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Somewhere between Linux woes, gaming, open source, 3D printing, recreational coding, and occasional ranting.

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  • Supports both programming and gaming

    Both is super uncritical.

    You can install Steam as Flatpak without any real or major issues nowadays and thanks to Proton you can basically play any games except those that use Windows-specific ring 0 spyware as their DRM or anti-cheat mechanism. Pro-Flatpak: You don’t need to deal with 32-bit libs dependency hell.

    Same with programing. The relevant compilers are all available for pretty much all common distributions. Same with the common scripting interpreters as well as all common IDEs.

    but I’m considering moving it to a VM if the performance impact is manageable

    Depending on your VM solution you can usually pass-through CPU and/or GPU and have nearly the same performance as on bare metal.

    but am open to exploring new options.

    This might be a bold move, but have you considered Arch Linux? You need to do most things by yourself, but the wiki is one of the best and most complete and extensive distribution-specific Linux wikis available. So if you’re willing to read instructions and learn new things, why not give it a try? (Disclosure: Arch is my daily driver since 2008 on desktops, laptops and homeservers).








  • It initially was that. Also the name wasn’t meant to stick around forever.

    But, out of a sudden, between updates, not even the new website URLs ready?

    I don’t follow Minetest development that closely anymore, but last time I checked there were no issues or pull requests on their GitHub, nor something official regarding a name change in the forums.

    This feels like there are just a bunch of people haphazardly deciding there is a new name now.