Arch. Not even once.

For reals though, it’s my favorite distro because it taught me a bunch and also, once I understood that bit, it really is the only one that just worked on all my machines at the time, 15 years ago.

It’s promotion-driven development at its finest.

Yeah, this is pretty textbook selection bias.

I’m not saying it doesn’t suck for this person, but product market fit is a thing for open source too. If people need it they’ll use it and contribute until something better comes along. If not, your idea wasn’t the one. That doesn’t mean it’s not possible. Nearly my whole life runs on open source software, so it’s pretty clearly sustainable.

over the years, using “open source” has become an excuse to avoid paying for software

Um. Yes. And to be blunt: obviously. And in return, I give away software I create for free whether people need it or not, and try to give back in the form of contributions too. But I’ve never once given up my day job for it. Would that be nice? Maybe. But open source software is more frequently sustained by passionate people using and expanding it for their own projects and not by expecting people to pay you for your efforts when you’re likely not paying (nodejs, github, ahem) for the software you’re building it on anyway.

3DMark or some other benchmark utility might help next time.

It’s the Dodgerolet Corviper.

Well my owner is definitely getting his money back or starting a class action suit for false advertising.

Well what else is one supposed to do with it?

My time perception is so screwed these days. I could have sworn I’ve been here a few years at this point.

And so many other things. I’ve also used it for “cloud saves” back/forth from my desktop to my steam deck on games that don’t support them for various reasons. Dyson Sphere Program being one, because the files can get quite large.

That’s been my experience for 95% of Lemmy communities right now, though. I don’t know if it will last but for now, it seems pretty high quality.

I do all my Linux kernel development, and especially compilation, on my steam deck.

I’m currently playing Lego City Undercover on my steam deck, which is only as crashy as the switch version, and it’s great because my 10 year old is also playing it on the switch, as is my 4 year old. Obviously we all play it differently but it’s been a fun couple of weeks all playing the same game.

The difference between a SPA and any other site these days is simply where the application runs and what languages you can build it with, though less the latter with options like wasm.

Yuzu TwoZu: Electric Boogaloozoo.

If you’re up for pgp and git, gnu password store is a killer app. There are a few guis, including Android and iOS, and if you use gopass there’s a nice plugin for browsers as well. And it’s ultimately just two tools that are both solid and generally well known.

My 3090 is a light flickering machine. Kind of annoying tbh.

My first choice is actually Kagi these days. I pay for my search provider to have some peace of mind that my search provider isn’t selling me.

I’m assuming OP wants to run on Linux and I’m not familiar enough with .NET Core to know how much or how easily you can run it on Linux. I know some things definitely run, I just don’t know how much.

For camera software, zoneminder is a classic, and frigate is probably the new kid in town. Web hosting will depend on your web developers but docker will have you covered for almost anything. Probably just steer clear of asp.net dev shops.