Sorry for the dumb question, but what do you mean by "non-official distro"?
SimplyTadpole
joined 2 years ago
I bought it but haven't played it yet, I really need to overcome my laziness and do it 😅
I've been chronically obsessed with Hypnospace Outlaw...
I've also switched to Fedora Kinoite a little over a year ago after lots of issue-driven frantic distrohopping followed by me having temporarily given up on Linux, and it really stuck for me as well. Fedora Atomic is honestly really cool, and it's been more reliable than most other distros I tried (even Workstation itself!), and I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way ^^'
Eh, issues aside, I'd rather have a greedy late-stage capitalist developer than a proudly neo-nazi developer.
I can't speak for OP, but I remember reading about two years ago that Linux Mint is a poor choice for gaming because Cinnamon's compositor can't handle more fast-paced games (even just 60 FPS) and will reduce them to a stuttery mess even if the game's otherwise running fine. I'm not sure if this is still the case, but I did deal with it back in late 2021.
There was also the stuff about Lutris developers abandoning their support for Mint (in a letter I feel was frankly way too harsh, rude and unprofessional) due to it doing some weird stuff with system packages that made the Lutris program generate weird bugs that couldn't be replicated in other Ubuntu-derivative distributions. However, that can be circumvented by using the Lutris flatpak.
Honestly, I do hope those are no longer issues. I have a soft spot for Linux Mint since it was the first distro I daily-drove (and has a similar UI to Windows XP my beloved), and even though I don't use it anymore, I still follow its development from time to time and I'd love to see it getting better and universally usable for everyone.
Trust me, there is a seriously disturbing amount of genuinely misogynistic women out there. I've had the misfortune of dealing with them many times...
I am really glad Flatpak exists, it made using Linux much easier for me ^^
Does SponsorBlock work with Invidious and LibRedirect in general?
I use the Flatpak version of Firefox on Fedora Kinoite and it uses the KDE file picker without problems, I guess it's an issue with the RPM version.
Besides speed, it's also really useful for older games with unstable graphics renderers that don't play nice with modern hardware. When I was still on Windows, I used DXVK on Fallout: New Vegas and Driver: Parallel Lines, and they decreased crashes by a LOT compared to when they ran on native DX9.
In terms of speed, obviously I didn't notice much of a difference with D:PL since it's a 2006 game that's not demanding at all, but I did notice F:NV seemed to also run better and less laggy in general (not only is FNV poorly-optimized, but I also use a lot of graphics mods for it).
Sounds about right, I had nothing but bad experiences with Nvidia on Linux.
My experiences with AMD are far from perfect and I still have some bizarre issues nobody else has , but it was still a pretty big improvement.