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Cake day: December 10th, 2023

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  • For gaming performance, some games run better with Proton-GE which is a custom build containing some fixes that Valve/Steam can’t distribute as a US-based company, some games need it to run at all, some get better performance with it, some run worse, just depends. I’d recommend using GE when a game won’t run with vanilla Proton or runs poorly with it.

    Also, checking your games on ProtonDB.com, clicking the PC tab on the game, you can see some tweaks other people did on the game to get the best experience with it, as well as a general idea of how well the game will run on Linux.

    For non-steam games, those run good too with stuff like Heroic Games Launcher, Lutris, and Bottles but may require more manual intervention to get working in some cases compared to a lot of Steam games.


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    jokes aside, you’re getting benefits from more caching into ram, and you’re also getting the ability to not have to even think about your ram usage, even if the ram isn’t actively being used by apps you’re getting good use just from having it available, the OS has more wiggle room to use it optimally: I have 64GB of ram and regularly use only about 12-20GB of it, currently 6.1GB is being used as cache

    Some apps like Okular (pdf viewer) can be configured to use more ram in the settings, you can set it to be very aggressive about preloading pages so that everything loads faster, set a very high amount of scrollback in your terminal if wanted, etc

    I’ve never done this so I can’t speak to how much benefit there is from it, but you can set up a way to preload/cache your most used apps into ram, so that they’re always fully loaded and ready to go




  • If you deactivate your Facebook account (not delete) you can make it where you can only access Facebook Messenger, but you don’t have a public facing Facebook account. That way you only get the messaging side of it, minimizing the data they can collect on you. The account still exists but you give them less data. Giving bogus data doesn’t help as much as not giving it at all, being as generic as possible, since buyers pay more for targeted data regardless of the content.

    I wouldn’t leave those posts up if you’re volunteering for a charity regardless.