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and by a lot, if the latest 5% on steam statistic turns out to be reliable.

tbf shaming can be a good tactic, in some specific situations.

i think linux emphasizes the advantage of being able to fork code without the bad parts in this case.

the problem is they will probably target the infrastructure our linux machines connect through, or the services themselves as we’ve already started seeing.

i’ve been interested in those decentralized long range radio networks lately, for no particular reason.

you are absolutely correct in what you are getting at, i just chuckled when you went like “here’s how they maintain control: they maintain control”

that happened to me on nvidia when the apt packages auto updated but not the flatpak ones to match the new driver.

it was kind of a meme for a while in the 2000s that fusion energy was always right around the corner but never actually came. risc-v feels about like that atm.

so one of the reasons distros that update quicker and use newer software are generally considered advanced is because they use brand new less tested software that breaks easier. ie. for enthusiasts looking for all the new shiny features all the time, the best possible performance or easy modularity at the cost of stability.

it’s what i mean when i say you have to accept you need the right tool for the job. newbies who expect and need a stable hands-off experience like you are recommended debian, mint, ubuntu and such for a reason.

don’t worry though, the cool new features and performance will trickle down to you whenever they are ready for wide adoption. and you can be an enthusiast on a boring distro too.

is this the nuclear fusion by 2020 of our generation?

i find that bazzite can be a great beginner distro, as it has some sane quality of life defaults baked in over fedora, but fedora is not bad if you can get used to default dockless gnome for example.

you are arguing from a place of stubbornness. cachy arch and nix are not supposed to be newbie friendly distros. linux doesn’t break easily at all, but only if you accept you need the right tool for that job.

it’s like that youtuber that keeps insisting on using pop os with a beta desktop when he knows its not windows and breaks, and then complains it’s not windows and breaks.

i work with linux and i’ve been updating hundreds of debian, ubuntu and assorted turnkey distros over decades without issue, and you could too.

cachyos is not a system for newbies, or absolute stability. nix isn’t it either.

try fedora, debian, ubuntu, mint or something newbie friendly if you want a newbie friendly experience.

it’s used as a sort of runtime that executes programs made for gnome, on environments that are not gnome.

i’m full of kde stuff on my gnome desktop, no worries.

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often on linux, you can simply type man <command> and get TFM

i would agree with you on GUI apps, where it can be confusing.

so far

probably over vanilla, but it’s important to note a couple of outliers really did see big performance gains.

iirc dirt i think?

how is resource consumption? how is the hardware you are running it on?

except they are literally eroding privacy as we speak in this slope we have been slipping down on for a decade or two at this point, as if this is happening in a vacuum.

we can be mad at multiple things at once, especially when they are all part of the same effort.

they are also free to not implement spyware on theirs.

does ncurses stuff count or is TUI cheating?