• rtxn@lemmy.worldM
    82·
    3 days ago

    The Linux community is united! (Unless you mention Rust, or Wayland, or systemd, or Snap, or GNOME, or…)

      • rtxn@lemmy.worldM
        31·
        3 days ago

        There’s an ongoing debate tantrum about introducing Rust code to the kernel. Some people are pushing for it, some people have made it their life’s purpose to make sure that doesn’t happen, it has led to a wave of maintainers resigning, and Linus is sitting with his thumb up his arse when his leadership is needed.

      • NukeNPave@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 days ago

        I used to prefer Gnome for the longest time. It seemed to be lighter on resources and cleaner. I tried KDE again a few years ago and was blown away at how much better it has gotten. KDE has quickly become my go to. The ease of customization, theming, and the wealth of settings sold me on it.

        I ought to go back and try Gnome again since it’s been a few years. I’m sure they’ve gotten better too since I last used them.

  • DashboTreeFrog@discuss.onlineEnglish
    20·
    3 days ago

    As a relatively recent Windows refugee, I want to share a recent success that has made me feel fully confident in never needing Windows again and fully feeling the Linux superiority.

    I got Cyberpunk with all my previous mods running.

    Maybe not a big deal for most people, but this was one thing that had kept me holding onto dual boot on my main device. Conversations online also kept making modding on Linux seem so impenetrable.

    Then I decided to spend an afternoon figuring out modding games in general on Linux, and yeah parts of it was tough for me to figure out, but now I’m confident that anything I used to do on PC, I can probably do better on Linux.

    I am ready to take up arms alongside the Weaponized Assault Penguin squad.

    • CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      I’m going to be playing through cyberpunk again after not touching it since the launch fiasco and recommendations?

      • DashboTreeFrog@discuss.onlineEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        For mods? Personally I just browser Nexus mods for what looks fun or interesting. Just getting command lines going is fun enough for a start. I always at least start a run giving myself a bunch of cash. But honestly, the vanilla game is plenty fun now and pretty well balanced compared to when it started. Still finding side content and weird stuff

        For general modding I started with the Redmodding Wiki and then I got over complicated trying to use a mod manager, messing with Steam Tinker Launcher and Mod Organizer 2. In the end just did things manually following the redmodding wiki.

    • NicestDicerest@lemmy.world
      8·
      3 days ago

      My dad always used to tell me how the dutch government was jokingly bad at IT & other stuff. But booooooooooooy did i not expect it to be this bad

  • Constant Pain@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 days ago

    Windows is better… if you need game compatibility, slave in Office or Adobe, have a Nvidia card, wants HDR and or fractional scaling…

    Everything else, it’s pure unadulterated garbage…

    • Shanmugha@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 days ago

      Games: nope. Same as someone above, I’ve got Cyberpunk on Linux

      Office/Adobe… may be a fair point for some Nvidia card: nope, works fine

      HDR: did not even bother to learn what is. Can be a fair point

      Fractional scaling - genuine question: who the hell ever needs this? I have gone from 1K resolution (standard laptop) to 2K to 2.5K to 34K with curved monitor and never ever ever did I think “hey, this big screen? I want everything bigger/smaller on it”. What do people use fractional scaling for?

      • pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz
        4·
        3 days ago

        Fractional scaling is awesome, I could never use my monitor without it, things just are too small.

        But it perfectly works on Linux for me (OpenSUSE).

        • Shanmugha@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 days ago

          But how big is it (resolution/physical size) ?

          I feel like I will never go for more than present 4k with around 80cm width (but it is curved, so screen surface is enough), because if I try to stuff more windows visible at the same time, it becomes more info than I can process. So, unless I start building something like personal dashboard, this is my limit: finally see enough, do not get overwhelmed

      • VerifiedSource@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Your post smells of someone, who only uses their computer for fairly limited tasks.

        Office/Adobe

        There’s so much software around serious work, creativity, and productivity, that doesn’t exist for linux or is meh. CAD, audio, video, music production.

        The main reasons I use macOS are GarageBand and apps for DJing. Anything audio still breaks far too often on linux or is otherwise a pain.

        OmniGraffle is so fantastically great, there’s no linux equivalent. The Affinity suite of alternative applications to Adobe is fantastic and far above any linux alternative.

        The nicest GUI application for git, nor the best diff and merge tool aren’t available for Linux.

        Besides that getting support for commercial software is usually much better than for FOSS.

        who the hell ever needs this?

        People who love details and crisp fonts and thus own high density resolution screens.

        HDR: did not even bother to learn what is

        You seem to have moderate expectations towards visual computing.

        • Shanmugha@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 days ago

          Fairly limited tasks like backend development, yeah.

          But true I had no idea what people really use for graphics and sound, thank you for pointing thouse out.

          GUI for git, merge and diff does not bother me either, but that is a personal quirk. Thank you for those too, I will at least take a look

          You seem to have moderate expectations towards visual computing.

          Got me a hundred percent 🙂. Maybe when I have more money I will dive into the beautiful world of high-quality graphics