Great, I much prefer this. I always know where windows are going to open.

The current standard behaviour is somewhat unpredictable to me, and I’m not a fan.

I’m sorry my corrections to all your many errors are bothering you.

You got a pro managing it?

\sigh

Spaces before a full stop? Really?

Last.

Cool change.

On the topic of Flatpak games… I hope Valve takes over the flatpak/Flathub version of Steam. Right now it’s unofficial.

Valve only officially supports the .deb package on the most recent Ubuntu LTS, and their official SteamOS version.

Despite this, Canonical defaults to the unofficial Snaps version - in the past when this caused issues, Valve said that people should use the Flathub version - which they don’t actually support!

Come on, Valve. You know it makes sense. You clearly like Flatpaks if you’re telling people to use them and preinstalling them on the Deck. Make it official!

I think they mean HDR and some ancillary things have taken longer to implement.

This is true, but it’s important to remember that a huge amount of this work on Plasma was spearheaded by Valve. Gnome doesn’t have that going for them.

Gnome also generally doesn’t enable things until it’s implemented in a way that they feel is very polished and isn’t a workaround. Plasma’s HDR implementation was pretty whacky for a while.

There are some areas where Gnome is ahead of Plasma, but most PC users don’t really care about it, so it never gets mentioned (understandably so).

Accessibility in Gnome is better than any other DE, IMO, and it’s getting better. Not many people actually use these options though, and even the people that use one accessibility feature don’t often use other accessibility features. So Gnome being pretty great in that regard flies completely under the radar.

“Adaptive” apps are something Gnome is great at, too. Take virtually any Libadwaita/GTK4 app, and resize it, they work remarkably well at any size. Size it really small and it’ll even (extremely seamlessly) turn into a pretty great phone UI. I find it pretty incredible tbh, but it’s of little use right now because Linux phones aren’t really a thing. If we get a future of Linux phones, though, Gnome seems really well positioned for that.

Some monitors say they’re HDR, when in fact they support it so badly it feels criminal to say they support it. It is a terrible idea to enable it on one of those.

Niche means expensive.

Nowhere in that blog post does he announce he’s making it.

He just asks for interest so that he can explore whether it’s feasible to attempt manufacturing of it. He explicitly states there that he’d need a lot of help to even attempt to make it a reality.

Very different from claiming he is making it and that it’s a real product.

I was running GrapheneOS on the Pixel 7, but it’s quite lacking in care towards UX (the preinstalled apps, for example, are AOSP apps seemingly taken from multiple versions of android with different UI designs. There’s no preinstalled apps store, although they seem to recommend using the play store and recommend against F-droid?), and you need to spend a while figuring things out. The security is remarkable but I feel they could give other areas more care.

No contactless payment is really tough too. I hate carrying my wallet. That’s not their fault though.

God what a negative comment section.

It’s Raspberry Pi powered, so the ‘Pi’ part of the name must surely be pronounced like that

I’m not the above user, but I also went from Endeavour to Fedora.

I had a couple of issues with Grub after updates - this was an Arch bug that was quickly resolved, but it was still an annoyance that highlights that the bleeding edge isn’t without risk.

Fedora pretty aggressively pushes modern tech into their distro. They’re kind of the main driver that paves the way for other distros to join the modern world, IMO. Wayland, Flatpaks, Portals, PipeWire, they push all of that.

Last time I tried Endeavour, despite the packages being new, it still defaulted to a lot of older technologies (that may have changed now, it’s been 2 years since I used it). Fedora doesn’t, and it plays a part in shaping those technologies. Some people may not like that, but personally I love it.

Like I said in an earlier comment, though, I do love EndeavourOS. If I went back to Arch-based distros I’d use it without a doubt.

I do have annoyances with Fedora. Stuff like having to enable proprietary media codecs via a command is utterly brain-dead and not intuitive for new users.

That famous Linux distro…

I’m not going to pretend that people won’t have a good time gaming on Windows, but this is like someone asking for Italian food recommendations and you recommending sushi.

Presumably this person knows Windows exists. They don’t need to be told about Windows.

I’d stay away from Manjaro, personally. They’ve had a number of organisational and security fuck-ups that in my opinion makes it hard to take them seriously. Once is forgivable, but when they make the same mistake 3+ times it’s just completely unforgivable and unprofessional.

Plus there’s the whole “we hold Arch packages back two weeks but not AUR packages” - which means there could be dependency issues if you like installing stuff from AUR. In fairness though, they do request that users do not install AUR software on their site, so people do get warned about that.

Endeavour is good. If I was to go back to an Arch distro, it’s what I’d use hands-down. Fundamentally just Arch with a better installer and a nice theme.

I’d also consider something Fedora based, like Fedora (duh), or Bazzite (if you want an atomic/immutable OS). Up-to-date, extensively tested. Bazzite even allows you to install it with out-of-the-box Gamescope support (in simple terms, you get some of the performance options and performance overlays that the steam deck has).

There’s loads. Several Anbernic devices, Miyoo Mini (I have a couple and they’re great), etc.

Most of them support custom firmwares, themes, etc.

Well I use Arch Fedora btw

I hadn’t noticed this. It definitely used to be there. What a shitty way to push you to back it up on Google servers

No one in the last 25 years has ever seen it.

People didn’t just mass-destroy CRTs in 1999…

I bought an LCD TV in 2006 (a Sony Bravia that is still going strong) and that was earlier than most people I know switched