https://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/tigervnc-scraping-server

so to Install x0vncserver you install tigervnc-scraping-server

Which OS is on each device? Make it clear af. You on wayland or x11? What DE?

If your laptop runs KDE then the easiest is KRDP + KRFB.

afaik correct me if im wrong but rust desk is not really the right tool for that. Rustdesk connects devices by connecting all the way through the internet to the rustdesk servers and then to the other device.

VNC or RDP are the right approaches here, cause you can use them to connect through the local network, never leaving your LAN/intranet. In addition to not needing a connection to the internet it should be more reliable that way.

If you use KDE then I think their krdc gui is pretty good. Otherwise Remmina.

For the server part, tigerVNC is fine.

Which is kind of the point of the video.

They explicitly said: they could get expert opinion and support.

But when you use a search engine as an everage joe to find what distro to install, popOS comes up a lot on those shit listicles sites.

I recommend managing it through Dokploy.

And put crowdsec in front of it to block attacks.

manjaro is no good. It breaks more often than arch and then you still need the whole arch knowledge to fix it.

EndevourOS or CachyOS are somewhat better options.

Any linux distro is significantly more lightweight than windows. But I’d say that there is not much difference between arch and for example the most bloated distro: ubuntu.

If you are a coder, the CLI will be easy. Most of the time the use of CLI is comparable to a single line in your code where you call a function with some parameters.

But arch is difficult for a beginner. (I wrote some more about my experience with it here: https://lemy.lol/post/61578059/24360161 )

If you have time, interest and discipline to read the documentation and learn a lot, then arch is great.

If you just want to use a Linux OS, install Mint and just use it. It’s no big deal, just a normal OS. It’s very intuitive, low friction and no microslop bloat.

here is an interesting read: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003687016302459

I have both pinephones and I don’t love either…

but I do love their e-ink notepad and SBCs and pinetime etc. basically everything, just not the phone.

Already selfhosting it. Thank you so much for your time and effort <3

why you don’t need to be concerned with quantum computers hacking your encryption just yet:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjABILVAz5Y

this dude twitch and yt streams from linux and everything you listed seems to work for him

This doesn’t really prove it.

Running ths game multiple times will do the same, because the pages will stay cached. Operating systems are smart with RAM. Things that were recently used stay in RAM, even though the OS reports it being “free”. Read this for some more info: https://www.linuxatemyram.com/

And preload might swallow the filepath arg without doing anything with it.

Instead you could share the output of

preload --help
preload --version
sudo preload --verbose
# followed by running a game

What you describe can actually be done with another tool https://hoytech.com/vmtouch but not with preload.

Are we talking about this preload?

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/man8/preload.8.html

Cause if so, it doesn’t actually let you manually add specific files to RAM. It’s an adaptive daemon that automatically learns which files your applications use frequently over time and prefetches them. So when you launch it and then play games, it’s observing patterns and making predictions.

This also explains why there’s no “remove files” command. The files preload loads into RAM aren’t locked there; they’re in the page cache, which the kernel manages freely. If something else needs that memory, the kernel will evict those cached files automatically. Killing preload via htop should not really do anything, except it not doing it’s thing anymore.

read https://develop.kde.org/docs/plasma/theme/quickstart/

You can use existing themes for reference, just download the source and look at it. https://github.com/topics/kde-plasma-theme

There is also nanoKVM which is open source and quite a bit cheaper.

There is also nanoKVM which is open source and quite a bit cheaper. Should do the job just as well.

Arch was definitely tricky to get right for me at yhe beginning.

You often have a choise between multiple similar tools for each job and you only know the pros and cons or what works and what doesn’t after trying.

I did 3-4 fresh installs before getting it right for my needs and hardware. (for example, btrfs with buttermanager requires a completely different fs layout than btrfs with snapper, I picked buttermanager first, didn’t like it after 2 weeks and had to do a fresh install)

For that it’s handy to have a good backup of your important data, ideally outside of your pc, just so there is no risk of fucking it up somehow.

I definitely recommend using btrfs and using it’s snapsotting feature through snapper or timeshift or something else, again, multiple tools for the same job, different pros and cons.

That way you can roll back after fucking something up. But make sure to try it out a couple of times before the case comes where you have to rely on it, so you’re sure that it does work and you know how to properly do it.

I prefer arch cause I was able to customize it more and I love the up to date packages and the AUR. But there is some additional maintenance you have to do like once or twice a year and you have to pay attention to news for manual interventions when there is a breaking update. So it is way more involved than other distros. Yet it has been rock solid for me and should be very reliable once you know your way around.

But tbh. as long as you are completely happy with mint, there is no reason to change anything.

keepassDx from fdroid

been using it for years. You have to change a setting for it to auto suggest logins but then it mostly just works

sync the file with syncthing

I fucked up my systems quite a lot back in the day and had to reinstall everything from scratch, because I was inexperienced. Lost quite a lot of personal data as well, cause I had no backups ofc.

If I were you, I’d try to fix windows rn. (for that you’ll probably get better help on the windows reddit)

And then attempt a linux dual boot again but this time preparing a bit better, reading more, using the newest versions, having a backup plan if everything fails again.

If you can do a videocall on your phone through discord or wire I can hop in a session and help you in about 20h from now. Videocall so I can see whats on your screen and tell you what to do.