If your AMD card is older than your latest linux distro release it’s plug and play, no driver installation required
Wayland works pretty well on most desktop environments too

beware fresh released AMD cards in combination with long term release distros like Debian stable, you most likely will need the driver from the AMD website (not recommended)

Charging control (80% charge/scheduled full charge if wanted) is available on my Pixel with CalyxOS
is it not available on the Fairphones?

Arch Linux (like some other distros) also has a security tracker: https://security.archlinux.org/

In case someone doesn’t know it yet:

If you update your Arch Linux system with a kernel upgrade, the kernel modules will NOT be loaded again automatically by default and things like FUSE (used in AppImages for example or other FUSE based mounts) will not work without intervention

simple rebooting is the foolproof way or setting up kernel module reload hooks: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/kernel-modules-hook/

because swap does other things than “extending” your physical ram

the init command probably only works in Debian nowadays givin it’s a thing from the sysvinit era

Latte Dock users will need to say goodbye then

the new plasma 6 panel can be customized to pretty much a dock
the default tasks applets still isn’t nearly as good though

in the right meme I believe the nvidia driver borked

The Arch Linux team releases Nvidia updates at the same time as kernel upgrades which should trigger a initramfs rebuild via mkinitcpio anyway

unless you do a partial upgrade anyway (never do that)

they waited until the first minor version which fixed already some bugs as expected
pretty nice release

you probably have old hardware in that case
the latest kernel releases greatly helped with the effiency of newer AMD and Intel (Hybrid) CPUs which can give you a longer battery usage on laptops

which bootloader can’t do this? EFISTUB, systemd-boot and rEFInd can

you guys use GRUB lol

sorry that was a blunder on my part, I wanted to say “Debian and Fedora” but autocorrect gotten a hold on me it seems

People who deeply care about this typically use a distro which has a strong stance on FLOSS software like Debian or Fedora
Arch Linux is more free on this as long as the user gets a more conveniant way to install everything (even proprietary software)

the Arch Linux way however is also reading every PKGBUILD (where the license is stated) before installing and if you need to have an easier way to search through licenses just programatically solve this yourself i.e. by using https://github.com/archlinux/aur and going through all branches with a script

My Arch Linux Homeserver and VPS which ran since years are like: “huh?”

Not a single Ubuntu upgrade failure on my book anymore 🤞

this task is easy on gentoo but hard anywhere else
in the past I checked package updates via nvchecker, grabed the latest PKGBUILD via ABS, applied the patch, compiled the package and sent it to my custom repository
if you add the repository higher in your pacman.conf it will grab it from that first

but this a huge pita, even going through the route of maintaining an AUR package is simpler

hope this helps with the dumbster fire of the virtualbox version in the official Ubuntu repositories
(virtual box basically “breaks” on Ubuntu LTS once a newer HWE kernel gets released unless you install a newer version of it, leading to hundreds of support threads every time this happens)

No and since systemd you actually can have an empty fstab file too (booting via solely automounting is possible)