Not at all with RPMFusion.

Hannah Montana Linux

And Intel laid off 25K people to cut costs. What else is new?

Also Minecraft and Stardew Valley.

I have an RTX 4090 and use the proprietary driver. It works just fine on Fedora and Windows 11 alike. So IDK what to tell you. AMD and Intel are even easier since the drivers are baked into the Linux kernel. I have an AMD iGPU in my desktop and an Intel one in my laptop. Both work just fine and handle power management correctly.

Any halfways decent GPU driver and device firmware will put it into a low power state when it’s idle.

Waste time configuring things and troubleshooting things when your ultra custom system breaks.

I use normal KDE because I don’t know how much of a hassle it would be to put everything in containers and use flatpaks for everything.

The distro is designed to be a bulletproof, highly user-friendly operating system that showcases the best of KDE technology—a system that KDE can confidently recommend to casual users and hardware manufacturers.

So it looks like there will finally be a distribution that Windows, Mac, and ChromeOS users can jump to and just start using without having to learn much and with a much better and more familiar GUI than GNOME.

Why? What’s the issue with Snap? Is Flatpak any better?

I use Fedora KDE but this one sounds like exactly what I need. I primarily use Linux for software dev and web browsing and Windows for gaming and Office.

I keep it default but with dark mode. And that’s perfect for me. I wouldn’t want it to look or function any other way.

KDE Plasma and I refuse to use anything else on Linux unless there’s no choice.

Fedora

Why does it only use one core?

Meanwhile the Broadcom VideoCore is completely undocumented and only works with their kernels.

Secureboot and DMA are two different and AFAIK unrelated things. Secureboot primarily exists to ensure that only trusted OS kernels are run on a particular device. Otherwise someone could just boot their own OS installation from wherever and then have it access your storage and other devices and thus compromise your machine. I am not entirely sure how it works but I think it uses cryptographic signatures for kernels and drivers that aren’t built into a kernel. I know that on Linux with Secureboot on if you want to use certain dynamically loaded drivers then they have to be signed. I prefer not to deal with all that so I just disable it in the firmware because no cyber criminal has physical access to my PC anyway.

DMA is just a way to get data from peripherals without CPU intervention. Without DMA every time a peripheral wanted to send your machine data it would have to trigger an interrupt (or be polled continuously) which the OS would catch and then read the data from the device. This isn’t really super practical with modern hardware hence DMA allows peripheral devices to write directly to the system’s main memory without the CPU (or the OS that runs on it) being involved at all. Then the kernel can read that data from memory whenever it sees fit to do so.

By contrast, Windows is a microkernel. It only creates an API layer for the hardware vendor to write a driver that interfaces with Windows.

NT is a hybrid kernel that is nearly monolithic.

Also you don’t seem to understand what the difference between a microkernel and a monolithic kernel is. The defining difference is what mode and address space drivers and non-core kernel subsystems run in. If they run in the higher half in a privileged CPU mode like the base kernel then you have a monolithic kernel. If they run in userspace as one or more programs then you have a microkernel. If some run in kernel space and others run in userspace you have a hybrid kernel. And if your kernel exposes hardware interfaces directly to application programs providing only protection and multiplexing of them between programs and shared libraries are used to interact with those interfaces then you have an exokernel. If the kernel mimics the underlying hardware to each program running on top of it and let’s them think they’re running on the hardware directly then you don’t have a kernel at all you have a type II hypervisor.

The Orange Pi 5 is a completely standard Rockchip RK3588S board. That SoC has complete driver support in Linux, and pretty good support on Windows as well.

I can’t speak to any other Orange Pi products as that is the only one I have.

If all you want to run is their essentially proprietary spins of Linux then go overpay for a Raspberry Pi.

If you actually want freedom of choice for software and universally good driver support then ditch ARM and go for good old x86 based SBCs like the Radxa X4 which is in the same price range and has better performance while also being a completely standard Intel N series (formerly Celeron) based PC.

Shit like this is why I don’t have high hopes for ARM based PCs no matter how hard Microsoft, Qualcomm, Nvidia, and MediaTek push for them. x86 and its ecosystem have basically perfected the formula for machines with standardized software interfaces and peripherals with the sole exception being GPUs which will always be a PITA on any platform.

Even if you want to only talk about Linux while the kernel itself may support a fuck ton of architectures all the rest of the software you might want to use is only guaranteed to work on x86. On everything else it may or may not work well and for proprietary stuff it may not even be ported to other architectures at all.