Try KDE Plasma on Debian 13

KVM/QEMU is the only logical and sane choice on Linux, unless some tooling you're using requires VirtualBox. The key is to optimize and tweak all your host and guest settings, installing the guest tools too. Once you have it optimized it purrs.

Been using VB twenty years and mostly happy, but ready to try something new.

I saw a gal say that a Windows VM worked solid for gaming, after passing through a GPU.

EDIT: I hunted for the link, to deliver it to you! https://astrid.tech/2022/09/22/0/nixos-gpu-vfio/

thank you!

100%. I run this combo on my 12 year old Chromebook and it's a very solid web browsing and thin client system. Audio works, Wi-Fi works, Bluetooth works, everything just works, and works well.

Have you tried KDE Plasma? I have loved it since coming from GNOME. Install it atop Debian 13 and everything just works.

It's interesting to think how incredibly clunky, unintuitive, difficult, unpleasant to the eye, and just generally painful the Linux desktop experience used to be. These days Linux has proved it's usefulness on the desktop, both to novices and power users alike. I have no doubt that 2030s will be the decade of the Linux desktop. Perhaps until 2038 anyway.

On build your own PC desktop with known parts, yeah.

On random laptop regular people buy at computer stores and needs to be reversed engineered by volunteers, it will be business as usual.

It's stretching all the way back to 2020. It isn't something new. It isn't just the government you need to be most worried about silencing you now, as other institutions wield equally great power.

That DDR5-4800 2x16GB price tend is crazy. It tripled from August/September until now.

Even DDR4. Just checked, I bought a non-ECC 1x32go stick for my homelab on August 25th, priced 78€ on Amazon. Same offer is now at 229€. Yeah I guess I'll wait before updating to 64gig then

It reminds me very much of the crypto mining craze, when there was a run on GPUs and one couldn't be had for any less than 5x it's MSRP. I know that eventually passed and so too will this but it still sucks if you had been planning to purchase RAM or anything needing it.

I don't think DDR4 is even being manufactured anymore, so the rush is clearing out that inventory for good.

It is still being manufactured. Older memory standards continue to be manufactured long after they stop being used in computers, e.g. for use in embedded devices.

The whole market was propped up by AI stocks though. So realistically you'd have to move out of the markets to avoid exposure.

It's a bit hard to short private companies, of which most AI companies have chosen to remain, to avoid scrutiny from shareholders.