Bit of misinformation on this thread, but generally the only thing that can actually get in the way of someone dedicated enough will be compatibility and security systems.

You probably won’t have any luck getting nvidia drivers on android for example, nor take the time to back port those drivers to an outdated kernel.

I suppose you could also have an OS that takes most your system resources for non-gaming tasks, making games unplayable. Something like nixos is non-gaming centric and could reasonably be more optimised than bazzite, less background processes making games actually run better on it.

That being said if youre looking for performance, the last thing you’d want is open source nvidia drivers; theyre built entirely off reverse engineering, which takes time. This allows for large performance gains like those of late.

The proprietary stack hasn’t had much change in performance over the last couple updates, a couple have even result in a performance regression to push new features. As of the latest preview driver (565.77) the minimum kernel supported goes back to the 4.15 Linux kernel release. This technically means you’d be able to run the latest nvidia drivers on anything newer than Debian 10 buster, which went out of support in September 2022.

Sounds like you might have gotten some of your info sources crossed - but thats exactly why distros like Bazzite exist, you dont have to worry about any of this background compatibility bs.

Theres a difference between stable and outdated. Generally bleeding edge will introduce many more vulnerabilities than will go unnoticed in stable.

Debian is known (almost exclusively) for only updating their repo when they’re certain it is safe, but also rapidly pushing security patches; its a server oriented distro where security is paramount.

Can’t speak for any other distro but android’s winulator (under the hood wine and box64/86) runs pretty well

I’m curious what type of workflow you have to utilise mainly the sane data consistently, I’m probably biased because I like to try software out - but I can’t imagine (outside office use) a loop that would remain this closed

Currently have 2 1tb NVME’s over around 6 tb of HDDs, works really nice to keep a personal steam cache on the HDD’s in case I pick up an old game with friends, or want to play a large game but only use part of it (ie cod zombies).

Also is super helpful for shared filesystem’s (syncthing or NFS), as its able to support peripheral computers a lot more dynamically then I’d ever care to personally configure. (If thats unclear, I use it for a jellyfin server, crafty instance, some coding projects - things that see heavy use in bursts, but tend to have an attention lifespan).

Using bcachefs with backups myself, and after a couple months my biggest worry is the kernel drama more than the fs itself

Pretty sure I saw on the arch wiki you can even use exclusive vram on a system

Pipes can’t freeze if they’re halfway to boiling, I like your thinking

“Improve user experience” tends to mean if you’re poor, the lowest level of hell isn’t gonna compare to how shitty of an experience they’ll give you

I hate to say but technically collecting statistics is non-anonymous identifiable tracking, especially in this age where theres so many datasets companies can coorelate them to

Could use a waydroid container then vlan/DMZ/VPN it to hell, while still getting the usual android experience

Try nix with flakes and drown in the tears of joy

Papers are most importantly a documentation of exactly what and how a procedure was performed, adding a vagueness filter over that is only going to decrease its value infinitely.

Real question is why are we using generative ai at all (gets money out of idiot rich people)

Babey use nixos

Man most pirates use something like stremio or popcorn time off a home network, the real reason they need to fight this is were still on ipv4 - the amount of logistics they’d have to give a shit about just to address a device (then somehow beyond reasonable doubt attribute that device to a user) is prohibitively expensive

Yet they rolled this out before that comparability works, essentially updating out some people’s ownership of the game

Commercial? Enterprise?

If you run mostly Foss this isn’t even a problem, there’s almost always an arm build (prism launcher even has arm on windows support)

I’d disagree but first I want to hear your opinion on riscv

Is a commercial airliner really civilian?