Communist @ communist @lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz

I'm an anarchocommunist, all states are evil.

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Hall effect everything, adaptive triggers, higher screen to body ratio, reduced weight, usb-c on top and bottom, enough performance to play spiderman 2 in particular on nice settings, 1080p, detachable siderail controllers, better haptics, better speakers. There's honestly a lot wrong with the steam deck these things were all off the top of my head, if they fix everything on that list I won't want any other gaming machine ever, though.

I want a second one because I know it'll blow the first one out of the water, with the first one they had to figure out all the r&d from scratch, with the two they should be able to refine the hell out of it, I think there's a good chance the 2 will be basically perfect. Shame they'll never make a 3 though.

They've fixed the fov (although maybe I used a mod) input latency was better than before but still not perfect.

No, that's a frog, good try though, maybe next time!

these are hurdles that exist for enterprise users not ones that exist for typical desktop users who want things like "why can't i see the names of the windows on the bar"

enterprise users expect to not have things be exactly the way they want and don't complain as much about customization needs

as someone who does one on one troubleshooting, people have a lot of problems with gnome, honestly if they did would they tell you?

Gnome is just a very fundamentally different experience than windows out of the box and while some, many even will love it, it is not the best default choice for windows converts.

A lot of people are going to recommend you mint, I honestly think mint is an outdated suggestion for beginners, I think immutability is extremely important for someone who is just starting out, as well as starting on KDE since it’s by far the most developed DE that isn’t gnome and their… design decisions are unfortunate for people coming from windows.

I don’t think we should be recommending mint to beginners anymore, if mint makes an immutable, up to date KDE distro, that’ll change, but until then, I think bazzite is objectively a better starting place for beginners.

The mere fact that bazzite and other immutables generate a new system for you on update and let you switch between and rollback automatically is enough for me to say it’s better, but it also has more up to date software, and tons of guides (fedora is one of the most popular distros, and bazzite is essentially identical except with some QoL upgrades).

How common is the story of “I was new to linux and completely broke it”? that’s not a good user experience for someone who’s just starting, it’s intimidating, scary, and I just don’t think it’s the best in the modern era. There’s something to be said about learning from these mistakes, but bazzite essentially makes these mistakes impossible.

Furthermore because of the way bazzite works, package management is completely graphical and requires essentially no intervention on the users part, flathub and immutability pair excellently for this reason.

Cinnamon (the default mint environment) doesn’t and won’t support HDR, the security/performance improvements from wayland, mixed refresh rate displays, mixed DPI displays, fractional scaling, and many other things for a very very long time if at all. I don’t understand the usecase for cinnamon tbh, xfce is great if you need performance but don’t want to make major sacrifices, lxqt is great if you need A LOT of performance, cinnamon isn’t particularly performant and just a strictly worse version of kde in my eyes from the perspective of a beginner, anyway.

I have 15 years of linux experience and am willing to infinitely troubleshoot if you add me on matrix.

To take a serious stab at this post

I know, every time it’s rare.

Do you know it isn't? sometimes rare things happen to you.

It’s not a real issue.

who has ever said that to you?

I chose the wrong distro. I have the wrong graphics card. I should have known to use kde over gnome for this use case.

are you aware that if you ask questions nicely and with humbleness instead of like a jerk you'll get different styles of answers?

I should have known that electron and Wayland were a mess at the time despite being the recommended desktop

that's fixed and long passed us, they were new and experimental for a while but now they're mostly the default.

based on you not reading documentation and then getting mad at it in the other post i'm inclined to agree

the documentation doesn't say to use xrandr to do that, it gives clear instructions you didn't follow.

Do you have statistics to prove otherwise?

I promise you I’ve never had to run something like xdotool or xrander just to set up basic shit like mouse gestures or a default display like a tv.

you don't, why would you? use kde they have built in stuff for this... you said you use bazzite

you're unlucky and such issues are rare, except nvidia problems I'd say issues are actually less frequent. i have helped countless people install linux.

do you honestly think your single experience is representative? do you not think i could find countless reports of windows doing the same?

An opinion from 10 years ago

Because zipline is the one doing it, not chipotle, and it's their entire business model and they're doing a great job and are already fully profitable in the third world.

plus they've learned a lot from amazons failings.

A democratic hoax to throw bill under the bus

Is the tetrapod leg not also a modified appendage that we call a leg?

Please include an easter egg that leads to this post, thank you

It does not reduces maintenance.

It absolutely does, package maintainers just have to maintain ONE package for all distros.

And it costs hard drive, and with heavy use, probably ram too

This isn't performance really, it's storage, and I don't think it actually impacts ram.

Maintenance is only reduced on the surface level. The complexity you don’t see as a problem is the actual maintenance problem. It’s not a problem only if you’re not the one dealing with integration, maintenance or security.

This is a case you're going to have to try a lot harder to make, I don't see what you're saying at all.

But this one in particular vastly reduces maintenance, doesn't do anything at all to performance, and only arguably adds complexity, I think it needs to be case by case.