FWIW most of us don’t like red hat and absolutely despise ibm 😅

rpmfusion is generally safe in my experience. They have dedicated repos for FOSS, as well as nonfree ones, including steam and nvidia’s proprietary gfx drivers. I’d sooner equate fedora copr to aur rather than rpmfusion, which I think is more thoroughly scrutinised.

You can grab the codecs directly from Discover directly from the Fedora project. This is how it looks for me on gnome: .

You shouldn’t need to enable any third party repos, though i think the option is presented to a user as part of installation onboarding.

I’ve never had issues with the steam rpm or flatpak on fedora. I use the former almost daily.

to be clear: this is 40 games verified for standalone mode, not streaming from a host system,

kinda of a raw deal given the effort valve has already put into fex emu (and likely, into the turnip mesa driver as well).

not that qualcomm seem to care much about desktop Linux, though that may change with oobe (and the expectations therein) for llm shit.

I’d love for that to be the case but they’ve no incentive to significantly undercut the big three

thank you for sharing. love metrolist and the idea of having a desktop equivalent.

There’s also pear desktop but it’s sort of a web wrapper for the stock yt music experience, and likely has a comparable memory footprint to your situation having it as a pinned browser tab.

I think they’re referring to the sections below post titles in the main view:

I’ve accidentally scrolled that area. I think it’s scrollable by two fingers? I’m not sure.

thank you for all of the hard work. really appreciate the new fetch speed on the android app

huh, as far as I know, fedora act autonomously as a project, though are very much bankrolled by ibm / redhat. I wasn’t aware of the IDF support on their part. that’s really upsetting, and good to know, thank you.

To your other points, I think .debs will be an easier ecosystem to get to grips with, and the explicit lack of nonfree software by default (including codecs) does indeed introduce a level of friction.

As other commenters have mentioned, it would be neat if you could disable snaps on zorin in favour of flatpak, provided they’ve committed to the ubuntu route of bundling system components under that paradigm. UX wise I don’t think either experience will differ too much, though you’ll find more first party packaging on the latter

The win10 ESU has been extended for yet another year, so you have a bit more time. Your partner sounds reasonably tech savvy. could be worth grabbing a few different distros on a ventoy drive to play around with, even though the main factor in terms of UX is often the DE.

might have a slight bias here but fedora workstation has been a reliable system for me and I’m just a dumb guy on the internet. I use it with gnome + plugins to make gnome leas daft, though the kde spin is solid.

openconnect should work with cisco anyconnect; you can theoretically connect via CLI but that may be a bit rough UX wise. You could also set her connect command up to a global hotkey in gnome or whatever, and initiate a connection via keyboard shortcut.

Office via web might be the best should for now, however.

you should be able to create bootable flash drives with dd

it’s not as convenient but there are several client apps using the wormhole protocol. They generally require devices to be on the same network but you can tether outside of that scenario.

I’m quite fond of LocalSend.

Wayland is more secure than x11 by design and more concise in scope. Notably it supports contemporary display technologies like display independent scaling, VRR, colour space (HDR) and several others.

Wayland is made by the x11 people.

Kind of similar to https://send.vis.ee/ which was forked from Firefox Send, though the public instance is limited to 2.5 GiB transfers.

yes, absolutely, though I’ve seen it much more amongst other end users.

As I’ve mentioned, games will load your system differently from one another. Someone who claims their system is stable with their custom tunings in every game except for something new that they’ve recently installed does not have a stable system. this is a case my colleagues and I see over and over.

Extensively, across various compute and graphics generations. I presently do so even now, though I wouldn’t offer that to a user completely unfamiliar with the domain as some kind of silver bullet; it doesn’t sidestep package power limits.

I work in client gfx at an IHV; I am intimately familiar with system integrity routines, component stress testing and tuning, particularly with DIY systems. Nothing about what I’ve recommended is “a waste of time and electricity” when you’re privy to the breath of defects averted in the field after following proper guidance.

Don’t take your own experiences for granted, if this person was familiar with the concept, they wouldn’t need to ask.

that’s not how stress testing works. Different games will present different load to a given combination of hardware. Besides that, computers are used for many more tasks in addition to gaming. Careless re-tuning can lead to a lapse in system integrity in ways that aren’t immediately apparent, but damaging all the same.

undervolting is all well and good but warrants component stress testing versus regular PL targets.

may help to know your device models, but power limiting is generally what you’re after. Your hardware may determine the methods used.

Hey, no problem.

Yes - the depicted side buttons channel into just one of the rear-side pinouts, and even then I think each side can support many more than just two inputs. I believe there are a few examples on the site and repository, but those resources still need to be built out some more.

I’d recommend reaching out to the designer directly. He’s pretty active in his discord server, though if you’d prefer not to use discord I’d be happy to ask on your behalf if you have a concise idea of what you’d like to do.