They also stay pretty current with the kernel and many other packages.
I guess that’s better than nothing, that doesn’t make it a rolling release though. It’s an unstable point release that got half-stuck in the past until they get their cosmic shit together.
Tried the iso in a VM, gnome is still very much on version 42. They obviously abandoned shop to focus all their resources on their shiny new DE.
Hard to recommend a distro that hasn’t seen a new release in over 3 years.
Truth is windows has plenty of bugs too, the main difference is that it comes pre installed so you don’t have to deal with the install bugs, and you’re already acclimated to all its quirks so you don’t notice them as much.
As for Mint, it gets recommended a lot because it’s stable and looks a lot like windows, but it’s old and slow to update to modern standards, you can always go for a more bleeding edge distribution like fedora.
I’ve installed fedora thrice last year, and each time, I’ve had to enable rpm fusion in the terminal and download ffmpeg to get youtube to work. This is something that can’t be fixed afaik, because it’s a copyright issue.
At some point you need start cutting stuff or nothing happens and you’re the one still maintaining the 32 bit packages 15 years later.
There’s plenty of different solutions, but anything that isn’t what people already have is gonna upset.
It’s one of those changes that will happen sooner or later, bazzite and steam need to figure out a solution because fedora, and other modern distros can’t and won’t keep dragging around 32 bit libraries forever.
Fedora doesn’t enable non free repositories by default, and that’s a big deal for new users. Telling someone they need to run commands in the terminal to get their nvidia drivers, or even get youtube working is a problem.
Even if it’s out of beta for 26.04, you’ll probably want to wait a few releases before giving it a go. It’s bound to be quite unstable for a few years.
I don’t know much myself, check the fedora thread where they go into more details.
low-effort
People always underestimate the work that goes into making sure stuff works. These packages need to be built so they add a lot of compile time to the pipeline, these packages have limitations inherent to 32 bits so they also add troubleshooting and bugs. This is time and resources that could be spent elsewhere.
Apparently there’s a few problems with the flatpak version, like you can’t run gamescope or start a steam big picture session.
That’s not the point, dxvk isn’t gonna get used at all if the game is running dx12 or native vulkan.
I think the real problem here, for devs anyways, is that you have people that have 8gb and people that have 16gb, and everything in between, which makes optimizing much harder than they’d want unlike a stable target like a console.
People making an informed choice about linux vs windows are a minority, the majority just don’t realize switching is even an option let alone have the technical know-how to go through with it. As long as windows comes pre installed, nothing will touch its hegemony.
So, why are you friendly to Epic?
He’s telling consumers that they should expect to pay a premium price
What exactly do you expect him to say? Get the same GPU, but with more vram, at no extra cost? If you want more performance, you pay more, that’s the way it’s always worked, and he’s correct in that 8gb is good enough for most people.
Yeah… no, they already have access to all that. It’s the good ol’, if it’s gonna happen anyways might as well get behind it and get some good PR.