Here is a nice video that gives you an easy to grasp intuition about durations of different operations and access of components of a computer (Cache vs RAM vs SSD vs HDD etc.)

I find it illustrates well why a fester drive or even faster RAM (unless there is a different bottleneck) would give you a more noticable performance uplift than a different Kernel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpaQrzoDW2I

Sorry, it’s been a while since I did the install, what I meant is the default config of: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram#Using_zram-generator

I usually run the default arch zram config which is 50% of the RAM. For your case I’d go with 2 or 3 GB

If you like TUI you might find this useful:

https://github.com/knqyf263/pet

If you look at a project on sourcehut while not logged in, you will see instructions on the side how to create a patchset and mail it directly to the maintainer, no account needed.

selfhosted forgejo, but you have to host it :/

yeah that was the joke, thanks for explaining it

confused java dev: what do you mean a function can’t return void???

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The state of mind depends on sensory input.

Great concept, but I don’t live in the terminal and prefer GUI text editor features (like jumping the cursor with a mouseclick).

The workflow on the git page looks extremely clunky compared to a good old textfile.

Here is my personal approach to this.

• I have set my bash history to a ridiculous 1000000 max length, so that I can use CTRL+R to search for commands that I have ran before

• I write down a lot of commands in a searchable note text document

• Ask chatGPT

• Use the tldr command

• Added A LOT of verbose custom aliases and scripts. For example instead of

inotifywait -m -r --exclude "(/tmp.*|/var/cache.*|/dev/pts/|/var/log.*)" -e MOVED_TO -e CREATE -e CLOSE_WRITE -e DELETE -e MODIFY . (nobody can remember that alphabet gibberish)

I just type watch_for_changes .

Since it is verbose, straight from my brain, I always remember it and it works with autocomplete. I have like ~30 such commands so far.

I usually recommend Zorin OS to noobs, but personally I prefer arch based

For many games, the loading times are not thaaaat different when comparing HDD vs SSD vs NVME. (Depends on how impatient you are tbh.) And it barely affects FPS.

The biggest appeal of NVME/SSD for me is having a snappy OS.

So I would put your rarely played games on a cheap, big HDD and keep your OS and a couple of the most frequent games on the NVME. (In the Steam interface you can easily move the games to a new drive)

I find it to be a much simpler solution than setting up a multi tiered storage system.

Some sources:

https://www.legitreviews.com/game-load-time-benchmarking-shootout-six-ssds-one-hdd_204468

https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-gaming-disk/3

https://www.pcgamer.com/anthem-load-times-tested-hdd-vs-ssd-vs-nvme/

I have no personal experience, but I’ve heard rumors that hybrid architecture (performance cores + efficiency cores) doesn’t work well with linux.

That might be completely outdated or only relevant for Intel. But maybe it will help if you look into that in more detail.

I also recommend Zorin OS. It’s a bit easier to set up than debian.

I am just trying to illustrate why posting personal anecdotal evidence is useless.

Linux and it’s software is in a state where you can expect every user to have a vastly different experience and set of issues or the lack thereof.

The bugs I have right now have nothing to do with hardware.

1. Window rules just refuse to work no matter what (wayland)

2. A single GTK app stays in light mode, while all other GTK apps are dark. On my laptop, same OS, same settings, same apps, (I dd the ssd) the app is dark…

I’m on a rolling distro so newest updates always.

I experience lots of bugs that only a handful of people share and the majority has never seen. And they are different from OPs.

Doing it the way a person would requires the file manager to understand context, which requires a lot more logic for arguably little benefit.

I’m so glad KDE Dolphin has a “natutal sorting” option. Not sure about this specific case, but I have never been surprised by the order with that setting.

Would be interesting to check the code behind it.