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  • Xanmod has a bunch of little tweaks, mostly I’d say it helps with frame pacing more than anything else. It’s only maybe 1-2fps difference most of the time, but it’s very close to the upstream mainline kernel in terms of release timing, whereas Mint keeps to LTS kernels.

    Likewise, the kisak-mesa PPA just keeps you more up to date with the upstream package version.

    IMO the biggest differences are responsiveness, frame pacing, and getting to have access to the latest fixes/features ASAP while still getting to use the very stable package versions for the rest of the system.





  • For my gaming rig I use Mint Cinnamon with the Xanmod kernel and kisak-mesa PPA for bleeding edge performance but otherwise a very low-maintenance, convenient system.

    For my personal laptop (ThinkPad T480s) I use Arch with KDE. For my various mini PCs used as servers, I use primarily Debian derivatives, except for my Mac Mini which runs Asahi Arch so I could optimize the use of its 8G of RAM.



  • One thing worth looking into is if your thermal paste needs replacing.

    I see you’ve got an 8145U, that’s old enough that it might need re-pasting. Laptops generally have terrible thermals to start with, so if the paste goes bad you’ll often see them start to thermally throttle on fairly light workloads (like Deltarune).

    Another thing worth considering would be to turn on thermald to better control your temps.





  • It’s possible that the lower max speed could be caused by a number of things. First of all, do you have IPv6 enabled? I don’t know about your ISP, but mine has an issue where using IPv6 causes dropped packets on uploads. Disabling IPv6 in the router fixed that for me.

    Another possibility is that there could be a slow peering connection between your internet provider and your friend’s, even if it’s the same company, there could be congestion between the specific nodes depending on the time of day.



  • 1,028 movies

    517 shows (20,702 episodes)

    Shows are all 1080p or lower except a couple seasons of select shows in 4k. Movies are 4k HDR when it’s available, otherwise best quality I can find.

    I use Jellyfin because of the client apps and FOSS nature.

    I tend to prefer HEVC/h.265 encodings for the strong trade off between player compatibility and smaller size for the quality level, but h264 and AV1 are also both in my library. I don’t reencode anything except through the Jellyfin server transcoding.







  • I agree with your overall point, as a long time Linux, Windows and Mac poweruser who has shepherded many into a new OS in the past. People who don’t like to explore new/different technologies as a hobby get quite comfortable with whatever they’re used to and the way that it works and then quickly lose empathy for those that are earlier in their journeys.

    Just to clarify on the Linus Pop!_OS thing, he didn’t read the prompt that said he was about to uninstall his desktop environment and then typed in “yes I understand this can break my system” or something like that, which had been added as a prompt to keep people from not reading the warning. Anyways people got mad that he did that because he literally ignored the warning and the meaning of the words he had to type that had been added to idiot proof the thing.