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Re: Linux is good now

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Post by knowitnone3 »

scrollop wrote: post #848
Aurornis wrote: post #733

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> But my Windows 11 installation has zero ads I did a clean Windows 11 install a few months ago. I expected to be bombarded with ads and all of the other things I kept reading about in comments here, but it’s been fine. I do find it interesting that so many of the comments about how bad Windows 11 is are coming from comments that also admit they aren’t using Windows 11. Not everything in Windows 11 is my favorite des…

DO you see messages or icons for Teams, cortana, AI, onedrive accounts? These are ads.

they are worst than ads. Onedrive runs automatically and all of a sudden, your files under Documents are all stored by Microsoft without you even knowing.

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by abrookewood »

yxhuvud wrote: post #861
curt15 wrote: post #415

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How much work is it to get snaps out of your way? Canonical seems to be going all in on them as their business strategy.

Honestly snaps are fairly painfree nowadays.

I mostly agree, it's just annoying that we have so many competing formats. I imagine it is even more painful for developers trying to release software - it's a very fractured ecosystem.

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by seg_lol »

z3t4 wrote: post #652
seg_lol wrote: post #515

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This is awesome! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiseat_configuration I am super curious about your setup. I played with MS years ago, but I lost the need. It is a super cool tech that I'd love to see its efficiencies embraced in some way.

Install an old GPU, Connected a monitor to the extra GPU, connect mouse and keyboard, Use the loginctl command to list available devices/usb ports and attach them to a seat. I suggest using Arch linux although loginctl should be available in all distributions using SystemD now. If you don't have enough USB ports you can use a USB hub, some monitors comes with USB hub. And some with built in sound, or you can use wire…

So for a GPU with say 4 display ports, I can run 4 sessions off the same GPU provided I can get enough USB ports.

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by twic »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #365
dontlaugh wrote: post #209

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If you want to play games with friends, you have to play whatever the group plays. This is especially problematic as the group tries out new games, increasing the chance you can’t join because you’re not on Windows.

My friends are understanding that I don't play games with rootkit anti cheat (whether on Linux or Windows). There are enough games that we can play other games together still, and when they want to play the games with such anti-cheat (e.g. Helldivers 2) they simply play without me. No big deal.

I am playing Helldivers 2 on Linux right now. Works perfectly. It crashes less often than it does for my friends who play on PC!

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by dent9 »

ahartmetz wrote: post #638
kentonv wrote: post #242

I 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…

It keeps surprising me how many people don't care about some of the most popular games today. I mean I don't care about Battlefield or League of Legends neither, but in earlier decades of PC gaming, almost everyone had some of the most popular games. Doom, Half-Life (1 + 2) and such. The games market today seems more similar to music in its fragmentation.

Video games are a dead concept. Meanwhile companies like Wizards of the Coast are making billions on paper trading card games.

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by 9029 »

kentonv wrote: post #328
LeoPanthera wrote: post #325

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What distro?

Debian... mostly just because it's what I'm most familiar with. I don't have strong opinions on distros.

I think it could be interesting to explore Universal Blue based distros such as Bazzite for this kind of use cases. The OS comes from a standard OCI container image, which means you can create your own customized one by layering changes on top of an upstream base image.

I feel bad for the unsolicited distro plug though especially since you already have a solution that works well and you are familiar with, but I thought it might still be useful to mention it. I'm not sure if uBlue would even be better vs your current setup. Seems like netboot would still be needed to get the latest version without an extra reboot.

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by bigyabai »

itomato wrote: post #793

When do we ever say Nintendo is good now because it plays Sony titles? Why are you holding computing to the same standard? I'm curious as a non-gamer. The article seems to be entirely about Windows gaming.

> as a non-gamer.

As a non-gamer, you might not fully grasp how entrenched Windows is for game development, distribution, content creation and modding. This is significant and reporting on it is good stuff, even if it's outside of your niche.

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by schlauerfox »

bsimpson wrote: post #833
schlauerfox wrote: post #816

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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...

Another reference, first hand account, for the later SEGA perspective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console_Wars_(book)

Re: Linux is good now

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Post by MangoToupe »

bigyabai wrote: post #840
MangoToupe wrote: post #827

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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…

Eh macos still has usable apps and an actual design language. Windows/bsd\linux/minix/whatever need to sort their values out to compete
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