I’m typing this on a minimal installation, and the ram usage is exactly at 1.4Gb. There’s only brave + a lousy terminal running on the background. (Browser ram usage should be around the 1.2Gb mark btw.)

Not related to piracy at all, but I’ve managed to play some old games like “Max Payne” butter smooth on a orange pi 5 max. Considering your main concern of linux able to run windows software.

Feel free to put me in a cross and burn me alive for posting this, but I don’t see a single problem with AI/LLM’s being used in small things like bug testing a code and/or finding out ways to improve a code.

What were you expecting, for em to say “Haha Linux is godlike, wow so good haha much meme” when the community name says out loud, “Linux sucks”?

That is a lot of overthinking over something that isn’t a issue at all – any “newbie distro” can indeed “just werk” without the need to ask further questions like GPU type or daily needs.

There is absolutely not a single reason to use Gentoo, unless you have a really old PC that you really, REALLY need to use it.

Debian (sic Armbian, Dietpi) user here. I don’t have this problem.

My streambox/shizbox machine (a Orange pi 5 MAX w/ 16Gb of ram) has Armbian “bleeding edge”/sway (Which is basically “Rolling release Debian”, and no DE) – everything just werks. It’s as easy as “Install packages, copy .dotfiles in, run, done.”. With those things said… yes, I am using Debian. And yes, I also has the latest packages – without breaking things apart. And no, I don’t want to go back to x11.

Haven’t tested it, but apparently the orange pi zero 3 is pretty decent at 4k.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cjVoLY4HN1U

Hm, this might make smaller sbc boards (like the orange pi zero 3) viable for everyday youtube browsing. Think I’ll give it a shot.

I literally had to do solder repairs on this board to make it work.

…I’m pretty sure you -don’t- need to go that far – just made a quick search about it where the linux version was made available in 2018, and absolutely no one is mentioning the need to do solder repairs.

“Respectfully”, you are doing something wrong.

That happens because you are expecting it to work out of the box – the orange pi boards are meant for tinkerers. You’ve got to get your hands dirty to get it to work/game properly. Which can be as easy as a single bash script, however.

t. I use a bash script to automatically install all the necessary packages, commands, etc.

That’s armbian “bleeding edge”, minimal install with sway. Thankfully nowadays it “just werks” and does not require further/weird tweaks like masking the systemd-logind service, and so on, so forth.

Also… oh snaps

It does. I’ve bought the Windows version regardless so I can test the game on different machines.

-EDIT- …and just came to mind that some Linux games does not run at all on the opi 5 due to poor vulkan support – which might be the case of this game as well.

t. Bought the TMNT linux native brawler game (forgot its name now – TMNT something something shredder) and the game refused to run. Then, bought the windows version right after and the game ran smoothly.

Nowadays it’s all about FEX – they’ve done some significant changes thanks to valve. Including reducing all the “chit-chat” between layers, making the game be as “native-like” as possible. Also, what you’ve said/implied seems to be the case regarding OP’s rig – no comment on that.

Indeed. And it’ll get better when the vulkan support is properly added.

Also, that’s a very lovely drawing you’ve done there, great job. Very cute.

…or OP could buy another PC and use it solely to run Windows whilst s/he gets the hang of Linux on his/her main PC.

That’s like asking, “Hey, guys! Should I eat a hamburger?” – you want to use linux because you find it useful, or because “everyone is doing it” and you want to feel included? If it’s the former… then by all means, do it. The learning curve may be confusing at first (considering most windows users have a “duck syndrome” – expecting linux to behave the same as windows), but it’s totally worth it.

Pros: Customization, privacy, ease of use (And yes, it’s much easier to use than Windows when you are fully aware of its “ins and outs”.)

Cons: None.

Then again, if I -REALLY- had to use Windows, I’d use it on another PC (preferably w/o internet) while leaving my “main” PC for Linux only. Scary, I know.