sank yu saar, +67 izzat
Artix and/or Gentoo
Do not ponder the fragrance saar!
I used Debian for the longest time and still use it exclusively for servers, but on my own computers I kept getting problems that I'm just not smart enough to diagnose and fix. For example, on two different machines (a desktop workstation and a laptop) and with two different browsers on both, the Kiwi Farms front page has a memory leak that will either crash Librewolf or crash the entire system if using Brave or anything Chrome-based. I literally couldn't forget the KF front page open otherwise it would start consuming several GB until all memory is gone. I'm not much of a tinkerer so I just switched to Mint and it was resolved. Thing is I don't like Cinnamon and despite Linux people's promises that you can just change and install anything you want, using a non-supported DE is invariably ass on any distro I have ever tried.
WTF are you guys doing to your machines?
This is/was a problem with the Kiwi Farms chat where it would leak memory. A lot of people reported this issue in the Technical Grievances thread, and some resorted to blocking the chat to prevent it. As I recall, Null did a few things at various times to mitigate the issue. It is likely not related to your choice of distro.
The biggest improvement was not literally having the chat on every single page. Caused browsers to shit the bed if you had multiple threads open in different tabs
Valve is so intertwined with Linux gaming that some 'people'* refer to Linux gaming machines as SteamStations.
That tower I'm working on I reseated everything and now the mobo doesn't power on lol
I've run it on a bunch of machines, both low-end and high-end, and it is quite stable.
The ride just never ends.
It's called "we outsourced all of our manufacturing to China and shitty third world countries".
I notice that a lot of younger and/or dumber computer owners decide that they need the biggest computer with the biggest graphics card and the biggest power supply so that they can draw the most current playing the newest wokeslop video games.
My Fractal Design Define XL with 2 GPUs and 128GB would like a word.
I think it's likely due to Shite Engine 5 or Unity requiring 6 GBs of VRAM minimum to run doom clones with 2d sprites. Pretty much every single modern game is now requiring 6-8 GBs purely out of laziness and relying on automatic "optimization" of those engines. The AI shortages just accelerated the need for the vram tweak. I've been waiting for this to be introduced in a stable release of my OS as this seems to be the only real optimization we're gonna get nowadays that isn't upscaling or frame generation.
I built my first desktop with the plan to keep it going for at least 8 or 9 years. I replaced the GPU after 8 and then full replaced after 9. It's now my home server minus the GPU which I gave to an online friend after he had his first child.
Very related to this, I am still waiting for someone to write up a good complete postmortem on all that wasted effort that was done in getting Africa to use Linux in the 2000s-2010s. This has largely faded out now, thank God, but I distinctly remember that the push for this was everywhere at the time for some reason. For example, ridiculous articles like this in WIRED posited Africa as the "Linux continent of the future". Special distros like "Impi Linux" whose Tux mascot was done up like the genocidal tyrant Shaka Zulu were created (& funded by Shuttleworth fun fact) for the explicit purpose of getting Africans to mass adopt Linux.
