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Turtle

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  • Linux gamers: Do you ever occasionally shut down your PC?

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  • People used to leave their PCs running 24/7 due to the fear of thermal expansion causing hard drive failure. It's not a problem anymore as far as I know, but this practice stuck with a lot of old power users.

    It wasn't quite as silly when PCs didn't draw so much power.

    The sleep functionality has historically been unreliable at best so that gets avoided as well.

    Now, in 2026, even if I'm just going outside for 20 minutes I'll sleep the machine, unless it's doing something in particular.

  • How to get into linux and stay with linux?

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  • To use the AUR on Cachy you simply use paru instead of pacman. It is a frontend to pacman, and lets you search / install from the AUR as if it's in the main repo.

    Edit: side note, I'm really happy to see the windows power users coming over, you guys switching is what will really push adoption imo.

  • RetroDECK 0.10.2b - Release Announcement

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  • We get AI slop in a changelog now? Fuck this timeline.

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • You may be able to disable the internal Bluetooth entirely via BIOS.

  • So, why should GNOME support server side decorations?

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  • Seems like 9 gnome devs use lemmy.

  • KDE Linux (Immutable Distro) Thoughts so far

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  • They mention using flatpaks and snaps.

  • KDE Linux (Immutable Distro) Thoughts so far

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  • From the website: "Apps primarily come from Flatpak and Snap."

    Putting snap on an arch derived distro is disgusting.

  • unbalanced ram. duel channel soldered memory

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  • Side note, I hope you're making use of zram!

  • Probably avoid Tailscale with Mullvad

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  • The way I do this is to bind the torrent client to the mullvad network interface. In qbittorrent for example, in the advanced options, I set mine to only use wg-mullvad. If the wg-mullvad iface goes down, the torrent client simply has no connection.

  • Will steam deck 2 be on arm? what would change?

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  • Valve are doing the ARM experiment with the Steam Frame.

    They mentioned not wanting to release a Steam Deck 2 until there was a significant performance upgrade available.

    In my opinion an ARM chip with the FEX translation overhead isn't going to be it just yet, it will probably be another AMD SoC.

  • Valve’s Android compatibility layer now has its official name, Lepton, and a cute frog logo.

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  • This made me wonder, with FEX couldn't Valve release steam for android? Steam library on your phone sounds good to me.

  • For Linux gaming (including DX12), is there a strong reason to choose NVIDIA over AMD?

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  • VOID needs your feedback!

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  • My feedback: pick a different name, I thought this was void linux related.

  • Warning: Lutris discord tolerates far right, racism and genocide apologia

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  • Let's not shorten his name to Turtle. 😓

  • why didnt Enlightenment desktop recieve much adoption

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  • Development was so slow that the project was effectively dead after E16, users moved on.

  • Is there any use case of SDDM other than log in to Plasma desktop?

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  • I prefer the tty over session managers because I generally throw in a system update before starting the gui in case it warrants a reboot. Also if you're feeling spicy you can tell it to load the desktop on a specific GPU with $ DRI_PRIME=1 startplasma-wayland, for example.

    I like the extra control basically.

  • Wouldn't development of ReactOS from a larger community ultimately help ALL OS's?

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  • This is the real issue. If ReactOS actually became useful, Microsoft will act against them. Doesn't matter how cleanly they reverse engineered their implementation, ReactOS most likely don't have the funds to deal with any legal battles.

  • Linux Mint 22 “Wilma” released!

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  • I don't know about OP but when I use a VPN, it's on all the time, not selectively enabled because I'm going to a particular website.

  • Is it common for KDE to crash?

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  • The only time I've had any kind of crash was when I did a major KDE update while in KDE, but even then it consisted of the shell crashing and reloading itself. Which I took as a sign that I should restart KDE.