Due to the VLC updates taking up too many lines in our terminal, we have decided to drop VLC from the extra repository. Users who wish to play back videos can install them from the AUR.

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It’s a type of question that Arch/Cachy often ask during regular updates. Here it’s about replacing a package. Sometimes you also need to make a choice between multiple packages or even perform some manual actions (see https://archlinux.org/). This requires you to possibly look it up, understand the change, and make a decision. If you screw it up, you can break your system.

My point was not that this is bad. Arch Linux is intentionally and explicitly targeted at proficient users. This is part of the deal. It can even be nice, because it gives you more insight into and control over what goes on under the hood in your system. However, I don’t think this is a good experience for (most) new users.

I would not recommend CachyOS to any beginners because after installation it still behaves like regular Arch. Just from today’s update:

Replace vlc-plugin-kwallet with cachyos-extra-v3/vlc-plugin-libsecret? [Y/n]

That said, I don’t agree with your claims. CachyOS puts a lot of effort into optimizing performance (at the cost of other things, e.g. disk space, server load, support for older hardware, …), especially for gaming workloads. There have been many benchmarks that consistently show it performing better than other distros out-of-the-box. Generally, the advantage seems to be in the 0 to 15% range. Does that matter? That probably depends on who’s asking.

You are correct that all the optimizations are open for everybody to see and copy. However, the mainstream distros don’t seem to be interested in doing that for now. And applying the CachyOS optimizations (different kernel, scheduler, optimized packages for Zen 4, …) to other distros (say Ubuntu) is not really feasible or advisable for most users.

PS: I had to look it up, and of course people tried xD.

Yes, the tax is paid by the consumers. But, those consumers will probably not be willing to pay more just because the company was too slow in updating their cash registers. So the problem quickly solves itself.

I don’t see the problem. Drop the tax and if the companies can’t handle it, they continue to pay it. And once it costs them money they will fix it in 1 week instead of a year.

Yeah, I actually switched distro to get Wayland multi-monitor VRR. But, unfortunately, it seems that it’s kinda broken with my Novideo GPU :(

Seems LLM Generated as well. Because I don’t think Fortnite works well (if at all) on Linux. This just seems an LLM reassuring the Dev that it works? IDK.

Yeah, it’s for sure AI slop.

Please don’t run scripts that a random person uploaded to Github if you don’t know what you’re doing. I didn’t see anything malicious here, but most of the stuff is useless and some of it is even detrimental (e.g. the LLM “thought” the outdated Ubuntu Nvidia ppa was a good idea).

If you want to game on Debian, you can do that just fine. Installing Steam and Nvidia drivers (if applicable) should be sufficient for most people. IMO, the main issue with gaming on Debian are the very old GPU drivers (Nvidia 550, Mesa 25.0). This can be fine on older hardware, but is the reason why I wouldn’t recommend Debian for gaming in general. The script you linked doesn’t help with this at all.

If you really want these “gaming optimizations”, for the limited benefits they provide, I would recommend that you just use one of the distros that ships them. CachyOS, Bazzite, Nobara, Pop OS, or PikaOS all seem like a better choice than these scripts. At the very least the maintainers of those distros will integrate everything and perform some level of QA for you.

No, Debian is typically quite a bit older than even the Ubuntu LTS. E.g. they currently still don’t ship a Nvidia driver that supports the 50 series GPUs.

Ich versuche noch einmal Vikunja (TODO Liste) aufzusetzen.

It looks like the fixes were merged in 6.18, 6.19, and 7.0. But all older (but supported) LTS kernels didn’t have the fix, like 6.12, which is used in Debian 13. And it also seems that Ubuntu, RHEL, and SUSE had not picked up the patches in their kernel versions.

That may be true for personal computers, but the impact of this vulnerability is mainly on servers. And those typically run distros like Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL that didn’t have a patch at that time.

It seems that most LTS distros didn’t get a heads up and there are no patches available. Uh oh.

No, not quite that low. It’s an x86 PC with multiple HDDs. It draws about 15W in idle, or about 130 kWh per year. It’s a substantial part of my electricity bill xD

Uff…that’s close to my yearly electricity bill (including a home server/NAS). Energy consumption in the US is crazy.

And to be more clear: OnlyOffice also did not grant permission to use said logo. They used this to try to deny people the ability to create forks, which goes against the core principles of the AGPL and open source.

Yes. If I remember correctly, it was the Proton VPN installation guide for Ubuntu (https://protonvpn.com/support/official-linux-vpn-ubuntu) telling people to install gnome-shell-extension-appindicator. That package in turn pulls in the entire Gnome shell…

It’s a thing where the Gnome desktop is installed as a dependency and shows up on the next boot: https://www.reddit.com/r/gotgnomed

Haha yess. I was initially planning on 7900 XTX which was pushing the wattage around 550. So I thought maybe in future if I upgrade to something even beefier, I don’t want to buy another PSU that’s why I stuck to 850W.

I see, that makes a bit more sense then. I think it’s fine to put an 850W PSU in this build, given that you’re not paying much more than for a 650 to 750W PSU. I was just a bit surprised to see an 850W PSU in a build that will probably draw around 400W to 450W under load.

The part list looks good to me, it should result in a very nice gaming machine :) I think you were a bit generous with the PSU wattage, but I don’t think you can save a lot there anyway. If you play a lot of competitive (high-FPS) games, you could also consider spending a bit more on the CPU (e.g. 9800X3D) instead of the GPU.

The BIOS update should be fine as you already have another computer and the mainboard supports BIOS flashback. One note from my experience is that I needed to use the Windows version of 7zip (through Wine) to extract the BIOS on similar MSI B650 board. Otherwise, the BIOS update would fail.

I think that massive tower cooler should easily handle your 65W CPU (even in your hot climate). An air cooler also has the additional benefit of an air current over nearby components (RAM, VRM, …). IMHO, liquid cooling is mostly something that people do because it’s nice (and quiet). But, it’s always higher maintenance than simple air cooling.