The update to Nvidia's 590 drivers just blew up GPU acceleration on my Bazzite install, so now every window visual effect is blank and I get errors in desktop accelerated software all over the place.
Today is not the day to poke me on "SMASHING" anything. I'm only typing this from Windows because I needed to get work done, so I can't spend the day playing the "tweak Linux until it works" videogame.
Yeeeeeah, so "reinstall your OS from scratch" is a dealbreaker. You realize that if we're on SMASHES WINDOWS territory you can't ever, ever, EVER tell people to reinstall their OS from scratch, let alone what is, from a normie's perspective, an entirely different OS. I'd argue that even the relatively simple rollback in Bazzite/Fedora atomic distros in general is a dealbreaker for most nromal users, at least with the current UX.
BTW, just to clarify how far from ready this is for mainstream adoption, Mint is a no-go because last I checked they still had no official HDR support (or VRR? Not sure about VRR, which is its own issue), so it's just missing mandatory features for my gaming setup. Ubuntu has its own set of problems. Back when I was distro hopping for this setup Bazzite ended up being the only thing to simultaneously do surround sound out of the box (kinda, close enough) and VRR/HDR out of the box as well with embedded Nvidia drivers. Things may have changed, but I'm not distro hopping anymore.
I have a different thing with Cachy on it and it's... fine? But the Arch-ness of it all rubs me personally the wrong way. Either way I'm not wiping my OS. If Fedora doesn't work then it's gonna be Windows because I have better things to do with my time.
So that's how mainstream adoption works, for anybody keeping track.
Yeah, I could and I probably will, but not today and not until I don't have to do work.
That's the "tweak Linux until it works" game I don't have time to play right now. Even if it works first time, and there's no guarantee that it will.
Also, the last working Nvidia drivers for me are absolutely ancient. And GPU drivers on a gaming distro aren't a works/doesn't work thing. There are entire features and per-game optimizations significantly impacting performance enabled on each version. You want to be on the latest drivers.
This is a Nvidia driver update that broke my stuff. They're already way too slow pulling those in, and they still have a nasty habit of breaking entire features. I can see other people online complaining that it busted sleep/wake for them (joke's on them, it's always been busted for me). The driver they're pushing isn't even to parity with the Windows driver at all. It's just catching up to being slightly less out of date.
That hasn't been the case since... what? Windows 7? All the Win 10/11 installs I have around the place are some version of the preinstalled OEM Windows setup or the initial install I made when I did it myself. There is no meaningful performance degradation on any of them that I can notice, and I believe there have been benchmarks done recently showing similar outcomes. Linux can't afford to argue about Windows XP issues as if they were current. For the record, no, Windows won't force you to reset mid-work to make an install anymore, either. It defaults to installing updates on reboot, just like Bazzite (you can turn it off on Bazzite and not on Windows, though).
Also, HDR is absolutely not "a feature only 1% uses". The past four monitors I've purchased had HDR support, not because I wanted it, just because it came with them. My last laptop came with it out of the box. All the TVs I've purchased for myself and relatives for many years have it (not even sure if they make non-HDR TVs anymore, in fact). It's supported by all current-gen consoles, now the Switch 2 has added support for it, too. It's also supported by the Steam Deck, incidentally.
So no, not a niche feature anymore, by a long shot. It's baseline compatibility for any display made this decade. And for a gaming computer it's an absolute must, especially if you want to do TV out with it, which I do. As will the upcoming Steam Machine. Again, can't SMASH WINDOWS for gaming if games outright look better on Windows than Linux when they come out of my screen. That's not how that works.
Even if that wasn't the case, though. My monitors are already HDR. This is about the OS being compatible with the hardware I already own. I'm not paying for features I can't use because the software is incompatible with it for no good reason.
FWIW, Bazzite isn't any better than Fedora, it's just... Fedora. It has a couple of gaming-friendly features, including booting into a controller interface by default (which doesn't work well on Nvidia cards, so meh) and specific compatibility for certain gaming hardware, particularly for handhelds and gaming laptops, which can be very useful if you're on a portable gaming device that struggles under Windows but is not officially supported on SteamOS. You can rebase directly from it to the Fedora atomic distro matching your DE if you want (can't rebase across DE's, annoyingly).
Hah. I spent more time writing this post in the gaps between waiting for work stuff to finish work stuffing. I can't just... not sit down for work for an arbitrary amount of time because I'm busy arguing with the Linux Nvidia drivers.
I agree that's the point of Bazzite, though. So if it doesn't in fact "just work" for me, then what's the point of it?
To be absolutely clear, I want to be on Linux full time. I'd love to dump Windows altogether.
But I am an adult with actual shit to do, so working most of the time isn't good enough.
I have zero issues with corpos contributing to open source stuff. And I have zero issues with open source projects having for-profit offshoots. Blender works. Home Assistant works. SteamOS... mostly works, on its very narrow band of specifically selected hardware.
By all means, have Valve keep pumping money into the ecosystem. I'm all for it.
But yeah, the community is so weirdly out of touch and in so much denial about the obvious, ongoing support gaps having been fully resolved. Installing a OS on a clean drive and checking that most of your Steam library works isn't even close to the level of reliability you need for mainstream use on desktop. Microsoft pushed what? Two bad updates that broke systems in the past six months? And they are out there making public commitments to "regain trust" while tech journalists talk about their unacceptable performance and inevitable demise.
If I judged Linux by that yardstick I would have nuked my Linux installs ages ago. If we want it to become a mainstream concern we need to understand why it isn't and what needs to happen to get it there.
If you just want to boot whatever you were running prior to the last update, yeah, it's typically in the GRUB menu. If you updated more than once (which I believe I did) you need to go find the previous snapshot, but it's not too much more hassle.
That doesn't particularly fix anything, though, unless you're cool with not updating indefinitely the thing you wanted to use or with updating everything else manually until the issue is fixed. If you want to be able to fix the update you still have to go into the logs and figure out what's going on (since the failure isn't universal and I know people are running these drivers without issues this must be possible). And of course all that assumes it was actually the update that broke something and the rollback actually fixes the issue.
Or, hear me out, I could reboot and choose Windows in GRUB instead, and that works for sure and I don't have to think about it.
So Windows it is until I feel adventurous. I owe my Bazzite install zero extra time. If it can't run as conveniently as clicking down one more time to select Windows then it's not running.
As I said elsewhere, people really underestimate the level of stability it takes to be a mainstream option for a desktop OS.
There were literally huge G-Sync logos in the boxes of the last three TVs I helped people buy. When you plug in a game console and press the settings button on my current display in game mode it pops up a large HUD element that says "VRR" and displays the type of VRR currently active and the current framerate. Every other option and metric is hidden away in a sub-menu.
Not that this matters, because the point of VRR is you don't need to know it's there. If it's working, the drivers and the display should talk to each other transparently. The end result if you have a Windows machine with VRR and a Linux machine that doesn't support it and you plug them both to the same display is, again, that the Windows game will look smoother, regardless of how many fps it's spitting out.
And as always, a reminder I've given many, many, many times in my life, both personally and professionally, "it works on my machine" means nothing and doesn't mean there's no bug or that your code isn't crap. Your anecdotal experience and my anecdotal experience aren't the same, because I have a showstopper bug and your seven friends don't, which still means there's a showstopper bug.
It's probably worse than it's been, less bad than people around here think.
One thing MS does is they have a TON of silent channels and branches, so every release they do is a rolling release. As a result, when you see in the news that they fucked up again and messed up a bunch of something somewhere it tends to be relatively contained still. I think the latest was a bad patch breaking a bunch of stuff that required a couple of emergency patches and I think there may be more to go.
It's 100% not good, and it almost certainly affected a lot of machines, but it probably got stopped from spreading further. If they had a signed driver update break their entire desktop interface in an update sent to every user they'd be (rightfully) crucified endlessly.
I get that there is a massive discrepancy of resources at play, but that doesn't make it better from the end user perspective. I've been saying for years that the Linux community keeps saying that "you can choose the distro you like" is a feature, but it isn't. Desktop Linux should be one thing. A couple, max. Contributions should be way more centralized and pool resources, like they are on the kernel. Distro choice is an anti-feature and a massive waste of resources.
FFS. I mentioned G Sync because they have a logo. VRR is so common an ubiquitous that there is a VESA certification for it now and a default standard for it for both HDMI and Display Port, no Nvidia required. It doesn't matter if you have G Sync, AMD's Freesync (which is an open standard) and can be used by any brand of GPU or generic VRR, it.
You having had your head in a hole about what the average display features are in 2026 for even an entry level gaming display doesn't mean they aren't common, important or widely supported. When Nintendo has adopted a universal technology and you haven't you know you're behind the tech curve.
For the record, plenty of Linux distros have full support for HDR and VRR. Mint just happens to... not.
To boot into a semi-functional but not updated Bazzite, probably. Takes 5 to get to Windows, though.
To get my system up to full functionality and up to date... their history with massive, feature-breaking issues, and they do have one, is maybe a couple of weeks for a patch and then some time seeing what the fallout of the broken stuff is around your software in general.
Although that's on a good day. Bluetooth has been entirely nonfunctional on this Bazzite install for months and going by how long ago people have been mentioning it with this specific hardware I don't think that one is going away anytime soon.
I know how flatpaks are updated, thanks a bunch. Not that it matters particularly on Bazzite these days, because Bazaar will do that for you on the gui, too. Gear Lever will handle your appimages, if you're lucky. We could have a conversation about how much sense it makes to have updates happen in four different places and how much sense it makes to advise people to stop using their pre-bundled "update everything" script and start updating each of those separately to avoid a troublesome updated driver as a permanent solution.
In any case that's not the only part of your software that comes with a system update. The list of end-of-life features and warnings I see reported on OS updates has been steadily growing as my install ages, which has been interesting to see simmer, given all the "it's foolproof" talk about immutable/atomic distros on the internet. I have to assume some of those will get sorted out in future updates, but so far the list has been moving in the wrong direction.
Honestly, when I do have the time and motivation I will likely just rebase to a whole different branch and go from there depending on what fixes itself or breaks. I assume that will get rid of a bunch of stuff.
But that's already waaay past what an average user should have to do to their OS. Especially in the time this install has been live without a rollback or rebase (and it's had some, because it's not the first time it breaks). I'm not even sure Bazzite shipped a broken update. It could just be an issue on KDE's side. Or on Nvidia's side. Who knows. Being able to roll back my system to a point where it worked is not a fix, it's a troubleshooting step. Having to troubleshoot IS the problem in itself.
I mean, unless you broke something yourself, I suppose. But you're also supposed to not be able to do that in an atomic distro, if you believe what people will tell you.
For the record, as I told someone else, I didn't choose Bazzite because it was an atomic distro (in fact it's kind of a pain in the ass that it is, KDE really doesn't like it when you try to customize stuff in one of those and doesn't handle it gracefully at all). I chose it because I had a hell of a time finding a distro that would pick up my sound hardware properly (sound on Linux is yet another rabbit hole) and still have proper HDR and VRR support with my display setup. The list of distros that did not do both of those things at once before I landed on Bazzite includes Manjaro, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora Workstation and a couple of others I didn't test for long enough to remember.
That's a lie. Manjaro aaaalmost got there. It worked for a while. I kinda forget what broke that made me try something else.
You can see how that entire ordeal is... not mainstream-friendly in aggregate, though, surely.
I don't know how you walk into a store today and buy any OLED display without HDR. Every OLED panel I know of currently in production hits all the requirements.
For the record, the average gamer uses a Switch or a PS5 and a phone. The Switch 2 is moving fast, so the average gamer has HDR/VRR support across the board, or will very shortly if they're on Nintendo's ecosystem.
I just sound angrier because he's checking it out and seeing it moving in the right direction while I'm trying to main. All the speedbumps are actually annoying if you're not just tinkering for fun.
So, I am soon going to finally set up my first home server. Exams are not that far away, I am motivated as shit, my first own domain is bought and I want to level up my sysadmin skills. ...
I wish you didn't have to do things the Calibre way to host ebooks, but whatever effort it takes to sort out ebook hosting must be a pain in the ass, because everything is built on top of Calibre despite Calibre being perhaps the most obtuse piece of "programmer-knows-better" software ever engineered.
Almost every other ebook self-hosted app is just a wrapper on top of that nonsense. I hate it.
You can try to use Komga instead, but it's mostly meant for comic books and it's kinda heavy, honestly.
I strongly recommend Overseerr if you are going to run a video server.
Forget piracy. I only host dumps of my physical media (which at least where I am is perfectly legal), but that thing has an database of international streaming soruces. I use it just as a watchlist and to check whether I have access to a thing on a commercial streaming service already. It is effectively Justwatch for your streaming media.
Immich is a pretty obvious thing, too, if you want to get out of commercial image hosting services.
I'd say, though, that's a fairly ambitious plan, and if your self-hosted apps, your home webhosting and your NAS are all going to live on the same home server I'd certainly figure out security and backups before overcommitting. That plan is a lot of hard drives and failure points you're gonna be wrangling.
Hah. Good to know. I haven't refreshed that container in a while and the data keeps populating just fine, so I hadn't considered it. Makes a lot of sense to consolidate all the media server options into one package, though. I'll take a peek at the new one.
Have I? I tried so many so quickly I can't even remember.
In any case I'm part of the problem now, because my dealbreaker was having to organize my library in the obtuse alien way Calibre wants instead of the nice, human-readable way I already had. I bit that bullet, so now I'm married to a Calibre format library and thus perpetuating the terrible standard.
There's a reason Calibre-web is called Calibre-web. Calibre-web itself is a mitigation for how dumb Calibre is.
A lot of a very cool ecosystem is built on top of this one core piece of weirdness this one nerd made in his own alien mindspace and nobody likes any of the choices in there, but it's inescapable now, precisely because all these other cool, important tools are built around it.
Nah, hard disagree. Calibre has quirks because it's old, but it also has quirks because it has quirks.
It's not particularly disputed that a lot of how its original pre-web UX was designed and the weirdly rigid, stunted structure of how it wants its libraries organized are a side effect of it originally being a one person project that seemed mostly designed to the preferences of its maintainer. And then there's all that baseline functionality from it being originally meant as a standalone app rather than a self-hosting thing layered on top of all the weird decisions.
I've been at this for a long time. I tried to use Calibre back when it was new, digital comic books were rars with jpegs in them and ebooks just sat in random directories as .txt files. It was weird then and it's weird now. If anything, the crazy ecosystem built around it has made it less weird now that a bunch of stuff is hiding the rough edges behind more modern/reasonable design.
Hah. You get the "FOSS gets to be crap because you can't do it yourself" cop out often, but rarely when you haven't actually complained about it.
I mean, there are a ton of Calibre alternatives, the point everybody is making here is that a bunch of them don't get enough support or stick to Calibre conventions anyway because Calibre is at the ground floor of the entire thing and has sort of metastasized into a de facto standard architecture. I don't even know that you could make a commercial Kindle alternative and not at least support Calibre conventions at this point. It's like trying to not use HDMI anymore, and for similar reasons.
Unless you're Kovid Goyal (made me look that up and man, what a rough name to have in the 2020s), I don't see how that connects to your response at all. And even if you were, honestly. I've seen some of the other stuff the guy has done and said. I'm not sure he'd take it as an insult and I don't mean it as one. The man made the piece of software he needed the way he wanted, which is very much not universal. It just happens to now be the core of entire chunk of the ebook industry that isn't made by Amazon.com Inc., much to my annoyance.
But since I'm at it, if your software is annoying people have no need to hide their anger or contempt for the ways in which it is annoying, even if it's FOSS. If you put it out there don't be mad when end users act like end users. People who stumble upon a piece of software and try to use don't need to do an audit on your accounts and licenses to know if they are allowed to be mad at the stuff that's annoying them. FOSS competes with commercial software in equal terms, as far as end users are concerned. Some of the ways it competes have to do with privacy, security, code access and lack of fees, but all the other ways, including UX, polish and feature set, still apply.
I absolutely don't understand Calibre at all. That's been my point all along.
I can tell you that I've actively tried to avoid Calibre when setting up a self-hosted ebook library and I'm currently chugging along with my Calibre-web install.
Turns out, somebody is forcing me to use Calibre, because I promise if I could have stuck with the half a dozen attempts at having a ebook library handle my pre-existing directory structure I wouldn't have wasted a day having Calibre ingesting and duplicating it all, then manually checking that everything came over before feeling safe enough to delete the original repository.
Because that's how it still works as of today, as it turns out.
And again, Calibre gets no more respect from me than... I don't know, Canva. I owe neither of them anything and if I happen to have a bad time using any part of it I feel super happy and safe sharing that on whatever venue seems applicable with as much sarcasm as I see fit. Software is software and end user criticism is end user criticism. I'm being exceedingly articulate and respectful about it, by those standards, speaking with full understanding of what the bad version of this looks and feels like.
I'm confused, is that supposed to be good or bad? A lot or a little? That article seems to be making a heck of a lof of excuses. The hard pivot from "the Deck is an unmitigated success!" to immediately, quietly admitting it hasn't outsold any actual handheld console is... kinda weird.
I like the Deck, and its influence in the market is clearly outsized... but it's still a fairly niche product, and for the price I'm actually a bit surprised at how not-mainstream it remains.
See, that's the type of justification that doesn't sit well with me and that the article is doing all over the place.
Is the Steam Deck a very successful handheld PC? Sure. Compared to the boutique stuff sold on Indiegogo by Chinese manufacturers it's probably an order of magnitude larger.
Except it's also not priced like one of those (or wasn't at launch, anyway), it's priced like a console, with the LCD model (while it lasted) priced right alongside the Switch OLED and a bit cheaper than the Switch 2.
And by that metric it's done poorly, with best estimates placing it right alongside the PSVita at the absolute best, lifetime. The bar for success on that scale isn't "selling millions", it's selling tens of millions, which the Deck has struggled to do.
So, all fanboyism aside: The Deck did well for a handheld PC, but kinda failed in the attempt to bridge the gap between those and handheld consoles. That, if you're keeping track, is "reporting, not an opinion piece".
This?
Valve’s Steam Deck has been a runaway success. While the beloved handheld has sold less than most major console handhelds, it’s become a valuable system for many to take their PC games on the go.
After today, of all days, I will be taking no memes/strips about this from anybody that doesn't keep blood-soaked ties, scalped hair inserts and shattered cufflinks as serial killer trophies.
Or is running for office, at the absolute least. But bloody ties are better.
It depends on what "crap" is involved specifically and your use case, I suppose.
I think it's worth calling out that Win11 does indeed look extremely different depending on what settings you pick. Even out of the box my Win11 does not look like the mess a lot of the online advocacy likes to show. I'm guessing a bunch of the settings are saved to the MS account (which is again something people insist on considering anathema but I've used since before it was cool to hate it for several unrelated reasons).
Win11 has some quirks (where is my vertical dock, MS, it's been years), some inexplicable technical flaws (how is your indexing so bad, MS, and why is the online search-enabled start menu so slow but the multisearch bar instant) and it is occassionally annoying to have to keep up with poorly communicated new features I don't care about (what's new screens, MS, they exist for a reason), but it's mostly just... you know, Windows.
I'll say this, if all my system partitions exploded today and I had to reinstall everything I'd definitely have an easier time getting back to where I was from scratch on my Windows devices/drives than on my Linux ones.
They demonstrably do not, on account of one of the two just having, and I can't believe I have to keep typing this out, just kidnapped the president of Venezuela and his wife.
I am pretty sure that's not some bipartisan policy. That's the ending of a Metal Gear sequel.
That's the lesson, isn't it? People just say things online, and the things need to get entirely dissociated from basic reality before it starts showing that they're just things people say on the Internet.
Screw under-16s. Social media should be banned altogether.
Yes, the lesser of two evil is still evil. And that's the one you vote for, or want the locals to vote for, because we're not running on Hannah Barbera levels of cartoon logic.
I swear, burn down the Internet. It was all a mistake.
FWIW, I don't think it'd be a particularly unpopular opinion to support an intervention of some kind after the presidential election went the way it went. There are still plenty of people out there disingenuously pretending this is that.
But this is obviously not that. This is absolute insanity.
The argument from authority doesn't make the point more or less valid.
If anything, bringing the quote over out of context shows how chillingly unserious it is:
Faced off against a nihilistic, endlessly cruel manifestation of conservatism, and somehow managed to make it close.
Well, where was the left? Where in the ballot was El-Akkad? Where were the righteousy outraged when something could have been done other than comfortable in their outrage and abdicating responsibility?
Being on the right side of the argument and having no power to enact the right decision is equivalent to not being right at all. And yes, once all other possibilities are boiled down to two, you have to pick one. If you do not, then you picked the one that won.
And that may not be the best way to do it, but until such time as Omar and you have successfully revolted and implemented a superior alternative, that's how it works. And work it did. So not Palestine is seriously considered as a potential location for a strip mall and Nicolás Maduro is presumably sitting on some CIA dark site somewhere because holy crap, dumbest dystopia.
Anyway, whatever. Not worth going back and forth on this. The blame adjudication is useless and, more to the point, entirely up to me. You can tell Omar I blame him, too, if he ever signs your moral justification pamphlet for fascism.
I fully believe that you can write fan fiction for evil dems that will take you to whatever arbitrary ending this situation happens to have.
It's a prodigious stretch to argue that "the outcome is the same" at this point, though. Especially since there is every justification for a solution without Maduro in power that isn't an illegitimate coup. Because... you know, Maduro did not have legitimacy in the first pace, arguably.
But hey, who cares about details like what was actually happening or what people actually said or did, right? If you squint hard enough it all blurs together sufficiently to keep posting simplistic crap online.
See, unlike people willing to retroactively support their preferred choices I am making zero assumptions about what's going to happen.
What Trump says is going to happen and what happens don't necessarily line up, and there is zero indication that under a different US regime the outcome would be anywhere close to Maduro being deposed. That ship seemed to have very thoroughly sailed at the time of the election.
And certainly, CERTAINLY not this way. Not by kidnapping Maduro by force and hoping that somehow the internal opposition groups are spooked enough to put forward zero resistance to an opposition government as a US puppet. Even if that is nominally implemented at any point, that's a whole bunch of new ships that need sailing.
So no, not at all the same, not at all an outcome you would have expected from a dem government and not at all something consistent with US geopolitical stances in the past what? thirty, forty years?
The one thing I've learned today is that cosplay online leftists will say pretty much anything and that I'm pretty sure any even vaguely left of center leader in the Americas is currently re-reading their emergency protocols. Including those in Canada. And certainly in Greenland.
No, that's not a remotely acceptable representation of what happened today, of the policies and strategies at play or the history of the situation. At all.
Does the US have a history of intervening in foreign regimes? Sure. For access to natural resources? Definitely. Except in Latin America the Monroe doctrine had been phased out since the Cold War, and whatever version of it got implemented as the "War on Terror" in the Middle East was patently a disaster and very much a contentious issue that was not widely bipartisan in the first place.
This is a "neocolonial legacy" spanning all political sides in the same way France suddenly deciding to invade Vietnam in 2026 would be a continuation of a colonial legacy. Which is to say only in the most superficial, entirely ahistorical reading possible.
Which is, incidentally, why Maduro was currently in power when he very likely had stolen the election, was actively disputed and actively hostile to every party in the US political spectrum. Not because the US was setting up a coup, but because they were... not doing that despite some pressure, internally and externally, to do so.
And in turn it's presumably why Trump is out there saying he has no intention to give the country over to Machado and nobody knows what the fuck is going on.
So no, the outcome wouldn't be the same, the process wouldn't be the same. The geopolitical view underpinning the situation wouldn't have been the same (in that this is bucking a trend that started in what? the 80s?) and it's not all part of the same, bipartisan approach to geopolitics. If you squint any harder to make it seem that way you may pop out an eyeball.
I had no particular desier to see Maduro remain in power indefinitely, but holy hell is the notion of looking at the Trump blitzkrieg play out and go "Harris would have been doing the same, just nicer" a massive, epoch-defining missing of the point. It'd be funny if it wasn't horrifying.
Semi-genuine question, had you heard of Venezuela before today?
Like, in your view, had the successive US leaders just decided to ignore Maduro (and Chávez before him) for the past 25 years out of... what? Not having noticed they had a ton of oil? Venezuela nationalized their oil in the 70s, pivoted to China in the 00s. They stole the election while Biden was still in office. Chávez changed the Constitution when Clinton was in office, FFS.
Apparently Trump's key differentiating attribute now is efficiency, because it seems in your broad strokes, the-rest-is-noise worldview the Dems were just about to throw a sack over Maduro's head, they had just been procrastinating about it for a decade or two.
This is, sincerely, a profoundly stupid conversation we're having. They really do let people just say things on the Internet.
For the record, I'm not American and I live in a country that has non-democratic regimes well within living memory.
You don't come across to me as particularly savvy, or as some form of a realist compared to the cushy liberal democracy children. You come across as deeply confusing cynicism with political insight for online brownie points.
I definitely advocate for some key tweaks to Windows 11, for sure. Just one specifically as a manual registry edit, two perhaps, but absolutely.
Still, depending on your setup, your hardware and your use case you may or may not need to mess with some configs beyond what you'd do on Windows. Back when I moved into Bazzite I was more annoyed by this argument because I had all the setup tweaks fresher in my mind. These days I'm more part of the problem because I tweaked the tweaks and I genuinely forget all the things that needed tweaking, so in my head it was more straightforward than it was.
I'll say that I do regret somewhat going with KDE Plasma, which is a bad fit for Bazzite, but that I haven't reinstalled with Gnome because, man, do I not want to go through that process again. So that's probably a good gauge of whether that sounds like too much or not.
I know there’s great love for Oblivion (I never played it when it was new), and of course Skyrim is the gold standard for new fans (I played the shit out of that and it was my first entry into the elder scrolls back when it came out 14 years ago…) but I really feel like this shadow drop of a half assed remake is just priming ...
I can't believe I walked into this comment one hour after it was made in a 9 month old zombie thread. I haven't even opened this app in days.
Anyway, I do think it's funny that you said Morrowind when I was comparing it to Oblivion, because it just goes to make my point: this is about age and where specifically you set the focus of your nostalgia goggles.
You give the jank and smaller scope and jank of Morrowind a pass because it's weird and was advanced at the time, but probably think Oblivion traded visuals for a more boring setting and truncated world, which was the criticism at the time. I think Daggerfall was doing some crazy sci-fi stuff in 1996 and just making a console RPG was a step back for Morrowind, which was the criticism at the time, and I bet plenty of people are more than happy to be nostalgic about Oblivion. People tend to think stuff holds up depending on how into it they were when it came out.
Game recommendation request: Offline "MMORPGs"
So this is a weird one. Yes, I know an offline MMORPG is just an RPG, but I'm looking for a specific kind. ...
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What else should I selfhost?
So, I am soon going to finally set up my first home server. Exams are not that far away, I am motivated as shit, my first own domain is bought and I want to level up my sysadmin skills. ...
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Mark Carney turns off geolocation on phone just in case ( www.thebeaverton.com )
Compromise culture
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Is there a way to install Windows 11, somewhat bloatware/AI free? (It's for college.)
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Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro has been captured after US conducted ‘large scale strike’ on country ( apnews.com )
Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog ( futurism.com )
Steam survey for December 2025 shows Linux holding to 3.19% ( www.gamingonlinux.com )
Oblivion remake is... really making it apparent how outdated Bethesda is in its approach to making games
I know there’s great love for Oblivion (I never played it when it was new), and of course Skyrim is the gold standard for new fans (I played the shit out of that and it was my first entry into the elder scrolls back when it came out 14 years ago…) but I really feel like this shadow drop of a half assed remake is just priming ...