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Definitely emacs some screenshots in here: http://mjdarby.net/blog/2014/04/11/getting-virtual-with-emacs-part-1/ Mark is a known emacs user: http://wenshanren.org/?p=418#org43b2f35

Only true if your displays have different refresh rates.

I didn't know there was an official Valve AUR repo, very cool. But I disagree that means pacman is a must for gaming. If you want the most bleeding edge peak performance gaming experience I'm sure the Valve packages are the way to do it, but you can already have a great gaming experience on many distros without any tuning.

Definitely yet another case of Canonical having to do it their way, but I've had no issues with the snaps they default to over apt. Plus, there's no reason you can't install Flatpak on Ubuntu, but I doubt they would ever get to that point.

Reminds me of the discussion of game launchers/stores last night. I believe Steam and GoG partially are the only ones available for Linux, but PlayOnLinux and Steam's non-steam games are both easy options to get the other platforms on Linux. I don't think the Wine version on Ubuntu matters all that much since Steam runs its own version for Proton anyway.

I believe the challenge is for their home gaming machines, so most likely not his Framework.

If this happens to catch your attention hi @LinusTech and @Slick. I've been using Linux since high school (10 years now) and have experience with almost all the distros on your poll. First off I'd like to give some input on the challenge. I think it's awesome that you're doing this and bringing more attention to Linux and the improvements the community has made in the last decade or so. That being said if you choose the wrong distro you could make all of Linux look really bad. Every distro is different and targeted to a different audience. To explain I will give a brief explanation of each distro on the poll, but I trust @GabenJr will be a good filter for you. Most of these distros have several different versions with different UIs or "desktop environments". For each of them I would recommend the "normal/standard" version. Ubuntu This is my number one recommendation for both of you it gives the best combination of ease of use, stability, and freshness. Ubuntu is the only distro on the poll created by an actual dedicated corporation with hundreds of employees, plus community contributors. I run Ubuntu on most my machines at work, on my spare machines, and Ubuntu Server on my homelab. Pop!_OS This is the next best option, if Ubuntu was 100 Pop is at least 95. Pop is a derivative of Ubuntu created by System76, primarily for their computers. It inherits many of the qualities of Ubuntu plus improved gaming support, but it is a little more rough around the edges imo. Pop was my daily driver for the last 1-2 years and I liked it just fine. Arch Linux As you know Arch is a bit of a meme distro, but it is a very good place to really get to learn the underpinnings of Linux, once you have already got a healthy amount of experience. Many seasoned Linux users do use Arch, it can be very powerful, but it is much easier to break than the other options on this list. I think it would make a very entertaining video for you to try to install Arch on your own, but I doubt you will be able to do it without help from Anthony. Linux Mint Linux Mint used to be the go to noob distro, but Ubuntu has made significant improvements over the last 5 or so years while Linux Mint has stagnated some. I would not recommend it if you want a "modern" Linux experience. Manjaro Manjaro has made a lot of noise lately. They make Arch easy to install and more stable while still being very modern. But they also make some bold choices that not everybody agrees with (though what choices do the Linux community agree on?). I feel rather neutral about it. Debian Debian is the base of many popular Linux distros, most notably Ubuntu. It is incredibly stable but to do so it lacks some of the modern features of other distros. This can actually make it harder to use when you want to work with new hardware or software. Elementary Elementary is a smaller distro made by a few very passionate and opinionated developers. It is pretty stable and designed to be very user friendly (gets compared a lot to macOS), but it isn't a great example of the Linux experience because to accomplish this it is a very rigid experience. I like it and its developers a lot, but it's not something I would use personally. Drauger OS I have honestly never heard of this before. I'd guess it provides an improved gaming experience while risking stability. I don't think it's a good sign that their last blog post includes "Drauger OS is NOT being discontinued." Gentoo Gentoo is one of the earlier Linux distros and relatively few people use it. It is effectively a more intense version of Arch. Other Notable Distros Fedora Fedora is my current daily driver and despite the name a very serious distro. Fedora is effectively the free beta version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL (pronounced Rell like Dell not R-Hell Linus). I wouldn't recommend it for a total noob, but one could manage with it fine. OpenSUSE openSUSE is to SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) as Fedora is to RHEL, I'd say it is a little less noob friendly than Fedora. Ranking If I had to sort my recommendations: Ubuntu Pop Fedora Manjaro Elementary Debian Mint SUSE Arch Gentoo There are many more Linux distros out there and I'm sure plenty of people will disagree with me, but that's the beauty of Linux, there is something for everybody.

Shutdown on Windows isn't what shutdown used to mean, it's more of a hibernate state. But that still doesn't mean it should drain significantly more battery. Battery drain while turned off is normal, sometimes even drastic drain, that can depend a lot on the battery health. Opening the lid to power on is a feature on many new laptops so it most likely is not going into a sleep mode of sorts. There are methods to properly shutdown windows, see here, but I wouldn't expect a significant power saving using them.

Definitely changed the RAM settings, looks like @igormp has an NVMe SSD, I only have a SATA SSD so that would be my guess.

On my Ryzen 3700X running Fedora 34 it took 5:12 on the first run and 30 seconds on the second.

If your motherboard doesn't have a bluetooth driver, there probably isn't a bluetooth chip on board. You could get a cheap USB bluetooth dongle to add the capability. For example: https://www.amazon.com/Plugable-Bluetooth-Adapter-Compatible-Raspberry/dp/B009ZIILLI

For light, ubuntu based, free, and gui I think your best bet is Xubuntu or Lubuntu. Other light distros that don't fit all of these are Alpine, Arch, Puppy, and Sparky

From http://www.asrock.com/Networking/X10/#Support:

That's what I meant

I would nuke this Pi and any others on the network. I'm not entirely sure what it is trying to do but here are 3 suspicious things it does. Adds an SSH key to the authorized keys file Runs what appears to be an IRC bot Attempts to connect to other Raspberry Pis using default login. A tip: change the default password on Raspberry Pis, especially if publicly accessible on the internet.