Jesus_666

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[–] Jesus_666@feddit.de 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If that's how TFTs worked we wouldn't have vsync settings in games.

[–] Jesus_666@feddit.de 5 points 5 months ago

Yep. I run Garuda and the main pull is that it's a more user-friendly Arch with a lot of stuff I want to use preinstalled. I don't really care about how XTREME it is or whether I might potentially get 1 FPS more.

[–] Jesus_666@feddit.de 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

All other things aside, which Logitech mouse are you talking about? Both my G Pro and my G 305 work out of the box. Logitech also advertises them as ChromeOS compatible and AFAIK the Logitech wireless dongles are USB HID compliant so seeing a Linux straight up refuse to interact with them sounds very weird.

[–] Jesus_666@feddit.de 49 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Also, Ubuntu is moving towards using snaps for everything so they're pretty much the successor to PPAs.

[–] Jesus_666@feddit.de 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Mostly yes but there's one other option that simplifies the whole thing: Chromebooks. They're actually pretty decent for someone who doesn't need much beyond a browser, a mail client, and a basic office suite.

Sure, they're tied to Google with all that entails but they can be a real option for someone like a senior who relies on relatives for tech support.

[–] Jesus_666@feddit.de 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'd love to but on my gaming rig Wine/Proton will absolutely refuse to install the Visual C++ runtime, making me unable to play most games. On another, virtually identical, Linux installation it works without issue; in fact, I have fewer weird issues like a game randomly not connecting to EOS.

I consider it karmic justice for buying Nvidia; that's the major difference between the two systems.

(Update: The latest Wine version seems to have fixed this. I'm certainly not complaining.)

[–] Jesus_666@feddit.de 10 points 6 months ago

When AMD introduced the first Epyc, they marketed it with the slogan: "Nobody ever got fired for buying Intel. Until now."

And they lived up to the boast. The Zen architecture was just that good and they've been improving on it ever since. Meanwhile the technology everyone assumed Intel had stored up their sleeve turned out to be underwhelming. It's almost as bad as IA-64 vs. AMD64 and at least Intel managed to recover from that one fairly quickly.

They really need to come to with another Core if they want to stay relevant.

[–] Jesus_666@feddit.de 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

And also ells, rods, cubits, paces, furlongs, oxgangs, lots, batmans... all with subtly different regional definitions (with regions sometimes as small as one village).

People used loosely defined measurements based on things like their own body parts or how much land they guessed their ox could plow on an average day. Things like mathematical convenience or precision were not all that important; being able to measure (or estimate) without tools was.

[–] Jesus_666@feddit.de 23 points 8 months ago

To be fair, he also had an eye for good product design. Not the skills to implement it but the ability to see whether a design is good.

Of course he expressed this skill by yelling at his engineers and designers. A lot. Because he was an asshole.

[–] Jesus_666@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago

Garuda's gaming spin should. At least mine runs on Plasma 6 + Wayland and I didn't do anything special to get there.

[–] Jesus_666@feddit.de 13 points 8 months ago (7 children)

I think Latte-Dock has been unmaintained for some time now. It's a dead project and maybe doesn't even work properly with Plasma 6. So it's a good time to drop it.

[–] Jesus_666@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

On the one hand I like the basic idea, on the other hand I think that some fundamental problems aren't fully solved yet. There big use case are passkeys and direct password manager integration – neither mesh well with the idea of software that isn't allowed to talk to most of the system.

I'm certain that this will be resolved at some point but for now I don't think Flatpak and its brethren are quite there yet.

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