trevor (he/they)

The new indirect GPU driver is AMAZING. I’ve previously suffered through getting GPU passthrough on one of my systems before, but I no longer need to because Linux flawlessly plays every game that I could ever want.

But I never liked that the VMs that I used for more general purpose stuff had choppy display performance. The indirect GPU driver sounds like it’s as easy as installing the driver in the VM and you’ll get much smoother graphical performance without the headache of configuring GPU pass through, which is awesome! I’d love to see that functionality baked in to stuff like Virt Manager and GNOME Boxes.

Fuck that. The Linux gate is wide open! Anyone that wants to use Linux, come on in!

And for your own sake: use anything but Ubuntu and their buggy Snaps.

Thanks! That first link is an excellent resource for a security tool I’m working on. Specifically, gVisor, which I hadn’t heard of, but looks like an excellent way to harden containers.

I may rebase to secureblue from Bluefin at some point to give it a try.

Sure. In the same way that ChromeOS and Android are Linux. There are no important distinctions to be made at all. Everything that works on one of them, will work on all of them because they’re just Linux.

/s, because that is obviously not true.

Based on Arch is different from is Arch. Ubuntu isn’t Debian. ChromeOS isn’t Gentoo. They are different things. Don’t oversimplify things to the point of absurdity.

I’m inclined to agree about the performance optimizations between various distros being negligible, but there might still be room for more distros to optimize for compatibility.

The following is highly anecdotal and vibes-based. Please don’t take my vague examples literally:

Between my Steam Deck (SteamOS) and Framework 16 (Bazzite), the Framework is obviously way more powerful, but I have a more flawless experience with some games on the Steam Deck in terms of 100% of the games I launch "just work"ing on there. With Bazzite on my Framework, it feels close to 100%, but every so often, I encounter a new demo or game that is finnicky about launching.

Idk if it’s gamescope, the specialized hardware, or something else doing the heavy lifting for the Steam Deck (it’s probably a mix of things), but I would love to see other Linux distros incorporate the software components to make gaming flawless on generic distros. It’s really close, but I think there’s room for growth to catch up with whatever the Steam Deck is doing.

And this is not me saying “wait for SteamOS to switch to Linux”. You can easily install Steam on any distro and enjoy like 90% of the games on there with no fuss.

I’m asking this because I haven’t tried secureblue: in what ways is Linux behind in security, and what does secureblue do to mitigate that?

And do any of those mitigations negatively impact usability?

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The problem with replacing GitHub with something that isn’t owned by genocidal Microsoft is that GitHub provides a fuckload of free compute via their runners. If you migrate away from that, suddenly you’ve got to pay for your automated builds.

I fear that many FOSS projects simply wouldn’t be popular if they had to be built manually from source by end users.

Firefox’s version of MV3 explicitly supports the things that uBlock Origin needs to do. It’s not the same as Google’s malicious MV3 that was targeted at destroying adblockers.

It would be annoying if they removed MV2, but it wouldn’t break things like it did for Chromium.

Yup. It’s a moral baseline that, sadly, most people trip and fall over.

The GOS devs consistently write the most thorough and detailed patch notes of any software project I’m aware of.

I’d be happy if they did and adopted Heroic as an official launcher. However, if that happens, I’d still want proper controller support to be added so that browsing the GOG store in Heroic doesn’t require mouse and keyboard bindings on something like a Steam Deck.

Because I use a Steam Deck and having a launcher for third-party stores is the easiest way to install games.

Additionally, the reasons mentioned in the other comments.

Anything but properly supporting the Linux community 🤡

How have they still not learned that the largest intersection of the people that care about their core value proposition (game preservation, DRM-free, etc.) are Linux users?? It’s not like they have to create the compatibility layers from scratch; Valve did it for them.

If they provided a launcher for Linux users, I’d actually buy shit from them. Yes, Heroic Launcher exists, but I’m not paying GOG for the work that the Heroic dev did. I want first-party support.

I don’t disagree with any of this. We just also need to be realistic about the fact that viruses have no boundaries and they don’t discern between marginalized people and fascist shitheads when they mutate and spread.

That isn’t how this works. Herd immunity is extremely important for people who actually can’t safely be vaccinated, but more importantly, having large populations of anti-vaxxers will create ample opportunity for the viruses to mutate into forms that we don’t necessarily have vaccines for.

We are all truly fucked unless we deal with these scum. It’s not just going to hurt the people causing the problem, and it will spread to the rest of the world.

You can just write bash scripts in your actions if you want them to be easily replicatable on your local machine, so you don’t really lose anything with that system.

Can someone explain why, and what to use them for?