Victor

I refuse to accept this impossible task. Surely the note has been completely destroyed.

Also how is this a shower thought?

Depends on how much of each is in the respective place, I feel. 😅

So you can install packages? It’s not a fully immutable system?

Agreed. 😄 Arch and pacman definitely adheres to this philosophy of “unless you know what you’re doing”. Pacman allows this type of selective upgrade, and it allows to ignore any package you like during a system/all-package upgrade, which may or may not break the system.

You can also post-install make changes to the database of installed packages, like change the install reason for a package (as a dependency or as explicitly installed).

All these things are happily executed without warning. 😁

The reason for the need to check the news is that the system can have any combination of package versions installed, and requiring manual intervention by the user in any quirky upgrade situations helps to keep the complexity down of the system and package manager. I think it’s worth the low complexity.

The overhead of checking the website is super low. It’s basically the same as checking the release notes when there’s a new version of Ubuntu, or whatever other software you might be curious of. Same thing.

essentially made all your games run within a sandboxed instance which has a limited set of binaries that emulate another mini OS within your primary OS.

Isn’t it just library bundling? It’s not like it’s running inside a virtual machine or anything.

I can see the Rocket League process right there when listing my user processes, e.g.

There are so many conflicting reports regarding the performance on Flatpak, for Steam but also in general, so I don’t know what to believe.

At least one source said the performance overhead is negligible on modern hardware, so I think I’m gucci.

That’s not what they were refuting. They were just saying that containers run on the metal just like any other software.

🙂

If you only update once a month (which should be fine as well, definitely), then you only need to check the news page once a month too, less often than I do probably. 😄 Seems like a win-win. 👌

You can also selectively update packages of course, but this is strongly ill-advised unless you know what you’re doing.

But like, doas pacman -Sy firefox should be fine…

You didn’t hear it from me. 🤐🥸

Yeah, vaguely 😅 I use syslinux for booting, habit from when I used to dual boot, so I was luckily not affected. But yes, it is definitely wise to check the news before upgrading system-critical packages!

How much is a Mac Studio though? I imagine it would take me a few years of power consumption to catch up to the difference in price. 😅

What do you have to do to work your GPU down in power consumption like that?

Hey, if you have the space and don’t mind the extra heat and electricity consumption 😎👌 all good by me.

Why is Flatpak Steam worse for performance? I’ve been using it for years, seemingly better performance than Windows on the same system. Something inherent about Flatpak?

If you’re serious about gaming I recommend KDE as your desktop environment, plays nicer with HDR, VRR and fractional scaling than Gnome.

Mm, I don’t think I’d be willing to sacrifice my Niri workflow. Niri also supports fractional scaling and VRR, but not yet HDR, which I can live without until it’s implemented. 😁

I guess we have different use cases is all. People who primarily use their computers for gaming.

My PC is:

1. My media server
2. My workstation when WFH
3. My entertainment center if the TV is busy
4. My gaming PC
5. My hobby development PC

(In no particular order.)

Huh.

I guess with my 16 cores and 64 GB DDR5 I don’t really notice anything hampering my frame rate. 😅

But on my old PC with just 12 cores and 32 GB DDR4, I would sometimes close Firefox and all those YouTube tabs to get some memory back and make some CPU cycles available. Gosh darn Linux just handing out memory on loan rather than what’s available. I don’t use a swap file either. 😅

But I guess just closing stuff down isn’t an option? Is it like services running?

Fedora installations have been pretty smooth.

ended up using the terminal for installing all updates.

My experience as well with my Arch installations after a decade with that distro. I run a system upgrade because I want to, not because I need to. Never does it break unless I’m careless when upgrading and not checking the news page beforehand, which you are supposed to do. As long as I play by the rules, it’s super stable. (Never did it break for me anyway though. Never happened apart from hardware failure.)

Although admittedly I almost never do check the news page before upgrading, but/because there’s rarely anything there. And after a while you learn to recognize the volatile packages which can break your system, so e.g. if systemd has an update I’ll check the page before hitting enter, and so on.

Why don’t you do the “everything else” part on your gaming PC as well so you don’t have to have two?

True. Let’s hope it’s a great stepping-stone. 😊👍

I’m surprised people are so keen on these gaming-focused distros.

I just want a great, general-purpose computing system that can do gaming as well. 😁

Cool, thank you so much for the info, mate!

Ah, nice. Very cool, very reasonable.

And you can do this all with a consumer grade router maybe? Or do you need to have like a small PC-like device running special software that acts like a router, that handles this?