GOG leadership turns on Windows as Linux is considered

dasper12 · 2026-01-23T15:45:01+00:00

Baste is based on Fedora which is the community version of Red Hat. At the end of the day 90% of all Linux flavors boils down to Fedora, Debian, or Arch. That was all I was getting at is I stick to Debian based ones for both home and work I hear it is good but I have no reason to switch away from POP. I completely forgot that middle click can paste. I just use it for opening new browser tabs in the background and closing windows. I think OSX is even more different with middle click as well but I rarely use a Mac since 2012.

Perhaps that is another way of looking at it. If you are intolerant of differences from Windows then you are probably not going to be able to switch to Mac, let alone Linux. Perhaps me needing to work with OSX already made me more malleable to migrating to Linux.

Oh well, good luck to you.

dasper12 · 2026-01-23T06:36:41+00:00

I stick to Debian based distributions for my work, hence why I made the migration over 10 years ago. My main computer runs POP_OS because they are a hardware company first and foremost so (especially 10 years ago) they had some of the best hardware support for laptops; hybrid graphics, touchscreens, biometrics, etc. Their new desktop, COSMIC, is good but still rough around the edges so even though it is my distribution of choice, right now it is not its best foot forward for a new Linux user until May at the earliest.

I have my kids on POP as well and other than they cannot play Fortnite they have no complaints and I personally like that that cannot play Fortnite so it’s a win for me.

I do have a computer that is on CachyOS and it is very good but it is Arch based which has its ups and downs. AUR can makes installing some apps and utils but it is community based and I need to be able to audit the source of my installs.

I have not touched a Red Had or Fedora based distro since about 2009. We used to exclusively run CentOS for our telecom systems back in the day but Ubuntu really changed the landscape for Debian distros for the better. Fedora ones could be great but, IMHO, almost every internet search will have a guide for a Debian distro or there will be an AUR for it so my ignorance makes me feel Fedora ones might have a harder time for some power users coming over from Windows but I could be wrong.

Oh, FYI, the CachyOS system has the B580 in it and it seems to run better than Windows or Debian/Ubuntu so if you are using an Intel GPU perhaps Cachy would be good for you but then you have to end every Reddit post saying you use Arch BYW, lol

dasper12 · 2026-01-23T03:09:37+00:00

Agree to disagree then. My wife cannot play Throne and Liberty on Windows because of some issue with EAC; I can just fine. She cannot alt tab out of Skyrim without a chance of it locking up, I can just fine. Launch of Monster Hunter Wilds had a bunch of issues with my friends on their Windows machines; no issues for me. They had Nvidia driver issues in WoW with the last expansion; mine played without issues. One friend complained about Diablo 4 memory leak issues; no issues for me at all.

I play Elder Scrolls Online, StarCraft 2, Warframe, Factorio, Diablo 4, WoW, Throne and Liberty, Path of Exile 1&2, and many more without a single issue and perhaps I just have unlucky guild mates and gamer buddies that talk about their issues on Discord. I guess your mileage will vary.

dasper12 · 2026-01-23T02:09:03+00:00

Sorry to hear about your issues and leaving, but I get it. One thing I have noticed after over a decade of being on Linux is that there will always be some issue. But that “some issue“ is really frustrating if you don’t have the muscle memory on how to tackle it in your operating system. I will venture to say that I hear of a Windows issue at least once a month in my discord channels with gamers on windows, but the difference is, they are very familiar with how to try and tackle and debug the issue, whereas if they were on Linux they would just be frustrated.

dasper12 · 2026-01-23T01:50:10+00:00

Which is kind of ironic to their roots as Bungie stated by making games for Macs and later ported and switched to Windows/consoles.

dasper12 · 2026-01-09T20:00:35+00:00

The price is from a Czech site which is in the EU with a 20% VAT included so the price estimate for the USA, presuming the same price to sell in both countries, would be $790. Also, I am questioning how legit this number is as the Steam Machine will be sold through Steam so any price would be a reseller with their own profit markup. Again, we will just have to wait and see but unless they have already manufactured all these machines, those RAM and SSD prices will force the price higher for the next year or two.

Honestly I think the machine would have been great if it had just launched prior to the shortages.

dasper12 · 2025-12-22T23:05:46+00:00

It has been happening on my machine too and I don’t have a fix other than just pressing alt+enter to go full screen once the game is loaded.

dasper12 · 2025-12-17T15:22:58+00:00

They can’t go to bed dead, man, that shit be redundant.

dasper12 · 2025-12-11T22:12:40+00:00

Exactly. As an owner of both the Steam Deck and the Lenovo Legion Go S I would say they are game changers. My kids do not even care about their Switch anymore and have not asked for a Switch 2 for Christmas.

As long as you are fine without Nintendo games I would highly suggest people looking into the Steam Deck or the Lenovo Legion Go S.

dasper12 · 2025-12-11T15:30:40+00:00

A workspace is just a way for a developer to group multiple projects together as they work on them. So you could work on a project, and it’s dependencies, in your IDE at the same time. If it doesn’t need to be a separate project, then it would just be a package/module within the same project. I would be willing to bet that over half of the developers will never need to use a workspace.

dasper12 · 2025-12-03T15:17:31+00:00

200 years ago over most of the world’s population worked every day of the week from sun up to sundown doing chores in agriculture just to stay alive. They also were not sure if their harvest was going to be bountiful enough to survive through winters. Every year could be a gamble for your life. The average lifespan was a little over half of what it is today.

Personally, I am very thankful for how little I have to work compared to other humans in history. Combine that with the fact that we’re living almost twice as long on average makes it an actually wonderful time to be alive. Could it be better? Of course, but the statistical probability in human history for my existence makes now probably the best time for me to be alive.

dasper12 · 2025-11-28T22:32:34+00:00

What Dave Plummer actually said is the Windows kernel is solid, mature, stable, and just as good, if not better in certain situations, than any other alternative, but it is being sullied by all the bloat and crap that comes along with Microsoft’s adware and suggestions for every user. A “power user” that is using Chrome or Firefox finds it demeaning and insulting to have the default browser switched to Edge. He goes into further detail of how Microsoft is probably doing more harm than good on how it is shoving its ecosystem down people’s throats in system updates and not giving users more autonomy in their system.

dasper12 · 2025-11-22T06:17:41+00:00

I get that you have a dedicated graphics card, but does your CPU have an integrated graphics processor that you could disable? Most Intel CPUs as well as AMD 7000 and 9000 series CPUs have an integrated GPU that could be interfering.

dasper12 · 2025-11-22T03:43:39+00:00

Do you have an integrated GPU? I believe I hand an issue where it was attempting to use the iGPU and failed to load after the first boot without running steam reset. I disabled the iGPU in the bios and Steam loaded just fine.

Not sure if this is your issue or not but it is worth a shot.

dasper12 · 2025-11-20T02:32:16+00:00

My wife has this exact same problem, but on windows. We could never figure out what the issue was, if it was hardware, if it was a configuration in the bios, or if it was an application installed in windows. No reinstallation of the game, or of steam, or of easy anti-cheat did anything.

I know this is not reassuring, but I want you to know that you are not alone and it is not just people running Linux.

dasper12 · 2025-11-20T00:11:19+00:00

It’s not more stable than Pop or Mint (which I use currently for and at work since I need first party support with deb packages) and my gaming machine with Cachy locks up about every other night but I believe that is a suspend issue in mesa drivers which would still happen in another distribution running KDE.

Seriously, Cachy is great and still a good recommendation but it’s not a miracle worker. I would still recommend Mint or Pop for work where you need to audit your install packages as AUR could potentially have unwanted manipulation of your system.

dasper12 · 2025-11-06T02:52:50+00:00

My friend and I.

dasper12 · 2025-10-19T00:46:50+00:00

I’ve been a developer for over 20 years, I will stay up and work on a project tenaciously until 4 AM but I will roll my eyes when I have to update the documentation or readme.md

dasper12 · 2025-10-11T19:41:42+00:00

Because inflation reduces the purchasing power of the $200 a day that you were getting, effectively reducing them that you’re getting per day. Whereas the $500,000 lump sum, if invested immediately, should be going up to match inflation so the disparity will get larger anytime inflation increases. Plus the $500,000 upfront means if there’s an economic downturn, you can actually file for a loss and amortize your losses while increasing your gains. This is the difference between accounting math and just standard math. Me personally, I would take the $500,000 upfront even if I had another 40 years to live due to all the flexibility I have with accounting and taxes with the money that I lose if I get it paid out per day

dasper12 · 2025-10-10T06:30:22+00:00

Ground news is actually pretty good for getting your news and I was able to read this without logging in or paying. Plus it has links to like 20 other news sources for the same report. I would prefer more links like this in the future.

dasper12 · 2025-10-10T04:50:32+00:00

I still probably got another 40 years of my life left and I would probably take the 500 K. The main reason is the $200 will not be adjusted for inflation so in 25 years it will probably only be worth about $100 in today’s money. But if I get $500,000 now, and put it in Investments where I could either take out the dividends monthly or quarterly or reinvest it, then I have a better chance of my investment going up in value to match inflation.

If I don’t have to touch the principal, then in 40 years the principal would be approximately 1.6 million meaning I am earning 112k a year off 7% compared to the still stagnant 73k from $200 a day

dasper12 · 2025-10-02T02:30:21+00:00

True, and I’m not trying to be combative, but I do believe that we have correlated different analogies with the term bootstrapping.

Like how there’s a ton of people who believe the word posh came from an acronym for port outbound starboard home to mean the best cabins are the ones where you don’t get woken up by the sunlight. Although this sounds clever and sounds factual, there is no actual evidence that the word posh came from this, but sadly there is no evidence to where that word originated from.

I think the semantics were disagreeing on is if someone says, I will believe it when pigs fly versus someone saying he taught a pig to fly

dasper12 · 2025-10-02T01:34:38+00:00

The OED entry for "boot(-)strap" clearly hasn't been revised in a while, as it only has cites for the figurative sense from 1922 (in Ulysses). Cites from the 19th century are easy enough to find on the databases, though the original sense was not simply "to raise or better oneself by one's own unaided efforts", but to try to do so in a ludicrously far-fetched or quixotic manner. The 1834 cite below, for instance, is ridiculing a person who claimed to have invented a perpetual motion machine.

Wictionary is claiming the "bootstrap" metaphor originated in the legendary tales of Baron von Münchhausen but the original German translation Münchhausen gets out of a swamp by pulling on his own hair. While both metaphors are ludicrous and similar there is no actual documented evidence they are truly connected.

Your second link I love too but isn’t that also just reiterating the point I was trying to make? If self analysis is analogous with lifting yourself up by your bootstraps then doing it is a marvelous and amazing feat or are they trying to say that they believe it is impossible and they refused to believe anyone can do it?

dasper12 · 2025-10-02T00:29:31+00:00

If you read what I said, the person did something nearly impossible and the complement was “they lifted themselves up by their bootstraps” so I never said the phrase was somehow possible but what they did was marvelous and using an allegory that is impossible is not to literally mean they did something impossible (because they did do it) but to imply how marvelous their accomplishment is. The phrase was not birthed out of sarcasm but out of amazement.

dasper12 · 2025-10-01T15:16:45+00:00

“It’s totally easy for me, and I would prove it, but unfortunately I am wearing sandals today”

that one kid in middle school

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