use the browser

My firewall won’t allow it

I genuinely believe Fedora would be far more popular if it had a different name

THIS GUY USES ELECTRICITY! GET HIM!

It’s because the public at large has no idea how Linux or distros work.

Id personally have people using SteamOS than Windows, another thing is convincing people to use Linux is very difficult already.

Lua is awesome, I added some scripting to toggle replay buffer on OBS and to save recording from buffer then restart the buffer. IE: Save last 10-15 minutes of gameplay.

Very cool to do it in Lua.

Does anyone have this issue where the steam login toast just nukes the fps of whatever you’re playing ? I completely have disabled the overlay because of that.

Predicting a classic tale of comparing apple flagships to $150 android phones.

What’s the self hosted guide to security when opening up ports to the public ?

Are shareholders “owner” class or do they do actual work?

Mostly asking because of constant bullshit comments from shareholders at my workplace

I had this issue where a game wouldn’t launch at all and there weren’t any useful logs. I don’t know how to use wine to launch the game without steam so I didn’t do that. I stead I pretty much reinstalled kernel and dependencies. I don’t know what went wrong or how that fixed it but it did.

I think it had something to do with drivers.

I use reaper on Linux to monitor my guitar coming in from Axe Fx 3’s spdif output with very low latency. What exactly was giving you issues with latency ?

YouTube specifically? Or does it work as long as any audio is running? I usually leave games on and switch back in and the audio’s borked.

Fine, I’ll give this strategy a shot too: Linux is crap because when I switch USB audio interface with a switcher the audio becomes extremely borked likely because of buffer settings somehow changing, to me it feels like the buffer is too small and then all these audio crackling issues start propping up.

Windows doesn’t have this issue whatsoever, it’s only when I switch back to Linux in the switcher that the audio is borked.

Pipewire/Pipewire-pulse

The situation is really weighing on them

Arch in like 2019 maybe.

I still like Arch, I tried all sorts of distros in VMs, most feel clunky to me.

Tiling manager, GUI file explorer, minimal status bar and I’m set.

For my laptop this is swaywm, swaybar, nautilus.

I also use drun-like programs

Reddit Linux are just a bunch of gaming chuds. and I say that as a gamer.

They’ll take time to understand the landscape and there’s nothing wrong with that, yes reddit is dogshit but you won’t convince anyone by just telling them. They just have to look around for themselves.

All your concerns are valid and Linux handles all these well except:

If you play competitive games with kernel anti cheat it will simply not work on Linux courtesy of the game developers.

Linux is fully capable of running the game and the anti cheat but the game developers restrict it. Notable games are cod, fortnite, apex legends.

A notable competitive game that works on Linux is cs2 although you won’t be able to run 3rd party anti cheat like FACEIT as far as I know.

You can use the proton site to tell you how many of your games on your steam library are playable on Linux.

I’m on my 8th month or so using Linux to game and I’ve had no issues, most popular games will work. Most niche games use very simple tech like SDL and will just work.

Wine essentially creates a fake windows environment and handles a lot of internal API calls by kind of redirecting them to existing Linux services, so a lot of windows stuff will just work.

As for security. You realize most of the Internet runs on Linux ? Practically the majority of the internet is hosted on Linux machines.

As for a distrto there is no optimal choice you can make.

You can pick Ubuntu, Debian or Mint and find yourself disappointed in how restricting the power user experience is.

You can pick arch or cachy for the latest wine improvements but find yourself lost in how to handle the OS in case something goes wrong.

I personally think cachy (rolling release) is the best for gaming but you could encounter issues (skill issues really) that might frustrate you. These issues would lead to growth and improvement in your understanding of Linux but if all you want to do is game and you don’t care about understanding computers then it might not be for you.

I get where the replier is coming from but 100% where wi live if you chat with strangers on the bus you are being a monster.

I think it would be weird to introduce myself to them, here in Canada you do not really talk to other people on the bus except maybe if youre going to another city and have literally nothing else to do