I find I can’t get into them if I physically play them on PC. One look and I get the “potato graphics” feeling and start increasing AA, texture packs, etc. Now if I stream it to my TV or phone, it’s like “oh okay this is normal for this thing” and it tricks my brain to not caring.
I bought a System76 Pangolin 11, then replaced it with a ThinkPad X13 within a few months because the battery life was trash. Total workhorse but it would die on me in meetings if I was sharing my screen.
Something a Gentoo user might care about is the distro’s compile time options. Ubuntu uses -O2 and LTO, Debian uses -O1. Debian has always been noticably slower overall for me.
Don’t do what I did and go with Tumbleweed. It gets more updates than Arch.
No just LTO. Right now only Ubuntu, Fedora and SUSE Tumbleweed turn it on by default.
I’ve rebased a few of my containers with SUSE and noticed some improved load times on my web services as well. I don’t run anything demanding either, just bored. It’s like half a second improvement lol.
I have a System76 Pangolin 11 with the Ryzen 7 and the battery life is trash. It would die on me during meetings from a full charge if I was sharing my screen. Not blaming System76 on this one, its probably the AMD chipset all things considered.
Replaced it with the Thinkpad X13 Gen 2 and love it. Easily gets 8 to 10 hours on OpenSUSE, and everything just works.
I try to find ways to make my setup more bulletproof or faster whenever I get the itch. As an example, I recently switched to OpenSUSE and Podman to take advantage of the LTO optimized packages and rootless containers.
I tried to run my online life through self hosting but I found a lot of the services weren’t reliable or capable enough to get real work done. So I went from 30 containers to about 7 and have a lot less to tinker with.
Great! A relatively recent development is dist-kernel and has greatly simplified kernel installation.
I’ve been running a server with the same Gentoo install since 2016, still stable as ever. Using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on the desktop though, really liking it so far.
Agree, I really wanted netavark to work - it definitely seems like the way forward. I enabled it and out of the box none of my containers could resolve DNS, even though aardvark was running. It’s so new I wasn’t sure where to poke around, so I went with the legacy method.
I’ll try again once it stabilizes in Gentoo, somebody else noticed netavark should be the default now and opened a bug with the maintainer.
Bitwarden actually. I was really split on this but ultimately I trust Bitwarden, the company, to run a secure server than myself.
Who has time to track CVE’s and react to them in a timely manner? I don’t. If something happened, I probably don’t have the infrastructure or know-how to even realize I had been breached.