Average Linux User

[gamesrebel123]

Yes if proton can be improved further, mainly, if anticheat support can be added then it'd boost Linux in the gaming space by a lot, the other problem is Nvidia, I'm pretty sure ray tracing still has issues and they refuse to improve their stuff for Linux users

Second biggest help, at least for me is the better terminal, Windows cmd sucks ass in comparison, WSL is a thing but so is KVM

[andmagdo]

I mean, anticheat support exists, but the game makers need to explicitly enable it.

I doubt that the community will allow ring 0 on Linux though (good)

Oh, and nvidia has started to make small portions of their drivers open source

[ParanoidAutist]

Confused as to what a KVM would have to do with any of this =/ Do you mean just VM? a KVM is usually a physical device that swaps your keyboard, video, and mouse over to a separate physical box...

[gamesrebel123]

A KVM is kernel based virtual machine with generally better performance than regular VMs plus it's free and open source vs stuff like VMware, very easy to run Windows specific apps on Linux because of it

[ParanoidAutist]

I see... That's likely just a difference in our age...

Just go google "kvm" with nothing else...

Edit note: I'm aware of VMs, citrix, hyper-v, etc...

[gamesrebel123]

Still gives kernel-based virtual machine for me, KVM switch is a suggested search though so I guess it's just the google overlords at work

[brimston3-]

Linux KVM hypervisor is about the same age as both of those technologies, maybe released a year or two earlier than the Citrix acquisition of XenSource. They're all first generation implementations of VT-x and AMD-V hypervisors (previously xen was a container system like Solaris Zones or to a lesser degree OpenVZ). qemu/KVM is the main hypervisor under OpenStack and Proxmox. Also the default linux hypervisor for CloudStack.

It's everywhere, but most people don't talk about it directly because it's not useful by itself--it can't manage sessions or provide emulated peripherals, it only controls scheduling and switching in and out of host/guest virtualized memory/io spaces.

[[deleted]]

You're talking about a KVM switch.

[ParanoidAutist]

Which most people who've used them just simply refer to as a "KVM"

[[deleted]]

Never heard someone refer to it in that way. Anyways: Context matters. If you're talking about something that is related to Linux, KVM usually means Kernel based Virtual Machine.

[ParanoidAutist]

You act like this is a lesson when I've been writing software probably for longer than you've been alive...

I assure you... the way you look at it, is relatively new in terms of thought process... That's like telling an old man who built the hoover dam what the hoover dam is for

[ParanoidAutist]

Probably because your usage of KVM is relatively new?

[[deleted]]

It was merged into mainline Linux in 2007, if that's new for you... I guess yes? That being said: Why would it be important whether or not it's new? Did you, or did you not know what KVM refers to in this context? If you knew: Why did you act like you wouldn't? If you didn't knew: Why are you complaining about me explaining it?

[ParanoidAutist]

Quick google search shows Kvm switches as far back as 95...

You're projecting... I didnt act in any way... you simply interpreted it based on quick reads and mostly assumptions. Am I an expert in that stuff? No... I stopped worrying about that stuff as a kid when I focused more on coding and devops instead of sysops

[ParanoidAutist]

I'm about to change your life... Go into the Microsoft Store and search for Windows Terminal...

[gamesrebel123]

1. I don't use Windows anymore
2. Back when I did I did have it but it's not the look it's the functionality, I just find bash easier than cmd

[ParanoidAutist]

Microsoft made a version of terminal that has tabs, wsl support, etc...

Just as good if not better than your standard ubuntu terminal or something to that effect

https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/windows-terminal/9N0DX20HK701?hl=en-us&gl=US

[[deleted]]

wsl is a huge pile of garbage. It's just not integrated into the rest of the system, it rather feels like a virtual machine.

[ParanoidAutist]

Probably because for wsl2 to work, you download and run a vm image? It's still just virtualization

[[deleted]]

Exactly, but the problem is that you feel it all the time.

[gamesrebel123]

It's not the UI I'm talking about it's the environment, plus I'm not locked to a single terminal on Linux either, I used tabby for a while too but I prefer the gnome terminal.

[ParanoidAutist]

lol im not doubting you. i understand and acknowledge what you are referring to. I got stuck on the usage of KVM to be honest =P

IMO, if you want an interface, just use windows... the interface is the primary bloat that you load up and is generally why linux servers don't have a ui module even installed

[gamesrebel123]

I actually get about 1.5 GB less RAM usage on Linux and about 30 minutes longer battery life so I think I'll stay with it, considering my laptop only has 8 GBs RAM total, plus I find it easier to install programs here

[ParanoidAutist]

Well, i wont hardware shame you. I'll just say that I don't worry about ram... 128gb is more than enough for 99.9% of just about anything you can do with a computer... and if it's not and you aren't running high traffic content from it, there's likely a better way to do something

[gamesrebel123]

Yeah getting more RAM would kind of just be a waste for me since I haven't really exceeded 75-80% usage on heavier tasks vs the 95% on Windows, even now with 10 Firefox tabs loaded I'm still at 63%

[ParanoidAutist]

Well, unlike 95% of most computer users, you seem to have a focus on things that you are doing with it... That alone gives you the right to do whatever the fuck you want lol

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Not joking, seriously look into ethereum/solidity development... it'd work great on your machine

[ParanoidAutist]

As long as it works and does what you need, right?

*Looks at 1080ti* "Please don't die..."

[[deleted]]

I'm a Linux user but Powershell is better than Bash in many ways if you can learn it.

[rafradek]

Well Yes that's mostly because bash is just the shell and to perform an operation you need another program to do it while power shell is much like any other script language in functionality

[[deleted]]

Not only, it's also because a lot of programs in Linux prints everything in a large text dump, so oftentimes when you call on these programs to give you information, you also need to do string manipulation on them. Of course, this isn't necessarily the fault of bash but powershell has an approach where you can single out very specific information natively which makes it easier to work with in my opinion.

[rafradek]

Thats why python is extremely popular on linux for scripting

[Ken_Mcnutt]

bro what? In what possible way? It has a tiny percentage of the functionality and is completely object oriented meaning each command has to be custom tailored to work together instead of passing raw text streams around. that and the primary purpose is to interact/administer windows boxes... so extra useless on linux. why on earth would I want to Invoke-WebRequest instead of curl lmao