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  • Linux is now the best gaming system.

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  • Getting mods working for games

    Yeah mods can be quite troublesome.

    If you use a hard drive other than your os install drive then you need to go to the steam website to get the installer and not use the one in the built in app store.

    Sounds like a steam problem.

    Non gaming related I've had numerous issues trying to manage permissions for my hard drives

    Eh, i remember mounting being a bit troublesome a few years back, but current GNOME should take of that for you with very little input on your end. This brings us to PopOS 22 which is starting to get really old at this point, I'd consider moving away to something that's not left abandoned while they finish up Cosmic.

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  • Setting up dual boot takes like an hour. But yeah, there's no rush to it, linux will still be there tomorrow. I don't recommend buying a new pc and changing OS at the same time though. You don't want to test your new hardware on a system you're not familiar with.

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  • I was thinking of doing that once I get my new pc.

    Why wait? Hard drives don't have compatibility issues, and you can always just use clonezilla to copy and paste the system to a new NVME SSD later on if you like.

    As for the VM it'd probably be better the other way around, gaming on VMs is not that great an experience and gpu passthrough is complicated to setup.

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  • Games having access to everything i do on my pc is sheer lunacy. Let the devs sanitize their fucking inputs and not give client information the player shouldn't have access to. Anti cheat has always been an arms race, nothing, and that does include your kernel anti cheat, will ever completely stop cheaters.

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  • Dual boot is always a thing, it doesn't have to be one or the other.

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  • So there you have it, you either stop playing all multiplayer games (not even just competitive ones!) entirely

    There's plenty of multiplayer games that run just fine on linux. Including FPS games with perfectly functional anti cheat, it's just a select few which are unfortunately very popular that actively block linux. This is the part where you put your money where your mouth is and support the games that support the system you want to game on.

  • Lenovo now ship with Fedora

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  • Ubuntu is based on Debian so regular Mint is actually 2 levels down from upstream. But Mint has started offering a Debian base recently called LMDE if you want to check it out.

    As for whether Arch is bad for beginners. Kinda. It's a DIY distro, assuming you can follow tutorials and guides it's pretty straight forward, especially with the archinstall script. But if you're uncomfortable with a terminal install, you can try out EndeavourOS which features a full gui install and a few tweaks to make it easier on beginners.

  • Diving into daily driving Linux

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  • Well Arch is great at what it does: getting you the latest packages of everything without needing to upgrade every 6 months or whatever; that does come at the cost of a bit less stability. There's EndeavourOS if you're uncomfortable installing from the console.

  • Diving into daily driving Linux

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  • The main issue with nobara is that it's handled by a single person. Almost everything you get on nobara you can get with a few commands on the terminal in fedora; and whatever patches they have under the hood will at best get a marginal performance boost and at worst cause major crashes and issues.

    Nobara is a solid choice for people that don't like to tweak their system too much because it comes with everything you need to play games from the get-go. If you're more of a power user there's very little reason to pick it over fedora or arch.

  • Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military

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  • Do not get steamos lol.

    Any regular desktop distribution is fine (fedora, mint...), if you have new hardware you'll want a recent kernel. Nvidia gpus can be problematic. You can always try the distro before installing.

  • [SOLVED]Can't get a singe game to run on Mint or POP

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  • How do I check for drivers updates manually?

    Your distribution handles the packaging and distribution of your drivers, if they're not in your distribution repository you can install them manually (not recommended), use a flatpak (can be awkward), or wait.

    If you want bleeding edge drivers you get a bleeding edge distribution like Arch. Fedora is good too but you will only get the latest version every 6 months and after that it's stable releases till the next fedora upgrade.

  • Call of Duty will finally let console players turn off crossplay to dodge PC cheaters, which is potentially terrible news for all the legit PC players

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  • This would kill the fun for everyone but the best. SBMM is there to protect casuals and new players, aka 90% of players.

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  • Firefox's reader view (ctrl alt r) is a godsend for cases like these.

  • Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account

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  • The nvidia support is getting better, but yeah they're years late compared to AMD which basically has better drivers on linux than windows.

  • Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account

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  • Sure, as long as you run a wayland capable DE. Like GNOME or KDE. It's still experimental in linux mint afaik. You might have a few problems if you have an NVIDIA card (no proper wayland support) or HDMI cables (limited to 144 fps because of copyright issues iirc).

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  • The problem with this line of thinking is that it applies to literally anything: "If you're not comfortable, don't let your kids smoke". A lot of parents are shit or just don't care to micromanage their kids' life. That's where the government needs to step in and decide what is ok for the kids to be exposed to or not.

    Parents ultimately always have the veto choice, but whether Roblox is appropriate for kids to begin with is the real crux of the issue. The CEO just doesn't want that discussion to happen for obvious reasons.

  • Apple, Meta likely to face modest fines over DMA breaches, sources say

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  • The fine is up to 10% of their global annual sales. Not even profits, sales. We'll see if the EU is willing to follow through on their threats.

  • Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data

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  • Do you actively consent to everything that happens around you? When you pick up an apple, do you consent to the pesticides used on them? Truth is, everyday of our lives we passively consent to a myriad of things to other people that know better than we do.

    In this case no matter how many ways firefox is telling users that they have no reason to be worried, they keep clutching their pitchforks in the worry that firefox has suddenly turned into google (who btw have to abide by privacy laws just the same). There are no informed here, only pitchfork wielders.

  • Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data

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  • Yes, which means they don't want anything from them.

    And yet they're using the application. Don't you want the applications that you use to work better? This is what telemetry enables, the ability to give feedback without jumping through 10 hoops, creating an account, responding to a survey, or whatever other method you're thinking of to give feedback.