Majority of linux users are on a monetized OS. Consultancy, extended service, feature implementation, fast support, donations, merch are all common monetisation methods across major linux distros and there is nothing wrong with any of them.

There are very few distros funded solely by the maintainers they are usually hobby projects.

I know that guy is a crazy tankie, I’ve see him around. What he brought up is a bunch of shit intended to waste time. He doesnt care about any of those things so trying to argue is a waste of time and most of its untrue or misleading.

Which ones dont monetize their OS? Its not that they are uniquely important. Its that its perfectly fine to monetize their own os. They are selling a service that is additional support for users that want it. Pretty simple stuff, you see users asking for this stuff all the time.

Why shouldn’t they be able to offer additional paid support for their own distro? Why does it matter

Poof them out of existence, and what, outside of their own direct projects, breaks?

How is this relevant at all?

Hardware support and working with manufacturers to bring linux support, vendor support bringing mainstream apps to linux, advertising linux laptops and getting it in front of people all around the world, Wayland, gnome, accessibility, a ton shit way to much to list. Just because the improvements are done for Ubuntu doesnt mean they arent useful on other distros. Its free software after all the rising tide lifts all boats. Canonical arent a huge mega corp raking in cash. They cant compare to giants like redhat.

Fuck off Tankie, I will not fall for your concern trolling bait today.

You do not seriously think all canonical has done is snaps and Gnome.

Is building one of the most popular linux desktop environments and distros not enough to sell a paid support package to the users who want it? I dont think thats unfair.

What do you think canonical should charge for? They do put a ton of work into the linux eco system

This got me so excited because i thought the game was being remastered or reignited. I’m happy they are making steamdeck based improvements because its a great steamdeck mmo. But most of the stuff I already had through gwtoolbox so i appreciate the gesture of support.

There are a few questions you need to answer that impact the specs.

What resolution will you be using for your monitor, 1080p or 2k or 4k. If you are 1080p gaming then you really do not need the latest and greatest.

Do you want to pay extra for a “future proofed” machine. I think buying future proof is a meme the stuff lasts so long especially on linux.

Do you want to pay extra for a smaller case and smaller parts.

What games do you want to play? Sim games require a decent CPU everything else you can get away with the lowest end CPU and its fine. 5500 5600 and 5600x are solid value AM4 cpus. If you have money for future proofing you can look at am5 CPUs.

For gpu ifyou are 2k or 4k gaming 9070XT is the best value card on the market right now.

For 1080p the 3060 or 3060it is a solid card at a solid price. Dont worry about nvidia compat its fine. It takes a single line pasted into the terminal to get the drivers and most distros have a GUI tool to get them if you dont want to do that.

As for distro it really doesnt matter, they all use mostly the same tools and software. Bazzite, fedora, Ubuntu are good places to start. If you want a “gaming” OS, cachyOS, nobara, pika have been optimised.

For specs that are important, if you need WiFi its nice to get a motherboard that has WiFi on it. Nvme ssd drive 1tb or 2tb is really nice.

Consider picking parts and building it yourself you will learn about how it goes together and fixing it will be much easier. You’ll also have a lot more freedom for customisation and part pricing. I had a friend who is not technical at all build a PC and he said it was quite easy he just followed a video from linus tech tips. Took a few hours.

Yeah but thats on a 720p screen not on a 1080p+ TV. Steamdeck can’t even do darksouls 1 on a 1080p display without being sub 60fps.

Yeah I pray it has a decent experience for modern games and isnt just an indie game box.

Dam you can rename communities? Thats an awesome feature.

Nah i think its fine. Let the nerds test water for viruses.

The manoeuvrability is only on the accent as the missile is blinded by the plasma on reentry. Its still very interceptable. As soon as its launched NATO will be tracking it.

Time for russia to rattle their new temu saber and Trump is such a spineless cunt he’ll cave instantly.

The drama was so minor 99.99% no longer care

SteamOS 3 is arch based but that doesnt mean its anything like arch. It builds from a snapshot of arch and ships that to users as an immutable. So it will be extremely out of date compared to arch.

Hype hype hype hype. I am getting a steam frame and putting it om my shelf!

It does nothing and has been broken for a long time. It can be used for hotkeys but there are none that I use. I only want it to open the start menu. Yes i know I can easily bind it in KDE plasma hotkey menu but i havent gotten around to it yet.

Sad, another project killed by Mozilla.

Nah they have one for checking passwords in breaches. The only password manager they have is the one built into Firefox and thats great but i want one for my phone when i log into apps.