The virt-manager flatpak doesn’t work out of the box, you need to do some setup on the host. At that point you may as well use the deb of virt-manager.

Phones make the encryption invisible to the user.

That’s not the case on Linux unless you’re willing to put in a bit of work to set up TPM unlocking yourself or use one of the few distros that use TPM by default, like Aeon.

And even then Aeon’s not perfect. Sooner or later the TPM will fail and you’ll have to enter your long backup password and reenroll the TPM.

This is my result with the Chromium flatpak with ozone set to auto, AMD GPU.

Even though it says video decode is hardware accelerated, it doesn’t seem to be doing so according to Resources.

Are you using two separate devices? If so another option could be LocalSend, it allows you to send files over the same network.

I used it for sending a couple hundred GBs of files. Didn’t take too too long. Also avoids unnecessary writes to flash media.

To my understanding, the kernel should clean up any memory leaks an app has when you close it.

I’m not sure if it is related to Newsflash is the problem. Besides, I’ve been using the same version for months, but this has only recently become a problem. And the problem persists after Newsflash is closed.

No integrated GPU.

Resources reports the same memory usage as btop. free tells me only 6GB is being used for cache.

On a fresh boot, Resources and btop report less than 2GB RAM usage, obviously not including cached stuff. So for both tools to report 18GB with no apps open, it’s strange.

ps aux looks all normal, nothing in the background using more than 1% of RAM.

Using Fedora Silverblue 41 with btrfs.

No large files.

All normal

Better game performance in some scenarios when running a game natively under Wayland. It helps to minimize GPU downtime when it could instead be rendering.

I was using a 1660 Ti around 3 years ago and I don’t remember it being this stuttery, even on Wayland. If this is a problem on newer NVIDIA cards, then I think I might have to go AMD again despite the worse raytracing. I wanted to get an upgrade before upcoming tariffs affect graphics card prices.

They call Bazzite cloud native because they use a lot of technology often used in the cloud, but it’s still a locally run OS with no dependence on the internet apart from getting new updates.

Unlike traditional distros, it uses flatpak for apps, comes with podman (similar to docker) if you want to use containers, and has a more robust update mechanism.

Will likely release sometime between June-August. My guess would be closer to June.

Trying to use SteamTinkerLaunch to install Nexus Mods was a nightmare for me. It was so bad that I wiped my Linux install and installed Windows.

That Windows install didn’t last long, but ever since I’ve just done things manually. I’m going to keep doing that way until NexusMods.App is ready.

In the future, the easiest way will probably to be Nexus Mod’s new native app. But that’s still in alpha.

I’ve found it simplest to just manually copy the mods into my install folder and add all the .esp’s to my Plugins.txt.

To make the game start with SKSE on Steam, I would rename SkyrimSELauncher.exe to SkyrimSELauncher.exe.backup and rename skse64_loader.exe to SkyrimSELauncher.exe. But I rebought the game on GOG and use the Heroic Games, which let’s me change which exe to run so I don’t have to rename things.

Another thing to keep in mind when installing mods is that Linux uses case-sensitive filesystems. That means the folder skse is different from SKSE. Some mods use lowercase, other mods use uppercase. But Skyrim will only recognize one of these folders, so you would have to rename the folder before merging it into your skyrim install folder.

I’ll also say that I never did any major modding. I’ve used maybe at most 2 dozen quality of life mods.

ProtonVPN is on Flathub, I’ve had no issues with it.

Uses RAM.

Yup. Even works on Gnome despite it not supporting the global hotkey portal yet.

Heroic Games Launcher and Lutris both have Epic and GOG integration.

While I would love to have an official GOG Launcher on Linux, it would probably not work as well as Heroic’s integration.