eager and tentative seem kinda feel like they are distant opposites in this situation.

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there’s still a lot of titles that require tweaking/hacking. And some just refuse to run, period.

run into that shit on windows, too. and theres not compatability layers to blame, there.

Even titles that are marked as Gold on ProtonDB sometimes crash or refuse to run randomly.

and shit doesnt crash on windows? All protons in the world arent going to fix a games inherent bugs that make it crash.

I’m not a techy, or a sys admin, or anything.

I never wanted ot think about my OS. I just want to click things and go.

Linux did have headaches when I switched. Some from my lack of knowledge, some from shit in linux just being fuckywucky. but that was many years ago.

I wouldnt say I’m any smarter today, than i was back then… but I will say Linux is so much better today than it was back then. Its reached the “it just works” stage, even for gaming, in everything I’ve tried with it. I am back to where I was on windows all those years ago, where I dont even think about my OS. I just click things and go.

I’m not so foolish to say its all sunshine and lollipops, especially with gaming, I’m sure there will always be a problem that crops up that needs a tweak/patch/config change to fix it… but honestly? Windows had that shit too. which is why I’d say, from a usability aspect, Linux is pretty much at parity with windows at this point.

And thats for gaming and shit.

if you are just a regular PC user where entertainment/email/bills/etc are all done in the webbrowser? Fuck…Linux has been good and ready for that for over a decade. My grandparents PC has run linux for over 15 years now, without nary an issue.

Nobara too.

I cant remember the last time I had to futz with anything to get a game to work, been well over a year. The games just work. Only extra step compared to windows is the one time effort upon installing steam to enable steam play and set the default proton version to experimental. Experimental has run everything for me, flawlessly, for like a year now.

I’m sure theres still the occasional, rare game that might need some tweaking/setup/patch/whatever to get going… but thats something you run into on windows from time to time as well, so its hardly a ding against linux.

No one should own an Ubisoft game. Its a company thats at the top of the list with Nintendo as far as the level of hatred and vitriol they have for their own paying customers goes.

I mean, base Fedora probably is more stable.

Playing games requires an lot of extra stuff, and the kernal is more bleeding edge in nobara to keep those GPU updates (if AMD) and performance tweaks fresh and useful.

but generally speaking from my experience, Nobara is no more or less stable than anything else, windows or linux. And any issue I did rarely had was typically resolved with a reboot, and generally from a game.

I have never used bazzite to give you an honest answer to that.

all I can say is that I was distro hopping for a good while after running into roadblocks on ubuntu, and Nobara is just where everything clicked into place with usability, and ease of gaming.

nobara has a seperate iso for nvidia cards.

If you are going to game daily, I would recommend Nobara. Which is based on Fedora, but has all the gaming stuff precompiled/installed and ready to go from the start, Which makes getting started with gaming much easier. Its very user friendly to boot.

but if you just want an binary answer between Mint or Fedora, I’d say Fedora… since you will still be able to find, install, and benefit from a lot of the Nobara stuff, even if its not included in the box from the start.

All the important people at nintendo have been separated from reality by their own fame and success for so long that they’ve lost their common sense and rationality.

But despite it all, their absolute contempt for their costumers and supporters continues to get rewarded by masses of fanboys/fangirls who keep unloading dumptrucks of money on Nintendos doorstop out of some obsessive nostalgia, and thus keeps nintendo from ever actually learning an actual fucking lesson.

and what imaginarily clever point do you think you are making with that.

I’ve had steam since HL2 launched.

No it hasnt.

and no, it wasnt a storefront then either, because it was DRM/game decrypter and multiplayer server finder. They had no other games for sale at the time.

Steam, as a program, has fundamentally gotten worse with every update ever since they switched to electron/chromium

remember for a while they tried to take small mode away from us.

cause they are going down the same route that everything goes. Its gotten popular, so now they are trying to turn it into a social media platform.

I dont want a social media playform. theres already enough of those. I just want a small, slick, low resource, easy to use, quick to load program to buy my games and launch them.

i hope it finally fixes the bug that makes steam have alzheimers when it comes to windows size and position.

because I’m sick to fucking death of having to constantly resize and reposition the windows every time i switch between small/large and when launching.

Its so bad that I gave up and just started browsing steam store via browser.

what kind of sane person is gonna leave a steam page open for over a week, though?

if you have had a humble choice subscription for a while, you probably already own it without realizing too

i bought this game so long ago, and i keep forgetting i own it until something like this pops up like once every couple years.

Hope that also fixes the system wanting to use the PS5 controller as the default sound output device.

Cause that one threw me for a fuckin loop trying to figure out why my audio stopped workin

Honestly.

The biggest threat to Nintendo is no one but Nintendo.

because Nintendo has done more harm to their brand in the past 20 years with their cockheaded fucking behavior than any vaguely inspired game, knockoff, or anything else.

between their bullshit where they would file DCMAs against people who streamed nintendo games unless they gave half the money to nintendo

to their bullshit overuse of lawyers to the point they ended up DMCAing themselves over some people getting hold of…tears of the kingdom? i think it was, a day or two early.

And lets not forget just how shit and phoned in their core titles like pokemon have become.