Linux will never catch on to the home users. It's a schizophrenic system. The difference between Debian, Arch, and Fedora, is like saying Windows 7 programs can not be installed on Windows 10, nobody will ever talk about Windows 10.

People want to be able to download programs from websites, double click and install it. The whole "distribution" thing is stupid and is a wall blocking mass adoption. There's people that only know how to use Adobe programs. People want brand name programs, not alternatives.

I use OpenBSD and FrerBSD, I'm setting up a BSD router, but for gaming, that is all exclusively on Windoes.

One tip if you truly want people you know to install Linux, learn how to do all of the configuration and maintaintence through SSH. If you are available at anytime to SSH and look at something, that would open up a few people willing to try. For example if someone calls you and says they want a program,you SSH in, type the command to install the program, and tell them it will be listed in the menu in a minute when it's dine

There is not a one software solution for everybody. Between CalyxOS and Graphene, whichever one you choose.

For VPN, based on your geography, I suggest either RiseUp VPN or Bitmask.

You are doing mental gymnastics

That's your choice to exclusively use Linux on your system, but telling others what they must give up to conform to what Linux can do is pushing cult mentality. You are only providing proof why people should always avoid Linux at all cost. To prove my point, you should try to get a job in IT maintaining network systems or service support for a company helping random customers and see how far you get.

Windows in a VM nainly only works in a server setup. Nit exclusively a server, but mainly only in servers. On desktop, Windows in a VM is either pointless, as in overkill, or problematic.

I use BSD, Linux, but all gaming is exclusively on Windows. Linux is not 109% compatible with all PC hardware, like soft EQ, DAC, or mixer setup for $500 of audio hardware not ncluding speakers, not all games in existance of the past 30 years have a Linux verson available or come ffom alaunxher or store, so all gaming is always exclusively on Windows.

People only push Linux for gaming out of ideology, not a solution. Using a translation layer or emulation means incompatibility, not a solution. Gaming on Linux because hate Windows, is not a solution. Mental paranoia over telemetry does not make Linux a solution.

Did my point go way over your head?

Why do people not use Win 11 LTSC so nothing is installed besides barebones Windows functionality? It does not come with Microsoft Store or Media Player

Do you know, because I don't, if 5090 with 3 8-pin connections would be 100% stable?

You can walk to grocery store and pay with monero? I can't find a way to buy monero without a credit card.

My point being, as long as there is never any way to buy groceries with crypto, it will never be greatly valuable. It won't be worthess, people will want it, but crypto will never grow into anything.

Because if that, not as many online services will every accept crypto because they don't want to pay to exchange it. But if crypto became another form of payment for retail, then a lot more online stores and services will also accept crypto instead of being responsible for taking card information.

Use a live Linux CD/USB but do not install it and wipe the drive with command "shred -uzv /dev/sda" or whichever the drive is. Use partition manager to check the label for the drive to securely wipe it.

I bought crypto and still own it, but over time I have come to the opinion that until stores and malls accept crypto, they will never grow betond being a commodity like gold. This is the highest price I've ever seen gold. That has me concerned of how volatile people's finances are. The cost of living was a huge amount cheaper when gold was 65 to 70% cheaper than now.

If bitcoin ever hits $400,000, I see implosion and collapse being imminent. Crypto will never be worthlesss, at least crypto that casual observers have heard of before, but there's no huge profit to be made from it without engaging in financial criminal activity.

So if you want to get into crypto, do definitely protect your identity at all cost before purchasing whichever currency, but also know for what principal you got it to it. If it is to get wealthy, you wasted your money. If it's to hold on to something of value that you can trade for if economy falls off, then that could prove to be a wise decision in the future.

There's more I could say, this might already be blah blah blah, but I hope that you understand my overall premise. I genuinelly don't now why individual stores don't accept crypto and then sell it almost in real time. If crypto stablized, a few people would take their pay in crypto instead of bank deposit, and just that would take money away from the elite global class if staff got paid in crypto to do their shopping.

It would be good for them to release a Panther Lake version of the i3 14100 as successor. I could make use of that as a spare/secondary computer.

Linux desktop will never happen for the mass market. Linux is not an option for many people. You are pushing ideology and it shows your lack of job experience. You've never made a good size living in IT working in spport of random customers systems or working in an office environment for others to tell you every time someone wants you to come fix something.

Once you are fluent in setting up a BSD GUI desktop, not Linix, and you become skilled in remote sys admin work, then we can talk about why people should use Linux.

My first priority is picture quality. Play on max/ultra everything but disable upscaling

I view upscaling as giving a developers a cop out for not having to optimize games, as well as an admission of noting capable of enginner gaming GPU's that can do 4K ultra path tracing 165fps.

I'm also getting suspiciois that AAA+ games are dismissing original wring and story development to replace with flashy graphics and then sell it on how good the game looks. Indie studies don't have the budget for upscalling, no 6 year old games from anybody has upscaling, I find it to be more of a gimmick than a solution. Nobody plays a game 4 years after release because of how good the game looks for grahics.

Am I alone and being firmly against upscaling, never tried it, and everything is played or native resolution only? There have been games that only used 20% of GPU so I doubled game reaultion, but never upscaling.

I plan to try to go to a game because from watching YouTube there is some goid players with heart and not so corporate. I do not support "women's hockey", I only want to see some excellent hockey played, but I do hope that the league is exclusively for females and not indentify aa a woman

Intel needs to design 1 Core Ultra 9 and 1 Core Ultra 7 that is entirely made of P-cores, zero E-cores on the physical die, and watxh how much better those sell compared to all of the other ones.

Even though Intel isn't the fastest, the mix of having 2 different architectures designs with P-cores being from one design and E-cores being of a different architecture, it is affecting people's experience.

Intel can still compete against AMD 8-core non-x3D, but not with e-cores in the mix. For systems that run on on-board graphics from APU and will never have an nVidia/Radeon GPU installed, Intel rules all.

What's crippling Intel is their obsession on sales figures for stock market price and not raw performance to maintain mindshare. Oh, and leave a new CEO in power for a minimum of at least 5+ years to seeing the very beginning of the fruits of their work. Nothing gets fixed in 2 years. In took AMD 10 years to take Intel's sales and now Intel is falling off, that shows that the problem isinternal, and not due to competition. External competition only exposed the slop and filth of how Intel is structured and run since Intel is still not ready to start fighting off from being swallowed.

Am I alone being against all forms of upscaling, and play everything on native resolution only? I always disable DLSS/FSR/XeSS