I had a quick view at this post : https://www.reddit.com/r/radeon/comments/157qa6c/rx_6600_or_rx_6700_xt_for_1080p/

It seems to me that 6700xt is much stronger than 6600. More expensive, too. Personally, I would pay some extra money 6700xt, but it depends on OP’s budget and game preference.

I’d suggest OP to consider several factors:

1. Is the game you’re playing CPU-intensive? aka Will your 3600X be the bottleneck if you have a powerful GPU?
2. Do you have a 4K/1440p monitor?

Some performance-extensive games may also work better on PS5. As OP doesn’t plan to build a gaming PC, I think a PS5 could improve the experience of lots of new games.

“just browse the internet” doesn’t indicate that you don’t need a powerful computer in 2023. Modern browsers are really heavy - and rendering websites are much more complex now.

Unless you’re really frugal about your PC budget, I think it’s definitely “to-go” for 32G

I’m also mounting them into /home/user/data while I don’t think hard-coding the user name in the mountpoint is a good idea. Besides, it needs the assumption that I’m the only “human-user” of this computer.

I may also mount them at /opt/data, but I’m not sure if it’s a good idea

I had been using WSL2 for about one year. The experience was terrible compared to a Linux host. (Sadly I can’t change the system on my work laptop). However, it was much better than Cygwin, msys2 and powershell - based on my experience.

If your host OS is windows and you’re interested in Linux, I think WSL2 is a good way to have a try

• Find an open-source software that you’re interested in, but your main distro doesn’t provide it in the official repo. Be a packager for this software.
• Open your distro’s wiki, rewrite (or contribute, if already good enough) a page or section.
• Try the bleeding-edge version (or very-early testing) of your favourite distro, and submit some test results, regarding to your hardware.

IMHO these tasks are interesting, could learn a lot from these tasks, and other linux users could benefit from these work

Also: I think rpm-ostree only supports rpm-based packages, tho; right?

Can I install .deb software too?

I don’t think rpm-ostree could support .deb softwares, just like dnf/yum can’t support deb packages.

Can you share your use case for trying to install a deb package in Fedora? I’m just curious.

And is there any kind of system-as-a-config-file kind of solution available like in NixOS or blendOS?

Good question. I only have a few computers, so I had never considered about it.

While I’ve looked into Fedora Silverblue, that distro is limited to only install Flatpaks, which is fine for “apps”, but seems to be more of a problem with managing system- and CLI tools.

No. Your understanding to Fedora Silverblue is wrong. I can just run rpm-ostree install package.name in Silverblue, like other Fedora spins. The small disadvantage is that I need to reboot to apply this update. (re-construct)

but doesn’t that result in new A/B snapshots, or something like that?

Well, you can call it snapshots, but there is no need to think about it. In most cases, the system points to the newest snapshot (deployment 0). If a rollback is needed, I can pin to the older deployments. When a major change is to be applied (Like bump Fedora version), I’d manually mark the current deployment as dont-auto-delete.

Sure, but I’d like to have a more seamless experience, i.e. not having to open/start any “containers” or something like that.

I never used toolbox in my Fedora Silverblue system. I feel that I can’t tell the difference between using Silverblue and the default Fedora spin

How about creating an app password? It may let you by-pass the 2FA https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en#

My solution is not ideal:

I created a directory, called ~/config_sync. I create sym links for config files, like ~/.bashtc to ~/config_sync/bashrc

However, I need to record the sym links I’ve created, and repeat this process on new machines

I wonder why DOTA2 was not mentioned… It has a really decent Linux support for more than a decade

I think Fedora finds a good balance that

1. All components are OSS by default
2. It’s super easy to install RPMFusion packages when needed

Can you share the details of your procedure? Besides, which distro you’re using?

I think the biggest challenge is anti-cheat. I don’t know if there is any solution instead of waiting for native release (like Dota2 and CSGO). Also, although I don’t like Microsoft GamePass, lacking the support of it means we may need to pay extra to try various games.

I think Wine/Proton works really great nowadays (well I’ve repeated it at different places). As 2023-07-28, ProtonDB shows that in the top 1000 games, 75% are rated gold or better.

When it comes to distro, I think most popular ones are good enough if they meet to conditions (1) packages are not too out-dated (2) Not difficult to install some non-free dependencies (like rpmfusion)

I’m using Thunderbird for my outlook.office365.com email account which is managed by employer. It works perfect.

1. Set server name to outlook.office365.com and Authentication method to OAuth2
2. Thunderbird will give you a pop-up window, which let you fill in the username and password
3. My account requires DUO, and it worked smoothly too.

However, it’s also possible that your administrator has different server settings, denying the access of Thunderbird.

TLDR, I think it worth a try

Great! That’s a great milestone. More people subscribed, more high-quality posts and comments, and more attractive to new subscribers. I believe we’re in a good path.

More people also means more responsibility to the mod team. Thank you for your work to keep /c/steamdeck a nice place

An extension cord will be very helpful, to remove the force on the adapter.

However, the weight of my DC adapter itself was enough to pull the adapter out of the socket.

My personal experience (US) is that most airplanes have chargers nowadays. However, the charger is very loose, and I could never make my charger fixed in the socket.

If OP could find a good socket, then this lucky person could enjoy 5 hour gaming with no interruption :)

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-loose-power-outlets-in-airports-so-prevalent-to-the-point-that-plugging-in-your-phone-will-not-charge-it-unless-you-sit-and-hold-the-power-adapter-in-place

Thank you for sharing it. With my experience a few years ago, compiling wine on Debian is relatively hard due to dependencies.

As valve is integrating proton to steamOS, and updating Proton at a fast pace, Arch might be a wise choice