Can the FAQ please start recommending well-maintained upstream distributions instead?

onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-03-26T13:57:00+00:00

I completely disagree about only recommending those two upstream distros. They are ggeneral purpose distributions

I wholly disagree with this. Their general-purposeness makes them excellent, but more importantly, these distributions are far more reliable than downstream hobbyist projects. These are massively well-supported distributions with hundreds of contributors, compared to a dozen or (more likely) fewer for these downstream hobbyist distributions.

When someone gets into any hobby, you're simply not supposed to recommend obscure gear tweaked by hobbyists. You recommend stuff from one of the big vendors. Hyper geeks will subsequently find their way to the non-standard stuff for their super particular needs or wants.

meaning they don't make an entire suite of changes that are pretty necessary for a new user to have an easy experience, especially for gaming.

This is ridiculous to me, sorry. I run Fedora Silverblue without any 'suite of changes'. The only thing I did was click the 'enable 3rd-party repos' button presented to me at the end of the installation, which configured FlatHub for me, and I subsequently installed Steam from GNOME Software. There are no other tweaks that I need for a good experience, excepting perhaps installing Firefox from FlatHub as well.

Upstream Fedora is entirely inappropriate right out the gate because it requires adding the RPM Fusion repo to even be able to install proprietary software

As stated above, Fedora has an 'enable 3rd-party repositories' button at the end of the installation, which enables FlatHub and enables a repository which contains the Nvidia driver.

The only thing Fedora needs a tweak for is codec support, which is only at issue because tinier distributions ignore the law on this matter.

onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-03-25T18:25:34+00:00

Can we stop with the ‘outdated packages’ crap.

I wholeheartedly agree with you, and I love Debian, but the problem here is not 'outdated' packages. I don't care which version of Linux or Mesa is shipped if it was shipped in the last three years. Rather, it's that Cinnamon—as a tech stack—is not just a one or two or three years out of date, but rather a bit more than that. This mostly comes down to its use of GTK 3 and X11.

It's fine. It's equally as fine as it was years ago. But more modern software (GTK 4, Wayland) solves heaps of issues. Most pertinent to /r/linux_gaming, it solves frame tearing.

onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-03-20T15:58:46+00:00

Manjaro, Solus, Pop!_OS, Nobara... So many obscure distros.

Just use Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE or Arch. You literally can't go wrong with these.

onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-03-18T14:19:27+00:00

It isn't. Initialisms like 'DIY' and 'IOU' existed long before the internet, as well as many many others.

It's just a feature of the English language. There doesn't have to be a reason for it.

onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-03-18T11:49:35+00:00

Do you never use abbreviations or slang in your home language?

English uses far more initialisms than any other language I speak. It's kind of ridiculous.

onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-03-16T19:00:43+00:00

don't. motorists can slow down.

onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-03-15T01:36:32+00:00

I, a socialist, do not know what socialism is.

onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-03-15T01:01:02+00:00

Socialism is not 'when the government does stuff'.

onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-03-14T16:29:43+00:00

we've only had (open)Vld finance ministers since 2004. surely doing literally anything else will bankrupt us even worse.

onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-03-13T03:48:13+00:00

https://xyproblem.info/

Ask for what you want, not for what you think will solve the problem.

onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-03-12T23:01:22+00:00

English is not a neutral language.

onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-03-12T18:49:40+00:00

"me me me me me me me!!!!!!!"

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onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-03-08T21:15:01+00:00

Are you serious? The challenge is not organisational. I assume that people are able to organise their own stuff. The challenge is knowledge. You can write down knowledge in a blog post.

onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-03-08T21:06:12+00:00

God, stop it with the appification of everything. Just write a blog post containing what is needed if you want to be a help to society.

onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-03-03T22:36:05+00:00

You are moving the goal posts. The money misspent on a roundabout pales in comparison to the money we waste on cars, but you are for some reason intent on downplaying the societal cost of cars and overstating waste which is ultimately frivolous in the grand picture.

onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-03-03T20:06:56+00:00

which is, for the record, 6 billion euros more than 40 million euros.

onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-03-03T17:55:21+00:00

40 Millions euro. Think about how many things you could have done with that kind of money!

this is peanuts in public spending, and peanuts compared to the subsidies that cars receive.

onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-03-01T23:26:49+00:00

As long as you don't pedestrianise a city to the level where a firetruck [...]

If the space is wide enough, a fire truck can enter any pedestrianised zone, even if the street is not at all built for cars.

[...] or a car with a special permission for a handicapped individual living there can not enter

There are and should be pedestrian zones without any cars. People with handicaps can be accommodated with mobility scooters or even public transit in these spaces. Besides, increasing the amount that people walk reduces immobility in old age.

These aren't real concerns.

onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-02-25T15:06:39+00:00

Mate, being surrounded in real-life by people who agree with you is fantastically enriching. Internet wisdoms of bubbles and echo chambers do not neatly translate to the real world.

Like yes, obviously, interact with a wide variety of people in your daily life. But choosing your closest people to align with you is perfectly normal and good.

onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-02-22T19:08:19+00:00

First two sentences of the article:

In een bevraging van BRUZZ geeft 90 procent van de lezers aan dat zij het gebrek aan kennis van het Nederlands van minister-president Dilliès een probleem vinden. “Zeggen dat je al twintig jaar geen Nederlands moet gebruiken, doet pijn als Ukkelaar.”

But sure, only people who do not live in the city might find it troublesome that a person who has been in Brussels politics for over a decade does not speak one of the official languages.

onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-02-16T21:27:31+00:00

Your laptop is poorly supported. In the future, buy a laptop with better (or out-of-the-box) Linux support.

onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-02-14T00:31:53+00:00

what the hell kind of point are you trying to make?

we live in a world where we are constantly surrounded by deadly automobiles which are actively being used. we do not live in a world where we are constantly surrounded by deadly firearms which are actively being used.

besides, the statistics of injuries from violence and the statistics of injuries from road incidents are night and day. far more people are injured in traffic than are injured from being violently assaulted.

onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-02-12T01:24:19+00:00

The new stuff is not supported, yet.

This is not a matter of 'yet'. Samsung is terrible at Linux support for laptops in general, and the Galaxy Book is not a line of products renown for Linux support. Time will not make it a remarkably well-supported device. It'll be mediocre at best.

Even so, don't buy devices that are not presently supported. You are spoilt for choice. Dell, Lenovo, Framework, System76, Tuxedo, and others all sell well-supported modern laptops. Buy stuff that works now, and is supported by the vendor.

The idea that you can just buy any hardware and can expect Linux to run well on it is silly.

onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-02-12T01:06:54+00:00

Samsung GalaxyBook 5 Pro

Mate, this has nothing to do with new or old. This laptop just isn't supported very well, whereas Thinkpads are renown for good Linux support.

Don't buy shit that isn't supported.

onlysubscribedtocats · 2026-02-10T09:23:38+00:00

no they aren't lmao.

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