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Currently no HDR and looks like 60hz is the maximum refresh rate

I use an M1 (Pro 14" 8 core 16GB) with Asahi. It’s extremely usable. WiFi is solid. Sound is solid. I never considered keyboard to be an issue… Its not. Things like brigtheness buttons still work. I have a tonne of USB devices and none of them had issues. I don’t think the fingerprint reader or the built-in camera work but I can test them if that’s a sticking point.

I very much like it and it’s easy to switch into OSX if you’re so inclined. I do for photo work. I know there are alternatives. I’m working on it.

The things I would warn about:

1. in my experience, battery life is worse. Maybe around 1/2 of what OSX gets. With my overall battery health around 80%, I think I’m getting 4 hours in Asahi.

2. this could actually be a skill issue (Linux newb) but I’ve had trouble installing certain packages in Fedora and Python and I assume it has to do with the M1 being ARM-based

Edit: remembered some things. As of the newest version, gaming is much MUCH better. I think you can do 720p or on medium or 1080p low with decent frames by just using proton on Stream. That’s wild to me.

In case you didn’t know, Asahi is the Linux distro designed for Apple Silicon Macs. Its based on Fedora with KDE as the desktop so it has a solid backens and a familiar but customizable interface. Its extremely simple to install and is beginner friendly.

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That’s a really promising idea but the article only presents one use case…

Also it’s hard not to meme this. Like “what else will they think of? Touching grass…”

I completely forgot that I went to PopOS before Bazzite.

I still like it but I was tinkering too much with it before I knew how to stay out of trouble.

Holy shit! It’s real

Windows - > Powertoys - > Winget - > Win Debloater - > Minimal Windows - > Bazite - > Debian

Totally. It has had HDR support on KDE for about a year (?) but no games I’ve tried work.

I couldn’t get Nvida to work reliably with HDR. It would run, but I’d always get a crash after a bit.

Im on Bazzite with a 3080ti GE Proton

While I get that SO can be monstrously unhelpful, database optimization is a whole profession so I think we need a bit more to help

A few directions we could go here: Post your SQL query. This could be a structure or query issue. Best case, we could do some query optimization. Also, have you looked into indexing?

Where are your bottlenecks coming from? Is your server desined for a I/O intensive workload like databases. Sequential read speed is not a good metrix.

What about concurrency? If this is is super read/write intensive, optimization could depend on where data is written while you’re reading

Look into a VPS + pangolin or headscale Also, check out Crowdsec

Would you be willing to share which one can be had for that cheap?

As a Bazzite fan, lmao. True

Will my ability to play games be significantly affected compared to Windows?

No. Thanks to Steam Deck, most popular windows games also work on Linux. See https://www.protondb.com/ for a complete list of 18,000 titles… Someone already mentioned that kernel level anti-cheat is the big, obvious blocker.

Can I mod games as freely and as easily as I do on Windows?

Im guessing that most moders target Windows users therefore, don’t think mods would be AS easy. Not saying modding wouldn’t exist or work at all. Edit: see sp3ctr4l’s reply to this comment. They know more than me

If a program has no Linux version, is it unusable, or are there workarounds?

There are workarounds. Linux has some great alternative software to popular paid stuff. See LibreOffice or Krita.

There are also more advanced options to run Windows apps under Linux, see Wine or Virtual Machines

Can Linux run programs that rely on frameworks like .NET or other Windows-specific libraries?

Yes. Similar to the above answer/ similar to aforementioned Proton. For .NET specifically, there is a Linux runtime.

How do OS updates work in Linux? Is there a “Linux Update” program like what Windows has?

This can depend a lot on what distribution you’re running, but definitely, there are ones with easy buttons for whole-system updates.

How does digital security work on Linux? Is it more vulnerable due to being open source? Is there integrated antivirus software, or will I have to source that myself?

It’s different and probably overall better than windows. Most distros are much better out of the box than windows.

Open source is ususually a security advantage because (long story short) security mistakes can be caught by more people.

I don’t have a good answer for you on anti virus. I am very privacy and security conscious and I dont use one on linux. My personal opinion is that you don’t need one and shouldn’t need one if you’re not downloading sketch stuff.

Are GPU drivers reliable on Linux?

Totally. GPU drivers are much, much better than they used to be.

Can Linux (in the case of a misconfiguration or serious failure) potentially damage hardware?

Theoretically. You would have to try really hard, but for normal use, no. More likely, you could lose data or access to the system if you misconfigure stuff (just like with Windows)

Distro recommendations. My personal opinions, don’t flame me.

• Bazzite. hard to mess up, gamer focused, super simple updates, and targeted support for gamer hardware. Feels like a cross between steam deck and windows. Less support for tinkering but if you never want to touch the terminal, this is my choice.

• Pop!OS. Simplified Linux with great driver and steam support with easy updates. More tinkering support than Bazzite

• Linux Mint. Easy to start on but more traditional back-end. Much more support (forum posts) than the previous two. A lot of what works on Debian or Ubuntu works the same on Mint, so you’ll be able to do all kinds of fiddling

Wasn’t me

In the street?

Home Assistant is - by far - a better home automation platform than anything else I’ve tried. Most of them cannot integrate with as many platforms and your ability to create automations is not as powerful.

Folks will argue that it’s harder. I argue back that if you buy a hub with it pre-installed, your setup experience is as easy or easier than HomeKit or Google Home or maybe Alexa.

this is the most responsible idea. i love it

that’s a great idea re: music. i use a ton of Chromecast audios and, when Google “forgot to update the certs” I was SOL

How can one reproduce this?

It’s not often discussed that Microsoft, Amazon, and other ‘very cool’ tech companies still practice this 80s firing the bottom 10% bull.. It has nothing with being a low performer, but everything to do with culling jobs indiscriminately and creating an in/out culture. Managers are forced to place employees into bottom performance slots, sometimes arbitrarily, so that teams/groups/departments fit the bell curve nicely. Then, people get fired, bonuses go out, and everything is peachy at the end of the fiscal yesr.

Let that stew for a few years and these behemoths are factories of pet projects and crunch culture. Your long-timers are either golden performers who’ve seen massive churn and project turbulance OR they’re climbers, willing to step on top of anyone or burn any project to climb the ladder or at least keep their spots.