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  • ugo@feddit.ittoLinux@lemmy.mlGamedev and linux
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    1 year ago

    In my somewhat limited but relevant experience, the amount of platform specific bugs is indeed that low. I mean, there’s of course a layer of platform-specific low level stuff which is highly subject to platform specific issues, but once you go above that layer and into game code proper, most bugs are just bugs.

    I didn’t fix 400 “Linux-only” bugs, but I did fix dozens of “seems Linux specific” and “only happened when at least one Linux client was connected” bugs, and a grand total of 2 were caused by platform differences. And of those two, zero were Linux specific. The platform difference in this case was about how different compilers optimise non-crashy types of UB.

    Of course, we don’t want UB at all so the fix is to remove it.


  • I was dining out once and ordered a spicy pizza. Had this tiny red chili pepper in the center, maybe the size of the tip of my pinky. I thought nothing of it and popped it whole in my mouth.

    I was sweating and crying for 10 minutes, 10/10 would do it again.

    Op’s description is legit mouth watering, and now I want a slow-cooked spicy stew with roasted whole chilies.












  • ugo@feddit.ittoMemes@lemmy.mlunholy software..
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    1 year ago

    You clearly have never tried flashing a microcontroller from a windows host. Have to scour the internet for some random ass driver to install.

    No such thing in Linux.

    Or you might never have tried using some random Ethernet usb adapter where windows doesn’t quite know what to do, if it doesn’t have an alternative connection to try and automatically download the drivers (not always finding them)