Getting banned from Reddit is Reddit doing you a favor.

That was before Steam Deck and Proton, though, so I should probably test it all again.

The steam deck is exactly what convinced me to give Linux a whirl on my main gaming PC again and honestly I regret not making this move way earlier.

Everything that runs on a steam deck should run on any Linux PC. This list of games recently crossed 18k.

So far I have zero regrets, performance of the games i’ve played to date is on par with what I was seeing on Windows, even with Nvidia’s notoriously bad reputation for Linux support.

Proton is an absolutely bonkers development and Valve’s doing legendary work with it’s push for Linux.

I do have to end this by saying I don’t do online gaming so I have not had to deal with anti-cheat bullshit that doesn’t want to work on anything that’s not Windows and 99.9 percent of my games exist in either Steam or GOG. (the latter of which is supported on Linux with the Heroic launcher)

The way it’s looking now, I consider the chance of me migrating back to Windows on my private machines near zero. Games were the only thing keeping me on windows privately.

Government needs to fully migrate to open source. Instead of re-inventing the wheel contribute to existing projects.

Proton is fairly far in delivering a polished unified experience in commonly used internet services, including mail + calendar, password manager, file/photo storage and vpn services.

I remember elon saying something along the lines of his camera system being just as good and they thusly don’t need to employ things like LIDAR.

This gives me the same vibe as all those “feelgood” stories about communities coming together to pay for some valued member’s back surgery or cancer treatment or something.

It’s nice people do that, but what about people that are less liked, and how is it that we have so much wealth going around, and yet extremely basic things like healthcare are still factors people need to concern themselves with being able to afford?

I feel you’re misrepresenting the second point.

Proton did not comment on Trump. Their CEO did. And specifically on liking a certain hire for a certain position because he thought that would be good for small business.

It was a garbage take for many reasons, and the community let that be known. For me that was that but people keep coming back to this as some sort of unforgivable transgression.

Liberals (among which I count myself) like to piss on Musk and buddies for not actually supporting freedom of speech even though they call themselves absolutists in this area, but drastic moves like leaving over some tweet is a plank cut from the same tree…

If you’re going to move every time somebody says something you find questionable you’re going to have a hell of a time with the average company being filled with hundreds of people and thusly hundreds of opinions. And it’s good to remember most people are going to be having these takes in background without you knowing of them.

Reddit has a tendancy to be alarmist. AFAIK there’s zero evidence to support Proton are closeted MAGA. If i’m wrong on this i’ll gladly stand corrected with some substantial evidence.