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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to maplepants in My opinion on Linus and Luke's Linux challenge   
    This isn't a very good summary of what Docker is/does and confuses SELinux changes made to add security features to Docker with Docker itself. Also the default SELinux + Docker permissions do not allow you to mount / into your container. You're thinking of non-SELinux distros, it's there where the default Docker permissions allow sudo users & members of the "docker" group (if it exists) to mount / into any container they like. 
     
    That said, Docker is not built around the idea of running untrusted software. You should never run any binary inside a Docker container that you wouldn't run outside of it. The Docker daemon runs as root, so the security of Docker is roughly equivalent to any other process run as root.
     
    Docker was and is used to allow developers to bundle and run software with all it's dependencies in one place. This is why container orchestration has become such a big deal lately, because it lets you have some of your dependencies be other containers. The idea here is that nginx:latest runs *exactly* the same on my machine as it does in production. This is Docker's big feature, and what makes Docker/containers so popular.
     
    Nobody runs nginx, node, or mariadb in a Docker container because they don't trust the software enough to install it directly onto their machine from the repos. They run in a Docker container for the orchestration, development, and testing benefits bring.
     
    FreeBSD jails and other virtualization tools just have different goals. Saying that Docker is bad or insecure because it doesn't offer the same level of process isolation as FreeBSD jails completely misses the point of what both tools are trying to do.
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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to HumbleProblems in Linus and Linux challenge   
    Do you get upset when an app your purchased on the Mac App Store doesn't work on your windows machine?  When someone random on the internet gets the source and makes a sketchy port, would you lay the blame of the unreliability of that port on the Windows OS?
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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to maplepants in Linus his Linux challange   
    It is popular though. It's really popular. You can start up a cloud / VPS service that doesn't have Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, or any of them. But if you're trying to run servers or sell servers and you're not offering Linux, you might as well not even be doing it.
     
    Linux servers are extremely popular with business and home users. AWS made their own distro for people who wanted to run a RHEL based distro. On Graviton instances you can *only* run Linux and this isn't considered by anyone to a detriment to the product.
     
    The Linux kernel has a massive number of corporate and hobbyist contributors constantly improving it. The tech rumour mill is full of speculation about Google making their own custom CPUs to compete with Graviton, and while there's lots of speculation about whether it'll be ARM or x86 there's absolutely no doubt that it'll run Linux.
     
    I think you've got an uphill battle if you want to argue that Linux is unpopular. 
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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to BuckGup in I think I might have figured out a fix for Linus and Luke's Linux Challenge.   
    Not to rain on your parade but using windows isn't really a great fix for trying to use Linux. IMO nothing is trivial in Linux it just takes time and you need to know how to read documentation up to a point, things like DRM and closed source code makes things hard. With that said though you can fully use linux as a daily driver and never open the terminal once or have to do any hackery to make things work. 
     
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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to finest feck fips in Fedora worth checking out?   
    Yes. Fedora is worth checking out because it has well-engineered tooling, and at root those are what make a distro a distro. It's worth playing with and learning about:
    dnf, Fedora's high-level package manager dracut, Fedora's initial ramdisk generator Fedora packaging guidelines, since Fedora uses the latest RPM specification and best practices. It's cleaner than what you'd be used to on Ubuntu or even openSUSE Fedora SIlverblue, which is an interesting approach to shipping a stable base system built on top of traditional package management with rpm-ostree stratis, an alternative approach to achieving the same kinds of functionality as ZFS using existing filesystems
    Fedora is pretty up-to-date, and Fedora Rawhide is nearly as bleeding edge as Arch, but they have a different design philosophy from Arch that shows in some of the choices mentioned above.

    Imo Arch's KISS philosophy actually results in a deficient technology stack in a number of ways, and Fedora is a good example of how a distribution whose intended audience includes users similar to those in the Arch userbase might choose to make different tradeoffs. dnf is a very good example of this, with a much more robust dependency solver and more sophisticated support for managing multiple repositories, at the cost of a more complex implementation whose worst cases are slower. (Correct and complete dependency resolution requires a SAT solver, which means tackling an NP-complete problem. Pacman gets to be fast by using an algorithm which cannot find solutions to some dependency resolution problems, even when they exist. DNF uses libsolv, which includes a mature SAT solver so that it never fails to find a solution if one exists.)
     
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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to Eigenvektor in Fedora worth checking out?   
    More knowledge never hurts. If you already know your way around Linux, it shouldn't be too hard. The package manager has a different name, some packages have a different name and some paths and default settings may be different. But overall it's still a Linux distribution.
     
    If you need Linux knowledge for work, it may be worthwhile checking out server distributions like CentOS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Get comfortable operating a Linux system remotely through an SSH shell, rather than a desktop.
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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to ComradeIT in Linux sucks, please change my mind!   
    If I had to genuinely get someone to change their mind about linux, I would start by having them set up a Minecraft headless server machine in ubuntu. It's not that hard, but you learn the file structure and bash. And it's fun to play around in your own persistent game server - or any other server project you might want to do.
     
    Trying Ubuntu desktop for a regular machine has been super easy, because I already had experience with the difficult stuff. Besides, most of the major benefits to linux are what you can do with it outside of desktop environments.
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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to Lightwreather in Is there an android emulator for linux...   
    I think Waydroid is a good one
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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to Master Disaster in Linux sucks, please change my mind!   
    C'mon dude, have the courage to stand by your convictions. You're perfectly entitled to your opinion and its OK that your opinion differs from others, that's what drives conversation.
     
    As long as you're respectful about it, its OK to disagree and tell others they're wrong. If you think Linux sucks then cool, you're wrong but its OK, that's your entitlement.
     
    Don't be the cool kid sheep who's opinion of anything happens to match the opinion of the person you're talking too. Develop your own thoughts and opinions and never be scared of standing by what you believe.
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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to beace in Linux sucks, please change my mind!   
    If you've read other posts in this thread, I'm pretty sure you see that opinions differ. People say it sucks or rocks for different reasons, and that honestly sums it up - depending on your preferences, desires and circumstances, your OS of choice may be Linux, may be Windows, may be MacOS, may be BSD, may be any of their flavors. It may be absolutely nothing as well, and that's all fine.
     
    My two cents is Linux is the best thing I have ever put on a computer. I deliberately chose distros and software that was likely to give me better performance compared to Windows 10, and I got exactly what I asked for. I have not used Linux Mint for a very long time, and did it on a 5-6 years old average laptop so gaming there came down to a few lower-end titles, especially 2D ones I could play with a controller, but everything worked fine. Steam Link worked fine as well, if that matters. Linux Mint did everything I wanted a computer to do - it played games, it let my browser eat more RAM and CPU because they weren't eaten by the OS, it played videos and audio and streamed those when I needed, it supported my Logitech F310 with zero effort put in.
     
    Now Arch Linux does the same for me, and even a little more because I put even less resource-hungry software there. I play anything I want except for VR and EAC-protected games, but that's not a issue for me, I got some spare storage for Windows to do just that. With the upcoming Steam Deck and SteamOS (which is based on Arch itself, that's pretty convenient), those gaps may get covered as well; provided that the companies care enough, of course, but that's fine.
     
    My personal most favorite is package management. I don't use any GUI solutions for this, I'm simply not used to and don't need to, and it feels a lot easier to put in a command and the name of the package (or 50 packages at once) that I want to put on my machine and it's going to do it all for me. Never have to bother looking for a piece of software, never have to worry about which file to download or click through the installation process opting out of some software that wants to get installed as well or change some of my settings, nothing like that. And a neat feature is making a little file of packages that you want to install and telling your packages to install everything in that file - that can come super handy with reinstalling your entire system and not forgetting a single little app you had there and want to reinstall conveniently.
     
    So, Linux may suck for you. Maybe it's your distro in particular. It may even be the way your treat it out of how you treated Windows with some things, and it could really shine if you learned a new way to do some things that sometimes happens to be more fruitful and manageable. Nobody knows.
     
    Most importantly, though, you don't have to go for one or the other. You can keep Windows around for things it does better for you, and if there's something Linux does better for you, keep it around for those. Take best of the both worlds if it's there for your use cases.
     
    P. S. My Nvidia GPU works flawlessly for my installation, and I use official Nvidia drivers. So, yeah, things differ on and due to a lot of factors.
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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to 10leej in Linux sucks, please change my mind!   
    OBS-Studio Nvidia your on your own but AMDGPU has plenty of tools for overclocking. OpenRGB, mouse tools exist for Razer, Corsair and Logitech gaming mice. Only AAA gaming, I've never had a problem outside of anti cheat software due to Steam and Lutris making this way easier than it used to be. What did you expect from something that has less than 2% desktop market share? Please go into more detail on drivers because the linux model is far superior to windows. What does Windows do better than Linux? Bare metal legacy support.
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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to Master Disaster in Linux sucks, please change my mind!   
    I'm not the elitist type but with that attitude, good.
     
    Fraps has been unnecessary since Windows XP and doesn't work with DX12 or Vulkan
    The are OSS alternatives that do the exact same thing
    Yes there is
    No it doesn't
    Paradoxical fallacy. If almost all software was made for windows then Linux as an OS and a concept wouldn't exist
    Drivers ...are almost entirely unnecessary on Linux as they're mostly built right into the kernel
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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to finest feck fips in My opinion on Linus and Luke's Linux challenge   
    tl;dr: this challenge isn't really about learning Linux so much as testing its readiness for naive but Windows-experienced and hardware-knowledgeable power users, but an actual ‘learn Linux challenge’ based on ‘install Gentoo lul’ can be genuinely instructive without being gratuitously difficult if you control for hardware compatibility

    For people who are already technical or power users like Linus and Luke, setting up an old-fashioned Linux setup which has no defaults (LFS, Gentoo, Arch Linux— in descending order of usefulness and difficulty) is probably the best approach to quickly learning everything you need to feel totally at home on any Linux distro you might want to use in the future.

    If you control the complexity of the process by limiting the complexity of the hardware setup rather than trying to do so by choosing an ‘easier’ distro, you avoid wasting time stumbling over obscure difficulties but you get walked through the fundamentals in a straightforward way, instead of skipping over them in favor of the search for an install wizard that gives you a magical outcome (a search which teaches you nothing and does nothing to empower you).

    For LMG, that approach is especially easy, since they can set up VMs with known configurations on a host OS of their choosing, and they have the budget and connections for easy access to known-good hardware (e.g., a 3-year-old System76 desktop). Learning how to read and follow the docs required for basic setup and troubleshooting on systems where you know there are no hardware bugs is not difficult, meme status of ‘hard’ distros aside. The point of that is not to struggle to overcome difficult quirks or learn to appreciate all of the integration work that distribution developers do, but to teach you the anatomy of a working Linux system and a handful of basic skills for inspecting and repairing them. It's not about being ‘hardcore’, it's not about doing everything yourself, it's not about avoiding asking for help, it's not about optimizing everything, and it's not about using something that's ‘better’ than other distros. The idea is to work through something that is manual but predictable and well-documented.

    Then you move on to a setup that inverts what is difficult and what is easy about that introductory one: you take a batteries-included desktop distro of your choice and install it on your pre-existing hardware, on that secondary SSD on your old Windows box or whatever. Instead of going through manual steps that you know will work for every piece of hardware, you let the distro get you 95% of the way there for unknown hardware ‘automagically’. Now you're only looking at manual intervention for setting up 5% of your system instead of 100% of it, but the 5% you're looking at will likely not be covered in some single, pretty, unified manual somewhere.

    At that point you're free to choose any Linux distribution and make it work, instead of playing distro roulette until all your shit happens to work for a few months and praying that nothing changes.

    That would be a totally different series than what I think LMG is going for right now, though. It's also probably too much a young man's game to be enjoyable for Linus (it was fine for me as a teenager, but I might be too old and fussy to really relish exploring and struggling in that way, now). But it could work as a format for a future challenge, like ‘Can Luke become a DESKTOP LINUX SUPER EXPERT in JUST TWO MONTHS??’, where Luke walks through the  process outlined above before he and Anthony are each handed an identical PC and told they have to get everything working with two distros unknown to both of them.

    Anyway, it'll be interesting to see what approaches Linus and Luke model for their viewers, and where they fall on the spectrum from ‘any fix I use without fully understanding it is no fix at all’ to ‘I will perform any sequence of rituals to make this work as long as I don't have to actually read a manual’, and whether any such differences in approach ‘pay off’ for either of them in the challenge.

    Of course it's fine to say ‘I already have enough hobbies; I might use Linux but mastering it won't become a new hobby’, and I get that ultimately LTT is about guiding consumer tech purchases and related decisions. But YouTube and the web are full of content erroneously teaching people that choice of distro deeply matters, that ‘idk the actual issues you're experiencing, but using $DISTRO_X gave me good vibes and mostly worked for me once’ is good or even meaningful advice, that some distros are ‘only for beginners’, that it takes some kind of supergenius to ‘install Arch’, that choice of distro is some kind of status symbol, that people who've never written a startup script or unit file let alone a line of code have interesting or useful opinions about the inherent evil or virtue of systemd, etc. So it would pretty cool for a channel with as much reach as LTT to show that actually, if you print out an installation guide on paper, throw your smartphone in a drawer while you read that manual from start to back (just once!) before you attempt an install, you can find your footing on an ‘elite’ distro in a weekend, and over the course of a few weeks or months, develop the skills required to mostly not give a shit about what distro you're on for the rest of your life.

    So here's hoping the current project is fun for Luke and Linus, and generates enough content and attracts enough viewers for LMG to think that one or more follow-up challenges are worth doing!
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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to Master Disaster in Linux sucks, please change my mind!   
    Honestly, sounds like pebkac to me (absolutely no offense intended when I say that).
     
    1) NEVER EVER EVER blindly follow a guide by using copy/paste without understanding what it is you're telling it to do. This is pretty much the universal precursor to a bricked install.
     
    2) WINE is an abstraction layer, that means it technically doesn't have direct access to hardware on Linux. If you're trying to install a CD based game in WINE with the disc inserted into a Linux host then its obviously going to complain about a missing disc. For cases like this Lutris exist.
     
    3) (Just my opinion) Mint sucks, for a debian based distro it has so many specific issues that non of the other debian based distros have I have no idea why people still use it. If you want a great debian based distro that is good for gaming then go with PopOS.
     
    4) Based on the phrases in your OP I'd assume you're still a relative newcomer to Linux. In that case please ignore the advice to switch to anything Arch based, the advantages of using Arch are exactly what makes it difficult to newcomers. Because everything is about as new as possible its pretty common for updates to break things and then you have to spend hours trawling through configs to find the issue and fix it. Much better to stay on a stable release "just works" type distro where the software might be a few months old but you know it has been curated and tested to work on your system with no user input required.
     
    Edit - Also as a newcomer I'd advise staying away from RHEL/SUSE based distros as well, these days they come with SELinux out of the box and that's 100% not something for a newbie to be getting into. Understanding Linux permissions for a Windows users is bad enough on its own without adding a whole new layer of complexity to everything.
     
    5) Linux doesn't suck, it is however FAR from perfect in many areas (but then, so is Windows and macOS).
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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to Conan Kudo in My opinion on Linus and Luke's Linux challenge   
    This shouldn't really be as much an issue these days, at least with Fedora Workstation. Fedora ships almost all drivers and firmware needed to leverage PC hardware on the media. Offhand, the only two we don't have are:
    Broadcom b43 firmware for Intel Macs (we can't find the right people to fix the problem, and this affects all distros) Proprietary NVIDIA drivers (we ship an easy enablement method in GNOME Software for this) The folks at Red Hat work tirelessly to try and resolve these issues to the best of their ability. Ben Skeggs (who works there on the Red Hat Desktop Graphics team) is the main developer of the nouveau driver (an open source replacement for the proprietary driver) and does his best to make something work while NVIDIA stonewalls him on getting GPU firmware that would make it work properly. If we had it, then the proprietary NVIDIA driver wouldn't even be needed in most use-cases. Even with this problem, nouveau works enough to get you to the point you can install the proprietary driver and have it take over.
     
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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to Slipfox in Regarding Linus and Luke's Linux challenge on the WAN show   
    I won't lie, I'm really excited to see how this challenge pans out. Seeing your average techie nerd try out Linux and (hopefully) really enjoy it might be what pushes people over to try it out. As far as distro choice goes, the main 3 they agreed on are really good choices for new users, I like to think (even though Canonical has been doing some odd things with Ubuntu recently). All in all, will be happy to see how this turns out, and hope that both users enjoy it. What do you all think?
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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to 10leej in My opinion on Linus and Luke's Linux challenge   
    I don't understand Linus' comment about Fedora.
    It's easily one of my top 3 picks for new users.
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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to DaftBlazer in My opinion on Linus and Luke's Linux challenge   
    I would love to see Anthony do a video on installing Arch, but I wouldn't want to see Linus or Luke jump into daily driving linux with Arch. Arch is something you work your way towards, starting on Arch would give people the wrong idea that linux is really complex and deter people from giving linux a shot as a daily driver. In my opinion there are 3 "levels" when going down the linux rabbit hole. 
     
    Level 1 - Beginner Friendly Distros
    Super simple, easy to find community solutions, package support
    Pop!_OS - My Preferred, Has better Quality of Life features over Ubuntu Ubuntu  Linux Mint Level 2 - Intermediate Distros
    These aren't necessarily harder to use, they just aren't debian based so finding solutions online might not be as common, and they may use other package formats (ex. rpm)
    Fedora - One of my favorites, could arguably be in level 1, idk why its not more popular tbh Manjaro OpenSuse Debian Unstable - Better for desktop usage imo, debian stable is better for servers Level 3 - Advanced / Power User Distros
    For those who want a distro specifically designed for their system and needs, love tinkering and customizing literally everything. 
    Arch - Every linux users "rite of passage" Gentoo  
    Everyone is going to have their own opinions, but this is what I've seen and experienced. If you're a linux enthusiast it's worth trying out each of the major branches. 
     
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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to orangecat in My opinion on Linus and Luke's Linux challenge   
    Not sure if this is the right place to post this but here goes...

    So I watched the latest WAN Show and during the show Linus and Luke did a poll to see what distro they should use. I just wanted to say I personally think they should use Arch Linux. I know someone will call me a fanboy or whatever but I seriously think it's what's best suited for both of them if they actually do plan on daily driving Linux. The main reason I think they should use arch is because both of them tend to be what I would consider power users. Arch is a very power user friendly distro and if the point of the challenge is to learn linux and see if you can daily drive it then what better distro to use than the one that you setup yourself. You can pick your own desktop environment and all the accoupling packages. Plus the arch wiki is by far one of the most useful linux documents out there and it all directly applies to arch (and other distros).

    You guys could have the first challenge being getting through the arch installer and getting to a working desktop. it's really not that hard and I'm sure Anthony could give you guys some tips like how to use and setup sudo on your user accounts. it also offers the most vanilla experience out of all the distros imo and I think that will make it easy to start with something basic and over the course of the challenge try and make your arch install your own. I'm almost certain Linus will want to use KDE or maybe GNOME and most other distros come skinned pretty ugly out of the box and I think that might be a bit of a turn off for Linux and Luke. maybe not but I know a lot of people don't like how Linux looks as it's not always flashy.

    I also think it would be a good reason for them both to dive deeper into Linux and learn how it works. Maybe they can both come out of this more experienced linux users than they were before. Arch is great and if they need any pointers I'm sure the arch community will help them out.
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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to Conan Kudo in My opinion on Linus and Luke's Linux challenge   
    I'm familiar with it, as I've paid for and used some of these support options before. Both Red Hat and SUSE include maximum time to response for support cases via email, chat, or phone call. These and the scope of the support are both defined in the subscription agreement. It definitely includes a lot of the basic stuff as well as more advanced stuff in a timely manner. You're paying for it, after all.
    It's too bad, because Framework cares a lot about Linux support, and recently Matthew Miller (Fedora Project Leader) was able to quote Nirav Patel (founder of Framework) as saying "Fedora is definitely the best supported distro on the Framework Laptop."
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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to Conan Kudo in My opinion on Linus and Luke's Linux challenge   
    I also forgot to mention that Fedora Linux is also available preloaded on a number of computers from Lenovo (there's a recent video from the Nest with Fedora conference on this) and Slimbook.
     
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux is available for free for individuals for up to 16 machines, and supported subscriptions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation are US$299/system/year, which entitles you to technical and engineering support from Red Hat as well. There's also AlmaLinux, which has support options through TuxCare (though that's aimed mostly at businesses/servers, I think).
     
    Another great option is openSUSE Leap, which is built by SUSE and the openSUSE community as a freely available rock-solid stable and somewhat fresh distribution. For commercially supported options, SUSE offers SUSE Linux Enterprise with a desktop variant that's available for US$120/system/year with support from SUSE. There's a more advanced Workstation variant that's available with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (US$799/system/year) with the workstation extension (US$50/system/year).
     
    The benefit of paying for RHEL or SLE is that these companies take that money and pour into further developing the Linux platform. Red Hat and SUSE both spend a lot of time and money on developing Linux for the cloud, the server, and the desktop. This results in Fedora Linux and openSUSE Linux both getting improvements as a result of that money going in, and because it's all FOSS, it benefits the wider Linux ecosystem. Many of the things people enjoy on Ubuntu/Pop, Arch, Manjaro, etc. all start in either Fedora or openSUSE.
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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to Jimzamjimmyy in My opinion on Linus and Luke's Linux challenge   
    I tried to comment this on YouTube, but it keeps deleting my comments so I have to post here:
     
    As a (Fedora) linux user I would say pick RHEL and Fedora (or Manjaro or PopOS)
     
    My personal choice is Fedora, but I see a plenty of reasons using PopOS or Manjaro. EDIT: after writing this "comment" I watched the rest of the wan show, and I trust Anthony at picking the best distros for them. 🙂
     
    I really would like you to try Red Hat or SUSE technical support, since I haven't heard anyone trying them. It would be extremely interesting to hear some comments. Also an average user does not have Anthony at home so this support as a service will replace him partially. I picked RHEL, because it is more widely known, but SUSE is great distro too with a support team available.
     
    Fedora is great choice, because it has really fresh packages and you can get the latest features of for example KVM there. There is huge community behind it, similar to Ubuntu, you can find solutions to almost any problems on their forums. Another reason to use Fedora is the Gnome, it is extremely close to stock Gnome (think it like clean android with no manufacturer customization which you would find in PopOS and Ubuntu). Fedora is also the choise of the Linux founder: Linus Torvalds as well as seemingly many LTT community Linux users. Fedora is one of the most polished and easy to use distro which actually has plenty of user customizability (in my opinion). @Conan Kudo mentioned plenty of other reasons, some of which I haven't tried.
     
    PopOS is great option because it is Ubuntu based and to my knowledge it has quite new packages, not as fresh as Fedora but still. And System76 customizes Gnome quite heavily which is useful, but I do not like.
     
    I do not have personal experience with Manjaro, but I expect ithas some greatness from Arch and also the risk of bricking things easily. Sure it would be the closest comparison to the Steam Deck.
     
    I would not recommend Arch or Gentoo, because you have to figure so many things out before using them, and your experience would not be standardized like most new linux users have. You can customize other distros extremely well too, but it will be more interesting to see you using some distro which an average ex windows user would choose. The ability to pick and buid your distro is great but it isn’t useful to the viewers whose experience would be extremely different and again, an average person doesn't have Anthony helping them at home to fix their problems.
     
    I would not pick Mint, yes it is fine distro, but it is based on Ubuntu, so no difference with other Ubuntu based distros and Mint has the oldschool Gnome. I do not see a reason to learn using that, because Gnome 41 is awesome I am just really subjective. Use Mint if you have specific reason to do so.
     
    I would not pick Ubuntu either, because it is pushing Snap packages and Flatpak is used on almost every other distro. You can install Snaps on almost any distro, but the distro defaults do matter.
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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to Conan Kudo in My opinion on Linus and Luke's Linux challenge   
    As someone who uses and helps develop Fedora Linux, I was really sad and hurt to hear @LinusTechcompletely laugh off Fedora Linux as if it was ludicrous. As one of the folks who helps develop Fedora Linux and uses it as a daily driver specifically for desktop and gaming, I was really shocked to hear that neither Linus nor @Slick would even consider it.
     
    In the past year alone (with Fedora 33 and 34), we've done a ton of work around the desktop and gaming:
    Btrfs by default with zstd transparent compression to simplify storage and improve I/O performance Swap on ZRAM, desktop process resource reservation, and adding systemd-oomd to improve responsiveness in situations with low memory and high memory pressure DXVK for Fedora Wine to match Proton for non-Steam Windows games (and non-games!) Adding thermald to improve thermal and Intel CPU performance for ultrabooks and other laptops Routing all audio through PipeWire to simplify audio and improve the quality of life for pro-audio setups And with the upcoming Fedora 35 (releasing at the end of the month, beta out now), we've got a bit more in the pipe:
    Adding power-profiles-daemon to extend battery life and enable easy power management flexibility Using a shim library to have old SDL1 games use SDL2 to improve game performance and compatibility with newer technologies Easier user third-party repository enablement to easily access third-party software like Steam, Google Chrome, and the NVIDIA driver Select Flatpaks from Flathub made available so stuff like Zoom, Discord, etc. are all just a click away Even with that, there's more coming down the pipe in the future, as Red Hat and the community work with folks like Valve, NVIDIA, and others to make the desktop and gaming awesome. Christian Schaller (the manager for the Red Hat Desktop team), wrote a blog post about what his team is working on for improving Fedora Workstation. He's written plenty of blog posts about the state of things and where his team is working to move things.

    I wish they would consider using Fedora Linux, because I think we've done a stellar job trying to make an awesome easy to use Linux desktop and I think they'd love the stuff we've done to make gaming on Linux awesome.
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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to Katarok in Fellow Linux Games rejoice! Valve will get EAC working with proton!   
    Valve just announced their SteamPal project, the handheld gaming pc called the "SteamDeck". It will run Linux. (SteamOS to be precise)
     
    While it is nice to finally see a switch competitor. SteamDeck will undoubtedly help Linux Gaming, since it won't just give light to it but will also finally allow some of the pesky Anti-Cheats to run under proton!

    Every single Linux gamer hates EAC because it has stopped us from playing our favourite online games numerous times. Well looks like those times are going to be just a bad memory.

    source: https://www.steamdeck.com/en/software

     
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    tryton-vanmeer reacted to Nayr438 in Quake II RTX on Linux   
    It does if the game utilizes Vulkan and the Vulkan Ray Tracing Extensions. This applies to both native Linux titles and Windows titles through Proton/Wine. It however does not apply to Windows titles that use DirectX through Proton / Wine + DXVK/VKD3D. I also believe this only applies to NVIDIA's proprietary drivers at this time.
     
    The Native Linux build is available on Steam.
     
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