Unfortunately some old tech does just start becoming obsolete at some point. sure you can force old software on to it but unless its designed to just interact on its own or with some other equipment thats stuck in time, it usually ends up not being worth the trouble or time, especially when you can get pretty powerful (comparison wise) equipment for cheap. chrome books for example are dirt ass cheap and some times a better solution than trying to get a super old system running again.

only potential issue I see trying to stress that 430watt psu with whatever that gpu is.

while I agree… i dont see what this has to do with programming

feel’n a bit called out rn

Thats not what communism is and even if it was, you literally just tried to say caring about other people is bad regardless of what its called. This is part of the problem.

neat. they’re not my cup of tea, I prefer more “vanilla” eroge or yuri/Shoujo-ai VN’s … but I wish you best of luck

Imma be real… Arch has been the most consistent system I’ve used to date.

I’ve been using linux off and on since like 2008. I jumped around from ubuntu, fedora, opensus, popOS, centOS, etc… I’ve had manjaro and now arch as my daily driver for probably 4 or more years now and Arch updates have only ever broke one thing, one time, and it was more of a audio pipewire issue than it was really archs fault.

arch updates do not deserve this slander, its been very reliable for me, more than probably any system i’ve ever used.

I just dont get the point of putting your body down there. if most of what you’re seeing is through the digital displays anyway, why not just send a drone and watch remotely? seems like an awful massive risk and expense to try and actually dive down there for nothing more than looking out a window

Unfortunately, 100% parity will likely never happen, especially if people wont just use it regardless of less than perfect compatibility. Devs keep making games with functions that refuse to work on linux and/or refusing to support it or provided compatibility layers, and windows keeps breaking shit that old games rely on to work making linux compatibility with old titles better than windows.

just depends on what you’re trying to playing. personally I almost never play any multiplayer games any more and I dont feel like im missing out on anything. i’ve been daily driving linux for a few years now and leaving my reliace on windows in the past has been very nice.

just comes down to your priority, I suppose. my priority is my system first, games seconds. If your system is games first, system second, then linux may not be for you yet… but I would still recommend learning to use it, be familiar with it should the time come that microsoft does something that is an absolute deal breaker for you.

Gnu Linux does have an actual lengthy license agreement.

It’s that license agreement that keeps it free and open and also ensures that people can’t just steal it, claim it as their own, and then open legal disputes against anyone who who tries to use it them selves (among other legal things in sure).

Thing is, I use Linux cuz it allows to have simplicity and convenience where those things are of value to me.

Not having an online always connected local user account is simplicity to me.

Having file permissions changeable with a simple command rather than having to fuck about a ui and registry is simplicity to me.

Having an os that’s under my control is convenient for me.

Having a user interface that suits my wants/needs and has ample options for customization is convenient for me.

I use Yuzu.

its pretty good, depends on the game of course.

I recently loaded Fire Emblem Engage, super mario oddosy, donkey kong tropical freeze, and both zelda BOTW and TOTK. I was running them on my steam deck so performance was so-so, some games better than others, all of them definitely playable though (except super mario sunshine, but that was one I tried probably almost a year ago, yuzu is better now)

emulation still proves to be the best way to play.

na. Valve made my dream handheld gaming system. Ally feels like it was rushed to market and just tried to throw shit together that PC gamers THINK they want in a handheld cuz its what they’re used to on a desktop. All the stuff I’ve heard from real users of the Ally have said most of the time you have to run at 720p anyway making the extra screen res useless. No way its running non-2d games at a consistent 120+ fps to take advantage of that refresh rate. the sleep wake functions not being more reliable, lack of intuitive UI…

it just seems like the ally is too much in all the wrong places, not enough in the places where it matters. valves choices seem to represent what actually works in a handheld system vs what Asus knew would just sound good in an advertisement and rushed that to market opposed to doing what would make sense cuz that would probably result in similar specs as the deck.

Just doesnt really have any real world advantages from what I can tell unless you want to connect it to a screen, but for $699 I can build a pretty nice mid range desktop to connect to my TV that would be better for that anyway.

then there is the fact that windows lets you play more games… maybe, maybe not. I loaded Splitgate on my deck the other day, a competitive FPS game and it made me realize: I dont think im really missing out on most of these multiplayer anti-cheat games on my deck. It just doesnt really feel like a device I even want to play multiplayer games with anyway. I can see people wanting it if the Ally or the SteamDeck was your ONLY window to PC gaming, but most things that require anti-cheat are competitive online games and I’d rather just play those at my desktop anyway.

so no, the Ally just doesnt make any sense to buy.

other linux phones are not really viable. I dont like supporting apple and even if I didnt care about that, their iOS is far too restrictive.

also Tachiyomi