It will compile and install the module for you. All it means is that whenever your kernel is updated, the install process will take around 5 minutes longer than it otherwise would whilst it compiles the dkms module for you.

If you use the lts kernel package, your kernel updates will be infrequent.

If you use the regular arch linux kernel package, it will update every few weeks like it does now, and each time, your package installation process will run a few minutes longer due to the need to compile the driver

The problem is, at this point at least, Garmin is still the best in market, and their path down enshittification hasn’t cut away the tools that make that so. The stuff they paywall is stuff that isn’t needed, and as long as they keep it that way, I’ll be ok with staying with them. I use a Fenix 6S, and they stopped doing anything interesting with it years ago, but it still works and still does everything it did on the day I bought it. I probably won’t replace it for another 6 months or so, but even though I’ll likely buy Garmin again, this shit has me concerned enough that it probably won’t be a Fenix this time, because I feel like enshittification that does impact basic functionality could drop at any moment…

I’ve been using CachyOS for a couple of years now, so I suppose that makes it my favourite distro of 2025

I used photoprism for a long time, but when I tried immich, I dropped photoprism in an instant.

I mean, it increases again when you lose fitness, but it stays larger than it was before you got fit, so it remains lower than it was initially

In my case, when I was at my peak, I’d be in the high 30s, low 40s. When I lost my fitness, I sat in the mid to high 40s.

Before I took up distance running in the first place, my RHR was in the high 50s.

One interesting thing that articles like this don’t often mention, is that when your resting heart rate drops due to fitness, it tends to stay lower even if you lose your fitness later on.

Meh. I perform much better at shorter distances. Even at my peak, my long distance runs were under the expectations of where they should be based on my 5km time. Even the genetic test I did said I’m built more for running fast 5kms than I am for running marathons and half marathons.

Yet for all of that, if I’m running an event, I’m going to run a half marathon, because I just don’t enjoy 5km as much as I enjoy long distances. Unless it’s a parkrun, it’s not worth getting out of bed for a 5km running event.

I use Kagi. Paying for a search engine isn’t something that I ever saw myself doing, but I do honestly believe it’s the only way they can exist that means the users are the customers instead of the product.

The distro I find easiest to recommend to folk in my life looking to move to Linux is the distro that I’m using/most familiar with, because it makes it easier to help them out if they run in to an issue.

I use CachyOS, and previously, I was trying to support Mint etc, but having zero experience with the way the way Mint handles packages, with its default apps, update process etc, I found myself having to research an OS I don’t use, and offer 2nd hand advice. I moved them over to CachyOS, and even though technically, it’s not as beginner friendly, my day to day familiarity with it meant that it was easier to help out when troubles arose.

Not sure about the “fine with learning” part. I’m fine with learning, but learning isn’t my primary motivation, but more like a bonus!

That being said, it did neatly capture why I chose CachyOS over Arch!

Yes! It has automated scans which will pick them up

In the last 18 monts, they’re enabled explicit sync, which was pretty much the turning point in making NVIDIA drivers/GPUs usable. On top of that, they’ve open sourced the kernel modules.

It’s very very different to what it was even 2 years ago.

Is anyone running Wayland with NVIDIA drivers?

Yep! It’s been largely trouble free for a year or so now.

but I’m getting bad flicker in Wayland.

I had some issues the specific combination of NVIDIA card, Wayland running Plasma and VRR. But I disabled VRR, and it went away.

Snapper!

I started using linux full time about a year ago. I started with Arch, but moved to Cachy really quickly when I discovered it. All of the advantages of Arch, but repos optimised for modern hardware, and a whole heap of useful pre-configured tools, like Wine/Proton, fish, snapper etc. Arch is a bare bones, pick and configure your own setup rolling release distro. Cachy is a pre-optimised, rolling release distro with lots of useful stuff right out of the box.

The one thing I’ve been thinking about (but haven’t yet done) is using it for the Insta 360 camera app (an app for editing/exporting videos from 360 panoramic cameras). It’s actually more feature rich than the desktop version, which doesn’t have a linux version in any case, so using it to quickly reframe my videos and export them to something non proprietary would be a whole lot easier…

Maybe I’ll try and get that working today…

Thank you! I’ll be watching with great interest! Lots of potential :)

A couple of questions. If I was trying to keep a consistent workspace to build a community around, would it be persistent after the host logs off, and are their tools to protect it from trolls etc who discover it a workspace?

It means you won’t end up with dual boot breaking one of your installs, you won’t accidentally overwrite anything etc.

Entirely optional, but if you were already planning on removing it anyway, it’s not really any extra work

If you’ve got two slots and a modern motherboard, you can do the same thing but keep both m.2 devices installed. If you really want to be sure, take out the windows device, install Linux on the second, and then put the windows device back in. You’ll be able to swap back to windows if needed that way without swapping things out