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Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare (www.phoronix.com)
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[-] dom@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago

Windows gets worse. Linux gets better.

Got a new gaming laptop and have been considering flipping it to popOS. Only thing holding me back is the OLED support that I've heard may not work

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

I wouldn't recommend Pop!_OS at the moment. They just added their new desktop environment (COSMIC) and there's a lot of bugs.

Also, if you're wanting to play newer games that need driver updates you may have to wait due to the slow update cycle of distros based on Debian/Ubuntu

[-] UntimedDiffusion@piefed.zip 12 points 2 days ago

I don't know how to explicitly check if hardware is supported, but if you pop a live USB in and it works, then I imagine it works on the fully installed os as well

[-] dom@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah this is a good call. I'll give this a go. Had pop os on my old laptop and it was great. But that didn't have a dedicated GPU or nice screen so I wasn't concerned

[-] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

Do you know about cosmic? Might want to use a kde distro for now, that's still cooking.

[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 3 points 1 day ago

I don't know much about OLED laptops but OLED monitors do their maintenance entirely in firmware, no OS support is necessary.

[-] niisyth@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Bazzite has been great for my friends who're using it. I also used Fedora and Debian personally and they've been fine as well.

[-] pycorax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Same here, got an OLED laptop and hesitated installing Ubuntu on it for dev work because I was afraid that the OLED maintenance tasks wouldn't execute.

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