Lutris can be pretty handy for many things…

I don’t have too much exp with these things, but I would suggest (as an IT support person) narrowing down and isolating problems into specifics, like:

• I need dot.net for x thing and I tried y thing and it didn’t work.

You’ll be able to get better answers. I’m pretty interested in the suggestions, my usual solution is ‘find something open source that is not as good but works.’

I… actually can’t tell if you’re taking the piss or if that’s a real episode.

I have so many questions about the whales.

Tarballs are not built from source?

I have heard multiple times from different sources that building from git source instead of using tarballs invalidates this exploit, but I do not understand how. Is anyone able to explain that?

If malicious code is in the source, and therefore in the tarball, what’s the difference?

Ah thanks, that’s my problem, it’s me.

Oh boy…

Total Download Size: 3390.65 MiB Total Installed Size: 13052.08 MiB Net Upgrade Size: 291.24 MiB

I wonder if I’m going to notice any better performance…

holy shit!!! I’m definitely doing that!

Just reconfigured /etc/makepkg.conf to use extra cores and tmpfs… I’ve been compiling on the SSD with one core for so long it’s embarrassing.

As a side note, dealing with adding repos and keys and all that is something I will never miss from apt. I use Arch and installing things is usually as simple as… well let me check.

$ yay mullvad
...
2 aur/mullvad-vpn-bin 2023.6-1 (+86 1.36) 
    The Mullvad VPN client app for desktop
1 aur/mullvad-vpn 2023.6-1 (+126 2.10) 
    The Mullvad VPN client app for desktop
==> Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)
==> _

And it’s option 1. So easy. Type 1 and press enter and you’re done.

Can’t I just download a file and install it?

Yes, there are instructions on the page for that, the section is titled ‘Installing the app without the Mullvad repository’

The answer is always ffmpeg

I just discovered that I know emacs commands because I use them in the bash terminal all the time.

Hey look, it’s us:

https://odysee.com/@ProgrammersAreAlsoHuman:3/interview-with-an-emacs-enthusiast-in:d

For a lot of what I do, its the only way to do it.

For everything else, there’s MasterCard.

Pretty sure I did with mplayer and/or feh but it was years ago

Can you remove the GPU and use onboard?

It is mentioning gpu in the errors, so it would be the first thing I would try, to see if the errors change, because I have no idea what’s going on here

My DE is Gnome which uses a bit. Haven’t really looked into it further, because I still have 62GB of ram free after startx. Haven’t maxed it out yet.

After boot, I’m using 2GB. I haven’t noticed Linux doing the ram-hog thing like Windows at all. But Firefox is currently using 8GB.

Just restarted Firefox and it’s using 2.5GB now. I think it stores a lot in ram from video.

I haven’t actually touched selinux at all… It’s not ‘officially supported’ in Arch yet, although there are compatible packages available. I only recently discovered PAM which I have yet to learn too.

To break from the trend (because I recommend Mint as well),

Check out the options on distrowatch.com, test out any live distros you can. When you have some understanding of GRUB then dual boot, and then triple.

Inevitably, you’re going to end up using Arch because it’s so easily managed and you get to choose each component. But it’s better if you have experience with the different components first. I completely missed out on learning RPM (package manager), I went from Mint (apt) to Arch (pacman). I did resurrect a lot of old laptops and desktops with various different distros though, and I learned Gnome and xfce, LXDE, MATE, and i3, xmonad…

There’s a lot to learn but it’s all fun, and it’s all different. When you go to a tiling window manager, you’ll understand why Windows adopted (albeit shittily) tiling in it’s latest version.

Arch is for advanced people

I’d say mid… the Arch install process has got a lot simpler over the years and the wiki a lot better.

If you can google duckle effectively, I reckon even a sharp-minded beginner could handle it.