Arguably the first branch is backwards. I don’t use windows because I fear technology and strongly distrust Microsoft.
Can I run my whole steam library on linux? And also get the same performance from AAA games? If so, I’m sold.
If you want to check specific games you can use ProtonDB to find out how well they run/any specific tweaks to get them working.
99% of the steam library. Only thing I can think of right now is battlefield 6 has anti cheat that wont work. And apex. Basically the developers have to be jerks for it not to work so no reason to pay em anyways.
Fortnite too, last I checked. Because they specifically disabled Linux compatibility in their anti-cheat
Is fortnite on steam though?
Good info either way, just not sure whether its relevant
It’s not.
And the owner of Epic, which owns Fortnite, is rabidly anti Linux. I believe he’s made some concessions to lose less of the Deck market share, but he’s made many insulting and untrue statements of Linux and its users in the past as well as actively sabotaging Linux functionality in games that used to have it.
From what i’ve heard the only downside is kernel-level anti-cheat.
Pretty much. But if you need to test it, you can buy another drive and install linux and your games there. If it doesn’t work, you can use the extra drive for something else.
In Steam on Linux, use settings to enable Experimental or Proton for Windows games.
Edit: This is computer science, you must report your findings!
Do you fear technology
Oh yes! Greatly!
Windows
Ah, a different kind of fear was meant…
I fear all of Microsoft piece of technology
The choice tree is true, though. In high school, I used Arch Linux on my PC because I liked tinkering. Now that I’m in college, I’m using Fedora because I need something stable and don’t have time to mess with it.
Apple’s M chips are amazing. If only there was full Linux support for Apple hardware.
If only Linux devs weren’t so toxic against rust that it drove out talent that was working on Asahi Linux for these devices :V
That’s certainly a way of looking at it.
The talent was upset at a conflict between kernel maintainers and posted a personal attack on Mastodon. The comment is now deleted ( https://web.archive.org/web/20250204004048/https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/113941358237899362 ).
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Even if he is correct about about it being a code of conduct violation (it wasn’t), there is way to take action and it isn’t posting an attack on social media.
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There has certainly been drama around Rust, but as was said in the thread: “Being toxic on the right side of an argument is still toxic, […]”
Long term everything they make is for the landfill. Soldered RAM and SSDs on most M-series made it clear Apple doesnt expect the devices to last very long.
A 5-7 year lifespan is enough if your customers generally upgrade every 2-4 years.
I would replace the Ubuntu logo with a Debian swirl in the third meme.
I’m convinced Arch with archinstall is the easiest Linux to use for users competent with computers. It just requires that the user isn’t afraid of command line interfaces.
I’ve tried the Mint, Ubuntu and uBlue. Had something go wrong with each. Mint didn’t install graphics drivers, Ubuntu had nonsensical design with snap and uBlue corrupted the boot order after a month.
With distros designed to just work it isn’t easy to fix issues when they come up. With Arch there’s no expectation that things work by default, so when something goes wrong you can just make it work again.
