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(/s but I guess kinda not) state-actor weapon compression library vs Meta/FB compression library. Zstd is newer, good compression and decompression, but new also means not as widely used.

On the other hand, whether you trust a government more or less than Facebook/Meta is on your conscience.

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Increase your Linux Server Internet Speed with TCP BBR Congestion-Control

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According to multiple debian based and ubuntu based and Arch I use. No. Not default. Cubic still is.

My experience was that some days ago I was trying to make my UDP faster, but turned out found out about BBR - for TCP. Well, lucky me - currently some country away from home for family reason. Plex generally takes 40-80s to start a movie/episode for me. And measly about 10s max buffer available - and this is on a 3-5Mbps show.

After BBR (note I have to apply on Proxmox host, my container are unprivileged and can't set this themselves), I got 8-30s max to start a show/movie. And now comfortably sit between some good minutes on buffer. 15-20Mbps quality now playable.

To me personally it was black magic, and I was tossing it in just 2 days ago too

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Microsoft is trying to convince Windows 10 users to upgrade with full-screen prompts

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Beside we-know-which games that use a root-kit anti-cheat, which games you think doesn't work on Linux or work terribly or straight out not work on Linux on first-day?

I don't play those and I don't own them on Steam. Out of 600+ games I own on Steam, everything literally run without me touch my terminal once.

Unless you don't think proton is good, then you might be mistaken somewhere. It's straight magic

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Recommended operating system for self-hosting on a VPS?

Maybe not the right answer for you since I am not VPS-based but basement-rack-based.

I would choose Debian + docker for whatever available. Just make sure you have enough space for those. And probably even enough CPU.

To me it makes sense to separate them but some would argue otherwise with Docker/podman/container. Remember, Docker however by default is root.

The one I would actually do at home is Docker on a unpriviledged LXC (Proxmox) to make sure that there is no real root processes running

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Since I only use Steam, out of 350+ games in my account are mostly plug-and-play. Don't play competitive games with anti-cheat so. Otherwise. More than half is verified, and they all install - game.

But yea. My laptop and desktop are so much faster

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What do I want to see in the Linux ecosystem in 2025?

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Kde Wayland already can do very nicely since 6 a long time ago. Even can change display mode, scaling, without programs to be killed.

I am using laptop 1600p 13.5-in 1.25x and external 1-2x depends on which monitor/TV I plug into.

Not that I use AMD GPU, so if you're on Nvidia, I don't know how far the process has come for wayland and nvidia.

But mix (fractional included) scaling for wayland has been a thing a long long time ago.

And unlike Windows, very not finicky

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Linux continues to be above 4% on the desktop

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Also wonder what the hell is your 2MB package that carry a need of 70 runtimes?

Even stuff like Steam for me only pull in like mesa and stuff that are a lot. And barely happenes

In fact. Last time I installed Arch (2 days ago) and I redo my flatpak. 10 apps, pull in 34 packages in total. Further apps only pull in themselves and maybe 1-2 packages with maximum because everything else are covered.

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You can use Authenticator Pro (android, opensesource) and Proton Pass, both let you copy the TOTP generation code to paste into another without problem. Both generate exact code

In fact that's how I am using them right now, with Authenticator Pro is my on-device, offline, encrypted backup offline backup TOTP for Pass.

I guess it is not as straight forward as export import as you hope, but it's not as bad as other options used to be.