walkercricket

It is an Nvidia problem. And we need to insist on Nvidia being the problem until they give in. Their lack of wanting to take responsibility for distributing graphics cards on the market by not developing working drivers and not even letting the community fix it by open sourcing their driver is not something we should tolerate anymore. They pissed people enough at this point over the years, with their lack of participation in an driver problem-free environment on Linux, so they should and they will take the blame.

Xorg and Wayland are two protocols every Desktop Environment use and is, from my limited knowledge on it, the thing that tells the DE how to behave and display windows on your screen. Since 1984, the Linux world uses Xorg (now at the 11 edition: X11) but now, there is a massive transition towards a protocol more secure and focused around privacy called Wayland because first, it's objectively better, and because X11 will soon be deprecated/abandoned. But due to its way of handling things (like for example, windows can't see each other: they think they're alone on the PC, preventing some programs from spying on each others but also preventing them to communicate with each other, like to share screen or screenshot. We have portals to solve that now though, so no worries), Wayland struggle to convince everybody and therefore is heavily criticized, mostly because it's sort of being forced due to the Xorg team letting the project die to develop Wayland, the successor, waiting for every distros and their DE to adopt it.

But despite not directly mentioning those protocols, you're right by saying "you can just jump ships and unsubscribe from what you dislike" because honestly, nobody's preventing people from continuing to use Xorg and groups from continuing the development of DE based on Xorg or simply continuing the Xorg project, but if they want to progress and evolve with the rest of the world, they will have to switch to Wayland eventually.

Do you use Windows by any chance? And cherry on top, an AMD GPU? That wouldn't surprise me because that's the worst combo possible. Unfortunately, I can do nothing more than empathize with your issue, it's indeed a pretty big deal considering it shouldn't be an issue in the first place, whether you game on your PC or not. I use personally Linux and I've never had any problem for drivers, whether it's Nvidia or AMD, since I use it, which could explain our difference of experience.

When I was talking about "battery charging", I meant using an app to limit the charging at a certain level: look for "acca" or simple "acc" which is the module/daemon to manage that. You have to be root to do that and there is no way around. For the rest, sure, but that's for GrapheneOS, I was talking in general, most ROM not having what GrapheneOS has and considering GrapheneOS is exclusively present on Pixel phones unfortunately...

Chromium doesn't need Chrome to exist either: it's a separate project and if Google doesn't want to support it anymore, someone can easily fork it to continue having Chromium-based browsers. That's the property of open source: anybody can inspect and fork it.

Sure, you're obviously more likely to have problems like driver issue on a PC than on a console, but in my experience, those kind of issues (or any kind of issue for that matter) are so extremely rare, it's totally negligible in front of what bring a PC to you and it certainly won't make me want to switch to consoles for a waste of 20 minutes of my time over a year because of some program or piece of code that didn't run as expected.

Honestly, I think it's great: if it annoys people enough, they will move out from Chrome and install Firefox (or one of its forks) with good extensions for blocking ads on YouTube. It seems to be the only solution to break the monopoly of Google on browsers. So go Google, I believe in you!

Edge and Chrome are both closed source and owned by companies, so your comparison is just not valid. Using AOSP is certainly not supporting Google's monopoly: AOSP is totally open source, was bought by Google a long time ago and they don't own it due to its license (aside from the name maybe). Meaning you can still flash Android on a system without paying or using Google's services or products.

It's like saying you contribute to Google's monopoly because you use Linux and Google (also) used it in its Chromebooks.

F-Droid isn't the only one: I also like Neo Store, which has more than just the F-Droid repository and I think has a better interface. However, I think not all repo are 100% safe because F-Droid verify all the apps they have while Neo-Store doesn't because it simply list known repos, which you can activate however you like in the settings.

Root can be useful for plenty of reasons: there are many apps which use root access to increase privacy, customize the system, restrict apps, manage battery charging, enforce firewall for apps and system, block trackers, backup the system, etc... I currently have 8 apps (if I don't count all the lsposed modules) using the root privileges to do all of that but I also use it for other things like automation.

The only kind of security I want to have is privacy from my own apps installed on my system, something root privilege allow me to have. For the rest, I just don't install any random program on my phone and I didn't have any problem for years.

(and no, I can't do any of that with shizuku or adb)

Ok but I don't see any reason for you to consider it "easier" to play on a console when you already have a perfectly functional PC next to you, able to handle the game: there is no extra step or steps that require more time or energy once the PC is set up, compare to the console. So I really don't know what you're talking about when you mention the "ease of use" of console over an already set up and ready-to-go PC. Maybe the settings have to be configured but you already have the default settings and either way, the PC simply gives you more options, so you just interpret the choice given to you as something time consuming, which it's not, if you don't want to bother choosing.

People Do complain. Have you not read a single comment under this post? Claiming they don't is just your way to be able to dismiss the argument without addressing the issue. My point is you have no reason to complain when you have alternatives but you don't want to choose them because... because why exactly? I've never heard a single convincing argument to not have a PC when that same person already complains about the very nature of console, that is being a closed system which can force whatever it wants on you. If you have no problem with consoles, I also have no problem with you using one. But don't complain over it doing exactly what it was made for.

And you certainly don't need an internet connection to play a solo game on PC or to install the OS. You need one to download the game, at most.