u/Teemestari

Hello people!

I've been eyeing the new 10th year anniversary of the Ryzen 7 5800x3D for my build but I really can't decide what to do. I have the mentioned processor paired with the 9070 XT and 32GB RAM. I run Linux.

I've got the idea that the x3D boosts your 1% lows and can help with them and with my combo I feel there could be a little bottleneck, at least in the games I play. I heavily enjoy games like WoW and Deadlock which are very CPU intensive. I just don't know if spending almost 400 euros for this kind of upgrade would make sense.

What do you think?

EDIT: I wanted to clarify the use case. I mainly play WoW and Deadlock with some singleplayers but usually they are a bit older (+5 Years). So technically I would be buying the CPU for handful of games but I play them the most.

Hello people!

I use the flatpak version of Firefox cause it gives me hardware acceleration and patented codecs inside the browser on openSUSE Tumblweeed so I don't have to mess with third party repos.

Lately I've read discussion about the security side of Flatpak browsers and how the technology "weakens the browser's own sandboxing". I kinda get the idea of how it conflicts but I am not sure how it affects security, cause the Flatpak isolates itself from the host so I can't say if it makes the browser more unsafe.

What do you think? Does it raise some concern or is it a viable option security wise? I know that it is maintained and verified by Mozilla, so it at least has to be viable.

Hello people!

I use the flatpak version of Firefox cause it gives me hardware acceleration and patented codecs inside the browser on openSUSE Tumblweeed so I don't have to mess with third party repos.

Lately I've read discussion about the security side of Flatpak browsers and how the technology "weakens the browser's own sandboxing". I kinda get the idea of how it conflicts but I am not sure how it affects security, cause the Flatpak isolates itself from the host so I can't say if it makes the browser more unsafe.

What do you think? Does it raise some concern or is it a viable option security wise? I know that it is maintained and verified by Mozilla, so it at least has to be viable.

Hello people!

My first distro few years ago was Debian and I sticked to it for a while. Then I started the usual experimenting with Arch, gentoo, Fedora etc. but nothing ever sticked so I always used Debian more. I was also a new user so the concerns didn't apply then: I simply didn't know better. Fast forwarding a bit I switched to Tumbleweed cause I got the 9070 XT and wanted newer mesa, kernels, firmware etc. out of the box.

I've been using Tumbleweed for a long time now and everything's kinda cool, some minor hiccups and hangs but most of the time it's been a breeze. I value practicality and the fact my machine works like it did yesterday heavily and all of the rolling releases Tumbleweed is doing it the best (this is not an advertisement!). Even though I somewhat dislike the rolling release -model.

I really don't care about my system following the newest and shiniest except getting the best ( or at least, the most possible) performance for games. Now that the 7.x kernel which has a great compatibility, recent firmware and mesa 26.1 is in the backports repo I've been thinking to coming back to Debian. I installed it on my 2nd SSD with KDE Plasma and it really feels snappy and fresh.

Even though I don't need the newest software asap, I'm still a bit concerned of Debian's package's age and how they can affect my work. I know there's flatpaks and appimages which I intend to use and also compiling but doesn't it go a bit against the "set-and-forget" mentality that Debian is made off?

I guess I am asking about if packages do show their age and does maintaining Debian need a lot of manual intervention with 3rd party tools?

Thank you for reading.

Hello people.

I have been thinking about my choice of Linux for almost a week now. It shouldn't be this serious but here we go:

I hopped from Debian to Tumbleweed after I got my GPU, 9070 XT. I thought having a newer kernel and Mesa oob was the best for the time being. It has been smooth and I've liked the openSUSE ecosystem but there's this one thing: I much prefer a stable release than rolling cause there's too much updating on a rolling release.

That's why I ended up installing Debian again on my 2nd drive and did some performance testing with Flatpak Steam and backported kernel + firmware. Games are even performance wise. That is the biggest thing that concerned me. I also much prefer Debian's philosophy of stable software and not updating the whole system while with Tumbleweed I get gigabytes of updating weekly with my 40Mb/s internet. It gets things done but isn't the fastest on modern standards. I've been also thinking about automating my updates, but there's always a risk of someting breaking. Luckily snapper is there to help and with Packman-repo nowdays disabled, all the updates have been fine for a long time.

So yeah, kinda thinking about which way to go. On Tumbleweed it has been very smooth and 0 problems but it's a pet peeve about updating and tbh, do I really need *every* aspect of my machine updated at all times? I know there is Slowroll and Leap, but with at least if I want something stable like Leap, I prefer Debian.

On the other hand I can just install Debian and choose the parts I want to update (backporting kernel + firmware) and the get Flatpak Mesa for my Steam, browser and other multimedia. Somehow it still feels much of a burden to use Debian like this (e. g. for newer hardware) and I should just stay on Tumbleweed where things are expected to work with new hardware.

What are your thoughts?

Hello people! Great to be here.

Before I settled for openSUSE, I used Debian. The reason for the switch was me getting a new GPU and wanting bleeding edge kernel and mesa for optimizations. I thought backports lacked so I swtiched my whole system to another OS.

I have liked the openSUSE ecosystem but lately I've somewhat disliked the update frequency of Tumbleweed and to be fair, I really disliked rolling release model. Tumbleweed made it acceptable tho.

I've been eyeing Debian again and setup Debian with backported kernel, mesa and firmware. Then I installed Faugus Launcher and Steam as a flatpak to get even newer mesa. That got me thinking that should I move from Stable to Testing to get even newer mesa and no need for the flatpak thing. There are still few things that bug me: Testing's update frequency and security problems.

I have no clue if the update frequency will get smaller and even if the attack vector for a home pc is very little, I still am bit stressed about not receiving security update sooner. I know that the biggest hole is my browser and usage of it but I'm thinking about using Firefox from the Mozilla's own repos.

So, what do you think? Should I just keep using Stable with backports + flatpak or move to Testing?

I am just curious.

I've somewhat killed my distrohopping after I landed onto openSUSE last year and been thinking about it again. Glad I am lazy and everything works, I see no real reason to switch but still somehow want to include distrobox into my tumbleweed to "expand my installation".

I can't even decide what distro. The main reason for the distrobox would be "software compatability".

What do you run on your Distrobox? Why do you use it?