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  • I have a 3090 in one machine and a 7900XTX it my primary desktop. Pretending AMD “works fine and has no issues” is pure hogwash. When I primarily ran the 3090, I had no issues other than than the same standard ones I had with AMD (tearing in Xorg without picom, hardware playback in Youtube, etc).

    Every person who parrots “AMD good Nvidia bad” is the same type that believes “if it ain’t open source, it sucks”, and usually is in the “I run some gaming focused, Windows-like distro so I can play my non-open source games” camp.

    All I want is a simple questionnaire when someone signs up. “Would you run Linux on your desktop if it didn’t have Steam/Proton support?” that would just lock all you XBox lobby/Windows refugees into a LinuxGaming community.








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    If it works for somebody else, let them.

    If it was just another method of distribution I wouldn’t care. When it becomes the only or preferred method, then I care.

    If market share is your only metric for success, then I don’t know what to say. Look at the amount of threads/people stating “this basic thing didn’t work so it had to be the distros, switching distros solved my problem rather than trying to diagnose it”. Your idea of a “net positive” is a group of computer-illiterate Windows users who are now computer-illiterate Linux users, congratulations.

    And Gentoo? I remember drobbins from when we were on the Stampede Linux team and he was a dick then, apparently he still is. I wouldn’t touch Gentoo with a 10 foot pole.


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    Native, Containers, Appimages. Flatpak not in a million years.

    I really don’t know how to feel about all the Mint/flatpak supporters. It feels like a swarm of Windows refugees that have no interest in learning about the existing culture.

    Flatpaks, Gnome, KDE, they’re all just bloat. Back in the 90’s, Unix/BSD/Linux were everything that Windows wasn’t. Fast, stable, infinitely flexible. I cherished grepping for Exim config settings in /etc rather than searching through 250 management console tabs for MS Exchange.

    I run Arch and nearly everything I need is available as a package or in the AUR, except for the real niche apps that I can grab via cargo/pip/npm/podman. Occasionally however I find some app I’m interested in and they only support Ubuntu or Flatpak, and I feel like it’s getting worse so it’s not like I can just ignore it.








  • Personally I’m tired of people telling disgruntled Windows users to switch to Linux.

    Linux is not your backup plan, it’s not a “Windows alternative”. Yes, there are projects out there that try to make Linux easier for Windows users, and honestly they can fuck right off. Way too many people are trying to dumb down this incredibly powerful operating system to expand the market into the “gamers” and the “grannies who want to browse the web and send e-mail”.

    Just… just stop.