Storing and serving videos is expensive, they have to pay for it somehow. Either you pay directly or someone else pays for you (through an Ad). I don’t see why this is inherently a problem.

I can see arguments on if the specifics are a problem with how they’re going about it, but the fundamentals make sense.

The macbook Neo is a pretty powerful laptop, I wouldn’t say its a champion of limited computation software success.

4/5 Linux builds I’ve used on steam run significantly worse than the windows build through proton or just crash.

Wow this comment section is actually awful. If you’re somehow seeing this early on in the list: get out of here before it’s too late. There are some really, really toxic takes in here.

Strong disagree. I know how to configure a Linux installation and I still refuse to leave bazzite because it just works and stays out of my way while keeping my system up to date. I also haven’t found anything I wasn’t able to do in it. The preinstalled apps and the flatpack app store have covered all of my daily use needs.

You knock it off, there are so many small issues a distro like bazzite fixes that kubuntu won’t have patches for out of the box. Discord screen sharing, for one.

Then in steam you have to direct steam to use proton for almost every game with a Linux build because almost none of them actually work correctly.

Also, if you’re directing the average joe to use the terminal, it’s too hard. Seriously. It needs a polished, self explanatory GUI. If the app store version of steam isn’t good enough, then its not a good distro to recommend. Even then an app store might be too hard, many people are used to downloading apps from their website, and that problem hasn’t been solved by many distros, either.

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Nope, https://www.donutlab.com/

Sounds similar to the battery donut labs claims to have made.

Hijacking top comment to let people know this article is just made up.

Maybe they’re building containers every day? Idk. Can’t think of how that’d blow up into thousands without some sort of VM or containerization dependency.

and played a few ranked rocket league games for fun while they were at it

OK? I was just commenting on the state of the situation, there’s nothing to “deal with”?

This is just not true at all, only recently have alternatives started to spring up that even get close to the number of features and level of polish that discord has (note, discord still has plenty of issues, I’m not saying its perfect)

When you’re right, you’re right

This response is more rediculous to me than their calling a question an advert. (Both are silly)

Many people will definitely go back, but the percentage staying might be better this time around. Linux has gotten a lot more usable and stable for those tech inclinced enough to be able to install it thanks in part to proton, immutable distros, flatpacks, Wayland, and improved defaults. Mint and bazzite are pretty darn good for daily use. I’ve never stayed on Linux as long as I have with this run, and I really don’t feel much of a push to leave it. Most everything I want to do just works.

Their comment seemed like it was in good fun then you brought out the toxicity. Chill, buddy.

I’ve had a good experience with Bazzite. It worked out of the box for steam, and the “bazaar” app store built into it had everything I needed. Heroic is in there and good for handling PC games from other stores. Use Proton+ to get the latest Proton GE if you run into any windows game compatibility issues and it may solve them.

Okay, outside of the title every time they say “fastest” they follow it up with “at iso power” which apparently means equivalent or same. So they’re basically saying they’re the most efficient twice, but they creatively used the word faster like they are an industry leader in more than one metric when they’re not.

Also I have a feeling their claims won’t even be accurate if someone installs windows on a recent macbook, which is why I suppose they are also only comparing to windows native devices.