Moog Muskie

I didn’t disagree with their clarification of what they meant.

Isn’t the clarification of what they meant, also the exact same thing as what they originally said? They clarified what they meant by what they said, not by the context that you think they didn’t provide in the original text, so in my eyes they did say the same thing as what they clarified to you. You just didn’t seem to understand the original text, when in it, they specifically said they wanted to know what Linux distro would work best based on specs for gaming… Which brings us back to your original reply to OP. Why did you say “If you have to ask someone else whether you should switch then you should not switch.”? Because the only reason I can find, is if you misunderstood and thought they were asking if they should switch to Linux in a general sense, rather then specifically based on their specs for gaming. Many people downvoted your comment including myself (because I felt you were misunderstanding OP’s question), and I think most other downvoters did so for the same reason… so it would be good to know if we just misunderstood your point. But it doesn’t seem so when OP had to clarify to you what they meant and everyone else commenting already seemed to get it.

/s to make a point

I don’t get what you mean. I know what /s means but I’m very confused what you’re trying to say. That “I disagree” what sarcastic?

I did not tell OP that I disagreed with them, you misunderstood.

Didn’t you?.. Did I?.. What’s this then?:

You (rah):

If you have to ask someone else whether you should switch then you should not switch.

OP (WIZARD POPE):

I am asking if my hardware will enable me to have a good experience since I know nvidia has issues on linux. (Note: Exactly what I thought OP was asking)

You (rah):

Your post doesn’t ask that.

OP (WIZARD POPE):

The main text kinda does. Maybe I worded it a bid badly.

You (rah):

I disagree.

Please explain to me what part of the two-word sentence “I disagree” is not you disagreeing.

I haven’t commented on what they meant, only on what they said.

Yes, and you wouldn’t have commented on what they said if you didn’t first interpret what you thought they meant. OP clarified to you what they meant, and you disagreed with them, that they meant what they said they meant, which is what was so stupid about your “I disagree” response. I don’t see what’s so difficult to understand for you.

Correction: Switch 2 Back-compat is not emulation. It is a compatibility layer in the same vein that the Steam Deck runs Windows games despite running on Linux.

Fine, I’ll add to my sentence for clarification, but (no offense) it should be obvious I’m referring to gaming since the whole topic is about… gaming on Linux.

They’re asking based on their specs whether Linux will run fine for them, with Gaming.

The title was “Thinking of switching my gaming desktop to Linux. Should I?” In the post, they said:

My main question now is just what distro works best for gaming (considering my specs).

So therefore they’re asking whether they should switch to Linux (for gaming) based on their specs. OP even told you that’s what they were saying, but you said “I disagree”…

You can’t with any sound reasoning disagree that OP asked something, when not only is there the OG post as proof, but they also told you (in implication) that you misunderstood. OP knows what they meant by what they said - you can’t tell them they don’t know what they meant, when they’re literally the person who said it. I get it that you’re having a hard time understanding how what they said, means what they said it does, but you’re allowed to accept that you misunderstood. You’re allowed to be wrong.

This is why I personally think Bazzite should only be installed on devices you intend to only game on, especially if you have any intention of learning any more about Linux than the absolute basics. It’ll be fine for a while for beginners, but you’re bound to bump into some things that are a hassle to install and/or keep updated. Perfect examples being for consolafying a PC for playing on a living room TV, or installing it on a handheld PC (Steam Deck etc.)

They’re asking based on their specs whether Linux will run fine for them. Not whether they should switch based on usability. Having to ask if your specs can run Linux fine is not a reason not to switch.

Loaded up Steam yesterday and saw the news about Splitgate 2 coming out. I said to myself “Let me guess, they’re proudly blocking Linux, right?”

Today I opened up Lemmy. This post, right up top.

Hyphlosion said free updates are good. You essentially made the claim that N screwed up the games on S1, and are now making us pay for a new product for them to “fix” it. Do you not see the gap in that thinking? The only area that logic partly makes sense is in context of games that ran poorly on S1 (as in an inconsistent FPS). With those games, the “Sorry we f’d up the game on S1, but if you spend more on a new console, we promise we fixed it” argument could make sense. But Hyphlosion isn’t talking about updates that stabilise the games FPS, they’re talking about updates that brought the FPS cap to something S1 wasn’t capable of, and to resolutions it couldn’t display.

That’s not N charging you to “Fix” a broken game, because the game wasn’t capable of running that well on S1 anyway. There’re games on S1 that run a near perfect 30fps, that can’t hit 60fps even if uncapped. Those games, if updated on S2 to support higher FPS, could run at 60fps (or more)

If that’s free, that’s not N being greedy by releasing a broken game, then making you buy a new system to fix it - it’s N taking advantage of new hardware to make the game run far better than was possible on S1. I’m not arguing N isn’t greedy, I’m arguing this is not an example of them being greedy. The real example of greediness, is them saying: “Hey, we’re gonna give free updates to these games. But those games are more popular (Zelda), so we’ve GOTTA charge them for it with upgrade packs. We’ll make SO MUCH MORE MONEY THAT WAY!! 🤑” That’s the only reason N is being selective about which games to charge upgrades for, and which not to.

Personally, I think the reason they aren’t adding free res & FPS updates for Mario Party Jamboree and Kirby Forgotten Land, is that they were already developing DLC content for said games (Jamboree TV & Star-Crossed Worlds) way before S2 was revealed. They realised they can make more if they choose to lock the free res & FPS updates behind purchases of DLC packs. And doing so would mean making a “Nintendo Switch 2 Edition”. People will accept, because they’d think the extra content makes it worth the price, and those who complain won’t have a loud enough voice for it to actually hinder them profiting from it. That’s what’s greedy here.