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Lots of good answers to your other Qs here so I’m gonna focus on your last one. If you lack in-depth computer skills as much as I’m imagining, than I think the best distro for you would be Bazzite.

Firstly, I’m going to call out the users here suggesting Mint. Mint is only a good beginner distro for people that are already “early adopters” or tech-savvy to switch to Linux for the first time. When I first switched from Windows 10 on my desktop last year, I tried Mint. Keep in mind, I have extensive knowledge of the commandline and headless Debian from several years of running a homelab. I found it completely intolerable how much wasn’t intuitive, how difficult cinnamon was, how much set up was involved in getting graphics drivers working, and gaming going. It wasn’t that I’m incapable, it’s that I don’t want my gaming desktop to require that much tinkering just to play games. Let alone that I can’t imagine how steep that learning curve would be for a casual gamer with minimal tech skills.

That brings me to Bazzite. I switched back fully to Windows 10 for several months because of how disillusioned I was before learning about it. Bazzite is one of a handful of distros that have taken the SteamOS experience from the Steam Deck and tried to build on/improve it. It uses the KDE desktop environment, which is super similar to Windows 10 in look and feel. It includes everything you need for gaming right out of the box, including graphics drivers already installed, Steam as well, all of the frameworks and compatibility tools you need already configured. It’s immutable too, which means the system directories are locked down so you can’t accidentally break things. There’s a unified system updater that cover everything. The system, your applications, compatibility tools, all of it updated with just one click.

As well, games just work without needing special configuration. It’s truly the easiest to use distro for people switching from Win10 that just want to play games with their computer, maybe some internet browsing and email alongside that. You also don’t have to worry about stupid codec issues if you wanna watch youtube or streaming sites in the browser.

Seriously people, stop recommending Mint. All the folks who would be okay with the amount of tinkering it requires have already made the switch. If we want the less tech-savy gaming folks to be able to make the switch, we need to be recommending something that will just work out of the gates for them. Pushing them to distro-hop is just going to push them to Win11. Plus, the more that make that leap, the more likely game devs will have to target WINE, the less games will be borked. It’s already pretty minimal though, especially if it doesn’t use anti-cheat.

It’s the uneducated or intellect impaired that should be reined in.

Are you aware that this genuinely sounds like some nazi shit? Let’s maybe not start controlling what the “intellect impaired” can do with their lives…

Technically it’s only compulsory to have your name checked off the rolls and put your ballots in the boxes. What you do in the booth is between you and the goddesses.

Not that I disagree with the spirit of what you’re saying, but bluesky is not even close to a “massive” corporation. According to this they have a net worth of $7.23m, going as low as $600k in October last year. I know of plenty of local restaurants and other small businesses with a higher net worth than that.

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No, they’re included with, and updated by, the OS. But they are the proprietary ones that are available on Nvidia’s website.

I’m running Bazzite on KDE Wayland with the proprietary Nvidia drivers just fine. I think you’ve got another issue causing this.

MacOS actually does now support DX12: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-built-a-directx-12-translation-layer-for-apple-silicon.2391876/

Huh, thanks. That works from iOS to my Bazzite desktop flawlessly.

I would potentially give Ventoy a shot. Since it’s bootstrapping the iso after it’s already booted, you might have better luck. Even if you don’t want to install it that way for a secure system, it might help you with troubleshooting, because if it boots like that you can figure out what the difference is.

If it was going to be any year, and yes I know this is said a lot, it would be this year. With Win10 support ending, a bunch of Millennials are going to install it on their Boomer parent’s computers. You have the German government installing it on every computer they run. Major companies like Lenovo releasing handhelds with it pre-installed.

What are you even talking about? 16GB is plenty for most people’s laptop use cases. What was criminal was when the default was 8GB, but they seem to have stopped that now. In saying that, the pre-built Framework 12 starts at 8GB, though that’s a lot less criminal when it’s not soldered on.

Why are you being so unpleasant? Just chill out mate.

Wait, why?

YouTube no longer allows any reference to gambling sites or applications “not certified by Google.”

It’s literally on the Play Store, rated at M.

So is HDMI? Smaller connectors aren’t always better, and it’s not like it’s SCART size or something.

I think I was in the minority, but I immediately understood what you were getting at. It made more sense that you were pointing out the IDF’s hypocrisy, than trying to prove Hamas’ guilt with woefully wrong evidence ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don’t know whether this is too far or not, but do remember that all pro-zionists will call you anti-semitic for saying something anti-zionist.

How do you mean? Modrinth modpacks do this automatically (on the website), and I’m pretty certain Prism automatically downloads new versions of the modpack that are compatible.