Semperverus

I have been using Arch for a half a decade at this point and its worked out well for me. I like how its very stable despite being bleeding edge (relatively speaking). It’s made gaming a lot easier, and I was pleasantly surprised when Valve announced SteamOS was switching to it as a base.

A lot of people have varying levels of purism when it comes to linux, and it sounds like your friend dipped his toes in with Arch and realized “not pure enough” and then jumped in on the deep end with Gentoo. At the end of the day, Linux is Linux no matter which distro you pick, but each distro highlights different strengths and weaknesses of it. Its all about the package managers, the repository contents, and the maintainers. Occasionally, technical support might matter.

So, pick whichever distro you like, move around a bit to see what has the least papercuts for you, and then stick with that until you can’t anymore.

Are those NVMe GPUs? Where can one obtain such things?

I wasn’t trolling, but okay. I probably should stop arguing with a bot designed to astro turf for big corporate data ownership.

Getting a little touchy are we? Try deep breaths, it helps with the anger issues 😉

Ahh there it is, I knew you’d do that.

I abide by my own lectures, I am actively putting effort into it and am 99% of the way there, which is 100% more than you.

Been slowly chipping away at those for the last decade (could have gone way faster but I’m lazy), and I’m almost completely google-free. I dont use any microsoft products at home (work forces me to), and Apple can eat my ass. My phone is a completely de-googled GrapheneOS device (I don’t have an issue relying on companies for hardware, just software), and hopefully in the future a Liberux or Pinephone linux phone.

I self-host my own movies, music, and cloud storage. I also host my own chat service for friends and family, built on top of XMPP. The services i do use are generally very privacy respecting like Signal for people outside of my social sphere, or freedom respecting like Lemmy (mostly weaned off of reddit).

Any time you rely on another company to handle your data, you are beholden to their whims, end of story. Don’t like what they’re doing? Too bad. Give up the convenience and host it yourself, or continue to be a slave to their corporate interests.

You can stream remotely via jellyfin if you expose your server to the internet. VPN is safer but not the only option.

And nothing of value was lost

You can have mixed emotions.

“DUDE it would be so rad if we supported Linux! Gotta get a bunch of things cleared first and get permission to take on the extra overhead for testing and… But LINUX SUPPORT!”

That meme doesnt really work the way you want it to here. I get what you’re going for but that’s one hell of a stretch.

Nvidia drivers

Thats cool, but it doesn’t clear the onus of proof.

It doesnt really matter and they owe us nothing, but it sure would clear up a LOT of the kiwi farms drama if they did. At present, kiwi farms has better evidence than you do.

That’s definitely a picture of a laptop.

What you’re referring to as Linux is actually SystemD/GRUB/GNU/Linux/Wayland+Pipewire+XDG/Desktop Environment Window Manager Stack

Written by Michael Larabel in Radeon on 10 April 2025 at 05:46 AM EDT. 12 Comments RADEON Mesa’s Radeon Vulkan driver “RADV” is now exposing its emulated ray-tracing support by default for older AMD Radeon GPUs even without any form of hardware-accelerated ray-tracing in order to run the new Indiana Jones game. It turns out even the emulated RT mode is fast enough to allow various older AMD Radeon graphics cards to be playable with this title.

Natalie Vock has landed the change to expose the emulated Vulkan ray-tracing extensions by default when running Indiana Jones and The Great Circle “TGC”. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was released for Windows back in December and powered by the Motor Engine. It requires ray-tracing support but it turns out RADV’s emulated support is good enough for allowing older GPUs to enjoy this action-adventure game.

Indiana Jones The Great Circle logo

Vock explained in the merge request:

"Various people have been playing Indiana Jones: The Great Circle with RADV_PERFTEST=emulate_rt on GFX9/GFX10. RT support is required to launch the game, and performance is okay even with emulation, so enable it by default to make the game playable for everyone running older (GFX8-10) GPUs."

AMD GFX8 is for the Polaris GPUs along with Volcanic Islands and Arctic Islands. Amazing to see AMD Radeon RX 480/580 Polaris GPUs still working for newer games on Linux.

This change is now in Mesa 25.1-devel while those on current Mesa releases with older Radeon GPUs can always set the RADV_PERFTEST=emulate_rt environment variable to achieve the same behavior.

Don’t reject connections to port 22, honeypot it and ban on connection attempt.

Emacs is a lovely operating system used by many. I think it also has a text editor.

It’s a text editor?

Emacs