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Edit: So apparently it's risen from the dead and I missed the memo.

~~Uhh. Install something more recent. I'm sure there's a way to port over all the assets and themes. Not necessarily an easy way, but there has to be one.~~

Flatpak addressed one problem, but at tremendous cost.

And Docker. There are a number of ways of packaging complete self-contained images with all of their dependencies included. In the olden days, managing dependencies on a stack of services was basically a full time job, especially when you had multiple services that all needed different versions of the same dependency.

Of course, the downside is that it potentially leads to bloat when you have multiple containers running. If you have three different images that are packaged with the same dependency version, you’re effectively running that dependency three times. Compared to simply running it once, and having all three services access it.

It’s really just a trade-off between convenience and efficiency, and most modern hardware is probably capable of handling a little bit of container bloat. Containers effectively take the modern AAA game dev approach of “we don’t need to make it ultra efficient or worry too much about compressing file sizes, because modern hardware will be able to handle it even if it’s inefficient. If users can’t boot it, we can just tell them to use better hardware.”

What do you mean you didn't learn assembly and compile your own kernel? Did you not read the forum rules?

Me trying to get LLM tools to work.

Well there’s your first problem.

Why does Arch not work on my PC from the early 2000's?

It probably does though.

First page of results:

• “Try google, loser. -leetfurry1 jan 7 2013”

• 19 ads for random products.

Most of the time, the golden move is to not engage at all when you aren't motivated to help. It's either that or newbies asking LLMs instead, and right now LLMs are probably winning.

Just in case the search algorithm points people here:

"What distro is best for gaming?"

Most of them are fine these days. Bazzite, CachyOS, SteamOS, and Nobara are the ones everyone seems to be talking about, and the differences between them all are probably going to come down to which games you want to play and your specific hardware.

"Will linux run on my (insert random PC specs)?"

Almost certainly yes. I don't care what the specs are, and you might have to try more than one distro for it to nail down the most performant one, but if Windows runs on it, some flavor of Linux almost certainly will too. Even Nvidia isn't a dealbreaker these days.

"Why does (insert Windows/MacOS program) not work on the linux? Linux is crap then!"

It probably does, and you just need a good installation guide. The only applications I've heard of that reliably fail to usably run on Linux with some combination of Wine tricks have been Adobe Creative Cloud and online multiplayer games that use kernel-level anticheat. You may be able to get away with using some other FOSS software replacement, or using a virtual machine to emulate Windows and run it in there, or you might find dual-booting Windows a reasonable compromise. But in any case, those applications don't work on Linux because the developers explicitly chose to make them incompatible with Linux, and continue to patch the application so that community workarounds are broken. Adobe decided you couldn't use their software on Linux, this isn't a failure of the open-source community.

"Recommend me a free antivirus software for linux"

Linux. You're probably fine; not because "nobody writes viruses for linux" (as some jokes online suggest) but because the way Linux is set up is at odds with the idea of computer viruses. Linux has a much more robust permissions system enabled by default which will prevent random programs from running without your consent. Of course you still need to be careful not to install shady packages, but that's true on Windows too.

Hundreds of millions of websites run on Linux servers. The community is very invested in making sure that they can't be exposed to viruses.

"Why does Arch not work on my PC from the early 2000's?"

Have you tried plugging your computer in?

I actually blocked someone over something like this =w=

An ex friend that kept bothering me for linux help, and would refuse to look at or read any source. Literally got so annoyed of them asking something, me telling them what to do, telling them the tools that can do it, and even linking sources that explain the tools, and they still message me with some rudimentary thing that's literally in the first paragraph of the step by step guide breaking down each argument etc.

Some people just don't want to try or be competent, they just want to shout "I don't know computers" and make you read out the same steps you just sent them

I just get annoyed with questions...

Oh, no! That's terrible.