It's the task of your CPU scheduler to ensure your system doensn't freeze, even over 100% CPU usage. If it's completely unresponsive, it's more likely you're running out of memory instead.

In my experience, the Debian installer is just confusing. Once you're past that, the userbase is smaller than Ubuntu's. Their repos are different too, meaning software packaged for Ubuntu isn't guaranteed to work on Debian. Ubuntu itself is pretty terrible for its own reasons, so when asked for a desktop Linux distribution "close to Ubuntu" I'd put Mint first. (For general recommendation, I'd probably say Fedora now.)

Debian 13 is still relatively new, so the problems of it being out of date aren't showing yet. Debian 12 just before 13 released had tons of these issues, like glibc being too old for some binary programs, or the kernel not being new enough for some "gaming" features.

For reference, I am on Arch Linux. I feel I have a good understanding of how to manually install Linux. The Debian installer confused me in many ways, the main one being that "language and region" are closely tied, and selecting en_US "language" forces you to choose an American timezone later in the installer. In general it was a slow install process too. This is something other "user friendly" distros handle much better. A default live environment, a quick installation, and options being there, but having the defaults automatically correct (like timezone).

Like (almost) every other distro, Debian has its own benefits and downsides. These make it a good fit on desktop for slightly more experienced users, or users familiar with apt. This means it isn't in the list of distros I'd generally recommend to people when they're not familiar with Linux.

Matrix (Synapse with Element) can be self-hosted for free, though they have optional paid plans for enterprises. The main goal of Matrix is federation (connecting with other servers), though this can be turned off completely. This is probably the most "business" look/feel you can get fully FOSS, if that's what you're looking for.

XMPP has more clients/servers, and is more for the technically oriented end user. I can't really give recommendations here, as I haven't extensively used XMPP.

Spacebar (formerly Fosscord) is a Discord clone (API compatibility as a goal) that can be selfhosted.

You need a couple things:

• The kernel driver (dkms)
• Userspace component
• Kernel headers (for dkms)

First get your kernel headers, this is easy enough, but varies based on which kernel you have installed. The format of the package name is {kernel}-headers. If you have the linux kernel, get linux-headers. If you have linux-lts, get linux-lts-headers. If you're not sure on this, the command pacman -Q | grep linux searches for installed packages containing linux in the name. If you have multiple kernels installed, get the headers for all of them.

Then install (from AUR) at least nvidia-580xx-dkms (display out) and nvidia-580xx-utils (Acceleration, like 3D and video decoding). If you have Steam or play Windows games under Wine, be sure to get lib32-nvidia-580xx-utils too.

Also of note is the order in which you install things. Having the kernel headers installed is important for the DKMS modules to install succesfully. If you already have nvidia-580xx-dkms but were missing your kernel headers, you should reinstall it after installing your kernel headers.

The version from their F-Droid repo, SchildiChat[f], has no Google libraries. The version from the playstore includes proprietary blobs to support Firebase Cloud Messaging (Google notifications system). Exodus may be misidentifying this as "Google Admob", which is not present in the app.

This is heavily sensationalized. UEFI "secure boot" has never been "secure" if you (the end user) trust vendor or Microsoft signatures. Alongside that, this ""backdoor"" (diagnostic/troubleshooting tool) requires physical access, at which point there are plenty of other things you can do with the same result.

Yes, the impact is theoretically high, but it's the same for all the other vulnerable EFI applications MS and vendors sign willy-nilly. In order to get a properly locked-down secure boot, you need to trust only yourself.

When you trust Microsoft's secure boot keys, all it takes is one signed EFI application with an exploit to make your machine vulnerable to this type of attack.

Another important part is persistence, especially for UEFI malware. The only reason it's so easy is because Windows built-in "factory reset" is so terrible. Fresh installing from a USB drive can easily avoid that.

Security is an insanely broad topic. As an average desktop user, keep your system up to date, and don't run random programs from untrusted sources (most of the internet). This will cover almost everyones needs. For laptops, I'd recommend enabling drive encryption during installation, though note that data recovery is harder with it enabled.

Discord is one of the greedy AI companies training on your data

It's actually not within their rights (I am NOT a lawyer)

GPL code is still owned by the person who wrote it, that includes contributors who have made a PR. Unless they all signed CLAs (Contributor License Agreements) to hand over their copyright to the repository owner, the repository owner does not hold copyright for this code, and as such can't legally change the license. They can use and distribute it as specified in the license terms of the GPL, but that excludes changing the license.

https://ntfy.sh/

Easily set up, and easily attached to other things. Simple notifications about whatever is needed, like service health or updates, new posts on public platforms, etc. A simple curl is plenty to send and receive notifications, and it works on Android without requiring FCM (Google infrastructure).

This person uses an 8GB mac, and tried to defend Apple in the debate, going as far as to say that Apple hardware is "not that expensive", and within 2 months regrets buying the 8gb mac.

They think Open Source is "overrated", insecure, and not important. They think Linux users are "normies" and fakers, Linux is not a desktop OS, and have explicitly stated "F*** LINUX".

That's a lot of terrible opinions in just 4 months, especially for someone who calls the internet "stupid", and supposedly doesn't have any education.

This is either a troll account, or someone with less than zero credibility considering their opinions and statements.

I can personally vouch for how toxic the Discord server and its moderators/admins are. Went there for support (Hyprland was crashing on startup on AMD, sway worked fine), and was told something along the lines of "if you can't figure this out you're stupid and you should stop using Linux". Figured out the issue on my own and stopped using and recommending Hyprland after that.