Amaterasu

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?

Why not go with SID then?

Can one adopt Debian SID and automate this? I mean, how difficult would it be for a person not looking to create and maintain a distro but use Debian SID and pull the latest and greatest security patches?

The part that really calls my attention is the security aspect. I hope this was not overlooked but Debian testing receives delayed security patches compared to stable or even Sid.

How people feel about this distro in general? Would one consider using it in a server? Auto updates with a Debian based distro that is using newer kernel and applications sounds promising.

It is nice to think that this would be a trend but when you start from a poor conservative family there are very good chances that you didn't have education, emotional support and was surrounded by religious fanatics, consequently you will just propagate the circle.