That was my point. The comment I was replying to was suggesting that people switching from Spotify will be blown away by better quality audio. Most wouldn’t notice a difference.

Most people can’t tell the difference between 128 kbit MP3 and high quality recordings.

Honestly, 5 years ago Proton was already in pretty good shape. 2018 is when I switched to Linux, and already had very little trouble gaming.

GrapheneOS is what I use. The installation was basically idiot-proof.

My Pixel 6a has a resolution of 2400x1080. On its own, that’s more than the 1080p that most people use these days. And it’s not a particularly high resolution for a phone.

Yeah, that’s the spirit, bro! VRAM in the butt = VRAM power!

They can’t physically disable your hardware, but they can force a software update that essentially makes the hardware useless.

If you’re able to replace that software, you could probably keep playing offline, but they’re not going to make it easy for you to do so.

I have friends who work in the film industry and they pirate movies and TV shows all the time.

Columns was not an interesting or addictive as Tetris. It also didn’t come with the console.

Tetris and the Gameboy being sold together was a massive boon to both of them.

The Game Gear ate batteries like they were Tic Tacs, and it needed 6 of them at once. I don’t think it’s the design that held it back. It’s the power usage, and the lack of Tetris.

I have Nobara running on an old Lenovo Flex 15 with an 8th gen i5. Everything on it worked right out of the box including the multi-touch screen, I can’t imagine why it wouldn’t work on any other distro. I can’t tell the difference in responsiveness between Windows and Linux on it.

I feel like if Embracer is involved, there’s gotta be some kind of nefarious plan behind this. Embracer is one of those companies that buys out studios and shuts them down. They are the the source of the enshittification of video games.

I’m kind of shocked that it’s only been 18 years since the last 486 chip was made. It was launched in 1989 and discontinued in 2008, while the original Pentium was launched in 1993 and discontinued in 1999. Hell, the Pentium 4 was discontinued in 2007.

You don’t have to do it now, but at some point you won’t be allowed to delay it anymore.

I will check when I get a chance. Nothing jumped out at me after, but I didn’t think to check in the moment.

outside your gaming time.

I know all those words, but tgey don’t make sense in that order

Yes, I tried with VLC as well. It works as intended there. Video pauses, and the PC suspends or shuts down normally.

Firefox seems to be the only thing that prevents it, and only if there’s a video loaded. Doesn’t have to be the active window, and it doesn’t matter which display it’s on. If there’s a video playing or paused, it prevents suspend and shutdown.

That’s not a fix though, it’s a hoop to jump through every time. Regardless of OS, it’s incorrect behavior.

Jesus, that’s not even incompetence, it’s actively knowing that there’s something wrong with what you’re doing.

Others have already answered your questions, so I just wanted to add that the Linux community is based on sharing and cooperation, mainly though Open Source principles, but also in most other ways. From personal experience, I would say that the community is pretty much always willing to help out when you experience issues. There’s always someone willing to share some insight.