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    20 hours ago

    Important note: Linus Torvalds was recently seen in a first ever photo with bill -the biggest farm land owner in the US and the reason covid vaccines are patented - gates. This could be the reason. Of course they are surveiling the percentage of competition in THEIR market. So - tinfoil hat ON - if torvalds gets funky ideas now or we start seeing major shifts in policy, we need to raise the alarm immediately.

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    someone asked me a couple months back why i can’t run my games on Linux and i said because they just don’t work well and the controller doesn’t work etc… but i hadn’t actually tried in many years. Lo and behold pretty much every game works, most of them just fine, and all of them work with the controller which doesn’t even happen on Windows.

    never looking back now

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      Well, we (linux nerds) have been saying that for a long time now. It is just not reaching people. And of course that is only for people absolutely want to play games. Everyone else who uses windoze is just coping.

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        well to be fair, a lot of this shit did not actually work a few years ago when I last tried… i’ve been using linux off and on for about 25 years but it seems it has come a long way in a short time in the gaming department lately

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    I’m sure that this is because of a confluence of events, but I would presume as well that it has a lot to do with declining material conditions within the US as well. The way of buying a new computer/laptop/phone every couple years is becoming increasingly unfeasible, & Linux doesn’t enforce planned obsolescence & doesn’t force new features onto users. Especially over the past 15 years, it’s been a stalwart of stability compared with Mac/Windows & their deteriorating reputations.

    Operating systems are, at the end of the day, public infrastructure & should absolutely be treated as such. I feel that open source is one way to implement that, & Linux, along with its wealth of distros, is doing a good job of it.

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    Yesss! I’m so excited that Linux is gaining more traction. With any luck, maybe more devs will start adopting open source projects as well.

    After a disgusting fight with UEFI, TPM and a bunch of other issues I finally have Fedora installed. It honestly just gets better and better each year that I’ve tried it since ~2005.