Technology

Is there any use for a HP Reverb G2 on linux?

The malware has been dewormed.

I use Bazzite. I like it a lot.

Bazzite for gaming no question, thing just works, I can use Linux fine, and very competent in windows also, but with gaming I just want a system I turn on and play, not faff with, I have been using Bazzite almost since it's beginnings, and am legitimately shocked at how turn key they have that distro for its use case.

There is no "dedicated" one for gaming. Ubuntu Mint, Debian are solid ones. I run Mint MATE personally

https://bazzite.gg/

PopOS in my opinion. It (mostly) solves the issue of getting the drivers needed to run GPUs.

Bazzite is great!

I’ll take a risk and say Fedora KDE Plasma flavor. Rolling release so highly current drivers, and it’s done a great job with my games.

Yeah, Bazzite has the best word in town for a gaming distro.

Cachyos seems like the general recommendation. Haven't used it myself, but I've used its kernel so I guess that counts for something.

The general consensus is that you shouldn't be selecting your distro based on gaming, all of the modern well maintained distros will be relatively the same performance. In my opinion you should select your distro first on how well maintained it is, then on stability, & then how well you know how to fix issues. Although I don't follow my own advice since I use arch but that is because I am far more accostumed to that ecosystem.

I use Fedora after trying Bazzite and Pop-OS. Pop had some quirks I wasn't a fan of and Bazzite was too locked down but I'll admit, it worked out of the box with no fuss at all.

I'm lucky enough that Linux is one of the half official OS which are allowed and half supported at work.

I'm even more lucky that IT isn't tech savy enough to be able to do to the Linux installations what they do to Windows and Mac where they preinstalled some rootkits and don't give you admin rights.

Therefore I'm a Linux enjoyer without involvement of IT. I need to fix all my problems myself and do security and backups myself, but that's a price I'm more than willing to pay.

Yeah, same. I use a combination of Linux and macOS at home but have a work laptop running Windows. It's dreadful and feels like it only exists to make my tasks harder. I never find myself saying "what a useful feature!" but I often say "Ugh, why are you like this?".

I feel this. I recently switched jobs and have a work PC (Win11) and work phone (whatever Iphone model) and I feel so dumb using them and I'm really tech savvy

Every headline about this Windows AI is dumb FUD because turning it all off is trivial

1. Is it actually trivial, though? Does that trivial change turn off all of the various instances of AI scattered throughout the OS?

2. Do you actually believe they won't release new things under different flags, and that you won't have to play AI whack-a-mole every update?

Literally no one is throwing away a working machine just because some deadline passes.

yes. yes they are. we've taken in a lot more 'junk' systems over the last six months than we ever have.

many of those who aren't tossing their pc on the heap are paying for the updates or jumping through the link-and-sync bullshit for them.

microsoft's scare tactics work, and work very well.

Lots of people will, I've had the discussion with multiple people bemoaning that that will have to upgrade because their computer isn't compatible who. Have zero interest in learning a new OS. Heck my father has a laptop good enough for everything he does already and was talking about upgrading his desktop because it isn't compatible.

Literally no one is throwing away a working machine just because some deadline passes.

You need to speak to every IT department worth a pinch of salt then; as no longer receiving security updates is a critical problem. That critical problem is solved by most IT departments by disposing of perfectly good computers, paying to have their SSDs shredded, and buying new computers.

You are assuming their ai hallucinating or maliscous devs won't push updates that break user choice.