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nvidia complicates this, as always

sometimes people need time, it’s ok to prepare yourself for the switch by slowly going foss, for example. a lot of them end up switching eventually.

for me, the main thing about the “expert” distros like arch or gentoo is ease of customization and modularity. i would probably have a better time switching subsystems around until i find something i like on such a distro. gentoo was practical back in the early days of proton, when i needed to compile things with cherrypicked patches and use different versions of stuff to get some games to work.

and the learning that comes with it too.

i don’t use arch (or gentoo) rn, btw. just saying it’s valuable too, if that’s what you want from a distro.

we should really be less inclined to put up with their continued existence.

south america, mostly.

but shit, us macbooks seem to cost as much as an used car too, don’t they?

only if you are a first world dev that can shell out (good) used car money for an overpriced laptop. i bet you could get that in that overall performance ballpark for much cheaper.

this except for the macbook. experienced computer people know better.

think a dirt cheap used latitude or a thinkpad. or a black box desktop.

SUDO

and we do it at work because it makes things easier in the long run!

great idea to do some of this stuff at home too.

what demand??

we do, actually.

imagine not knowing the difference between a murderous empire wreaking havoc in the world for centuries and china.

they are already on 4.0, way past 3. they are uncomfortable, in uncharted territory.

you no like jar jar binks? what did general jar jar binks do to you? 🤪

roiland was sadly a cornerstone of the show.

both. they can also work together for windows games to run predictably through proton without the need for distro-specific tweaks.

that’s because proton is not an emulator but a translator, so it’s interacting directly with the aforementioned system libraries and kernel instead of emulating those.

it’s part of how it can be so fast.

different distros have different environments. as in different libraries, versions and ways of accomplishing the same tasks. this is good for the linux ecosystem but bad for developers who want a predictable and stable set of tools they can build upon.

this system addresses just that by providing this stable set of libraries and tools developers can target instead.

eli5 it’s basically so your choice of distro doesn’t affect game compatibility, and developers don’t have to add manual support for every distro a user might want to run.

the majority of people do now

i try to always go straight to the point.

my job can be done from hoooooomeeeee!! stop making me commute 😩

it’s like these people enjoy our pain.