What would you reccomend/use for an alienware laptop m17r5 with amdcpu (idr) and gpu 6850mxt. Idc about adjusting the keyboard lights, I changed it once and never touched it again. I play games like cities skyline, noita, etc. and some vr stuff rarely like vtolvr and warthunder. I use blender and houdinifx.
I've seen PopOs reccomended for Blender users but I think thats because it comes with a lot of stuff you need for Nvidia, which isn't relevant to me with an all amd setup.

Cachyos seems to be the move for best performance with rendering and simulating, was wondering about other options I have since I dont need to worry about nvidia drivers.

I dont like the idea of using ubuntu because of snap packages, but its not a big deal.

While I like tinkering, I do want it to be relatively stable, not suprising me with issues when I need it.

Currently Interested in: CachyOs Debian (leaning towards here if I go the stable route) EndeavorOs Mint (seems popular, is it just simplified?)

EDIT: Went with CachyOs for now, works well, only issue was auto install didn't work and I needed to manually partition and set the flags for boot and the os drive, other than that it's been very fast and intuitive using KDE plasma. Recently tried Hyprland with the JaKooLit config, since ML4W didn't want to work and had bugs, , I like it more than I thought I would.

Might try EndeavorOS and Bazzite on another ssd, they also look interesting.

Not really sure how dualbooting or vms work at their core. I'm kind of over windows and want to swap, always liked the customizability aspect and have been using Linux more and more for self hosting purposes. Was wondering if I setup linux on my external ssd using a vm if I could change it from vm to a dualboot drive after I'm done setting it up. That way I could setitup and swap to it while keepign my original ssd with my windows install,. and not have to deal with dualbooting and going back and forth while setting up?

Can I make a vm of my current windows machine backup and run that in a linux setup?

I started off using Voyager, swapped to Mlem because of slight differences I preferred. Recently found out Thunder for Lemmy is available on the apple appstore and it instantly became my favorite. I like how unique the ui is compared to other, it seems better suited for browsing and posting on Lemmy, while the others feel better for the initial transition from Reddit. Very suprised it has barely any downloads or reviews when its easily the best Lemmy app on IOS.

Thunder reminds me of the more "modern" alternative front ends for lemmy some sites have while mlem and voyager feel more like the alternative reddit apps (blue alien) and give a similar experience.

On desktop, I've been using Friendica.

It makes it easier to understand what this is and that they are interconnected, but I think I enjoy unique branding/themes more in practice now that I am actually using the fediverse.

I self hosted an instance at is.hardlywork.ing, my images are getting cropped and losing the top and bottom 25% of the the image, leaving me a zoomed in rectangle. I tried on web browser, phone app, etc. same issue uploading any 1920x1080 photo.

Just started an instance so I can upload images, is.hardlywork.ing , The images I upload are screenshots of comics, they are missing the top and bottom parts of the image like 25% both ways, and the final result it uploads is zoomed in and cropped.

Never tried before, want to automatically crosspost posts with locked comments to unlockthread@lemm.ee, wondering if it's even possible and what direction I need to head in. Just going off lemmy settings allowing bot accounts.

I have some programming and webdev knowledge so I'm not compeltely clueless, just fairly clueless wheen it comes to bots.

If you're tired of people locking fun threads, because they are going offtopic or comments violate that specific community's rules , crosspost them here to restart/continue the conversation.

I find it really frustrating when I'm reading an interesting thread, goto comment and I am unable to because someone decided to lock it for going offtopic. Personally, my favorite comments sections are the ones that end up going offtopic.

Still need to follow lemm.ee rules ofc.

!unlockthread@lemm.ee

It worked two days ago, wanted to change my vps and domain, I reinstalled yunohost on my vps with a fresh install and now it keeps throwing an error, I tried on a seperate vps and it wont work there either. Is this an issue with yunohosts implementation that just arose recently or is there something wrong with my vps or domains? "preparing pnpm@latest for immediate acticstion... internal error cannot find matching keyid signatures"

While they're censoring people/subs, I feel like a good amount of the community isn't even aware of spez being a trump supporter and how bad the donalds presence used to be, with conservative showing up on the front page a lot and subreddits being tempbanned(new mods), it seems to be headed that way again.

Yall need to stop suggesting the niche extremist instances tho, it almost seems like you dont want ppl coming unless they fit your specific ideology when you only suggest those. Suggest general purpose ones so they get the bigger picture, they'll eventually see those niche ones and decide to join them if they fit them.

It was easy enough to do it with self hosted mastodon, cant seem to login to any of the Lemmy apps with my selfhosted website? Lemmy.rip

UPDATE: I had to renew through a setting in yunohost, not automatic, porkbun was showing it as valid and I I'm used to them grabbing it automatically or having me paste it in during setup.