I genuinely wonder if he's refusing to try Mint because then he could no longer make videos searching for the perfect beginner OS, or if he's genuinely stuck in an echo chamber that prevents him from considering it. I'm not aware of a single game that runs on Wayland without the use of xwayland - which for the people in the back is the full stack of Xorg in a trench coat.
I have now watched this in full. The only breakages that I would consider as OS bugs in this part are the unexplainable sound and mouse issues. Former fixed itself for some reason, latter might be a 50/50 between Steam Input and Wayland (I'm assuming PopOS comes with that as the default). L4D2 being buggy and Steam duplicating its windows as well as completely blacking them out is the issue of Valve being unable to build a functioning user interface or maintain their abandoned toys even if you held a loaded shotgun up to Gaben's ballsack.
Reddit recommended that for his co-host, naturally.
This is either specifically a Cosmic issue or a wider Wayland issue. Either way, there's no good reason for Valve to waste any money on it.
There's no good reason to waste money on good software in general if the niggercattle are going to eat it up regardless. You can't exactly take the thousands of dollars spent on games somewhere else. Outside of Cosmic and Wayland, this issue that happens if you simply switch off the Steam Overlay from 2024 is still present with only some partial fixes applied to anything Vulkan, complete radio silence on the rest. At random times throughout last year, Steam kept losing right-click functionality so I had to navigate its webshit menus via keyboard and Ctrl+M2 on panels. It also likes to kill my status bar, but only sometimes. All on a stable combination of X11+Openbox/tint2, components that haven't seen change in a decade or more. Having used small, abandonware GUI programs quickly written by a single guy and played old games that weren't very stable even at the time of their release, Steam and Valve games are still pretty much exclusive members of the "Linux programs that I have a burning hatred of" list - just from personal experiences of interacting with them.
whether or not there are ways around it doesn't matter as much as the fact this kind of thing is beginning to happen across the world. At least for me being able to circumvent it doesn't make this any better. Especially not because it will get worse in the future, at least as of now I don't see any reason to expect it won't unless normies suddenly give a fuck about this kind of thing it will continue to creep down this path. But again, even if whatever the next step of enshittification is is also something people can get around, I will still have a problem with it. Because it will be yet another thing made worse by the people we have elected to run our government, that didn't have to happen,
what im finding out now that im using brave's search engine ai to answer simple questions is a lot of information is severely outdated because its like snake eating tail
Typing his prompt into Grok it gives Bazzite-Nobara-Pop-Chimera-Garuda, typing a shorter prompt that doesn't explicitly mention vidya returns Mint-Zorin-Ubuntu-Pop
Watching that dumb fuck makes me roll my eyes so far back I might snap my optic nerve so I didn't view it, but in the Year of our Lord 2026, you have to work hard to install any prominent distribution and have it not work out of the box.TLW : Linus goes with PopOS again, and it keeps breaking.
>uses window manager that hasnt had a update in 11 years
Oh it is, on X all compositor has to do is draw fancy decorations and do vsync. On wayland it's everyting X does plus a kitchen sink.
Wayland is definitely the cause of all of that. If you're a DE developer then when using X11 all you need to do is run everything off Xorg (or Xlibre, and eventually maybe even Phoenix), but on wayland you now need to do all the low level communications with drivers and such yourself. And you can't even fork someone else's project half the time because there's such deep intergration with a specific DE that it's almost less work to start from scratch.
As he explains at 7:05. He knows he could easily do this, but the average user isn't going to have that kind of expertise on call like Linus and co, do.
It's because he's outside of the echo chamber. If you're not immersed in Linux 24/7, this is the typical user experience. Ask for where to start, get a bunch of answers, follow the advice of one and get 5x the amount of people shouting at you that you made the wrong choice. Only to then turn around a week later and say that rabid Linux autists never shout at newbies.
It's funny that comments all love Luke. He chose the "right" distros (mint, arch, and cachy), he has the "right" attitude (even though he mentions how he was yelled at for choosing mint in the previous challenge). But they still have an issue with him choosing grub during install.
Which is why they show, repeatedly, that he's not doing anything stupid or outlandish.
X server specification hasn't changed either. Besides which, it kept randomly fixing itself without messing with any settings. Steam on DWM was even funnier back when I tried it, with the main window jumping across the screen the first time you grab it with a mouse and slowly drifting afterwards if you didn't apply a Steam specific patch. Considering that Steam is the only major Linux GUI application doing this weird shit, Valve sucking at anything that isn't coding game graphics is a simpler explanation.
Yea it's funny when you're not autistic retard and don't bounce around like a mongoloid and comprehend and understand what you're doing. I wonder why people like Luke more.
No one recommends PopOS anymore outside AI slop articles taking information from 6 years ago.
His audio config was wrong, and was set to spdif/digital output for no reason, not sure of this was his doing or PopOS, its a 50/50. Opening a youtube video probably crashed his audio and it restarted and/or it correctly moved back to analog audio.
Or its just that they dont fix things that aren't broken for 99% of people because some autist wants to run a TWM from the 90s.
Sorry to disappoint, but Valve don't fix that either. If it doesn't impact financial operations and transactions, good luck waiting for that patch. Not very optimistic on SteamOS for this reason as well.
