They are more energy efficient and better quality. At the very least get a bronze rated one. Only use reputable brands. A bad or cheap PSU could be defective and fry all the parts connected to your board and cause a fire.

Wydm? Rockchip copied their code, changed the license and didnt attribute FFmpeg. FFmpeg is a small team of enthusiasts who are responsible for plenty of important innovation and remain largely unpaid even with such substantial widespread use of their code in like SOOOO MANY big software projects. It isn’t their fault that people aren’t following the simple rules of the license to use their code.

I tried Waterfox and didnt really get it? Why use it over for example Zen or Librewolf? It just seemed way to close to Firefox but like with a couple of preinstalled extensions. Idk, just wasn’t for me.

My browser(s) is just a tool. I use many browsers for different things. I wish there were good alternatives to the main browser engines (Gecko, Blink, WebKit), but I am fine with just using good derivative browsers like Librewolf, Mullvad, Cromite, etc.

I would prefer webapps to native if there was a protocol to fully load the page and disable network traffic for apps that work fully offline. It is more secure to run an app in the browser because off the layers of isolation in modern browsers. Native apps can access all sorts of information and system resources, which could be used to compromise the host OS.

I would prefer webapps to native if there was a protocol to fully load the page and disable network traffic for apps that work fully offline.

Waterfox is Gecko. I still agree with the comment that mentions it is written by a right-winger. I rather root for Servo, especially because Ladybird is just another web engine written C. Memory safety vulnerabilities are the largest represented class of vulnerabilities discovered every year. Servo being fully written in Rust is a good thing for its security, as long as they also design a strong sandboxing/isolation strategy on all OS platforms.

It is only going to be disabled-by-default

Does Slackware not having rolling releases for packages. I legit know nothing about Slackware other than it isnt for me.

Security and bug fixes have made Plasma 6 run better for me. Wayland support is better now too (which matters to me). Minor features that improve usability. Newer kernel means i can use newer features, which some of the apps I use depend on. The main thing with your setup I was surprised about is that it isn’t an LTS kernel (from what I can tell). If you are just not updating and not using LTS software (i can’t tell), then you are missing plenty of security fixes.

Why are you using KDE5 and an old kernel, and not just having updated software?

I think it is good to link to the original on ccc.de

Proprietary subscription OS, big no for me. Has worse specs than a Google Pixel and probably doesn’t have strong hardware security. Wtf would I not just use a Pixel with GrapheneOS, which is FOSS, heavily deblobbed over base AOSP, and substantial more secure and private. What a weak argument “AphyOS is a subscription operating system, simply because if you don’t pay for a product, you are the product” when GOS is free. They should just sell a phone and guarantee OS updates for (at least) 5 years like any (reasonable) OEM would do if they “care about their users”. The only, and I mean only, feature that I think is interesting is the SD card slot, which isn’t revolutionary.

If you don’t want a Google Pixel because buying it supports Google, get it used in Good or Mint condition from a site like Swappa.com, that way no profit makes it’s way to Google.

At the time, I was running on an very old 2004 Dell Win XP laptop and it still had alright performance.

These days on my full gaming PC, I get amazing MC performance, like 300+ fps vs my friend on W10 gets like 130+ fps.

Linux stays winning!

The permission OP should look for is DRI.

I actually really like GNOME and haven’t had problems yet with extensions. I have it the way I like it, and no matter what I do, I haven’t found features that are half-implemented or broken like on KDE (eg. theme search missing/hiding 90% of themes, desktop effects broken after install, weird crashes, freezing when accessing system apps or app menu). I think Qt is ugly (personal preference) and I prefer libadwaita GTK4 apps for their stability. People are going to hate, but there is no such thing as a perfect project that fits everyone’s needs. I am not saying GNOME is perfect or that it isnt opinionated (i wish app status indicators were supported, ability to modify Flatpak app permission in the system settings, and support for dock/panel), but GNOME is solid and (dare I say it) is a good DE.

Btw I love KDE and it is the DE i am currently using. I also love GNOME. There aren’t really any DEs I hate except maybe Deepin. Any DE that doesn’t support Wayland (or doesn’t plan on it) is not something thst I ever plan on using because security and stability are BIG requirements for me, I don’t like technical debt or legacy cruft.

As I mentioned, most security vulnerabilities are not reported because it may not seem security related. The distro maintainers can’t keep up with every package and read all the commits, so as a result security fixes often go unfocused. It is a real big problem that many security researchers acknowledged.

I still would never recommend a “stable release” or LTS distro because the vast majority of security vulnerabilities never receive a CVE, and as a result the a large amount of vulnerabilities go unpatched for months. Also I like distros that take security seriously (Fedora and openSUSE).

Only game I played on Linux before Proton was Minecraft Java (cracked) for Ubuntu in like 2014.

It has to do with LTS kernel (iirc) making it incompatible with certain new(er) hardware. I recommend Fedora KDE.

Why is it better? KDE has more features and first-class Wayland support. If I wanted an X11 DE, I would choose XFCE because of its general clean code and performance.