Spectacle8011

Spectacle8011 OP , 5 months ago to linux_gaming in Financial support for Lutris has decreased by 40% since 2020, not sustainable

Those instances defederated from lemmy.comfysnug.space. @neo contacted them and a few others about refederating a few months ago; I don’t know the current status.

Relevant threads:

• lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/305019
• lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/334195

Spectacle8011 , 5 months ago to linux_gaming in What is with Steam's shading cache updates nowadays?

I now finally know why Rocket League updates more often for me (1-2GB of updates) than my friend on Windows.

Spectacle8011 , 5 months ago to linux in Mozilla Firefox 122 Is Now Available for Download, Here's What's New

Motherfuckers!

Spectacle8011 , 5 months ago to linux in My First Month of Linux

So you ditched and unethical mega corp that runs ads for a wanna be unethical mega corp that also mines your data and you’re happy about it? Oh boy the illusion.

What data mining is Canonical doing, exactly?

Spectacle8011 , 5 months ago to linux in (Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?

I don’t really have a least favorite distribution. I mean, I guess between Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, openSUSE, Manjaro, and Gentoo, the least appealing choices to me are Manjaro and Gentoo. Manjaro is just Arch but worse, because the packages are old and likely to cause incompatibilities with AUR packages that need really up-to-date system packages, and I…don’t trust the maintainers to have configured everything better than I could have myself. Just based on history.

Debian has ancient packages. That’s the only reason. I’d just end up using Flatpak packages or compiling from source.

Any other distribution I could use, including Gentoo, but Arch is the sweet spot for me.

Spectacle8011 , 5 months ago to linux in What does Ubuntu do when LTS is supported for 12 years, but PHP is not?

That would be the logical conclusion, but I believe Debian uses the old version for years after it’s unsupported and might backport security fixes depending on how severe they are. Either way, I personally wouldn’t trust Debian or Ubuntu to properly fix security issues with a program (or in this case, programming language) that they do not actively develop or maintain themselves.

Spectacle8011 , 5 months ago to linux in 13 Best Open Source ChatGPT Alternatives

It’s good to see you guys on Lemmy :)

I tested it a bit a few days ago, but I’ll see if I can give it a more rigorous go today. The ones I’ve found Mojeek to be weak in are bug strings that programs I’m working with spit out. Although I think I’ve had more luck in the past few months.

Spectacle8011 OP , 5 months ago to linux_gaming in Financial support for Lutris has decreased by 40% since 2020, not sustainable

I’m from an instance that does not federate with lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works, so users from those instances won’t see this post. If you think this news is worth sharing and you’re from an instance that federates with lemmy.world, please consider sharing it on !linux_gaming

Spectacle8011 , 5 months ago to linux in 13 Best Open Source ChatGPT Alternatives

Kagi is the only search engine I use which has really good results and no junk links. …and you have to pay for it, of course. It’s a meta search engine but they use their own indexes for news results and Teclis, which indexes small commercial sites with fewer than 5 trackers. One of the cool features it added recently was an icon for identifying paywalled articles.

I’d like to recommend Mojeek, my default search engine, but it still has a way to go. If you’re just looking for an “answer engine” rather than a general search engine…I guess an LLM probably isn’t a bad place to start?

Spectacle8011 , 5 months ago to linux in Wayland really breaks things… Just for now?

I’ve been getting stutters for a long time. I’ve kind of come to accept it as part of the Proton / NVIDIA experience :) Though the stuttering has finally receded to almost nothing since running KDE Wayland. It’s actually a lot worse on X11 for me.

Spectacle8011 , 5 months ago to linux in Wayland really breaks things… Just for now?

Hm, odd. I’m playing Rocket League with Proton fine with no flickering. I’m using KDE. Proton 8 shouldn’t have any of the Wine Wayland stuff yet…

And yeah, I had a massive flickering problem for my entire monitor on 535, but the problem is now localized to XWayland programs on 545, so it’s an improvement for me.

Spectacle8011 , 5 months ago to linux in Wayland really breaks things… Just for now?

I’d completely forgotten about that. I do that for Signal already. Thanks for the tip! Bitwarden finally doesn’t lag (that was annoying the hell out of me) but Freetube is still a stuttery mess. FreeTube is an Electron-based program, so no idea…

(I just remembered I could startup Thunderbird with MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 too)

It’s mainly just Steam that’s horrible…really, the worst one of the lot by far. Massive flickering in the client. Games themselves work fine though.

Spectacle8011 , 5 months ago to linux in COSMIC: The Road to Alpha

I recognize this is an odd comment to make, but I’m glad to see this screenshot tool supports capturing a window in Wayland. My next question is, can the screenshot tool be invoked from the command-line or via a script?

Spectacle8011 , 5 months ago to linux in Wayland really breaks things… Just for now?

Gaming still works fine for me on 545. It’s just that every other XWayland program flickers endlessly. Thunderbird, Freetube, Bitwarden…

God I hope NVK is the driver I’m using happily by the end of this year.

Spectacle8011 , 5 months ago to linux in Recent GNOME design work – Form and Function

So if GNOME does something everyone else is not doing, they’re “fucking up”, but if they follow what someone else has done that you like, they’re just creating a “cheap copy”? How do they win?