Basically an distribution that is not a rolling release. Its hard to recommend a specific distribution. You could use one of the Ubuntus, a Fedora Atomic variant, Mint, they should be able to run for weeks without issues. Unless you update a system component that requires a restart to take into effect. Why not openSUSE Leap?

I’m personally on EndeavourOS, a rolling release and update often (even the Kernel). My PC is also on for 24h, usually for days, sometime even a week. One trick to avoid some of the restarts is to just logout and login the user. This should be no problem for you and at least some of the components start fresh due to login.

Then instead to complain the person can link it to other platforms too. I don’t get whats the problem is here.

What’s Linux specific here? Its about FFmpeg options, showing examples of how to use and explains them. If you understand the examples, then you can use it on any platform.

Thanks for posting. I find the echo part and extra use of variable is a little bit flaky. Here is a modified version. But I am not 100% sure if its doing what your script is doing.

I skipped the extra variable and echo and grep, by comparing its content with ${*}, which is similar to ${@}, but won’t separate each argument and create a single string instead. The =~ /$ is a regex comparison, which Bash supports native. Then I am using ${@} for the call, which separates each argument. Maybe this could be done with ${*} instead. I’m not sure which of them is the correct one for this case. At least it seems filenames with spaces work. Otherwise, not claiming it would be better. Just giving some food for thoughts.

#!/usr/bin/bash

if [[ "${*}" =~ /$ ]]; then
    xargs -rd '\n' -I {} "${@}"{}
else
    xargs -rd '\n' -I {} "${@}" {}
fi

Read the rest of it.

This is probably not a huge improvement for Steam gamers with Proton. I would like to see benchmarks on SteamOS using Proton.

With the provided benchmark results, its notable that they are comparing the new ntsync to the Wine version that has no alternative. Results are impressive. But on SteamOS and Steam in general, we have Proton, not base Wine. And Proton has something else already implemented, that improves performance. Its not as good as ntsync, but my point is, comparing the new implementation in Proton won’t be a huge difference like in the benchmark shown (as the benchmark is comparing Wine, not Proton).

new Thunderbird now has a notification system for real-time desktop alerts

Holy dirty moly! Finally. Now my personal project can be put to read only mode. :D (nobody other than me was using it anyway)

It was Stallman. There was just a very little detail that was not exactly as he said, but otherwise entire quote is from him: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/incorrect-quotation.en.html

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux,” and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.

Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

– Richard Stallman

Oh iter is a good one too. :D