TIL: SteamOS is based on Arch Linux. This is so cool!
I forked SteamOS for my living room PC
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Re: I forked SteamOS for my living room PC
#182bazzite.gg alsof does this very well. On AMD hardware it did 120hz VRR out of the box and u can alpha test HDR support.
Even more relevant is that you can "fork" Bazzite relatively simply and add any missing packages or configuration you need to your own custom image and let GitHub actions do most of the infra work for you
https://universal-blue.org/guide/fork-your-own/
And yes, you can roll back to previous images as its an "immutable" OS as well should issues arise
Re: I forked SteamOS for my living room PC
#183Anybody else sort of miss that Netscape meteor shower favicon?
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t want to tweak stuff for a week to get a comparable experience playing games to a fresh W11 install.
to be fair a fresh W11 install still doesn't have a usable taskbar or start menu - you have to install explorer patcher to get those back.
both are perfectly usable
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wish the Linux/OSS communities were less like this and more welcoming.
DRM is not welcoming by default... sounds like you have double standards
The players of the game are willing to put up with DRM and anticheat in order to get the game. By taking a hardline stance against these, the Linux community is being user-hostile.
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it comes from the idea that you should install Linux to get more time out of aging hardware.
Yeah, but for first time users I maintain it'd be better to risk potential slowness than "fast but unacceptable user experience".
Fully agree. I don’t really know what the user groups are doing these days? Are installfests still a thing?
Re: I forked SteamOS for my living room PC
#187Anybody else sort of miss that Netscape meteor shower favicon?
Yes!
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those games with anti-cheats are anti-player garbage anyway. You don't lose much without them.
Do you mean the presence of anti-cheat software makes them anti-player? Because I’d disagree. It’s a lot of work and expense to combat cheats, but is very much appreciated by many players (when it works)
But does it ever work? Its just a game of cat and mouse.... like all other software, bugs will always be present apparently.
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why don’t people like Linux? Because it takes 8 bloody commands to do something as simple as add a new drive whereas Windows you can just open disk utility and format. I bounced off Linux a few weeks ago over this. It’s for people who want to tinker more than actually use the system.
That's untrue though. Linux has a disk utility (I use gparted personally). And you can surely do it on the command line in a single command. On Linux you could automate that task. How would you propose automating "open disk utility and click a few buttons" on Windows? This is less of a "Linux can't" issue and more of a "I quickly know how to do it on Windows after years of experience and I don't know how to do it on…
There's still other things that are absurd to do under Linux. Like turning off write caching for removable drives. Unless something has changed in the past couple years, you need to either manually edit fstab per-drive or setup udev rules.
(Not write caching for removable drives should just be the default. Windows hasn't used write caching on removable drives for 20 years. It also presents a toggle in the drive properties if you really do want it on though.)
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why aren't you saying that the DRM software is the unwelcoming party? That user would happily play that game, but the game publisher doesn't want them. Incredible.
The only thing incredible is how upset people are for pointing out that it’s hostile to tell someone the game they enjoy playing is garbage and is not worth playing because it has anticheat.
Because it's not an attack, meanwhile the accusation is.