For what it’s worth, I use Mint with the Xanmod kernel installed and the kisak-mesa PPA. This means I get the stability, strong UI, and “just works, no fuss” factors of Mint, but a cutting edge kernel with an optimized build and gaming-specific tweaks to it, plus the latest release of Mesa. Every individual app I want to guarantee is fully up-to-date I just get the flatpak, which mint will offer to update through its gui updater tool, right alongside native packages. Steam and Heroic keep the games up to date and ProtonUp-QT lets me keep the Proton-GE versions up to date as well.

Anyhow, just putting that out there. I’ve used every major distro over the past 16 years and this is my personal “I just want it to always work and be up to date” solution for my gaming PC. Everyone will have different compromises for what they consider best.

Can’t you just install ffmpeg from a PPA rather than compile it yourself?

Hey, don’t be sexist. There’s plenty of otherwise-tech-illiterate ditsy dudes in the same work pool.

My feed is aware of my politics and throws everyone I’m friends with or follow (and some who I’ve unfollowed) who wrote something objectively wrong or stupid that’s biased the other way politically.

It’s literally all rage bait unless I go in and manually block it from showing me those people at all.

Yeah, it’s an all-time classic no doubt

Fair enough. Personally I put all my media on my Jellyfin server, so kind of a similar situation here.

Gundam 0083 has even better tunes. The music and animation of that one slap so hard you almost don’t notice the garbage plot lmao

Yeah, mpv is better on Linux. VLC is still my preference for DVDs on the computer though. Super easy.

While I appreciate the reference, most kids probably don’t know about the whole Metallica Napster thing.

It’s not true currently. Firefox and Chrome trade blows on which is more performance and which uses more/less RAM these days. It varies, but they’re quite close.

FYI late 80s is a Millenial. Xennial is like 79-80. Millenials go from 81-96

Adventurous young person, ready to be sent on a quest, is where you got filed in my head.

Sincerely,
~Lazy millenial wizard who wants help running errands.

We did have some DOS games on CD during the Windows 95/98 era, though. Lemmings always ran better if you dropped down to DOS and ran it from there instead of trying to run it through Windows, for instance.

I mean, they don’t HAVE to, but if they choose not to, the board of directors will push for a change in CSUITE personnel

If the board doesn’t maximize profit, the shareholders can sue them, so functionally they do have to.

Am I right to assume you’ve got a laptop? Otherwise 70C is a terrible temp to hit at idle

Generally the app is better. Compatible with more container formats, audio formats (surround sound, Dolby digital, etc), and has hardware supported decoding for h265 video in addition to h264.

At least in the case of a Jellyfin server, you can download media locally when you know you’ll be without internet

This dude’s videos impress me to no end

I use Bazarr to find subtitles. You can set it to only find Forced or to find the regular track for your language of choice and Forced, and it’s trivial to set it to include the file itself in the search for subtitles so it’ll only download subtitles for videos that are missing the subtitles.

It’s also great because it can automatically sync the downloaded subtitles to the actual video’s audio, or the existing subtitle track if one exists (like if you just have the full subtitle track and want to sync the Forced track)

Those micro stutters and lower performance for the non-steam games are due to shaders needing to compile as you play. If you play for a while and keep the same Proton version, they’ll eventually go away and performance will improve.