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The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Did Linux OSs move into torrents later? I'm surprised one of those isn't an older active torrent. I mean sure there's no point in actually installing those OSs now but people would still seed.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ther's really no point in seeding a 20 year old iso of an os that evolves that quickly

20 years ago we were on the 2.4 kernel just shortly before switching to 2.6, wifi was a mess, GPUs were even more mess

now om gaming on my linux machine with better FPS than the windows version

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Any Linux distro do HDR / VRR yet?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Iirc SteamOS JUST added it. So clones of it should be seeing it soon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've just googled steamos, that's Debian 8 right (which is eol, weird...)

So I'm guessing Debian 8 (and hopefully newer) will get support too soon?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I think thats the old steamos. The current one is arch and isn't quite public release yet but there are a few clones of it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Kde 6 should have basic hdr...and I can't find it, but I swore I've seen in the past week some gnome based os had some support...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It's been a while for me using a gui for Linux (headless Debian is my go-to)

Does that mean Kubuntu? (KDE Ubuntu) And for VRR (GSYNC/FREESYNC) would Kubuntu also support that do you know?

When I've tried to Google before, it seems like no distro really supports these as well as windows ATM (although the steam OS comment may show things are changing)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

VRR (Gsync module at least) works on Ubuntu 23.04 for sure. It's a bit limited though, but it is improving. I was able to get it working by only having one monitor plugged in and running the game in full screen (not windowed). The arch wiki has a very nice write up of the current state. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Variable_refresh_rate

[–] Salix 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I've been using FreeSync for years on Manjaro and Arch.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Most advice I've seen says you shouldn't look for distros on torrent sites, and official torrents tend to disappear after each new release.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Distros with torrents tend to publish their own torrent file or magnet link on their site