It's been good for twenty years, the only difference is that OP finally gave it a fair go.

Proton for games had changed things dramatically. Gamers can legit switch to Linux with barely a second thought, without being technical.

Linux/x86 still is poor for battery life compared to Apple.

I’d argue the majority of casual online PC discourse is driven by gaming. By the numbers LTT is the largest PC/IT/consumer computer YouTube channel and the majority of their content is focused on gaming.

That’s my impression anyway.

The hint here is in the domain name of the article URL.

A pretty bold statement for the largest entertainment medium in the world.

We don't agree on the premise.

I'm glad that I am not the only one saying this. I made the switch 20+ years ago for my day to day use, and I have rarely experienced any problems with it.

But now it is good and also has working networking, audio and you can watch videos and scroll webpages without screen tearing.

You don't have to read it bud.

I don't. There are standards that HN should try and achieve, though.

That is legit hilarious.

What's it for?

Prolog-style programming

...and another $150k from my family...

Wow.

Not to dismiss the generosity, but he's a billionaire.

A millionaire donating the relative equivalent would be $150.

NixOS is the only distro that may tempt me away from Slackware one day.

Yeah, Another World was an incredible feat with the hardware we had at the time.

Won't somebody think of the children!

I'm not sure why they decided to focus upon children. Most people would have issues with an LLM providing information on the first and third points regardless of whether or not the recipient is a child, while finding certain types of pornography objectionable (e.g. if it promoted violence towards the subject).

Wayland is buggy as hell for me. Im not particularly invested in X11 but at least it works.

Nvidia GPU? Their drivers have been broken on Linux for a long time now. I've had no bugs on my steam deck or on asahi linux with wayland.

Are simple things like screensharing working now, without crashing in the worst possible moments?

I was under the impression that PipeWire fixed all issues with both screen sharing and desktop audio when it was introduced years ago.

I have a RTX 5060TI that works smooth as butter on Arch+X11. Mix of office tasks, gaming on 1440p and AI workloads all without issues.

Steamdeck doesn't use Wayland.

Gamescope, the main compositor of Steam Deck (the one that drives Gaming Mode), uses Wayland. It is just the desktop mode that doesn't.

I've been there as a young man. It wasn't very nice.

I always seemed to find the money for beer and smokes somehow though.