I’m considering getting a Switch 1 now. I can find hackable ones for €100 in my area.

But then again, it doesn’t really do anything I can’t do with my other devices.

Well, IRL hacking doesn’t have exciting gameplay mechanics. So more realistic hacking game might not be such a clever idea.

Yeah, especially in peace time. When war heats up and resources get scarce, you use the cheapest thing that does the job. But in peace time you feed your military contractors to keep them happy and to keep them researching and developing so you don’t lose out on modern technology development.

(For clarification, with “war time” I mean “being in a war that actually threatens the country”. The US hasn’t been in a war like that for a very long time. They’ve essentially being in “peace time” while having military training and testing facilities in the middle east.

You can not change history for any published changes - like I said, doing so makes your repository incompatible with any other clone.

That’s the same on Git.

10 years ago I got into RC planes for a summer, and me and the guy were talking about how ridiculous it is that the milirary is spending so much money on simple drones, when they could just strap some explosives on a cheap hobbyist RC plane/drone for a fraction of the price, and just create swarms of them.

The technology had been widely available for some time already back then. Turns out, it was just lacking a war to do so.

(Just to be clear, we were all anti-war in general, this was just idle speculatiok back then. But if our country was attacked at that time, I’m sure some of us would have ended in a newly created drone force like what happened in the Ukraine.)

Looks like Mercurial can change the history just fine using the hg command. You just need to enable it first.

https://book.mercurial-scm.org/read/changing-history.html

Git can also be configured to disable history rewrites.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2085871/strategy-for-preventing-or-catching-git-history-rewrite

So the difference between git and hg really just comes down to the defaults.

I got weirdly invested in this, and by the end I was kinda happy that it was “just” a bug in the tooling and not anything actually malicious.

Thanks for the warning. I am currently running Fedora (because “it just works”) and I’m drowning in bugs and incompatibilities.

I was considering Bazzite because of all the recommendations, but considering my luck (and probably my hardware combination) I’d probably end up just like you described.

I’m perplexed.

Are they going to keep replacing whatever software they use?

Looks really nice! I’ll check that out!

Could be the AMD CPU (had a few kernel issues with that CPU, for example on anything newer than 6.10 the laptop doesn’t wake from sleep, that’s a well-documented issue either with the CPU or the chipset), could be the mobile 4070, could be because I’m using Fedora (some of the issues I have like the one with performance randomly dropping to single-digit FPS and that not clearing up with a reboot are reported quite often on Fedora), could be something entirely different.

I’m on a budget gaming laptop (Lenovo LOQ), could be that they messed up something there, don’t know.

I haven’t even touched HDR so far, because the base function isn’t there.

Games on Steam don’t tend to give me trouble, for some reason it works better there, but I don’t have 300 or so free games on Steam.

Sad that you don’t read replies, because what you are saying makes a ton of sense, and I have questions.

I don’t really have the time to try out 20 distros. I used Kubuntu quite a lot before, but I had issues with it, so I wanted to switch away. I tried out Mint, PopOS and Fedora, due to common recommendations and Fedora is the only one that really caught my fancy.

But “tried out” means “installed it, ran one game on steam, done”. Don’t really have time for more. Since then I have regretted choosing Fedora.

What would be a good distro if I want to game, but I also need it as a general purpose distro? I don’t want to have to dual-boot between a gaming distro and my regular distro where I code and run all my regular stuff on.

I’d also like to have something that doesn’t update the kernel all that fast, since my laptop doesn’t wake from sleep on a kernel newer than 6.10 (at least on Fedora 41). It’s a documented bug that doesn’t have a fix yet, apparently.

Yes they do, there’s a plugin for that.

You are confusing who you are talking to.

Fair point. But my point still stands since quite a few peertube instances do the same.

Just the right kind of humour.

People with selection bias who lucked out that their setup doesn’t cause issues and who then think they are somehow morally better people because of that.

It’s basically the Gospel of Prosperity but for Linux.

Yes, my CPU is an AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS which doesn’t have an iGPU. My Nvidia 4070 is the only GPU present on my system.

My GPU driver version is 570.153.02, which is the currently newest production version. When installing it, I used this guide: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA

I tried Wine-GE-Proton8-26, GE-Proton-latest, Proton Experimental and Proton 9 (Beta). I tried each of these options with Esync and Fsync enabled and disabled and every combination of these two options.

I tried enabling/disabling VKD3D and DXVK-NVAPI.

And of course I tried rebooting.

I found quite a few people with similar issues online, but never with a fix that actually works. Most of the people with the same issues don’t get any replies at all, and if they do it’s some condescending posts from people who lucked out and don’t have the same issue and think that that makes them better people or something.

(For context, I am a software developer, I programmed for embedded Linux devices for 12 years now. I used Linux as my work OS for the last 7 years until I changed jobs half a year ago and my new company mandates Windows and now I have to deal with WSL. I use Linux as my main private OS for the last 3 years. I compiled kernels for embedded devices quite a few times. It’s fair to say that I do have a little bit of experience when it comes to troubleshooting Linux issues, and I’ve gone through a lot of troubleshooting.)

Because Youtube autotranslates these stupid titles. I hate that, since it makes it really hard to know whether you are going to understand the video before clicking it.

I so wish that was the case.

Half the games I tried on Heroic don’t run and most of them run at <5 FPS even though I own a 4070 and the games I try to run are e.g. Bioshock. Number 1. The original, non-remastered one.

And stuff like Dawn of War crashes once I start the game, same as Bioshock 2, Neverwinter Nights and quite a few other older titles.

And even games that generally work fine (like Shadow of Mordor) sometimes randomly decide to run at 2 FPS.

If anyone has advice about what could cause that, I’d be grateful.

I’m on Fedora 41, running newest proprietary Nvidia drivers.

It’s actually Ubuntu with the default Arch wallpaper.