Lots of people have moved on to more dynamic options that use JIT-style routing and role-,based security.
Netbird, Tailscale/Headscale, ZeroTier and Netmaker are all pretty popular.
Netbird and Netmaker are probably the simplest to get started with, but Headscale server + Tailscale client has been the best performing in my experience.
You asking for a service, or a server to run for yourself?
Post the output of nvidia-smi when the fans start to engage. Will be helpful for next steps.
Edit: just some other tweaks to try and eliminate certain issues:
Well if you don’t understand how to make the “ideal thing” work properly, it sounds like you need whatever the fuck works, no?
It’s a solution. Use it.
What distro are you on? Make sure the kcm-joystick package is installed for KDE.
Start VPN, then launch game. I have no idea how this is complicated at all…
Didn’t that as a requirement, but sure you can. They have profiles for each location you want to use, so import the ones you want, set the client all as a non-Steam game, then just connect whatever locale you want. Works fine.
Platform doesn’t matter. It’s a simple OpenVPN profile. There’s nothing about Deck that makes this unusable.
If you’re not sure how to use this: https://gist.github.com/linuxkathirvel/dd5a28f48442466aa1d6ff305fba4782
You’re shooting down good suggestions here, so I’m not sure if you don’t fully understand the problem, or are asking for the moon.
Are you wanting to send SMS from a specific device and SIM, or just ANY kind of SMS?
SMS is controlled from your provider. If you want to send from said provider, you need a device or app that can access their network. T-Mobile has a browser-based interface for this, and I think Mint does as well. Otherwise you need to get an SMS provider with an API to interact with, like Twilio, VoIP.ms, or similar.
Can you run nvidia-smi and see what the output is?
Post dmesg output again
sudo apt install --reinstall nvidia-driver
Disable Secure Boot in your BIOS. It should load after that, but if not, just reinstall the driver package.
The issue is in the lines with the keyword “taint” because the driver isn’t signed and cooperating with your Secure Boot setup.
I see no output pasted, but you probably need to run something like sudo dmesg | grep -i nvidia to find the issue.
My guess is that the kernel modules build failed, and the Nouveau driver can’t load.
Just uninstall theatesy kernel packages and it will be gone from the Grub boot menu, or you can also manually set the default Grub version to boot very easily (guides and docs everywhere online).
Fedora 44’s DTB implementation actually makes the Snapdragon SoCs work pretty well. I’d give it a look.
Valve also has the Frame running on Snapdragon’s, so that means full SoC performance and GPU implementation. How whatever they got working trickles down to the community remains to be seen.
AMD is launching their ARM chips this year.
Nvidia keeps pushing theirs back because the first gen was horrible, and the 2nd is already sounding problematic.
Fedora or Debian, but it depends on what you’re going to be using it for.
Maybe you want a NAS OS instead? Maybe a media system like Open Filevault? If just runnings VMs and Containers, maybe something geared towards that.
Fedora does have some nice preconfigured stuff like Cockpit and several helper automations by default. Yes, they can be installed on Debian, but it’s extra steps.
You need to be on a rolling or upstream adjacent distro that has the most recent and untested version of everything available. Sounds like you would break things though, as you’re unfamiliar with the how/why of package management in general.
Mesa is a base library for much larger systems at work. Your example of Windows just letting install something like this isn’t exactly possible. Seems you think Mesa is like a driver or similar. It is not.