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1173 points davikr | 2 comments | 12 Nov 25 17:59 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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thadt ◴[12 Nov 25 18:29 UTC] No.45903896[source]▶
Pretty much the only reason I boot to Windows anymore is to play games with my kids and family. The direction of this thing is dangerously close to being all I'd care about from a desktop computer.

If Valve pivoted into making a well-supported laptop with good hardware that ran Linux and played games...

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com2kid ◴[12 Nov 25 19:04 UTC] No.45904534[source]▶
I've been using Pop_OS, buggy as hell but steam games work great!

Everything is kinda a dumpster fire, but they nailed steam games.

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1. quasigod ◴[12 Nov 25 19:47 UTC] No.45905362[source]▶
Pop_OS is pretty rough. Theyre running on a super outdated base while working on COSMIC
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2. com2kid ◴[12 Nov 25 20:30 UTC] No.45906129[source]▶
The pop shop app being single threaded is just embarrassing. Do a search, the entire UI freezes up until the search is complete.

Also updates regularly break my KDE session and I have to restart my display server.

Sometimes I have to switch to a tty and back to my graphical console to get my display back.

It is a mess all around.

I haven't managed to get my GPU working in Docker, ugh.

That said, it does work. Mostly.