Yeah that sounds even better. What service do you use?

Realized today that borgbackup failed for almost 2 months straight on one of my servers (was a simple case of a lock being stuck). Finally setup push notifications via Pushover to notify on success/fail.

I’d honestly stick to proven, well-supported distros like openSUSE Tumbleweed, Fedora or Ubuntu, especially as a newcomer.

Tumbleweed. Rolling release with automated testing (openQA), snapper properly setup out of the box.

Honestly the entire openSUSE ecosystem. Tumbleweed on my main PC that often has some of the latest hardware, Slowroll on my (Framework) laptop because it’s rolling but slower (monthly feature updates, only fixes in-between), and Leap for servers where stability (as in version/compatibility stability, not “it doesn’t crash” stability) is appreciated.

openSUSE also comes in atomic flavors for those interested. And it’s European should you care.

With all that being said, I don’t really care much about what distro I’m using. What I do with it could be replicated with pretty much any distro. For me it’s mostly just a means to an end.

Would be awesome if you’d share your solution for the next person encountering the same issue :)

What exact GPU model? Kernel version? Have you tried it with SELinux disabled temporarily?

While I agree that Proton is awesome, running a game originally released for PS3/360 with enhanced visuals at 60 FPS (instead of 30ish) on a 1660 Ti is hardly anything to write home about.

You’re joking but you could totally have 10 digital (or analog) clocks - in different time zones if you want - that popup a calendar with events from one or multiple of 10 different calendars in different colors and you can also set the popups to stay pinned until manually closed if you want to. KDE’s widget system is extremely versatile.

Yeah, in general Windows 11 just assumes a lot of things “for” the user, and if you don’t like it you’re often out of luck or have to resort to third party tools to restore previous functionality.

Try KDE Plasma, you can put one clock on your second monitor that opens a calendar…or 10. Whatever you want, really.

To be honest I think most issues Intel Arc has under Linux just come down to the tiny user base. Intel provides solid Linux support, I’d say it’s probably on par with AMD.

Proton and such will have more incompatibilities, as will Mesa. You can report issues with specific games in Valve’s proton repository. Sometimes someone will have a workaround for you, and usually issues will be fixed eventually, especially if you’re willing to test changes and provide feedback.

TIL Plasma can generate QR codes for clipboard items. Very handy.