I had a quick view at this post : https://www.reddit.com/r/radeon/comments/157qa6c/rx_6600_or_rx_6700_xt_for_1080p/

It seems to me that 6700xt is much stronger than 6600. More expensive, too. Personally, I would pay some extra money 6700xt, but it depends on OP’s budget and game preference.

I’d suggest OP to consider several factors:

1. Is the game you’re playing CPU-intensive? aka Will your 3600X be the bottleneck if you have a powerful GPU?
2. Do you have a 4K/1440p monitor?

KDE Connect: https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

I also use Resilio Sync. It’s not open source software, but it’s self-hosted https://www.resilio.com/

There are also open source sync services, like nextcloud or syncthing

Well, this is my first time hearing Betterbird

After reading their feature table https://www.betterbird.eu/#featuretable I think they have a really laudable goal.

I’d suggest to check the feature table first. If there is anything you concern, you pick Betterbird. Otherwise, you can choose one randomly :)

This is annoying, while there are a few things we can do

1. Report this issue at https://webcompat.com/
2. Change UA to trick this website https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher/
3. Best choice, change another store :)

Their DNS was down. I tried to ping 67.71.255.204 and it was not connectable. I also tried some ping tools, showing that this IP was not accessible from all over the world.

Some performance-extensive games may also work better on PS5. As OP doesn’t plan to build a gaming PC, I think a PS5 could improve the experience of lots of new games.

“just browse the internet” doesn’t indicate that you don’t need a powerful computer in 2023. Modern browsers are really heavy - and rendering websites are much more complex now.

Unless you’re really frugal about your PC budget, I think it’s definitely “to-go” for 32G

I’m also mounting them into /home/user/data while I don’t think hard-coding the user name in the mountpoint is a good idea. Besides, it needs the assumption that I’m the only “human-user” of this computer.

I may also mount them at /opt/data, but I’m not sure if it’s a good idea

I had been using WSL2 for about one year. The experience was terrible compared to a Linux host. (Sadly I can’t change the system on my work laptop). However, it was much better than Cygwin, msys2 and powershell - based on my experience.

If your host OS is windows and you’re interested in Linux, I think WSL2 is a good way to have a try

• Find an open-source software that you’re interested in, but your main distro doesn’t provide it in the official repo. Be a packager for this software.
• Open your distro’s wiki, rewrite (or contribute, if already good enough) a page or section.
• Try the bleeding-edge version (or very-early testing) of your favourite distro, and submit some test results, regarding to your hardware.

IMHO these tasks are interesting, could learn a lot from these tasks, and other linux users could benefit from these work

Also: I think rpm-ostree only supports rpm-based packages, tho; right?

Can I install .deb software too?

I don’t think rpm-ostree could support .deb softwares, just like dnf/yum can’t support deb packages.

Can you share your use case for trying to install a deb package in Fedora? I’m just curious.

And is there any kind of system-as-a-config-file kind of solution available like in NixOS or blendOS?

Good question. I only have a few computers, so I had never considered about it.

While I’ve looked into Fedora Silverblue, that distro is limited to only install Flatpaks, which is fine for “apps”, but seems to be more of a problem with managing system- and CLI tools.

No. Your understanding to Fedora Silverblue is wrong. I can just run rpm-ostree install package.name in Silverblue, like other Fedora spins. The small disadvantage is that I need to reboot to apply this update. (re-construct)

but doesn’t that result in new A/B snapshots, or something like that?

Well, you can call it snapshots, but there is no need to think about it. In most cases, the system points to the newest snapshot (deployment 0). If a rollback is needed, I can pin to the older deployments. When a major change is to be applied (Like bump Fedora version), I’d manually mark the current deployment as dont-auto-delete.

Sure, but I’d like to have a more seamless experience, i.e. not having to open/start any “containers” or something like that.

I never used toolbox in my Fedora Silverblue system. I feel that I can’t tell the difference between using Silverblue and the default Fedora spin

How about creating an app password? It may let you by-pass the 2FA https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en#

My solution is not ideal:

I created a directory, called ~/config_sync. I create sym links for config files, like ~/.bashtc to ~/config_sync/bashrc

However, I need to record the sym links I’ve created, and repeat this process on new machines

Valve has been using MoltenVK to run Dota2 on Mac1. I’m a bit worried that if Valve would cut the funding on MoltenVK2. Furthermore, CS:GO had been an example of a cross-platform example for multiple-player game. Valve’s games may still support Linux/SteamOS, but what if other developers only release their games as win-only in future?

I wonder why DOTA2 was not mentioned… It has a really decent Linux support for more than a decade

I’m kinda a worst-case scenario guy

Being evicted would be terrible. I understand that you’ll think about the worst-case at this moment.

As @ImplyingImplications has mentioned, the hearing is a very slow process (disclaim: I have no real experience of it. I just heard some stories). As you mentioned that you’re confident that you can pay your bill in 1-2 months, I’m certain that your pay-off happens before the hearing. In this case, your landlord would lose their stand for evicting, and you will be safe.

It’s possible to negotiate with your landlord. If I’m your landlord, I’d accept a partial rent payment and a plan to demonstrate the tenant would pay-off in a few months. Evicting a tenant is both time-costing and money-costing.

However, I’m not sure if discussing your situation with your current landlord is a good idea. Due to the different standings, being too honest may reveal your weakness. Does your insurance plan include legal service?

According to https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/housing-shelter/rental-housing-tenant-information/understand-fight-evictions/ your landlord can’t evict you after one late payment. They need to send you a N4 form, then there will be a hearing by Landlord and Tenant Board

In your case, I think you’ll be fine if you can pay the rent in one or two months. There are a few tenant support programs in Ontario. Maybe you can have a search

I think Fedora finds a good balance that

1. All components are OSS by default
2. It’s super easy to install RPMFusion packages when needed

Can you share the details of your procedure? Besides, which distro you’re using?