Not enough comments in thread. New account. Weird facts, some of which is contextually pseudo tech.

So yeah, A lot more evidence needed. Pcap dump? With your skills I’m sure you can redact anything self identifying.

Edit: forgot the weirdest part. 127TB for data? Example: At full 1GB/s that’s 12+ days flooding that link. To sneak that much data out would take weeks.

Also I don’t buy someone with serious data doesn’t have some physical backups.

These are the people in power now. There should be an international year or celebration when the last person born before the year 2000 dies, with minor celebrations for each decade leading up to that year.

The choice for me was something that did well in gaming. Features like good VRR support made the voice of KDE plasma the only option. I’m not bothered about the KDE UI. It is nice, and similar to windows, so ready enough to get along with.

I am monitoring Cosmic. Once it has HDR and solid VRR, etc I may try it out.

Solid rant. The amazing thing is how quickly people learn to live with whatever they currently have. It explains iPhone users.

EndeavourOS is the way to go, btw.

Most of what you said went a bit over my head. I have the Topping E2x2 audio interface. I did some testing of each setting combination on Windows. And it just works. I’m definitely using settings the hardware supports. Linux just doesn’t seem mature in this area.

No. This is a multi purpose pc. Gaming, audio, work, VM. On windows this is fine but not on Linux. Not sure an RT kernel is good for my use case.

Using pipewire. It depends on which settings I use for the sample and bit rate. On windows I can use almost any combination, and baring a few older games, there is no stuttering or breakup. In Linux I find only specific sample and bit rates work well. The others cause stuttering and audio drops.

Also changing sample and bit rates is not straightforward. I’ve found utils that help but the only reliable way I’ve found is to edit the configs then restart the service.

Audio. As much as windows has issues, it is not hard to get good latency. The same process is it less accessible to most users. A reliable gui is needed.

VST’s and their associated DRM is a blocker but not the fault of Linux. The same is true for hardware that can only be properly configured with a windows or Mac only tool. These problems need a critical mass of users, and a legal requirement to support Linux for mainstream products. (EU, I’m talking to you)

I’ve been running EndeavourOS on my server for about 3 years, and on desktop for about 18 months. My DE is KDE plasma which is perfect for me, being similar to windows but customisable.

You can deploy the CachyOS performance tweaks and kernel to EndeavourOS if you fancy best of both. (See the CachyOS install guide).

Personally I prefer the barebones of EOS to something that has already made software choices for me.

I always thought they should have a 15 second gif for each DE showing off the general form factor. That looks and feel is all most people care about.

Until Adobe patch’s the installer and licencing server to prevent it from working at all. (Too cynical?)

It’s a wildcard, but T seems obvious to me.

Breaking the Light barrier so we can get off this rock and spread ourselves out. Eggs in one basket is crazy when applied at a species level.

The USA is made up of such wide ranging diversity but represented by 2 teams of mostly white old folks. You need to destroy both parties and form at least 5 new ones.

America has so much to be proud of, and the current shit show the US government is right now should not be allowed to taint the great, music, art, or culture Americans have created. It is just a shame so much of what comes out of the US these days, and most western nations to be fair, is over processed landfill.

I’m hopeful for change, I just worry about my patience for it.

A country where both parties are shit, and no hope of a 3rd party appearing to change things, and not hope that the existing parties will ever change.

Wayland development continues to push forward. Currently it works better than X11 in 95% or setups, and it won’t be long before it covers 99.5%. X11 is legacy now, and Wayland works perfectly for the vast majority of users and is only improving. The time to move on is coming.

For legacy use cases there will be an alternative X11 DE you can use for a long time yet.

Department of indoctrination

Or just

Reeducation camps

I have the same multiple monitor issue. I have an ultrawide on display port, and a smaller monitor on hdmi. Boot messages default to the ultrawide but the login prompt also defaults to the secondary display. Minor thing I know, but irritating.