Excellent write-up!
Though, it's a pity that a great ambassador of OpenBSD has stopped using it.
lancalot
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It doesn't get much better than Digital Foundry's coverage on the matter.
Spoiler alert
Performance is about similar. So no significant performance issues.
We were able to, up until Riot chose to mess it up for everyone (including us).
however, for them to be “main”, they should have “derivatives”,
Got you. Aight. I suppose that does disqualify NixOS. Though, to be fair, Guix System is heavily inspired from NixOS.
I also tried Nix OS, the use of 1 config file is refreshing, however that ease comes at the cost of some flexibility, installing Steam there is too complicated for me
Hehe 😜. Yeah, the paradigm shift associated with NixOS isn't one that's overcome in one sitting. But it's cool to hear that you've tested it for yourself.
Anyhow, this was a cool interaction. Thank you for offering your insights! Wish you, my akhi in (at least) humanity, a lovely day!
Apologies. Allow me to clarify.
I meant that it's not harder than Windows, when it comes to playing games. And I even made that claim stronger by proclaiming that it's probably even easier.
Edit: SteamOS is the operating system found on the Steam Deck. It's basically Arch Linux (btw), but with Valve's (very) special sauce. It's what you'd expect from your average game console; which is a good thing*.
Honestly, in terms of ease to play, SteamOS (or clones like Bazzite) don't ~~do under~~ fall short of Windows. Heck, I'd argue they might even be easier.
The real issue is anti-cheat. But that's just the next hurdle we'll have to overcome.
Edit: TIL that the expression "to do under" has no place in English.
I suppose that's a fair assessment. Thanks for the clarification!
However, I do give precedence over their current situations.
- So, if e.g. Arch would continue to exist, but ultimately became the downstream/derivative of another distro, then I would stop regarding it as 'main'. Which one may argue happened between RHEL and Fedora.
- Similarly, if a derivative starts building their own repos and becomes entirely independent from the distro they were originally derived from, then I'd stop regarding them as a derivative. Instead I'd acknowledge them as an independent distro. Like how openSUSE ultimately is derived from Slackware, but they're hardly comparable today.
Regarding NixOS, it and other independent distros are absent in the link you provided. NixOS is literally its own thing and also old; older than Ubuntu and Android for example. So, if anything, it did deserve a mention. Though, I suppose the maker of that website didn't think it was relevant enough to be included over three years ago. NixOS' popularity has thankfully exploded in the mean time, though.
I'll keep it brief. But it comes down to the fact that, out of the more popular distros, it's only officially supported on Ubuntu.
I suppose we differ in our definitions. Which is absolutely fine, to be honest*.
For completeness' sake, IMO it's basically the intersection of Major Distributions and Independent Distributions. Which happens to consist of Arch, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, openSUSE and Slackware.
Out of these, Arch and Gentoo don't have defaults, but their documentation uses ext4 most frequently for examples. For the remaining four, Fedora and openSUSE default to Btrfs. While Debian and Slackware default to ext4.
In all fairness, one might argue that Distrowatch's list of major distros is arbitrary. Therefore, we could refine what's found above by including actually data. For this, I'll use Boiling Steam's usage chart based on ProtonDB's data. This ain't perfect either, but it's the best I can do. Here, we notice how both Gentoo and Slackware are not represented. Furthermore, NixOS poses as a candidate instead. For which, we find that (if anything) ext4 is the default. Regardless, it doesn't actually impact the earlier outcome:
- Arch (and Gentoo) don't have defaults
- Debian(, Slackware and NixOS) default to ext4
- Fedora and openSUSE default to Btrfs
Anyhow, what are the main distros according to you? Please offer an exhaustive list, please. Thanks in advance!
none of the “main” distros default to BTRFS, just “derivatives” default to BTRFS
So you don't regard Fedora (or openSUSE) as "main" distro?
Initially, I was drawn to KDE Plasma for familiarity. Therefore, when installing Linux for the first time, I chose a distro with KDE Plasma. Which happened to be Fedora Kinoite 35, a very new distro at the time. It was clearly buggy and after fiddling with it for some time, I just had to rebase to Silverblue (and GNOME) for the lack of alternatives.
Thankfully, I actually happened to really like GNOME. This was on a laptop and GNOME's touchpad gestures just felt very satisfying and intuitive; much better than anything else I had experienced before. Its (intended) workflow also made a lot of sense that way.
GNOME has really grown on me ever since. And while I've revisited KDE Plasma to see what I was supposedly missing out on, I simply stuck to GNOME as it felt cleaner and more elegant.
I think I like this one as well. Basically, as you'll see later on, the expression is (probably) best translated as 'to be inferior'. Combined with the negation that's brought with "don't", we could rephrase the sentence as 'Honestly, in terms of ease to play, SteamOS (or clones like Bazzite) aren't inferior to Windows.'.
Another one that I like 😜. But, the double 'do' is indeed a bit awkward.
Sure! It's an expression found in Dutch. Heck, to be more precise, it's a verb that can be split: 'onderdoen', but also 'doen onder'. The literal translation would be, as you'd expect 'underdo' or 'do under'. Here's the (English) wiktionary entry.
Valve has truly outdone itself. While I only started using Linux after Proton's release, the horror stories from the pre-Proton era still send shivers down my spine.