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it was pretty bad. the "protagonist" was as irritating as they come. evacide, doctorow and co. were super-underutilized, I imagine a huge chunk was cut out to make enough room for mr. annoyance and his forced parables and non-sequiturs.

I understand some things had to be dumbed down, but this was really, really bad from every angle you look at it.

although just a cursory look at the drama surrounding it is reason enough, my real reason is pretty simple: the hardware costs just way too much.

a phone should cost like $100, max. that's an easily breakable thief magnet and you should put in as much effort as possible to treat it as a fungible device. you break or lose one - no big deal, it's encrypted, restore from backup and keep on truckin'.

I can lose/break/gift like 6 or 7 competent devices (SDM680/845/etc, 6 GB RAM) before I even get close to the price of one used Pixel. hard, hard pass.

bazzite is fedora based? If so, your filesystem is btrfs and your /home is a subvolume, same as your / (root). you can install a new operating system in a btrfs subvolume (e.g. /blendosroot), then have systemd-boot or grub mount it as root and mount your existing home from it.

sadly, there's no noob-friendly way to achieve this, but if you're adventurous, you have enough search terms to make it happen.

oh, you can get away with a 350 W PSU if it's a good one, like one from a reputable brand. I was mentioning shitty 500 W PSUs as those are ubiquitous practically everywhere and cost next to nothing.

you'll see if you're ready to rock when you first turn it on, most of the GPUs have a LED near the power connector. if the PSU is adequate, the light is white. if it isn't, it's red.

those are insane prices, I'm very sorry you're in this position. almost everywhere else in the world, prices are driven down by people upgrading to current tech, like the 7000 series, which thne pushes down used 6000-series which then pushes down used 5000-series and so on, and also there being a plethora of old cards used for mining in the olden days that nobody wants to buy.

apologies for possibly misleading OP, although they didn't explicitly ask for it.

anyhow, old versions still work for some use cases, with some tweaks being necessary.

unless you're getting those for free, skip them both and get a RX 570. those can be had in the $50 range. it's a dramatically better GPU, and it can run off the shittiest 500W PSUs.

as to linux, it's hella supported in practically every regard, including overclocking and ROCm.

you need a swap file, a swap subvolume, or a swap partition that's RAM + 50%, on account of zram. then you need systemd scripts that disable zram and enable swap on suspend and do the reverse on resume. also, you need some selinux tuning to allow you to write to said file. you have a detailed howto in Fedora Magazine.

stop using bullshitgpt.

edit: here's the article.

btrfs with subvolumes. I have fedora gnome, fedora kde, debian 12 kde, arch mate as subvolumes on the same disk and of course a home subvolume that they all mount on boot, so all my data is always available.

OK, so what this purports to do is use your email server as chat platform. kinda intriguing, could have several use cases, don't know what it does with existing email or how the chat looks like in e.g. thunderbird...

unfortunately, after installing it and being unsuccessful about having it login to my IMAP account (works fine with thunderbird), I've given up.

so, the "onboarding" is less than stellar and the desktop app is electron, which I hate; haven't tried the android app.

edit: it works, the initial login process just takes super long; guess it's trying different ports and stuff to be auto-magical. works fine for intra-server comms (accounts belonging to same domain), adding secondary device works (android, from f-droid). comms (encrypted) are stored in a separate IMAP folder that's unreadable to "normal" mail clients, so it doesn't disturb e.g. thunderbird. a fine array of customizations in the apps, will be testing it further.

someone needs to rewrite this, both the post here and the promo copy on the website, it's hella confusing and explains nada.