imecth

I’ve installed fedora thrice last year, and each time, I’ve had to enable rpm fusion in the terminal and download ffmpeg to get youtube to work. This is something that can’t be fixed afaik, because it’s a copyright issue.

At some point you need start cutting stuff or nothing happens and you’re the one still maintaining the 32 bit packages 15 years later.

There’s plenty of different solutions, but anything that isn’t what people already have is gonna upset.

It’s one of those changes that will happen sooner or later, bazzite and steam need to figure out a solution because fedora, and other modern distros can’t and won’t keep dragging around 32 bit libraries forever.

Fedora doesn’t enable non free repositories by default, and that’s a big deal for new users. Telling someone they need to run commands in the terminal to get their nvidia drivers, or even get youtube working is a problem.

Even if it’s out of beta for 26.04, you’ll probably want to wait a few releases before giving it a go. It’s bound to be quite unstable for a few years.

Microsoft is actually the least problematic of the console racket (Sony, Nintendo and MS), games release simultaneously to pc and they offer cross compatibility. Maybe the EU will address it eventually, but i guess mobile takes precedent given that everyone has a cell phone.

There’s always plenty of good reasons to postpone something and only one to do it now.

Getting mods working for games

Yeah mods can be quite troublesome.

If you use a hard drive other than your os install drive then you need to go to the steam website to get the installer and not use the one in the built in app store.

Sounds like a steam problem.

Non gaming related I’ve had numerous issues trying to manage permissions for my hard drives

Eh, i remember mounting being a bit troublesome a few years back, but current GNOME should take of that for you with very little input on your end. This brings us to PopOS 22 which is starting to get really old at this point, I’d consider moving away to something that’s not left abandoned while they finish up Cosmic.

Setting up dual boot takes like an hour. But yeah, there’s no rush to it, linux will still be there tomorrow. I don’t recommend buying a new pc and changing OS at the same time though. You don’t want to test your new hardware on a system you’re not familiar with.

I was thinking of doing that once I get my new pc.

Why wait? Hard drives don’t have compatibility issues, and you can always just use clonezilla to copy and paste the system to a new NVME SSD later on if you like.

As for the VM it’d probably be better the other way around, gaming on VMs is not that great an experience and gpu passthrough is complicated to setup.

Games having access to everything i do on my pc is sheer lunacy. Let the devs sanitize their fucking inputs and not give client information the player shouldn’t have access to. Anti cheat has always been an arms race, nothing, and that does include your kernel anti cheat, will ever completely stop cheaters.

Dual boot is always a thing, it doesn’t have to be one or the other.

So there you have it, you either stop playing all multiplayer games (not even just competitive ones!) entirely

There’s plenty of multiplayer games that run just fine on linux. Including FPS games with perfectly functional anti cheat, it’s just a select few which are unfortunately very popular that actively block linux. This is the part where you put your money where your mouth is and support the games that support the system you want to game on.

Well Arch is great at what it does: getting you the latest packages of everything without needing to upgrade every 6 months or whatever; that does come at the cost of a bit less stability. There’s EndeavourOS if you’re uncomfortable installing from the console.

The main issue with nobara is that it’s handled by a single person. Almost everything you get on nobara you can get with a few commands on the terminal in fedora; and whatever patches they have under the hood will at best get a marginal performance boost and at worst cause major crashes and issues.

Nobara is a solid choice for people that don’t like to tweak their system too much because it comes with everything you need to play games from the get-go. If you’re more of a power user there’s very little reason to pick it over fedora or arch.

Do not get steamos lol.

Any regular desktop distribution is fine (fedora, mint…), if you have new hardware you’ll want a recent kernel. Nvidia gpus can be problematic. You can always try the distro before installing.

How do I check for drivers updates manually?

Your distribution handles the packaging and distribution of your drivers, if they’re not in your distribution repository you can install them manually (not recommended), use a flatpak (can be awkward), or wait.

If you want bleeding edge drivers you get a bleeding edge distribution like Arch. Fedora is good too but you will only get the latest version every 6 months and after that it’s stable releases till the next fedora upgrade.

Firefox’s reader view (ctrl alt r) is a godsend for cases like these.

The nvidia support is getting better, but yeah they’re years late compared to AMD which basically has better drivers on linux than windows.