Does gaming work fine in Mint? Is Wayland up and running yet?

I have a friend looking into switching to Linux. Mint feels right but I worry about the wayland migration.

That’s unfortunate :(

Is .dev maintained by the US?

Any idea what the price point is going to be?

Compared to the software we were using before such as Skype, TeamSpeak, Ventrilo and Mumble… The UI is amazing.

I’d happily move to Matrix but I’d lose all the servers for my hobby interests. No point in having both.

I’ve been using it for several years. I have a small server I use with my IRL friends and it works great.

• Near 100% availabily
• Nice sound quality
• Supports multiple servers for your multiple interests
• UI is amazing
• Works fine on every platform
• Screen sharing / streaming is easy
• Cool to see what your friends are playing
• Free plan is more than enough, you can pay for cosmetics or higher stream quality.

There are dozens of us!

This is what’s so great about Linux, you can use whatever the hell you want.

Flatpaks provide some cool security functionalities like revoking network access to a specific application. Maybe you care about this, maybe you don’t.

My personal policy is to always install from the repos. Occasionally something is only available in flathub, which is fine for me. I really understand how hard is maintaining something for every single package manager and diatributions and totally respect the devs using a format that just works everywhere. If I were to release a new Linux app, I would totally use flatpak.

I’d just like to vent that these kind of discussions are one of the big turnoffs of the Linux community in general. People speak “in absolutes”.

You either do it this way or you’re a dumbass. You either use the distribution I like or you’re doing it WRONG. You shouldn’t use Arch because you’re not experienced enough, you should use Mint for an arbitrary amount of time before you graduate to the good stuff.

You friends get way too worked up over other people’s personal preferences and push your biased and subjective views as facts.

Is Arch Linux the right fit for a newbie to Linux? The right answer is “it depends”, not “never”. Would I recommend Arch to my mom? No. Would I recommend it to my programmer colleague who already lives in the Powershell? Sure, why not.

Is there a (Linux) command I can run to check my power consumption?

In C++? I’d rather be shot, thanks :P

Check out keyd, it’s very powerful.

The only thing I miss from Windows is Voicemeeter. God, I loved that thing. I miss it so much.

Handling the audio and adding what were once simple things like noise supression has been a really really shit experience.

Why so you care so much about point 6? Feels like overkill.

It’s like going to a vegan community saying “meat isn’t so bad”. You’re obviously not going to get good responses.

You wish. Most tech companies will get you the cheapest laptop they can get away with.

I remember being denied a 64bit laptop when developing a 64bit only application lol.

I have several clients with this kind of setup. I’m always baffled at the amount of hoops I have to go through to connect to my Linux server. Sometimes I have to remote desktop to a windows virtual desktop and then use the citrix session to another windows machine VIA BROWSER so I can finally ssh to the machine. Are they trying to bore attackers to death?

Just go ahead and write a very basic working kernel in rust.

I don’t get this stance, really. If I want to write a driver in Rust I should start by creating a completely new Kernel and see if it gains momentum? The idea of allowing Rust in kernel drivers is to attract new blood to the project, not to intentionally divert it to a dummy project.

Rust is sufficiently different that you cannot expect C developers to learn rust to the level they have mastered C

If you watch the video, no one asked anything from the C developers other than documentation. They just want to know how to correctly make the Rust bindings.

Note that Rust is not replacing C code in the Kernel, just an added option to writing drivers.

Vertical tabs are in the 131 alpha

In the company I work with you can use whatever you want but I’m the only one using Linux :(