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[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 years ago (15 children)

I love Linux. I have it installed on 3 machines, have been using it for over 3 years, and would install it right away if I ever got a new computer.

A couple weeks ago, I was feeling pretty exhausted and just wanted to play a game thru Proton on my laptop. I got it running, but it was unplayable because it was using my integrated GPU instead of my discrete one. I spent the night switching compositors, cables, and drivers, but none of it fixed the issue.

The next day, feeling exhausted from fruitless debugging, I tried to launch another game via Proton that I knew had worked in the past, but it crashed on launch. I spent the whole day going thru the same steps I did the day before, but also consulting ProtonDB and trying software that would force usage of the dgpu.

The next day, I installed Windows 10 to an external hard drive and spent the day debloating it. Drivers got installed automatically, I downloaded both games on Steam, and they just worked. So I guess I now dual-boot Windows just for the games that don't work thru Proton. Loading game worlds and booting up take ~75% longer, but that's to be expected because it's running on a 4 year old HDD connected over a USB cable.

As mentioned earlier, I love Linux a lot, and if all games had native binaries or Proton worked 100% I'd format that god-forsaken hard drive. But when real life has got me down, I don't need Linux to get me down further. I don't like Windows, and I feel incredibly dirty whenever I press F7 on boot to get to Windows. But when my choices are "spend 8 hours on fruitless quest to get >2fps" and "press play button", I'm going to take the path of least resistance.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Oh wow, this is hands-down the best Minesweeper experience I've ever had, not just on mobile. Huge props to the devs

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Yes, their posts were about Arch Linux.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The instance blocking in .19 only blocks posts from an instance, not comments.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

The second link you gave is probably malware!

Vanced died after they got a cease and desist from YouTube. You might want to recommend https://revanced.app/ instead, which patches the YouTube APK directly on your phone instead of distributing an APK with modified bytecode (which is the given "reason" YouTube killed Vanced)

ReVanced also has patches to remove ads/crack features for other apps as well, which is an added bonus. They're also open-source

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Assuming the claim plugin used on the server is GriefPrevention (the most common one), land claims by default get removed after a certain amount of time unless you have enough claim blocks (usually gained passively via active play on the server, and you need a lot of playtime going off the default config)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My views on Apple are based on what I've heard about them from the perspective of the right to repair movement and people like Louis Rossmann. Because I've heard about them doing questionable things in the past, my expectation is that they would have similar ulterior motives in the present. I thought that my comment would be voicing a common opinion, and at the time it had not been expressed yet. I apologize for not doing my research before leaving a comment /srs

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't keep a super close eye on Apple's recent products. I don't really care enough to be in the know about what they might do next, I just hear about what comes out as it comes out and move on with my life. I also wasn't aware that there was a 10 year plan because I was too young to care when it was announced. Sorry for the confusion :(

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (65 children)

USB-C worldwide? That surprises me, I thought it'd just be the EU. I wonder what the catch will be 🤔

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I think the amount of numbers/capitalization of words is off in this username. IIRC it's 3 or 4 numbers, not 5

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

There's been some promising advancements in the server space such as Multipaper and Folia to remove Minecraft's single-core limitation, hence allowing for much higher player caps. I was on a Multipaper server running smoothly with ~300 players a few months ago.

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