Its not a complete list but check out https://distrosea.com/

If you are working on a pi, you have to pay attention to the architecture that a distro supports.

As someone that tends to learn most by doing. Most of these comments are excellent my only suggestion is to try it. Most Linux distros come with live images which you dont need to install to test out.

Just download the ISO and put it on a USB and then boot from the usb. You can even make a multiboot USB with ventoy.

Or you can use distrosea to demo a distro in a browser.

I also highly suggest using the arch wiki for research. It will probably go into much more depth than you need at first but it will also not dumb things down or over simplify things for you so you might actually learn. Take this doc on what a DE is for instance, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_environment

What do you mean by a driver manager? I’m not familiar with that term, it sounds like a gui for managing and updating drivers. Or maybe you want something to help you switch between integrated graphics on your cpu to your dedicated gpu?

In most cases, updating drivers doesn’t require a GUI and can actually create more work. For instance, compare this Manjaro video of how to use its gui to install Nvidia drivers vs this line of code to install/update the Nvidia drivers on endeavorOS.

eos-update --nvidia

Ofcourse if you use an arch based distro you can also use the arch wiki to help you manage your drivers exactly the way you want. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA

If you want to control which apps use your GPU or integrated graphics, than you can just install prime and prepend a package name with the string prime-run when opening or in steam launch settings.

I used to like Manjaro but they way they handled the recent pacman changes were so terrible that I no longer recommend it. It still has a great GUI and I think other arch based distros could learn from.

Totally. I have one of the newer pixels and it’s on the smaller side relatively, but it’s the biggest phone I can use comfortably.

I wear a size medium glove and it’s insane to me that it’s hard to find a phone I can use comfortably in one hand.

At the same time, I’ve started to realize that I should do less with my phone anyway. So I really don’t need it to do to much besides get a good reception and have a day or so of battery life. The most demanding thing I’ve asked my phone to do recently was to emulate some Nintendo games and run llama3.2:1B. But both things are better done either on a device meant to perform that workload or via a self hosted server where my phone is just a client.

I’m with you on those specs. Maybe the best features of new phones is the water resistance. Idk of its possible to have both water resistance and removable batteries and SD cards, but I miss being able to swap out to a fully charged battery or upgrade the storage at a whim. If I hadn’t choose tho, id stick with the water resistance.

So to add to your specs I’d like:

• water resistance
• 256 SD card minimum
• battery last 24hr minimum
• ability to switch from WiFi to cell mid call
• don’t need more than a 1080p oled display on a phone
• comes without any bloatware preinstalled
• runs linux with ability to sudo

I think Oranges were named before Carrots. What are these? They’re orange…oranges What about these? Oh shit…long pointys?

Demitri Martin

For anyone that is dyslexic and privacy conscious it’s a pretty big deal.

Its also nice for anyone that is only privacy conscious.

Freetube is great, the android version has a few bugs so sometimes I use newpipe instead.

NewPipe hasn’t worked ever since the last 2 months

Weird, it’s been working just fine for me using version 0.27.2

Here is HurricanePootis pinned comment in the AUR.

So, I am going to pin this post.

For now, I am pointing this package to https://git.naxdy.org/Mirror/Ryujinx as it has tags, which is useful for this package.

I am against deleting this package, as with yuzu and citra, forks will arise and then these packages will be resurrected (sometimes by less skilled maintainers cough cough citra). Therefore, I am going to keep an eye out to see where Ryujinx development goes, and go on from there.

Didn’t know that the dreamcast version was superior. I’ll have to check that out.

I could be wrong but I don’t think that the decomp/recomp tools are available for Dreamcast the way they are for n64. Like if I want a game to run natively on Linux without an emulator whike doing things like raytracing then it seems like the n64 games would be where I’d have to start.

Unless there are decomp/recomp tools for the dreamcast?

How easy is it to decomp these games? I really want to play Star Wars Episode I: Racer on Linux with raytracing and all that.

I also like that the only type of MFA that all 3 agencies implement is text/phone call. Cause likes there’s nonway someone could spoof a phone number and then unfreeze your credit.

OK but have you ran x11 on Ubuntu inside WSL from the Windows terminal?

WSL is the only way I’ll use Windows for work.

I second magic earth for driving. The only reason I haven’t entirely removed Google maps from my phone yet is because magic earth doesn’t have data on business hours. This is the last killer feature I’m waiting for.

In the meantime I’m routing for any open source map that can do live traffic and business info.

I’m on the verge.

After a man date, I like to do a man touch and man mount.

I’m pretty happy with total launcher in combination with app search since I didn’t like totals app drawer.

Edit: I just found OpenLauncher and I’m going to test that out.

I really like simplex but there should be a way to easily migrate accounts to another device or add devices on an account.

The last time I tried it, I had to set up different accounts for each device I use to communicate which is less than ideal.