Weird. I’m on Arch as well, and seeing nothing remotely like what you’re experiencing. It’s been buttery-smooth for me.

Ditto, but I’m glad the devs are taking the time to get it right.

I’ll be able to. But I most certainly won’t do it. No thanks.

Depends on the title and the nature of the anti-cheat code. If it basically acts as a system-level rootkit, then you may be out of luck.

I’d check the big community-driven games database that keeps track of compatible games here: https://www.protondb.com/

In some cases, minor tweaks and settings changes will make games work fine, even if they’re not officially supported.

As for GoG games, there’s Lutris and Heroic Games Launcher, both of which can use Steam’s compatibility layer for running Windows-only GoG games. Again, there may be tweaks involved and your mileage may vary, but the communities for both are extremely helpful.

Hardware support is pretty damn good now, but may require some research beforehand to ensure you get a system with no driver gotchas. Honestly, I have more trouble with driver setup on Windows than on Linux these days. That said, I won’t buy a computer that comes with any incompatibilities, so your experience may vary.

Gaming is easy on Linux now (assuming your system is set up properly) thanks to Steam’s Linux compatibility layer, which is built with WINE. They also have it on the Steam Deck, so you’ve actually probably used it already, you just didn’t know.

The only sticking point is Clip Studio Paint. Apparently it can be set up using WINE, but it’s not going to be as good as a native experience. Or at least, that would be my guess.

I’m curious when this was. A modern plasma desktop today just works. I have very, very little trouble with it. Conversely, my Windows machine (required for accessing my work VPN) is a nightmare of constant problems.

Oh, hadn’t thought of that. Yeah, that’s likely it.

I didn’t hear it, but from what I’ve read it sounds like it was likely a military jet that broke the sound barrier and caused a sonic boom.

Obviously.

I’m looking forward to watching the Democrats stay united behind Jeffries for every single vote. Again.

I wonder if Scalise can beat McCarthy’s record fifteen votes? I’ll bet he can!

Put yourself in the shoes of an Israeli boy. Maybe ten years old or so. One day, a Hamas attack kills your cousin, your best friend, and your five-year-old sister, as well as both of your parents. You survive because you happened to be elsewhere at the time. You’re not a soldier. You’re not one of the people responsible for Israel’s oppression of Palestine. You’re literally just some kid.

But in ten years, you better believe you’re going to be an IDF soldier, and one of the bad ones, because you want revenge. Every night, in your sleep, you see your parents’ corpses. And your sister’s. Someone literally cut her head off, and you see it, every night. And you are hellbent and determined to make them pay.

Now… Has Hamas’ murder of your little sister accomplished anything good for them? For their goals? Is it practical? Is it pragmatic? Will it move the world closer to a free Palestine?

No. Of course it won’t. It’s counterproductive. It will make Israel literally level Gaza. It will empower the hardliners, the ones who pushed for illegal settlements in the first place. They will be fueled by the combined rage of tens of thousands of people just like you, a little boy who lost everything because Hamas decided civilians were legitimate targets for murder, rape, mutilation, and torture.

The moral high road isn’t for cowards, it’s for people who aren’t idiots. You don’t win by taking the low road in a situation like this, you just make both sides angrier, more scared, and more entrenched. It accomplishes literally nothing that you profess to want accomplished. The low road is for fools.

Sadly, yeah. I’ve seen a few on Lemmy, which disappoints me. I mean, it’s not that hard:

• Don’t support targeting civilians and cutting people’s heads off.
• Don’t support illegal settlements and systematic oppression.

Why is that difficult? Why is it so goddamn difficult to say both are wrong in different ways? Supporting Israel’s right to exist free from terrorism against innocent civilians is not identical to supporting illegal expansion and the oppression of the Palestinian people. And supporting Palestine’s right to exist free from tyranny and encroachment is not identical to supporting Hamas, which is a horrendous terrorist organization that is just as awful to the Palestinians as they clearly are to civilian Israelis.

Yeah, although the real trigger for this was the Uttar Pradesh posts. They had zero Onion-y content.

Great! Now all you gotta do is get speaker groups to consistently work!

I will never understand why that’s so difficult for some people. Calling on Israel to stop the illegal “settlements” in no way indicates support for Hamas.

To be 100% clear, the horrific murders and mutilations they’ve committed are inexusable and Hamas should be utterly dismantled, with every surviving member put on trial for war crimes. That can be true at the same time as it’s true that Israel’s illegal annexation of territory and treatment of Palestinians is wrong.

Please, can someone tell me they understand that? Am I taking crazy pills, here?

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I’ve been thinking a lot about this, the fact that Israel’s been mistreating Palestine for decades, and… it excuses nothing. Hamas is a murderous terrorist organization that has specifically targeted civilians, and should be utterly destroyed. Palestinians shouldn’t be represented by monsters willing to do what they’ve done.

:(

I hate absolutely everything to do with this.

I 100% condemn attacks on non-military targets like that. I’m not trying to carry water for Israel. I just won’t excuse Hamas, either.

There are no good guys in this. It’s a horrible, intractable situation. And make no mistake, it’s Israel’s fault, due to their illegal occupation. I won’t even remotely defend that. But that doesn’t make any of this OK.