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  • I would highly suggest trying and sticking with Debian KDE. It does all that and more. I’ve been using it for years. Stable isn’t bad, but I’ve found testing “trixie” better as it has plasma 6. I have done a fair amount of distro hopping on several different types of machines. I prefer anything with plasma 6 over just about anything. Mint is good, but cinnamon feels shackled compared to KDE. Especially with wayland and pipewire on Plasma being nice improvements over the past.

    I have a projector, a nice audio system, and a built rig with AMD/AMD all running through Debian with Emby / Steam / Audacious. It’s superb and likely the finest linux experience I’ve had to date.


  • Having played with these A LOT, my first question is, do you want an all purpose desktop or a gaming console?

    If you simply want to play games with it, I’d recommend either Steam OS or Chimera. Some would suggest Bazzite as well.

    I have had better success with performance with Debian testing “trixie” with KDE than Kubuntu or Mint.

    Just my observations after hours and hours of tinkering with mine. I’ve had both the Ser 5 and 6. My experience was also similar, it simply had better frame rates on Windows. But I fucking hate windows, so I choose to play games faster with less graphical rendering.









  • While all of these answers are mostly true, you have to go back in time. Darwin called it the abomniable mystery. Flowering plants and insects co-evolved rapidly roughly 150 MYA. So prior to flowering plants, there were few plants and insects and they were mostly generalists. The rapid expansion and explosion of insect diversity is deeply entangled with the explosion of diversity in angiosperms.






  • I have both. The deck is not going to be great for anything PC. It’ll be great for optimized gaming. Period.

    I have actually had a few Beelinks. I immediately put linux on them, as I can’t stand using windows. For linux, they work great. Mine is my main rig / torrent server / Jellyfin server. It works great for all of those.

    There are different Beelinks, they do not all perform as well as others. I went the AMD route, as they play nicely with linux. The intergrated AMD gpu + cpu are also supposed to have a synergy (not sure the industry term for this) that intel + nvidia do not.

    The Beelink, when not taxed, can spool down to less than 10 watts, which is incredible. The fan is not loud, even when taxed. I honestly don’t even notice it ever, even a foot away.

    I found the Ser5 wasn’t capable of running even simple games well. The ser6 most certainly does. I tried both Windows and Linux, and the 6 was better. IF you can afford the Ser7, I’d say go for that. There is also the pricey GTR series, which is their premiums.

    Also, consider Minisforum. They’ve got the best specs of any miniPCs, but pricey as fuck.