![]() ![]() However, while the leaders of commercial distributions may be somewhat more accessible than their corporate peers, the larger the business, the harder it is for customers to engage them directly. Even in a giant community distribution like Debian, the project leader or the maintainer of a particular package is easily found on mailing lists or IRC channels, and any user can strike up a conversation with them. One of the most obvious differences is accessibility to decision makers. Although they may challenge those rules by supporting a free software or open source philosophy, in other senses they have to conform to keep customers at ease. When commercial distributions launch, they are entering a market with well-established rules. You just have to remember that not to be surprised by exceptions to the general differences. Yet, even in cases where the boundaries are blurred, the distinction often holds true. In general, community and commercial distros are less polarized than they once were. For now, both Ubuntu and Canonical continue to take direction from their founder Mark Shuttleworth. And, while some firmer distinction between Ubuntu and Canonical might evolve in the near future as Canonical increases its efforts at profitability, that hasn’t happened yet. Not only does Red Hat employ several Fedora community leaders, but, in its security crisis a couple of months ago, Red Hat seems to have made decisions that affected Fedora without consulting its board.Įven more confusing, while Ubuntu seems technically a community distribution, its backing by Canonical gives it more funding than the average community distribution. In these cases, the two distros are technically separate, but business interests may spill over into the community distribution from time to time. Several companies are involved with both commercial and community distributions - for instance, Novell is involved with both Suse Linux Enterprise and openSUSE, and Red Hat with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora. Now, the two categories are harder to tell apart. In turn, those involved in commercial distributions tended to view members of community ones as naive, and their software offerings as needing proprietary extras to be suitable for use, or at least some business sense. A decade ago, members of community distributions were purists who viewed commercial distributions as upstarts that stole from the community and corrupted its ideals with business interests. Whether you are an individual or a corporate representative, the differences between the two categories are worth thinking about, because your choice can effect how you interact with them, the way you can expect them to conduct themselves, and the philosophies you face.Īdmittedly, the distinction is less firm than it once was. Community-based distributions like Debian, Fedora, or CentOS are maintained largely by volunteers and donations of services or money, while commercial distributions like Suse, Red Hat, or Xandros are backed by a company and compete directly against proprietary operating systems such as Windows and OS X. In summary, I'm very happy with the games I can play on my Debian machines, have not found much that I can't get working in the end.You can categorize most GNU/Linux distributions as either community or commercial. I use a wired Xbox 360 controller for some games and that works really well too. I use a Logitech G27 force feedback wheel in racing games (Assetto Corsa, Dirt Rally 2.0 etc) and it works really well. I have a FreeSync display and have had both Nvidia and AMD cards doing variable refresh rate on it, with the AMD cards being slightly easier to get working. With my Radeon card I have found that for best performance and compatibility, I have had to compile and use on demand newer Mesa versions using this handy script, but I don't think I will do that after Bookworm becomes stable and I upgrade to it. However, I downgraded from a 2080 Super to a 5700 XT and I wouldn't go back to a Nvidia card at this point. The Nvidia proprietary drivers seem to handle performance improvements and newer features with less dependencies. ![]() I have run quite a few different graphics cards in my desktop, both Nvidia and AMD, and the AMD cards are more reliant on newer kernel and Mesa versions over time. Sometimes they require some tweaking, perhaps with winetricks. On my Debian machines, I play Steam games using Proton, and non-Steam games (eg installed from optical media or from downloadable GOG installers) in vanilla Wine prefixes (ie without Lutris, PlayOnLinux etc). Well, I also have an offline Windows XP desktop, but I only play old games on that with hardware EAX support. I exclusively game on my Debian Bullseye + backports desktop and laptop. ![]()
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