But isn't RHEV dead?
Initial benchmarks show better performance than btrfs (at least for some workloads), but more importanty, I like that it offers tiered/cache storage - so you can use a fast and small drive (NVMe) to speed up a slow and bigger drive (HDD). You can do that with ZFS as well of course, but it doesn't have the massive RAM requirements. Also it's much more easier to set up and configure in comparison.
Since features aren't important to you, and since you like stability more, then technically you should like Bazzite more, because it's more stable than Mint (at least on paper), being an immutable OS with atomic updates and built-in rollbacks
SteamOS indeed supports HDR but that's only in game mode (ie under a gamescope session), but not in deskrop mode (Wayland). HDR support is coming to KDE Wayland with Plasma 6 early next year, but if you're still on Mint, you'd have to wait a lot longer to get Plasma 6.
As a gamer, you should like up-to-date more, becuse that generally translates to better performance and better compatibility with games. Things like FUTEX2, IO_URING FUTEX support, HDR, Wayland stuff and so many things are a work-in-progress, that you'd want to be on the latest and greatest otherwise you'd be missing out.
Also, stability isn't really an issue with Bazzite since it's an immutable OS - your updates happen in the cloud for starters, so you won't get any "bad" updates. But on the ocassion that you do, you can in fact easily rollback to the previous image from GRUB. You can also pin a known "good" image so that it's always available.
Explorer has had tabs for about an year now (since 22H2) - just press Ctrl + T, or the little + in the titlebar.
It has already become bloated, I wouldn't be surprised if crashes and hangs come next.
Old Notepad vs New:
- RAM usage: Doubled (1.6 MB -> 3.4 MB)
- Disk usage: 10x increase (356 KB -> 3 MB)
- Number of files: 27x increase (1 file -> 27 files)
Plasma 6, but just as excited for kernel 6.7 featuring:
- bcachefs
- AMD Seamless Boot (for flicker-free streamlined booting)
- Scheduler improvements for better responsiveness/performance
- IO_uring FUTEX support for better performance
- More FUTEX2 work for potentially better gaming performance
- Better write performance for eMMC chips (great for many IoT boards)
- TCP network performance improvements
- DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.1 support over Type-C
For me:
- Ability for a panel to stay visible but dodge windows, for a dock-like behavior.
- Better/customisable touchpad gestures (rumored)
- HDR support on Wayland
- Simultaneous password and fingerprint authentication
- Decoupling of icons from the Plasma theme (so ALL icons are changed when you apply a systemwide icon theme)
SteamOS 3 for desktop (idk when, they are probably waiting until the new open source nvidia driver is mature enough. Maybe they are waiting on wine running without xwayland too... idk
You don't have to wait for that, when we've got ChimeraOS and Bazzite that work very well, and are more up-to-date and flexible compared to SteamOS.
I'm running Bazzite on both my laptop and desktop and it's fantastic.
* Allegedly.
What exactly is evidence that Google has suppressed other stores, and in what manner ? If you consider say, Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo etc - all have their own stores in parallel to the Play Store. And on all/other phones, you're free sideload any third-party app store.
Taking my Samsung phone as an example, I don't see the Play Store being promoted any more prominently than the Galaxy Store, nor do I see any blockers for using the Galaxy Store. I believe this is the same for other OEMs as well who bundle their own stores.
So tell me, where exactly is the suppression here?
They do infact. The exact filename is FortniteInstaller-5.3.0.apk, so you're not too off the mark. :)
I don't think so, because:
Development of RHV has ceased and as of August 2020 the product is now only receiving maintenance updates, with extended life phase updates provided until 2026.[8] The successor to RHV is Red Hat's OpenShift container platform.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Virtualization
I'm no expert btw, but from what I understand (from speaking with others and researching for my own homelab setup) is that LXD/Incus is now the preferred solution over Proxmox. LXD is faster, the CLI is very good, it has a huge library of ready to run Linux distro images which is convenient, and it runs on top of your favorite distro, which makes it easy to install/setup, more flexible, and more compatible (Proxmox runs an old and custom kernel, which may not be fully compatible with new hardware).