This most difficult one is probably the fact that 99% of people do not install their operating system.

The device they purchase needs to have a clean and elegant out of box experience like the Mac. Regular folk who are willing to stray from windows don’t consider any computer that doesn’t come off the shelf with sane defaults. Everything else is arcane to them.

We are not those people. I have to remind myself that not everyone likes to build their own systems.

I do have a friend who wants to buy a framework laptop with Fedora on it because that’s what they use in the Laboratory he works in but he doesn’t want to assemble it himself he just wants it to come like that.

I think we’re getting there finally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w1MPd_Y7EE

I’m pretty sure if you use bazzite-dx you get the virtualization setup as a ujust set-up script

Every one is else is doing piracy while I’m doing “digital content preservation”. These companies would happily send you a letter telling you to destroy all copies of a book In your house if they had the right to. You must resist.

If you game and use ollama and want to try Linux I think you should check out Bluefin-DX as it is specially tooled for Nvidia AI nim and nemo container environment. Nvidia drivers are ready to go.

As for your CPU choice, if you can at some point get over to at minimum 12thgen Intel (11thgen I you’re willing to jump onto ali express ewaste) I think you would see a marked performance improvement overall.

I’m genuinely happy to see people trying out new stuff! I like seeing all the new approaches every distro takes, understanding real use cases, making interesting design decisions at each turn.

This is what it used to be like to be a PC enthusiast and I think it’s great to see computing become personal again.

Now CachyOS I’ve been following for a while and it seems much closer to something like endeavor which is still prone to all the potential issues I’ve experienced before. I’ve moved to ublue Bazzite and bluefin recently because the out of box experience is amazing and updates are pretty much immaculate.

I still don’t understand what Cachy does in its kernel optimization and BORE scheduler properly but I’d love to learn and understand.

Either way, I_see_this_as_an_absolute_win.gif

I’ve actually been using Bazzite-gnome-nvidia image on my main desktop for the past few weeks and I have to say it’s very slick.

My main issue with it is with scaling disabled everything seems slightly big or spaced out in comparison to when I ran windows? I’ve read up and it maybe has something to do with the default fractional scaling but I checked and I’m at 100%.

Other than that I’m very happy with it!

I’ve been gaming on Linux for two years now. I’ve moved on from Nvidia and purchased two AMD GPUs in that time (5700xt and 7800xt). Now that Nvidia is is also providing better support via their drivers, my desktop sporting the GeForce 3090 will also be moving to Bluefin in October.

QNap running QuTS hero or dIY truenas scale

Altera has been selling the Cyclone 2 for a minute now. I have DE10 nanos and MisterFPGA systems. I’m curious to see if the cost of something like the Agilex is going to go up or down and if we’re going to finally see it in retro emulation.

Not verified, steam deck players = free beta testing.

It’s free real estate.

Cool. I was just looking to see if someone had a guide because I’m trying to understand the pitfalls of doing it this way and I’m curious if anyone else has opened up Jellyfin to the world.

Does anyone have any helpful guides on setting up jellyfin with a certificate so they can privately host it while also keeping it secure and up to date? I think if using docker it would make sense to use compose and configure traeffic proxy and use let’s encrypt for certificates.

Plex takes care of this for you with their cert and authentication systems. I feel like if user management and secure authentication is easy to set up then that is the primary reason to leave Plex. If I can just hand out accounts to anyone whom I would like to access my instance with ease then my family members could easily access it.

If one was to host from the home, using something like tailscale to host it online with forwarding a port would also be ideal.

Thanks

I just want to make sure I read this correctly. It says that if you’re a Plex plass holder already that remote streaming changes won’t affect your service. This means that if I have the lifetime subscription and host my own server than users whom have not payed for Plex pass can continue to access this server without issue correct?

I understand what they say and I like the people who work on freeBSD.

It is a fundamental theological choice to take other people’s work, add your own work, and then choose lock users out from it. Many companies like this approach to protect their intellectual property.

I personally believe that “intellectual property” is fundamentally incompatible with the human experience.

For this reason I will use GPL licensed software as it is designed to protect users from those who exercise their control in bad faith (VMware, Sony).

P.S. GPL enforcement has been pretty toothless lately but in the case of VMWare, if I recall correctly, this pretty much ruined the busybox project.

This is funny. I feel like I see a “which arch is better” post almost everyday now.

A lot of people I think would be well suited to be on Bluefin or Bazzite. I really can’t sing the praises of it enough. It has a ton of well developed resources and the Appstore is flatpak centric. It really does give you that ChromeOS like experience for the average user.

End users should really be nowhere near package management. They should just be able to run the apps they want and expect them to work.

Sure. When selecting Nvidia GPU under Bazzite you will see this message “Steam Gaming Mode support is available for your hardware in beta, but multiple known issues exist in these builds. Please note that the majority of bugs cannot be fixed except by your GPU manufacturer.”

BazziteOS for the win. I used ChimeraOS for a year but Bazzite has been much better. It comes out of the box with most everything you need.

With that being said for gaming, Nvidia driver is very early days and is considered experimental under Bazzite. I have several Nvidia GPUs and I regularly test Linux with a 2070+Intel tiger lake machine to see what works and what doesn’t.

I purchased a Radeon 7800xt for Bazzite and it’s extremely stable. This will probably be my recommendation going forward.

I built a steam gaming PC for my livingroom using Bazzite, a minisforum BD790i, and a Radeon 7800xt. I love it and there is NO going back for me at this point.

(P.S. Decky Gen plugin fixes a lot of weird issues on games that support DLSS by letting you slip in far 3.1 or XESS in it’s place + frame gen. I’ve even been able to get ray tracing running decently with this method)