And also all the other improvements of the Linux world : Vulkan, KDE/Gnome, Wayland, Pipewire, Wine, Proton, Valve, Flatpaks.
Is this the year?
OpenBSD master race.
OpenBased
OpenBasedSecureDistrobution
I don’t really get the hype? I’m using arch myself and all I can find online is that it’s suppose to be more secure. More secure in what way?
In many ways.
But is it actually faster? Is it better for my use case (AI, Gaming, programming)?
It is amazingly resource-friendly and its SMP is being optimized.
No, for speed and/or gaming, I’d recommend DragonFly BSD (or FreeBSD which has a built-in Linux emulator that could - in theory - run Steam). For development, however, the BSDs are generally quite friendly. Note that the BSDs usually use Clang and a POSIX shell (or tcsh) instead of GCC and bash, so you won’t have GNUisms by default.
In theory you say, so does it run the same applications like my arch install?
Most of them should be available in the native ports/packages. The porters community is rather active.
I see! What about proton and wine? And what about Nvidia drivers? I’m willing to try it out actually
Me: I’ma install mint and stop using Windows. Bullshit OS locked me out one too many times
Steam voice chat cracking sound: u sure 'bout that?
Gamepass: we got literally every game you were looking forward to this year except like… one. Sure, you could wait 10 minutes in line to play them on X-cloud, but you won’t hit decent FPS.
Civ 5 starting in 4:3 and crashing as I join a game: you should boot into windows my friend. This ain’t it.
Death by 1000 papercuts, there’s always a thing or two that won’t work perfectly. Sorry to hear that man. It’s really nice for those of us that don’t have any issues like that. Hopefully when/if you try again in the future things go more smoothly.
Yet all the issues on Windows are not painful to work with? It seems like Linux issues are becoming largely simple as using a more up to date distribution like fedora. Could try to replicate the steam os configuration to get better gaming performance and stability. The biggest thing about Linux is that you are in control. There are too many people who don’t want to have any control and act like pets to these corporations.
Not what I said at all. But when you are switching from a platform whose issues are familiar and already factored into your workflow to a new one, the new platform has to justify itself despite those new issues. I’m an avid Linux user and could not imagine going back to Windows for work, but we can’t expect people to deal with new issues when they are already exhausted by old ones. The experience has to be better in basically every way to convince people who aren’t actively interested to switch. I think with the dust settling in audio and video stuff and the new crop of sleek DEs we are getting close to that, but for many people Windows is a better experience despite all those problems, because everything else is still that much simpler. Control does not necessitate complexity, and Linux is still more complex.
The “gaming” issues in Windows are almost non-existent. I can easily plug 4 wireless controllers, set them up in 5 minutes max without command line to play Tape2Tape. I can buy and download my games on another platform than Steam. I can play Valorant. I don’t, but I can…
To me, Linux seems great, until I want to play games. Looking up what to use for gaming, pop! os, manjaro and mint are all that appeared in search results. I didn’t want to get in the deep end with Manjaro and I don’t really like the pop! os vibe, so I got Mint.
So for anything other than gaming, I agree. Linux is better. It’s more performant, it’s more convenient in most cases (looking at you, keyboard layouts that can’t be removed in Windows for no reason).
For playing games however, without both Gamepass, or being able to just click Play and start the game, instead of installing GE Proton, then go to protondb every time you start playing a game to check which version of Proton you need to run, it will never truly compete with Windows.
stop using old shit like Mint and use Nobara or any other distro that has already implemented all the new driver gaming improvements
You’re the first person to tell me that. Everywhere I looked told me to use mint. I will look up Nobara this weekend.
It’s those damn computer makers! Damn them all to hell. They won’t pre-install, so clearly that’s what is keeping the far superior OS with single-digit marketshare. Clearly, that must be it!1!!
How’s the market share going?
Pretty good gains this year, currently at 3.19%. New data coming in 2 days.
Flatpak is not an improvement
Yes it is. Why would it not be an improvement? Software packages that support every single distro makes stuff so much easier for both devs & users
Because it is packaging regression. 497 megs for GIMP vs 49.7 is very bad. For graphical libraries this is very bad. Why many games don’t support wayland? Because libSDL shipped with it does not support wayland.
It’s a tradeoff. You have to include more in the image but being able to target way more linux users is an obvious win. I would call the horrible state of linux desktop fragmentation “very bad” as well.
Flatpaks have finally made most distros interchangeable for me, they’re a wonderful tool. Not every single thing should be installed with them, but the current compromise of shipping core system components (including DEs in here) as native packages and user apps as flatpaks has drastically reduced the amount of troubleshooting I’ve had to do. When the vast majority of your tiny packages have no overhead, you can eat a few gigs for a nicer user experience. Even on my 120GB laptop that hasn’t been a practical issue for me.
“improvements” … flatpaks
*doubt*
Could be worse, could be snaps.
true
What’s wrong with flatpaks?
It is static binary not installed by system package manager, but worse
It has/had some security issues.
Really? Fuck Docker and now Flatpacks too? Wasn’t the containerization safer?
It’s much safer. It’s just not perfect, and critics seem to imply it a lack of perfection is a knock against it.
I disagree with those critics that moving to flatpak is somehow worse than distro repos. At the same time, flatpak and docker are not the endgame. We know that a better way is possible (take a look at BSD jails for an example), it will just take linux another couple decades to get there as it always does.
The goals of the two technologies are fundamentally different. Jails are closer to Linux’s firejails or bubble wrap, or perhaps even LXC and Docker.
Flatpak is primarily for software distribution.
In comparison to just installing completely unsandboxed apps?
