MrPasty

Yeah, Ethernet connectivity is a common issue in Linux. This is why it’s almost never used in servers. It’s definitely not something you are doing wrong.

Nothing but a lot of people who don’t know what they’re doing use them instead of routers or gateways. This gives their devices direct access to the internet which is a major security issue but it also means that they end up using all IP adresses that their ISP will provide. All new devices that try to connect will fail to get a new address. Then they go online and ask why their internet connection is shit.

I always get bad vibes when beginners talk about internet connectivity issues and are using a switch. You do have a router too, right?

Check out Wolf. It uses Sunshine and doesn’t require a dummy plug.

Or worse, it means you’re not as good as you thought you were.

Hey, sorry I didn’t reply until now but life has been pretty hectic and I also kinda borked my streaming VM right at the same time as I wrote that. I ran Nobara Linux for a while with KDE on Xorg and it actually worked pretty well. Then I decided I wanted to give Bazzite a try but I didn’t like the whole immutable thing. I went back to Nobara just to find that Steam Remote Play straight up didn’t work and I couldn’t know if I had failed to set up something properly or Valve just broke it while I was “away”. A couple of days ago I decided to just abandon Remote Play for the time being and deployed Games on Whales and it seems very promising so far. Much easier than fiddling with VM:s and GPU passthrough and Sunshine/Moonlight has never failed me.

I run a gaming Linux VM on my server and it works fine.

Odd jobs, here and there.

Future-proofing with ext4? Come on.

Firewallcmd’s runtime-to-permanent is one of my favorite features of any software. Set everything up, make sure everything works before making the changes permanent. If not, just reboot!

I’ve done this for years and it works great.

Thanks for the tip but Mesa is not in the backports repo.

Incredible.

Why would an OEM need to buy a Windows license if the customer has no interest in using Windows?

Windows optimized for anything seems to be pretty much impossible.

Mostly not at all but sometimes I want to try some new features and that’s when it gets annoying. Right now, I’d like to try passing encoding capability from my APU to a VM I’m hosting but it requires Mesa 23 and Debian is on 22.

I run Debian on my server and while it’s sometimes annoying how old a lot of packages are, it’s ridiculously stable.

Removing Windows frees up tons of space!

I ran Manjaro happily for a while because I was scared of the Arch installation process. A couple of years ago, though, an update broke my system. By then, the archinstall script had come along so I tried installing Arch with that and I haven’t looked back.

Well, obviously!