I didn’t disagree with their clarification of what they meant.

Isn’t the clarification of what they meant, also the exact same thing as what they originally said? They clarified what they meant by what they said, not by the context that you think they didn’t provide in the original text, so in my eyes they did say the same thing as what they clarified to you. You just didn’t seem to understand the original text, when in it, they specifically said they wanted to know what Linux distro would work best based on specs for gaming… Which brings us back to your original reply to OP. Why did you say “If you have to ask someone else whether you should switch then you should not switch.”? Because the only reason I can find, is if you misunderstood and thought they were asking if they should switch to Linux in a general sense, rather then specifically based on their specs for gaming. Many people downvoted your comment including myself (because I felt you were misunderstanding OP’s question), and I think most other downvoters did so for the same reason… so it would be good to know if we just misunderstood your point. But it doesn’t seem so when OP had to clarify to you what they meant and everyone else commenting already seemed to get it.

/s to make a point

I don’t get what you mean. I know what /s means but I’m very confused what you’re trying to say. That “I disagree” what sarcastic?

I did not tell OP that I disagreed with them, you misunderstood.

Didn’t you?.. Did I?.. What’s this then?:

You (rah):

If you have to ask someone else whether you should switch then you should not switch.

OP (WIZARD POPE):

I am asking if my hardware will enable me to have a good experience since I know nvidia has issues on linux. (Note: Exactly what I thought OP was asking)

You (rah):

Your post doesn’t ask that.

OP (WIZARD POPE):

The main text kinda does. Maybe I worded it a bid badly.

You (rah):

I disagree.

Please explain to me what part of the two-word sentence “I disagree” is not you disagreeing.

I haven’t commented on what they meant, only on what they said.

Yes, and you wouldn’t have commented on what they said if you didn’t first interpret what you thought they meant. OP clarified to you what they meant, and you disagreed with them, that they meant what they said they meant, which is what was so stupid about your “I disagree” response. I don’t see what’s so difficult to understand for you.

Correction: Switch 2 Back-compat is not emulation. It is a compatibility layer in the same vein that the Steam Deck runs Windows games despite running on Linux.

Fine, I’ll add to my sentence for clarification, but (no offense) it should be obvious I’m referring to gaming since the whole topic is about… gaming on Linux.

They’re asking based on their specs whether Linux will run fine for them, with Gaming.

The title was “Thinking of switching my gaming desktop to Linux. Should I?” In the post, they said:

My main question now is just what distro works best for gaming (considering my specs).

So therefore they’re asking whether they should switch to Linux (for gaming) based on their specs. OP even told you that’s what they were saying, but you said “I disagree”…

You can’t with any sound reasoning disagree that OP asked something, when not only is there the OG post as proof, but they also told you (in implication) that you misunderstood. OP knows what they meant by what they said - you can’t tell them they don’t know what they meant, when they’re literally the person who said it. I get it that you’re having a hard time understanding how what they said, means what they said it does, but you’re allowed to accept that you misunderstood. You’re allowed to be wrong.

This is why I personally think Bazzite should only be installed on devices you intend to only game on, especially if you have any intention of learning any more about Linux than the absolute basics. It’ll be fine for a while for beginners, but you’re bound to bump into some things that are a hassle to install and/or keep updated. Perfect examples being for consolafying a PC for playing on a living room TV, or installing it on a handheld PC (Steam Deck etc.)

They’re asking based on their specs whether Linux will run fine for them. Not whether they should switch based on usability. Having to ask if your specs can run Linux fine is not a reason not to switch.

Loaded up Steam yesterday and saw the news about Splitgate 2 coming out. I said to myself “Let me guess, they’re proudly blocking Linux, right?”

Today I opened up Lemmy. This post, right up top.

I couldn’t remember if I was connected to Wi-Fi or not on the phone when I made the post, so I made another post to another game page on the phone (while connected to Wi-Fi) and it worked just fine.

My PC is also connected to the same Wi-Fi as you’d expect.

What I did notice strangely, is that I can make comments on my PC, I just can’t make posts. When I make a comment, I appear to have the same issue where it endlessly says “Please Wait. Processing…”. Except, if I actually go back to the post I tried to comment on and refresh the page, my comment successfully appears. It just doesn’t work that way when making my own post for some reason.

Someone here suggested I check the browser console for errors. I checked, and I get multiple errors in LibreWolf.

I couldn’t remember if I was connected to Wi-Fi or not on the phone when I made the post, so I made another post to another game page on the phone (while connected to Wi-Fi) and it worked just fine.

My PC is also connected to the same Wi-Fi as you’d expect.

What I did notice strangely, is that I can make comments on my PC, I just can’t make posts. When I make a comment, I appear to have the same issue where it endlessly says “Please Wait. Processing…”. Except, if I actually go back to the post I tried to comment on and refresh the page, my comment successfully appears. It just doesn’t work that way when making your own post for some reason.

That’s a good idea. I gave it a try with another post (because I had another post I wanted to make on GOG) and I do get an error in the console when I press post.

I have no idea what to make of the information though. Do you?

Edit: Oh, this screenshot is in LibreWolf by the way (Firefox), the original screenshot in the post was on Brave Browser (Chromium). I forgot I was using a different browser to the original screenshot.

I’ve not made many posts to GOG overall, but I’ve definitely made posts with links in it before and I’ve been fine.

Everything on the PC is completely up-to-date and I even tried restarting it. I just tested it now, but for some reason I’m able to post this exact post on my phone from the Brave browser.

I didn’t have an ad-blocker on Firefox and it still didn’t work. I decided to disable Ublock Origin on Floorp (a Firefox fork) and it didn’t help anything. All my browsers are on the latest version. I also restarted the system just in case, but still nothing.

… Okay, I just tried posting it from Brave browser on my phone and it worked just fine. Honestly have no idea why it doesn’t work on the PC.

Australia certainly shouldn’t be blocked, and I’m not using a VPN currently either.

Hyphlosion said free updates are good. You essentially made the claim that N screwed up the games on S1, and are now making us pay for a new product for them to “fix” it. Do you not see the gap in that thinking? The only area that logic partly makes sense is in context of games that ran poorly on S1 (as in an inconsistent FPS). With those games, the “Sorry we f’d up the game on S1, but if you spend more on a new console, we promise we fixed it” argument could make sense. But Hyphlosion isn’t talking about updates that stabilise the games FPS, they’re talking about updates that brought the FPS cap to something S1 wasn’t capable of, and to resolutions it couldn’t display.

That’s not N charging you to “Fix” a broken game, because the game wasn’t capable of running that well on S1 anyway. There’re games on S1 that run a near perfect 30fps, that can’t hit 60fps even if uncapped. Those games, if updated on S2 to support higher FPS, could run at 60fps (or more)

If that’s free, that’s not N being greedy by releasing a broken game, then making you buy a new system to fix it - it’s N taking advantage of new hardware to make the game run far better than was possible on S1. I’m not arguing N isn’t greedy, I’m arguing this is not an example of them being greedy. The real example of greediness, is them saying: “Hey, we’re gonna give free updates to these games. But those games are more popular (Zelda), so we’ve GOTTA charge them for it with upgrade packs. We’ll make SO MUCH MORE MONEY THAT WAY!! 🤑” That’s the only reason N is being selective about which games to charge upgrades for, and which not to.

Personally, I think the reason they aren’t adding free res & FPS updates for Mario Party Jamboree and Kirby Forgotten Land, is that they were already developing DLC content for said games (Jamboree TV & Star-Crossed Worlds) way before S2 was revealed. They realised they can make more if they choose to lock the free res & FPS updates behind purchases of DLC packs. And doing so would mean making a “Nintendo Switch 2 Edition”. People will accept, because they’d think the extra content makes it worth the price, and those who complain won’t have a loud enough voice for it to actually hinder them profiting from it. That’s what’s greedy here.

I’m completely in the same boat with how I buy games.

A little off-topic, but it would be really cool if you could update your physical games so that the update is installed onto the disc/cartridge itself, and it could be then used on any console without an internet connection. I don’t expect that to ever happen, but it would be cool.

*limitedrungames.com

limitedrun.com is some other random website.

I’m not trying to argue that they didn’t need to add that detail at all, or that it wasn’t important to add. My point is, (and I didn’t do a good job of articulating it before), that there’s no point in downvoting it; It’s not a huge deal. In my opinion, people mass downvoting a comment without saying why, is like a group of individuals in a physical location, audibly grumbling because they don’t like what someone has to say, without actually explaining why they’re grumbling, and then expecting the person they’re collectively grumbling at to somehow figure it out on their own. It’s ridiculous. If you don’t agree with how OP went about something, say something instead of just saying “grr” and doing nothing.

We’re in a building full of people who’re trying to help out one guy who asked a question. There’s a bunch of bystanders standing around getting all grumbly because he didn’t ask the question with enough detail. They haven’t shared this reasoning with one another; that’s just silently going through their mind, and they can only assume what each other are thinking. I’m standing there with them finding it kind of stupid but kinda funny too, that they’re grumbling. “If you have a problem with it then why don’t you say something instead of sitting in the corner whining?”

I don’t see why it matters that they didn’t include every detail. They are asking what alternatives there are; they weren’t asking for alternatives based on their specific needs; just alternatives, and that’s what people gave them. And they accepted Chimera OS as a (to them) seemingly good option and what they are choosing to install. Not every post needs to be extravagantly laid out in perfect detail. If it’s a complex support post, sure. But a simple question can have more details added when necessary in the comments.

That’s a fair desire for a touchscreen device. Don’t know why people are downvoting so much. You want GNOME on something that’s not Bazzite. To be honest, I’m looking for a good non SteamOS and non Bazzite distro pre-configured for Deck too (when I get one), for my own reasons. So you’re not the only one.

It’s a mix of pixel art and early 3D graphics.