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What I ask myself here is why I should have unused phones lying around in the first place? If I somehow think constantly wasting money on a new model just because there is a new number written on its packaging is worth it, I would not actually think in terms of reusing old hardware. If I am however thinking about using hardware instead of just throwing it away while still functional why wouldn’t I use a phone as anyone else as a phone?

I didn’t have any actual issues with the native install either. But with [multilib] activated there were dozens and dozens of 32bit libraries pulled alongside their regular version that I didn’t actually need. And I use Wine a lot more than Steam anyway. So once Wine went fully 64bit I decided to get rid of all that legacy multilib 32bit stuff. Steam via flatpak also works and will do until they, too, fully switch over to WoW64 implementation.

Pacman… With exactly one exception: Steam via flatpak because that’s the single package left that would need 32bit libraries from multilib-repo since Wine finally left those dependencies behind.

I don’t think there is a better “default” because the default has to be the general setting everyone can live with. But that of course also means it’s not particularly good for any use case. In general desktop users prefer lower values for snappy behavior when switching thorugh different apps (~10 often recommended). People mainly focusing on preformance of the primary running app prefer higher values (which may, depending on setup) include gamers. Also there is zram/zswap now (basically compressed swap in memory instead of on disk) which is faster than tradittional swap. But in the end you can only try out values and watch your systems behavior or run benchmarks to find the proper value for you personally,

wtf? Pleass tell me you are just talking about discord channels instead of proper issue trackers and not something even more stupid...

Oh, I assumed you already had setup OBS… And WHIP is probably unneccessarily complicated anyway. I was able to stream the output of my V4L2loopback-device (the virtual camera created with OBS’ output) to a browser accessing localhost: with Motion without any setup other than creating a single-line config file defining the port…

Teamspeak and Mumble (which I prefer because it's free and open-source... also already vastly superior sound quality years ago when Teamspeak was stil the common option most peope used) are indeed "separate applications" doing only one of the jobs... voice communication in this case.

Discord alternatives are complicated, because Discord is conceptual bullshit. It started as voice communication, yet became popular for the text communication. So you won't find a good replacement (unless something new created in particular to mimic discord), because the things it now provides are better handled by seperate applications. PS: ~~OBS should already work on it's own, without a dedicated webserver on your side. Basically every media program (also browser) should be able to handle streams~~ OBS' WHIP (WebRTC-HTTP Ingestion) support should allow direct connection to web browsers. (I'll will take a look at it when I'm home)

Fun fact: Contrary to popular believe you are better off using a channel already used by a strong signal than a weak one. Your router will be better at filtering which packets do not belong to your wifi when the signal is clear.

Nvidia ends support at some point, no matter which OS. Your card is one of the oldest series still supported (Turing), they just cut support for roughly gtx750 to 1080 - Maxwell, Pascal, Volta). So 10 years from now, you won’t get working Nvidia drivers anymore and will have to rely on older driver versions. But unlike Windows -where you will have the same problem and MS won’t care at all- you will have distros or their communities still providing those older drivers regularly and also there is a open source driver. And your card is the first generation supported by that driver, although with still some hickups. TL;DR: I can’t absolutely guarantee that your card still works in 10 years as Nvidia’s support will just end at some point. But your chances are a) very good and b) definitely much better on Linux than on Windows.