I would have said GTA6, though it doesn’t seem like things are great at Rockstar and I wonder how much that has affected the product.

Also, if HL3 actually comes out, I am obligated by the years of swooning to name that as my GOTY. It actually seems close but I’ll believe it when I see it.

Slop gonna slop

A bigger issue is that the Steam Deck touchpads don’t work without Steam being open

This is interesting, because the touchpads on the Steam Controller do work without Steam being open, at least on Linux, though without cursor acceleration. I wonder why the touchpads on the Deck were handled differently.

Their no DRM commitment and use of AI slop cancel each other out, in my view.

Not true about Proton. It’s Steam DRM that requires Steam running in the bg, same as on Windows.

Yeah this clown and like half the Dem establishment needs to go. Maybe more than half. I’m not one for the “both parties are the same” bullshit, but between the enablements and the not listening to constituents, it is clear that many of these people are incapable of performing the duties for which they were elected.

I had started to assume this was the case.

With all the layoffs in tech, I’m just hoping the Frame releases while I can justify it.

Totally. Linux is (in part) about choice. If you like Mint, use Mint.

I’ve been a Linux user for 5+ years and played with a bunch of different distros. I have Arch (btw) on a laptop that I don’t have to depend on. But my gaming rig is still running Pop. Why? Because I like it and it’s stable. A bonus that it’s now bundled with Cosmic, because I like Cosmic too.

But at the end of the day, it’s true that you can kind of do anything with any distro. The package manager is one obvious difference. I do like Pacman (from Arch) more than apt on Debian derivatives, but like, it’s just a package manager. Not worth changing a comfortable system over.

Don’t listen to people who say you can’t run a “beginner distro” until the end of time. If you like it, you like it.

Definitely makes a lot of sense to use a VM for it. Though there is something fun about having a spare laptop and just playing on bare metal.

Vibe hacking is the future. Really.

I strongly dislike how the zone is getting flooded with “now it’s not X, but Y” in terms of distro recommendations.

Not knowing what a distro is and where to start is one of the main issues with people who may want to switch to Linux but don’t know how to do it. If Mint getting called out as a good place to start allows them to switch, then they should install Mint. If Ubuntu is all they have heard of, and it makes them try the switch, then they should install Ubuntu. Tbh, the only really dangerous approach is starting with something like Arch which, despite fantastic documentation, is probably more likely to turn new users away.

Don’t let perfection be the enemy of progress. Someone who starts from either Mint or Ubuntu or whatever can distro hop later. Let’s not muddy the waters even more for our would-be Windows refugees.

One of the most interesting features is the 4.2-inch reflective liquid crystal display (RLCD), which offers a 300×400 resolution in black and white. Unlike traditional LCDs, the RLCD uses ambient light instead of a backlight, resulting in an ePaper-like reading experience with very low power consumption and fast refresh times.

I’m legitimately excited just at these RLCDs. Devices with actual e-ink displays tend to be pricey, especially in larger sizes, for a few reasons. For one, it’s a niche market. For two, there is little competition in the space. Not technically monopolized, but close.

I really want to be able to play with devices using something like e-ink for the power savings. Not sure if RLCD has the same capabilities (some of which are limitations I guess, but they are capabilities for power saving), though the article does mention low power draw.

It’s just more barebones than lots of other options, and distro hopping tends to be about exploration. There isn’t a whole lot to explore on Debian, because its purpose is stability and simplicity.

You find tons of Debian-derived distros exactly for this reason. They build on that stable core but add bells and whistles. Distros usually are defined by which bells and whistles they include by default.

I’m running Mint currently

I’m wondering if there is a lot of benefit to going more barebones

Not really. On the scale at which homelabs operate, I doubt you’ll see any difference at all – except what might be the significant time sink to set everything up again.

I’m not having any issues with my current setup

I’d put this firmly in the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” category. Mint is already a distro which is ultimately a Debian derivative. It operates more like Debian as opposed to, say, Fedora or Arch. While it can be enticing to explore the many options of Linux, the benefit isn’t clear here.

Now, distro hopping on a nonproduction system? Something where you don’t care what’s on it and you just want to experiment? That’s one of the best parts of being a Linux user. But at least do that first before even approaching breaking something that isn’t broken.

It sounds more like you want to have fun distro hopping, and believe me: I can tell you from experience that distro hopping isn’t fun if you have to rely on that machine.

This is it. This is when it actually becomes permanent.

Bots?

If the “don’t tread on me” morons weren’t such pushovers, he wouldn’t think he could get away with so much.

That would be reported.

Friends don’t let friends be root.

Just to clarify: the “much smoother” is subjective and might be an oversimplification, but the “not using Gnome” part is correct.

Personally I don’t use any Gnome extensions and have much preferred Cosmic to the old Pop Shell. YMMV.

There is no metric anywhere where these numbers signal success.

It is more evidence that AI is running on 100% pure, unadulterated C-suite hopium – the kind of hopium that can only come from the people who make the most and know the least.