now if only Thinkpads were good again :-/
Linux is good now
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I'm surprised to hear you are having trouble with wheels / pedals, we should be there already! https://github.com/JacKeTUs/linux-steering-wheels Hopefully vr headset support will get better
Funnily enough the most annoying things on my system at the moment is RGB and keyboard/mouse customisation. I haven’t found a tool that can access all the extra settings of my Logitech mouse, not my Logitech speakers. OpenRGB is amazing but I’m stuck on a version that constantly crashes; this should be fixed in the recent versions but nixpkgs doesn’t seem to have it (last I checked). On the other hand I did manage to…
I was annoyed recently because I replaced my GPU and I had to boot into Windows for the first time in months and install drivers just to turn off the RGB on the card because OpenRGB wouldn't find it.
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#563Earlier quoted context omitted.
TVs don't support displayport, so it makes Linux PCs like the Steam Machine inferior console replacements if you want high refresh rates. A lot of TVs now support 4K/120hz with VRR, the PS5 and Xbox Series X also support those modes. (Some games support 120, but it's also used to present a 40hz image in a 120hz container to improve input latency for games that can't hit 60 at high graphics quality.)
Do consoles support anything above 60 FPS?
My PS5 can do 4k/120 hz with VRR support, not sure about the others.
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#564Insights from discussion threads (updated just now): https://hn-discussions.top/linux-desktop-2026/
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#565Long time Linux on the desktop user here. I don't feel Linux has become significantly better recently. It's more that Windows reached a new low that is just below the threshold for many. Also, Apple, what are you doing?
A large part of it is that for most people, the vast majority of their computer use is in a web browser. Even "standalone" programs are often just an Electron app so they don't even have to use their computer differently than they are used to. Yes Windows has gotten bad, and Linux no longer has some of the major issues people would frequently run into (e.g. hardware compability is largely a non-issue, audio just works, etc.), but I think it is mostly that things are just way more platform agnostic today.
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#566One thing I'm curious about: how is the laptop dual-GPU situation these days? I opted to install Linux in a VM under Hyper-V on Windows to avoid hassles with the dual GPUs in my ThinkPad P52, but this comes with several other hassles I'd like to avoid. (Like no GPU access in Linux at all...)
It's not like Windows comes with built in support for running linux with gpu support.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-...
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#567Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you ever find it "updated" to the snap version? I have Ubuntu on my work laptop and every so often after an update Firefox will suddenly be the snap version and I'll have to reinstall it.
As someone else says, for Firefox (and Thunderbird) I just uninstalled the package manager version entirely and dropped Mozilla's regular distro-agnostic binary tarballs in my home folder. Using the built-in update systems also avoids that problem from .deb versions where updating the package could make the browser yell at you that it needs to be restarted when you try to open a tab.
Mozilla also has its own Apt repository, which can be more convenient.
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#568Still can’t play big titles with anti cheat like call of duty. Only reason I’m stuck on windows on the gaming PC is I’m somewhat addicted to BO7 zombies.
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#569It's been good for twenty years, the only difference is that OP finally gave it a fair go.
But now it is good and also has working networking, audio and you can watch videos and scroll webpages without screen tearing.
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#570Now that Microsoft are removing support for Windows 10, which is still running on many not-that-old devices that don't support Windows 11, I think the correct, mainstream advice HAS to be to install Linux on those machines. Those are still perfectly usable machines that can be used for productivity or enjoy a massive catalog of games.
We've reached a point where Microsoft greed and carelessness is degrading Windows from all angles. With the constant forced Copilot, forced sign-ups, annoying pop-ups and ads, it is figuratively unusable; in the case of machines stuck on Windows 10 it is literally unusable.
They are now banking entirely on a captive market of Enterprise customers who have invested too much to quit. The enshittification is feature complete.