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  • Heavybell@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlLooking to Switch // Which Distro?
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    20 days ago

    Hot take: Go with Gentoo. Dive into the deep end, manually install your system from the command line. It doesn’t get more configurable. You’ll be forced t o learn a bunch of stuff tho. But it’s not that hard.

    If you take this seriously, my advice would be to not go overboard with global USE flags, and keep your CFLAGS standard.

    Or go for something like Arch. Maybe CachyOS (tho I hear this has a lot of optimisations that are described as “yolo”…)

    AMD graphics work better than nvidia still, but things are getting better, so if you’re with team green you might have to replace that or you might have no real problems.

    Most games just work. Even stuff with anti-cheat isn’t necessarily out (e.g. Helldivers 2, War Thunder and Star Citizen are games with anti-cheat that I play). Best to check protondb if in doubt.

















  • Everything huh? I’ll believe that when I see it. :P I’ve been waiting on Bloodborne and the Demon’s Souls remaster for so long.

    I also don’t completely agree console targeted games are a good thing. Sure, controller standardisation has been great for games played on a controller, but if you have any other type of peripheral, that thing is still using DirectInput, with all the associated issues. Plus I’m sure Mass Effect 2 wasn’t the only game that was less than it could have been for being console first.

    And yeah, a lot of older PC games were targeted at hypothetical future computers. In many cases that worked out; you could play it on medium now, and play it on high on your newer PC in future years (which maybe it’s just because I was younger and had less money, or maybe it’s because the games industry has expanded since then, or a bit of bother, but I feel like that was more a thing in the past than often happens now). There were also cases where it didn’t work out, of course. Notably Crysis, which was coded assuming CPUs would continue their meteoric rise in single core clock speed, which basically stopped being a thing the day it came out. Meaning PCs today still can’t run it that well.

    What was I saying? Eh nevermind.