It makes sense. Steam can be kind of a PITA to install natively on some distros with all of the ancient dependencies.

There are supposedly reductions in “cruft” from legacy CPU instructions, but I’ve never seen actual data to prove it helps that much.

Apparently KDE users are furries who are into dragons.

I’d appreciate that! Signal messenger support is honestly the biggest thing I can’t live without if I’m going to convert away. I’ve been considering a move to GrapheneOS soon without any Google Play Services and just using Aurora/F-Droid, but I’d REALLY love to move to a full Linux phone that isn’t Android-based, as I view GrapheneOS as just a stepping stone still beholden to Google’s whims.

Never even heard of that device before. Can you get Signal messenger on it?

Perhaps not, but there is no GNU/Linux distro that is “ready for primetime” as a mobile OS right now. I WISH there was, but UBPorts, PostmarketOS, etc all either have significant features disparity or are straight up still marketed as “developer experimental”.

GrapheneOS is a solid choice for now to provide an alternative, whether a permanent replacement or a stepping stone.

Yeah they seem to be making a big deal out of nothing.

The world is built around the idea that people follow the rules. If you plug in an uncertified device, you are breaking the law. It’s as simple as that.

You realize you could fucking plug ANYTHING into electrical systems now? How many people make Widowmaker cords for generators and back feed the fucking grid during outages? This is not some new problem.

If you’re found fucking around, you find out with a big ass fine/jail. That’s how it works.

The certification on the product shows that it’s safe to use in grid-tie. What the fuck are you on about? Are you just being intentionally an obtuse pain in the ass?

Unity doesn’t have nearly the share that Unreal Engine does. It’s a big engine, but not that big.

I love Valve, but I don’t think this one is going away and I don’t think it SHOULD go away. F2P games with RNG loot boxes are a scourge and I don’t play games that have them for that very reason.

Something to bear in mind is that this is EXTREMELY slow. It’s not practical right now and may never be practical.

I use Debian on servers, because stable.

I use Fedora on desktops, because I game and I like having fixes for mesa, the kernel, and amdgpu for my latest gen AMD GPU. My laptop is for work, but it’s just easier having consistency.

Oblivion Remaster: I loved Skyrim, but this game felt not as fun as Skyrim to me. Not sure what it was. Maybe it’s just nostalgia for Skyrim and I don’t have the patience for those kinds of games anymore.

Hollow Knight: The platforming always felt clunky and the constantly having to Google shit to figure out where I’m supposed to go next without spending 4 hours backtracking turned me off. I much prefer the Ori games to Hollow Knight.

I also was not a fan of Hollow Knight. My biggest problem was the constant backtracking and not knowing where to go to progress the story. And the platforming always felt…wrong. It felt like your character would go between having and not having lead tied to their shoes. It didn’t feel fluid.

If you want a great platformer in a similar vein to Hollow Knight that has a beautiful art style, snappy controls, and punchy gameplay, check out Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps.

I don’t hate X11, but I do think it’s holding us back, so I get the sentiment that many people have. It’s also important to note that it’s human nature to dig our heels in and resist change, so you have to keep your own biases in check.

Wayland is technically more modern and secure, which is important. That said, X11 is still needed and I don’t think we should discount it yet.

I’m curious what “non-normal” things you’re referring to. I’ve found that Wayland and xwayland do everything I need them to and I have a few things I’d consider abnormal.

Every major DE defaults to Wayland now, bruv. You can give up the X11 pitchfork. Even holdouts like Cinnamon have added experimental support.

If the PC is running Windows, the spying is worse. Linux is a good choice, though.

No problem homie. LMK if you have any more questions.

Oh. To be fair, the PulseAudio days started off REALLY shit and JACK/ALSA had the limitations of “locking” an audio device to a specific process/application, so it used to be much rougher.

Ever since pipewire came along, it’s been really solid.