Performance and stability seems to be at the same level it was under windows 10/11. Can’t say nothing about standard compliance, nor do I really care in the end.

I’m kinda sure I wasn’t missing functionality, either. Then again, my card is old GTX, so DLSS not working is not because of drivers.

Surprisingly enough, nvidia drivers turned out to be the easy part.

For background, my first linux was debian in late 90’s. I went through gentoo to ubuntu, until I got mac for work about a decade ago. By then my home rig was single booting windows.

So, given my history with debian, I started with ubuntu, only to realize I don’t like its current state. Next up was pop_os, because it’s heavily recommended for gaming. After some time I came to conclusion, that everything I know about linux on desktop is badly outdated, so I might as well go heavy and try arch. I chickened out, though, and went with manjaro. It’s actually quite nice, save for that hibernation.

Normal users are not going to root around in the registry and twiddle things to mske the OS treat them with respect.

I absolutely agree with you, and this statement is absurd, given the context.

Recently I decided to try out gaming with linux. What was planned to be a weekend project turned into multiweek project, and it included a lot of “rooting around” to get things working the way I wanted them to. Maybe it’s linux treating me with respect, when I have to start planning for hibernation when I’m partitioning the drive. Maybe it isn’t.

(Aside, Valve has done great work with proton. It’s time to reconsider, if games are keeping you from switching over.)

It’s an online multiplayer FPS, and I don’t like getting my ass kicked when I’m not on the clock.

I can’t even remember the last time I pirated a game.

I do. 2008, Sims 2. I owned a legit copy, but the DRM was too much of a hassle, plus I didn’t want my kids to scratch the discs. So I pirated a playable, child-proof version.

The inverse is often true thanks to Linus’s Law.

The article you linked seems to suggest that Linus’s Law is a mere suggestion, at best.

No one is suggesting that open source is inherently less secure, just that the vulnerabilities are easier to find, and thus easier to get exploited. For a third party reviewer there’s a lot of incentive not to report bugs they would find in banking software.

If your software makes your clients’ life easier and your internal operations cheaper/faster/whatever, it’s a competitive advantage. Why would you give it away? Corporate greed or healthy competition, I suppose, depending on your point of view.

Objectively better

based on my personal opinion

I Still don’t care about cookies? From its description:

In most cases, the add-on just blocks or hides cookie related pop-ups. When it’s needed for the website to work properly, it will automatically accept the cookie policy for you (sometimes it will accept all and sometimes only necessary cookie categories, depending on what’s easier to do).

So, yeah, doesn’t accept everything, but might accept some.

Like I care. I’ve got a plugin that automatically accepts all cookies, and another one that deletes cookies when I leave the page.

I just might, maybe after I finish the current playthrough. Collecting achievements is a job for plague runner.

Although I probably should play it once before the update hits. Then I can join the complain-train, when the new mechanics ruin everything /s

what does annoy me (dunno whether it changed after the patch) is that things like legendary sandevistan heatsinks are only available via crafting.

I’ve never used sandy, but now I’m annoyed, too.

Actually, the whole idea of crafting annoys me, especially how it’s implemented in CP2077. I can suspend my disbelief for a while, and accept quickhacking as advanced tech, no problem. But dismantling an ashtray, a pack of condoms and a shotgun, and turning the parts into a leather jacket, while sitting on my bike in the middle of a highway? CDPR, you owe me an explanation.

Such things should be available (at stellar prices) from shady dealers at high enough stats and street cred.

This is the way. I wouldn’t be sad, if this was the only way. It just doesn’t make sense, that some pampered corporat learns, in a matter of days, the skills to build smart rifles and kevlar vests. There apparently are people in NC, who make a living as techie. How is that possible, if acquiring the skills is so easy? Same goes for every smith in Skyrim, etc.

Most probably none of those are proper IPAs. The ‘I’ in IPA stands for India. IPA is only half-done, if it did not travel on a sailboat around the Africa from England to India.

Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of preterm birth, and child mortality soon after birth. Second hand smoke isn’t healthy for babies, either. It increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, among other, slower and probably more painful ways of dying.