When MacOS users can snap windows to the edge of their screens and quit apps by hitting the red button we can have a chat about what the better desktop experience is

By “gamer” they probably don’t mean someone who plays games. They probably mean someone who think 69 is a funny number and saying the n word is cool

No idea where this “7 times cheaper” comes

Probably from back when Toshiba was relevant

Auto update has been a pain in the arse. Was doing a presentation for a group assignment with a Windows user and just before we were about to go up the thing just decided on a whim to install an update. Funnily enough he said he wanted to try Linux after that

The average consumer isn’t going to toss out a good computer they bought if it can’t run Windows 11. They’re certainly not installing Linux. They’ll keep using Windows 10 for as long as they can. I’ve seen way too much of Windows XP still running on people’s computers, if it can still browse the web, access emails and look at Facebook they’re not spending money on a new one

The APIs aren’t wildly different so it’s not so much translation but an implementation of the DirectX API. Some GPU vendors have better Vulkan drivers than DX (Intel) which may give performance improvements.

It’s just the shit design of Android: no bios and firmware must be bundled in the rom

They only exist to exploit volunteers to reduce development costs

I’ve got a bit of experience with NVIDIA Optimus laptops on Linux so here’s some questions:

• What exactly is the problem?

• Are games not running on NVIDIA?

In this case you need to add an environment variable to the launch options in steam, the name of which has escaped me (should be on OPTIMUS page of Arch wiki)

• Or is the driver not working at all?

• What desktop environment/wm are they using?

For example if you’re using GNOME in the settings program in the about the system section (the last one) and in the System information dialog check to make sure it says something like “NVIDIA GTX 1050 Mobile”. Also make sure the NVIDIA driver program shows up with the other apps

While off-topic, I’m of the opinion that Arch only exists to support elitists which relates to the comment.

• Arch isn’t always the most up to date
• It isn’t very reliable
• It doesn’t try to be any easier to use (won’t even work with GNOME software)
• It’s not as straight forward to contribute to like, say, Void Linux which causes issues with burnt-out and busy maintainers
• It installs the the bare minimum so stuff won’t always work
• The only real benefit is you get a smaller install size (x86 only) and maybe some more customisablility.

But for some reason it gets treated like an ideal for every Linux user to reach. It’s supposedly like to going to the Olympics as an elite athlete. An Arch system needs more work to maintain, but there isn’t really much to gain

Agreed. Spend the the time learning something meaningful like programming not how to configure certain bits of software to save a couple of MB.

It depends how much you trust Plex then. When I discovered what Plex could do I got rid of it straight away and used samba shares until I discovered Jellyfin.

Electron was made for Atom and I think, though I’m not 100% that code is based on Atom

Problem is you’re giving Plex access to everything in your library as well, which isn’t exactly palatable

Why make new apps, we should be focusing on rewriting everything in Rust /s

Electron can be done well, like vscode does. In saying that, it almost never seems to happen

To be fair the extension developers were given quite a while to update their extensions to use JavaScript modules instead of the custom GNOME solution. This was actually a change for the better and unlikely to happen again which should make extension development easier. As for better tiling look up their mosaic thing which was announced a while ago, though I’m unsure as to how soon that will come out.

Also try to remember that GNOME is developed mostly by volunteers who frankly owe you nothing

Hell will freeze over before he accepts a pull request on GitHub or uses Issues for discussions. I believe his behaviour serves only to scare away contributors and embolden elitists.

Depends on what you’re doing at University. I was using Arch but an update caused CUDA to stop working so I couldn’t work on an assignment. Why did it stop working? They updated CUDA to 12.3 days before updating the NVIDIA driver to a version which supported CUDA. The maintainers are mostly negligent and the community is rather toxic so I’d avoid Arch for that kind of thing. NixOS looks interesting and has lots of benefits however, for a dedicated University computer I would recommend using the most boring Linux distro available like Fedora or Ubuntu.

I think alot of people just want to muck around, let them host the game themselves and play against AI or friends. I’ve heard of some games unknowingly putting cheaters in special rooms as well. This would hopefully get rid of the majority of cheaters. For the remainder we need to look into how we can disincentivise cheating (making gameplay interesting) as well has some moderation on the server side.