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People want to know because you're asking how to do something that (whether you like it or not) is unorthodox and can cause issues. People want to know if the ROOT of your issue is solvable via orthodox means that won't cause issues.

Even in your other post, you were asking how to run a program with sudo via a context menu, but you didn't say why you needed to. You aren't giving us info on the root of your problem OR end goal, only the means you want to use to get there. There could easily be a simple way to achieve your goal, but via different means. People want to help but it can be difficult for them to give directions when they don't have a point of origin or a destination.

Not trying to be an ass, just trying to give some insight as to why you may not be getting the answers you hoped for, and why some people might seem like they're actively avoiding giving them to you.

This is probably the way to go. Relatively minimal install with a pretty lightweight DE. Rock-solid-stable too, so even if you update obsessively, you're very unlikely to ever need to downgrade anything.

I actually went with this setup on a Dell M4500 and it works a treat, really gave the ol gal a second lease on life.

Just get one of those all in one 4"x4" PCs, slap a logo and a custom Linux distro on it and you have a console.

I mean, 90 percent of the time, the police can't do jack about a car theft besides keep their eyes peeled. By the time you even realize it's gone, it's usually in pieces or in a shipping crate on its way to another country.

I admit the analogy wasn't perfect but i think it gets the point across

"They already stole your car, why call the police"

$100 for a kitchen implement that grinds coffee and does nothing else is more than a lot of people are willing to spend. I have one that was given to me and I really like it, but I wouldn't pay that much any day of the week. If I had an extra hand grinder, I'd honestly probably do something like this for fun, because I already have these tools for work.

No worries, good luck with it

I was considering sourcing my own parts as I haven't come across a full kit that seemed to have everything I wanted.

Also thats super cool, although I'm currently pretty happy with the rest of my setup atm. May look into the shifter at some point tho

Fair enough. Not really speaking to its tech specs, mainly just how nice it was to use compared to modern windows

I left most things default. When I first set it up I played with all the settings and made everything worse lol.

I can tell you that I set the resolution to the highest setting, the refresh rate to 120hz and the bitrate to the quality settings. Everything else, I left default. I found that this resulted in the best clarity while not really making the artifacting/lag any worse. I'm still playing with it though.

If you have the option in SteamVR's game specific settings to enable "Legacy motion smoothing", apparently that improves things noticably. For some reason motion smoothing is completely unavailable to me though so I can't personally attest.

I've heard audio was an issue, but in my case (Arch plus KDE6), it was as simple as picking my audio output in the system tray dropdown. I could stream it to my headset or send it out of my headphones I have plugged in.

Again I want to stres that it isn't perfect. You'll definitely have to play around with some settings but it is usable, at least in my case.

I'm in the same boat. I'm actually on the verge of going full open source and building my own direct drive with OpenFFBoard.

Give alsaequal a try. I actually haven't fiddled with it a whole lot so I can't vouch too much but it seems worth a shot.

Thanks for the info. Looks like I still need to do some more research of my own lol.

Just a point to add: this backdoor was (likely) planned years in advance; it took ONE guy a couple weeks (after the malicious code was released) to find it because he had nothing else going on that evening.

I'm relatively confident that the FOSS community has enough of that type of person that if there are more incidents like this one, there's a decent chance it'll be found quickly, especially now that this has happened and gotten so much attention.

AMD's naming scheme is honestly similar to Nvidias. They have X600, X700, etc (the "X" being the generation of card, the second digit being the model).

So for example, the current gen is the 7000 series, with the 7600 being the lowest, and roughly analogous to the 4060, and the 7900 to the 4090. There are also XT versions which is AMD's version of the Ti line. They have more VRAM, higher clocks, overclocking, etc.

I'd look at the 6700XT, or the one I have which is the 7600XT. Both have similar specs, the 7600XT is more recent with better performance in a couple areas, but the 6700XT is tried and true, and you'll be more likely to find a good deal on it. The 7600XT only came out a couple months ago and isn't anywhere near as well established, but IMO it performs excellent at good temps without any tweaks. Both are great for 1080p or 1440p with modern games.

Honestly I'd still use XP if more programs supported it. As i said to another user here, it was Windows at its peak. It created the basic layout and feature set that modern Windows still uses, but lacks all the bloat and ads.

Yeah I'm right there with ya, of course it's the users fault for choosing an alternative OS, it has nothing to do with gaming companies choosing the cheapest, least effective and most invasive client side anti cheat solutions instead of more universal server side ones. Nothing at all.

Linux audio is really under appreciated. I'm one of the nutjobs that still uses a PCI sound card and I've never had to install a third party driver. I can manually adjust the output and EQ for every port, disable or enable them on the fly, etc. The only thing I'm missing is hardware EAX support for older games but I've kind of accepted that's just a dragon I'll always be chasing.

My jam was always turning off flight assist and just tossing a small ship through an asteroid belt. Haven't played much since Odyssey but I recently got the itch again