Quoting: dpanterSiduction is Debian sid + extra goodness. Siduction has in repo stuff like mesa-git, day1 kernel builds with more desktop oriented options than stock sid, even rc kernels. When sid was slacking a while back, the crew rolled their own firmware packages from git. At various points in time we've had nice things in repos like Nvidia beta drivers and corectrl - note that times change and not many in the team use Nvidia these days (pro hint: use cuda repo) and of course corectrl is more or less dead now. Also lots of nice to have stuff for tinkerers, like the awesome chroot-helper tool included in the live iso and a comprehensive manual.

Siduction is imho the ultimate Debian distro (for gamers especially) and has a friendly community.

Note: you are expected to know your way around Linux and Debian, this is not a distro for rookies.

I will check it out on my secondary computer. :grin:

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Quoting: dpanterYou might be interested in Siduction then.

What would you (personally) say is a strength of going for Siduction over normal sid?

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Quoting: AdutchmanWe're talking about FOSS software here, most people are doing this work in their free time and nobody's perfect, and I can imagine that people get frustrated.

That's true, this is open source, and people volunteer. No one demanded perfection. But if you volunteer to shoulder a responsibility on behalf of a community, then it is not absurd for the community to ask you to take responsibility for what you are doing. No-one in particular were waving pitchforks, they were wondering why it happened, how it happened, and how can we (as a community) do better in the future.

If you don't want to or can't take responsibility, that is absolutely understandable but then you need to say so and make way for someone else who is able to. This is the reason I haven't shouldered that responsibility in the 20+ years I've been part of the overall linux community. I could never handle the responsiblity of maintining a major package in a major distribution, so I contributed in other ways.

Quoting: AdutchmanIf we look at the forum discussion, the moderator was trying to move the discussion back to something constructive. That's not the same as "toxic positivity" imo.

Several people including our own good man Liam tried to be professional and constructive, but were told to shut it.

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Fedora, like Gnome, have gotten stuck in a mindset of toxic-positivity recently imo.

It very much reminds me of an external speaker our uni teacher brought in who tried to argue for why we should stop using "negative" words like problem and instead use "positive" words like challange.

Safe to say, bringing this up in a uni environment of software engineers did not go down well. No attacks were made on the speaker, only criticism of the idea and criticising the idea that problem was a negative word. Overall we considered it a positive thing as we were taught to be in the mindset of problem solvers.

And I feel like Fedora are in the same situation as our external speaker, and consider words like criticism, and problem as inherently negative. This causes them to get really defensive as we can see from e.g. the moderator Francesco in the thread linked.

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Earlier this year it also had an update to improve the anti-cheat on Linux too, so hopefully now you won't have too much trouble running it on Linux systems with Proton.

Anyone having any experience playing it crossplay?

We would be playing it with 2 linux users and 1 windows user.

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Is cachyOS working easily out of the box with old windows games if you tried any?

@Jahimself they have two packages that will pull in basically everything you need to play anything outside of dosbox, which in itself is easy to install if you need it.

 $ pacman -S cachyos-gaming-meta cachyos-gaming-applications 

This will set you up nicely should you decide to go with Cachy.

src: https://wiki.cachyos.org/configuration/gaming/ [External Link]

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Hey that's neat! :woot:

It is one feature of Gnome I really like.

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Completed Half-life 2, HL2-episode 1 and half way through episode 2. All in VR, it works incredibly well and is a fantastic experience.

Me and my brother had a run through all the HL games in coop a while back, was good fun! (Not the VR versions though.) :grin:

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