Clearly LLMs specifically and ML models in general have many powerful use cases

I disagree. Gen AI is the thing their pushing the hardest and also the least useful. Okay, it can write shitty social media posts and make my emails sound less grumbly. Cool. Let me know when agentic AI actually becomes usable. That’s where the legit money will be.

They should have accounted for old games in their estimates though.

Who in their right mind is buying this?

People who don’t want to spend $500 on a PS5 to save $20 on a game.

it’s a direct drive steering wheel

Yeah, probably none of that is going to work without lots of tinkering.

I also run a Quest2 for VR through Virtual Desktop

VR is also notoriously problematic in Linux.

Would a dual boot be viable until I can be sure everything is working?

Not really necessary, that’s what live boot disks are for (basically booting from a USB drive). To test if things work.

I mean among other reasons, yes. A lot of shady shit going down now like removing Denuvo for reviewers and then adding it back on launch day.

Why publicly criticize a distro based on a guess that its users are unwilling to use what it offers?

Because expecting users to add shit after the fact to make the OS functional is dumb.

I don’t know what that is.

I’ve not found that at all. Usually there are significant improvements in the following weeks/months. Recent examples are DOOM and SpiderMan II.

Having a public chat group inevitably devolves into an endless waterfall of messages. I dunno how you do it. I can barely stand being a group with 5 people.

BTW

I agree. However, I will say, in my experience, if you want to use it exclusively as a gaming PC and exclusively with Steam, and without any sim peripherals, and without some competitive online multiplayer games, it works extremely well, and without any hassle.

I use XBOX only because it’s the only controller that still accepts AA batteries, which means I can use rechargeable ones and swap them out when they’re dead without ever being tethered to a charging cable.

I also pop them open and rip out the rumble motors because I hate them.

If you want to living room PC experience you can still buy Steam controllers on FleeBay.

Thanks. I’ll have to get another storage device. And I was already planning to swap storage from another device anyway.

I’m not using an installation medium, it’s just downloading from recovery mode.

Yes, I’m just not sure why or what to do about it. If I run the “first aid” it says everything is fine…

Too many to fit in one comment. But the most obvious one was in the name itself. Companies would append “dotcom” to their business name and literally nothing else, and their values would go up 1000%. Sound familiar?

I had the same problem but it worked out of the box with Mint.

Everyone is not you

Massively unsuccessful games like… checks notes League of Legends. World of Warcraft.

These games are both about as old as Steam itself. Their playerbase was created in a different market.

Am I supposed to be sad that E fucking A failed to install their shareholder value store on my computer?

No, you’re just supposed to recognize why it failed.

That’s virtually every company, unfortunately.