I want to switch to Linux for gaming. But I’m also stressed about leaving Lightroom for Darktable, which seems like it is much more complicated and with a worse UI (even if people say it’s more powerful under the hood)
Linux is good now
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Re: Linux is good now
#832Earlier quoted context omitted.
AFAIK this comes down a lot to NVIDIA not doing enough efforts for the Linux drivers. There is a pretty well documented and understood reason for the perf hit NVIDIA GPUs get on Linux. Honestly, considering where we came from, a 10-30% perf drop is good and is a reasonable tradeoff to consider. Especially for all the people that don't want to touch Windows 11 with a 11-foot pole (which I am), it's a more than decent…
>a 10-30% perf drop is good and is a reasonable tradeoff to consider You are either trolling or completely out of your mind. You simply cannot be serious when saying stuff like this.
It's perfectly reasonable. I actually run my Nvidia card at a 30% underclock so it works out fine for me on Linux.
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#833Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well yes. The addressable consumer market is just a lot bigger and more diverse than it used to be. You go back to the early late 90s and its a market dominated by teenage boys. Go back and look at some of the 00s and early 10s E3 presenations from the big three and its very cringe inducing how focused they are on a teenage boy demographic and appearing edgy and how blatantly sexist they are in their language. For ex…
This apparently is something that came about after the Atari days where games were social activities in bars and home console advertising features boys and girls. When the NES came out, it was marketed in the US as a toy so had to mold itself to the retail store layouts and pick a toy aisle and they picked boys. In the mobile era and perhaps as early as The Sims beating MYST as the bestselling game, started to develo…
That sounded outlandish so I asked Gemini for a citation:
https://www.mindlessmag.com/post/a-boy-s-hobby-gender-and-ma...
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#834I switched all the machines at https://lanparty.house over to Linux a couple months ago. So far, we've experienced noticeably fewer problems on Linux compared to Windows. Stability and performance are better. I can't think of one game we tried that didn't work. And wow is it nice not to have all the ads and crapware in our faces anymore. (I'm aware that Battlefield series and League of Legends won't work due to draco…
Wow this is amazing!
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#835Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry but you're just old IMO :) PUBG or Arc Raiders have over 100 players in a game. Even Valorant or League have 10 players in a match. It's definitely not easy to find 9 friends to play the same game at the same time as you. And playing any of these games with a cheater can completely wreck the match. If the cheaters go unchecked, over time they start to dominate games where like 30% might be cheaters who can see…
> Most of us are happy to have effective anti-cheat I could almost get on board with the idea of invasive kernel anti-cheat software if it actually was effective, but these games still have cheaters. So you get the worst of both worlds--you have to accept the security and portability problems as a condition for playing the game AND there are still cheaters!
Valorant really is the only FPS where I was never once suspicious that someone may be hacking. I mean, I don’t play it and the anti-cheat is part of the reason, but it does absolutely work.
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#836I'm slowly de-Microsofting my computing. I've traded OneDrive for Syncthing. I ditched one PC for a Mac. I have the technical skills to run Linux effectively, but the biggest obstacle for my Linux adoption is distro fatigue. Run Ubuntu? Debian? Fedora? PopOS? Kubuntu? Arch? The article introduced yet another one to consider--Bazzite. The Linux world is amazing for its experimentation and collaboration. But the fragme…
Just use Debian. If you have technical skills, run Debian Testing. If not, run Debian Stable, or someone else who repackages Debian Testing such as Mint or (as you mentioned) Ubuntu LTS.
Debian Testing will sometimes break, so technical skills are necessary if you want to always be sure you can be up and running. Otherwise, something may not work for a few days to a week, like CUPS (printing). 99.9% of the time, it won't be your networking or something super-important, but it could be. When you update, read the list of changes and absolutely make sure that you know what the things are that are being uninstalled, and whether you can do without them for a few days. Check the internet for when packages are removed from testing (and why) or will be moved into testing from unstable. Don't forget that you can use LLMs now when you have a problem.
Once you've been able to handle Debian Testing for a while, especially through a couple of breakages, you'll probably be confident enough and knowledgeable enough to know if you want to go to another distro. I personally don't need anything other than testing for my desktops, and stable for my servers.
edit: Debian Testing gets software that has worked smoothly on Debian Unstable for a two-week period. Sometimes things get missed during those two weeks, and sometimes Debian decides to reorganize packages radically in a way that takes more than one update. One thing to remember is that urgent bugfixes to Debian Stable might bypass testing altogether, and might actually arrive later to testing than everywhere else. You'll probably hear about those on the news or on HN, and you might want to manually install those fixes before they actually hit testing.
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#837The thing that gets me about Windows is: when's the last time Microsoft added a major new feature to Windows I actually gave a shit about? A feature that actually felt useful to me as a consumer?
Windows 7 was nice, but since then, I struggle to think of anything. Since 7, it feels like it's just been upsell after upsell, features that are about Microsoft selling me on something or annoying the crap out of me rather than providing actual utility.
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#838Earlier quoted context omitted.
Competent cheat makers don't have much difficulty in defeating in-kernel anticheats on Windows. With the amount of insight and control available on Linux anticheat makers stand little chance. The best Valve could do is offer a special locked down kernel with perhaps some anticheat capabilities and lock down the hardware with attestation. If they offer the sources and do verified builds it might even be accepted by so…
Anticheat is one of those things where I probably sound really old, but man it’s just a game. If you hate cheating, don’t play on pub servers with randoms or find a group of people you can play with, like how real life works. For competitive gaming, I think attested hardware & software actually is the right way to go. Don’t force kernel-level malware on everyone.
Yeah, that's hilariously impractical if you like these games.
> pub servers
Most of these popular competitive games probably don't even have community servers of any kind. Maybe some games like RTSes have custom matches, but they're not used much for the standard game mode, at least not for public lobbies.
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#839Earlier quoted context omitted.
Outdated view. Regular people ask for help at the genius bar or IT poindexter all the time. And pretty icons are plentiful.
I bet you $100 you can't find a single person on the street using Linux. It is that rare.
Android and chrome books are everywhere. (Though this is not what you first asserted.)
I’d like that hundred as amzn gift card.
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#840Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like Darwin is finally meeting it's nominal fate.
Hey macos obviously still sucks ass, but it sucks ass less than all the other options. The userland situations for linux and windows are both horrifyingly, incomprehensibly bad. Just look at their reliance on a single fucking key "control" for all operations when that was always an inexplicably bad choice. You have so many fucking keys, why douboe dip when it defacto cripples both cli and gui contexts?
Nope, sorry. macOS sucks more than every other option. It's why it has a smaller PC install-base than Windows, and it's why macOS is treated like a second-class citizen for server software. Apple's approach is dying because it cannot compete on equal footing, it's critically dependent on third-party support that simply isn't materializing. In the same fashion as Minix and BSD before it, XNU is being smothered by it's sole beneficiary.
Also FYI, "userland" does not mean "desktop software" exclusively. It extends to the user's runtime, the stability and redundancy of their dependencies and the completeness of it's drivers and SDKs. macOS is not a stable runtime, static-links almost every dependency and has woefully incomplete driver support for third-party hardware. It is the worst of both worlds from Linux and Windows with a few innovative roadblocks that only Apple could universally enforce.