For all those suggesting Bazzite, Ublue (including Bazzite) images are offline installers only, see: https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/couldnt-get-aurora-into-test-mode-in-live-usb/4567

What a stupid headline.

"So who are these people? They're a bit more likely to be female. While both the comparison groups were roughly evenly split between male and female, the superspreaders were 60 percent female. They're also older, on average 58 years old, nearly 20 years older than the sample as a whole."

Is there a text version of this interview?

Linux Mint and Pop!_OS are the most recommended beginner friendly distros that "just work" in my experience. That being said, before you install, you can try out the look and feel here: https://distrosea.com/

Typically recommended guides:

https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/1.html

https://linuxjourney.com/

Have a good transition and if you stick with Mint, I'd recommend the official forums for any questions: https://forums.linuxmint.com/index.php

Yes. It's like "let's not pursue new ideas, it's too risky. Let's repeat what worked once" - like in the movie industry as well. It's boring and uninspired.

From the website: "We are starting with iOS and Android games because this is where most dark patterns appear, but we will be adding other platforms soon." So that looks good for your request.

Short answer: no. I'm using Linux Mint with an Nvidia card and it works great. From the games you've mentioned I've played Guild Wars 2 and Warframe with zero problems, they actually ran like on Windows where I had them installed before. Steam, Heroic Games Launcher, Bottles, Lutris - they all work fine for me.

Also some of the issues you're describing don't sound like a typical GPU problem. But sure, try a different distro, maybe your particular hardware setup doesn't play nice with Mint.

If you decide to contribute there, it's quite clear that all the information is public. I mean you can see how the website is structured and what kind of information can be found at each entry.

Additionally, the github states the following about the protondb data: "Data exports from ProtonDB.com released under ODbL" - see here: https://github.com/bdefore/protondb-data

Subnautica

Depends on what you are playing, but gaming in Linux has come a long way. Some games won't work due to companies not enabling their (rootkit) "anti-cheats" for Linux, but other than that, there's more and more games that simply work by the day. Check out https://www.protondb.com/ to get an idea of what's working at the moment.

Terraria

Congrats to everyone involved! I'm really happy to see Godot thrive.

OpenOffice and OnlyOffice are two different things. We were talking about the latter.

"Browser not supported" - weird choice not to support hardened browsers like Librewolf.

For me its Subnautica because the progression works so well. I've tried lots of survival games and sandbox games with similar progression afterwards, but none of them had the same impact on me. It's also because of the genre - Sci-fi on an alien planet, discovering what actually happened, and all that baked into some real satisfying gaming loop. Also, without spoilers, the end sequence always makes me emotional, regardless of how many times I've played it. It just speaks to me on a personal level.

Great project, thanks for sharing.

Quick question: will this be self-hosted only or will there be a public instance or something the like?

This is fine.

Finally!

That rocks! Thank you @kavin@feddit.rocks !

Just for choosing: https://distrochooser.de/ - or put some distros with a tool like Ventoy on a USB stick and do a live install to test it on the actual system. The many options are a great thing, but of course not easy to get into at first. So I'd try not to overthink it, distrohopping is a hobby for some of us :D

For trying out how it looks and feels: https://distrosea.com/

For understanding more about Linux: https://linuxjourney.com/

I like that article, I'm in a similar position at the moment. I've been using Mint on my Nvidia machine for a long time now, but with the new Mint 22 update that's also based on Ubuntu 24.04, I'm facing similar issues and so I've done some distrohopping over the past couple of weeks. I've tried Aurora/Bazzite and Nobara as Fedora based distros, Garuda and CachyOS as Arch based ones, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and probably something else I can't remember right now. All of them were great distros but had certain flaws that were offputting somehow. And I'm in no rush, since Mint 21.3 is still supported for a while.

I'm still open to suggestions what to try next! I'm getting faster and faster with fresh installs :)

No I loved it, interesting read.

In January I read this post on the Linux Mint forums saying: "Wayland isn't expected to replace Xorg as default any time soon, not in 21.3, not in 22.x, but we want to be ready all the same."

A blog post in January stated that Linux Mint 22's "Cinnamon edition will include a new Nemo Actions Organizer". But that's all I know sadly.

Cool question! Just dropping !emulation@lemmy.ml here in case some aren't aware of that community.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/article_rss.php - if you are interested in gaming at all

This is old news, it's working for over 5 years now.

I'm using Linux Mint with an Nvdia card and it works great. But I don't have a completely new PC so I don't need the latest of the latest stuff. Taking your hardware into account is always a good idea.

My advice: don't switch too fast, maybe keep dual boot at first and give yourself time to learn. Try distros with a live USB stick on your system to see if it works. For the look and feel consult https://distrosea.com/ and play around. Linux can be fun and it's serving gamers very well now (for the most part - there are games that won't run mostly due to invasive rootkit 'anti-cheats').

If you do a quick web search, you can find 5 years old reddit posts that link to the exact same github of d07RiV that is first mentioned in the article. So I suppose DevilitionX will be around for the same amount of time.

From their website:

"Update on Your Terms

Pop!_OS provides the latest features and security patches through rolling updates and periodic OS version upgrades, to be performed at your discretion. And if you want a clean slate, the Refresh Install feature resets your OS while preserving the files in your Home folder. "

Well, it all comes down to tastes and preferences, but Linux Mint is made to be a very easy transition for (ex-)Windows users. It works out of the box, looks intuitive and has great support on their forums. Give it a try and if you feel like you want to try out other distros later, it all gets easier once you are familiar with Linux overall.

And yes, what you mean is dual booting and Mint asks you on install if you want to choose that option and sets everything up for you.

People often forget that they also often have to tinker with making games work in Windows, because they are more familiar with the OS and get it done faster. Also I think you'd be surprised how many games just run without any tinkering at all nowadays. But then there are some that don't run at all, mostly due to invasive rootkit 'anti-cheats'. That's no real loss for me, I wouldn't install something like that on a Windows machine either.

Thank you for this. I think it's good practice not to post plain codes but to obfuscate them in some way so that they are not snatched by bots. Not sure if this a big problem on Lemmy though.

Well, Tannis too. But they apparently don't follow the games timeline, otherwise Mordecai and Brick would be there instead of Tiny Tina and Krieg.

Great and very informative read, also good advice for people who want to contribute but aren't able to write code.

The blog post is about KDE of course, but I think the idea isn't limited to that project. There was this post on Lemmy not so long ago where people were discussing other ways of contributing or how people help with open source projects. And there were quite a few who said they can't code but would like to help with other things (apart from donating money).

Wow what a ride. Congrats on making it work, I'm not sure if I wouldn't have given up at some point. Great job!

About kissing M$'s ass, don't get me started on updating the BIOS on a HP Laptop, they require you to do that in Windows cause it's the only way to get their downloader to run. So it's not only Lenovo's Laptops that don't play nice with Linux.

Interesting. In the trailer, I don't mind Jack Black (not sure if he is a good pick though), but I sure miss the complete insanity from Tina. That's what made her character so crazy and fun for me (yes, that sounds weird, even for myself).

I really liked it, I had the Flatpak version installed, but when opening larger text documents (with 20+ pages) it took forever to open them, so I stopped using it.

Don't have TV for almost 20 years now, don't miss it a bit. There's only crap on TV, nothing I wanna waste my time on, and adverts all over the place. Who wants that?

Wow, this is BIG. Especially the export option. You rock!