Brodie Robertson | Linux Tips & Tricks on Odysee

A few months back the choice was made to kill off support for ancient x86 CPUs by making a feature called TSC the Time Stamp Counter a mandatory requirement for booting, so lets talk about what CPUs are effected.

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TSC Patch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?h=x86/cpu&id=111cbb4596e336373ab93e202918f4cdbf78a4c3
Remove i486: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Begins-Removing-i486
Remove AMD K5: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-K5-CPUs
Remove KDE Elan: ttps://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Elan-Linux-Driver-Removal
Remove i386: https://www.phoronix.com/news/MTI0OTg

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Never did I think the day would come where Linux running on top of Windows with WSL would be more popular than just running Linux but that's where we are with Ubuntu now.

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Article: www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/16/ubuntu-is-growing-faster-on-windows-11-than-on-native-linux-pcs-says-canonical/

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Have you ever wondered how the GNOME project first got started or where the GNOME foot originally came from, well now we can answer that.

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People have asked for a Linux version of GOG Galaxy for a very long time and in fact this was even promised at one point, with it being promised once again, is it actually going to happen at this point.

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GOG Co-Founder: https://www.gog.com/blog/gog-is-getting-acquired-by-its-original-co-founder-what-it-means-for-you/
PC Gamer Interview: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/windows/gogs-new-owner-cant-stand-windows-either-its-such-poor-quality-software-i-cant-believe-it/
Job Listing: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/gog-job-listing-for-a-senior-software-engineer-notes-linux-is-the-next-major-frontier/
GOG Galaxy Linux: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/gog-confirm-they-are-working-towards-gog-galaxy-on-linux/
2017 Article: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2017/04/gog-staff-state-that-galaxy-for-linux-is-being-worked-on-but-still-no-eta/
Community Wishlist: https://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy

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Picking your first Linux Distro can be tough so why not just try them all out and if you don't want to install them on your machine or setup virtual machines locally, how about you go and try Distrosea.

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Whilst I'm in support of the AUR making some major changes for the sake of the health of Arch Linux as a whole not everyone is in agreement with that so lets look at that disagreement.

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You've probably heard quite a bit about Uutils from its use in Ubuntu but did you know it sees a lot more uses in places that you might not expect

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Over the past few months Linux kernel developers have been pulling a ton of ancient network drivers for the simple fact that AI is now poking at them, why, because nobody wants to maintain this ancient code.

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Tovalds On AI: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAHk-=wi4zC+Ze8e+p3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/
Greg KH Stance: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2026080354-skater-urgent-31b2@gregkh/T/#u
Big Kernel Patch: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
Another One: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
AI Bot: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-WiFi-Strict-AI-Slop-Patch
Moxa Driver: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2026080345-unmapped-sliced-49f2@gregkh/
Old Drivers: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260421-v7-0-0-net-next-driver-removal-v1-v1-0-69517c689d1f@lunn.ch/
NFC: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

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Arch Linux whilst a really cool distro is simply not for everyone and the FAQ on the wiki even outlines this so lets take a look.

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Ever since the launch of KDE Plasma 6.7 I've been daily driving it and now it's time to give my general thoughts and I've been absolutely loving the environment

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