they work, they just don’t have the same optimizations as the packages in their repo. that’s also true for AUR packages.

Yep, that was actually my second distros when I switched to Linux a few years ago (right after PopOS). Its a good distro, essentially Arch with a better out of the box setup. If were to go with an arch based distro today, I’d probably choose CachyOS for the package and kernel optimizations, but both are good.

Arch-based distros are definitely CLI centric, but if you don’t mind that then its great! Just keep in mind it is a rolling distro, breakages aren’t super common, but they can occur. A backup using Timeshift is probably a good idea. Also, I wouldn’t rely too heavily on the AUR, remember they are unofficial packages and are more prone to breakage. Id prefer flatpak for GUI apps at least.

I’m surprised to hear that, I don’t think cosmics default configuration has much in common with windows. It uses a MacOS style dock and and status bar by default. The workflow is also very customizable. I personally use it with just a status bar and always have tiling on, similarly to how one would use Hyprland or another tiling wm, since that’s what I used before cosmic. I love plasma too, but the fact that you can’t have separate workspaces per monitor unfortunately makes it unusable for my workflow.

PopOS is in a rough state. The stable ISO is using absurdly an absurdly outdated desktop, and the beta using COSMIC desktop. I personally love COSMIC, but it is far from stable, so I would not recommend it to most users.

CachyOS is a great distro. The performance gains from its changes won’t be huge, but the people acting like its nonexistent are silly. They also make many upcoming performance improving features like NTSYNC available early in their default kernel.

I definitely wouldn’t go Debian or Mint for gaming personally. I don’t like stable distros with such slow release schedules for gaming, mainly because of stuff like the prior mentioned NTSYNC. You don’t get those new features for a long time.

I saw people recommending Bazzite, which is a distros I highly recommend. The only issue I have with Bazzite is that installing kernel modules they don’t ship is pretty much unsupported and requires a lot of jumping through hoops. Most people won’t need this, but it matters from some use cases like if you need steering wheel drivers.

Hopefully I can find the molex cables that came with my PSU, I know I have them somewhere.

Thanks for the tip about grounding, was not aware of that. I’ll either be getting a second PSU or upgrading to one of those Super Flower ones, depending on how the costs work out. I just remembered my GPU doesn’t need a power cable, so that should open up even more ports.

Thanks for all the advice!

I was asking just about power, but those bays will come in handy as I haven’t been able to get a new case yet, thanks for sharing!

A second power supply does currently seem like the best option. In my research I found Super Flower’s modular power supplies, which can apparently power a ton of drives

For the molex to SATA splitters, did you need to get one specifically wired for your PSU?

Hey, thanks to your suggestion I got 8 SAS drives and a PCI-e SAS expansion card, but I’ve realized there’s something I didn’t really consider. How are you powering your drives? After my upgrade, my server will contain 12 drives, which my PSU unfortunately does not provide enough ports for. Is simply upgrading it the best option in your opinion?

I didn’t know that case could fit that many drives! I’m a fan of Fractal Designs cases, have used and recommended them for a few gaming PCs before. Thanks for the recommendation!

I hadn’t really looked into SAS drives, but that sounds like a great option. $5/TB is awesome!

I wasn’t aware of these! I’ll need to check when I have a chance, but I’m fairly sure there’s an open slot, thanks!

That’s a great suggestion, thank you! I looked at a few cases with more drive space but didn’t see any this inexpensive.

The game that deserved GOTY

Yeah the tooling sucks. The only tooling I’ve liked is Poetry, I never have trouble installing or packaging the apps that use it.

Id like to add a lutris integration for it at aome point.

Tauri is the electron alternative we already have. This does look like a good framework, just not the same as electron.

Looks like it allows that using ollama

Edit: according a couple issues, the flag that allows this is being ignored…

I didn’t realize psn wasnt available in some countries that could purchase the game. that is really messed up.

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The game said this on launch and made it clear on the steam page. Even if they weren’t enforcing it, I think its silly to be upset that they’ve started. I’d also rather sign into a PSN account and have functioning crossplay than deal with the current state of it.

Edit: oops I thought i had read it was to help crossplay, which hasn’t been working well recently. since its for nothing this is fucking stupid

Things on the Linux GUI land are so messed up that we even got this.

I don’t understand what you mean by this. This project is using a library provided by a major DE, if anything this shows the opposite of your point.

There aren’t distribution “sponsored” IDEs (like Visual Studio or Xcode)

Both GNOME and KDE have a text editor that supports LSP’s and plugins, similar to VS Code. I also don’t know anybody who still uses Visual Studio or Xcode, outside a specific situations where they’re needed, which isn’t a positive in my book.

userland API documentation

Linux has XDG Desktop Portals, protocols that all DEs and compositors can implement and can be used by any app.