Good luck getting Marathon to run on that without bugs. The distro won’t be getting the needed driver updates for 6 months.

No, you fuck off.

You’re the one going on about “the performance doesn’t matter when you can’t set up the gaming distro”. For Luke and Elijah, setting up CachyOS and Bazzite went fine. When they did have issues, the specific distro choice wasn’t the cause.

YOU’RE the one whinging about “why don’t they recommend Ubuntu!” Linus going with an Ubuntu-based distro is the cause of half of his problems, and switching to Ubuntu itself wouldn’t have fixed them.

Do I think the video was perfect? No. But your takeaway from the video is ridiculous

I think the real point is that Pop!_OS (and most Ubuntu based distros) shouldn’t be recommended for gaming.

It’s been around since ~2022 compared to Mint in ~2006

A distro that’s been around for 3-4 years is plenty of time to be up and running. Bazzite runs great and has been around a similar amount of time.

Another thing that people don’t factor in: documentation gets outdated. When I was trying to set up my Ubuntu server, a lot of documentation on what I needed was 11-12 years old, and the syntax has changed since then. For newbies, this may as well just be “figure it out yourself”.

True, but I wish Linus had tried switching distros, or at least not using a distro he’s already had issues with in the past. A lot of his problems are stemming from using an Ubuntu-based distro and COSMIC being a brand new DE that still has a bug of bugs to quash.

Hopefully in the next couple of weeks they do a collab with Wendel to go over what were the causes of their problems and final recommendations. Sure, the listicles for Linux distros are useless, but having a conclusion from trusted voices informed by people with a lot of experience (aka Luke and Wendel) would do a lot of good by cutting through the bullshit.

Yeah, don’t partition your drive just to dual boot Linux. While Bazzite has an install option for only patching the bootloader when Windows breaks it, having to run it after most Windows updates is still not something you should sign up for

Apparently it is, given what happened in the video!

Linus’s problems in the video stem from him installing an Ubuntu based distro. His problems on Discord have been resolved in newer versions, which Ubuntu and Pop!_OS don’t ship with yet, while distros based on Fedora and Arch do. And guess what? I said to install Bazzite, a Fedora-based distro.

The other guy’s (not Luke) problem with screen scaling / framerate is mosy likely due to the HDMI forum refusing to allow support for HDMI 2.1 on Linux, limiting his bitrate. HDMI can’t do 4k/120+hz without that suppory

And the reason I’m calling you a prick is because you’re going through and whining that nobody is trying Ubuntu, when Ubuntu is not the right solution for them. Ubuntu doesn’t work for everyone’s use case. Get over it.

Way to ignore the BIGGEST point in my comment to hyper focus on a secondary point just for ego.

Do I think someone should pick a distribution just because it has GameScope? No.

But do you know which distros include these optimizations? It’s the distros that include Nvidia drivers in the package so users don’t have to update them in the command line. It’s the distros that use Fedora and Arch to get those driver updates out in a timely manner so you’re not stuck waiting 6 fucking months to not have a newly released game not be a buggy flickering mess.

not worth risking fucking up your entire experience for!

This is your key disconnect. You see the OS as an experience. Most people don’t. They see it as a tool to get want they want.

You might be fine with only playing 5+ year old 16-bit indies on an AMD card. But guess what? MOST PEOPLE DON’T DO THAT. Most people have an Nvidia card and don’t want to buy an AMD card just to use a new OS. And a lot of people want to play newly released games from time to time.

You know what distro sucks for both those use cases? Ubuntu. I don’t care if it’s your favorite, those are just the facts. Deal with it.

Because Ubuntu is really slow to update, which means you might have to wait months for driver updates to play the newest games.

Also, a lot of people have Nvidia cards, and updating their drivers is a pain on Ubuntu.

Most gamers are best served by an Arch or Fedora based distro that can include Nvidia drivers automatically.

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Gaming distros can still do general tasks. They’re marketed as “gaming distros” because they have extra features like GameScope and optimizations from Glorious Eggroll. That’s valuable if you want to get all the gaming performance you can

If you have space in your laptop for a second SSD you could dual boot. That would let you switch without worrying about losing your Windows setup.

And if you go the dual-boot route, make sure you have selarate drives for the OS’s. Windows updates like to destroy the Linux bootloader when they’re on the same drive

LLMs are a technological dead end and will never be the path towards AGI. The AI bubble is fuelled exclusively by overly wealthy gambling addicts like Sam Altman.

You claim the “AI bro” accusation is the loss of logic. Go look at the fucking market right now, it’s completely irrational. It’s the AI investors that have killed any logic going on.

The AI bros just continually ignore this because they’re idiots. If you’re going to back them up you’re just as much of a dumbfuck as them

Literally the title of the second link:

Daylight Saving Time May Not Trigger Heart Attacks After All, Study …

Where I live, in December it’s dark when I go to work and dark when I get out. That’s just how it is, so who cares?

Meanwhile in June I can’t get to sleep due to they sky still being bright and blocking melatonin production until about 11pm. If we got rid of DST it’d get dark at 10pm.

And I don’t care if sunrise would end up 4:30am. It’s easy to set up blackout curtains in the bedroom to stay asleep.

Yep. A lot easier to have blackout curtain in just your bedroom to stay asleep than it is to have them all over your house to build up melatonin in the evenings during summer

Who fucking cares? Get blackout curtains if that matters.

I personally have the opposite problem during DST. Because sunset ends up being 11pm or later where I live from DST, I can’t fall asleep until Midnight or later. This is because light blocks the production of melatonin in the body. To fix the problem, I would have to set up blackout curtains all through my house (instead of just my bedroom) and close them all at 9pm just so I can go to bed at 10pm.

Also, removing DST gets rid of the stupid time change without increasing the risk of kids getting run over while walking to school, which is what we’d get if DST was year round.

There kinda is. Stores get more customers when there’s daylight in the evenings, specifically when most people are off work. So they tend to like daylight savings time because it maximizes that time window. These stores tend to lobby against bills for removing DST to keep their sales and profits high

Congress once voted to end it, the backlash from constituents businesses was severe and they could not reimplement it fast enough.

Ftfy. Fuck those greedy pricks

Unfortunately they’re just a fucking AI-bro. Not worth your time