Magiilaro

Zola really is great, I have started to work with it and it is so much easier to grasp and to get results with. Thanks a lot for pointing me to Zola!

We have OpenMW, that is remake enough for me.

Unreal Tournament 2004 depends on SDL 1.3 when I recall correctly, and SDL is neither on Linux nor on any other OS a core system library.

Binary only programs are foreign to Linux, so yes you will get issues with integrating them. Linux works best when everyone plays by the same rules and for Linux that means sources available.

Linux in its core is highly modifiable, besides the Kernel (and nowadays maybe systemd), there is no core system that could be used to define a API against. Linux on a Home theater PC has a different system then Linux on a Server then Linux on a gaming PC then Linux on a smartphone.

You can boot the Kernel and a tiny shell as init and have a valid, but very limited, Linux system.

Linux has its own set of rules and his own way to do things and trying to force it to be something else can not and will not work.

It works under Windows because the windows binaries come with all their dependency .dll (and/or they need some ancient visual runtime installed).

This is more or less the Flatpack way, with bundling all dependencies into the package

Just use Linux the Linux way and install your program via the package manager (including Flatpack) and let that handle the dependencies.

I run Linux for over 25 years now and had maybe a handful cases where the Userland did break and that was because I didn’t followed what I was told during package upgrade.

The amount of time that I had to get out of .dll-hell on Windows on the other hand. The Linux way is better and way more stable.

I will look into that too, thank you for the suggestion

A new homepage for the business of my wife.

I plan to use Hugo for it, I just wish the documentation would be better.

For the homepage I need a few additional “non-blog” pages and from the documentation I am not sure how to do that the best way.

But to be honest, I have not really looked deeper into that, so it is very possible that I just missed something.

LXQT or KDE I just like the QT look and feel.

GNOME is great in general but not for me, it is too much MacOS alike and too limited for my liking.

I have a Bambu P1S with an AMS after years of using a Ender 3 that was modified to high heavens both on hardware and on firmware level. It is a perfectly fine product and the AMS makes filament changes so much easier, it is a convenience that I personally love. My P1S is running in LAN mode and it works perfectly fine in combination with OrcaSlicer on my Linux machine. No data is send to the Bambu Cloud, everything is local.

Would I like the possibility to have a custom firmware on it? Sure, I always like options. But to be honest: My P1S runs better, smother, faster then my Ender 3 with his many mods and custom firmware ever did.

Is Bambu on my list of manufacturers for another printer purchase? Yes, but near the end after their anti consumer behavior lately.

If you want to take that from my text then feel free.

Tinkering, in my personal definition, would mean installing third party repositories for the package manager (or something like the AUR on Arch) or performing configuration changes on the system level… Just keep away as most as possible from accessing the root user (including su/sudo) is a general a good advice I would say.

My Arch Linux setup on my desktop and my servers are low-maintenance. I do updates on my servers every month or so (unless some security issue was announced, that will be patched right away) and my desktop a few times a week.

Nearly anything can be low-maintenance with the proper care and consideration.

For your constraints I would use just use Debian, Alma Linux or Linux Mint and stick with the official packages, flathub and default configuration on the system level. Those are low-maintenance out of the box in general.

I only bind applications to ports on the Internet facing network interfaces that need to be reachable from outside, and have all other ports closed because nothing is listening on them. A firewall in this case would bring me no further protection from external threats, because all those ports have to be open in the firewall too.

But Linux comes with a firewall build in, so I use it even if it is not strictly needed with my strict port management regime for my services. And a firewall has the added benefit to limit outgoing network traffic to only allowed ports/applications.

As much as I would be happy for Ubisoft to have a success, they really need one, I just don’t trust unverifiable number. I always want to know metrics and data.

Ubisoft can tell us everything. And what does 2 million players really mean? How many of them refunded the game in the 2h at Steam for example? How many are players who, for an hour or two, looked into the game as part of their Ubisoft gamepass equivalent? 2 million players can mean all kind of things. It doesn’t say much really about the success.

Yeah, that’s why I am against Microsoft Keys on my systems

I fail to see the positive side of that…

Loading BPF code from user space is, I hope, only possible with root access to the system. That would mean that an attacker needs root access to exploit BPF, but if an attacker has root access what stops him/her to do anything they want? At this time the system is lost anyway.

Or am I missing anything?

Yes I can. But I am a Linux system administrator with 20 years of experience. This should not be the level of measurement for stuff like this. 😉

What I meant was: Don’t put a Microsoft master trusted authority in the Kernel, unless one chooses to install a Microsoft distribution. And don’t go the SSL/TLS way with the huge number of default authorities that get installed on every system. It would be a pain to be forced to always build my own Kernel again just to keep Microsoft or any other institution/company that I find untrustworthy out of it.

I hope we will learn from the SecureBoot debacle and not give Microsoft the primary signing keys and infrastructure for this again.

Making errors and analysing them to figure out what went wrong and why is a huge part of learning. You can only learn so much from theory, some things can be learned best by trial and error and the experience gained from it.

When I started with Linux I did choose to use Gentoo Linux because it was the most complex and complicated option, so I had the most opportunities to learn something by ducking up!

There is no locking into Chrome needed, because all big browsers have interfaces for DRM content implemented.