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I think revisiting Linux would be great idea, but the current state isn’t that far off from what he experienced few years ago. Wayland protocols aren’t fully there yet, NVIDIA still needs some work, portals, desktops, 3rd party software and hardware support, package formats bullshit… There’s shit load of pending changes still being discussed, progress is being made, and even then, adoption of new solutions will take a while. It only make sense to revisit when there’s huge technological leap. Realistically with how slow things are going sometimes, it may be the end of the decade or close before the landscape looks really different.
I think an Arch/Void/Gentoo challenge just for him (no oponent, just to get it working with everything he needs) is what he should do now... make the fucker sweat a little 😂.
"Compile from source 🤨? WTF is that?... oh, you make the thingies that work in the OS from that thingie no one understands except the developers 😬... OK, let's give it a try"... dependency errors all around... "OK, that's it, I'm out!"
Actually, I think the opposite would be warranted. That Linux challenge was structured as "We're going home, pulling the SSDs out of our computers, and with only Windows skills and knowledge we're charging in unassisted and chin-first into using only Linux!"
What if they did a series of videos where Anthony teaches Linus or one of their other personalities how to use Linux as a gaming/productivity/creativity machine?
Anthony is now Emily
I would still like the idea of them trying Linux again but maybe with optimized hardware to go with it. Not everyone has special sound software/lighting setup etc Give them an AMD setup a keyboard mouse and headphones and let them game. Make them work around common issues for real people and not pseudo linuxish streamers. Give them tech support, be it internally or maybe some Linux content creators and see how that goes. That way we see more than "digitally sign a document, copy files and print" and make it 3 months not just one. Have them run into problems during use not just install once
Oh really? Must have announced that since I stopped watching LMG. She (they?) are still on the show?
I built my gaming rig with Linux in mind, and I went with an extremely average PC, Ryzen 3600/GTX-1080, and everything is working pretty well. It's not hard to build a computer that works well with Linux, just aim for "very normal."
As for the "digitally sign a document" chapter of the saga...1. I seem to recall that the challenge was badly designed in several ways. Like, "digitally sign a document" could mean copy-paste a .png of your handwriting, or do PGP encryption stuff, which is a topic society desperately needs to have a conversation about because we're 30 years into the internet and we're still faxing medical records but that's beside the point. That "challenge" also "required" something like uploading a 3GB video file to Slack, and "Watch HDR video" which just outright wasn't supported and was basically put there as a bad faith fuck you.
I think a series where someone prominent in the gaming/pc enthusiast space who learns Linux with the help of someone from the FOSS enthusiast space would be a worthwhile exercise. I'd love to see more PC gamers trying and successfully adopting Linux, and I'd like to see more Linux veterans excited to offer a friendly and helpful hand. I'd like to see those two communities come together in perhaps a friendlier and more constructive way.
Not the OCer, but the last time I saw Emily was in a video posted to their personal channel. I stopped watching LTT a while ago so no idea if there's been any presence in videos since then.
Kind of miss the linux videos and more in-depth tech content. And some of the other interesting personalities like Luke, Riley, Jake etc.
The thing with LTT is, on top of the well known controversies, LTT's current production themes aren't of much interest to me personally, not helped by the PC hardware market being so stagnant. Instead of upgrading my ancient 1060, I opted to purchase a Steam Deck instead - mainly because it runs Linux, supports Steam Input, supports charge limiting on the internal BMS, and given Valve's track record with obsolete devices (my two Steam Link boxes still recieve updates, and they were discontinued years ago) I was pretty firmly sold.
The games that won't work on my Deck are games that I wouldn't purchase anyway (Not a fan of DRM), and every single "unsupported" game that I've been interested in so far has worked just fine under Proton-GE. One demo game didn't support the Deck's 1280x800 resolution, so I just changed the Gamescope virtual resolution to 1080p in Steam's game settings, and that solved it.