Oh man, I knew it had something to do with the Flatpack Nvidia driver packages. This happened to me several times with Heroic trying to play a game that wasn't even recent by any means.
Except we'll have to keep using it because the rest of our families and friends are going to still be on there or pester us about why we aren't there with them to share photos of your sister-in-law's baby photos and videos and your aunt Tammy's vacation photos.
Yeah, I always had a dual-boot system and mostly used Win 10 as my main OS for gaming and Linux for troubleshooting and messing around. With the announcement of Win 10 reaching end-of-life this October, I started to go on my Linux side a bit more to try gaming and I was blown away. So I made the switch last fall to 100% Kubuntu 24.04 on my PC.
I can't believe the progress that's been made with Steam and Proton in recent years. I've always been a huge Linux fan and gamin has always been the only thing blocking me from using it full time. Now I have no reason to use Windows anymore! I'm so happy!
Sure, but western companies have benefited from subsidies as well on so many levels, plus the government incentives to buy EVs.
Chinese EV manufacturers are also owned by the government which collect the rewards for their investments, while western manufacturers give their CEOs fat paychecks.
Y'know, I have another problem altogether with audio in Linux in general. Whenever audio starts, there's a fraction of a second where it doesn't play anything at the beginning and the audio just "wakes up" and starts to play. This drives me insane when editing sound and music. Also, you won't hear simple notification sounds because of this. This is permanent on all Linux devices I have and it appears to be a widespread. People have complained about it for a while now and have been trying to figure out workarounds because it seems the devs don't give a crap about that.
Oh, no doubt it works. It's fine if you want to run on older software. You might just miss out on the latest new features for your hardware.
Yes Ubuntu is based on Debian only in the way that it uses the same package manager. The packages are not the same though. They have a totally different release cycle and the repos have more up to date packages and drivers. Not to mention the additional quality of life improvements.
It's a good middle ground between super stable but older Debian and unstable and bleeding edge distros.
The best answer is always Ubuntu (Mint or Kubuntu). They just work. And they're and they're récent enough without running into problems. They have high compatibility and they have a lot of quality of life improvements.
Because of the global trade war? Or because of their implication in aiding Israel in committing genocide? Or both?