There comes a time when everyone has to sit and think about what they use on their PC, especially if you're on Linux. For me, Arch Linux (via EndeavourOS) just wasn't working out any more and so I've moved to Fedora.
While I was reasonably happy with Arch Linux, it's just not stable enough for me personally. It's a very subjective thing of course, and highly dependent on what hardware you use — along with how often you update. For me, it just messed things up a bit too often, and last night was the final straw.
I updated either that day, or the day before, and just before a livestream was due to start, my SteelSeries headset no longer worked. No matter what I tried, following guide after guide about PipeWire, nothing helped. Just this weird and very quiet electrical static noise whenever I tried piping audio to it. Eventually it worked again by some downgrading, plus random hotplugging and testing it on a Windows machine for a sanity check and it started somewhat working again. My Microphone was another issue, at the same time it decided to be ridiculously quiet for no apparent reason I could see so there were wider problems. I had enough, I had work to do and after hours of hair-pulling — hello from Fedora.
Fedora's KDE Spin
Thankfully, with the likes of Flathub / Flatpak packages and how far along apps like Discover have come along for installing packages and setting things up, there's not a whole lot to learn. It's been a very long time since I used Fedora, and it was one of my first Linux distributions I tried sticking with back when it was "Fedora Core" and wow — it's always surprising to see how far we've come as a platform for doing anything.
Fedora does come with some of its own issues, like NVIDIA drivers being a nuisance to install, which they definitely should improve. If other distributions can do one-click or one-line installs, I'm sure they could do it too. However, it's just another point towards me swapping to AMD when prices settle, or perhaps Intel when Arc properly launches for desktop. I also need to figure out why Dropbox won't load on startup, some little things like that.
Anyway, are you really a Linux nerd if you don't distro-hop at least once a year? Jokes aside, I look forward to seeing why people keep recommending Fedora nowadays as a stable distribution, let's see how long it takes me to break it.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: GuestThose links support my positionAnd other links don't. But you're still trying to tear people down.
Quoting: GuestIn the past, FreeBSD users have questioned these benchmarksIt sounds like you question literally anything that attacks your beliefs. This is pretty common - we all do it. It's just that, in this thread, you're doing it over and over without seemingly any self-awareness.
I mean, you're quoting benchmarking articles from over 10 years ago to demonstrate that FreeBSD is... 8% faster?
At least you're finally trying to make a positive case though. It's just not a very strong case.
I hope FreeBSD continues to do well. But you're barking up the wrong tree here by making these arguments on a LINUX gaming site.
When I switched to Linux in 2005, then fully ditched Windows in 2013, I was aware of the sacrifices I was making to embrace a tiny niche in the technology world. I don't have any interest in jumping ship to an even more niche part of that world. I'm glad it exists. I just want no part of it. Yet. Maybe in 20 years, when Linux is sporting a cool 20% market share and FreeBSD is the new 1%, that's when I'll start thinking, "maybe this FreeBSD could be fun".
But I doubt it. Good luck to you.
Quoting: GuestWith most games, the PS5 achieves higher FPS than this Xbox, although the Xbox has more 'TFLOPS'. So again, it's not the hardware that makes the difference, but the software.
Linux has more support for gaming, but purely technically, FreeBSD is heavily superior in several of the most relevant areas.
I didn't read 19 pages of comments, but I wonder why you're not comparing different OSs on the same hardware if you want to find out which OS is better. Put them on the same SSD, GPU, CPU, ... and do some measurement?
Quoting: GuestSo my reasoning cannot be contradicted.
At this point, after multiple readers have contradicted (often with evidence) nearly every sentence you've written on this subject, I'm not sure if you're stubborn or delusional. I'm gobsmacked you're still going though.
You genuinely don't recognise a lost cause? You've certainly killed any desire I had to try FreeBSD, that's for sure.
Yes you did. Goddam.
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