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Re: Linux is good now

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Post by fooker »

PaulKeeble wrote: post #2

I think its interesting that mainstream PC gaming press is now talking about Linux. We have the benchmark Youtube channels doing some benchmarks of it as well and plenty of reports of "it just works", which is pretty promising at least for the games that aren't intentionally excluded by DRM. For me its still controllers and equipment incompatibility due to my VR headset and sim wheel/pedals setup, I use Linux everywh…

The last remaining roadblock is kernel level anti-cheat frameworks.

Pretty horrible technology, and unfortunately a good majority of the gaming industry by revenue relies on it.

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by yunnpp »

fruitworks wrote: post #94
bitanarch wrote: post #91

HDR still doesn't really work on Linux w/ nVidia GPUs. 1. 10bpp color depth is not supported on RGB monitors, which are the majority of LCD displays on the market. Concretely, ARGB2101010 and XRGB2101010 modes are not supported by current nVidia Linux drivers - the drivers only offer ABGR2101010 and XBGR2101010 (See: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/blob/main/... ). 2. Common browsers like Chrome and…

nvidia

The way it's not meant to be played.

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by greenbit »

advael wrote: post #29
Zealotux wrote: post #17

It's good until you boot your system and end up with an unrecoverable black screen that meeses your day of work for no good reason. Linux is free if you don't value your time.

I dunno, I spend less time fighting with any of my several linux systems than the macbook I'm required to use for work, even without trying to do anything new with it. I choose to view this charitably and assume most of the time investment people perceive when switching operating systems is familiarity penalties, essentially a switching cost. The longer this remains the case, the less charitably I'm willing to view t…

Of course, MS seems to enjoy inflicting familiarity penalties on its established user base every couple of years anyway. After having your skills negated in this way enough times, the jump to Linux might not look so bad.

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by jetbalsa »

zamalek wrote: post #55
Zealotux wrote: post #17

It's good until you boot your system and end up with an unrecoverable black screen that meeses your day of work for no good reason. Linux is free if you don't value your time.

You aren't comparing Linux to anything here. Windows has recently been a complete shitshow - so even if Linux hasn't gotten any better (it has) it is now likely better than fiddling around with unfucking Windows, and Windows doing things like deleting all your files.

You can put some work into windows to slim it down some, a unattended generator to turn most of the crap off on install, then Shutup OO goes a long way

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by bitanarch »

EnPissant wrote: post #109
bitanarch wrote: post #91

HDR still doesn't really work on Linux w/ nVidia GPUs. 1. 10bpp color depth is not supported on RGB monitors, which are the majority of LCD displays on the market. Concretely, ARGB2101010 and XRGB2101010 modes are not supported by current nVidia Linux drivers - the drivers only offer ABGR2101010 and XBGR2101010 (See: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/blob/main/... ). 2. Common browsers like Chrome and…

I don't think this is true. I can go into my display settings in kde plasma and enable HDR and configure the brightness. I have a nvidia blackwell card.

You can enable, yes. But (assuming you're on an LCD display and not an OLED), you're likely still on XRGB8888 - i.e. 8-bit per channel. Check `drm_info`.

Also, go to YouTube and play this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onVhbeY7nLM

Do it once on "HDR" on Linux, and then on Windows. The "HDR" in nVidia/Linux is fake.

The brightness you see on Plasma or Mutter is indeed related to the HDR support in the driver. But - it's not really useful for the most common HDR tasks at the moment.

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by johnea »

> actually own your PC

It's funny they would choose this phasing.

This is exactly the way I described my decision to abandon windoze, and switch to linux, over 20 years ago...

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by pamcake »

fylo wrote: post #19
gcr wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the key. It’s not that 2026 is the year of the Linux desktop, but rather 2026 is very much not the year of the Windows desktop. Bazzite is rough in the way that all distributions are, but I imagine Windows 11 is rougher.

I tried bazzite but ended up on cachyos. The whole layered / immutable thing got a bit annoying. I'd rather just run snapshots and manage my packages more traditionally

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Re: Linux is good now

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Post by ako »

unethical_ban wrote: post #82
LennyHenrysNuts wrote: post #32

It's been good for twenty years, the only difference is that OP finally gave it a fair go.

Proton for games had changed things dramatically. Gamers can legit switch to Linux with barely a second thought, without being technical. Linux/x86 still is poor for battery life compared to Apple.

Most people don’t care about gaming, so they shouldn’t care about proton. What changed recently for those who don’t care about gaming?

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by voidfunc »

howdyhowdy123 wrote: post #72

Can I run Solidworks on Linux yet? Excel? Labview? Vivado? Adobe products? Altium Designer? (Matlab is mostly yes) Not everybody is just writing Javascript and PHP. Can I get a laptop to sleep after closing the lid yet? Not that long ago the answer to these questions was mostly no (or sort of yes... but very painfully) On Windows all of this just works.

These are all pretty niche products at this point. For the true professionals that need these tools they're stuck but most people can find reasonable alternatives for their hobby or side hustle.
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