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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Do Microsoft?s Copilot+ PCs Require Linux?
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 23:23:44 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 3 Jun 2024 20:01:38 -0000 (UTC), vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote
in <v3l7f2$3skbs$1@dont-email.me>:

> On Mon, 3 Jun 2024 15:13:35 -0000 (UTC), RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
> wrote in <v3kmiv$3uh0e$2@dont-email.me>:
> 
>> On 2024-06-03, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>> On 2024-06-02 6:09 p.m., RonB wrote:
>>>> On 2024-06-02, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>>>> On 2024-06-02 2:27 p.m., rbowman wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 2 Jun 2024 07:50:28 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I apologize to everyone but you about what I just wrote. I am
>>>>>>> frustrated that even in 2024 and having done research into the
>>>>>>> right distribution for my needs, I am yet again disgusted by the
>>>>>>> result. I love everything about Linux but the result, yet again,
>>>>>>> is pure demoralization. To read this idiotic zealot's words and
>>>>>>> his delusion that any of those 1990s UNIX distributions were
>>>>>>> actually pretty simply add salt to the wound.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is the very limited gamer distro that you tried to install?
>>>>>> You can always tell the pioneers by the arrows in their backs.  I
>>>>>> regularly update Debian, Ubuntu, Lubuntu, and Fedora distros
>>>>>> without all that drama.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's Fedora with tweaks. If you point to it as being bad, you might
>>>>> as well point to Fedora at the same time.
>>>> 
>>>> That makes no sense. You can't blame Fedora for tweaks that break it.
>>>
>>> The tweaks are specifically to make sure that anyone wanting to play
>>> games would be able to do so. It provides easy installation for things
>>> that will make Xbox One controllers work, help compatibility for Steam
>>> games, and the software which will help you access your gaming library
>>> from within Linux. Otherwise, it is just Fedora. It wasn't the tweaks
>>> that broke anything; it's Fedora that just committed suicide.
>> 
>> It doesn't follow. Fedora works. Someone tweaks it and renames it as a
>> new distribution and it doesn't work for you. How do you blame Fedora
>> for that?
>> I'm guessing the choices made by the developers of this new
>> distribution worked for their machines, but not necessarily for your
>> machine.
> 
> Fedora 40 review:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zsBxf48mdA

One thing I learned from the review:  X11 is still an option.

Another thing I learned:  real codecs require adding an extra external
repository.

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-v