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  • What will MS do when Linux becomes a serious threat to their monopoly ?

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  • I use Secure Boot on all my machines but I just use my own keys with Foxboron's wonderful sbctl utility instead of the hacky shim/MOK method most distributions use.

  • choosing a version of Linux for my mom

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  • +1 for uBlue. I did the same for my mother on her laptop and desktop PC for office work. Chose Aurora in this case. Setting system and flatpak updates to automatic means I hopefully never have to look after these systems again as the distro maintainers basically do the maintenance. Setting up Secure Boot with the shim/MOK method and TPM auto-unlocking for full disk encryption using the ujust scripts is a breeze as well.

  • Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0

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  • What actually exists but what I have yet to see implemented in any game I play are those server-side "AI anti-cheat" solutions like from anybrain that basically just analyse the players behavior to fit certain criteria. According to areweanticheatyet.com though there are four games using it already (the most well-known one probably being Lost Ark). In theory ai models can be very efficient and accurate at this (we are not talking about transformer models here like with the current llm craze) but that all depends on how they train a model and what the training data looks like.

  • Which program is the one that surprised you most that it is available on Linux?

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  • What surprised me the most, also in part due to me not really being knowledgeable about software solutions in their respective industries, was the Unreal Engine (the editor that is) and Houdini being available on Linux. Tbf, at least in the vfx department it is apparently more common as most of the high profile software in that industry does have a native Linux version available.

    What I appreciated the most though was software like Reaper and Renoise providing a (very good even) Linux-native version when I looked for a new DAW to learn, seeing most software in the audio industry not being very Linux-friendly.

  • Valve's huge Steam Deck update is now ready for everyone, including rival AMD handhelds

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  • Yes, thank you for mentioning the Strix Halo CPUs from AMD. I had this exact same thought before as well ever since I've seen these CPUs come to market. The SoC design is much more similar to the Apple M chips that can provide absurd memory bandwidth as well. I could imagine a cut down/low power version provided by AMDs semi-custom program where Valve would get a unique design again like with the first Steam Deck. Due to the high bandwidth LPDDR5x memory they would wipe the floor with every existing handheld SoC on the market today.

  • VPN's recommendations?

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  • +1 for OVPN. I switched to them from Mullvad for the same reason. They are also one of the more trustworthy VPNs in my book ever since they actually won a court case proving that they actually practise what they advertise.

  • Some ideas 💡 (not mine)

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  • Matrix is alright with clients like Element (X) and Cinny. But for me it's rather a (still somewhat lacking) Discord replacement. Maybe at some point with better clients this improves. The protocol already allows for a lot of stuff but most clients don't implement most functionality (yet).

  • Laptop for Linux

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  • If you can wait just a little longer I would seriously consider the Framework 12 that is going for pre-order next month and being shipped "mid-2025".Of course, this isn't an option if you need a laptop right now. In that case the current Framework 13 offerings are the best you can get but of course are not as affordable and possibly a bit overkill for a simple browsing machine.

  • Which browser do you use and why?

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  • Currently on Firefox with Betterfox and Lepton. I might change it to Librewolf as a base for its better defaults. Ungoogled Chromium flatpak when I need a Chromium browser. Fennec on GrapheneOS for its extension support even if it might not be as secure compared to Vanadium.

  • Completed NTSYNC Driver Merged For Linux 6.14: "Should Make Many SteamOS Users Happy"

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  • You can install the Zen kernel as it has the ntsync patch merged already and which I personally prefer for a gaming (desktop) system.But as I understand it we have to still wait for the corresponding wine patch to be merged as well for it to be usable for Windows applications and more so in case of Proton.

  • I Can’t Keep Waiting for SteamOS! - Linux Gaming Update 2025 -LTT

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  • According to her pinned Xitter post, Emily left LMG at the end of August already.

  • What genres were we playing the most? Let's guess the games. I'll start.

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  • These are some very good game ideas. :)The few hours I've spent in Wobbledogs, Shenzhen I/O and Another Crab's Treasure apparently were more significant to Steam than the few hundred hours in Satisfactory and Factorio.

  • What genres were we playing the most? Let's guess the games. I'll start.

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  • I agree, we need more Dwarf Souls-Likes.

  • What genres were we playing the most? Let's guess the games. I'll start.

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  • I have that genre listed there too only because I played ~7 hours of Wobbledogs this year.

  • Looks like Valve is preparing to release SteamOS to the public (or at least to third-party hardware manufacturers)

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  • It's beyond me why Valve hasn't yet deleted that page or at least updated it to make it clear that it's an obsolete version that hasn't received an update in 8 years.

  • Haven't booted this machine for a month or two... look at these updates!

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  • Yes, I am amazed that quite a few people in this thread are saying they 'had to completely reinstall the os' and that it broke everything after not much time. As long as one doesn't rely on the AUR for system critical packages or much in generel, it is incredibly hard to break an Arch system (Manjaro and other Arch-based distros don't count). This is due in part to Arch being quite reproducible but it also having very good maintainership.It doesn't hurt to apply new package configs by going through pacdiff once in a while though.

    Edit: Typo

  • What's the most obscure distro you can think of

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  • I see no one has mentioned Bedrock Linux yet. Not sure though how others would rate its 'obscurity' though. It's definitely a standout among distros.

  • What desktop enviroment do you use and why?

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  • KDE for its Wayland performance and features and occasionally I switch to hyprland if I need a more focused work environment.In the past I used Cinnamon but it became ever more buggier on Arch and due to lack of Wayland support still it was a dead end anyway.

  • Can I fix an AUR package myself?

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  • Regarding your question, you can just clone the package's git URL or download the PKGBUILD file directly, make your edit and run makepkg or makepkg -sirc as the wiki suggests to produce the package and install it.You can also install the package tar with pacman -U <file>.

    Relevant Arch wiki pages:https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_build_systemhttps://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository

    But looking at the comments it seems you are using an AUR helper that has a cache you might want to clear as the git repo for that package has an unstaged change for the license file for some reason (or you reset that file so git doesn't complain when pulling).

    Edit: I see you figured it out already.