A very toxic industry to be in, I used to be an engineer for a company that looked after slot machines here in the UK. High Street betting shops would regularly get smashed up by people after they lost all their money, but they would just pay us to repair them and let them back a few weeks later because they knew theyâd be back. Completely taking advantage of people with a very real problem.
I recognize Iâm kind of being one of those âit works on my machine!â types, but Iâm rolling pop!os on a lenovo built intel/nvidia laptop and have zero issues. Am I just exceptionally lucky?
Youâre not. I think thatâs the experience of most Linux users. Itâs selection bias; I donât go to forums to make a post advertising how my system is working great with no bugs. When my system is working great with no bugs I just use it; I donât talk about it.
I roll popos and tried nobara and mint a month ago. Iâm back on pop because it just works and installing games on it is no issue. There are a couple games that after playing a few hours a day for three or four days, the computer kind of freezes for a second here and there. I just log out and in and itâs fixed. I would rather throw my computer in the street and run it over than go back to windows.
Which Lenovo laptop, if you donât mind me asking? I know there are Lenovo laptops with Linux support, but I am on a Lenovo Legion Slim 5, and I have heard there are quite a few issues that would need to be sorted.
Iâve got the legion y540 with an RTX 2060, apparently they made this same model number with a couple different gpuâs.
I have no idea if it officially has linux support or not, I just got frustrated when it wouldnât stop bluescreenâing with windows 10. Ubuntu worked fine but was finnacky with peripherals, and I couldnât change the brightness without fixes. Pop!OS has just worked perfectly across the board, straight out of the box.
Whatâs whacky is I could swear games run better on linux. Not even natively, like WINDOWS games run better through proton than they did when the same system ran windows. Iâd bet a lot of it is just overhead from general bloat; windows is expensive to run these days.
If my experience is anything to go by, just start installing whatever OS strikes your fancy and hope for the best. Keep a windows usb handy just in case, but just start fucken around! You could spend a week reading documentation on ONE SINGLE OS, or you could spend just an afternoon trying probably every single OS you could find a modern ISO for. Just make sure you try the popular ones first hahaha
Iâve been gaming on Linux 100% for about 3 years now. I very rarely have any issues at all. But, Iâm on an all AMD system.
Based on your experience, would you mind sharing specs? My observation has been that nvidia is normally involved whenever anyone has serious issues with Linux gaming.
The problem for Linux is that one person could have a wonderful experience with little issue, while somebody else canât even boot their machine. Itâs so across the board. I have several computers, and some love Linux while some hate Linux; some are 10x faster than Windows, while another is 2x slower than windows. I donât mind. I love all the tweaking. But sometimes it takes some brainpower to figure out something. Windows seems to be mostly decent on most machines. I definitely have more issues in Linux to get things to work the way I want them. Still, Iâm a Linux user, but , I canât judge anybody for returning to windows.
That inconsistency is why I find Bazzite (and other immutables) so compelling. What works on my machine is very likely to work on yours.
My latest build is all AMD to help with compatibility/driver issues and Iâm off to the races.
I canât seem to play things like PUBG and others whoâs anti-cheat doesnât work (I guess) but oh well. Iâm considering adding a drive for Windows to play the ones that just wonât work.
Anti-cheat isnât a Linux issue per se, in that there would be no way to fix it without compromising a lot of system security. Just because that has been allowed on Windows forever doesnât mean itâs good practice.
The âsolutionâ would be the gaming companies not using the current approach to anti-cheat.
Thatâs about to change. With the crowdstrike shit show Microsoft is looking to remove access to the kernel for a lot of solutions, including, but not limited to, anti-cheat software. They said they want them relegated to userâs pace only. Once that happens, thereâs no reason why we canât use the same anti-cheat in Linux the same way we now play games made for Windows (other than game developers being complete pricks, of course).
Iâve been recently thinking the same thing and was wondering why no one seemed to talk about it. I think, while the gaming market is very important to Microsoft with regards to PCs, it basically has no leverage. Gamers wonât switch anyways, Windows is ubiquitous and studios are just committed to what means minimal support at maximum profit, so they target Windows. Apart from Valve, no publisher or studio has any credibility when threatening to move to another platform, and Valve wonât do it because theyâre basically a store that develops a game from time to time. So MS can do whatever they want and anything gaming related will swallow it anyways.
With that in mind, I do hope that MS removes the privileged interfaces and all kernel level anticheat dies with it. Studios will cry, but thatâs all theyâll do, and in fact, they wouldnât even have any option at that point; thereâs no alternative offering anything similar. Even Apple doesnât offer privileged access to 3rd party developers, which is why for example while mandatory for Windows gamers, Riotâs games can be played without any kernel level anticheat on Mac.
Right, but thatâs sort of why I asked the question. The people who canât boot their machine probably have some commonality in the specs of their machines. As I said above, I wouldnât be surprised if nvidia is a common thread, and arguably, nvidiaâs relatively poor Linux support is a business issue for them.
If indeed it is the case, then it is important to label it as an nvidia issue as opposed to a Linux issue.
Edit: another way to put it: was the CloudStrike issue Microsoftâs fault? System design choices aside, CloudStrikeâs software was the cause of the failure. To say itâs a Microsoft issue misses the bigger picture. In that sense, poor nvidia support (if it is indeed at play here) is not really a Linux issue, rather than an nvidia issue and/or a brand loyalty issue.
Military hardware is designed to be as simple as possible because military conditions are extremely unpredictable and messy.
Furthermore, war necessitates trimming everything that doesnât involve killing the enemy out of oneâs designs.
This is because unlike competition against nature â where requirements are finite â competition against another army means dealing with infinite requirements.
If one side builds cluster munitions that have these tracking transmitters, and the other side builds cluster munitions that donât, then the latter is going to have more cluster munitions.
This may not seem like that big a deal because it would be a coincidence if the two were so evenly matched that the transmitters became the deciding factor.
But wat is not coincidental. War happens specifically when there is a specific set of conditions:
Side A might be able to dominate side B
But that is uncertain
If A >> B in terms of power, no war happens. Instead, A rules B.
If A == B in terms of power, no war happens. Instead, A and B trade.
War happens when A ~= B, ie when A believes it might be more powerful than B, but B also believes that A might be wrong.
So war has a built-in condition where the two powers are close enough in power that they both must give their all in order to win.
This means that hardware involved in war is subject to ultra-narrow design requirements in terms of efficiency.
And those ultra-narrow requirements mean you gotta trim everything that isnât winning the war.
Another way to look at it is that war is the shortest-term form of human planning. Long-term planning during war takes energy away from the short-term planning required to win the war.
This is reflected individually in our own physiology, where readiness to fight is optimized for the moment, and causes damage long term.
I might be mixing up events, but I thought that it was a photo-op when mass protests were happening in D.C. You know⊠appeal to the Christians. Am I mixing it up with something else?
No I just thought it was funny. But in reality the worst âsermonâ (so to speak) I attended was when the speaker started going off about men in tight pants and women in âspanxâ. He very clearly didnât understand what spanx were and was most likely talking about yoga pants. Thatâs not even to mention the homophobic rant where he implied that all fashion designers were perverted gay men who designed tight pants so that they could look lustfully at other men in tight pants
This reminds me of a tweet I saw where a pastor was saying that "it's a good thing that homosexuality is against God's law cuz if it weren't guys would just be banging each other left and right" and the person who was reposting it said "I know something about you that you don't know"
I donât even know if it was a church service per se, since it was a broader thing, but my motherâs funeral might count because it ended with my siblings implying they intended to ghost me from then on.
On a less solemn but more bitter note, there was a Buddhist temple where I used to live even though I donât remember if I ever went inside or not. I have a single Buddhist friend, and he warned me (because he was not like other Buddhists) that other Buddhistsâ notion of karma was such that, along with seeing people with disabilities as having had a past life of sin (or the equivalent Buddhist loanword), some fear it as associative in nature and will go so far as not touch an individual who has a visible medical condition, which Iâm the only one with (everyone elseâs medical history is invisible), and I remarked (referring to Joseph Smith having lived in the area) something like âat least Mormons treat those with respect who they deem as the equivalent to being cursedâ, which began a theological debate over why itâs âmehâ when Buddhists deem someone as cursed but âoh noâ when those of us who are under the Mormon umbrella do. Nobody mentioned is hostile to me, but thereâs an air of backhandedness towards me whenever Iâm around. Fortunately it was only ever relevant once.
The power team. Apparently vast amounts of sweat, tearing phone books in half, bending steel rods and blowing up hot water bottles is godly and there were several alter calls.
Then I had to see them at Jr. High the next day to preach about how bad drugs are.
OMG I had a visit in elementary school from these guys! The school was a sad fundie kid-prison, but these guys were pretty neat. Rolled up a frying pan and did the blowing up a hot water bottle thing.
I find it so weird hearing about them again lol.
IDK, power to 'em. (Lol pun) Unlike a lot of nasty political preaching, I hope these guys are just being straight-edge motivators preaching the Gospel.
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