That’s fair. Honestly, the only games in my experience that don’t run on Linux have been artificially crippled with anticheat; I even play some old ones that don’t even run on windows anymore 😂

Is 89% of the top 1000 not good enough to just call it 90% of games?

If it’s your daily, sure, use Mint. But you will learn a lot more about Linux if you install Arch the hard way, especially if it’s your “fuckin’ around PC”.

I was troubleshooting some audio hardware and decided that I should try it on windows, to make sure it was hardware and not software. So I tried to download an install disc image that I could put on my thumb drive and it was surprisingly hard, then I got driver failures, then I lost count of all the boxes I had to uncheck, then finally after like 2 hours I was greeted by ads on my desktop. Just a really bad experience overall. I cannot fathom why anyone uses that piece of crap.

Anyway so I figured out it was a Linux problem because of course it was just plug-and-play on Windows, and I found my misconfiguration and fixed it in 10 seconds, and I thought about the tech literacy of the average person, and realized that is why people use windows. They don’t care about shit except least resistance. That was the first time I’ve booted windows since 2020 though, so here’s hoping it was the last time.

I used to have a Nvidia card when I started my Linux lifestyle. It wasn’t that big of a deal but a few things were broken especially with Wayland, which was hot garbage at the time. I switched to AMD for ideological reasons a couple years ago, but almost all of the problems had been resolved. I assume now only extreme edge cases would be a problem.

As far as gaming, I used to use ProtonDB before every purchase but now I just assume shit will work with a few exceptions. I don’t play games that don’t run on Linux so im missing out on CoD and a few other competitive games, but on the whole I don’t care about those games anyway. I have hundreds of games in my library and they all run beautifully on Linux with no tinkering, I can’t even remember the last time I had to fix anything.

Honestly it’s gotten boring, come to realize I actually prefer tinkering to actually playing games.

That’s reasonable. Thanks!

Why would they not just use an Arch base like the real SteamOS does?

LibreOffice + self-hosted next cloud = ???

You’re a hero it worked perfectly

I’ll try that 👍 thank you

Acid freaks are probably more reliable than chat gpt

Toots and the Maytals are absolute legends, excellent find. Do you listen to the reggae music a lot?

I always thought it was “prizes”

Of course it’s proof of concept, that was my bad. Thanks!

What does PoC mean in this context?

http://aaronhoyt.com/gfy.asp

I appreciate your help my dude I think I was missing lib32-mesa, it’s all good now

I installed lib32-mesa and now it works

I’m plugged in with a high speed HDMI right into my GPU

My aspect ratio on kde display settings is 16:9, resolution 3640x2160

I’ve played in 4k on this machine before with these games, but that was before I reinstalled a couple weeks ago to fix a different problem (mostly Helldivers 2, DOOM 2016, and CoD WWII)

I ran

paru -Syyu amdgpu 

I could be missing something though theoretically I’m not out to say I know everything

I replaced my 1660 with a 6700XT and I didn’t have to do anything, just plug and play. No drivers or anything. It was ah-mazing