Yes, and I passed that research paper onto someone who works with researchers who think LLMs are the best new invention for technical writing. It’s going to be a constant battle, even amongst people who should know better.

I don’t know if I’d say “a lot,” but I think you are correct to say “some.” We don’t need to suddenly start flinging around generalized invectives towards science, especially when there’s already a concerted effort by conspiracy theorists and bad actors to convince people to reject science out of hand.

You might enjoy this video/series: https://youtu.be/yawlonjLp4c

I’ve been trying to get my audio working the way I want (instead of everything just going to the default sink), and it’s been helpful.

Love it (CachyOS). For the most part, everything “just works.” I have no plans to go back—not even wishful musings.

There have been a few…let’s call them…stnanks.

• Not all of the sensors were recognized for my motherboard out of the box. The important ones, like basic CPU temp and a few others were fine, but more granular ones, like fan speed, T_junc, T_die, etc. were missing. I like to apply my own fan curves based on various sensor conditions, so this was a sticking point initially.
  • Thankfully, the Arch wiki and a thanklessly maintained dkms module for this specific (problematic) chipset came to my rescue. Pretty easy to get set up.
• A small number of very specific games and mods don’t work on Linux. If you exclusively play competitive online games, there’s a good chance you are going to be out of luck.
  • I have friends that play League, but I’m not willing to give up Linux just for that one game. Plenty of other multiplayer games out there that work just fine.
• Audio routing is both easier and more difficult.
  • There’s great GUIs to manage audio connections.
  • Trying to get automatic connections going, like with VoiceMeeter, is a lot more technical and involves learning Lua and Pipewire/Wireplumber. Not impossible, and audio tends to work just fine otherwise, but if you want a specific custom setup, it will take some effort.

Overall, I wouldn’t trade what I have for Microsoft any day of the week. I’m done being their product.

I thought text selection was handled via keyboard. Also been a hot minute since I first learned about this, and not using that buffer has not exactly been a common discussion point, since being able to reuse text is typically a desirable trait!

Joking? Or the ideas of a mad genius? (h/j)

https://loss32.org/

I thought this was an old feature of Linux (maybe Unix?). Highlighted text gets copied to the buffer, which is useful when you’re on the command line (because Ctrl+C ends the current process).

I don’t know how you’d change this, but maybe that can give you some clues on what to do.

Same. I’m thinking about replacing the PSU, which is one of the original parts, to ensure the rest of the parts don’t fail due to improper power delivery.

At least PSUs haven’t yet spiked in price.

Absolutely, I agree. I think we are likely to see a shift in what indie devs use for their game engines (love2d, Godot, etc.) as PC specs stagnate, and I am of the opinion that GOG will see an increase in sales, too.

The “runs like shit” games have a shrinking market.

Inb4 we get astroturfed “Luddites” telling us to just abandon electricity and live like the Amish.

It’s not a win-win, it’s a silver lining amongst a shitstorm of suck.

Why? Because what if you’re not trying to upgrade but just maintain? What if your RAM fails? Or your GPU? Now you’re out there with the AI tech bros vying for a piece of a production line that you have no influence over, but they do. If you just built your rig, you might be safe to wait a while, but what if you built in 2020? Those parts are getting old, by computer standards; they don’t last forever.

We don’t actually know when prices will normalize, because nobody is calling in the IOUs, and nobody is clamping down on that circular economy; 2027 is just a guess. We might be waiting even longer.

You just described the AAA gaming market almost to a T.

The indie market, on the other hand, typically cares about what they produce, and you’re far more likely to get optimized games there that don’t require extra launchers, internet connections, or a massive GPU—not that it doesn’t happen there, mind you, but it’s going to tend to be more of a skill issue than a profit-driven one.

Also, there’s still very good games in the retro space.

This seems pretty cool. I have an old Android tablet I’d love to try this on, but it’s got pretty weak stats compared to more contemporary devices; I wonder if this could work…?

I would be curious to find out why, honestly. Is there some economic factor? Has Adobe thoroughly captured the market? Is it cultural? I know the comment author speculates that it’s a cultural/political shift, but I’m curious what the data would show!

It’s been a hot minute since I installed Bazzite, but it might even come with Heroic preinstalled. I think it did come with Lutris by default, as you say.

I sincerely mean this: thank you for your sacrifice. I wish there were more people like you who were willing to make the sacrifices necessary to stick it to the big corpos.

I’ll be excited if Linux hits 20% total market share, which is about where Apple sits last time I checked. That would put Linux squarely as a contender for normies.

First tech device I’ve ever bought where I didn’t feel some amount of buyer’s remorse. There’s nothing I dislike about it, and I can even install my own distro on it, if I so desire. Because of the form factor, I’ve even been able to tackle my backlog!

CachyOS has a handheld option, too. You can slap that on there to get a more typical Arch experience, or install Bazzite to keep the benefit of an immutable system but without the A/B system partitioning.

You just described Bazzite. You can literally install the KDE version, same as you’d find on a Deck, and get right to gaming. No tinkering required. Steam is installed by default, Bluetooth works as expected, USB controllers work when plugged in.

The only time you might “tinker” with gaming is when you want to install, say, an emulator or Heroic from the Discovery store (flatpak) to play your non-Steam games, all of which is optional.

SteamOS isn’t going to offer significant benefit, except it might get Valve-specific fixes before they upstream the patches. If you’re waiting around, expecting SteamOS to be some shift in the distro landscape, I think you’re going to be disappointed.