The year of the Linux desktop already happened, just not on desktops
…And Microsoft itself has set a goal to get games to run as well on Windows as they do on Linux, which is a bewildering statement to hear when games are developed…
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Razer will never give the Blade 18 Linux RGB support, so I patched it into openrazer myself
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