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Collin Riddle

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I take perfectly good pictures and ruin them in a hex editor. Occasionally talk about media preservation and digital sovereignty.

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Post image 06.02.2026 02:16 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

PopOS or Mint are probably your best.

Things are slowly improving but nvidia drivers are notoriously miserable on linux.

18.01.2026 22:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Use it to launch KRunner, Albert, etc
Similar purpose, but actually useful.

16.01.2026 00:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not as much as you'd think in this context. OtherOS ran on hypervisor that walled off a good bit of Cells coprocessors. I never worked on it, but from what I remember you were essentially left with a standard PPC core

14.01.2026 23:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Cell is just PowerPC. There were a few BSD ports that worked to varying degrees on it.

14.01.2026 21:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Which ones? Winboat has gotten fairly good lately with the primary exception being GPU heavy tasks.

14.01.2026 17:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Inkscape

14.01.2026 17:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(2/2) Also worth mentioning that the PS3 feature allowed *any* OS that supported its architecture. Not just Linux.

14.01.2026 15:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Nope. The PS2 had a very thin layer of system software that probably wasn't based on anything and the PS3 used an in-house BSD fork.

The PS2 and PS3 *did* have the ability to run Linux, but that was a separate feature unrelated to the whole "Game console" part.

14.01.2026 15:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Of course they are and this will 100% be the push after the AI bubble pops and those data centers are useless.

Why sell me hardware once that lets me choose whose products and services I can use when you can make me to pay you every month and force me to use *your* products and services?

13.01.2026 16:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Of course they are and this will 100% be the push after the AI bubble pops and those data centers are useless.

Why sell me hardware once that lets me choose whose products and services I can use when you can make me to pay you every month and force me to use *your* products and services?

13.01.2026 16:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I do it nearly everyday. Its fine.

And yes. Macbook battery life is ridiculously good. The only machine that comes close is the old CR-48 I used that exclusively ran in text-mode.

13.01.2026 16:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Use Fedora. It's stable, up-to-date, well supported, and is one of the oldest distros out there.

It may be boring, but I'm tired of my OS being exciting personally.

11.01.2026 05:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh no you won't need to do any of that lol. I just have a script running at work (for non-linuxy stuff) and I can't do anything until i'm done. So i'm gonna follow your odyssey!

29.12.2025 21:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

All us nerds lazily browsing BlueSky waiting for scripts to run or code to compile will be cheering you on!

29.12.2025 21:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Needs to be Joaquin Joker so you can lion does not concern himself with the opinions of sheep millionaire mindset no handouts no help 24/7 straight hustle

03.12.2025 16:20 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Arch + Hyprland is a very power user focused setup.

If your aim is to replicate Windows you could look at Kubuntu (Ubuntu, but with KDE). However I personally love their Unity interface so if you're liking it, I say stick with it.

03.11.2025 19:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What OS are you using that requires alot of terminal use?

Don't get me wrong, the terminal is that thing that once you get the hang of it is amazing and you'll love.

But you shouldn't *need* to use it for most distros

03.11.2025 03:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

[2] - Alternatively you can use Chimera OS if you don't want to follow the herd. It's another SteamOS-like distro

02.11.2025 20:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ill definitely come off repetitive, but hear me out. Use Bazzite. It is (by design) SteamOS without being made by Valve.

I am not a fan of Manjaro for new users for this reason. Rolling Releases (especially Arch based ones) are great, but they do require some knowledge.

02.11.2025 20:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Firefox is open source.

Open source just means the code is publicly available for audit and can be compiled yourself. Makes it harder to hide malicious code (not impossible, just harder).

02.11.2025 01:42 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Mint is based on the Ubuntu LTS releases which only get major feature releases every 2 years.

That said running an older kernel on newer hardware isn't always terrible. Sometimes it can be mildly annoying.

02.11.2025 01:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Linux is a Kernel (basically the core of the OS)

Mint is an operating system. Operating systems combine a kernel and other software "packages" like the user interface, the web browser, the file manager, etc.

Mint uses Linux as their Kernel. So it's referred to as a "Linux "distribution"

30.10.2025 20:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A few years ago I toyed with an idea similar to this, just not exclusively Japanese market.

30.10.2025 14:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I legitimately can't wait to install Bazzite or some other SteamOS-like distro on this.

21.10.2025 21:16 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's definitely one of the things that requires an adjustment period, but it *does* make sense once you use it a bit.

I was confused when I started too but I hate the Windows file system hierarchy these days.

Ask away, I'm sure many of us can help!

15.10.2025 04:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's happening. They're in too deep. Someone post that xkcd comic.

In all seriousness, I think you'll be happiest by having your main machine be focused on stability and predictability and getting a cheap side machine to do all the fun stuff with. Soon you'll be doing LFS on it.

06.10.2025 18:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Most (if not all) Anti-Cheat vendors have Linux support now. Even the Kernel-level ones (they operate differently though).

03.10.2025 23:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We should really start saying "whose devs are blocking Linux users" instead of "that don't have linux compatibility".

I mean the point is the same, but this way we can point the blame directly at devs.

03.10.2025 22:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Fived'd

16.09.2025 00:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0