What kind of PC is this? Does it have an SSD?

If it’s anything like my company a “New” desktop is the managers old desktop.

VSCodium is the best we can get for now it seems.

You posted the same link twice but neither of them mention or seem to relate to Proton?

Here's hoping that Linux becomes good enough within a couple years from now.

I jumped head first into Linux without any prior knowledge a year-ish ago, I went and chose what seemed to be a simple distro (Debian) and later found out it’s one of the more difficult distros out there (also most native packages are outdated) and some how made it work day to day.

Basically every game on steam is Linux compatible and a good handful of popular anti-cheats have partnered with Valve to ensure proper compatibility.

Now the problem is, game producers (like Ubisoft & EA) have been pushing this rhetoric that Linux users are all cheaters & hackers and intentionally prevent users from connecting to their servers or even launching the games.

I think the switch isn’t as bad as you make it seem. Hope I provided some insight.

Edit - dropping ProtonDB (fixed the link)

Title says “Steal This Comic” so I did.

Sue me.

Mr Torvald, I don’t feel so well.

Basically Linux mint or bazzite is the system and how it’s organized while plasma is how I’m seeing that system represented and interacting with it in other words?

Yup, seems like you got the gist of it!

Obviously once you start reading documents on software you’ll start to understand it all better. Suggest reading into the Docker engine for self-hosting software on your network!

how does plasma and Debian fit in cus that stuff is ringing a bell.

Distributions like Ubuntu, Kali Linux, Linux Mint are actually based off of Debian however, each distribution provides their own packages and typically have system files in different places, so packages made for Ubuntu may or may not work with Debian and vice-versa.

Like plasma being separate than a distro

KDE Plasma is a Desktop Environment (aka your desktop). When you install a Linux distro on your computer you’ll typically be given an option on which software you want to pre install. You’ll see software like GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce, Cinnamon, etc and by doing a little research into them you can pick the environment that suites you best.

GNOME gave me MacOS vibes while KDE is more Windows.

Edit; I should’ve mentioned you can choose to go headless without a GUI and only run the shell which saves a lot of resources.

Hope this explains things easily!

I personally started out with Debian given that a vast majority of distributions are Debian based, typically paired with KDE Plasma 5 for my desktop environment, and learned from there.

Now Debian is really stable but does require command-line configuration quite often so it may feel complicated but if you’re capable of reading & following documentation then you should be all good.

Currently in the process of fixing up my old Asus TUF FX505DU with Debian & KDE Plasma.

Setting up Nvidia Optimus would be a pain if it weren’t for Envy Control, run one command and boom GPU’s speak nicely to one another.

That’s just how you unlock the hidden boss fight.

Ubisoft cannot be forgiven on how much time they wasted remastering all the original maps. That’s when I called it quits.

I had a poor experience with NPM which turned me to SWAG, it worked, but was a tad slow. Moved to Traefik and haven’t looked back.

I mean general concept is they all are suppose to talk to each other in some sort. Prowlarr will provide indexers to Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr, etc (just going to call them the ARR’s) the ARR’s will associate the results of those indexers to TMDB/TVDB and whenever you decide to download something the ARR’s will communicate with your download/torrent client, once your download is complete the ARR’s will mark it as complete and move it to the directory/folder of your choosing making organization easy and let’s Jellyfin/Plex see the files in the way they should be shown. You can reverse proxy all these for security reasons or to avoid annoying ssl errors.

Honestly to start I would say learn the docker engine & docker compose first.

I just host a RedLib instance and browse every so often. Starting to use Lemmy more for actual interactions.

they'd have to do all kinds of work embedding their anti cheat in the kernel.

Prime example here is Rainbow Six Siege, they use Battle-Eye for their anti cheat. Battle-Eye has supported linux since 2021 and all the developers have to do is phone up Battle-Eye and enable Proton support.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/11/supporting-linux-proton-and-the-steam-deck-with-battleye-is-just-an-email-away/

Ridiculous right?

What baffles me is how they intentionally make their games unplayable on Linux, and the same can be said about EA.