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  • Unreal Tournament 2004 depends on SDL 1.3 when I recall correctly, and SDL is neither on Linux nor on any other OS a core system library.

    Binary only programs are foreign to Linux, so yes you will get issues with integrating them. Linux works best when everyone plays by the same rules and for Linux that means sources available.

    Linux in its core is highly modifiable, besides the Kernel (and nowadays maybe systemd), there is no core system that could be used to define a API against. Linux on a Home theater PC has a different system then Linux on a Server then Linux on a gaming PC then Linux on a smartphone.

    You can boot the Kernel and a tiny shell as init and have a valid, but very limited, Linux system.

    Linux has its own set of rules and his own way to do things and trying to force it to be something else can not and will not work.


  • It works under Windows because the windows binaries come with all their dependency .dll (and/or they need some ancient visual runtime installed).

    This is more or less the Flatpack way, with bundling all dependencies into the package

    Just use Linux the Linux way and install your program via the package manager (including Flatpack) and let that handle the dependencies.

    I run Linux for over 25 years now and had maybe a handful cases where the Userland did break and that was because I didn’t followed what I was told during package upgrade.

    The amount of time that I had to get out of .dll-hell on Windows on the other hand. The Linux way is better and way more stable.




  • I have a Bambu P1S with an AMS after years of using a Ender 3 that was modified to high heavens both on hardware and on firmware level. It is a perfectly fine product and the AMS makes filament changes so much easier, it is a convenience that I personally love. My P1S is running in LAN mode and it works perfectly fine in combination with OrcaSlicer on my Linux machine. No data is send to the Bambu Cloud, everything is local.

    Would I like the possibility to have a custom firmware on it? Sure, I always like options. But to be honest: My P1S runs better, smother, faster then my Ender 3 with his many mods and custom firmware ever did.

    Is Bambu on my list of manufacturers for another printer purchase? Yes, but near the end after their anti consumer behavior lately.




  • My Arch Linux setup on my desktop and my servers are low-maintenance. I do updates on my servers every month or so (unless some security issue was announced, that will be patched right away) and my desktop a few times a week.

    Nearly anything can be low-maintenance with the proper care and consideration.

    For your constraints I would use just use Debian, Alma Linux or Linux Mint and stick with the official packages, flathub and default configuration on the system level. Those are low-maintenance out of the box in general.





  • Yes I can. But I am a Linux system administrator with 20 years of experience. This should not be the level of measurement for stuff like this. 😉

    What I meant was: Don’t put a Microsoft master trusted authority in the Kernel, unless one chooses to install a Microsoft distribution. And don’t go the SSL/TLS way with the huge number of default authorities that get installed on every system. It would be a pain to be forced to always build my own Kernel again just to keep Microsoft or any other institution/company that I find untrustworthy out of it.