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And I get totally different results. It not just the distro. It the version of the Kernel, the version of proton, whether you are using X or Wayland etc. Etc. Etc.

The very point I am making is that it is so variable. So posting benchmarks pretending that it proves anything is asinine.

I won't even get into all the other issues with the mouse getting lost on some games, text being too small/to large. Having to fuck around with LD_PRELOAD flags and loads other gumpth that is never mentioned on a YouTube video.

If I admit to anything less than doing a gamer nexus style benchmarking suite you will just claim it is an anecdote.

I have actually tested on a number of different distros and display managers and at least two different video card chipset manufacturers. No it isn't exhaustive, but it decent enough sample size to determine that the claim that Linux performs better than Windows isn't true. Even if it is the case,the results are so variable you are better just using Windows because things are more consistent.

I am saying this BTW as someone that first started using Linux in the early 2000s. I think gaming now is really good on Linux. Is it better than Windows? Well I don't have to run Windows now to play games and that is good enough for me.

The complexity is hidden. I don't require all the gumph. I just gave bash and a Debian install. Pretending the rube goldberg machine isn't one because you've hidden it behind a facia doesn't mean it isn't one.

When all of that complexity doesn't work (which sooner or later it will), it will be more difficult to fix.

Perhaps it’s just evidence that anecdata isn’t some universal truth.

This isn't though. I have hard numbers. I've actually measured the performance. You get 5-20 FPS less and often more input latency and stutters (1%, 0.1% lows). If the machines doesn't well with Linux, it can be much worse.

Basically on HN whenever you express an opinion based on a significant amount of experience. You get someone basically saying "this is anecdote". There is a difference between "an anecdote" and "I've actually have a huge amount experience with this stuff.

You could say the same thing about enterprise-oriented distributions like CentOS that actual companies relied on and had to migrate away from. Some of those arrangements are more fragile than they look. What happens if Canonical is acquired? What happens if IBM spins off Red Hat?

In 2009 the CentOS maintainers was AWOL and nobody had any idea where they went and had no access. This caused issues with releases obviously.

There been quite a number of times where people have died, just got bored, had health issues and a project just stops and sometimes people don't access to things.

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/30/130249/CentOS-Proj...

Bazzite is arguably even easier to migrate away from because it’s immutable. You’re not supposed to be making major changes to layered packages, you’re mostly installing things with Flatpak, Homebrew, throwing stuff in your home directory, or leveraging distrobox. In other words, my entire backup/restore strategy is to backup my entire home directory, my brewfile, and listing out all the flatpaks I’ve installed (might be handled by the home directory backup anyway? I have to do a restore exercise sometime soon)

That sounds all horribly complicated.

I have a dotfiles, 5 bash scripts and a ~/bin folder for anything outside of package manager. I migrated my laptop to Arch recently from Debian and fixing the scripts was literally copy the script, and do a find and replace (I literally put pacman instead of apt install and most of it worked).

It not that much of a big deal to move between distros.

They mean "custom" as "pre-configured to do <X>" where X is gaming. Generally most distributions are not pre-configured outside of a general suite of standard applications.

Well that is the issue. The experience varies quite a lot depending on a number of factors. Whereas on Windows it doesn't really vary.

I have an all AMD machine and almost all the games will run the same or better on Windows. I have friends that have tried gaming on Linux and all of them have found the experience worse.

I did run a win debloat script from and use a local account so I don't have the Windows Spyware running in the background so that may make a difference.

Just an aside. I've been using Linux for quite a while now (over-20 years) and the biggest issue is that the community constantly misleads new users about the experience of moving from Windows to Linux. The latest iteration of this has been gaming.

These sort of derivative distros seem to be aimed at Windows 11 Refugees.

I am not a fan of these derivative distros and I would always recommend using one of the mainline distros e.g Debian, Arch, Fedora etc.

I am using Debian 13 for gaming and the most difficult thing I had to install was a backports kernel which improved performance in some games, in other games it made no difference at all.

Installing Steam and Lutris takes about 5 minutes and it yet another distro for what amounts to installing some applications. I find the biggest issues on Linux gaming is the applying individual workarounds in Steam, and getting wireless controllers to behave properly.

That just isn't true. While it is very good now, it is not faster and more stable than Windows. I have performance issues on Linux that just don't happen on Windows.

I confused Jae-woo (a Korean name) with Jaecoo. I think I must have mis-spelled the name when googling them after seeing the Dealership near me. However I do remember Daewoo, I don't think there many left on UK roads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jae-woo

I mixed these brands up. Thanks for the correction.

They (Jaecoo) opened a dealership 20 minutes from where I am.

It isn't just Chinese EVs there are Korean brands on the road e.g. Jaewoo.

https://jaecoo.co.uk/

I'm in the UK and the only new Fords I see are these huge F250/F350 which make my 4x4 (which is relatively small compared to a modern 4x4) look tiny.

The only reason why cars are the size and shape they are is because ICE engines couldn't be made smaller. Electric engines on the other hand are small enough that I can have the chassis of a fully functioning car be light enough to lift by one man.

You have seen a motorbikes/mopeds, scooters and micro-cars surely?

An electric bike is essentially a moped which have existed for like 70-80 years now? A small cars have been around since the 1950s.

Cars are the shape they are because normally you want the option of carrying 1-5 people. 5 people is 2 adults and 3 children. BTW cars in the past were much smaller. Compare the size of any car from the 1930-40s in the UK to a modern European car and you will notice it is much smaller they are.

There was once a fad of young women (usually in recruitment) posting their holiday photos. Usually they were wearing revealing outfits, one was wearing something so revealing I could see her lingerie. This was a fad for about 6 months on LinkedIn.

What the recruitment companies seemed to never post was actual jobs, the thing that they are supposed to be doing.

After that I barely look at LinkedIn.

But almost anyone who lives in the UK would know who you were referring to. So you are just using a euphemism, which is arguably worse.

It is perfectly obvious to me and to the vast majority of people. That is why they didn't bother defining it further.

An ox & cart fits the bill for "machine" with that lens

No it doesn't. I don't think you thought this through. The cart itself cannot do anything without something else acting on it. An ox is obviously not mechanical (it being an animal) which is what is propelling the cart. Therefore it is not mechanically propelled.

If it was a person a bicycle then would be more ambiguity. But it is commonly understood that a bicycle (excluding e-bikes which are mopeds) is not a "motor vehicle", because it is propelled by the rider.

Surprisingly, UK legislation doesn’t define “mechanically propelled”. Lawyers usually define everything, even words that seem obvious.

The terminology is self explanatory. Therefore it does not need any further explanation even for legal purposes. Also generally smart ass workarounds don't work with the magistrate and/or courts.

Calling them travellers and/or gypsies (I know they are technically different groups of people but generally the terms are often used interchangeably) is not in itself a slur.

The point being made is that he has plenty of income (it is in the 10s of millions I am sure).

If he has that many employees for his YouTube channel he is letting his expenses get out of control. It is as simple as that.

If he fired everyone tomorrow and stopped making videos, he would probably still be making six to seven figures a year just from people (re)-watching the existing content. I wouldn't be surprised if he has other holdings / properties that generate him income outside of YouTube.

You see this happen a lot on YouTube where someone starts getting a lot of money in via YouTube Ad-revenue and they start trying to operate it like it is a television station and paying for co-hosts and researchers etc. Costs then increase ten to twenty fold. Then once inevitably YouTube change how monetisation works or people get bored with their content and their revenue dips they resort to clickbait, scamming, and other nonsense.

This could all be avoided by just keeping control of their costs. So I have little sympathy for him saying "I have to do the click bait guys", when it was his decision to make those hires and he was already rolling in cash.

I don't think that is true and I don't really care. The browser works properly, it has ad-blocking built in and it is trivial to turn off the other nonsense in the browser.

What you are describing is not piracy/Copyright infringement.

You can say that we should not be blocking those ads, that is fine. But blocking ads is not making unauthorised copies of the content.

I run Brave (Android) on my phone and don't have any ads on Youtube. I think it worked on Brave iOS but I sold my iPhone last year.

I let Brave run in the background and it seems to work fine.

I've heard this argument before as someone with a small number of subscribers, In use relevant titles and thumbnails (I do partially use AI but that is "make me a Tux image with a builders hat on"). When I post a video I get a decent number of viewers for my channel size.

So I don't believe someone like LTT needs to resort to clickbait. LTT has 16 millions subscribers and half a million views per video. They make plenty of ad-revenue from those videos. If he stopped making videos today, he would still be getting a sizeable income by doing nothing for at least a decade. Even some washed up YouTubers from the past get a low five figure income from their Channels.

Hey, Only 50% of one of my thumbnails are AI generated Garbage!

I do agree it is annoying. Some people do it quite a lot with car work videos to make the car look in far worse than it is.

Not sure about elsewhere but ot took me 15 minutes to setup my LTD in the UK and I paid a monthly fee for accountancy which was about £100 and another yearly fee of about £100 for them to do my tax return (as I am lazy and didn't want to do it).

Unless you are getting paid in cash or monero, HMRC will absolutely know if you are getting paid under the table.

There seem to be one group of people that seem to take offence by people being hyperbolic (which this is) and another group of people that aren't. I personally find it baffling why anyone would be bothered by that comment.

"Mostly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. FreeBSD also mostly works out of the box also.

I am quite familiar with the BSDs. I've tried NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD when I used to muck around with this stuff daily.

They said Bluray and DVD.

Some of us have quite a few DVD/Blurays that we could rip. A lot of good stuff can be found in bargain bins and closing down sales (I got all the 9 series of the X-files for next to nothing). I am personally not bothering to rip them and download them instead, but I am not paying like 5 times for the same movie/tv series that I have already paid for.

A lot of films have been re-released now like on different media formats, with several different "cuts" which normally have maybe a few extra minutes of dialogue.

I ditched all the services years ago and use a similar setup. Works well enough for me.

BSD documentation is great because it the systems change so little you don't find twenty out of date references on how to configure your DHCP client.

While there are a out of date tutorials in Linux land, at least I can find out how I might do something and then I can figure things out from there. I do know how to use the man page system, however simply knowing what to look for is the biggest challenge.

e.g I was trying to configure two finger scrolling. The freebsd wiki itself appeared out of date. So it looks like you use libinput X driver package (which I forgot the name of now) and do some config in X. It would be nice if this was covered in the handbook as I think a lot of people would like two finger scrolling working on their laptops.

But as a desktop OS, yes they lack in a lot of areas, mainly hardware support/laptop support.

Actually FreeBSD appears quite well hardware wise at least on some of the hardware I have. My laptops are all boring corp business refurbs that I know work well with Linux/BSDs.

The problem is that often I require using software which does not work on FreeBSD/OpenBSD or is difficult to configure.

The other issue is that there are things that appear to be broken for quite a while that are in pkgs (at least with FreeBSD) so trying to configure a VM with a desktop resolution over something relatively low isn't possible at least with Qemu.