Quoting: damarrinremain on the winning team

That's quite the choice of words. When everyone on a road drives a car, and I choose a motorbike, I don't think of the car drivers as the winning team.

Some things are better for them, perhaps. But I'm still not jealous of what they're doing. Indeed, I feel sorry for them, because the car metaphor breaks in a big way - car users get to see motorcyclists and think, "woah, sure there's disadvantages, but my god, look at it go, look at the way it cuts through traffic, look at the mpg, the running costs, look at how many different types of motorbike there are, how beautiful and varied the choice is". And at least car drivers get to decide if a motorbike is for them.

Windows users don't generally get that opportunity. Most have absolutely no idea what Linux looks like, or what it can (or can't) do. It's a shame. It would nice to give Linux a proper spotlight. This was an opportunity, and instead all anyone's talking about is an absolutely freakish Pop failure which Linus absolutely used to make a point.

One way the metaphor does work though - if a car driver jumps on a motorbike, good chance they'll really, really hurt themselves. Because, and it's obvious, and yet often overlooked for some reason: THEY ARE NOT THE SAME. If you do Linux in the "Windows Way", you're gonna visit nvidia.com, download the driver, follow the baffling instructions and then wonder why your PC is broken.

The whole experience was frustrating because it's clear that several decisions were made poorly, with no attempt at research. Maybe that's a reflection on the world at large, but I think most people who are curious about Linux are better than that. And if they're not, I have no time for them anyway.

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Quoting: phrogpilot73Had he updated Pop first - he would have likely had no problems.

Sadly not the case here. They admitted that a weird 32-bit library issue was inadvertently linked to the "default desktop" package which caused the issue. It would likely have been fixed within a day regardless of Linus stumbling into the issue, but the timing was just incredible and it tripped them up in this case.

My only frustration in Linus' approach here was the irony that he'd have had better luck sticking to the "Windows Way" and just downloading Steam from the SteamPowered website. But one of the core messages for new users of Linux is often "don't do that". Certainly true of drivers at least.

The whole thing is frustrating, tbh. Even if lessons were learned for PopOS, the sad fact is that Linus' viewers have already drawn their conclusions about Linux based on his experience. That video will live forever as a spectacular failure of Linux to engage with a "normal" person. Normal is in quotes there, of course, because a) There wasn't much normality about Linus' set up, and b) Linus is an entertainingly stubborn, impatient and highly critical person. Anyone trying Linux in good faith and with reasonable expectation would have a better experience.

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Quoting: kalinI tried popos and it was the same garbage as ubuntu. After some update the system got broken. From my experience manjaro is far better choice then anything Debian based. Turd is a turd no matter how much chocolate topping you put on

This kind of comment is unhelpful and, frankly, deluded. I've said it before - it's insanely frustrating to see such a small niche shitting on another niche just to get one over on the other 'side'. Grow up.

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Quoting: scaineI do love a deck builder, but I'm not a huge fan of online play sadly. For now, I think I'll be sticking with Roguebook runs and dipping into Dominion with my mates if I need a bit of online play (indeed, this is giving me some Dominion vibes).

Looks great though. However, MtG kind of exhausted me on these games.

Disclaimer, Dragon Evo dev here. Really glad to get coverage like this, it means so much to us and getting exposure.

One of the most important things to us is providing a great single player experience in addition to the pvp elements. While it's an online game with no offline component, we do provide a huge and (in our own not so humble opinion) engaging single player story, standalone adventures and lots of ways to engage with the game without having to play pvp - if that's what you prefer.

We're gamers ourselves and try to avoid some of the pitfalls and annoyances of modern IA-based gaming, so that's certainly an aspect we're very conscious of.

Anyways, thanks for commenting 👍

Well then! I had no idea! Can't hurt to give this a shot - thanks for clarifying. It does look very deep, some really satisfying looking strategy in there. If there's a single-player campaign, I'd love to give that a shot. Not sure how you monetise that experience, of course, but I'll check it out for sure.

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Quoting: soulsourceI just remember that I was annoyed enough to replace Ubuntu by Debian due to this, and to never look back...

You say that, but isn't that a Gentoo logo next to your avatar?? :grin:

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I do love a deck builder, but I'm not a huge fan of online play sadly. For now, I think I'll be sticking with Roguebook runs and dipping into Dominion with my mates if I need a bit of online play (indeed, this is giving me some Dominion vibes).

Looks great though. However, MtG kind of exhausted me on these games.

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Quoting: drmothCanonical's Unity, once the bugs were fixed, was actually really good.

Canonical's Unity was basically the Gnome desktop environment with Compiz as Window Manager (and some hacks to GTK). It only worked as long as you didn't dare to even think about opening CompizConfig. Once you even remotely considered changing any Compiz setting away from the GodCanonical-given default, your desktop was messed up beyond repair and your only option to get it working again was to nuke your compiz config files from orbit.

As unhappy as I am with recent Gnome, Unity was imho even worse...

As someone who frequently messed about with ccsm while using Unity, I do have to wonder what on earth you were changing to cause desktop instability!

To be honest, I frequently hear people talk about "desktop stability", and I just don't get it. I've very occasionally seen desktop crashes after heavy AAA gaming - I suspect some DEs are sensitive to compositing changes. But outside of that, how on earth do you crash your DE?? Honestly, if I saw my DE crash as a result of user-driven changes, I'd have to question using that DE. But I've used Mate, KDE, Gnome3/shell, and Cinnamon over the past two or three years while trying to find a new "home" and this just isn't a thing. I can't be that lucky??

As I say, Unity was rock solid too. I miss it, but I'm kind of happy that I ended up on a viable KDE desktop as a result of Canonical's decision to ditch it.

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From a VR perspective, I like my XRoverlay, so I'm stuck on either Gnome or KDE. I changed to KDE a couple of months ago and it's a pretty much near-perfect replica of what I had under Gnome, so I'm also surprised that the Pop devs are choosing to roll their own.

Exciting, but I don't hold out much hope for their success. If a company like Canonical couldn't justify making 10 years worth of Unity development stick, I doubt System76 will somehow make it work either.

I'm still happy to use Pop as a base for KDE though. It's a really slick foundation. The Pop shop is superb and I've never experienced a crash since using them.

Also, edit to query:

Quoting: drmothI want a slick, highly usable, modern DE, that preferably doesn't look like Windows. Gnome is the only decent contender at the moment, but it's not great.

Only contender? You're joking, right!? KDE is superb, XFCE was excellent last I tried. Budgie is slick as hell. Cinnamon? Mate? We're tripping over DE's that absolutely rock - functional, beautiful, varied desktops that only look as much like Windows as you actually want.

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Quoting: AzPI really wish they'd update to a very new Unity engine, as well as optimize quite a lot.

I recently bought a 5120x1440 superwide screen, which forced me to buy a new graphics card as well (a 6700 XT), but Valheim still barely maintains 60 fps.
Performance tests of that card shows really nice framerates in demanding games like Battlefield 5 for 4K resolution, so a game with graphics like Valheim should run like tuxracer, I would think. Don't get me wrong, I love the game and the graphics, but I can't say (with a straight face) that the fidelity can be compared to BF5, or games like it.

I do however understand that the game is in pre-release mode, and new features and expanded gameplay is more important than optimization at this point.

Are you definitely running it in OpenGL mode? The Vulkan mode is still under development and the performance is terrible. I couldn't believe the difference when I swapped back to OpenGL.

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C'mon Destiny 2... you can do it!

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