Yeah, that would be easier.

To install desktop add-ons you need to use nightly and create an add-on collection to sync. But sponsor block might have a mobile version that you can install from the settings section of the normal app.

Just like that one Windows setting with UI elements from Windows 3.1 . Control panel will probably be phased out in 20-30 years

I think Debian is great for servers but for desktop use for casual/new Linux users it's not the best, IMO. The install ISO can lack drivers (one with non-free drivers is available but hard to find), the installer is not great (although I heard it's gotten better since I last tried), non-free packages are not in the repos, packages are stable but that can also be out of date. It is vanilla but I don't think it's the best UX.

I think Debian derivatives are easier to sell like Mint, PopOS, maybe Ubuntu (yeah, yeah snaps/malware/etc.). If they're a bit on the techy side maybe EndeavorOS just because Arch Wiki and AUR are pretty sweet. If they're 13 and wear hoodies Kali ;P

But it all depends on the use case right. If I set up a laptop for my Mom and she only surfs the Web and uses a word processor and it just needs to be reliable and not break on updates, I think Debian is great for that. But for someone that wants to explore a bit or has to install it themselves I think there's better options.

Also I feel that 'help my Debian is having $issue' vs 'help my Mint/PopOS/Ubuntu is having $issue' is going to bring up different styles of answers. Debian forums or articles may expect a level of competence that is not expected for distros often recommended to beginners.

And they keep getting bigger. I went from a 3a to a 6a and prefer the 3a

Ah give Granny a tracheotomy, clever.

I practice ethical nudism 😎

Well I'm glad you're able to figure it out. I might give it another go next summer when I have more time to look into things.

Yeah I was on unstable. This was a few months ago and the plugin was obs-backgroundremoval which was several versions out of date and missing out on a CPU core restriction feature that I needed. The maintainer actually had updated the package in his personal repo but it hadn't been pushed to nixpkgs unstable because it was waiting on some graphics library that hadn't been updated. I'm a huge Nixos noob and no matter how I tried to install the package from the maintainer's repo I couldn't get it installed or properly wrapped and the documentation sucked. I spent several days trying to resolve the issue.

I installed Endeavouros, ran yay -S obs-backgroundremoval and boom installed, latest version, no problems.

Don't get me wrong I actually love the ideas behind Nixos and I've tried to run it as my daily driver a few times now but I always seem to run into some problem. I'm more than happy to chalk it up to skill issue. This is my daily driver though that I use for school. It doesn't necessarily need to be stable but I need it to work and I need to understand it.