A bad experience? I’ve been using Linux for nearly 30 years, since the late 90’s. My bad experience is finding communities dominated by people that only care about gaming and making things brain dead easy, from flatpaks to entire distributions designed to emulate the look and feel of Windows.

And consoles? If it wasn’t for the Steamdeck/Proton 90% of you would still be running Windows. Even with all the advancements, Linux gamers are still less than 1.5% of the market share.

Also, my closet 3090 machine runs EndeavourOS and ollama/stable diffusion. Endeavour is just Arch with an installer and a couple of shell scripts.

No one cares about gamers, buy a console if all you want to do is play games, or run windows then.

If I’m paying $2k+ for a card, I want to be able to fully utilize it, and not just for the occasional bit of gaming.

CUDA has far more support than ROCm for a variety of things, from 3D render/design applications to AI powered tools. Nothing sucks more than coming across a nifty app or tool and finding out you can’t use it because you chose the wrong GPU.

Don’t do it, stay with Nvidia.

– someone who went from a 3090 to a 7900XTX and regrets it

The marketing sounded interesting, but after a bit of digging I realized I’m not the target audience. As a turn-key solution for non-Linux people however it seems to be making great strides.

I was in the same boat. I just want the VPN for my torrent client, without it impacting any other running applications/services. Try https://github.com/jamesmcm/vopono, which uses network namespaces and has killswitch functionality.

As for Nix, I have no idea.

I didn’t mention a VPN service. Openvpn is a client/server application, not a service. Vopono is an application that let’s you tunnel a single application through a VPN.

I also don’t disagree with the mod’s reasoning, so… have a nice day I guess.

I just run rtorrent with vopono/openvpn in a tmux sesession on a raspberry PI. It can be a bit of a pita getting utmp working though.

Agreed. Using X11/DK as the WM, sxhkd for keybinds, polybar, and bemenu with frequency as an app launcher. 100% keyboard driven.

I used Sway on wayland for a bit but I couldn’t deal with the way screen sharing worked.

Sometimes I’ll be on Zoom keys and see a co-worker struggling to resize/move windows around and I just want to scream.