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1 day agoIMO: the steam deck is basically a Sony PlayStation 4 in a handheld format. If gamedevs would optimise their games, like they used to, we would not need a Steamdeck 2.
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Tldr: GNU/Linux is easier to use than Windows.
Let me tell you, I am a user that does not want to fiddle around with my operating system. I want my operating system to be basically invisible and just run the programmes that I like to use, even though I am tech savy. I became “tech savvy” because I needed to troubleshoot my computer constantly, thanks to Microsoft Windows.
In my free time I liked to play video games, and I didn’t know about Proton until 2021. When Windows 11 rolled around, I was already fed up with the constant Win10 trash, forever reinstalling and fighting the system to just behave normally. With Windows 11 and the stupid TPM, where Microsoft could disable my computer and turn it into literal e-waste, that was the final straw that broke the camel’s back. That was 2021. Then I installed GNU/Linux on all of my computers, no dual boot. I once experimented with it in 2010. And ever since then it has come a very long way. In 2021, basically 80% of my games worked through proton. The nicest surprise were the programmes that I found. I got in contact with many of the “flagship” FOSS projects, and I was delighted. They worked all so well, so much better than any of the proprietary ransomware that constantly extorts you for money. I exclusively use those for work as well now. And by now, all of my games are supported by Proton. Literally every single one. Ever since installing, I haven’t looked back. Because GNU Linux is so much more simple, the programs do not need to be updated individually, they can just be updated normally through Flatpak or Apt for example. The system doesn’t need constant reinstalling, and it doesn’t have any sort of Windows rot. The system and the programmes on it do not require any internet to function.
So in short, I love GNU/Linux because it made the computer frictionless. You didn’t need to fight it in order to be productive with it and to do the things that you want. And all of those years I looked back and I thought to myself how little my computer actually worked on windows. The “worst” maintanance with GNU Linux that I ever had was I needed to install a driver for the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card of my Microsoft Surface tablet. That’s it. No registry, nonsense, with disabling bundled viruses, no forced one drive, no forced ads, no slow down of the system over time, actually being able to uninstall programs, and many more things, make GNU/Linux superior in my book.
The new Call of Duty games do some SCP level containment for everyone sane in this hobby. Let Windows have that!
3·5 days agoIn my opinion, as long as AMD has the current strategy, it will always be behind Nvidia, because they don’t care about their discrete GPU business, they care about their customised hardware business first, and the discrete GPUs are just cheap knockoffs (nvidia -100€=AMD dGPU) released for some additional profit on the side.
I don’t have a problem with meters, I have a problem with grinding and busy-work.
Small correction: since the newest version there only is Trunas Scale, so the Debian derivative, which they now call Community Edition. The BSD variant has been decommissioned as far as I know.
IMO, this does nothing because it only gives Microsoft full access to your device. And if you’re special enough to get the attention of someone capable and willing to physically steal your laptop, install a bootkit on it and give it back to you without you even noticing, then it’s just easier to just download the decryption keys from Microsoft at this point. It could have made all of this local like storing it in the TPM, a secure area of the CPU.
Full disk encryption is cool, but not when tethered to Microsoft. With that, they brought themselves into a nasty position even if they didn’t want to. Just like when Apple made themselves the sole source of installing programmes on the iPhone devices. China gladly used that and is gladly using that.
53·8 days agoHe’s a magician, because reading this, I aged 10 years and grew a metastatic tumor.
Usual suspect, the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card. Milk spoils? Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Card! Freshly divorced? Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card!
Oh my god, I can’t wait to spend 30,000 € on worthless coins inside of a click and wait game. Now on PC. I used to use the phone for that. 🥰
I generally wonder, how the hell can you get almost a billion dollars and still not have a functioning product after 13 years?
It’s really unoptimised. From what I could gather, it’s CPU bottlenecking massively.
Call PS3 and Xbox 360-era army slop what you will, but at least it had functional graphics, no noise, no visual bugs, no temporal smear, and most of the time it worked on release.
IMO, most modern games are so bad that Brown Army Slop™ looks good in comparison.
7·18 days agoI have always used what PopOS bundles. It used to be the proprietary driver, but ever since a certain driver version, they have switched to the Nvidia-made FOSS driver. Because nvidia stopped developing any sort of proprietary components in the driver and just made the FOSS driver instead, which became the “official” Nvidia driver in May 2025 i think.
Edit: Correction, only the kernel modules are all FOSS, while the userspace modules such as CUDA for example are still proprietary.
You can criticise Death Stranding for a lot, but it had the goddamn bollocks to do something innovative and interesting with movement.
Speech note. Support a whole lot of models and you can even do some voice cloning.
I dislike Linus Drop Tips, his “reviews” and questionable attitudes.
I’m the Pop_OS hype guy, so that’s what I’ll recommend. Other great options are ZorinOs and Mint, if you dislike using a new interface.