Yeah, I totally agree. The only thing I can guess, aside from people just being assholes, is that someone with many years of experience is only thinking of what they liked after gaining that experience.

For example, if someone learned with Debian and then moved on to Arch, they think Arch is "better" and I think they are telling others to not waste their time on Debian. They are totally ignoring the fact that they spent quite a bit of time learning before they moved on and they are advising that a newcomer skip to what they perceive as "the end."

This isn't limited to Linux. There's a ton of "why would you want to do that?" Type unhelpful comments everywhere.

Do you want rabies? 'Cause that's how you get rabies.

I don't use Plasma, but in Mint Xfce, you click:

• the whisker menu (aka Start),
• System Information,
• Copy,

which includes all this and USB and Repos sections.

If your mouse/touchpad is broken, then doing it with a keyboard only may be a bit tricky for a newbie, because you have the Shift+Tab to get to the Copy button:

• Super (aka the Windows key),
• arrow down to System Information,
• Enter,
• Shift+Tab 4 times,
• Enter.

While CLI is superior in many ways, sometimes even for newbies, I've found that for them GUIs are usually much easier and safer. I recently struggled to get someone to type spaces in the correct places in a terminal, over the phone.

Shoebody bop

A little while ago I observed a discussion between some GhostBSD user and some FreeBSD user and I genuinely couldn't tell if they were being assholes to each other or if that's just normal way to handle communication for them

When I wanted to write my own game engine in 2015, people just directed me to Unity. Some people even said that unless I want to work for some company that actually develops the engines, I don't need to learn API or anything like that. It took a while to people to point me in the direction of SDL for input and displaying a framebuffer (back then I used CPU rendering, as almost no one cared about pixel alignment, hence why my engine is called PixelPerfectEngine).

Just Qwen3.8-27B. That little model is surprisingly smart.

NixOS also gives you the ability to roll back to previous config versions. I have not needed to do that (yet), but it reduces some risk.

that is why openbsd is valid for treating people this way, because they work so hard to keep their manuals high quality

It is really good for that, a sort of 'just works' variant of Linux. I honestly sometimes consider replacing my main box Kubuntu with that, I have a few older boxes with Mint.

Yah, like, it’s not perfect, but no average user is going to brick their machine trying to use Linux mint, and they’ll be able to figure out how to do everything most people will want to do.

I mean, my main machine that I play games on runs mint and I don’t have any real complaints about it. Like, maybe I could squeeze a bit more performance out of it, but most things are running smooth enough for my taste.

Plenty of people are more picky and insist on running things at 240 FPS at 4k for a title that just came out, but, I think most people probably wouldn’t notice a significant difference between games on mint or games on catchy. Maybe a few cases where something peculiar about a specific game makes it chug.

Only newbs use Ubuntu. You should really be compiling everything from source with Gentoo.

“Just” and a 27B model don’t exactly belong in the same sentence if you ask my wallet. 💸

In my experience there is a pretty noticeable difference, but it probably has more to do with my specific setup. I was running Debian 13 with Gnome previously, and kept noticing weird performance hiccups in Final Fantasy 16. So I gave Cachy a try with Plasma, and the performance was a night and day difference.

I probably could have tinkered with things and gotten the same results in Debian, but the point is that I didn't have to.

Yeahhh sorry 😕

I was fortunate to have bought my graphics card almost a year ago, and for a nice discount (a Black Friday sale, IIRC). I'd love to buy another, but they now cost >2x the price I paid.

FWIW, you can probably run it on CPU if you have enough RAM. I assume it will be really slow though.

Might also be worth trying Qwen3.6 35B-A3B. It's not as "smart" as Qwen3.8 27B, but can be much faster on limited resources.

It was definitely a steeper learning curve than it is today, especially wrangling drivers for audio and Wi-Fi.

Depending on your hardware steam OS might actually be a better fit if you're willing to do a little tweaking, because of the gaming mode. I find I really enjoy having the ability to switch to a desktop experience when I want it, but dedicate all the system resources when I'm gaming. Really makes a huge difference in performance.

I've also been reliably informed that CachyOS is also reliably good as a gaming distro.

All that being said and to your question specifically: there's a few resources online like the wine community and gamingonlinux that compile compatibility lists and instructions on how to get things working, but lutris is probably the easiest to use and check.

This is the game I'm decompiling

And the repo: https://git.circuitforge.tech/pyr0ball/havoc-remaster/src/branch/main/dev

And the cat computer the tiger has.

ExOS is the most dangerous game.

It's really, really hard to find a new manual these days that isn't, like, a sports car. When I bought my little manual-transmission hatchback in 2016 I'm pretty sure I was getting the last vestiges.

Fortunately you can still find them here in Europe, although I'm not sure if they still make them since I got mine from the used market