Are you talking about this article, or other articles?

Because this article says that linux is faster on one bespoke and fully integrated handheld.

If other articles, care to share them?

This is such cry-baby nonsense.

NONSENSE.

Since 2008, I have personally mentored dozens of young dudes (at no cost whatsoever, just because that's what successful people do).

I have helped poor dudes in bad neighborhoods buck up, get some side hustles, stack cash, and buy property.

You fucked yourself because you refuse to actually do someone to buy property. I don't know ANYONE, starting with even zero money, who couldn't find a nice home in just 2-3 years of saving money properly -- except the lepers in California, and fuck them anyway.

I'm not sure which side of the discussion you're on from that reply, I was fairly balanced. I can try to restate again..

- linux gaming on amd is awesome with steam/proton

- linux gaming on nvidia is generally substandard but works well for some people

- Gaming is still generally more performant on windows

- The article title is misleading. A few specific games on a specific device ran faster on Linux than on windows. This isn't a large win for anyone except the people who optimised proton for this very specific chipset + processor + video combination.

- SteamOS will be great when it's fully out as a standalone thing and lead to more and more of the above scenarios as it's tuned for more and more devices, but right now it's only out for a handful of VERY specific devices

Which of those are grasping at which straws, from which viewpoint?

It's two guys whose other project was an iOS collaborative whiteboard app. I'd guess they are iOS developers in their day job.

On a specifically tuned for steamos device that cannot use the latest windows graphics drivers....

- If you have NVIDIA (which is a HUGE majority of the market) then games will run worse on linux, including linux native ones

- SteamOS isn't supported on desktops yet, even if you're 100% AMD, so this is limited to a small selection of handhelds

- If you have a 100% AMD desktop proton runs games VERY well, but most games are going to benchmark slower.

Once/If SteamOS is supported on desktops then this will be awesome news.

You can play MSFS in linux if you're using steam through proton.

Proton (basically a gaming based wine fork) has been amazing for 2+ years. Don't try and use default wine.

Most of these games don't have a native linux version, but are built to play nice with proton.

As a gamer who goes between xbox and pc every few years I think this will be great. I especially like that the "xbox frontend" will support steam games inline as well.

The only real thing missing is ability to log into your PC via controller somehow.

I would rather let Nazis speak and elect to block them myself than have an entire moderation team block everyone they disagree with.

Reddit is equally a shithole.

Heck. /. used to have a good libertarian minority and today it's nerds defending their trans kids here.

I'm guessing you are being sarcastic, but with the new ROG Ally xbox branded handheld you can, AND the dashboard shows steam games along side msft store games as one big grouping.

I would guess this will be 100% possible with the next xbox as it's a model that makes sense. A lot of microsoft games are on steam already as well.

I would prefer to replace myself, yes.

I have a 37 year work history of finding ways to replace myself and folks like me. I already offer my clients free Ai consulting on the side to help them replace me. I'm already onto the "next thing" that will replace Ai in the headlines anyway.

I don't own a computer. I am not a programmer. I do everything from my iPhone.

In the past 10 years, I have spent tens of thousands of dollars on human programmers to create 3 web apps. Zero of them ever were finished. ZERO.

I used Grok AI to create 5 web apps. 3 of them were monetized almost immediately and have paying clients. All 5 have passed security checks that look for bugs or hack entry points.

One of the 3 monetized web apps took me all of 30 minutes using Grok, on an airplane, using my iPhone. I was able to download the files and upload them to a web server and the site was live. Literally 30 minutes and that website has created thousands of dollars of passive income.

I use vibe coding DAILY to make spreadsheets better for me and clients (I am not in IT). I use vibe coding DAILY to come up with cool functions for my web apps that people pay me to use.

I'll add my voice to the chorus of "who cares about pocket, firefox works great" and it's the best platform to load up on anti-tracking, anti-adware, anti-spyware plugins and go surfing.

If firefox as a product degrades enough, someone most likely will come up with a viable replacement. The fact that there hasn't been a huge effort put into one shows that Firefox is still a very viable platform. You can change / disable just about anything that bothers you, and it has robust extension support. Those are the two most important things. Performance is just fine. I'm not exactly looking for top speed when running AdBlockPlus, Ublock, Social Fixer for Facebook, etc. Those are going to slow things down a bit and that's just fine. I mean c'mon, my first experience getting online was with a 300 baud modem, I can't really complain. I have synchronous gigabit fiber at home now, which is astonishing. A little rendering lag from FF is not going to bother me.

I'd more say:

"Don't Be Evil" - Google 30 years ago

"Make Money" - Google now.

It's not evil for evil's sake, it's evil for money's sake. If they could make more money by not being evil they would.