I’ve been trying to convince my boomer wife to try affinity. She works mostly with print, and it seems like a good fit to me.

I’d only use zram if I had no swap device/file.

In my experience zswap performs better, and doesn’t get in the way of hibernation. In fact, most distros enable it by default today, and it doesn’t always work so great with zram.

I guess it all depends on perspective.

I love that it’s free compared to those $10-20k licenses for similar systems.

I love that there are good package managers.

I love that it’s open source.

I hate that it’s GPLv2.

I hate how bloated the kernel is. I’d like it to fit into main memory.

I hate how it’s not POSIX-certified.

It depends on how far down the rabbithole you go.

I switched to Linux 27 years ago. My wife asks me to help her with her Windows computer every now and then, and I can’t really do it for more than a few minutes before my blood pressure is in the risk zone.

I thought it was an ncurses multiplayer tetris-clone.

Resizable BAR was previously cited as a requirement for Intel ARC cards, but I think the drivers today can do without. Sounds like your system might be too old to have that. Might be a soft requirement, as in you’ll see a performance drop if you don’t have it.

I’d get a HDMI capture card for the tablet, if it supports USB-otg. Just run a program to preview the input on the tablet and connect it like any monitor to your laptop.

My RX580 does the job just fine. Does 1080p at 3x realtime for HEVC, and 10x for h.264.

They’re dirt cheap second hand.

Overwhelmingly positive.

btrfs every day of the week. The only scenario where I’d even consider something else is for databases that would suffer from CoW.

I’ve been running it on my home server since 2010. The same array has grown from 6x2TB to 6x4TB, one disk at a time as they’ve failed. Currently sitting at 2x18TB+1x4TB. No data loss even though many drives have failed.

Looks a bit like Heather Harmon.

I went with endeavour.

Arch is already on 6.0.4. I’d say we’re five weeks into plasma 6. Manjaro is holding it back unusually long.

I haven’t tried MX Linux. So they set the distrowatch page as start page in the browser, and users never change it?

Not me, and not Linux, but a school mate found the following bash snippet online :(){ :|:& };:.

Naturally, he tried it on the SunOS servers we had access to for schoolwork. He got his account suspended for the rest of the year.

I think most Linux distros are configured to kill fork bombs nowadays.

I stopped doing it when Linux got support for kernel modules around Linux 1.2. It was a real game-changer.

It was slackware 2.0.

It was the only distro I could get my hands on because who would download a distro on dialup. Also there were no CD burners nor USB sticks yet. So whatever your friend had on CD waa the option. I guess the only other possible option would’ve been red hat back in those days.

Cool.

Last I checked kwin was still waiting for some protocols to become available. I’m sure it’ll be good to go if and when I need another Mac on my desk to synergize.

There was another server that already supported wayland/gnome, but the scrolling was too wonky for my nerves.

I’ve been daily driving it on some devices for maybe 6 months.

My only showstopper was input-leap, but I have not had to use it for two months. So I’ve gone all-in since. It works better in every sense - except for the input-leap thing.

SIDPlay did something similar on the Mac.

It has the neat built-in feature of rsyncing the high voltage SID collection to your computer.

However, if you deleted your local copy of it and tried to re-sync it’d update (with deletes) against / instead. Bye bye files.

I use syncthing. Share from any app, land on that directory on your server.