Amaterasu

Thank you, I recommend testing. Specially if you visited some Asia countries for some period.

Got this shit this year, I had huge symptoms. I'm on the second round of antibiotics trying to eliminate it. There are no guarantee that I won't get it again if I come to a cure period.

The part that I'm a bit confused is this paragraph:

Unlike immutable distributions that lock you out of the native package manager and force you into sandboxes, Plutonium-239 keeps the core Arch experience intact. You still get the bleeding-edge Arch repositories and the power of the AUR but all of that with a 5-20% performance boost from a heavily optimized kernel and the peace of mind of an unbreakable safety net underneath.

And then the follow up:

Edit: if you look up how Fedora Silverblue works, it's pretty much the same, just applied to Arch!

It sounds a bit contradictory. Can we think about Plutonium-239 as of SteamOS that is classic atomic distro and based on Arch or this is more of a case to something like the RakuOS?

Apologizes, not sure if I followed, what makes it atomic?

Actually, just having AppArmor enabled isn't enough. Snap's strict confinement depends on specific out-of-tree AppArmor kernel patches that Canonical bakes into Ubuntu.

If your distro uses the stock Linux kernel, even with AppArmor active (like Debian, Arch, or openSUSE) snapd lacks the necessary kernel-level hooks and drops down to partial confinement. Because of this fallback, non-Ubuntu AppArmor distros don't actually get the full Snap sandbox, they get a degraded version of it.

It is not gatekeeping or fear mongering if we are giving real expectation. I saw countless people going back to Windows because they tried running Linux and either faced challenges or worse performance. I prefer to alert them instead of sugar coat.

Talking present tense, "it works fine", still off:

• "It works with new games" sure but if you are playing DX12 titles prepare to experience a 15% to 30% performance tax compared to play on Windows or even compared to Amd

• If you plan to use secure boot, it is not all distro that will give you an easy path. Be prepared for rough edges. This is primarily caused because their stack isn't in the upstream kernel.

• If you are security conscious, and harden your system, be aware that if you are using AppArmor or SELinux to lock down your system, you almost always have to carve out manual exceptions specifically to get Nvidia drivers to play nice.

• The 'Goldilocks' Setup: You are constantly forced to chase the perfect environment, the right distro, the bleeding-edge updates, the exact driver version, just to get basic desktop features like Wayland running without artifacting or flickering

• Auditing not only for fixing and improving things but for the peace of mind as well, right now we have to trust on Nvidia closed source code. We are to a certain degree privacy exposed.

Having said all of the things above, there are real reasons yet to pick Nvidia over other GPUs, even on Linux. If we are not talking about gaming, CUDA and AI are still considerably better on Nvidia.

Nevertheless, currently, Nvidia on Linux generally feels like you have to maintain a second, highly temperamental operating system along side your installation.

What do you use to replace the Google's Image search?

That is the area that I found more challenge.

This is the first Framework laptop that I considered buying.

I'm probably one or two gen to get one. Once they introduce TB5/USB4v2 I'll get one.

For now, I'm happy with my Thinkbook 14+ that has a Oculink port. Running a 9070XT eGPU like a champ in my Linux installation.

I'm so glad that I scored my OneXFly F1 Pro OLED with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU, second hand on eBay last year. I got it for just around $750 and it was almost mint. I can't see it anywhere close to that price anymore.

If you aren't attracted to the survival aspect I'd recommend to pay attention to the upcoming Nexomon 3. It is more a Pokemon like game with better calibration on its monsters.

Do you have some TV box connected to it? Like Nvidia Shield, Apple TV 4K, Chromecast Ultra, Roku, Fire TV or some Linux box?