Are you me? I have a very similar ASUS with similar hw and it’s rocking MX 32bit, if you want more cutting edge stuff, you can switch to 32bit Void (xbps is blazing fast, but the docs aren’t Arch-wiki-quality)

I think you don’t need any special software, the linux kernel recognizes DS4 OOTB as a game controller, I tried it with Flycast (standalone, not libretro’s) and it was just plug and play

Red Hat recently blocked my country from accessing Fedora (both site and repos), while I could use a VPN (which would fucking suck, I’d have to keep it on the entire time I’m upgrading) but fuck them, I moved to Arch.

This is just horrible, fuck big tech and their services

I’m pretty sure it will be supported for more than a couple of years, my 930m (not even mx) is still receiving the latest driver updates

can’t update

Yeah, that’s the problem, if your hardware can run the latest software, it should be able to update to the latest software

I’m starting to suspect my HDD failing at this point, so many weird bugs lately

Yes I have polkit installed

Executing startplasma-wayland returns the following:

startplasmacompositor: Could not start D-Bus, Can you call qdbus?

I don’t have an excutable/command named qdbus

Yes I do

Yes everything in TTY works as intended, I can login as my user account and sudo works as it should

I believe Retroarch still ships multiple Snes9x cores, and Retroarch is still in the megathread, so you can go for that

It got pretty bloated in recent years with reactions and animated stickers to name a few

I see, but FAT32 is pretty limiting for file sizes no?

Don’t forget we also had 6.6.6

I had Fedora and Arch on a 2012 Intel MacBook pro, it’s running well, I think macos manages power consumption better, either way I believe if you have no dGPU you should be good to go, also you probably must check the Arch wiki Mac page (regardless of what disro you choose)

Found it, thx

Yeah that seems like it, thanks

Yes that’s what I’ve been looking for, thanks a lot

Is that Apple-specific?

I think Arch really makes sure stuff are compatible before rolling, my 32bit Void laptop has had Python 3.12 for months, and I get all kind of weird warnings when installing Python packages, while Arch is still on 3.11 (maybe testing is on 3.12 idk)