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Re: Linux is good now

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Post by simoncion »

cogman10 wrote: post #887
simoncion wrote: post #885

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> For example, perhaps display port could offer something like power delivery. It already does. A guaranteed minimum of 1.65W at 3.3V is to be provided. Until very recently, HDMI only provided a guaranteed minimum of something like 0.25W at 5V.

It's not nothing, but it's also very little to play with. 5W is what I'd think is about the minimum for doing something useful. 25W would actually be usable by a large swath of devices. The raspberry pi 4, for example, has a 10W requirement. Amazon's fire stick has ~5W requirement.

> It's not nothing, but it's also very little to play with.

Sure. But it's ~6.6x more than what HDMI has historically guaranteed. It's pretty obvious to anyone with two neurons to spark together that the problem here isn't "amount of power you can suck out of the display port". If it were, DP would have swept away HDMI ages ago.

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Post by reisse »

krzyk wrote: post #698
tyfon wrote: post #563

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My PS5 can do 4k/120 hz with VRR support, not sure about the others.

I'm bit puzzled, isn't VRR more for low powered hardware to consume less battery (handhelds like steam deck)? How does it fit hardware that is constantly connected to power? (I assume VRR = Variable Refresh Rate)

VRR is necessary to avoid tearing or FPS caps (V-sync) when your hardware cannot stably output FPS count matching the screen refresh rate.

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by fortyseven »

awkwardpotato wrote: post #731
gloomyday wrote: post #674

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The only game I tried on Steam that didn't work was Slave Zero, a game from the 90s. Unfortunately, I still have to use Windows for VR games. It is too troublesome on Linux (at least for the Meta Quest 2).

VR on Linux is probably going to be the main reason the Steam Frame is going to be a day one pre-order for me

Certainly mine!

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by jollyllama »

horsawlarway wrote: post #818
jollyllama wrote: post #766

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When I use Windows, I feel like a product, not a consumer. There's always macOS.

Which is shockingly bad in its own way. For having a tightly integrated hardware stack, Apple sure has managed to trash their desktop OS. Reminds me a lot of Windows in the xp => vista stage. My read is they don't really give a shit about it anymore because the revenue comes from mobile/tablets. Same reason Microsoft is comfortable trashing windows... the revenue is coming from O365 & Azure now. The OS is a loss lead…

"It's too bad she won't live, but then again, who does?"

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by k_bx »

Animats wrote: post #431

If only. Ubuntu seems to be slowly getting worse. - Firefox seems to be able to freeze both itself and, sometimes, the whole system. Usually while typing text into a large text box. - Recently, printing didn't work for two days. Some pushed update installed a version of the CUPS daemon which reported a syntax error on the cupsd.conf file. A few days later, the problem went away, after much discussion on forums about…

Try Pop OS 24.04

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Post by Fr0styMatt88 »

rounce wrote: post #595
Fr0styMatt88 wrote: post #455

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Funnily enough the most annoying things on my system at the moment is RGB and keyboard/mouse customisation. I haven’t found a tool that can access all the extra settings of my Logitech mouse, not my Logitech speakers. OpenRGB is amazing but I’m stuck on a version that constantly crashes; this should be fixed in the recent versions but nixpkgs doesn’t seem to have it (last I checked). On the other hand I did manage to…

Have you tried running the windows RGB utility via Wine with HIDRAW enabled for the device? Alternatively, given you’re running NixOS you can just override the `src` of the derivation with a newer version. This is part of the point of running NixOS: making small modifications to packages in the fly.

Good idea about HIDRAW — I’ll have to look into that, thanks!

I did try overriding the src for OpenRGB but as I’m on unstable, something else in the dependency chain must have broken as the post-install patches weren’t applying IIRC.

Wasn’t urgent but I’ll likely get back to it at some point.

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by FireInsight »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #865
ggregoire wrote: post #850

Still running windows 10 here, since my hardware isn't compatible with windows 11. I wouldn't mind replacing it with Linux. What Linux distros are recommended for gaming? All my games are on Steam. Dual monitor setup with game on main screen and browser on the second one.

Article mentioned Bazzite. For normal computing Mint or Fedora.

Bazzite works really well for general computing too, if you don't assume that it works the same way as normal distros.

Learn how to use https://distrobox.it/, https://mise.jdx.dev/, and Flatpaks to get started with installing shell and GUI software without access to system-level `dnf` or `apt`.

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by greyw »

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.

Vivado has a native linux build. Windows is the port not the other way around. The whole EDA suites from Cadence and Synopsys is native linux.

EDA tools are all historically UNIX tools and still to this day

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by AndriyKunitsyn »

fc417fc802 wrote: post #612
chii wrote: post #489

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> I don't consider it "malware" anymore than I consider a driver for my graphics card to be "malware" even if they do operate in kernel mode. the bloggers/journalists calling it malware is doing the conversation a disservice. The problem is only really the risk of bugs or problems with kernel level anti-cheat, which _could_ be exploited in the worst case, and in the best case, cause outages. The classic example recen…

I'm not giving a small time software vendor proprietary access to my machine at that level. I honestly think that anyone who accepts it must be woefully uninformed about the risks involved. I'm already salty about the binary blobs required by various pieces of firmware.

People just don't care. Even Stallman is okay with a microwave with closed-source firmware as long as it doesn't try to update its firmware.

For most people, a computer is just another appliance. They don't consider the security implications that this appliance can leak credit cards and such.

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by paddim8 »

fiyec30375 wrote: post #692
babl-yc wrote: post #33

I switched my desktop from macOS (10+ years) to Ubuntu 25 last year and I'm not going back. The latest release includes a Gnome update which fixed some remaining annoyances with high res monitors. I'd say it pretty much "just works" except less popular apps are a bit more work to install. On occasion you have to compile apps from source, but it's usually relatively straightforward and on the upside you get the latest…

> On occasion you have to compile apps from source That's fine for people on hn, but it instantly wipes out any chance of non technical users on Windows and Mac. It's a total deal breaker.

That's why I don't think Ubuntu is a newbie distro. You never have to compile for source on arch-based distros. Obviously plain arch isn't fit for beginners, but I would argue that something like endeavouros or cachyos is easier to use than Ubuntu. If you want to install something, you just run one command, and then it is installed, 99.99% of the time.
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