atmur @ atmur @lemmy.world

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Most of the “major” distros are probably made by red hat

"Most" being RHEL and Fedora??? Where the hell are you getting this from? Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Suse, etc have nothing to do with Red Hat. Fedora isn't even controlled by Red Hat, they own the distro but it's community developed. The Fedora project has moved in directions counter to what Red Hat wants in the past.

Microsoft has successfully sabotaged the linux desktop by making gnome the default de.

my dude did you read the article that you linked?

All the links are working for me?

I mean, have you seen Gnome's Gitlab issues? I swear people treat it like a Reddit comments section sometimes, which just wastes everyone's time.

My top priority for a desktop is stability, which puts Gnome squarely at the top of my list. Gnome may not get features first, but they'll do it right in the long run.

The go-to meme is VRR on Wayland in Gnome, which is taking forever with a major roadblock being how the cursor is drawn on screen. KDE has VRR support now, but (surprise!) it doesn't work properly when a cursor is on screen. So you can either have no implementation or a broken implementation. I don't mind Gnome choosing not to ship a half-working feature. I also understand the KDE team's decision to have something in place for some use cases even if it doesn't consistently work, but that's not what I personally want out of a desktop.

Both KDE and Gnome are fucking amazing projects, this circle-jerk of "gnome bad because development slow" is a waste of time. Let's spend more time bullying Microsoft instead. Have any of you used the Windows desktop environment recently? It's fucking trash.

For every major Fedora update I'll try to perform the upgrade from the Gnome Software app just to see if it works, and every time it breaks and I fall back to good ol' dnf system-upgrade. This is the first time upgrading from Software worked for me, and it was fast too. Nice to see all the Software improvements finally paying off.

I somehow lucked into finding a 2023 Bolt EV at MSRP last year, and got a really good trade-in offer on top of that. It’s been such a great car.

Fixed in-game overlay keyboard input not working on systems with ibus, such as gnome desktop environments

Nice, that bug was annoying.

Assetto Corsa?

I just finished Cassette Beasts, which was pretty good. I picked it up during the last sale not knowing if I’d like it since I’ve never been a huge Pokemon fan, and surprisingly really got into it.

I also started playing Toca Race Driver 2 since I’ve been itching to play a new (to me) simcade racer after the new Forza Motorsport bombed. It holds up really well and it’s fun seeing where the GRID series started. It’s also depressing how little the racing genre has progressed in 20 years. I’ll probably start Toca 3 immediately after finishing this one.

The Beginner’s Guide is excellent, it’s always surprised me how little I see it talked about.

CDs are still being produced despite most retailers dropping them or massively reducing stock. I’m hoping the same applies for blu-ray.

I want to own the media I pay for. If physical discs go away and there isn’t a DRM-free way to purchase it digitally (not a chance in hell of that happening), I will just pirate what I want to watch.

I buy music because DRM-free digital downloads are the norm.

I buy games because Steam is actually good and DRM-free options are available from Itch and GOG for those with no tolerance for DRM.

The TV and movie industry on the other hand feels like it’s actively trying to get rid of the only remaining way to own the media.

I know they’re probably joking, but the Steam forums are so generally unhinged that I wouldn’t be surprised if this person is serious.

I just tried the survey and got 12/20, it's interesting looking for the details that give it away and how often that lead me to the wrong answer. Comments on each image below because I thought this was neat, hopefully I'm using spoiler tags correctly.

This was a fun survey, thanks for putting this together.

Force Proton in game properties, the native version kind of sucks but Proton works fine.

If you're happy managing Wine prefixes, you aren't missing out on much. Running a game on Steam with Proton is going to be about the same quality of experience compared to running a non-Steam game with Wine + DXVK + D3DVK. Proton is great because it's already in Steam so everything "just works" if that's where your games are, but Valve upstreams basically everything they do so everyone benefits.

a commercial version of WINE

That would be CrossOver by CodeWeavers. They're actually a huge contributor to upstream Wine and have worked with Valve (and I think Collabora?) several times over the past few years. I'm kind of tempted to buy a copy of CrossOver to support them even though I'd never use it, lol

Publishers who do this make shit games anyway.

As someone who really wants to see desktop Linux grow, I try not to think like this because I know others care about these games...but goddammit if I don't completely agree with you on the inside. I do not understand the obsession with these games products, they're exclusively designed to keep you playing and paying for as long as possible to avoid fomo for digital garbage.

There are a tiny handful of non-live service games that still use anti-cheat, and most of those have already enabled support for Proton. Dragon Ball FighterZ is literally the only exception that I can think of, and even that's playable offline IIRC.

That's a perfect way to put it. From constantly relying on ProtonDB to occasionally checking areweanticheatyet.com.

Mindlessly watching glxgears is the greatest experience a GPU can render.

That’s a weird one. I’ve been running a 165hz primary monitor and a 144hz secondary for a while on AMD, Nvidia, and Intel GPUs. I’ve never had any trouble with them.

Were you using Wayland or X11?