If your AMD card is older than your latest linux distro release it’s plug and play, no driver installation required
Wayland works pretty well on most desktop environments too

beware fresh released AMD cards in combination with long term release distros like Debian stable, you most likely will need the driver from the AMD website (not recommended)

Latte Dock users will need to say goodbye then

sorry that was a blunder on my part, I wanted to say “Debian and Fedora” but autocorrect gotten a hold on me it seems

People who deeply care about this typically use a distro which has a strong stance on FLOSS software like Debian or Fedora
Arch Linux is more free on this as long as the user gets a more conveniant way to install everything (even proprietary software)

the Arch Linux way however is also reading every PKGBUILD (where the license is stated) before installing and if you need to have an easier way to search through licenses just programatically solve this yourself i.e. by using https://github.com/archlinux/aur and going through all branches with a script

hope this helps with the dumbster fire of the virtualbox version in the official Ubuntu repositories
(virtual box basically “breaks” on Ubuntu LTS once a newer HWE kernel gets released unless you install a newer version of it, leading to hundreds of support threads every time this happens)

.zip is already a thing
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/05/zip-domains

chances are you already used the external nvidia kernel module prior
the dkms package is just the “catch all” way which works on most setups
(at least on Arch Linux)

afaik linux and windows shows different GPU memory clock speeds but it’s basically the same (1:2 conversion)
most likely because bigger number = better?

my AMD 6000 cards does the same

the most honest reason I read about is probably that former Twitter user who felt out of place on Mastodon or other Activitypub servers because the “Nerds” who care about privacy and decentral systems which were already on it have a different microblogging culture and they didn’t want adept

so now a new competitor gets traction because the people who felt out of place on Mastodon can relife the Twitter experience from over a decade ago
the fake exclusivity even make you feel special despite the lack of features

Some people hate it for not following the unix philosophy of doing one thing and doing it well, but at this point nothing does except stuff like cat.

you can actually write iso images to thumb drives with cat

cat linux.iso > /dev/disk/by-id/usb-My_flash_drive

if you just need software to set up virtual machines you might look into Gnome Boxes or virt-manager which don’t require external kernel modules like Virtuap Box to work

anyway these issues typically happen on Ubuntu based distros (like Linux Mint) because your linux kernel is to new for the Virtual Box version (or the Virtual Box version is simply too old)

the amount of plugins are also amazing
convert non-lossy files automatically to aacmp3|ogg? fetch lyrics? push updates to mpd/sonos/jellyfin?

If you care about DoT or DoH Adguard Home will support it out of the box (which is why I use it)
you can make pi-hole also support DoH/DoT albeit little bit more complicated with an extra service like stubby/unbound

otherwise it really doesn’t matter, both are open source and easy to setup for unencrypted dns requests

certainly a nice version of the classic song

Some podcasts have contracts to be Spotify exclusive (they get a compensation for it)

I just use docker/podman containers on my Arch Servers, not a single time I needed to rely on distrobox for anything

Odroid has both ARM and Intel boards in their lineup

for PC there is also Freetube and Invidious

I didn’t tested it but according to the site you can get from https://github.com/ventoy/backend/releases an image with *_casper-rw.dat.7z suffix (for Linux Mint) and extract the 7zip archive

see https://ventoy.net/en/plugin_persistence.html