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It can't be that, I use NixOS. But yeah, GUI installers are buggy as shit for me too. And i don't use an old card.

Nvidia is just universally shit :(

I have an rtx 3060, i don't think that counts as old. I feel you, should have gone with AMD

Probably dictatorships.

In saudi (technically not a dictatorship, but an autocratic monarchy) corruption is so rampant and widespread that it's not even suprising anymore. The biggest culprits are the royal family, so of course they'd make saudi cushy for criminals like them.

Also, the workers rights here are horrible, fucking SLAVERY is still legal.

My problem isn't installing, it's after installing. Vsync has extra bad latency, frames are reversed, and more. And this is on 565, the latest version.

Games are unplayable.

I heard of an ALVR alternative made by Collabora, you could try it. Dunno if it's good or not.

That just makes it even weirder, how does seemingly nobody have any problems on NVIDIA, except a small minority?

What driver version are you using?

I wish. NVIDIA is still a buggy mess for me, and it seems that I am the only person with these issues, I see people praising NVIDIA on Wayland all the time now.

And VR is still bad on Linux.

I still love Linux, but I can't use it for now. God i miss NixOS );

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Bluesky may be a circle-jerk, but at least it isn't a literal neo nazi platform. We still have a ways to go till the fediverse goes mainstream.

Hm, good point, It seems I over complicated the whole process.

Thanks for sharing your post by the way, it's very well written.

Good read, thanks for sharing. But i think both of us are over estimating the tech literacy of the average user. Many of them look at software, or ideas, or platforms at surface level, and don't care much about how software works internally.

The average user isn't going to care about federation, and might not even understand it. To us and the OP of the reddit thread, we're familiar with federation, and have gotten used to it. It seems easy for us.

This is why i think the bluesky exodus is going to be useful, because it may inspire new users to learn about federation, and later on, the fediverse.

We definitely should make a poll to understand our demographics, eventually. Maybe i'll do it one day. It would be a huge benefit for us users and developers.

As for reasons why people don't choose to try lemmy, i remember before i joined lemmy that i heard warnings of the developers and community denying genocides, making up false information, and being toxic in general etc. I also couldn't wrap my mind around instances. That definitely soured my opinion, to be honest. Of course, now i know those are only a couple of instances that could easily be blocked, but the average user isn't going to understand instances, federation, etc.

The reason why bluesky was so successful was because it's easy. It has pseudo-federation, but it ""conveniently"" chooses the main server for you. That's why most users are on bsky.social. Simple, but incredibly centralized. It defeats the point. Also, the UI is very similar to old twitter. Lemmy/mbin are more radical in terms of differences, this makes it more niche.

I just don't think people are ready for the fediverse, yet. Maybe in a couple of years, people will start joining us, but for now, we're the minority.