djsoren19 @ djsoren19 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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My idea of the average user is a complete idiot who doesn't know how their computer functions. I know they don't know how to install an OS. My point that if I was unable to find Bazzite, they have no hope of doing so still stands.

The main game I'm having problems with is an indie online title whose recent update peaked at less that 150k players. I don't care for AAA either, indie games also break on Linux.

You can definitely say "Oh just don't support Nvidia," but I bought my card nearly 10 years ago, and at the time it was the best I could afford. Upgrading to an AMD card would be great, but absolutely not happening any time soon in the current economic climate. If your response to that is "oh well get fucked ig," pretty hard to argue Linux as a universal gaming solution.

On top of all of this, it seems like everyone in this thread who's had success with gaming on Linux is saying run Bazzite, an OS I'd never heard of prior to reading responses here. That's cool if there's a distro that's actually solved a lot of gaming issues, but if I haven't heard of it, the average user is never going to find it. Maybe the title of this article should have been "Bazzite is now the best system for gaming."

Linux Mint

As someone who just ditched them, apparently here was where you went wrong. Trying to get Nvidia drivers working on Mint for gaming is bad enough that some documentation for programs I've wanted to run has straight up said "Don't even try this on Mint."

Real shame because I liked a lot about Mint, but I would like to be able to run games like Warframe and Last Epoch more. I wish they were a lot more up front about the issues the distro seems to have with Nvidia.

I'm planning on looking into them now, thanks. Will probably test both Aurora and Bazzite this week based on the recommendations I'm seeing, hopefully I'll have more success with one of them.

If it was just one extra manual step, it'd be fine. In my experience working with Nvidia drivers on Mint and later Ubuntu, it's more like 15 extra steps and some things still don't work. Sure, it's better than dealing with Windows 11, but from my experience it has not felt like less hassle than getting games running on Windows 10. Maybe that's just an Nvidia issue, and I certainly would love to upgrade to an AMD system for better Vulkan support, but that's not happening anytime soon.

It's so wild, it's like we're in different mirror universes. That being said, I've never used either of the two distros you mentioned, which might honestly be my biggest issue; saying you have a problem with Linux, or trying to claim Linux as the best gaming system, is such a meaningless sentence because of the variety of distros available. I can absolutely believe that you've never had an issue with the distros you listed, but you have to also understand I've persistently experienced issues every time I've tried Mint and Ubuntu.

I've spent more time on random driver issues in Windows than I do on Linux.

I'd honestly be interesting to hear why this is, because it's the exact opposite for me. I can count on my hands the number of times I've experienced driver issues on Windows. Now, I typically only use stable updates, so I generally avoid the dreaded "new update breaking driver compatibility" or "new driver incompatible with old version" issues, but compared to working with Nvidia drivers on Linux? literal night and day difference. even trying to stick to the stable 535 drivers on Ubuntu 22.04 has been a huge nightmare, and many of my favorite titles are still unplayable after weeks of tinkering.

III. Little Jimmy doesn't really need to, because the amount of times that windows update completely bricks your drivers is pretty low. You're clearly overestimating the driver issues that people experience with Nvidia or otherwise on Windows. Neither myself nor any of the people I know have ever experienced any significant driver-based issues while playing on Windows, and the truth is that the vast majority of Windows users do not even need to know what a graphics driver is to be able to easily play games on Windows.

Yeah it's great that AMD support seems to be great and I agree that Nvidia sucks as a company, but I'm not the one claiming Linux is the greatest gaming system.

On the one hand, there absolutely are some places where Linux has so dramatically improved it's insane. Apps like Lutris have really blown me away, it's incredible how some popular multiplayer titles like World of Warcraft which used to take me hours to get running back in high school can now practically run out of the box.

On the other hand, one of the major gpu manufacturer's still has terrible driver support. Systems like Proton are imperfect, and seem to be depressing interest in making native Linux clients. Even though some things work out of the box, you can just as easily spend months failing to get a modern title running. To argue it's the best gaming system is just laughable. In some respects, it hasn't progressed at all in the last decade. When it gets to a point where users can run literally any game out of the box without any additional hassle, then it will be the best gaming system. Until then, this is a gross exaggeration at best.

Also, platinum doesn't mean shit. I've been trying to get a Platinum rated game on Proton working for the last week. the first distro I was using straight up could never run it, and I don't think anyone using the distro I'm now on has been able to run the latest patch. So that 80% comes with the heavy asterisk of "Your personal machine may still not be able to run this."

Biggest one is going to remain gaming. If anything, I'm beginning to feel like Steam Proton is starting to harm Linux gaming efforts more than helping them. I've known games that have dropped native Linux support because "It works on Proton!" only for the game to not actually work on Proton.

If we could get to a world where every game could actually be run on Linux with minimal hassle, maybe then you can beat the drum that there's no point using Windows. Until then, it's going to remain the OS for gaming.

until you wanna play games on it, at which point you start running into driver issues...

Trying? They succeeded, that's why we're here now. You wanna know what the state of education is now? An entire generation that went to high school through No Child Left Behind is now teaching kids. Many of them do not have a Masters in education, because hiring standards have needed to be lowered in many districts just to get any teachers at all. Hell for some schools, I've heard of recent exceptional high school graduates getting asked to come back and teach the classes they just finished.

Education in America died decades ago. The Trump administration is just burying the body.

unironically my friends absolutely discuss limited time food nonsense and try all the weird foodcrimes fast food companies commit.

I don't think we're close enough to talk about what cartoon characters we wanna fuck

Basically only if the world was literally ending—we are literally being invaded right now.

Don't keep working if this happens, go the fuck home right away. If the world is ending your job doesn't matter anymore, your safety is more important. This system doesn't give a single fuck about you, and never has, you don't owe it your undying loyalty.

My mother went all in on this philosophy, to the point that growing up I wasn't allowed to have hobbies or be in extracurriculars unless I was planning to monetize them. The only thing it did was kill my self-worth and make me feel like all hobbies are inherently pointless, because the vast majority of people will never be able to make money on them. It's such an insane, toxic ideology.

The goal of the instructions is to be vague so students feel like they can write about really anything without being penalized. We could have very specific criteria that would likely produce better essays on average, but the goal isn't for us to receive good essays; again, it's just to get an idea of who the student is. Otherwise in addition to "no sob stories," we'd need "no sports essays, no writing about your parents, no religious trauma etc." We don't want to be dictating what students write.

It's also not to say that every student writing about the circumstances they've gone through is a bad essay. I read an excellent one this year from a student who immigrated from the Dominican Republic and faced a lot of racism. They linked their experience to the broader cultural decay that America is experiencing though, and the real topic of the essay was the hypocrisy present throughout the messaging of the American hegemony; how we often preach diversity while actually hating it. They didn't try to focus the essay on themselves and their circumstances, they just related what they experienced to a larger topic they were clearly passionate about.

If we had a big warning that said "No sob stories," we might not have received that essay, and that student might not have received an award.

serious answer: by consistently running and reading experiments that refer to male and female patients.

I try my best, but if I've read three-four papers in a day about a topic and all of them use male and female, probably gonna accidentally say female.

Seems like this might be one of the first ones that actually was a bit of a leftist, considering the use of the term "Swasticar," which is a little interesting. Funny how the crazies on the far right seem to consistently get to the point where they're able to obtain a firearm.

but what about on a femboy with lame glasses that he needs to replace soon lol?