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Quoting: CarollyHonest question for you, why is it that year after year you stick your nose up in the air over great distros like Nobara, CachyOS, and PikaOS, in favour of large corporate-backed projects? Any of them are excellent distros for gaming and more than just "a few tweaks and a new theme" (and generally they make it very easy to install Nvidia drivers - Nobara and Pika even offer ISOs with the Nvidia drivers preloaded!)

I'm curious if you've tried running any of the three in recent years. You might actually enjoy using them if you gave them a shot.

I'm not the OP, but the question is a good one. For me, at least, the more niche distros seem to fall into a narrow and interesting category of target user: Experienced Linux users use a stable (*buntu, Fedora, etc.) or a more new-feature focused distro (Arch), then simply layer packages to meet workload needs (gaming, server, ML, editing, whatever).

Inexperienced Linux users may initially want something shiny and niche and novel, but my experience is that willingness to tinker simply isn't that common amongst that population; they want Windows. Windows familiarity, Windows stability, Windows compatibility, Windows ubiquity. Either the requisite learning curve to hammer the distro into the expected shape of OS is low, or they reject the distro and return to the familiar (read: Windows).

The author's recommendation for a larger, better-supported mainstream distro absolutely makes sense in that context; you may not wring the final 3FPS out of your GPU, but deadend package dependencies, fiddly CLI syntax fixes and not-so-edge edge cases are encountered with less frequency. All that reduced friction drives better adoption; as a painted-up OS, that's crucial.

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Never forget: they are cousins!

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I've had the screenlock kick in while playing using a gamepad back in my early Mint days (maybe around 2016'sh?) but I've never had it happen recently. I wonder if you have to have sleep enabled as an option for this to trigger? I have screenlock configured, but not sleep.

I've spent tens of hours playing No Rest for the Wicked on gamepad recently, and never had my screen randomly lock.

Now that I think about it - those Mint days were when I was using a wired Xbox360 controller, but now I'm on a bluetooth Dualsense controller. Maybe it's the bluetooth keeping my session alive.

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Is there a PeerTube mirror somewhere?

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Oh so I no longer need to install Caffeine Plus every time use KDE? That's great news.

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Quoting: daH00LAre you using AdGuard? Looks like `umami.is` is blocked in: https://adguardteam.github.io/HostlistsRegistry/assets/filter_1.txt.

Damn, I am using Pi-Hole and totally forgot that!
I will try disabling it for a while.

THANK YOU!

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Why bother producing new CPUs when it's barely impossible to find DDR5 RAM?

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: scaineI also like the pop-up that overlays the entire game page if it uses AI.

Hrm. A bit ironic, that.

Well, not really. It's not using AI to detect AI, which would certainly be ironic. The feature is just the AI section of the Steam page's declaration being shown as an overlay, because it's easy to miss way at the bottom of the page.

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I already wanted to write that I'm not affected by the bug for whatever reason...

... but I think I was (am) and just disabled the screen saver!

Looking forward to the bug fix when it arrives in Debian stable, probably in 2027. :D

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Quoting: clatterfordslimWould love to get Cachy OS's tuned Kernels going though. Games would flow better.

Afaik CachyOS optimizations or any optimization for that matter can backfire and reduce perf depending on situation. That's partly why bazzite doesn't use optimized kernels. So I don't bother with custom kernels typically

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Quoting: XpanderThat being said, I honestly don't know what to suggest to new users these days.

Me neither, I typically suggest bazzite however bazzite being unique in a lot of things makes you dependent on their docs & community. If you look up something for Linux, chances are what you find won't work on Bazzite. Doubly so when asking LLMs (I rarely do that but plenty of people use them often)

My actual daily driver runs Arch and I'm afraid of even shutting it down, but I can't move it to another distro either.

We are in a mess of wayland transition also. Lots of edge cases where things are buggy on wayland when it comes to gaming and at the same time x11 has its own quirks. So we basically have 2 "broken" systems.

Yep I suffer from that. I can't turn off vsync for moonlight on wayland and have extra latency, but I can't use my beloved touchpad gestures on X11.

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Cool, but are we ever getting the DLSS override features? 😡 DLSS Updater (like DLSS Swapper) only lets you change the version, not the in-game modes.

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So no more kde-inhibit --screenSaver --power steam? Cool! 😇

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as I look like an upside down lightbulb with a beard.

My dad had a small poster in his office that said:
"God only made so many perfect heads, the rest he covered with hair"

Hence you have a perfect head, show it off 😅

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Quoting: LinuxForEveryone

Quoting: blindcoder

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: blindcoderIs it coming as an actual podcast or just as a youtube video series?

The link to the podcast is [right in the article](https://linuxforeveryone.net/games-for-everyone-1-valves-third-act/).

d'oh, thank you! <3

Ah, the RSS feed doesn't have the media file included :-(

Hey thanks for checking it out. The audio file should be in the RSS feed. I tested it on several podcast clients and it's serving up the episode. I'm also seeing download metrics from the podcast host. Let us know if you continue to have problems.

I'm using AntennaPod and after adding the RSS feed to it it says at the top "Entry does not contain a media file". When checking the RSS Feed I can see that it is indeed missing an enclosure tag: https://www.w3schools.com/XML/rss_tag_enclosure.asp

I think it should be something like this:
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Games For Everyone #1: Valve's Third Act]]></title>
[other tags]
<enclosure url="https://linuxforeveryone.net/content/media/2025/12/0.mp3" type="audio/mpeg"/>
</item>

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Quoting: LucaWell, it seems I cannot reach cloud.umami.is from Italy.
Tried with Chromium (I usually use Librewolf), no way.
Any hint?

Are you using AdGuard? Looks like `umami.is` is blocked in: https://adguardteam.github.io/HostlistsRegistry/assets/filter_1.txt.

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These performance charts are lies and bullshit, as per usual with Intel. Can't even be disappointed since this has been the way they operate since... honestly, it seems like forever at this point.

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I think I've had the issue of Sleep not getting block when playing a game with a controller maybe once or twice ever. Now that I think about it, I would've said it's probably game-specific. But I don't really know since it rarely ever happened to me.

Exciting to see KDE continuing to evolve.

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Quoting: satorideponSomething tells me there wouldn't have been a backlash if they added the same feature, but without "AI" label on it.

How would they summarize reviews without AI?

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Something tells me there wouldn't have been a backlash if they added the same feature, but without "AI" label on it.

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Quoting: M@GOidthey fired a couple developers from the Linux team last year.

I'm not sure if "fired" is the right word, but they have definitely been bleeding talent:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-News-2025

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The Steam Deck app is a flatpak hosted on a Nvidia repository.

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Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: Cley_FayeWhen a friend came to me about PopOS telling me "now I can switch between the integrated GPU or the Nvidia one in one click!" I put my ubuntu laptop in his face, clicked on "nvidia-prime" in the menu, where I had that exact same feature.

tbh your attitude seemed a little condescending towards your enthusiastic friend. If they found a solution to a problem on linux no matter how inelegant it was then that's a good thing, because they are more likely to stay on linux.

That said i wonder in the past just how many excited newcomers got bummed out by the well known "smart ass know it all" linux user and went back to windows or migrated to Mac?

(or console if they were interested in linux gaming).

Thankfully a lot of that elitism has died down now.

That friend was already a linux user. He wasn't "dipping his toes" in linux through popOS as its first adventure, so I doubt I've driven him off.

Please don't think that internet memes and caricatures are that common. If anything, I'm happy to help. Showing someone that software and features aren't distribution specific does not sound like a bad thing to me, and if it was someone just trying to move away from windows/macos, my first reaction would not have been "YOU DID IT WRONG IDIOT". In fact, I would never say that. The point was comparing distributions, and the futility of specific distros that embed the *same* software with different settings.

But I guess rationale discussion between people is a thing of the past, and if I said something not utterly positive about their choice, I'm obviously mocking them and trying to push them down the pit of idiots that obviously exist, right?

Thankfully, neither he nor I reacted this way.

I stand by my point that *changing your whole OS* for a glittering title bar or a two-step process becoming a one-step process is not that interesting given the alternatives. If you think that's some elitist behavior, then so be it.

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I guess following the actual curator for Denuvo Watch is done from here:
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/26095454/

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Quoting: M@GOidThe hardware have potential, and their Windows drivers are getting attention.

But in Linux, their drivers are still very immature. They do fine on synthetic benchmarks, but in actual games they lag behind, like rear view mirror behind (right Pat?). It is clear they don't have dedicated developers for gaming, and everybody must have been allocated to the AI crazy efforts. And to make things worse, if memory is correct, they fired a couple developers from the Linux team last year.

So no, I would not get one of their new products until they get their shit together on the Linux front.

Agreed, Intel Linux drivers are absolute trash right now, I would not even consider an Intel GPU until they get this mess sorted. Although from what I've seen, it's unlikely to improve because they are bleeding Linux devs left and right. So that's that.

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Westwood was one my favorite victims of EA. 😭

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🎆🎉

Island maps can be surrounded by infinite water instead of void.

I feel like that it has been a long time since I first saw the related commits.

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I expect Mint is not the best gaming Linux. It is, however, about the best "general desktop" Linux, and has not caused me any real problems with gaming, so since I spend more time doing everything else than I do gaming I remain fairly pleased to use Mint.

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Quoting: eggroleMy question to those cheering for the mass adoption of linux boils down to: if I am right and linux gets watered down

What the hell does "watered down" even mean in this context, and why should I mind?

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Quoting: Johnologue

Quoting: zerodoggthe "denuvo watch" curator

Sounds useful, I'm looking for that now!

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/DenuvoWatch

Quoting: zerodoggI switched to the SteamDB extension instead of Augmented Steam when this was first pushed out.

I like/use both. This particular use of "AI" doesn't bother me much, although I agree with many of the arguments against it in general. In a similar vein, I hate that so much bot traffic makes the web worse for us humans, but I like being able to use bots that pull ProtonDB info or show where the cheapest price is into the Steam page for me.

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