Quoting: BumadarIt remains a shame that even after the success of the steam deck and proton and steam os the big vendors still keep going back to windows 11. As long as that keeps happening Linux will never really take off. But I guess they rather pay MS a fee for the licence and hire some programmers for another custom app. Money much better spend on steam os and the Linux kernel.

A shame.

The problem is that the big vendors have contracts with Microsoft that give them a discount on Microsoft products in exchange for installing Windows and related malware on every PC they sell. If Acer were to ship this Nitro Blaze thing with an alternate operating system, they would likely be in breach of contract and facing a lawsuit from a ruthless company with deep pockets and well-paid lawyers. At the same time, Valve has proven that the portable PC gaming market is too profitable to ignore, and so we end up with handheld PCs with Windows installed despite it being the least suitable operating system for the purpose.

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I was going to say that more companies embracing Linux is a good thing, but in this case, I'm not so sure. A Linux distro that doesn't run native Linux games is absurd.

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Quoting: pbI had a long break from KDE after they took a bad (for me) direction with KDE4. But last year, on the new computer, I decided to go wayland and I switched to kde, since xfce didn't have a wayland version. All was fine in the beginning but after some update (probably) the computer started randomly freezing. Like, I browse the web and bam, everything is frozen, hard reset needed. Or I leave the comp on, go eat or whatever, come back and it's frozen. Or I put it to sleep and can't wake it up etc. I suspected faulty hardware (ran memory tests etc.) and various programs (turned them off on boot etc.) but after a while I started to direct my suspicion towards KDE. So eventually I gathered some courage and time, and I installed Hyprland. It was a few months ago and not a single freeze since then, heh. And I actually love my new DE, everything configured to my taste (because by me, hehe).

TL;DR If you're experiencing random system freezes, it might be KDE.

On the flip side, I've been using KDE for over 20 years and can't recall having a single significant problem with it. I've dabbled with other desktop environments over the years, but I've always come back to KDE.

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So Microsoft is 100% open sourcing the code with no strings attached? No "Gotcha!" waiting to be unleashed at some point in the future? I'm naturally suspicious of anything coming out of Redmond. It's not in their nature to be altruistic.

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Quoting: Mountain ManSo no Half-Life 3. :sad:

Why not? They can work on multiple games at the same time. Remember the Orange Box?

There were rumors that Valve was working on a new game. Everybody was hoping it was Half-Life 3, but apparently it was this instead.

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So no Half-Life 3. :sad:

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Now let's just hope the game is worth playing.

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Quoting: Marlock

Quoting: Highball

Quoting: MarlockQuick question: what system has a copy of grub installed (not by windows, because it's never used by windows) but doesn't have linux so it's ok to replace/block grub?

Any system.

Please elaborate

You can point Grub at any kernel to load. Haiku, Redox, whatever. LILO was popular back in the day. Nothing is stopping anybody from getting rid of Grub and switching boot loaders. You can even point one boot loader at another boot loader. That's how most people dual boot Windows. Grub loads, then start WinLoader, then WinLoader starts onekernel.

I had the most success keeping Windows on a separate drive where it could do whatever it wanted with the boot sector, and then grub on the primary drive would simply hand off to WinLoader on the secondary drive. Installing Linux and Windows on the same drive was a bit like playing Russian roulette. You never knew when Windows would break things.

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Quoting: RamenJunkieI have not dual booted in a while but Windows 10 would kill my Linux partition all the time during updates and I am not convinced it was an "accident".

I recall hearing about a Windows 10 update that randomly wrote junk data across any non-Windows file system, which very effectively bricked Linux installs. Of course Microsoft insisted it was unintentional.

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Quoting: redneckdrowThe best thing an experienced Linux user can do to save their sanity is to bite the bullet and go Linux-only.

What finally drove me to Linux only was when a Windows 7 update caused an unrecoverable boot loop, and then the repair tool on the Windows 7 DVD had a bug preventing it from recognizing an existing Windows installation, meaning a complete reinstall was the only option, so I said, "Screw it," booted into Linux, reformatted the Windows drive to ext4, and have never looked back.

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