(maybe the python version helps convince a few people it isn’t malware?)

A screencap on peertube would convince me it does not blow my ears off.

It was a known bug, I assume it is fixed now that Linus merged it.

Curious too. I tried running bcachefs last year and with the combination of compression and encryption everything ended up corrupted very very fast.

and this has led to a rampant monopolisation of the init system.

You will be shocked if you find out that virtually every distro runs on the same kernel. Pure monopolisation! For the freedom to choose!

Gnome. Feels most polished and least cluttered to me.

Using a different Proton Version

Have you tried turning off Proton compatibility layer? Afaik CSGO runs natively on Linux

Yes they do. Microcontrollers contain a microprocessor that is optimized for branching instructions and already include memory and peripheral interfaces which are connected directly to the processor bus (opposed to general purpose CPUs).

Gnome Boxes is also great for simple stuff on Linux. Besides there is virt-manager as GUI for libvirt. On macOS UTM is a good free and open source tool.

I can’t tell about the rest of your plan, but what is important for federation to work properly is to use your previous signing key. You should retrieve that from your backup. If you do not use the same key, it is possible that other servers that previously communicated with your (old) server will reject communication with new server if the keys do not match.

Fedora is a great distro for development (used by Torvalds himself ;-).

If RAM is a problem you could try using ZRAM. Unlike the name suggests, this compresses data in RAM instead of swapping to disk, so that more data fits in there than normally available. Fedora for example uses zswapzram by default with a value of max(0.5*RAM, 4GB) but can be configured to utilise more.

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EDIT: confused zswap and zram

I don’t feel like this is true anymore. Many distros do not ship vi(m) anymore but only nano.

I recently gave it a try after seeing dessalines recommending it. It is pretty cool but years of vim muscle memory won’t go away so easily :D