You would need a 150+ inch screen for 8K to make any difference. 8K is pretty much dead in the water considering DVDs outsell 4K Blu-Rays and 8K media is pretty much unavailable and 8K gaming being basically impossible. Even the TV manufacturers are phasing out their 8K devices since no one is buying them.

Distrowatch popularity is a pointless metric. IIRC they measure clicks on their own site as popularity. That means that people that just want to check out that distro near the top that they never heard of actually ensure that it stays near the top.

Some interesting distro choices to be found in there. I didn’t realize CachyOS was so popular

RISC-V could be a lot better supported then. But I don’t think a lifetime this long would work for the Deck. 7 years is nearly as long as the Switch 1, but that device had the benefit of being a platform in itself with no alternative (as in there are no other switch-compatible-devices). This forces the devs to target it, no matter what performance or fidelity they might wish for.

The Steam Deck might feel a lot like a console, but in the end it is just a PC and the PC gaming world isn’t going to wait for Valves next device. The game-tech will just move on past the steam decks capabilities and a lot of gamers will leave it behind and move to other SteamOS (or windows) compatible hardware. The Deck would still have a lot of value as an indie gaming machine, though.

What’s the source on the VR headset being ARM based? I must have missed that

Absolutely 0 chance as current RISC-V chips are dog slow and inefficient. Currently RISC-V is only really used in microcontrollers and everything else is highly experimental.

27GB/s is faster than DDR4 RAM.

I’ve been looking for something like this, thanks!

With some configuration management tools like ansible you don’t even need root privs to manage your users environment and keep everything neat and consistent.

678% performance gain is just crazy. I’d be interested in a comparison with native windows performance with these titles.

Qobuz can be installed with bottles and works pretty well.

Probably a terribly written shell script that relies on misusing bash footguns and falls apart when you try to fix linter warnings.

Of course it’s St. Pauli.

The vast majority of devs at my company uses desktop Linux (Ubuntu LTS). Though admittedly our IT department would prefer if we all used Windows.

Since SUSE has its roots in Germany (it stands for Software und Systementwicklung) I think the German pronunciation would be correct which is a little different. Both S are soft and the E is short. Like “Zoos” + “Eh”.