Fuck Ai*

I think Gentoo users fall into two main camps.

Those with old and/or niche hardware requirements.

Those who like to micro manage their systems.

The guy who talked me into trying Linux years ago ended up on Gentoo after Arch ended up not being modular enough for him, He was constantly tinkering…and breaking his system.

After his free time got taken up by a job he ended up switching to Fedora.

Mobile games usually aren’t controllable with a keyboard and mouse. Being able to run them doesn’t do much good if you can’t control them.

Most Android emulators allow you to bind keys to click or drag on certain regions of the screen.

I tried a few mobile exclusive FPS games through an emulators many years ago and I managed to get the controls feeling pretty close to playing a native PC game.

If it’s a pure Linux phone then apps would be installed through the command line and could be easily auto updated via a script.

So if you don’t install a terminal emulator on the phone itself and only access the command line through something like SSH. You wouldn’t have to worry about an app store at all ideally?

I stopped being a fan of Mutahar a while back…but am I really the only person who noted the upload date?

I’ve been fucking around with Artix in a VM trying both Runit and S6.

Having never successfully installed Arch manually before, it was easier than I thought to get a desktop up and running…getting Pipewire to work on the other hand…still working on it. >.>

Honestly think the official installation guide needs some updating. I had to go off and find other community written guides to get certain things working. And small issues like the linux-firmware package downloading Nvidia drivers on my full AMD system.

I’m still dedicated to switching from Endeavour even though that distro has been very good to me. Their official statement on the matter didn’t inspire confidence, more just shifted the blame to FOSS as a whole. No words on plans to protect users or fork/switch away from mainline SystemD when push comes to shove.

It fixed the lag spikes I experienced playing some of the older Call of Duty titles so it’s overall been a huge upgrade for me.

As a newer Linux user I didn’t really give a shit about SystemD until recent news and just learning Poettering’s whole attitude towards Linux in general.

Was going to wait for EndeavourOS to give a statement on age verification, but if it’s going to be implemented as deep as the init system anyway. I should just try Artix so I don’t have the worry at all.

Great…

So how’s Heroic for playing older PC games installed from discs?

No clue, Think it’s one of those ‘Worked well enough in the past’ things they just never bothered to re-work.

I personally wish they would update it to be more globally accurate but it’s Valve so.

It’s due to how Valve conducts these surveys. Rather than pulling from the entire user pool at once, they rotate between different chunks of the userbase every month.

You’ll notice this if you look at the system language stats, The Chinese speaking population jumps and falls by a rather large percent every month.

This also could explain why Windows 10 had another jump in users this month, From what I hear internet cafes are still a popular way to game in China. and I doubt many of these places have updated all their machines to Windows 11 yet.

I heard way back when that overclocking mice wasn’t too unheard of around some competitive Quake players. But this was when mice were still mainly using 100 to 250hz polling rate.

Think most big brand mice and certainly any half decent gaming mouse will be 1000hz nowadays. But people will always want bigger and faster which you see now with some 4000/8000hz peripherals popping up.

Minimal requirements for Linux: Linux Kernal (optional)

I actually get forced to use a Chromebook at my current job but it doesn’t really change anything since all our software is “in the cloud” accessed through Chrome.

If you ever talk to someone who’s worked in a place offering data recovery. They’ve probably met a lot of people who’ve gone through exactly that.

A surprising amount of people have put up this mental wall separating “SteamOS” from Linux.

I’ve had this conversation with multiple people and it’s being brought up again because of the Steam Machine announcement.

Some (very few) legitimately didn’t know SteamOS was a Linux distro, Or they knew it was based on Linux but thought it used a whole different user ecosystem. Like how Android is technically Linux but using it is nothing like using desktop Linux. These people I’ve found are more willing to actually look into Linux after someone’s explained to them that SteamOS is just Linux. And that there’s even SteamOS-like Linux distros you can use right now!

Then you have those who are hard-line about having Official SteamOS. And most of the time they have some misguided believe along the line of, SteamOS is Linux but Valve has fixed all the “Linux issues”. And for a lot of them you’re probably not going to get far convincing them that mainline Linux isn’t just endless command lines these days.

not wanting to go through the process of backing up files

This was a big thing when I was helping some people with Windows 10s EOL, A lot of folks just don’t have a 2nd drive to back stuff up onto.

As a compulsive data-hoarder the idea of having everything on a single drive with no backup plan, local or “cloud” based… Terrifying! You could write a horror movie about it.

It depends entirely on the game and yes some games work with EAC on Steamdeck but not on Linux desktop…for some reason.

Ironsight on Steam (before it shut down) didn’t work on Linux for the longest time, The devs eventually enabled EAC through proton for about a year before making it Steamdeck only during the final months the servers were online.

And even using Steamdeck=1 in the launch commands didn’t fix that game for me. >.>

Should note EndeavourOS is just Arch with an easier installer and slightly pre-configured with common dependencies installed out the box.

EndeavourOS + KDE is what got me daily driving Linux and even after using vanilla Arch for 2 months at one point, I went back to EndeavourOS because it was just less hassle.