Switched to Arch Linux (Holy Shit whyd i wait so damn long) (Prepare for insanely shit English!)

Recently as of typing this ive switched to arch linux on my 15 year old shittop 2nd gen intel (yeah REAL good.) 4 gigs of ram and the stinky ol hard drive.


Despite the HORRIBLE specs this mfer has Its been a Great machine for simple stuff like light gaming web browsing casual youtube etc. so ###dows was just a REALLY shitty messy it was slow and it was so bad that it took. im not lying it LITERALLY TOOK 10 whole minutes to boot 5 minutes to open the web browser and the games took a REALLY long time to load and not to mention half life 2 ran like complete shit because of how bad ###dows is. So ive made my choice to Switch to Linux

Im not an experienced user (well i technically kinda am) ive been using linux for a whole year and decided instead of using mint i could try arch

Boy did i not actually expect to Love This goddamn thing so much to the point where im considering to put it on my slightly better main machine the hp prodesk 600 g2 at a good ol 6ths gen with 8 gigs of ddr4 and an ssd

Basically did the good steps write the iso using DD image thing (golden thing to do if i wanted to install a linux distro since linux loves DD) eventually i booted to the live environment loaded iwd connected to my internet got started

Took a Few Tries But Mainly it worked but i just decided to install everything after i actually boot to the install

What i did was installed Grub The linux-linux kernel if u want me to specify it that bad got the firmware and base all of the goodies i can do to make a full install (sorta) eventually after i finished i rebooted to my hard drive booted first try shockingly. and eventually connected the internet from there and Installed the DE the DM (display manager i suppose) and xorg wayland all that good stuff. i eventually settled on installing xfce KDE plasma full package and your typical shit

What i did after finally finishing my shit

was well...P-Pokemon Games!

all jokes aside i was just getting my emulators games preffered web browser (Floorp) and then started using it for the past 6 hours never seen any issues loved the experience and overrall it was insanely light it could multi task and the best about it the 20 second boot time MAJOR Improvement apps open instantly Freedom hits harder than a goddamn jet running at u at full speed. and just DUDE loved it THAT much. eventually after all that shit i started posting well. This. and since im loving arch as far as im using it well for an ancient nividia card and ancient iGPU call that a win because holy shit its very usable. made my device a goddamn turtle lifting 5 thousand kilos to an F1 formula car with infinite gas. at FULL speed

What Was Your opinion on arch or LInux in general please let me Know ill try and respond as much as possible and obviously (sorry for my shitty english) and mainly the long rant and talk i geniuenly hope u like reading this i had spent too much time typing this so thank you if u read it all the way here

Peace!

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I really want to start using Linux

Im hesitant on installing mainly because I use my PC primarily for gaming and if it so happens a new game releases and it has kernel level anti cheat what am I supposed to do unless there is Linux os that supports this? Also I heard nvidia has issue on Linux if that's true



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better tha Notion, AFFiNE uses a modular block-based system where every line of text or content you create is a “block”. They can be moved, duplicated, and nested, which is what gives you more flexibility over the way you structure your notes- Unlike many other free note-takers
https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE

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UPDATE added Live Tiles to Win8DE
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Firefox now supports the XDG base directory specification
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/147.0/releasenotes

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TechPowerUp Readers Willing to Move Away from Windows after Windows 10 EOL: Frontpage Poll
https://www.techpowerup.com/345267/techpowerup-readers-willing-to-move-away-from-windows-after-windows-10-eol-frontpage-poll

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curl to discontinue its HackerOne / bug bounty due to "too strong incentives to find and make up 'problems' in bad faith that cause overload and abuse."
https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/20312

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The NexPhone is an upcoming phone that can boot desktop Linux along with Android (and Microslop Windows 11) - made for USB-C docking to monitors
https://nexphone.com/

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ct (Command Trace) is a Bash command resolution tracer that explains how Bash resolves a command and what the kernel ultimately executes.
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Flathub has been marked as malicious by Seclookup. Is there any reason for why this might be the case?
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What happened to KNode by KDE?

I remember using KNode back in the day and enjoying it quite a bit. It was better than reading the news off the website and it was nice having everything centralized.

KNode is long discontinued though. Does anyone know what happened to it or why it was discontinued/isn't maintained any longer?

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Are you worried about the shift away from x86?

Edit: This post is about the incompatibility issue between kernel's communication with hardware in ARM computers, which isn't an issue in x86.

During the era of early computing, when 8-bit and 16-bit computers were the norm, there was an issue with computers being incompatible with each other. Even the systems that had exactly the same processor models, like Apple II and Commodore 64, or Amiga and Macintosh, were so different architecturally that they required separate ports of programs or third-party operating systems like CP/M and later, Linux.

On x86, we are very lucky for computers to be mostly compatible in each other, because they were designed around compatibility with the IBM PC, which later evolved into the Wintel architecture we have today.

Unlike on ARM or RISC-V, on x86 you have standards that allow you to boot any operating system without making special changes, unlike on ARM. You can display graphics, get input from keyboard and mouse, play audio and use USB and Ethernet ports by using standard APIs every x86 computer implements. In contrast, on ARM and RISC-V you have to have a specific image for your computer or a device, because there's no fallback you can rely on unlike on x86.

Are you afraid of risk of returning to the past, where running Linux was difficult on anything that wasn't x86 with the decline of the architecture?

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Should I Use Docker?

So I understand Docker is a great way to stop certain services and have them isolated from each other.

But my Linux system will be the system.

It's only going to run Plex, a few other related bits, Pihole and a torrent program to keep sharing Linux distros and such.

None of it particularly needs to be isolated from each other so should I run these things in Docker or just as normal programs on the system?

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APRS Packet Radio Comms with Direwolf on NixOS to contol Radio Transceiver via Digirig Interface
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smrTgJLs9Hg

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It's Hamr Time! - Hamr Gone Rusty~
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I have released dodo pdf reader v0.6.0
https://github.com/dheerajshenoy/dodo

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Prominent Intel Compiler Engineer Heads Off To AMD
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Compiler-Expert-Now-AMD

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30 years of ReactOS
https://reactos.org/blogs/30yrs-of-ros/

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GitHub - Ewwii-sh/ewwii: An eww rewrite that is powerful, flexible, and extensible.
https://github.com/Ewwii-sh/ewwii

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Is it true that Linux don't have good language support? If yes, why don't we fix it?

I've been seeing people say Linux has bad support for anything not English, like crappy IME/input methods for CJK, RTL text getting messed up, fonts looking janky, or apps just ignoring your locale. One rant post called it "pretty poor" overall for non-English stuff, and there's tons of complaints about Wayland breaking IMEs or Steam ignoring East Asian input.

Is this still actually still an issue now, or is it overblown? If it's real, why isn't the community throwing more at i18n/input fixes? Kinda kills adoption in non-English countries. What do you non-anglos think, if there even are any of you here?

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GitHub - jw/brt: Btop in Rust
https://github.com/jw/brt

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