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Cake day: September 30th, 2023

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  • honestly unless you are planning to develop for them and can improve the jankiness, neither. base pinephone is too weak for literally anything, even running that super minimal os. pro I only had for a few days before selling due to having no time for it but it was only powerful enough for me to think specs wise that’s what the original should have been for the year it came out. I kept the basic one because I already did the open source modem firmware or whatever it was but its probably way out of date now.

    If this is way out of date and things have improved much, someone tell me please.












  • dunno about now but back in the day if you used the tracking card and dumped all your money into the casinos they would comp hotel rooms. I had many stays in vegas as a kid. There’s some stuff for kids to do but there are definitely way better trips to go on. Vegas felt like I went back to my childhood home when I came back at drinking age. Enough stuff changed by the following trip that it has lessened though.








  • somehow I guess it’s still not common knowledge yet but basically everything that doesn’t need a kernel anti cheat will work. or maybe not newer dotnet crap but usually those aren’t games. mods and cheats are hit and miss and require some setup, but mostly work anyway. for most games protondb lists what works with and without tinkering but even some of the stuff listed as not working actually does in my experience. pcgamingwiki info is still usefull for a lot fixes to known problems on all platforms.

    amd graphics should work out of the box but sometimes the newest cards have issues for a while after release. Any modern distro will not need extra setup as long as the maintainers aren’t too far behind.

    nvidia requires manual intervention for most distros but some have installers that default to nvidia graphics. expect some jank, there’s a lot of weird shit that can go wrong with kernel modules not matching the kernel version among other things.

    other hardware can also be problematic and people like myself who have been selecting hardware specifically for linux compatibility may give the idea that nothing is wrong.

    I recommend nobara or bazzite for gaming setups that will require little to no addititonal work to play games and most hardware that is possible to work just working out of the box or with a guided config.

    If you want to go with a non gaming oriented distro (trust me don’t unless you do it on a spare comp or vm for experimentation), then debian, or mint debian, one of the easy arch installers even, but don’t do ubuntu. Weird shit will inevitability happen eventually and the old guides and crap ai articles with outdated information from the mail order ubuntu cd days will make it way too confusing to fix unless you are a web search sorceror.