Ext4 is gonna be the fastest for general daily use. The extra utility of copy on write filesystems is stuff like efficient snapshot backups, optional compression at rest for your files, and really really fast copy operations.

AMD’s drivers are fully FOSS and built into Mesa, whereas Nvidia’s are closed source, so yes, AMD GPUs are more reliable and less of a hassle on Linux. However, Mint makes dealing with Nvidia drivers easy, so it’s honestly your call there.

Here on Lemmy, I think the number of Linux users is in the thousands, not dozens.

Can confirm

It supports GoG, Epic, and Amazon, but it also supports installing games manually, which has worked for literally everything else for me so far.

I used to use Lutris, but in the last year or so Heroic got so good I stopped ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Meh, I like Heroic better personally. It’s a preference thing at this point between the two of em IMO

1,028 movies

517 shows (20,702 episodes)

Shows are all 1080p or lower except a couple seasons of select shows in 4k. Movies are 4k HDR when it’s available, otherwise best quality I can find.

I use Jellyfin because of the client apps and FOSS nature.

I tend to prefer HEVC/h.265 encodings for the strong trade off between player compatibility and smaller size for the quality level, but h264 and AV1 are also both in my library. I don’t reencode anything except through the Jellyfin server transcoding.

I don’t play MMOs anymore (nothing can satisfy me like City of Heroes used to), but just wanted to chime in to say I love your vintage anime character names.

This. I use symfonium for my audiobooks. Great app.

Fuck

Yeah, it’s really all just cost savings. On their overpriced “luxury” cars

They’re usable as adapters and for 2D stuff, but performance is significantly worse for 3D due to being stuck at the minimum clock speed

Got that AMD fine wine technology

I agree with your overall point, as a long time Linux, Windows and Mac poweruser who has shepherded many into a new OS in the past. People who don’t like to explore new/different technologies as a hobby get quite comfortable with whatever they’re used to and the way that it works and then quickly lose empathy for those that are earlier in their journeys.

Just to clarify on the Linus Pop!_OS thing, he didn’t read the prompt that said he was about to uninstall his desktop environment and then typed in “yes I understand this can break my system” or something like that, which had been added as a prompt to keep people from not reading the warning. Anyways people got mad that he did that because he literally ignored the warning and the meaning of the words he had to type that had been added to idiot proof the thing.

ProtonDB is probably a better choice these days for finding tbe compatibility of games specifically.

I’d say Linux (the kernel) is the motor/engine and Mint (the distro) is the chassis. The chassis defines the shape of the vehicle and its size class, for instance.

This story is from May 30th. Is this a repost?

Good point

Seems like you can drill a hole in the bottom to make it drain more effectively and reduce the chance of mold buildup

Personally I just installed Mint instead of Windows. If you back up your important files to an external drive, then what’s the harm? Even if you need to go back to Windows, that’s just another USB flash drive setup.

8Bitdo is good. I have the Pro 2 and it’s quite nice.

That said my current favorite controller is my RetroFighters BattlerGC Pro

Can’t be pardoned from a lawsuit. Just from crimes