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I'd kind of hope that we're not all like that - I use Arch btw. for my computers at home, but at work we use a combination of Redhat, Centos Stream and Amazon Linux, and I spend a lot of my day helping people with 'Linux admin' issues even though that's not strictly my job.

When getting started with Linux, there's a certain 'glossary gap' if you've come from Windows, not even knowing the right term to search for. Newstarts will complain that "waa! Linux is terrible, doesn't recognise my hardware", to which invoking a couple of udev commands seems like magic. Some people will get irritated when answering the same question in the same way for the tenth time and just post a link; really, those people need to step back and let someone else pick it up. The Arch wiki is fantastic, but it's particularly fantastic if you already know what all the words mean and just need your memory prodding a bit. Having someone able to interpret a page for you is a huge benefit over having to fall down a wiki hole, which is very dispiriting when you're trying to learn.

And yes, Arch is great for gaming - latest version of everything, look at my extra frames - but really, it's only a tiny bit better than eg. Pop! OS, and that's a much better choice for someone who's never used Linux before.

Yeah; my somewhat up-to-date thinkbook with NVMe drive cold boots to Cinnamon desktop in under 8 seconds, terminal window opens in the blink of an eye. BTRFS is not without its problems, but they're more along the lines of specific RAID configs not being what you'd wish for; I've never heard a complaint about speed before, and I've never had that problem myself.

Can also recommend Just For Fun - that Finnish sense of humour doesn't come across well, and while he's good with English he certainly isn't Shakespeare, but it does fly by.

History of Linux, abridged: Linus was using Minix on his own PC while at University, but was a bit fed up with its networking capabilities, so he'd written a toy operating system for a couple of his classes. While experimenting with adding features to it, he deleted his Minix partition by accident. Might as well continue with the one he'd written, since it was almost capable enough to be a daily driver. Publish the source, get a few collaborators in to add in the features that they found most useful, repeat. Boom.

Remove the update manager? Remove the bootloader and all kernels if you want to - you might if you're preparing a container image, it won't stop you. Remove glibc and init? Fine, if that's what you want - might have no need for those if you're prepping it up for embedded.

The price of having a computer that does exactly what it's told is that you have to know what to tell it. But that's well worth while.

He did. This is a collection of all his short stories and such that he'd submitted to newspapers in the 1970s under a pseudonym. Review says that basically they're mostly a bit crap, but that won't stop this selling like hotcakes. Very disrespectful even so, like you say.

I'm a big fan of those games, and I really enjoyed HUNTDOWN. It's a shooting platformer, more Contra than anything on your list, but is good times and has top choons to listen to while you're playing.

Cool, will have a look at those, thanks! More looking to impress with my knowledge of using a variety of bugtrackers; have got plenty of evidence to show that there's a couple I know how to use.

It's supposed to enable raytracing features on AMD, isn't it? I suspect it's going to be something that I switch on, decide that I need several generations of card updates, and then switch off again. The example video I saw of slightly better-looking bricks in the wall (ie. self-shadowing correctly) in Elden Ring would absolutely not be worth cutting my framerate in half, it would be unplayable.

Release notes, innit? For a very technical new feature; that seems enough. If it was a bug, then maybe a line about how we missed it; if it's user facing, what new functionality it enables. You can always go look at the PR if you want the real detail.

Annoying - the demo was really good, and ran great on Linux using Proton. Guess I'm going to be holding off on buying till it's removed and on sale, then - there's no point in buying a game early and it running like shit.

Yeah, reminds me of the original Gameboy. Weak hardware, terrible screen, great battery life, awesome first-party support, stupidly robust. Sold a hundred million or so. Up against the Game Gear and Atari Lynx, which although basically miniature consoles, had an unquenchable hunger for batteries and crap games. Complete turkeys. All of Nintendo's other, very successful, handhelds continue the same idea; yes, a Switch is really underpowered compared to the newest Playstation, but that's not it's niche.

Yes; you can pack more powerful hardware into the space that a Deck, or a Switch, or even your phone, takes up. But is the amount of fun you get from that device increased in reasonable proportion to its increased cost?

No, it really is that simple. I've got Cinnamon installed since I prefer it for everyday; also, Gnome3 on Wayland for gaming (I've three monitors with different refresh rates, which doesn't work as you'd hope on X11). Log out, change desktop, log in again. No problems at all, except for more packages to update.