Today I played control on my new linux daily driver - through steam link on my TV! (lemmy.giftedmc.com)

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I‘m pretty excited, ngl! I‘ve recently finished my daily driver and put ubuntu 23.04 on it. 3060ti (don’t buy nvidia! Just dont) and an i9, 32gigs of ram. Streaming on an apple tv with a ds4 controller.

All settings maxed with raytracing ultra (did hitch a bit like 30-40 min into the game, either bigger rooms or heat buildup, gotta check that) turned off raytracing, everything was fine again.

The game is so cinematic and 3rd person lends itself to controllers imo.

But I wanted to share this because it blew my mind how far linux gaming has come. You don’t need a game console. You can just run it on your tv over fkin lan. Crazy!

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[-] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 year ago

I don't get it. How come so many people choosing Ubuntu, when practically everyone (on Lemmy and even that other site, etc) will tell you to stay away from it? Where exactly are all these people getting their Ubuntu recommendations from?

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Probably old self proclaimed tech news sites because goog doesn't give good search results any more, or at all in the past decade or so.

[-] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 6 points 1 year ago

Well, I know for a while Steam only officially supported Ubuntu, and on their developer page It still mentions that they only support Ubuntu, though I don't know if they've just forgotten to update the page:

Steam only officially supports Ubuntu running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or newer and SteamOS, but the Steam for Linux community is extremely resourceful and has managed to run Steam on a large variety of distros. Valve approves of these efforts but does not officially endorse or provide support for them.

[-] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Perhaps being one of the first major Distros in the sense of being easy enough for many less tech inclined to switch from windows and not need to know as much command line.

I had tried older and other versions of Linux but back then Ubuntu mostly just worked. Being a leader in that sense has held them in the place where its safe to dive into Linux despite the various other flavors that can do it better. The PR is a lot to overcome for newbies that are overwhelmed on it. It's only later after getting a footing you will be brave enough to try over flavours.

For me Linux Mint is a no brainer place to start with my older hardware than Ubuntu now but I don't think they have the word of mouth like Ubuntu. At least with Ubuntu if they are even aware of something more than Mac or Windows they have probably heard of the name not really knowing what it is. Many aren't Googling Arch for first time installs I suspect.

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