TLDR; Overall, great. Had some growing pains but Linux feels faster/snappier than windows.

I’m a developer and a self host “enthusiast”, so I was already a little familiar with Linux, but I ended up hopping from OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, to Kubuntu, to Arch Linux (using KDE Plasma).

I had issues with Tumbleweeds package manager, and overall it felt clunky. They have stricter security than other distros and it caused some weirdness with Dolphin and some other utilities/packages.

Kubuntu was fine but then I came across an article that Valve was going to be directly collaborating with Arch, so I said screw it and jumped to Arch.

I absolutely love Arch, but it definitely has a learning curve. I found a gentleman on youtube (OldTechBloke) that walked through installing it and has a Gitlab repo with all of the commands to install. I took that and used it as a starting point and modified it over the past ~8-9 months to suit my needs (I’ve installed it on two other laptops now as well)

The biggest issues I’ve had have been related to Nvidia, and oddly enough, my Gigabyte motherboard. I had to enable several kernel parameters so “sleep” would work correctly. Luckily the arch wiki is incredibly detailed.

For a regular user, I would recommend Kubuntu or Linux Mint.

Edit: Also, I dual booted for a while but I’m at a point now where I haven’t been on Windows since like… February. PUBG and Tarkov are the only things keeping Windows around on my PC.

Same. I got sick of Windows late last year and swapped to Linux in October/November.

In the USA it’s performative, but in the EU it means they will actually need to talk about it.

The initiative is not asking for retroactive enforcement.

They are asking for an end of life plan for games made after some TBD date. Something that at least gives end-users a chance that it can be played after a corporation ends support. Ideally that would be server binaries, but it could also mean documentation on how the server infrastructure works so it can be rebuilt by motivated end-users.

PS’s use of League of Legends is awful because all they would need for an end of life plan (if it had been required at the time) is to add a LAN mode just like PvP games from years and years ago, I.e. Quake, Warcraft, Starcraft, Counter-Strike, Halo… Etc etc etc.

That’s it. That doesn’t require “endless” support.

What you’re saying is false though.

You can read about what kernel SteamOS is using. The kernel itself is only like ~150MB, there isn’t really a need to slim it down. I think, if anything, Valve contributes to the mainline kernel for linux.

Proton is the “fine-tuning”, the OS is just Arch Linux with a paint job.

That is not the smoking gun you think it is.

Again… SteamOS is just an immutable version of Arch Linux. That’s what they are talking about in the article when they talk about turning off “read-only” mode. Being immutable makes it less likely to break/more stable, but doesn’t “fine-tune” it for gaming.

Saying it’s “fine-tuned” for gaming takes away from what is actually doing the heavy lifting for gaming on linux, which is Proton. One could argue Proton is “fine-tuned” WINE, but SteamOS is not “fine-tuned” for gaming.

It’s arch, so no. The hardware that utilizes the OS is fine tuned to be used with a controller, since a controller is literally built into it.

Proton is the fine tuned bit, but that runs on many distros.

What?

SteamOS is just an immutable version of Arch Linux, with some Valve flavor and preinstalled apps.

I don’t think Trump thinks this. I think his puppeteers think this and he is just the shameless puppet.

Did you mean NewPipe? Pipewire is the Linux audio/video framework.

I’m experiencing the same both on the website and using Jerboa like @Scoopta mentioned.

Edit: Noticed that they’re taking donations now (they weren’t a few months ago). Decided to throw a few dollars a month to help out. I encourage everyone to do the same 🙂

Also a lifetime Plex holder. Plex wouldn’t let me watch my local content without authenticating the other day… But my internet went out and I couldn’t. Decided I’d swap to Jellyfin the first chance I could (couldn’t that day because no internet)… So that’s what I did today. It was painless and I’m never going back to Plex.

Disclaimer, I don’t need access outside of my house so I didn’t set any of the remote stuff up.

I belive it’s a metaphor for war. The rich start it, the poor fight it.

If you’re tech savvy, look into selfhosting SearXNG.

I think there are public instances as well.

I had no idea. Thank you!

I thought this had something to do with the 3D printing software called Octopi… Was really confused.

It’s gotta be AI. The whole dolphin looks… off. That site must be satire.

Maybe not satire but wtf that image is odd.

Here is a good blog post on the nationalforest.org website. Posted in 2013 (according to archive.org).

https://www.nationalforests.org/blog/what-are-the-differences-between-national-parks-and-national-forests

I used to only do something called “surfing” in the Counter-Strike: Source days.

There are dedicated servers that only run surf maps.

I think they’re pointing out that Python outputs E notation vs JavaScript which outputs the decimal notation.

Edit: Wasn’t agreeing with it, just explaining what they were pointing out.