Download of 6GB is wild, is that re-downloading the entire package for each one that needs an update? Shouldn’t it be more efficient to download only the changes and patch the existing files?

At this point it seems like my desktop Linux install needs as much space and bandwidth than windows does.

Yeah I’m trying out Bazzite with a 4070 and its a bit rough, lots of minor issues I’m spending too much time trying to fix.

Perfect example of Linux never having the same functionality on different systems somehow lol.

I wonder how big the crossover is between people that let AI run commands for them, and people that don’t have a single reliable backup system in place. Probably pretty large.

The most frustrating part of running Linux for me is the experience can vary so much for each person, slight hardware differences can cause odd bugs that other people don’t have, and solving them can be really time consuming because a fix that works for one distro or DE may not work on another.

I’m really happy that Bazzite seems to be gaining so much popularity as an actual windows replacement, because it makes it a lot easier to find fixes for problems if there’s a huge community using the exact same distro.

I’ve never had spam issues with catchall, and it saves a ton of time vs having to go create aliases constantly.

Its a setting on the mail server/provider.

I’ve never had issues with it, been using it for years.

I use a custom domain with catch-all enabled.

There are some fairly in depth setups to hide the fact that its a VM normally used for testing malware, I winder if those would fool it.

I’m just saying it absolutely will do most tasks without issue, since my 3700x doesnt struggle at all with any normal every day task.

I looked up the CPU and its faster than the R7 3700x I game and edit videos on in my desktop…

No, because it still stops everyone else from reading your messages.

Yeah gotta make sure you never use the same password in multiple places, use a password manager.

It is still keeping the battery warmer which degrades it faster regardless if its being charged or not.

For normal use like that 16GB is generally just fine. Some games can use enough that you’ll need to close Firefox and other RAM hungry programs though.

As far as needing more than that, people who do heavy design work or edit videos and that kind of thing generally do. For example 32GB running Fusion in Davinci Resolve can be a bit limiting sometimes with higher resolution or 10 bit footage.

That ones actually fine IMO because they advertise Mbps which is fairly clearly different from MBps (b vs B, bit vs byte), and very easy to convert between.

Thats bad practice though, external drives in Linux should be mounted with no write caching just like they are in windows.

Or even:

1. Visit website Y that uses a service to fingerprint and track users.
2. Fingerprint is now stored with tracking company.
3. Every other website that uses said tracking service now knows who you are regardless of using a VPN or clearing cookies.

The difference is I can do something about my downtime and fix it.