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Nibodhika , to linux in Undo the undo

It sounds confusing, but it’s actually really easy to get used and hard to walk away from it. Essentially the undo is just another operation so it can be undone just like everything else, and that’s a redo. Imagine the following situation, I wrote a text, but wasn’t happy with some part, so I select that part and delete it, now I keep writing but I realised I need some part of what was there, so I undo all of the text that I wrote, select the text I want to copy, and accidentally cut it instead of copy it. In most editors that’s it, you’re fucked, you just lost your most recent changes, on Emacs undo does not destroy things, it only adds to the sequence. In other words, as a step by step:

  1. Write text
  2. Delete part of it
  3. Write more text
  4. Undo step 3 (most editors that means go back to step 2, so step 4 is in a dangerous space)
  5. Undo step 2 (again, most editors would have actually gone to step 2)
  6. You’re now in something that looks like step 2, cut the text you wanted (on most editors because you were in step 2 and did changes you can’t ever go back to step 4, because this is the new step 3 and there isn’t still a step 4, so undo and redo will undo and redo the cut of that text)
  7. Undo step 6 (you’re now similar to how you started step 6 or 2, on most editors you are really on step 2).
  8. Undo again (on most editors that would take you to step 1), this will take you to step 5, i.e. you redid the step 2, so the text disappeared and you’re like you were at the beginning of step 3.
  9. Undo again and you undo the undo of step 3, putting you back on original step 4

Like I said, confusing to understand, but it means that you can’t ever shoot yourself in the foot by undoing things.

Nibodhika , to linux_gaming in For all the doubters that Linux gaming is smoother and faster.

We’re referencing a somewhat old video of a benchmark ran in both systems www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpE2B2QSsa0 that’s likely not still true, possibly devs figured out what was the issue on windows and circumvented it somehow.

Nibodhika , to linux_gaming in For all the doubters that Linux gaming is smoother and faster.

I’m as much a believer that Linux can get better performance than Windows because the less bloat, the best example is Blender which works almost twice as fast on Linux. That being said 25% increase on a game running on wine seems fishy.

Your video did not play correctly, also you didn’t synced properly between the two at the start so it’s hard to compare that both have the same settings, and on the screen at the end it shows windows is running in full screen and Linux in Borderless, not sure if this should make a difference but showcases that not every setting is the same. After the video crashed for the first time I skipped a bit ahead and saw that at one point you put the screen half-half, that’s a good approach, but I also noticed that the right side had a character the left side didn’t right at the start, that means that Wine is failing to render some stuff, or disabling some features which is usually what’s happening when you get this massive performance differences, so the comparison might not be valid. An example would be if DXVK ray tracing implementation bounces the light less times than DX12 does, it would be almost indistinguishable but would have a performance boost (at which point my question would be to show me the benefits of bouncing the light more, but that’s my opinion and not a technical analysis).

In any case, great video, even if something is different I couldn’t see any significant difference in the screen when doing the side-by-side, and I don’t think people who claim Linux is always worse would even know of the possibility of wine lacking some implementation therefore not rendering that.

Nibodhika , to linux in GPU upgrade for linux workstation

As much as I want to say AMD because of the open source drivers (I’ve also never had one, but my next card is definitely going to be an AMD one), you mentioned Blender, and last I check Nvidia’s GPUs are much more performant in Blender. Here’s a benchmark www.pugetsystems.com/…/hardware-recommendations/ in there you can see that a 3060 has slightly worse performance than a 7900xtx and considerable better performance than a 6900xt, you’re talking about getting a 6700xt so the difference will be even larger. So if Blender is your primary use case I would go with NVIDIA.

Nibodhika , to steamdeck in why cant Steam Deck detect display resolution?

Consoles don’t do that, they have a set resolution and try to use that even if the monitor supports higher res, the reason is that a console has a limited hardware and knows its limitations, that way they can ensure the best user experience. The Steam Deck works primarily as a console, but without the usual closed off limitations so you can change the resolution if you know that the specific game you’re trying to play will support it, but as a general the deck plays it safe and uses the same resolution it would use for the integrated screen.

Also you need to think on the cluster fuck it would be if you’re playing the game in 4k then unplug your deck and now you have a 4k game downscaled to fit a 1280x800 screen.

Nibodhika , to linux_gaming in What's the best rolling release Distributions that doesn't crash too much

If your Arch breaks down it’s likely any rolling release distro will also, because it means you’re likely not doing part of the maintenance a rolling release needs, such as ensuring the config files you’ve changed get properly updated.

Any rolling release distro is unstable, because unstable doesn’t mean what you think it means, it means that any library can be updated.

Nibodhika , to linux in I know I know, another "help me choose a distro" thread

Pacman has all of those as well.

Nibodhika , to linux in I know I know, another "help me choose a distro" thread

How is apt too complex? And which is simple then?

Nibodhika , to linux in I know I know, another "help me choose a distro" thread

Which he also mentioned he doesn’t like to depend on.

Nibodhika , to linux in Is there a safe way to run multiple desktop environments on Ubuntu 22.04?

How are you installing the DEs? I’ve consistently had at least 3 DEs on every machine I’ve had for the past decade and never had any issue with it. The secret is that I installed them through the package manager and don’t uninstall parts of it or anything of the sort, they’re there for when needed, I have enough disk space that it’s a non-issue.

Nibodhika , to linux in Question about Proton

Others have already answered the questions you asked, so I’m going to answer the one you didn’t. If your friend’s PC has an NVIDIA you will need to use the proprietary drivers to get the best performance. This also means that you probably should avoid distros that use Wayland as default since NVIDIA can be a bit hit or miss there.

As for distro all of them will play nice with Proton, but you don’t seem to be very Linux savvy so I would also stay away from complicated distros such as Arch or Gentoo (or their derivates) which assume the user knows their way around. I used to recommend Kubuntu, but recently I read a post about a guy complaining because his PC was thermal throttling under Kubuntu. So my recommendation would be either Pop_OS! or Linux Mint, both are very beginner friendly and should work mostly out of the box. The more you know about Linux, the less difference the distro makes, but you don’t want to jump to the deep end without knowing how to swim first.

Nibodhika , to linux in Linux way way slower than Windows?

I’ve had similar problems in the past with an AIO, the pump should always be at 100%, so I usually do this through BIOS. My old Mobo had a dedicated pump pin, but the new one doesn’t, so I put it on a fan one and configured it to 100% all times. If the pump is not at maximum it might not move enough water for the system to cool.

The problem here might be a difference between how Windows and Linux handle fan control, CHA_FAN1 is a chassis fan, it might be that Kubuntu is not using the CPU temp for it, instead relying on another sensor.

Although to be honest I don’t think this might be causing your issue. I’m leaning more to thinking this is related to either the snaps or some problem with the disk you have Linux on. My recommendation is to test a live iso for different distros, if the live iso for Kubuntu works better than on the disk it might imply some issue with the disk, if it’s also slow it might be a problem with Kubuntu, I would recommend then testing different distros with KDE Plasma, they would look and feel the same but might be faster if the problem is Ubuntu’s snaps. I personally don’t like it but I’ve heard people speak highly of Fedora and OpenSuse.

Nibodhika , to linux in If you do these 5 things... You should NOT use Linux
  • ProtonDB says that my personal library in steam with over 800 games only has 1% games which don’t work, and a total of 7% that doesn’t just run when you click play. This means that the most pessimistic view of my library is that 93% of the games work, that’s probably more than on windows 11 for what I heard about compatibility for old games. I highly doubt your library is even remotely close to the 50% incompatibility you’re claiming.
  • They are. I do. If you need something in the level of complexity that “only” Microsoft office can provide, you shouldn’t be using excel to begin with, a simple script with a database will be a lot more powerful and fast.
  • GIMP not supporting CMYK natively is getting quite ridiculous. However as far as I remember there have been plugins for it since forever, plus this is only important for printed jobs, anything digital doesn’t need CMYK. Also depending on what you’re trying to do Krita might be a better option.
  • If that doesn’t matter then what does?
  • All of the ones I have tried work out of the box, also the ones that work is only so because windows has more users so companies bend over backwards to write drivers for it, but whenever companies give the same amount of treatment to both Windows and Linux the compatibility is always better on Linux, e.g. PlayStation controllers are a pain to get working on windows but work out of the box on Linux.
Nibodhika , to nostupidquestions in AITA for doing a GoFundMe? (Details within.)

I don’t think making a GoFundMe for that is anything bad, in fact I’m of the opinion that it would be better if it was only a single GoFundMe that everyone is forced to contribute depending on how much they earn, and then everyone can use that, it would be a way to get the public to have access to healthcare, so we could call it public healthcare system, I think almost every other country in the world has a version of this which is why even if you hadn’t mentioned places I know which country you’re from.

As for the answer to whether you’re the asshole is: It depends. Do you vote for politicians that oppose public health? If so then you’re the asshole, you’re saying that you are special and you deserve to have your treatment paid for you whereas other people do not. If you vote in favour of politicians that support public health, then you’re not the asshole, because your vote indicates you’re willing to do the same for others and had the people you voted done what you wanted you wouldn’t need that GoFundMe, nor would anyone else in the same situation.

Nibodhika , to steamdeck in JSAUX RGB Backplate for Steam Deck - Review

Nope, it’s even dumber, it has a battery of its own that needs charging separately from the Deck and takes 2 hours to complete.

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