The only thing really preinstalled is basic stuff like desktop environments and a few tools to help with updates and manage the system (eos-update, etc). Even almost all the package repositories are the ones maintained by arch.

I guess this could also be based on the distro you use as well as your graphics card. For me, I use EndeavourOS, which is very close to base arch, so I had to do some extra setup to get proton working on it. For some reason, Proton refused to work on the Arch repo’s Steam package, so I had to use the flatpak version instead

To be fair there still is a lot of tinkering involved to get gaming on Linux working properly (unless you’re on the steamdeck, but even them you’ll have to tinker for anything that’s not verified). Switching proton runners, changing launch options, fighting updates. It’s definitely more than most people are willing to deal with. For me personally, I’ve had to stop updating my video drivers because Nvidia 555 causes all Proton games to crash for me.

I enjoy the experience of tinkering and troubleshooting, so I’m okay with all that, but I completely understand why most people wouldn’t want to use Linux for gaming.

I mean you could always hack the firmware…

Probably not but I’ve been on the Internet long enough to know not to jump to conclusions without more information

Tbf we don’t know if it was sexting, all we know for sure is that inappropriate messages were sent. Not trying to defend him as his behavior was 100% unacceptable and twitch and Midnight Society were right to drop him, we just don’t know enough to definitively say he was sexting them

I don’t have any experience with them honestly so I can’t help you there

Look into ollama. It shouldn’t be an issue if you stick to 7b parameter models

The bigger issue is that if your can have your AI assistant do your job while you’re in vacation, you’ll end up on unpaid vacation permanently

I really brought this on myself since this was the comment I made before this shitshow.

https://lemm.ee/comment/10425585

Yeah I thought the censoring of France was a dead giveaway

Another reason to stay the hell away from fr*nce

Edit: every time I think people are smart enough to get a joke I get proven wrong

From my understanding yeah

In lawsuits, there has to be standing for the one suing, meaning the right to sue. From my limited legal knowledge that means there has to be proof of damage from the actions of OpenAI. OpenAI showing these emails is them trying to prove Elon has no standing for the lawsuit

Maybe if you can use it with a locally running LLM server like ollama, but otherwise fuck no

I think you missed the OP’s point about the ongoing enshitification of paid services. From the words of Gabe Newell, "The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.”

The reason why so many people are pirating even when they can afford it is because companies continue to make their services worse for their paying customers. Simply “paying for your content” will encourage these companies to continue their predatory, behavior.

Edit: I think I should add this isn’t really true if you can buy physical copies of the content, but that’s becoming less and less of an option as large streaming services make sure the only way to watch their content legally is buying their shitty subscriptions

I started messing around with Linux when I was ~15. I was trying to install it on an old laptop so I could actually use it. I started with Debian before moving to Linux mint. Eventually I bought a raspberry pi and started to tinker with that and made my own website for shits and giggles. Eventually, I kinda stopped tinkering with Linux for a while

Flash forward a few years and my job has a piece of software that boots into a live gentoo environment in order to perform hard drive wiping, and I got a lot more familiar with the Linux command line (bash in this case) as I had to do a lot of troubleshooting as well as testing as I was in technical support and then later QA. This was also my first experience with VI, as I had to edit configuration files while inside of the live environment.

At that point, I started to experiment with Linux again, and even managed to install arch on my laptop. I did end up switching to Manjaro as my daily driver, as I couldn’t be assed to spend enough time to get arch working how I needed. I also now have an Ubuntu server (I know) that I use as a media and game server, and continue to daily drive manjaro though I’m planning on switching to EndeavorOS soon.

Kinda weird that they’re calling it an OS, but ig they’re just trying to cater to the windows audience

No u

As others have said, there’s no reason not to be using virt manager with qemu/KVM at this point

This should get you started: https://hrishikeshpathak.com/blog/install-and-configure-linux-virtual-machine-using-virt-manager/