I still use Transmission.

I am begging on my hands and knees for one, JUST ONE mouse where the sensor in the wheel does not go out of sync with the physical clicks and capture double / reverse / nil inputs arbitrarily. I’ve gone through like 5 mice from different brands where this shit happens.

It will be a LONG time before 24 threads at 3.7 GHz is unworkable. Aside from gamer slop, software will be targeting much less performant machines for a very long time. I was running Gentoo on an i7-4770k (8 threads at 3.5GHz) up to this year and the only reason I switched was because the 32GB RAM limit of the architecture was finally beginning to constrain me, 10 CPU generations later. And though the clock speeds of these CPUs hasn’t changed significantly, they have MUCH larger caches nowadays. That old machine is still more powerful than the CAD/CAM workstation IT provides me at work.

Another anecdotal comment. I got a curved monitor and IMO it was not worth the extra cost vs. a flat one. I think these things are kind of gimmicky unless you are buying several of them and building a simulator (I do flight sim and I don’t see any benefit with just one, even).

Anecdotally, I never had performance problems with Nvidia on Linux. Just other annoyances, like it taking a very long time for them to properly support Wayland (historically poor performance in XWayland, moot for several years now, but the workaround of just sticking with XOrg was workable), needing to compile out-of-tree kernel modules (usually managed by the distribution, but annoying if you need to run bleeding kernels for other reasons), and having it’s own proprietary OpenGL / Vulkan implementations instead of running Mesa3D at full performance.

When I switched to AMD, I noticed little things, like the screen doesn’t flicker when I activate a second monitor, and having monitors with different refresh rates worked. Gains from Wayland working as intended, mainly.

• Only one big problem here: the Ryzen 9 5900X is an AM4 Socket CPU but the motherboard you have selected has an AM5 socket. This board will not work with the AM4 CPU or the DDR4 RAM. The DDR4 RAM is correct for the CPU though.

• The CPU requires a dedicated cooler, typically an all-in-one liquid cooling kit (though fan kits exist as well). If you do not already have one, you will need to obtain one. Intel CPUs typically include a basic fan and heatsink, but recent AMD CPUs have more intense cooling requirements and these are left to the aftermarket. AIO kits usually come with a handful of adapters for both Intel and AMD, but you want to make sure a bracket for the AM4 socket is among them. I had an old AIO system when I built my new AM5 machine, but AM5 didn’t even exist when this AIO kit was manufactured.

• Not a major problem, but worth consideration depending on your intended workloads: With 16GB DIMMs you will max out at 64GB of ram, which is A LOT, but with 24 threads, that’s a bit over 2.5GB per thread. With two DIMMs (as shown), that’s a bit over 1GB per thread. You will struggle to use that CPU to its full potential when it comes to doing things like compiling somewhat complex software. In practice, I have found 4GB/thread to be required when compiling things like Chromium (QtWebEngine), and about 2GB/thread for things like Firefox. If you are not compiling (major) software from source code or running Gentoo this likely isn’t a problem, and you can always limit the number of jobs to work with the amount of memory you have available in the odd case where you end up doing things like this.
  That said, I can’t seem to figure out definitively what the maximum RAM limit is for this CPU or chipset. If it is not greater than 64GB, there is no point of getting DIMMs any larger than 16 GB. The X570 chipset (fanciest, among several in the AM4 family) apparently supports at least 128GB, but this will also depend on hardware support in the motherboard. Just because a motherboard has this chipset doesn’t mean it supports all of its maximum capabilities (i.e. PCIe lanes, memory, overclocking, etc)

I never used DDR4 personally, but from what I hear, the difference between DDR4 and DDR5 is marginal, but DDR5 comes with the added headaches of “training.” It can take upwards of 15 minutes for a DDR5 machine with a lot of memory to boot for the first time. I was nearly ready to RMA my memory before I figured out this was happening, and I had to flash a UEFI firmware update to ultimately get 128GB working.

Most of this software can be installed without sudo by changing the prefix in the (pre-compile) configuration step. The prefix usually defaults to /usr/local, which requires root, but you can change it to (e.g.) /home/your_user_name/.local and install without special privileges. You need to add the directories to PATH/LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc. but then it works practically as an overlay on top of your distribution-provided packages without any permanent side effects or impact on other users.

You’re right that most instructions don’t explain this, though. They just kind of assume GNU Autoconf / CMake / Meson is intuitive to mere mortals.

Generally no. If you are installing software from trusted sources (I.e. your distribution’s package repository) and applying security updates in a timely manner, there is very little to worry about. If you are processing untrusted files and forwarding them to third parties (I.e. you’re running a mail server) there are tools like ClamAV to check for KNOWN viruses.

It is entirely possible to install viruses if you are running software from untrusted sources. This includes viruses designed for Windows by running sketchy things in Wine/Proton. These are compatibility layers, and if they are working correctly that includes compatibility with malware. Isolation is explicitly not a design goal of these projects. If you run a Windows ransomeware in Wine, you WILL lose your data. If you run a naive Limewire worm in Wine, Limewire WILL autostart and spread the worm.

Always be careful with pirated software. It doesn’t hurt to run ClamAV on a torrent before trying to use it.

Fedora itself doesn’t include any proprietary drivers or patent-encumbered media codecs, so you’ll probably want to check out the third-party RPMFusion repository. In my experience, Fedora has proven to be a pretty robust distro. I only left it for Gentoo because I needed to set things up in a rather peculiar way.

I-95 EAST??? Literally unplayable.

Only three more levels stand between me and the intermediate heartside in Strawberry Jam.

:tromp: May Allah awaken the people and help them to see the evil doings of Israel and the United States.

Yes. Ultimately based on CalDAV. If you only want a calendar, there are lighter choices to host CalDAV services than Nextcloud - which may be a bit overkill. On the other hand, there are commercial services which host things like NextCloud/OwnCloud for a small fee, which might be worth the price if the alternative is spinning up and maintaining a VPS.

Absolutely hideous.

lmfao noooooo

Debian security advisory - impacts Testing and Unstable. Stable unaffected. (Debian is upstream of A LOT of other distributions, such as Ubuntu)

Red Hat CVE - impacts Fedora 41 and Rawhide

Arch Linux announcement - Impacted, upgrade immediately

Gentoo bug - Package was in the Gentoo repository, masked by ~arch (unstable) keyword. Children who wildcard-unmask everything are impacted.

Surely there are more.

This is pretty bad.

Portage: It’s 4PM, time to build dev-qt/qtwebengine again

Me: Yes, honey.

I’ve seen this message on CNC controller firmware based on Windows 98. It is pure cope. Like America’s enemies haven’t learned how 5-axis milling works.

I started replying to phone spam with pigpoopballs