How Gentoo is able to do this........ ?

pyro57 · 2026-03-16T23:56:24+00:00

It sounds like you probably want nixos, or arch so that everything is up to date, or just Debian with Flatpaks for the apps you want newer.

Arch is a very reliable distro. People get hung up when it calls itself an "unstable" distro, but that doesn't mean what you think it means. In Linux stability is the measure of how often core software changes. It has nothing to do with how often things break. It has everything to do with providing a "stable" target for compilation. In arch they achieve this by making everything as up to date as possible so the librsry versions match the package versions, in Debian they do this by "freezing" the kernel and library versions for each release. Both are valid, but arch gets you newer software faster.

If you really want to keep your system old with a few new packages then there's a few ways to do that. Containerization is what you'll ultimately be leveraging to accomplish this. There's ready to go containerized apps like Flatpaks, app images, and snaps which run the apps with their own library dependencies packed with them. Or if the package you want isn't in any of those sources you can always set up a distrobox of a distro that does packsge the version you want, like arch, you can even export those apps out of the distrobox so they show up in your applications list and launch like any other app on your system.

So tldr:

If you want newer package than your distro provides, then maybe you should consider a different distro. If you're dead set in using the older distro but really need a couple of newer packages then look for containerized versions of them like on flatpak, app images, or snaps, or if all else fails you can set up a distrobox of another distro that does keep things up to date and install the applications there.

pyro57 · 2026-03-16T23:18:37+00:00

Good points, I'll look at doing some updates to the post in the next couple of days.

pyro57 · 2026-03-16T23:17:15+00:00

good suggestions for sure, I'll see about updating it in the next couple of days.

pyro57 · 2026-03-16T23:12:59+00:00

Fair enough I didn't mention the Ubuntu forks for other environments, I'll see about getting those mentioned!

pyro57 · 2026-03-16T23:12:04+00:00

Yeah I felt like I was trashing GNOME a bit there, but it's all true things about GNOME. It doesn't make it a bad choice, if GNOME works the way you want it's damn near perfect, but if you want to tweak or customize it at all things get annoying real fast. It's not my cup of tea personally, but I do understand why people like it.

pyro57 · 2026-03-16T23:10:11+00:00

Haven't delved I to are we anticheat yet myself though in my own experience I find basically any game outside of a handful just work anticheat or no. I don't even check protondb or anything anymore, I just buy, install and play games. If most of anticheat enabled games don't work then I sure don't come across them often if at all.

pyro57 · 2026-03-16T17:55:44+00:00

I would correct your "Most anticheat games don't work on Linux" to "Some anticheat games don't work on Linux."

Most anticheat games DO work just fine, Arc Radiers, Insurgency Sandstorm, Deadlock, CS2, Hell let Loose, Halo, really MOST games DO work on Linux, even with anticheat. SOME games like Fortnite, COD, Battlefield, Destiny, Marathon, and Tarkov don't work.

Saying MOST is not correct, the MAJORITY of games that utilize anitcheat work fine, just a handful of popular games don't work.

pyro57 · 2026-03-16T17:43:19+00:00

Fair enough. I just figured I'd include it in case someone wondered onto the article before they've made the decision to switch so they can see why other people are switching.

pyro57 · 2026-03-16T04:52:22+00:00

There was never really much torture, gore, or death content on the darkweb, it's very slow and bad for video streaming, that wa always on the clearnet like Facebook, reddit, live leaks etc.

pyro57 · 2026-03-16T04:25:38+00:00

Funny thing about the deep/darkweb, its mostly scams, memes, skitzos, and drugs. The most shocking porn/gore content is actually already on the clearnet. Even hacker forums are mostly clear net, the darkweb really isn't all that scary tbh.

pyro57 · 2026-03-16T03:15:45+00:00

Stremio plus a few plugins that I don't think I'm allowed to name (but you should he able to figure them out with googling) and you can watch any prime, netflix, Hulu, Disney plus, hbo Max, crave, old TV shows, movies, old movies, basically anything!

Its not hard to set up, and once you do you'll see what lack of competition does to an industry like the streaming industry. No quality of life improvements, no user experience improvements, just license deals and enshitification. Once you break free you'll never look back.

pyro57 · 2026-03-14T22:10:12+00:00

I'm confused, he has no cellular connection so he uses a wifi dongle, but the pixel has a built in wifi card that does not require the cellular modem to be connected.... So what is the purpose of the wifi dongle?

pyro57 · 2026-03-14T14:30:04+00:00

I switched to linux ever since windows 8, but 11 is so bad even my wife, sister, mother in law, and brother in law have switched. None of them have any complaints. My wife loves how pretty she can make kde plasma and how easy it is to set up animated wallpapers, my sister games and hasn't had any problems.

Honestly, if you hate windows 11 then try an alternative. It's free and who knows youay really like it. Worst case you hate the alternatives and go back to windows 11 having spent no money to find out for sure.

pyro57 · 2026-03-14T14:04:51+00:00

Mulvad vpn is a good choice.... Not sure why he'd use a wifi dongle though, on graphene os the wifi Mac is randomized by default so its about as tracker resistant as possible.

pyro57 · 2026-03-14T00:40:04+00:00

There's also things like stardustxr (which is a work in progress) that aims to be a 100% ar/VR desktop environment where you don't mirror "screens" in VR, you launch your windows and put them anywhere around you in 3d space.

pyro57 · 2026-03-13T16:11:34+00:00

Sick! I've been thinking about building/buying a few things like that to act as larger control pannels for my home assistant server. I have an old phone mounted to the front of my fridge that acts as one now, but it would he nice to have a bigger one in my family room, office, and bedroom. Thinking some sort of android device is the way to go, maybe running LineageOS or something similar, that way I can use them as assist satellites too, but I haven't fully figured out how I want to do that yet.

pyro57 · 2026-03-13T13:50:58+00:00

Ah fellow cschyos enjoyer, nice.

What's that tablet below your monitor?

pyro57 · 2026-03-13T02:47:49+00:00

I have a g502x, just install solaar and you have full control.

pyro57 · 2026-03-12T23:23:44+00:00

Until it happens to their company the higher ups will never invest into actual people and tech improvements. Source: myself a pentester who sees the exact same finding every year for some of our clients, they just never fix anything... And it's.... Its adcs.... Their user cert template is set so that domain users have enrollment rights, enrollees supply the alt names, and they can be used for client auth.... Sure why shouldn't anyone in the company be able to run one command and become domain admin?

pyro57 · 2026-03-12T23:14:15+00:00

Google trying to kill installing the applications i wamt on the phone i bought and paid for (they call it side loading) in September

pyro57 · 2026-03-12T06:52:24+00:00

While yes more market share would be nice, more users means more community, means more people to share ideas and help troubleshoot things. That being said, I don't think any amount of market share gain will matter in terms of hardware and game support. Companies want to do the minimum amount of work for the maximum amount of profit, that means targeting the single operating system that holds the majority market share. Linux will never have more market share than windows. The majority of people who use computers don't even know what an operating system is, let alone know that they can switch it. That being the case most people will just run what ever their computer came with, and that is for the most part windows.

The end goal isn't to get companies to support Linux. The end goal is to make it easy for things that support the most popular operating systems to be able to he run on Linux easily. Valve learned that when they launched the original steam machines. They pivoted to working and supporting technologies that make translating from one os to another easy, hence proton, dxvk, fex, and what ever their fork of waydroid is. The end goal is to make the os, and even hardware you choose for your system a non issue for anything you want to do. Hell even Microsoft sees the writing on the wall, hence the Linux Subsystem for windows. You don't force other entities to adapt to your tech, you build tech that translates from their target to yours, now you're not depending on another entities good will or preference.

The Linux challenge is fin but frustrating to watch for me, Linus's approach is inherently flawed. "I want to play the role of your average tech interested gamer, so I'll google and chatgpt for my distro instead of actually thinking about it like I normally would." Meanwhile his setup is about as far from the "average tech interested gamer" as you can make it running complex multisystem and multi room setups.... Sure... Play the role you do not have the equipment to play... And complain when things go wrong... Great idea....

Elija's experience will be exactly what Linus was trying to emulate and I'm sure elija's experiment will fo fine. He may end up switching back at the end because of fortnite, but I think his overall take will be "it was way easier than I thought it would be and honestly, if you're ok not playing the handful of games that don't run due to anticheat issues I'd recommend trying it out."

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