Yeah, been through a whole lot of troubleshooting and complaining at Lenovo. Eventually I gave up. Getting a Steam Deck cured me of wanting to use the laptop for gaming.

Well, as it is it throttles at 65° so much that it can’t even handle Quake 3. It’s basically unusable.

No support for the nVidia graphics though. I was hoping for that for my T580 to be able to raise the stupid thermal limits but I seem to be at the mercy of nvidia.

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Probably too much salt.

Do you have zram set up?

You look like shit!

And those objects that are now 46 billion light years away move away from us faster than light.

Easiest would be to get a VM frontend like Gnome Boxes. You just download the installation iso of the distro you want to try, create a new VM in Boxes, point it at the iso and when it boots install the distribution normally.

It will be completely separated from your normal system. It’s a second computer inside your computer. When you’re done testing you can just delete the VM.

Yeah, the local feed is where it’s at. No need for subscriptions when the server is small enough.

Idiot viruses, just made me bedridden, thus minimising my contact with other people. Stupid things are just salty because they’re not really alive. Don’t even have any DNA, the losers!

I wanted to reinstall my Gentoo system. A SUSE (back before OpenSUSE) disc was the newest distro I had lying around. I thought it shouldn’t matter from which system I do the install, Gentoo won’t care.

So I repartitioned /dev/hda, installed the base system and went to set up my mount points. Only to discover that my data drive was gone. Stupid SUSE labeled the drives differently. /dev/hdb was my old system drive and I had repartitioned my old data drive.

Taught me to really check which drive was which. I wouldn’t touch SUSE again for decades because of this.

Around that time we had the Nokia N900. For me it was the perfect phone. Debian as a base with Nokia’s (unfortunately proprietary) apps on top of X11. You could just recompile Linux apps like Gimp and it worked. Apps that were made for Palm’s WebOS worked.

Pidgin’s libpurple was used for all the instant messaging so just about any protocol just worked without any need for extra apps. You could easily hack the underlying system. People added functionality like using the light sensor as a button. Angry Bird’s first release was on that phone.

I miss it dearly. It was killed by Microsoft. Nothing ever managed to come close. That little 128 MB RAM machine had better multitasking than modern 8 GB phones.

Until then Bazzite seems to be what you’re looking for. Although any other Linux Distribution should work as well. I put OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on my Deck to have more customisation options.

That’s a Steam Machine. The idea didn’t take off because it’s just a pre-built PC (and because they trusted other companies to do it for them). It’s a highly competitive market with very low margins.

When they announced the Deck they did recommend one particular small box as a development machine as it matched the Deck’s performance very closely. You might try looking for that. Although by now there are probably more powerful ones available for the same price.

And then they complain that their fruit garden isn’t working.

You cannot follow users with Lemmy. Only communities.

Doesn’t Pop!OS do that already?

The first one that came to mind was fli4l (Floppy ISDN for Linux). Originally a distro of German origin that fit on a single floppy disk to turn a 386 or 486 PC into a router for ISDN connections. Last I looked it’s still actively worked on.

There are probably tons of more obsuce ones. But this is one I actually used.