Court room stenographer

Is it just my hardware?

It is not your hardware

Am i using linux just wrongly for years?

Not really

Is it my fault?

Not really

The main issue from what I can tell is you are trying to play older windows games which can be pretty hit or miss. More recent pc games often support the steam deck which is usually a good sign for compatibility.

Gaming on Linux has greatly improved over the last couple years (especially thanks to proton/steam deck) but if you are trying to run older games that were never designed to run to it or you want to play online games with aggressive anti-cheat it is still going to be a bit of a struggle.

I would recommend sticking to an Arch based distro like EndeavourOS (as it is similar to the SteamOS) or a Debain based distro and not swap around too much so you can get a feel for it without having a bunch of things change on you all the time like package names and the like.

All that said if your jam is older windows games and you have access to windows and are tired of messing with the OS and just want to play games just use windows, try linux another day.

Some games are trickier than others for sure. Are you using protondb as a reference?

Anno 1404 is a 15 year old game with aggressive DRM so I could tell right away that it would be one of the more tricky titles.

It really comes down to if you are trying to use newer hardware or not. Debian based systems usually run fine out of the box on older systems.

For newer hardware your going to want new drivers and kernel versions which you get with a rolling release distro.

Lol it’s aping 70s or 80s design

The nineties is full of round edges and silver plastic

They are definitely AB testing things like rejecting ad blockers.

I’ve been trying fin Droid which works well but it’s definitely a work in progress.

That works until it doesn’t. Though it has been a few years since there was a nice notable example.

If you know anything about Lenovo you would know that if ARM laptops started to have high market share they would have like 35 mediocre models on offer in a year.

Some of the think pad lines are still good but their consumer offerings and a couple of the think pad lines are trash.

This is reported as a percentage and that’s what is tripping people up here.

You are not seeing a drastic rise in Linux usage you are seeing a large decrease in the use of desktop computers.

Linux is increasing because the only ones left using desktops are Linux users.

Fair enough.

Though if density is irrelevant then the entire thing is meaningless.

Should instead be talking about how large of a silicon wafer can be produced.

It’s literally defined as the number of transistors doubling in a chip. It doesn’t at all mention the size or density.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

It is dead.

The only reason it seems like it’s not is because AMD server CPUs are just getting physically larger and larger

If the bureaucracy could easily identify the dead weight projects it wouldn’t need the layoffs but that also means it can’t make good choices when doing layoffs.

It’s like chemotherapy.

That isn’t how it works for publicly traded companies. There is no such thing as enough only more

It’s fine. Eventually when people start using this crap en masse the people on the other end will just be using LLMs to distill the bullshit down to 3 key points anyway.

Aha because if they included the xeon scalables it show how bad they are doing in the datacenter market.

There is an argument to be made that he is promoting that stuff and in doing so spawning a litany of less scrupulous copy cats.

I’m not sure he is the egg of that particular variety of content.

I mean that is true but there is some nuance.

At one time it was a cheap way to protect your site from drive by scripts and make your users help pay for that protection.

They still work in that way on say the comment section of a tiny WordPress blog because the cost to solve them isn’t worth what a random boner pill ad is worth.

The issue now (made worse recently by LLMs) is that more bots then ever are scraping any and every thing so people are putting captchas on every bit of every web app content they have. This increases the work of your users while it only slows down the bots. The hope is that the cost to solve is slightly higher than the value of the data.

I enjoyed the first two. Missed the third one. Maybe I’ll pick it up for a rainy day.