Yeah, the ryzens are great too.

Full amd will treat you well, I’m running dual xeons and a Radeon pro with an arc 770 just for av1 encode right now.

Next round going full epyc.

Amd knocks Nvidia into a hat on Linux, the drivers are just too incredible.

With the exception of AI, where Nvidia is just plain the gold standard.

Intel is fine, it has exceptional video encoding and works.

Core i3 is fine, celeron can route, but you don’t have as much headroom, or room for firewall rules, etc. Recommend Intel x520 or mellanox cx3 or newer, though the cx2 is perfectly fine.

The bs about bsd being slower is maybe 15 years old at best?

Bsd is a monster for routing.

Run 25gbe routing, still can get by on your 4 core, but I throw some serious xeons at it anyway.

Meh, I like my udm.

I use some of the features, but mostly it just works, and it’s debian under the hood so I just ssh in and unfuck whatever needs unfucking.

It’s vastly closer to a hand-built setup than anything else, and you can spend less time worrying about security.

Ollama, llama3.2, deepcode and a bunch of others.

Using a GPU but man they’re picky, they mostly want Nvidia gpus.

Do NOT be afraid to run on the cpu. It’s slow, but for 1 user it’s actually mostly fine.

chrome

Open source dev, kernel, llvm, jvm, bunch of other shit.

Never came up with anything as bad as systemd.

Don’t talk shit if you don’t know, been doing software since the internet was dialup.

I’ve worked with both coreaudio and launchd.

They weren’t architected like trash, and actually did their jobs well.

If systemd was just like launchd that would be awesome, it’s not, then it took over half the linux userspace, badly.

Removed by mod

No, nobody forces you to use emacs at gunpoint.

Not much, I have services that run both externally and only over wg.

Only issue with wg is sometimes I have to shut it off for things like multicastdns, or otherwise that try to look around the network or wifi.

To be fair, it was a controversial feature at the time, some people said it actually encouraged the development of btrfs as an alternative.

Man I’ve gotten old, gotten stuck in debian with lxc containers (Ubuntu for work, arch for fun) underneath.

Warm and loving on the outside, kinky as fuck behind closed doors.

Bdsm, but real careful about the safe word.

Gentoo: no limits.

Nix is a brothel.

Just order off the menu.

I miss years ago when you could run full KDE 3 on x11 and basically go in and out of a near Linux environment.

Now I only use it as a terminal because the power management is better.

Efficiency? Worse. Power? Way more.

Big thing is going from usb 3.0 or really weak microsd to sata ssd or especially m.2 nvme.

Pi4 has a72s which are weak, like clock for clock on par with sandylake or even nehalem, and they aren’t clocked near as high.

Pi5 is closer to broadwell, maybe Sky-lake, which is starting to hit tolerable performance.

Think it’s been maintenance, but the real difference is packages aren’t ancient like they used to be, they’re mostly up to date.

Stuff like the desktop are basically generic compared to Ubuntu’s customization, but they moved to wayland, pipewire, all that stuff which is violent radical by past debian standards.

New users probably should learn systemd rather than startup scripts.