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I tried it a year ago when it was introduced, it did not work. Is it stable now?

XMPP felt great when compared to Matrix. Matrix was in a bad state some years ago when I hosted it for a while, and seems like it still is the same messy state. I avoid it as much as possible but for some reason there are communities using it.

At this point it should just die so people would be motivated to replace it with something better.

That sounds awesome!

It is a fork of Fedora, one of the most stable distros out there. It is more geared towards regular users when compared to Arch on which SteamOS is based.

I am a long time Arch user but I totally understand why they went with Fedora for Bazzite.

It does say very clearly on top of the page that it is an "operating system", what is so unclear about it?

If you want to know more, just scroll down and read more detailed explanation

Not sure in what way some people expect to be fed the information. If you did not understand what it is from the first couple of sentences then maybe it is not for you.

A lot of them do, but for almost everything there are native alternatives.

I haven't used Wine directly in years, only indirectly through Steam.

Not sure what you mean by "having lost trust in Mozilla". What have they done regarding development of Firefox that would make me loose trust in their ability to deliver Firefox?

They have quite consistently delivered good software for years.

SteamOS is not a handheld. It is an OS. And did you even open the link?

Yes, but only on M1 and maybe M2 devices. Doesn't work at all on M4.

Stability is an issue (as I tested it with M1 Pro throughout the years).

Not all of the hardware features are supported. For example no external monitors through the usb-c port.

Also the project seems somewhat dead, having some core developers leave the project.

I had high hopes for Asahi but currently it doesn't seem like it will ever be fully production ready for currently relevant hardware.

SteamOS on Steam Deck has been running Arch-based immutable distro since 2022. KDE can be started but by default it runs a Big Picture mode of Steam in gamescope.

BattleEye is supported on Linux and Steam Deck, Bungie simply decided not to enable support for it. https://areweanticheatyet.com/?search=battleye&sortOrder=&so...

It is running Valve's immutable fork of Archlinux, you can find their source package mirror online.

I don't know how EFI boot works but I am running a gaming PC in dual boot and I have both Microsoft and my own personal secure boot keys loaded (for linux and grub)

I boot my own signed bootloader (grub) from which I can also boot Windows. Windows shows it is in secure boot mode and it works fine with BF6 for me.

But I have a feeling this allows users to run some bootkit/rootkit and bypass any of those kernel level anti-cheats. Maybe I'm wrong and EFI handover to Windows clears all the memory, but I somehow doubt it.

It doesn't have to be bypassed. Those same anti-cheats used by many unsupported titles are enabled for some games and work fine on Linux. So you just have to give the developers some incentive to enable it for their titles. It is a choice made by game developers. Currently they don't see a market on Linux/Steam OS but if Steam Machines become popular, potentially they would be missing a market and decide to join in.

As a Steam Deck owner since pre-orders, unless the price is extremely high, I am going to get the Steam Machine as well. Kids plug the Steam Deck to TV to do couch co-op gaming even though the resolution is only 720p. So getting a better resolution and performance while still getting access to the huge Steam library and non-steam games (Minecraft, etc.) is worth it. I don't care about the latest AAA titles and FPS shooters, for those I already have a desktop PC.

PS5 is too expensive long term and is not usable for anything else. And when Steam Machine becomes obsolete, I'll probably just use it/gift it as a mini pc/home-server to someone in the family.

Even on the high seas the large Blu-ray releases require only about 40-50Mbit, maybe you can get even larger releases (requiring ~100Mbit for streaming) but then a single movie would take up 100GB+ of space and it is such an overkill, no one really needs it.

Either it takes more than a minute to load or it does not work on iOS with Lock Down mode enabled.

Scart can carry RGB and Composite. And good VHS players do RGB.

How I digitized my family VHS tapes:

* I borrowed a good quality VHS player with SCART connector because it sends RGB in separate channels, improving quality considerably. Don't use the single channel composite video.

* Then I bought a cheap SCART to HDMI convertor and used a borrowed HDMI capture card.

* I recorded it with OBS studio and the resulting video looks very good.

So my total costs were about 20$ (for the adapter).

Tailscale uses STUN to do hole punching, there is a big chance that nodes would be able to achieve direct connection even if both are behind NAT.

There is https://github.com/Prowlarr/Prowlarr

I think Immich (Google photos alternative) uses pgvector. And while you can't really call it a "production" system, because it is self hosted, I have about 100,000 assets there and the vector search works great!

It was a smooth experience for me. Just start the cloudflared container with the provided key in the environment and you are done. I also don't have ipv6 but it is not required and if I remember correctly I did not have to specify any endpoints, just the key.

In a large project with decent code structure there can be quite a bit of boilerplate, convention, testing required. Also we are not talking about a 10-line change. More like 10k line feature.

Before LLMs we simply wouldn't implement many of those features since they were not exactly critical and required a lot of time, but now when the required development time is cut signifficantly, they suddenly make sense to implement.

Except many new cars are locked down in software, for example not allowing to release rear parking brakes without authorized service subscription, keeping the electronic keys for each VIN unique and stored in the cloud. Yes, there are workarounds on releasing the brakes manually but it is a burden.

Also similarly as with iPhones, many cars require connecting to the authorized service to change headlights and other parts since they are paired with the MCU.

I know how to work on my car but I am not able to because someone decided to lock it down.

It took a while for me to fully set up Nextcloud with STUN/TURN, Office server, etc. in a properly containerised setup. It clearly felt like it was built before containers and modern devops approaches were a best practice.

And while community is great, I don't think Nextcloud developer community is that big and active. Their plugin system is basic, archaic, lots of things there are begging for rework.

So while Nextcloud is decent once set up, I am happy to see some fresh OSS projects solving similar issues appear. Maybe their approach will be better.

Just install Gnome and be done with it. You don't install Sway or Hyprland unless you specifically want to tinker with it a lot.

I have been actively using all of them - Linux, Windows and macOS for the past 15-20 years and currently Linux has the best desktop environments possible. macOS is still stuck in 2010 and it is quite painful to work with my Macbook even with all the tweaks and modifications. Sure, you can live with it, but there is always something annoying about it and you can't do anything about it. Apple has the best laptops but the worst desktop environment that does all the window management, etc.

I don't care about the UX of the specific applications, most of them work on Mac/Windows/Linux anyway. What I care about is the window manager and macOS has a terrible window manager. That is why I am using Aerospace on macOS, and it makes things better, but it's still far from what Linux has to offer.

All good, but did you know that Next.js is a full stack framework? You can have backend and frontend in the same code base. You don't need Laravel if you use Next.