Wouldn’t surprise me.

Maybe. Looking like the best option right now.

Oh no, not another Lemony Snikket rabbit hole.

Yeah, I know. I wanted to pack as much info into the title as I can, and it turned out like technobabble. ^^;

I have considered looking into renting a VPS, but considering my friends group does A LOT of voice calling and streaming over Discord I dint think super lightweight is an option. Even so, not having to pay for a server is always better than having to pay any amount for one.

I’ll take a look at ejabberd. Didn’t know there were specific preferences for clients.

It’s a bit of both:

My friends need a drop-in replacement for Discord (or as close as possible), sooner rather than later. My idea for self hosting is to defeat the need of someone hosting a 24/7 server; if we all host our own accounts on our own computers we’d essentially have a peer-to-peer Discord-like group.

The other reason is indeed to learn, because every centralised service has the same problem; it’s not a question if a service will turn bad, but when. It’s an inevitability, and it’s happening faster and more frequently. The only out-way I see is if me and at least some of my friends learn to self-host.

Interesting. I’ve never experienced this. Back when Wayland wasn’t even considered as a main display server yet there were problems with resolution scaling and desktop sizes, but… Straight up not working?

Hmm… But what do you mean with it doesn’t work? How doesn’t/didn’t it work? What prevented you from, say, opening Krita and just dragging the window to the monitor you want?

Well, I use an XP Pen display tablet, so effectively a second monitor. I’ve used both Krita on Ubuntu using X11 (in 2024 and before) and since the start of 2025 been using Bazzite which uses Wayland.

Can’t say I’ve run into any display specific issues. Pen tracking gave me some trouble, but it was some setting in KDE and Open Tablet Driver I had to play with to fix that.

I like the UI of Krita. Gimp is… Uh… Gimp. But Krita is certainly a modern drawing program.

Krita is aimed at Clip Studio Paint. It’s not great for quickly editing something.

Switched to Linux around the time Windows 11 was first announced to be a mandatory update, and all the bullshit about security.

I started out with Ubuntu, now I’ve been using Bazzite for over a year.

The programs I use, Gimp, Krita, Blender3D, Audacity, OBS, all have Linux native versions, and are generally part of the FOSS community anyway. Well, except for Audacity right now…

So my artistic work hasn’t been hindered in the least.

Games are a slightly different story. I switched from an nVidia GTX 1060 6GB to an Intel Arc A770. Overall a significant upgrade, but there are issues. Some I had with Blender3D not recognising the card (something that was largely solved by switching distro). Other problems still persist, specifically with Intel Arc, Linux, and UE5.

UE5 is an absolute hateable bitch and some combination of Linux and Intel Arc provides no end of trouble. I still can’t get certain games to run (i.e. Oblivion Remastered).

Intel Arc card. Though, to be fair, it’s only in a small few cases.

Most people don’t want to tinker. They just want a machine that works without hassle or need to think much about how everything works, or risk breaking something… But also without the bloat or the walled garden of Apple.

If someone has to try and break into Bazzite to do anything (if they’re not a developer) then they’re doing something very wrong.

What the hell were they even trying to do!?

Switching to Linux, if the person is actually switching, can be seen as a rebellious action against the corporate, capitalist dystopia we’re already in.

I consider this a good thing.

“It’s not compatible with all games”

“VR on Linux is trash”

“I can’t play XYZ game because Linux isn’t compatible with anticheat”

“Program XYZ doesn’t have a Linux version, I don’t want to learn a new program”

“Windows bloat never bothered me, I just ignore the AI/advertisements”

“I’m forced to use Windows because of my job”

“Linux is to complicated/troublesome. I just want something that works”

Silkeborg == Copenhagen

It’s a 3F kursus centre. Nobody who went there came from Silkeborg. We were mostly from København and Aarhus.

And we still didn’t sell Greenland to the Americans.

You know, in the trailer they did say "we’re not talking about that yet" when referring to the Steam Deck.

So there’s probably a Steam Deck 2 in the works, and if it runs on ARM the battery life would be amazing. Though… I wonder if that matters when it still needs to process x86 instructions.

Yeah, like you said, significant development of VR on Linux. But that also depends on the price tag.

VR on Linux is functional, at can work. But it requires a bunch of set up and can also just break down very easily too. VR on Linux is almost like what gaming on Linux was before Proton. If Valve can do to VR what they did with Proton then I’m sure I can convince a whole bunch of people to switch to Linux.

Depending on price, likewise.