Nobody likes Windows 12

[Argent Stonecutter]

Then I already have a gaming Linux laptop. Sheesh.

 

[Free]

It turns out this is the year for the Linux gaming laptop.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

All Linux is gaming Linux with Steam installed.

That's true. With the way things are often talked about, you'd think that there's certain Linux distributions that were "made for" certain tasks or are "the best for" certain tasks, but that's not really the case. You've really got three base distributions of Linux - Debian, Arch, and Red Hat/Fedora, and the only really important difference between them is which package manager and base repository they use to deliver software. Every other distro out there just takes one of those three and adds particular things to it, and I would guesstimate that like 80% of those things are aesthetic.

The particular things a distro adds can be geared toward a particular task, but all that really means is that you'll have certain tools pre-installed when you first install the OS. Any other distro still has access to the same tools, you'd just have to take a few extra seconds and install them yourself. Like, Bazzite calls itself a "gaming distro" but it would take maybe 15 minutes or less of downloading and installing stuff and changing system settings to make literally any other distro capable of everything special that Bazzite is capable of.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

All Linux is gaming Linux with Steam installed.

And even if it is not labeled as Valve, some projects turn out to be mainly financed by Valce in the long run.

Enter Fex-Emu, which is an open sourced x64 to ARM translation layer. So in short a piece of software which is doing what Rosetta does under MacOS. Valve has secretly funded this project for years.

So if we ever find the want/need to run Intel based games under ARM sometime in the future Valve has got us covered with Fex.


And it's doing quite ok, somebody tested it.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

You've really got three base distributions of Linux - Debian, Arch, and Red Hat/Fedora

What have you got against Gentoo?

 

[Free]

Gentoo?

Gesundheit.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

What have you got against Gentoo?

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Microsoft: Windows 11 users can't access C: drive on some Samsung PCs

Microsoft is investigating a new issue affecting some Samsung laptops running Windows 11 after installing the February 2026 security updates, in which users lose access to their C:\ drive and are unable to launch applications.

www.bleepingcomputer.com