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Raddle #309 • Dec 30, 2025

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I don't give a crap what OS you use. A lot of us aren't evangelizing anything, we're just trying to bring people up-to-date on the current state of Linux, which is pretty good to be honest. That is then misinterpreted as elitism because tone of voice isn't transmitted over text.

People are concerned about the direction Windows is going and a lot of us are justifiably mad about it. But mentioning Linux instead of linking to the debloat scripts and masgrave summons people that hate the Linux of 10-20 years ago.

You're sysadmin that has issues with Firefox.... What?

This has to be a ragebait account.

I don't believe that is a KDE specific issue. I've seen it in most DE's

It's more of a mount/file system limitation. For whatever reason you have to explicitly tell the file system that if it can't connect to something, to timeout.

Add a timeout to your mount rule and if it ends up being unavailable it'll just timeout instead of freezing your file browser.

Wireguard VPN tunnel + rclone sync (or rclone copy) to a specific driver/folder on your home network

Edit: Not sure why it posted 3 times... Deleted the others.

I've loved Armored Core since I was a kid. I was disappointed with AC5 but absolutely LOVED AC6. It's one of the only game I've 100% on Steam.

TLDR; Overall, great. Had some growing pains but Linux feels faster/snappier than windows.

I'm a developer and a self host "enthusiast", so I was already a little familiar with Linux, but I ended up hopping from OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, to Kubuntu, to Arch Linux (using KDE Plasma).

I had issues with Tumbleweeds package manager, and overall it felt clunky. They have stricter security than other distros and it caused some weirdness with Dolphin and some other utilities/packages.

Kubuntu was fine but then I came across an article that Valve was going to be directly collaborating with Arch, so I said screw it and jumped to Arch.

I absolutely love Arch, but it definitely has a learning curve. I found a gentleman on youtube (OldTechBloke) that walked through installing it and has a Gitlab repo with all of the commands to install. I took that and used it as a starting point and modified it over the past ~8-9 months to suit my needs (I've installed it on two other laptops now as well)

The biggest issues I've had have been related to Nvidia, and oddly enough, my Gigabyte motherboard. I had to enable several kernel parameters so "sleep" would work correctly. Luckily the arch wiki is incredibly detailed.

For a regular user, I would recommend Kubuntu or Linux Mint.

Edit: Also, I dual booted for a while but I'm at a point now where I haven't been on Windows since like... February. PUBG and Tarkov are the only things keeping Windows around on my PC.

Okay! Awesome, just wanted to make sure. And making the 172.18.0.0/16 subnet available is something I didn't think about (obviously) so that's good to know.

Thank you for your detailed response!

Executive order just came it.

There is no water shortage

DONALD TRUMP

So I think we're good.

Oh, I use both, I was just poking fun. That being said, I unfortunately I don't feel comfortable trying to get my parents on Linux... or even friends.

Most people just want things to work and won't do any sort of troubleshooting themselves. "It just works" is worth the intrusiveness that comes with Windows.

Fly above him, use missiles, land only when necessary to replenish energy.