TLDR; Overall, great. Had some growing pains but Linux feels faster/snappier than windows.

I’m a developer and a self host “enthusiast”, so I was already a little familiar with Linux, but I ended up hopping from OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, to Kubuntu, to Arch Linux (using KDE Plasma).

I had issues with Tumbleweeds package manager, and overall it felt clunky. They have stricter security than other distros and it caused some weirdness with Dolphin and some other utilities/packages.

Kubuntu was fine but then I came across an article that Valve was going to be directly collaborating with Arch, so I said screw it and jumped to Arch.

I absolutely love Arch, but it definitely has a learning curve. I found a gentleman on youtube (OldTechBloke) that walked through installing it and has a Gitlab repo with all of the commands to install. I took that and used it as a starting point and modified it over the past ~8-9 months to suit my needs (I’ve installed it on two other laptops now as well)

The biggest issues I’ve had have been related to Nvidia, and oddly enough, my Gigabyte motherboard. I had to enable several kernel parameters so “sleep” would work correctly. Luckily the arch wiki is incredibly detailed.

For a regular user, I would recommend Kubuntu or Linux Mint.

Edit: Also, I dual booted for a while but I’m at a point now where I haven’t been on Windows since like… February. PUBG and Tarkov are the only things keeping Windows around on my PC.

Same. I got sick of Windows late last year and swapped to Linux in October/November.

Did you mean NewPipe? Pipewire is the Linux audio/video framework.

Also a lifetime Plex holder. Plex wouldn’t let me watch my local content without authenticating the other day… But my internet went out and I couldn’t. Decided I’d swap to Jellyfin the first chance I could (couldn’t that day because no internet)… So that’s what I did today. It was painless and I’m never going back to Plex.

Disclaimer, I don’t need access outside of my house so I didn’t set any of the remote stuff up.

If you’re tech savvy, look into selfhosting SearXNG.

I think there are public instances as well.

I used to only do something called “surfing” in the Counter-Strike: Source days.

There are dedicated servers that only run surf maps.

I think they’re pointing out that Python outputs E notation vs JavaScript which outputs the decimal notation.

Edit: Wasn’t agreeing with it, just explaining what they were pointing out.

BetterDiscord + https://github.com/riolubruh/YABDP4Nitro

How far along is this? Last time I checked it out is was no where near ready.

I’m a Linux user and that infographic scares me

Lookup Grayjay

Okay! Awesome, just wanted to make sure. And making the 172.18.0.0/16 subnet available is something I didn’t think about (obviously) so that’s good to know.

Thank you for your detailed response!

The self hosted web interface tool I use called Pterodactyl Game Server Panel uses docker and iptables when it creates the game servers.

I’m just trying to add some additional routing since I’m using wireguard.

I know this says “Solved” but you should look into Gitjournal. You can use the one free private repo from gitlab to connect to. Just use vscode or similar on PC and Gitjournal on your phone. Version controlled notes, file based instead of database, can organize on PC via folders (Gitjournal recognizes the folders, don’t think it can create them though). I absolutely love it.

https://gitjournal.io/

I was using Joplin for a while… Self hosted their server. On two occasions it screwed up on me and wouldn’t load my folders… Luckily I had backups but it was still frustrating. I don’t recommend them purely because the notes are stored in a custom format instead of just plain text files.

My favorite way of doing notes now is with git, currently using a free private repo on gitlab.

Just clone the repo on whatever PC I need them and it has backups and version control.

Then use GitJournal on my phone.

It’s perfect for me. I love it.

Hey, same boat. I’ve tried FreeCAD and Ondsel (which is supposed to be a more intuitive version of FreeCAD)… But they are both so unintuitive that it drives me nuts and I just boot into Windows when i want to design something functional to 3D Print.

Luckily Blender works great on Linux for less functional designs.

Mindustry

An open-source factorio like game. You can play it on PC or your phone, and it has a self hostable server that is relatively easy to setup.

Edit: I’m really glad to see this game is pretty well known!

Thank you for the invite and holy crap. That game is so much fun. Derailed all my plans for the night.

Would love an invite if you don’t mind!

Would love an invite if someone has one to send.