The statistic isn’t saying that 50% of Linux gamers use steam, it’s saying that Linux gamers are ~1/2 as likely to use steam for games when compared to gamers on other platforms. these are very different things.
~50% of Linux gamers using steam is only true if you assumed every gamer on the other platforms used steam
btw i hate the term ‘gamer’ but it’s just convenient to use here :(
so a disproportionately large amount (2x) of Linux gamers don’t use steam? that doesn’t sound right to me with how good steam is on Linux
debian packages will work on debian based distros usually, etcetc
fedora calls their kedoras and ludoras “spins”, but I haven’t used fedora so can’t say how good they are
basically there’s the big 3 (debian, arch, fedora) and everything else is just them with presets (ui, drivers, etc)
debian uses apt, arch uses pacman, fedora uses dnf for packaging, so packages (app executables) aren’t intercompatible and so you usually have some apps that aren’t available on on or the other
usually debian had everything, arch has everything with workarounds, idk about fedora
anyway the tree is like:
debian
fedora
arch
with DEs you should see which ones you like by testing them out, if you get the debian netinstaller you can select however many you want in the install process and you can switch between them at boot with the dropdown menu in the login prompt
Honestly build quality matters more than specs if you’re not gaming in my opinion, that’s why old thinkpads are so popular
I personally got burned by a shitty modern laptop because I only looked at the specs and nothing else
I’m talking about things like:
These things are harder to research but they’re imo way more important than specs
could you elaborate on why?
It’s really disappointing seeing Russian contributors being disrespected like this, the regime that rules Russia wasn’t entirely their fault, and allegiance, nationality, and ethnicity are all clearly different things
Also, wouldn’t a state sponsored Russian hacker pretend to be from the US or something anyway? No way they’d contribute code as a Russian, that’d just increase others’ suspicion
I agree with Linus a lot too but I strongly disagree here. I hope he’s just being made to say this because of government policies
ig support is a big issue but I use sway on old computers and it runs really smooth
I get that you might want to stick to your favorite desktop though
what issues are you having on wayland? I run nvidia+intel and it’s completely fine (way faster on old machines too)
pretty sure the msi pro -a z690/z790 has coreboot support (12/13/14th gen Intel)
Honestly I think the power bills would be similar with similar performance hardware, because you have to take into account battery losses with laptops.
that’s fair that you don’t have the space though
why not a desktop? you get more performance for the price and you don’t need to worry as much about nvidia power management, which seems like a pain from what I’ve seen
true, but personally I think it’s important to highlight the gnu part (when it’s not unnatural to do so) because the copyleft that stemmed from that project kinda defines the hope/ideals of the whole ecosystem
eh just call it gnulinux or musllinux or whatever
Are retro thinkpads that expensive in your region? Where I live you can get a functional one for ~$80 if you look on the used market enough
there are locked down distros?
was in the same situation for a while, but I switched a few weeks ago and I’ve never since looked back
is this sarcasm?
ltt is a tech lifestyle content company and I don’t like tech lifestyle + the existence of media conglomerates
waydroid (if you don’t install a wayland based de)