Same. I’m not worried, just confused by the new language. It seems unnecessary, but I could end up being flat wrong.

I wish Mozilla would refocus on improving Firefox instead of the AI nonsense they’ve pursued lately. They havent been perfect, but if i’m going to give any faceless entity the benefit of the doubt, it’s Mozilla.

That said, i want the forks to thrive. Librewolf is pretty good. I might check out Pale Moon again to see what has(n’t) changed.

Waterfox is also good from what i remember. I used a build of it with KDE global menu support on OpenSuse for years, and i was happy with it the whole time.

RIP TenFourFox. Hopefully a new fork will emerge for powerpc and other retro computers

These AI-generated thumbnails are awful

Windows doesn’t run every game i want. I couldn’t get the first Command and Conquer to be playable at all. I have had the same experience many times with older strategy and simulation games: they just don’t work very well on modern Windows.

By contrast, so far Linux does play every game i want. My entire library going back decades works just fine with Wine or Proton. It’s easy once you get used to using a translation layer.

I don’t play Apex, League, or Fortnite, so that’s probably why i dont feel like i’m missing anything on Linux.

Any tips for 4k gaming on Plasma?

If i force system scaling, everthing looks great but games dont get to use the full 4k. If i go with app scaling the games look fine but some apps are blurry.

I figured out a halfway solution where i use no scaling and just made the fonts bigger, but some ui elements are still tiny, and steam doesn’t scale at all.

Is there a way to disable system scaling for just selected applications?

lol ok

I don’t see the point in downvoting someone when they misunderstood something and OP clarified, but perhaps i just don’t understand Lemmy.

If anything maybe I’d upvote the reply for visibility.

Anyway you seem nice, please don’t take my comments personally. I think the groupmind that gave you a ton of upvotes and that other person a ton of downvotes just rubbed me the wrong way.

I think that other person was answering in good faith. They were trying to help, they just misunderstood what was being asked.

My worst one was accidentally overwriting my backup when trying to clone it.

I was using a standalone drive cloning device and I mixed up the “source” and “target” slots. It was a 4tb drive so the operation took about 3 hours.

At the end, i plugged in the clone to check it and saw that it was blank. I ended up having to make a new backup before i was able to try the cloning again.

Since it was a backup, nothing of value was lost, but it sure was a waste of an afternoon

RHEL comes with very limited repos, so this might help: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/

My first real job was forklift driving on a warehouse dock, maybe we crossed paths

They both allow you to deploy and update a highly customized OS across many potentially different machines.

Gentoo has cflags and cross-building

Nix has Nix configs

I somewhat disagree about the stability. Maybe it’s no longer the case, but i used gentoo for a few years in the 2010s and it was always stable for me. A buggy upstream release of a package could be a problem in theory, but if that were to happen you can generally roll back the package and mask it from updates for a while. I never ended up needing to do that. However i agree that stability seems to be a high priority for Nix devs.

Sabayon Linux

I used it for a few years, great distro. I think it’s dead now. It was based on Gentoo but with thoughtful defaults and a very good binary package manager.

also Funtoo Linux, but i never really used it

I think NixOS has taken a bit of Gentoo’s mindshare. They solve similar problems with very different approaches.

it’s only distros

That’s a good point, i agree there are also plenty of folks who use niche distros partly as a hobby

My gpu twin! I was also on Kubuntu at the time for the same reasons.

Lots of folks use those “toy” distros to accomplish specialized tasks that are cumbersome or impossible on other distros. I’d describe it more as “general purpose” vs “niche”

Both are tools

the 9 month update cycle is my biggest issue, and it’s not a big deal

Plain old Fedora.

I know the hurdles, i know what to expect, and I’ve never been surprised by it.

Immutable sounds nice, AUR sounds nice, NixOS sounds nice, but i am utterly confident in my current choice’s reliability and comfortable with its idiosyncracies. Everything i want to do works very well.

If i had less time/energy or had to switch, Kubuntu would be my second choice. Less frequent updates and fewer creature comforts, but also very reliable.

I dont have VR, but i assume you saw this?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2805545613