Linux-Workstation

Cloud gaming over WiFi on Linux is almost great. Then, every couple of minutes, it is not. The stream hitches for a second or two, the client flashes a network warning, your inputs arrive late, and then everything recovers on its own. Not constant lag — periodic, short, maddening spikes. Plug in an Ethernet cable and it is perfect. The same laptop on Windows seems fine. So you blame the ISP, the router, the WiFi card, the driver, the phase of the moon. 🤷 ...

KDE is very feature-rich desktop environment for Linux. However it lacks some of the very essential features for some users like automatic dark mode switch (it’s not present on GNOME either but easily installable with gnome extension) or automatic brightness control for notebooks that have ambient light sensor. So - there are couple of way to enable automatic dark mode on KDE, but non of them is straight forward: GUI versions Yin-Yang Can be installed via Flatpak, but it needs to be pulled manually from git and compiled manually. ...

In order to start loving Debian - we need to try out other Linux distributions and see how easily things may break after system upgrade. While Debian is super stable - it could have a problem with newer hardware - older kernel versions might not simply support it. There is relatively stable way of installing newer kernel while still maintaining Debian golden stability. This approach is called backports. Here can be found official Debian article: Installing a Package from Backports ...