Linux laptop for gaming and school

So I'm going to get a new laptop for college in the coming months. And I want to be able to game on it. Like being able to run modern games at the lowest settings is fine, as long as they are playable. I don't really game on pc, but that's mostly because I haven't had the hardware capable of running games I want to play. So that's something I'm planning on picking up.

The thing is I'll want to run linux on it, for pretty much everything else except gaming. Do you know any relatively new laptops that'll be able to do all that?

Macs are out because I don't really like apple. plus they're really expensive

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Any thoughts on the Facebook data leak?

I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I would say yes. Cause the Linux community are usually on the forefront of tech, and are always sceptic of big tech.

I (finally) deleted my fcbook, I deleted my twitter sometime ago, and looking forward to deleting my whatsapp.

At the end this is the mandatory part where I remind that facebook, twitter, whatsapp, youtube, ... are not your friends, and you should get rid of them, or at least be actively looking for an alternative.

And finally this is the part where I tell that, I use arch, btw.

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What's the best distro for my old laptop?

I was planning to use mint cinnamon, although it's old but I wanted the OS to be fully featured. The laptop's CPU : Intel centrino dual core 2.26gh Ram : 4 GB 533.3 MHz ddr2. But not only the ram is slow, the hdd is also really slow. The ram size and the CPU are capable to hold a fully featured OS and obviously I would prefer it, is it too far to fetch and should cave into using a light distro (like pubby or mint xfce) or I can pull mint cinnamon? Or is there another distro that would fit this?

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Just installed the latest XP-Pen Linux drivers on openSUSE. Ready for use in Krita :)))
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Programmer created an AI-powered Linux shell using OpenAI's GPT-3

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Gnome Shell 40 inconsistency

Gnome Shell has an hot corner, in the upper left side of the screen. It used to be consistent in terms of usability as you had the dock right nearly the hot corner.

Now the dock moved in the bottom of the screen. How's useful having an upper hot corner of you have to go to the bottom to choose an icon from the dock? Would a left bottom hot corner be more useful from a usability way?


I know there are extension for everything, from dash to dock to the one that kicks your dog, but I'm just talking about the design choice of default shell.

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I have successfully made a bootable USB (Ubuntu), however when powering off my computer & then turning back on again, I have to start from scratch (lose all my files/settings). Any way to save this like a normal computer?

The noscript provides pretty much everything you need to know about my issue ... When I boot up coming from powering off, it's like running Linux for the first time (no files, applications, settings from my previous session).

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Thanks,

Mike

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At 7:31 a.m. UTC on Monday, April 19th, the Linux-powered Mars helicopter will take its first flight. A live stream starts at 10:15am UTC to watch the team see the data live!

At 12:31 a.m. PDT on Monday, April 19th, the Linux-powered Mars helicopter will take its first flight, which will also be the first powered, controlled flight done on another planet. An official stream for live updates is below. The stream will start at 3:15 a.m. PDT (6:15 a.m. EDT/10:15 a.m. UTC) as there will be a delay for the data to arrive.

https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/#Watch-Online

More from their official announcement here:

"At 12:31 a.m. PDT on Monday, April 19, 2021, the Ingenuity helicopter team is going to attempt the first ever powered, controlled flight on another planet."

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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part III -- Prototype Mesa compiler can now spin a cube
https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-3.html

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I'm switching over to Garuda as my first Linux distro!!! Might be the same amount of bloat to you guys but I'm happy that I can control my updates now...
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Tips for protecting files from yourself
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20210419#qa

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DOOM (Vulkan) + lavapipe
https://airlied.blogspot.com/2021/04/doom-vulkan-lavapipe.html

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Vircadia 2021.1.1 "Eos" Released!
https://vircadia.com/2021/04/2021-1-1-eos-released/

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Pangolin UI, a Desktop Shell, Written in Flutter, for Linux and Zircona
https://web.dahliaos.io/

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Troubleshooting Linux: Problems That Drive You Mad and Solutions to Save the Day!
https://blog.storagecraft.com/troubleshooting-linux-problems-that-drive-you-mad-and-solutions-to-save-the-day/

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First picture from the Linux powered Mars helicopter
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The multi-generational LRU
https://lwn.net/Articles/851184/

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OpenAI-powered Linux shell uses AI to Do What You Mean
https://riveducha.onfabrica.com/openai-powered-linux-shell

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UK invokes national security to probe Nvidias ARM deal
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-intervenes-nvidias-takeover-arm-national-security-grounds-2021-04-19/

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Theming my Salient OS
http://ludditus.com/2021/04/16/theming-my-salient-os/

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What is best Linux Backup Server ?

Hello ,

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I have three machines with three different IP addresses they have MYSQL data and I want to make a backup server for all three machines I mean backup the data on those three machines in one machine to be my backup server and of course I will give this server an IP address that I can reach using those three machines.

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Honestly I don't know where to begin ? and which one to use ? I'm using Debian


1- bacula-server
2- borgbackup
3 - deja-dup
4 - rsync


I have to choose one of those and my question would it be easy to restore the data on a new machine ?


Best Regards

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