Mereo is a sociologist who is also a nerd. He believes in open-source software.

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  • A little explanation, there are two different types of drivers:

    • Kernel Drivers: The low-level software that directly controls your Video card, managing essential functions like memory and power.

    • User-space Drivers: The higher-level software that translates graphics commands from applications and games into instructions your video card can understand.

    Here NVIDIA wants to kill the proprietary kernel driver and have the open source kernel included in the kernel by default. This means that the distros or you simply need to download the user-space binary blob driver without having to recompile the kernel driver every time the Nvidia drivers are updated.





  • Nonsense. This is huge, as I suspect many people, like myself, switched to KDE because it was the DE that was perfect for gaming in Wayland.

    So this is huge for the community! Gaming is now possible in two of the most popular and used DEs.

    As for the weather application. Don’t blame GNOME, blame the weather provider (OpenWeather).





  • Haha. we’re officially old. I was an extremely competitive gamer back then. I played Quake 3, UT 99, Tribes 2, America’s Army, etc. I was even in a Tribes 2 squad and we basically practiced for tournaments every day.

    But now that life is stressful enough with the responsibilities I have, I just can’t play competitive games anymore. I just want to enjoy the story. I no longer have the stamina and the reflex for competitive games anymore.








  • Mereo@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.mlDecision of Next Os
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    1 month ago

    OP said he didn’t want to waste his time. Arch is not like Ubuntu. It requires you to RTFM (and Arch documentation is excellent) and know what you are doing and be willing to learn from your mistakes. That takes time and dedication. I went with what OP said.


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    I love to deal with problems but I don’t want to waste my time.

    Then Arch is not for you. The distro requires you to always be informed of the latest news regarding Arch before upgrading so you’ll probably have to admin your system.

    If you’re not ready to do that then you should probably stay with Fedora.

    My suggestion: run arch in a virtual machine and get familiar with it before installing it.