joojmachine @ joojmachine @lemmy.ml

Designer, artist, part of Fedora's marketing team and ferociously communist

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And it's thanks to the work of those people that it has finally made it upstream, specially Fedora's Martin Stránský (who has been doing tons of work on Firefox, including making Fedora the first distro to ship Firefox with VA-API enabled by default).

Yeah, they could do a better job by having a big button directing people to buy it at the website, but if you go to the "Buy" option in the top bar you'll find it among all of their other offerings.

€1100 with the current F39 release discount and €1000 with the extra €100 discount for Fedora contributors

The only extensions I use are for things that will likely get added as native in the future: Light Style for the light shell theme and Caffeine (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2507)

It's almost like some people don't represent an entire project's idea, or almost like people don't have to double down on their mistakes and can go back on them if they realize it's better, or almost like the world isn't a war to see who's right.

Insane, right?

makes sense, whatever works best for you, in the end it's great to have more options in the market

Is it something that depends on the region? In Brazil their Linux offerings are usually way cheaper precisely because you can forgo the Windows license.

It's a partnership for those that really want the distro branding and that want to see part of the money spent going back to fund FOSS development (as 3% of the sales goes to the GNOME Foundation). For those that don't, it's basically just a Slimbook Executive 16.

They patch GNOME to maintain the look and feel similar to Unity, which became their signature look.

including, checks notes, ah yes... most of DELL's other offerings with linux pre-installed

and yet people still find ways to complain when a manufacturer that is twice as big as all of these examples combined ships laptops with linux to the hands of millions of people, most of the time costing less than offerings by these companies

linux users when a laptop that ships Linux isn't absolutely perfect and cost $20 (they don't care that it helps get linux to average users)

If you want it to stop being a standard, help your distro do a better job at marketing. Ubuntu is one of the few that do some actual market research and dedicate resources to getting the OS into the hands of people by getting them interested in it. It's one of the things we are looking forwards to doing better in Fedora.

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to game with it. I'm ready to break my Microsoft chains though.

Oh, don't worry, unless you are really into competitive multiplayer games with anti-cheat software, you'll likely have a great experience gaming on Linux! Just don't forget to tick the Proton compatibility layer option on Steam's settings (if they haven't yet made that the default, I'm not sure nowadays).

In any case, if you're wary if a certain game you want to play is playable or not, just check on ProtonDB.

The different names of Linux 'versions' are kernels, right?

Not really, the kernel is basically the only thing all distros share in common. The different Linux "distros" (as in distributions) are called that precisely because they have different ways of distributing the software they use to build the OS. They use different means to achieve the same goal.

Any recommendations on what 'version' to start with for a heavy gamer?

I am biased towards Fedora since I am a contributor of the project, but you can't go wrong with Ubuntu either. It's more popular so there's a lot more content about it online if you need help.

The only thing I recommend against is using small, niche distros or DIY distros (like Arch) as your first. Stick with big distros with big communities and don't be afraid to ask questions in the forums if there's any doubts or if you face any issues.

It sounds daunting in the beginning, but it's way easier than the internet make it seem.

Why wait for Microsoft when you can just...

The best time to start is now. The second best time to start is now.

Welcome!

Now, for an actual sane take, unless we do the actual marketing work in order to gather interest from people, no, not even close to everyone will switch to Linux, specially considering Microsoft has literal millions of dollars to spend in marketing and will likely spin this in a way that non-techy people specially will buy in due to not knowing any choice.

This is a PSA begging people to contribute to their favorite distros not (only) with code but with marketing. Social media posts, videos, word of mouth recommendations, advocacy, events, etc. If your distro doesn't have a marketing team, create one, as most projects should already have done two decades ago. If your distro has one (like we do in Fedora), join it. There'll likely be something you can help with.

I've been using a Intel + NVIDIA laptop on Wayland since day 1 and I can confidently say that, except for power management (cries in Pascal) it's pretty much a perfect experience, as you get the best of both hardware. The system runs on the Intel iGPU and benefits from Mesa while gaming, streaming and compute benefit from the power the NVIDIA card brings.

I mean, on any laptop with hybrid graphics the DE should use the iGPU to render everything unless the app is clearly defined to use the dedicated GPU, so I don't get your point

Better late than never, glad to see things slowly but surely getting better for NVIDIA users