(Note: I could be wrong) Games would run worse if you needed to access this memory. This technology is for making a more efficient swap space than a hard disk, not for speeding up regular memory usage.

I’m aware of me and 3 friends entering. One gets to order soon, other 3 are on waitlist.

Has anyone sent word to digital ocean about why people would be upset about their funding decision? Might be best not to immediately attribute to malice what could be attributed to not knowing.

holy frick I love KDE. Looking forward to what they do next.

I overall like it for entertainment. As far as I can tell, through the years of “scandals”, Linus doesn’t seem like a bad person. Just a person who means well but makes human mistakes sometimes.

I switched to Linux because the nvidia drivers on windows got so bad my GPU was crashing once every boot. On Linux I regularly have significantly worse performance (especially in VR) but its more stable. I’m fine with a lower fps rather than just getting kicked out of games when the driver crashes.

Would be nice if they worked on those performance issues, though.

Can’t say I’m a fan of those lined up Ks in that art.

I’m here for the notification. I also want to know.

Ah, thankfully I didn’t run into that one. I have a goxlr and they broke it for 2 weeks so I did a manual rollback until it was fixed, because having audio is kinda nice.

Yeah, that’s me comfortably sitting on Bazzite right now. There are definitely ways for it to improve, but I’ve only really ever had one issue in the last few months, and that was fixed the next week. I just get to use my computer, and it’s nice.

4/5 Linux builds I’ve used on steam run significantly worse than the windows build through proton or just crash.

Strong disagree. I know how to configure a Linux installation and I still refuse to leave bazzite because it just works and stays out of my way while keeping my system up to date. I also haven’t found anything I wasn’t able to do in it. The preinstalled apps and the flatpack app store have covered all of my daily use needs.

You knock it off, there are so many small issues a distro like bazzite fixes that kubuntu won’t have patches for out of the box. Discord screen sharing, for one.

Then in steam you have to direct steam to use proton for almost every game with a Linux build because almost none of them actually work correctly.

Also, if you’re directing the average joe to use the terminal, it’s too hard. Seriously. It needs a polished, self explanatory GUI. If the app store version of steam isn’t good enough, then its not a good distro to recommend. Even then an app store might be too hard, many people are used to downloading apps from their website, and that problem hasn’t been solved by many distros, either.

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That’s a good data point I’ll keep in mind. Unfortunately cachy does not do nearly as much for the user out of the box so I can’t really recommend it to those friends, but it’s a great distro.

Edit: can I ask what hardware you were running?

This is kinda why Bazzite is the only distro I can recomment to my gaming friends. The default settings work well, and its very hard to break it because its pretty locked down and it pushes users to use flatpaks via the app store, which generally work great. It also does its own updates in the background (with a backup just in case!) so nobody ever really has to worry about it, and I really appreciate it for that.

Well yeah, I wouldn’t want my OS to take my graphics away randomly.

Maybe a silly question but are you using the nvidia-specific bazzite iso?

Many people will definitely go back, but the percentage staying might be better this time around. Linux has gotten a lot more usable and stable for those tech inclinced enough to be able to install it thanks in part to proton, immutable distros, flatpacks, Wayland, and improved defaults. Mint and bazzite are pretty darn good for daily use. I’ve never stayed on Linux as long as I have with this run, and I really don’t feel much of a push to leave it. Most everything I want to do just works.

They are working on Linux native.