does ddg not have its own search backend anymore?

you won’t need a dedicated monitor if you use Looking Glass

i mean it’s in the name:
FEDiverse

free and open not free open

mr president???

passive/active are just 2 modes you can select between and active is simply better so for me there’s literally 0 problems

scrcpy?

afaik it’s just the msi pro -a z690/z790 boards

yeah i play ksp and rainworld with coreboot+disabled ME thinkpad t430 and it’s fine (coreboot has no performance penalties)

the only thing coreboot broke in my instance was the passive (cpufreq) powersave cpu scaler for my cpu, but I could just switch to the active (intel_pstate) powersave cpu scaler which is better anyway

are there modern desktop motherboards/chipsets/bioses that let you disable ME though? the z690/z790 are the only ones that I know can run coreboot (ignoring laptop motherboards), but I thought that still had to run ME?

you can do two spaces
at the end of a line then newline to keep that newline in the formatting

it keeps like line spacing unlike with double newlines

gives off the same ‘solution looking for a problem’ vibes as corporate marketing around ai lmao

I don’t like it because it’s placing an objective statement on a subjective matter. it’s also apparently run by a single person (which is understandable given what it needs to do) but I just don’t like the vibes that gives off.

I think it’d be a lot better if it just stated objective things (e.g. where their funding comes from, the corporate relationships, country they’re based in)

waydroid (if you don’t install a wayland based de)

The statistic isn’t saying that 50% of Linux gamers use steam, it’s saying that Linux gamers are ~1/2 as likely to use steam for games when compared to gamers on other platforms. these are very different things.

~50% of Linux gamers using steam is only true if you assumed every gamer on the other platforms used steam

btw i hate the term ‘gamer’ but it’s just convenient to use here :(

so a disproportionately large amount (2x) of Linux gamers don’t use steam? that doesn’t sound right to me with how good steam is on Linux

it’s usually ironic lmao

wow that sounds so handy, thanks

debian packages will work on debian based distros usually, etcetc

fedora calls their kedoras and ludoras “spins”, but I haven’t used fedora so can’t say how good they are

basically there’s the big 3 (debian, arch, fedora) and everything else is just them with presets (ui, drivers, etc)

debian uses apt, arch uses pacman, fedora uses dnf for packaging, so packages (app executables) aren’t intercompatible and so you usually have some apps that aren’t available on on or the other

usually debian had everything, arch has everything with workarounds, idk about fedora

anyway the tree is like:

debian

• ubuntu
  • kubuntu
  • lubuntu

fedora

• nobara

arch

• manjaro

with DEs you should see which ones you like by testing them out, if you get the debian netinstaller you can select however many you want in the install process and you can switch between them at boot with the dropdown menu in the login prompt

Honestly build quality matters more than specs if you’re not gaming in my opinion, that’s why old thinkpads are so popular

I personally got burned by a shitty modern laptop because I only looked at the specs and nothing else

I’m talking about things like:

• chassis sturdiness
• laptop foot grippiness
• hinge quality
• touchpad quality/has trackpoint
• battery longevity (very important)
• display colour accuracy/viewing angles
• keyboard tactility/travel/flex

These things are harder to research but they’re imo way more important than specs