If your only concern is noise (and not saving power), then the easiest solution is to just sound-proof your case - install some foam pads or something to dampen the noise. Check out https://www.quietpc.com/acousticmaterials to get an idea of what’s out there and what you can use, but even simple random foam that you’d get in parcels would work to start off with.

I haven’t seen this in person so I can only speculate, but I bet they’ll only provide the sources as a tarball or something instead of a git repo, which will make it a PITA for anyone do actually do anything useful with it. I mean, you could potentially still build a full distro from it, but you wouldn’t be able to feasibly maintain it without the ability to do a sync and merge from upstream. So this way, Red Hat achieves their goal of being able to kill any spinoff distro, whilst still remaining compliant with the GPL.

Ah, so you’re the culprit, “Dave Lemmy”. Tried registering the lemmy.nz domain a few of days ago as it was available, but unfortunately I put it off for the next day and bam, it was gone. :'(

Then let’s agree to disagree, in my experience they’ve been more of a hassle to deal with. Eg trying to fix the weird DPI/tiny cursor issue in the flatpak version of Steam was a pain, same with trying to pass custom flags to flatpak Edge. It’s just one hassle after another. I can deal with a couple of apps here and there, but I can’t imagine having the entire system depend on Flatpak as a crutch.

As for your Wine example, I’m not sure which application you’re referring to, but Wine is basically portable and doesn’t need installing, eg for Wine-GE, you just need to download and extract the tarball and set the correct WINEPREFIX/path, so you can easily have multiple versions of Wine on your system without Flatpak or anything complicated.

archive.org, it was literally made for this. Doing it this way instead of saving locally also makes it available for all users.They have a “Wayback Machine” addon for Firefox and Chrome too, so it’s just a couple of clicks to save a page. Once the page is archived, you could bookmark it for easier access.

Not by much. ChatGPT is great at language stuff and summarizing things, but not for facts, local info and real-time stuff. I use ChatGPT a lot for translating stuff and it’s much better than Google Translate, as you can provide context, which is key for translating Asian languages. It’s also not bad at explaining and summarizing well known facts, I asked if a bunch of basic photography related questions and it did a decent job of explaining the concepts. So it really depends on what I’m after.

I’m running Nobara right now on my AMD Thinkpad and it’s been great for gaming. Steam, Proton, Lutris and ofc all drivers and codes are already included by default which greatly simplifies install, plus the kernel is already tweaked so there’s no need to install a custom kernel.

Flatpak apps are a PITA for interoperability and modifications though, so I’ll stick to traditional RPMs thanks. I prefer the ease and flexibility of tinkering with my system more than anything else.

XFCE supports window snapping. Just go into Settings manager -> Window Manager and at the Advanced tab, you will have the option to check Windows snapping

I’d highly recommend checking out Nobara, it’s based on Fedora but optimized for gaming. In addition to supporting nVidia out of the box, it has a ton of tweaks and gaming related apps pre-installed, such as Steam and Lutris, which is a huge time saver. Should be the most out-of-the-box gamer friendly distro, outside of SteamOS I reckon.

Darktable is awesome. People rave on about Lightroom like it’s irreplaceable, but Darktable exists and is a legit alternative.