I do want to clarify: it's not Linux itself, but specific distributions (or rather their package managers). As far as I know, Arch's pacman would do nothing to stop me 🥰
I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but I do want to clarify - the drivers in the repository are still proprietary drivers from Nvidia, just tested and packaged by the distribution maintainers, dkms is just some magic that lets them work with arbitrary kernels with minimal compilation. Unless you're using nouveau, which I don't think is ready for most uses.
I'd definitely recommend against using drivers downloaded from a website, on general principles.
custom kernels don't work with the drivers from apt
Check if there's a dkms version - I know that's the way it's set up on Arch, if using a non-standard kernel you install the kernel headers, and dkms lets you build just the module for your kernel.
If it brings people comfort to not use the same towel, it's probably not worth trying to push them away from that habit. It's one thing to know it intellectually, and another to feel off-put by the idea.
As for android games... If you like puzzles like sudoku, check out Simon Tatham's Puzzle collection. Simple ad-free online experience with a varied collection of puzzle games.
I get the impression that misrepresentation is banned... And that's why ads are often not about the product, but instead showing emotional images, playing catchy music (with brand-related lyrics), making related jokes. When what you can truthfully say is no better than the competition, you have to take a different approach...
I'm pretty sure it is a wrapper in the way it looks up game-specific information to apply specific tweaks to how the game is ran and how the prefix is set up... But it is also true that it does also include a modified version of wine, so the terminology is difficult to pin down.
That said, I don't mean it in a disingenuous way, at least I don't think it is such. I do believe valve is often attributed excessive credit for proton's creation, but I don't think they did anything wrong, much less "just nab it". Open-source is open-source, and I'd imagine people who put work towards making wine viable are happy that Valve brought it to the mainstream.
It's getting weird how often I find myself saying this... But Valve mostly took already existing software and built a wrapper around it, integrated into their platform. I love what they did, but the credit for literally writing it goes to all the people who spent years building wine and related software.
Ah, seems you're partially correct - steam has a command for downloading a specific depot version. You need to know the specific ID to download, and notably games can use multiple depots to form the game files, but I thought you needed to use something like SteamCMD or DepotDownloader for that.
I'm still upholding the fact that it's not a "proper" feature, while I appreciate having those kind of utilities put in the user's control, this isn't something most people could figure out themselves.
It's not like they have to create the compatibility layers from scratch; Valve did it for them.
I do just want to point out, Valve didn't do that - Proton is mostly just pre-existing software that they packaged together into an officially supported feature. I love that they did it, and having it in the biggest PC game platform presumably did wonders for Linux gaming, but it was most certainly not made from scratch.
That's not an official/proper feature on steam, there's nothing in the interface to select an older version, right? Just the beta system that lets developers have multiple branches available, which is often used to keep a limited number of previous versions available.
I will point out, I don't think "peer review" means repeating the test, it means more generally pointing out issues with the science, right? By that definition, sounds like that's what they're doing. That doesn't make the criticisms inherently valid, but to dismiss it as "they're free to do their own tests" because "that is how science works" seems dishonest.
Funnily enough, I've seen opinions that Windows has awful HDR handling and Plasma is much better, but I don't have a proper HDR display to check. I've also had some success with VR, though I haven't played much on Linux. That said, support from software for those things for Linux is still widely lacking, so it's not much consolation.
So like telling people to ride a bike, or use public transport, with the obstacle being that the city is built with car-friendly infrastructure that's hostile to pedestrians and bikes? Yeah, sounds like an analogy alright ;D
I think it might still be EU-only? That said, it's still a lot of work to get their engine working and hooked up on iOS, so no idea if and when that might happen.
I might be wrong, but I think that actually wouldn't do anything, because grub is installed by the tooling from the package, not the package itself?