The short answer, as a ton of people already said in the comments of the video, is “hell no” it is not and it is most likely also not worth it. Back when the video came out I tested it (with unplugged network) on my system and the performance gain was ~1% which I’d consider well within the margin of error
Aha da hat wohl noch jemand methodisch inkorrekt gehört, wollte gerade genau das gleiche schreiben ^^
Hyprland is decent, it’s one of the better Wayland window managers, that being said it’s still in beta and not complete. Also be aware, it’s a window manager, not a desktop environment. It won’t do much besides well managing windows, taskbar, start menu, notification demon,… have to all be installed and setup by you and the config is done in text files, not some gui.
Also the community is rather toxic, I’ve made similar experiences to this in the past when trying it out.
Unless you mess around with firewall commands/settings you don’t understand firewalld should be sufficient.
That being said you might have to allow certain services at some point (openvpn) for example
Alt/Ctrl+___ are usually used by applications and shortcuts containing Super+___ are usually “reserved” (it’s no rule or anything but basically no application uses Super) for the DE. That’s why Super is probably the best mod key for shortcuts. You can ofc use Alt+___ as well, in that case your DE/WM will just take preference over the application and the shortcut will be handled by the DE/WM instead of the application
I was lvl 100sth and on my Ng+ playthrough when learning this…
If you really want the deep dive, look into LFS (Linux from scratch), besides that I’ve always been the learning by doing kind of guy. Got a problem? Search a solution and read up on the intricacies of the problem
Yes, line 28 defines 🍴which defines 👀 and all the structs inherit from 🍴
I didn’t even know pamac was a thing outside of manjaro, but yes ofc just use paru (or yay or sth), nowadays I rarely ever use pacman itself, but use paru for basically anything
When I built my new PC (January last year) with an Intel 12th gen I first wanted to install Debian, cause I’ve used it basically ever since I’ve used Linux, but the kernel shipped with Debian did not support Intel 12th gen yet, so I was looking for another distro with up to date kernels/packages and stumbled upon manjaro, but quickly realised that it had some issues, than went for a manual arch install just for the sake of it, some stuff broke and I couldn’t be bothered to fix it since I didn’t do much on the system set anyways, I kept my home partition and installed endeavour and have been using it ever since on all my machines (with the exception of a short trip to fedora on my work laptop. It is just arch and basically any thing on the arch wiki applies, the only difference is some sane defaults and packages/services you’d most likely want to install and configure on your arch system anyways, they’re just using the arch repos and have added a repo of their own with some “bundled” packages like DEs/WMs and AUR helpers
Why not stay on arch? I doubt the experience with VMS will differ between distros, just try it out. And as others have mentioned if your concern is anti cheat than vms might not work since some anti cheats can detect them. If it is not anti cheat than any distro will do, since pretty much anything not anti cheat is playable through proton these days. Another thing to consider is your GPU, keep in mind that if you want to use it for gaming in a VM you need to make a passthrough and you won’t be able to use it for your Linux desktop (I think at least, there might be a way to unload the GPU at runtime, but it’s probably complicated)
IMO refurbished ThinkPad is the way for almost anything that is not gaming, working on huge code bases (without having a build server) or heavy graphical work like video editing or heavy photo editing. For most other things a decently new and well specced ThinkPad will do the job while still maintaining that feeling of a “new and snappy pc”
If I’d buy a new laptop these days I’d go with a framework. Other than that, buying a refurbished ThinkPad is always a great option and they generally run really good with Linux. As for support I wouldn’t be too afraid, almost all hardware is supported these days as long as it’s not something really obscure. The main thing worth checking is probably the WiFi card, I heard there are some that are a pain to set up, but I never ran into that. That being said most manufacturers won’t officially support Linux and if they do they’ll only support fedora or Ubuntu (speaking about big manufacturers, ofc there’s system76 and stuff), but as I said I don’t think I’ve encountered a laptop that straight up wasn’t able to run Linux. Also if possible avoid Nvidia GPUs, they work, but can be a pain with drivers breaking on the regular
I’d just look for a used AMD card (or intel their drivers seem good, but I haven’t seen many tests) that fits your specs
Or embrace the hole and make it a perimeter
Why do we need tmux if we have tiling window managers?
Go for it, I’m pretty sure there’s a ton of people that would pay a shitload of money if you’re able to achieve this for every possible position
On the upside, if he’s finished with this he has literally solved chess.
On the downside, the heat death of the universe will probably happen before he’s able to finish this.
The distro is usually not really the problem, the desktop environment usually takes up a decent amount of disk space and snap/appimage/flatpak packages compared to native packages from your package manager. At least when strictly speaking about the system and programs, personal data (videos, Images, music,…) is still the biggest storage hog. I don’t think there is a good option, you could ofc shrink your windows partition and grow your Linux partition or just buy more storage, storage is really cheap these days. Additionally you can regularly clean up your system, delete the saved logs, delete unneeded files and uninstall unused packages/programs.
A friend of mine got his son to use Linux by just not providing an alternative, he installed Debian edu (don’t know if that’s the name, but basically a Debian spin for kids with parental restrictions and stuff) on an old laptop for him and that’s what he used. Once he got his own PC it was over though since he wanted to play Fortnite so bad that he bought windows for that. He still dual boots Fedora, but I don’t think he has used it since the windows partition is there.
I think the thing is you can’t really get kids (or people in general for that matter) into Linux the way you are probably into it and interested in it. At least not if they’re not already interested in it on their own. They will learn how to use it sure, but not the way we’re used to using Linux, understanding the intricacies of the system, keeping the system safe,… They’ll probably find a way to do what they already do on windows and ignore that the OS is different.