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Hey, at least it’s not P2W… right?

… which makes it even more wonderful, since those file hosting sites are now somehow able to serve video streaming to millions of viewers across the world FOR FREE.

I’d have agreed but hundreds of fmovies and similar sites exist on the high seas that provide free streaming of millions of HD content (movies, web series, etc.) somehow. They use some third-party video host that is magically able to concurrently serve millions of people.

If Red Hat were to stop officially supporting Fedora tomorrow, can you guarantee the project will still survive?

Can Android/AOSP survive if Alphabet were to give up on it tomorrow?

Fedora is run by RedHat/IBM employees but OK

Debian bookworm (12) ships with version 525, so that’s all you’ll get officially.

Debian bullseye (11) is the one that comes with version 470. So clean-installing that is the best bet.

Or you can try to download a driver package from Nvidia’s website and try to manually install it in an overcomplicated process that involves patching your kernel with dkms. In my personal experience this almost always breaks things and is not recommended.

This is one of the drawbacks with Debian’s “stability”. Every stable version of Debian is a standalone, monolithic bundle of software that rarely allows for version changes.

If possible I’ll suggest you shift to Mint. It comes with a dedicated GUI driver manager for installing and switching multiple driver versions.

No, though it is weird that you feel like you should ask such nonsensical questions in public forums.

What does it have over base Arch?

It’s Pichai’s handiwork from what I understand. He was in charge of it before becoming CEO according to Wikipedia.

Hey, they at least prioritise contributing upstream. Canonical is much worse.

The article is not at all answering the headline

Yes indeed, Sir. Your generation was the only Enlightened one, everyone younger than you is just a reel-addicted monkey incapable of reading.

Huh? That game is among the least lively in its genre. Even Cyberpunk2077 NPCs were more immersive.

Go back to reddit if all you have is cringy shit to post like this

Microsoft plays just like it has always played - with OEM contracts and being the default OS choice. Linux remains niche as long as Microsoft has this, unless they decide to roll out a mainstream distro themselves.

It’s not just to start an argument. I have tried so, so hard to shift to Linux. Nuked perfectly working setups just to take the jump to the “free” side (including Arch, btw).

It all only ended in frustration and disappointment. So everytime people toot “year of the Linux desktop” it only makes me laugh.

Some apps? “Very few” apps? Buddy, you either aren’t running much software at all or are delusional. Entire Desktop Environments to this day have ass fractional scaling that can’t render things correctly without eating up resources and making them look horribly blurry. Fonts look terrible and have bad kerning even with all anti-aliasing settings correctly set. Even colors are dull across the board by default. Not to mention there will always be random glitches and your graphics card fan will always be on full power unless you turn it off because of shit throttling even with official Nvidia drivers.

Just try using browsers and file managers between Linux distros and Windows on default settings on medium-tier, 5-year-old machines side-by-side, the difference will be starkly visible - from responsiveness and animations to general look quality.

Have you guys fixed your graphics stack to keep up with current High-DPI and HDR displays yet? No? LOL happy new year of the eyesore desktop to you too

You at least have to appreciate the effort that went into writing this

Pushing a shitty launcher,

Fuck them. That’s horrible.

selling abandoned games,

Why is this a problem? It’s literally a good that those games aren’t being lost to oblivion

selling incomplete games,

As in unfinished? That’s the devs’ fault.

putting DRMs on multiplayer,

Without that there will be a humongous rise in cheating in online games

selling a lot of low quality games

Literally not an issue. They are a marketplace and frequented by indie devs, they can sell as many shitty games as they like. In fact I would like them to be more of a platform like itch.io

not expanding their overworked team despite the profits they make

You have no idea what you’re talking about, their org structure and project setup is not public and there is no way to know how “overworked” any team is as an outsider. You don’t even know what teams they have.