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I swear WSL already had Arch.

Jedi Council of Elrond was my favorite subreddit back when I used Reddit.

I have tons of great suggestions depending on your hardware and what kinds of things you’d like to be hosting.

However, for starters, if you’re not doing so already, make sure you are binding your qBittorrent container to a privacy VPN network interface. Test it to ensure it’s working. There are sites out there that you can use to check how your torrent IP presents. No matter what you’re torrenting, keep your IP hidden. The last thing you want is your ISP to terminate your fancy new service.

NixOS is the new “I use arch btw.”

It’s mostly useful for stability in appliances and reproducibility in large scale deployments.

IMO, I don’t think immutability makes sense for desktop use. The whole point of a desktop is to make it personalized.

Kind of. Matrix is the most supported, and works very well. However, it doesn’t have feature parity with Discord. Voice/video chat can be added via integrations, but it takes quite a few modifications to the server’s infrastructure.

It’s also a bit more complicated to navigate,

Revolt is being created as a proper FOSS Discord replacement (similar UI even), but it’s pretty early in development. It also lacks federation, which is a huge caveat imo.

Just in time to ride the hype wave. Maybe they’ll release a MOBA next.

I don’t use the Xbox app, but more client support is always good!

Bots are fine on any platform as long as they are clearly labeled and easy to filter out if you prefer.

11/10 name.

KDE Connect is great, but the simplest solution would be to just pair your phone and laptop via Bluetooth. Your phone will just treat your PC as a Bluetooth headset.

Not 100% sure with Ubuntu, but I do this on EndeavourOS and it just worked without any tinkering.

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You know you live in the universe, but you never go see these things until someone comes to visit.

You used to ignore the phone to browse the internet on a computer.

Now you ignore the computer to browse the internet on your phone.

Anecdotally, I’ve had way more audio issues in Windows than I’ve had in Linux.

Linux audio setups don’t always work out-of-the-box, and sometimes require a bit more configuration, but once you get them set up the way you like, they stay that way.

Windows audio configuration is flaky as hell. It’s constantly changing with updates, and I’ve had so many issues with drivers just silently failing. It seems to have the most trouble with discrete sound cards and USB audio interfaces. I can’t tell you how many Discord and Teams calls I’ve had in Windows where the first 5 minutes is re-configuring audio settings that didn’t stick. This is basically a non-issue in my Linux setups.

macOS audio is probably the best combination of easy to configure and it works consistently. The biggest downside is that you need a lot of 3rd party software to do anything more advanced than setting a single device and volume for the entire system.

Note: I primarily use pipewire now. I used to have more problems back when I used pulseaudio.