Slightly harsh but that is the truth of it. Improving the walls and doors will help, but if the guard on the door can be convinced to admit an uninvited guest then the physical security will have much harder time protecting your data. The weakest part of any security system is the people.

What’s interesting about CachyOS is you can install mods on any Arch you like. I have EndeavourOS (best Arch distro imho) and recently installed the CachyOS mods and it works great. Check out the following video for an easy guide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOIdc99nZzg

https://wiki.cachyos.org/

GUI for Pipewire configuration. Being able to reliably change the sample rate and buffer size without having to mess with config files would be nice.

Lol. No. Just pointing out that he is all mouth and no trousers.

TACO!

Obvious, right? Only an evil person would say it that way.

Agreed. But it does make it easy to tell evil Linux users from good Linux users. I pronounced it so you can tell who is who.

The only amount of territory Putin will accept long term is anywhere nukes can be placed so it bothers him.

Except that UAC has been frequently compromised and still is. The historic weakness of UAC, and the juicy reward, continues to make it a favourite point of attack. Microsoft obviously knows this because they call the current UAC a legacy mode, and they’re superseding it with the new Administrator Protection modes. This isn’t turned on by default afaik, probably due to compatibility issues, but I’m guessing it’ll be a big thing soon.

Honestly, the AUR and arch wiki are amazing. Every other distro I’ve used I’ve had to rely on out of date or unreliable support forums. Anytime I want to install something I don’t have hope it already has a package, because someone has usually already built an AUR package that either compiles from the latest source for you or comes pre-pcompiled.

Being on the most up to date version of the kernel and all software is a good thing in my book. I certainly haven’t had issues caused by this.

I’ll admit the Arch can be a struggle to set up initially, so that’s why I use EndeavourOS. EndeavourOS is just Arch with a GUI installer, a shortlist of tweaks all users would want anyway, it let’s you choose your preferred Desktop Environment during install, and it feels like any other distro in terms of getting it ready for use. It doesn’t come with any apps, other than core system tools and firefox, which is also good because you can then install whatever you want.and be free of anything you don’t want. Also, all the usual hardware gets detected and works out of the box.

I won’t go back to any other Linux.

I would be interested in any resources you have on improving latency with pipework. Windows has the ASIO driver which gives direct access to the Audi interface. I didn’t think pipewire was able to match it, but I’ll be glad to be wrong.

I took a brief looked at yabridge a while ago, but struggled. Sounds like I should revisit it.

Reaper is definitely the way to go. While it is not FOSS I feel it has the spirit of Linux. It is extremely customisable and flexible and it has all the features you expect from a good DAW.

The real issue is finding instrument and effect plugins that work on Linux. The popular ones are all windows or Mac only because they depend on DRM control software that doesn’t work on Linux.

I really would like to switch but can’t for one reason. It lacks a user friendly logon screen like literally every other similar system. I’ve tested jellyfin with my family. They liked it, but they all hated having to enter a username and password instead of just having a list of profiles to select, so they voted no. This seems like such a trivial thing to implement, and would improve accessibility for lots of people.

The obvious question that needs asking is, can we fork?

Adding my voice to the hardware compatibility issue. While most hardware just works, Linux usually lacks the ability to configure the device. Audio interfaces are a good example of this. They work but you can’t set the sample rate or enable any custom features on ANY of them.

I believe government regulators should step in and require hardware manufacturers to provide Linux support equal to Windows or Mac. This could be relaxed for low volume or highly specialised devices, but mainstream consumer stuff should be more universal.

I dual boot Windows and EndeavourOS. I’ve got a range of games running great on Linux, performance does take a hit in most cases but as long as you have good hardware and aren’t chasing ultimate FPS numbers, it is usually acceptable.

I wish I could make the full switch but music recording just isn’t a good experience on Linux. High latency, lack of audio device configuration, and a limited range of instruments and effects (VST files), all means a Mac or Windows are the only options.

Trump achieved a short term goal with the insider trading tactic. Let’s see if he does it again.

For me the EU should make all hardware manufacturers provide open source drivers with the full range of configuration options available. This is one of the biggest hurdles to moving away from Windows.

I’m waiting for the day when these enhanced terminals go full GUI and mouse driven.

Watching the trailer video 10 times in a row is also slightly insane, but is free at least.