The problem with CachyOS is that it’s arch-based, which is fine, but I wouldn’t recommend it for people who aren’t willing to deal with arch problems and be familiar (or willing to learn) using the CLI. I normally just point people to either mint or bazzite depending on how many games they play.

once installed, what everyone and their uncle forgot to mention during the rave reviews (and you kinda glossed over) is that a steam account is fucking mandatory. like, you can’t even log in, switch to desktop mode, change resolution, nada. …

This is not true. When you download the installer from their website there is a prompt asking you if you want a Desktop-first install or the Steam-mode first install. The desktop install boots directly into KDE or Gnome just like any other distro, and doesn’t require a steam account, but will come with the steam launcher pre installed.

I get that it’s not great UX to put install options like that in the website but If you’re going to go on a long rant about how awful it is, please at least put a fraction of that effort into seeing if you’re actually right.

If you chose to download the steam gaming mode version I think it’s understandable that the expectation is that you have a steam account. The whole point of that mode to begin with is that it replicates the experience you’d get on the steam deck, so you can make your own home-console PC or install it on a handheld like the Lenovo or ASUS ones. It’s not really designed around regular desktop use.

Side note, I haven’t used it much yet but so far bazzite has been working fine on my i7 7700hq + 1050ti laptop with the same ram and storage as yours that I got because it couldn’t run Windows 11. It should be about as powerful as yours, maybe slightly weaker on the CPU side and slightly better on the GPU side. Have you looked into it being maybe some weird driver issue with your laptop’s power management? It could maybe have something to do with that.

nixpkgs is still kicking off their build pipeline, they’ll be here in 4 days

They haven’t released Android 16 QPR1 to AOSP yet, even though it came out on Pixels at the beginning of September. Normally the gap is ~1-2 days.

So yeah, a lot of custom rom devs are pretty bleak right now and honestly their concerns are pretty warranted given that it’s Google we’re talking about.

That’s the thing though. If I’m going to need to be on-call tech support then Linux isn’t actually a better option then Windows. Sure it would be more private and less sucky but if the computer doesn’t actually work then that doesn’t mean anything. I’m willing to make ad-hoc workarounds to my own problems because I’m a software developer and don’t mind falling down a rabbit hole to get something like push-to-talk working with a custom pipewire script. My friends who want to play games and relax when they get home from work are understandably not willing to go through that hassle.

I’d love for Linux to be ready for daily driving but for most people I know it just isn’t. Maybe when Wayland desktops are more mature but I’m not going to make people choose between functioning shortcuts (X11) and functioning monitors (Wayland).

I could never get any of my friends on Linux (maybe I’ll be able to now that Windows 10 is dying) but I was able to get everyone on prism instantly because it’s just a better launcher than the official one in every possible way (it’s also on Windows and MacOS)

If it’s only for them then they shouldn’t mind getting their Wayland protocol veto privilege taken away 🤷

If you are fine with having things on the same OS, look into distrobox. It would let you set up an Ubuntu environment/container on top of your Bazzite install. You could also use something like OSX-KVM for MacOS with GPU passthrough (assuming you use a compatible GPU) which would simplify your setup greatly. That way you could technically have all 3 environments on one OS with one set of hardware but now the only thing being virtualized is MacOS.

(You could also dual-boot with MacOS if you wanted and it would be slightly faster than a VM but also more of a headache to setup)

Edit: Missed that you mentioned Windows but the setup for that would be pretty much the exact same as MacOS except getting GPU passthrough to work on Windows is easier (again, same limitations as MacOS though, and games with anticheats would be able to tell that Windows is in a VM).

I use refind also, there should be a setting somewhere to let refind scan entries from other EFI partitions. I have that setup and just created a second EFI partition for my Linux setup, so that Windows has no idea Linux even exists. I even have everything running off of the same drive (my laptop only has one nvme slot) and I haven’t had any issues.

The ghost doesn’t get a gravestone

Did some digging and I think it’s these projects:

https://github.com/BlackBoxMC/blackboxmc-rs

https://github.com/BlackBoxMC/blackboxmc

Kitty has multiplexing built in so it can also replace a lot of what tmux does (unless you’re using tmux over ssh)

… and are keeping the hate to the appropriate boards (X, I believe it’s called nowadays). Should we contract his work and apply it where applicable?

There is no “appropriate board” for hate speech, whether it’s antisemitism, transphobia, or anything else. If you wouldn’t want someone to be a nazi in your office, why would you pay them if you know they’re a nazi somewhere else? Is it fine as long as it’s someone else’s problem?

On another level, if you had to pay a developer, and you have reason to think they might donate the money you give them to an antisemitic cause, or directly use it to fund their own antisemitism, would you still want to give them that money? Or maybe look elsewhere, even if it means getting something slightly worse?

OP mentioned having used Linux for 4 weeks. If they are interested in learning more about Linux, I feel like even Arch would be a better next step.

I love NixOS and have been using it for over a year at this point but sometimes when things don’t work I feel like I’m banging my head against a wall. I’ve been using Linux for ~7 years now.

It’s not magic, it’s adoption rates. I’m not saying the money or resources are useless, but as it is right now, I think more people would benefit from actually trying to use rust in more large-scale projects (like R4L, windows, android, redox, servo, etc.) and using that experience to inform actual language development. I don’t think it makes sense to do a full revamp of the compiler until projects like those are actually proven. In the meantime it makes more sense to allocate funding/dev resources to those projects (or at least the open source ones)

revamp Rust to produce lightweight binaries, have a stable compiler and for it to be way quicker in compilation

It really isn’t that simple though. Rust’s compiler isn’t stable because the language itself is still being improved. This type of thing will only improve as adoption increases and real-world problems get ironed out. You can’t just throw money and devs at it and expect the problem to be solved.

It’s also not like the developers don’t care about compile time, but the nature of the language (strict compiler checks which catch things before runtime) will inherently lead to something slower that other languages’ compilers. There are probably still improvements they can make, but it’s not as simple as just deciding to rewrite/revamp it and expecting massive speedups.

Dots!

They don’t work for discord in hyprland unfortunately, it only works when I have discord tabbed in (I tried passing the shortcuts in the hyprland config file)

AFAIK kde’s way of doing it is kind of hacky because it was called something like “legacy global keybinds” in settings but I switched off KDE a few months ago so I don’t remember the exact details.

Can we get actually working global keybinds in Wayland next? Or is that a chromium/electron problem?

Rust is only huge because it doesn’t have an ABI. If you had an ABI (and didn’t have to compile every single dependency into the binary) the binary sizes would probably drop a lot to the point where they’re only slightly bigger than a C counterpart

Edit: I don’t know if Go has an ABI but they also include a runtime garbage collector in their binaries so that probably has something to do with it.