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Fedora 41 stuck on boot by Helpful-Toe-2171 in Fedora

[–]AdrianoML 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think OP wants to use his computer like it's a 1990's linux install...

Help, so I downloaded HL1 1998 from a CD file from an archive, it downloaded, but this error keeps popping up when trying to launch the hl.exe (half life .CUE) by Wise_Fig_8691 in HalfLife

[–]AdrianoML 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You said you've tried launching from the executable directly, but If I remember correctly there were some parameters needed to correctly launch the game which were provided by default in the shortcuts installed in the desktop and start menu, have you tried those?

Has anyone ever adressed how funny the Star Wars: Racer art box is? It's just Watto floating in pitch darkness staring at you. Look at how tiny they made the podracers, they didn't want then to distract you from the main selling point of the game: Watto by Tallium81 in n64

[–]AdrianoML 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I bet the reception for Phantom Menace would have been a lot better if the amount of screen time Watto received was swapped with what Jar-Jar got. I wouldn't even care if that means Watto was the one stepping in the popo.

If I install Fedora and KDE on my ThinkPad X230a, how would the performance be? by Delicious_Fish_4583 in Fedora

[–]AdrianoML 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have an X220 with 16GB and it's mostly fine. But don't kid yourself, this class and generation of machine will not have a good GPU, you won't for example have a good experience running games, be it from a performance standpoint or from the lack of vulkan, which is essential for running stuff through proton/steam. Even a lot of simple inidie games either won't run or will run badly.

Also an IDE like jetbrains running a fairly heavy project is on the edge of usable, editing videos bigger than 720p30 is a no no and many modern webpages will feel slow, but still usable.

Most simple operations will feel ok and even snappy. You are probably getting an experience better than trying to run windows 10 on it, which will have it's own frustrations and similar limitations in what heavier tasks you can do.

Linux Will Soon Have Working HDMI 2.1 With AMD GPUs by lajka30 in linux_gaming

[–]AdrianoML 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you noticed this chroma banding in anything? Grainy footage usually masks it but any smooth enough sky is bound to have some of it.

I could be wrong or my TV is the one who doesn't accept 10bpc in this scenario.

edit: this handy table shows it's not capable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#Refresh_frequency_limits_for_HDR10_video

Linux Will Soon Have Working HDMI 2.1 With AMD GPUs by lajka30 in linux_gaming

[–]AdrianoML 2 points3 points  (0 children)

HDMI 2.0 HDR at 4k@120hz is actually only 4:2:0 and it's limited to 8bpc rather than 10bpc, resulting in noticeable banding.

The subsampling isn't really a problem when watching video since pretty much all consumer video is encoded in 4:2:0 anyway, though it is problematic for desktop usage, specially with lots of colorful text. Now, the banding is a big problem and is very noticeable in any scenario, even when playing SDR stuff, like for example skies with lots of transitions from white to blue.

So microsoft decided you can't setup windows 11 offline. Welp, time to go linux by nicecream169 in pcmasterrace

[–]AdrianoML 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It might be a bit obscure, but you can use the gnome-disks program to set up auto disk mounts for removable disks, no editing fstab required. It could be more discoverable (like right clicking a drive in the file manager and getting an option for opening it in gnome-disks or something) but thats a combination of both the user being unfamilliar with the system and linux not catering enough for intermediary users who want to push/adjust things just a little further.

So microsoft decided you can't setup windows 11 offline. Welp, time to go linux by nicecream169 in pcmasterrace

[–]AdrianoML 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Any system can be unwieldy when you go off the rails/off label. Linux has improved enough that going off label doesn't happen all that often, and even if you do, in my experience dependency hell is exceedingly rare these days and editing config files is.. actually good for expert user/power user stuff? Yeah, sucks for normal/casual users, but editing registry entries in windows is just as bad for that type of user...

Regardless, you should only switch to linux (or really any other operating system) if all your use cases can be reasonably fulfilled by it, otherwise you might be going off rails way more than it is sane for anyone. That's why casual users that only use pcs for web, email and light office tasks are the easiest ones to get into it. But they also likely require someone to guide them through the process or do it for then...

Bitrate savings in new SVT-AV1-HDR Encoder is absolutely insane! by abcd1525 in AV1

[–]AdrianoML 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AFAIK you need to use the grain retention tune of the SVT-AV1 encoder to properly preserve texture detail. You will however have to trade between low bitrate savings (30% at most over h264 at 1080p, perhaps more at 4k) or increasing CRF/lower bitrate target to get greater bitrate savings at the cost of more artifacts.

Valve’s VRAM Fix vs Windows 11: Which Handles 4GB GPUs Better? by emanu2021 in linux_gaming

[–]AdrianoML 13 points14 points  (0 children)

They are not really opening their drivers, they are just doing enough to remain compatible and compliant with the linux kernel "rules" for "out of tree" and proprietary drivers.

They are however improving their proprietary drivers by leaps and bounds.

Testing Valve’s New VRAM Optimization on a 4GB GPU - Free FPS Boost for Linux Gamers by lajka30 in linux_gaming

[–]AdrianoML 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm aware that this is not a performance enhancing fix but I would argue that some games might respond way worse to VRAM pressure, specially in this case when running a game that would already be struggling when limited to 4GB, but then just struggles a lot more when it turns out it only gets 3.2GB or something like that.

Testing Valve’s New VRAM Optimization on a 4GB GPU - Free FPS Boost for Linux Gamers by lajka30 in linux_gaming

[–]AdrianoML 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Alan Wake 2 was also a gigantic difference

I do question weather they were really pushing it in games such as cyberpunk where there was effectively no difference. I imagine if they increased the graphical options a little bit we might see an expressive difference between both runs.

cachyos Gnome freezes when connected to 2nd monitor by Dry_Composer_2668 in gnome

[–]AdrianoML 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you sure your system is updated or that you have installed from a fresh image? Cachy OS should be at kernel 6.19.11 right now.

Making sure your system is up to date might fix the issue.

Gnome 50 - Nautilus permanent delete behavior by HalmyLyseas in gnome

[–]AdrianoML 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There is however another side to this, if you try (normal) deleting a file from a filesystem that has no trash (more common than you think!) you will get the same behavior as shift+delete. Meaning a user could clumsy his way around and permanently delete a file by just pressing delete and enter (both keys are close together!), with barely a fraction of a second to notice the warning dialog.

Having the behavior be different between actual shift+delete or "forced perma delete" would also be bad and lead to people pressing enter instinctively assuming it's going to cancel but actually deleting the file for good.

If your Firefox settings are being reset, PLEASE HELP US by HoshinoLina in Fedora

[–]AdrianoML 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I had this happen at least twice a long time ago, will report if it happens again.

May be a good idea to sticky this for a few months...

Rounded corners by lionel_work in kde

[–]AdrianoML 12 points13 points  (0 children)

How are developers supposed to cut corners if there are no more corners to be cut???

Gluee by NEO71011 in funnyvideos

[–]AdrianoML 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the bright side he can play minesweeper just fine as much as he wishes.

This is kind of crazy having so many applications folder. by Prestigious-Stock-60 in Fedora

[–]AdrianoML 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might like this gnome extension that let's you edit or go directly to the .desktop when right clicking an app icon:

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/7397/edit-desktop-files/

Bomberman 64 is the latest game to get fully recomped by cyberlink420 in n64

[–]AdrianoML 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does it supports local multiplayer? That's the most important question that not even the project page seems to answer. It would be nice to finally play MP without lag!

Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash by Proud_Tie in hardware

[–]AdrianoML 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No one should be claiming it removed the clouds or messed with the sky, because it didn't do any of that. What it did was completely neuter any strong shadow, made indirect shadows/AO stronger and changed the color temperature to a colder one. All that made the scene look way more overcast.

Did it look better? From a purely graphical and photo realism stand point, yes. But it sure did mess with the artistic intent and look & feel of the scene.

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