If you’re Canadian, you can get free and cheap .ca domains https://www.cira.ca/en/why-choose-ca/

Debian is fine, but if you have technical troubles you don’t want to deal with, then go straight to Ubuntu. Either Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE), Ubuntu, or some other Ubuntu variation.

As a new Linux user, I would recommend Ubuntu over Debian. It is easier to setup, has a lot more online documentation, provides various apps to make life a bit simplier like integrations and AppStore (even though you should try to away from Linux app store because of broken apps)

Arch is really the king diamond in desktop Linux in my opinion, due to their rolling releases (I love new stuff even if it may break things), but especially because for the Arch Wiki (which is good for other OS users to read too) and the Arch AUR. If going Arch, I recommend using arch-install to make installing it much easier. Update the default arch-install after booting pacman -Ss arch-install then just run.

Also as a new or intermediate Linux user, I strongly recommend LTS (Long Term Support) versions. For example, Ubuntus latest version is not LTS, and has been out for multiple months, and there are still a huge amount of apps not ready to easily install – and you either have to spend a lot of time to figure it out yourself, or lose the chance to use some apps.

The Hackernews company gets shit on a lot by Lemmy and Reddit. From my understanding, they have a lot of bad people who run the company.

I would just use Lemmy and Reddit instead.

Edited, thanks @Björn:

Whatever destination computer you’re looking to connect to, install Sunshine.

Then on the source computer, use Moonlight to connect to the destination.

That’s misinformation. Tailscale is Canadian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailscale

Toolbox?

Edit: Oh cool! Thanks for sharing.

https://github.com/containers/toolbox

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Toolbox

https://containertoolbx.org/

I use Cockpit which comes with many other awesome features too.

It did not work for me.

I can load arch by turning on nomodeset, then get the logs if that counts.

Fedora is causing the same problem now.

I just tried booting into Windows instead, and no problems.

Fedora is able to modprobe amdgpu, which my current installed Arch cannot.

linux-lts is causing the same problem for me. When booting I need to press e and add nomodeset at the end of boot loader.

sudo modprobe amdgpu modprobe: ERROR: could not insert ‘amdgpu’: Invalid argument

And the following is blank sudo ls /lib/firmware/amdgpu/ | grep navi21

Uninstalling all desktop environments and KDE related stuff, then reinstalling kde-desktop and sddm worked.

It looks better and runs faster than it ever did before!

This worked so easily.

1. installed linux-lts alongside already installed linux.
2. Updating my bootloader (systemd-boot instead of grub) to use linux-lts instead by changing 2 lines in /boot/loader/entries/my-entry.conf.
3. Reboot.

KDE is too slow to be useable now. Should I try reinstalling it?

Opening another TTS, the terminal runs fast and fine. No process is above 1% CPU and 2℅ memory. Barely any ram space used. A lot of storage space available.

I have edited my post, thank you. Its as 6900xt.

Raspberry Pi 5 exists?

Oh neat! https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5/

Thank you! I was wondering if there would be one soon. Glad some people were already offering to do the job.

I just installed it this summer using ArchInstall. I’m on Pipewire as well.

I’m looking to use the microphone too.

It works great but only with the wireless dongle. It works poorly with Bluetooth, and doesn’t work at all with direct USB connection. My original question was hoping to see if I could quickly resolve direct USB connection with the headphones since that seems like it may be the easier to get a great connection.

I’m also on ArchLinux!