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ACTUALLY it's GNU/Linux (pronounced gu-noo-SLASH-li-nux). I know it's just a "meme", but get your facts straight buddy, this ain't fucking le reddit.

Don't make me have to rm -rf your ass.

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Gaming Experience on Immutable Distros

I've been exclusively using Silverblue (well, Kinoite, which is the KDE version) as my main workstation OS for at least 8 months, and gaming on it is no different from other operating systems. Once you install Steam from Flathub, it all just works. The only difference is that you might need to give Steam permission to access your external drives if you want to add a Steam library on them. KDE Plasma lets you do it from the system settings app easily.

For generic Wine usage, I just use Lutris. Steam does allow you to add non-Steam games and run them through Proton, but IMO Lutris' interface is easier for doing more advanced Wine stuff without having to drop into a terminal. That's personal preference though.

As far as drivers, I didn't have trouble installing the Nvidia driver (I have a 1080 TI). I don't remember exactly what I did to install it system wide, since that was many months ago, but it was easy and well-documented IIRC.

What's more complicated is getting the driver to work in graphical apps launched from toolboxes. If you're doing development, or expect to build graphical software/games from source, you'll likely need to deal with this. Basically, you just need to install the driver again inside of the toolbox, and make sure it's the same version as what's installed on your base system. I have some scripts to automate this if you're interested, but it's not really that useful unless you're planning to use toolboxes a lot.

Overall, I'm very happy with Silverblue/Kinoite. The immutable base system gives me a lot of confidence on the long-term reliability of the system. Originally, I expected it to be a real blocker for most software, but the only thing I couldn't get working was TeamViewer (didn't try that hard tho tbh). I've even been able to get complex stuff to work like Unity, O3DE, Stable Diffusion webui, and a bunch of other AI-related stuff that is normally hard to install even on a regular system.

Fedora Kinoite: 9/10 -- highly recommend

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Why does it feel like we're at a point where every social media + other digital media are making shitty decisions and falling apart?

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The other element to this is the lack of competition. Since companies funded this way don’t need to turn a profit for a long time, they can very easily kill their competitors who do need to be profitable to survive.

So when the time comes for the company to turn a profit, there are few if any competitors left to put pressure on them, giving them the power to do what they want, and leaving consumers with no other options.

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time to game

No joke I have this controller too and it's great. The left analog stick on mine started to drift after about a year of street fighter, but that's better than most controllers. A hall effect version of this thing would be the last controller I'd ever buy.

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Now Lemmy Explain: Kbin

It’s a Lemmy alternative. They aim to do more or less the same thing, but are made by different people and developed independently.

But thanks to federation, Lemmy and Kbin can communicate similar to how Lemmy and Mastodon can communicate. So you can simply use the one you like best, and not worry about missing out on content posted to Lemmy.

Kbin is rough around the edges as it’s earlier in development than Lemmy, but it has more features than Lemmy, like a “microblogs” tab so that you can use it like Mastodon/Twitter if you want.

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List of lemmy apps

Sucks that all of the iOS apps require getting an invite to TestFlight, including joining some discord server to ask for it. It doesn’t help that Lemmy on mobile Safari sucks, so being an iOS user on Lemmy requires either a lot of patience or a high level of commitment.

It’s nice that there are a lot being worked on, but I feel like whichever hits the appstore first will win.