What’s amusing to me is I get the first one then don’t pick it back up until Harambee. I wonder if I’m suffering from mid term meme memory loss.

Napoleon dynamite quotes were definitely mixed in with the anchor man quotes where I’m from.

Court room stenographer

Is it just my hardware?

It is not your hardware

Am i using linux just wrongly for years?

Not really

Is it my fault?

Not really

The main issue from what I can tell is you are trying to play older windows games which can be pretty hit or miss. More recent pc games often support the steam deck which is usually a good sign for compatibility.

Gaming on Linux has greatly improved over the last couple years (especially thanks to proton/steam deck) but if you are trying to run older games that were never designed to run to it or you want to play online games with aggressive anti-cheat it is still going to be a bit of a struggle.

I would recommend sticking to an Arch based distro like EndeavourOS (as it is similar to the SteamOS) or a Debain based distro and not swap around too much so you can get a feel for it without having a bunch of things change on you all the time like package names and the like.

All that said if your jam is older windows games and you have access to windows and are tired of messing with the OS and just want to play games just use windows, try linux another day.

Some games are trickier than others for sure. Are you using protondb as a reference?

Anno 1404 is a 15 year old game with aggressive DRM so I could tell right away that it would be one of the more tricky titles.

It really comes down to if you are trying to use newer hardware or not. Debian based systems usually run fine out of the box on older systems.

For newer hardware your going to want new drivers and kernel versions which you get with a rolling release distro.

I’m sure one of his progeny will take up the grift

They are definitely AB testing things like rejecting ad blockers.

I mean as a public company their end goal is to find the spot where the profit line crosses the satisfaction line. The goal is not to provide good service. It is to provide just enough service that you don’t go elsewhere.

Over the network can be hit or miss but the usb cable and the drivers from the AUR have yet to fail me

I’ve been trying fin Droid which works well but it’s definitely a work in progress.

That works until it doesn’t. Though it has been a few years since there was a nice notable example.

3000s were good and the 4000s were bad value for a long time. I went AMD this generation for the first time. Gott a 7900xtx for a lot less than a 3080/4080. Prices have come down a bit though.

I’m sure there is still 32 appeals to go before anything actually happens

While everyone is talking about Walmart and universities I just see the reason the US will never have public health care

This is reported as a percentage and that’s what is tripping people up here.

You are not seeing a drastic rise in Linux usage you are seeing a large decrease in the use of desktop computers.

Linux is increasing because the only ones left using desktops are Linux users.

Fair enough.

Though if density is irrelevant then the entire thing is meaningless.

Should instead be talking about how large of a silicon wafer can be produced.

It’s literally defined as the number of transistors doubling in a chip. It doesn’t at all mention the size or density.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

It is dead.

The only reason it seems like it’s not is because AMD server CPUs are just getting physically larger and larger

If the bureaucracy could easily identify the dead weight projects it wouldn’t need the layoffs but that also means it can’t make good choices when doing layoffs.

It’s like chemotherapy.