I think that’s called a raspberry pie, essentially.

Are they? Do they even have a linux client yet? I’d say they are second class citizens at best.

So, not really GtaVC not really running on a router. amazingly useless, too.

After twenty years on Steam, I’ve been asked three times to participate in the survey on my gaming setup, and on three occasions I played on Windows. No survey in the last five years while using Linux. :)

I’ve got it twice on my work laptop, where I used it just for the messenger, back when I ran an active community for a game.

Not sure if I want to trust that data.

The opposite. Not found negatives. Anti-virus software can only tell you that it didn’t find a virus, not that there aren’t any.

It might be edge cases. I’ve played games on proton just fine with my 1060 and now my 3070. Doom eternal, Tomb Raider, Hitman, Cities Skylines, Guild Wars 2, 7 Days to Die, a whole range of games.

My 960 didn’t work at all, and I had to dual boot windows to play any game. Most Linux distros didn’t boot, even.

I never managed to eliminate tearing though.

I’ve been using steam since Half Life 2 released and had the survey pop up twice. And both times major data-points were completely wrong. Like resolution (it apparently used my second screen) and HDD space.

That data is about as relevant as a once a lifetime epidemiologic study about diet preferences.

Would a non-linux user visit any such sub-community though? Perhaps Linux news and discussions would be better off in a sub-community? Actual users are more sensible to such distinctions. Many potential new users have a hard time choosing a distro already. Adding yet another choice might be detrimental to the cause.

Every single story saturates the perception-pool a bit more. The more normal it appears, the more people will realize that windows isn’t all-present anymore, and that it’s not a weird thing to do to try Linux.

To me, that would be more like “I stopped eating junk” posts. The world needs more of those.

That is how I see it, at least.

I back up my homedir and data with regular tools. I am trying to come up with a reason why my whole system might need one. 95% of that is basically the standard stuff.

I guess I believe that backups and file systems should be separate things.

I had to look that up. Never became an issue for me on any distro. How do you get a broken system when updating? Does it really happen that often? I might just have been lucky.

It could be done for tech. It is impossible for vegans. That was all I was saying. Or wanted to say.

I was referring to the spectrum computer, which can’t run Linux. It wasn’t about people on the Spectrum, which are probably all of us, in some fashion?

Ah, that makes sense. Inwas hung up on the word, interpreting it as a single guy, not an entity. Thank you.

Shared containers work beautifully for a lot of things, though, many programs aren’t all that sensitive either. Making snaps for the tricky ones makes sense. Having snaps for all of them is ridiculous.

I can count the software requiring repo-pins on one hand on my desktop. For those, snaps make sense, replacing the need for any pins. Snaps are less confusing than pins. IMO.

It reminds me of Python programming, with requirements pinned to version ranges. Some dev-teams forget, and their apps won’t work out of the box. Sometimes, software still works ten years later, if they only use the most common arguments and commands from the packages.

Snaps <==> Virtualenv.

How is “the dev of the app” defined, exaxtly?

Bad analogy really. Vegans aren’t completely self-sustainable in the wild.

Isn’t nix mostly for multi-system install? I did the nix thing a few years ago, spent a month on the config, and then never needed it again. Personally, I don’t see a use-case for single desktop installation ;)

I was told that linux doesn’t work on the Spectrum oO

I’ve had serious trouble with pop and usb devices waking up from sleep. Tried for weeks. Also had trouble with many flatpacks. Most help pages and tutorials were outdated or plain wrong, too.

Changed to arch eventually. Never regretted it. Mostly coding and gaming. Eventually deleted windows, because, well, everything just worked. I must have reinstalled pop like eight times. Am still sporting the first arch installation. Well. EndeavourOS, really.