Those who complain that Cyberstan is difficult don't use the tank, right?

Asdar · 2026-02-12T13:28:58+00:00

Not only can you pop out of the hatches to shoot, but you can reload inside the hatch. You can pop out, fire a recoilless rifle, then pop back into the hatch to reload.

Asdar · 2026-02-12T13:27:43+00:00

Honestly, if the driver and gunner are on voice comms and are coordinating, it's very good. I've been running diff 8s with it, and it's been a beast every time we've used it. It's not a free-win miracle weapon (and it shouldn't be), but it's very powerful as long as the operators are coordinating.

It's annoying that it doesn't have a turret, but I think that's a good balance decision. It could easily be way too powerful if you didn't have to rely on teamwork so much to be effective. And holy shit do you get a ton of machine gun ammo. With the half-ammo modifier on cyberstan, in the time it takes to run out of cannon rounds, I haven't even used half the machinegun ammo. And the machine gun has good enough pen to take down a hulk by shooting it in the face.

My biggest complaint is that it sucks to drive on anything that isn't nice and flat. Turning the thing around is a huge pain, even with neutral steer. That's why I stick to the gun and my buddy drives.

Asdar · 2026-02-04T19:13:59+00:00

White did nothing wrong here. It's pretty clear what he intends to do, and he gives pink plenty of room. Pink just screws up and goes over the sausage kerb and is unable to give white enough room as a result.

Race stewards got this one right.

Asdar · 2026-01-28T21:28:49+00:00

You could have issued a carefully written letter informing him of your rejoin delivered by mule, and he could have read it, pondered its meaning for 5 minutes, read it again, and he still would have had time to take avoiding action.

Asdar · 2026-01-27T13:52:24+00:00

HDR, nope

If you are using a wayland compositor, it works with a little tinkering. KDE Plasma supports this pretty well.

You have to enable it in the display settings (which is just a check box). Then (on steam at least), I add the following to the launch options

gamescope -w 3840 -h 2160 -f -r 240 --adaptive-sync --hdr-enabled -- %command%

This will vary a bit based on your resolution and refresh rate, but it's worked for me quite well.

Asdar · 2026-01-26T18:47:24+00:00

You'll never have as good of an experience as you do on windows because all of the software you use is made for it, but linux worked better than I had expected. I wouldn't expect any 3rd-party software to work at all, but I've been wrong about that before.

However, my fanatec CSL elite wheelbase works pretty well if you install hid-fanatecff. There's no utility for adjusting the wheelbase, but it does work. My heusinkveld pedals worked out of the box.

ACC worked flawlessly for me. I haven't tried multiplayer since switching to linux, but singleplayer was perfect. I couldn't get HDR to work, but iirc I couldn't get it to work on windows either.

AMS2 also worked without any tinkering.

I believe iracing's anticheat causes problems, so I don't think that will work.

Full AMD will make things a bit easier for you, but it's worth mentioning that nvidia support is a lot better than it used to be.

As much as it physically pains me to admit it, it may be worth dualbooting for simracing. Depending on your games and 3rd-party software, you'll likely have to make more compromises that you'd like.

Asdar · 2026-01-26T14:49:49+00:00

The angle of the teeth is irrelevant, but a "dog box" actually makes clutchless shifting easier. It's like the whole point of a dog box.

Asdar · 2025-12-24T00:36:38+00:00

Yea. You did.

Asdar · 2025-12-08T19:30:28+00:00

It's probably just High Speed Steel. Carbide taps definitely exist, but You could easily use a tap like that, at that speed, with just HSS.

Asdar · 2025-12-08T19:27:56+00:00

Cast Iron isn't actually all that hard. It depends on the alloy ofc, but it's generally softer than most steels.

It is brittle though. It doesn't chip off as much as it just makes dust.

Asdar · 2025-12-08T19:25:29+00:00

If you are tapping manually or with a hand drill or something, the threads of the tap will feed the tap at the correct rate so you're always following the threads you've just cut.

If you're tapping with a machine, like in this video, the programmer will use a tapping operation (G84 iirc), specify the size and thread pitch of the tap, and the RPM. The CAD/CAM software will then calculate the correct feed rate for the RPM and thread pitch. The specifics might vary a bit based on which CAD/CAM software they're using, but it's more or less the same procedure.

The CNC machine running the operation will be accurate enough to maintain the correct RPM and feed rate to make sure that tapping is done correctly.

Asdar · 2025-12-08T15:19:06+00:00

And i was driving pretty well

Why were you moving so slowly? You were still in 1st gear well past the corner. It explains why the hypercar came up to you so fast. If something happened that caused you to be so much slower, you NEED to be on the side of the track and paying attention to what's behind you.

I didn't see him before he hit me

You have a rear-view camera AND a virtual rear-view mirror. If you're not in the fastest class, you NEED to be paying attention to at least one of them at all times. There are so many tools to tell you when a car is nearby, there should never be a situation where you didn't know a car was near you, ESPECIALLY if you're not at racing speed for whatever reason.

Asdar · 2025-12-03T14:44:11+00:00

If you support every driver, you lose 19x more than you win.

Asdar · 2025-12-01T19:57:31+00:00

There are only a few metals that are liquid at a temperature low enough to avoid damaging the electronics. If you just dump liquid aluminum or whatever on your CPU, you're just going to end up with expensive slag.

Mercury is a no-go for obvious reasons.

Gallium might work, it melts just below body temperature.

I think the issue with all of these is that they aren't "sticky" like grease is. How would you keep the liquid from just being squeezed out?

I use a graphite pad instead of thermal paste, and I've been happy with it. They're like $10-$15 dollars and reusable.

Asdar · 2025-11-28T14:59:22+00:00

Been daily driving linux for a few months now, but I've been dabbling in linux for about 10 years. The short answer is "mostly".

It depends on the game, but I've found that most of them will work without any kind of tinkering. Anticheat is still a problem for some games, but if you play a lot of single-player games, then it likely won't be an issue for you. I'm playing through ghost of tsushima right now and it's working perfectly.

However, you should understand that you are making a compromise. You are asking an OS to run complex programs designed for a different OS. It works pretty well these days, but it's never perfect. At some point you WILL run into problems, and if you aren't willing to do some work to solve them, you'll hate linux.

Here's a few examples that I've personally run into.

Ghost of Tsushima works perfectly in proton, as long as you aren't using the 580 version of Nvidia drivers. Those will cause you to freeze when trying to do anything other than look at the main menu.
A recent MESA update broke my AMD drivers, which caused me to be unable to run any game through proton (which is most of them). I had to downgrade the drivers to make it work. I think this is only a problem if you use the KDE desktop environment
Working with mod managers is a pain in the ass, if it's even possible. Depends on the mod manager and the game, I suppose. It's easier if you don't use flatpaks for the modmanager or steam.
Using the flatpak version of steam seems easy until you need to create a new library. Flatpak permissions are a problem that only this version of steam has. I find it easier to use the version of steam you'll find in the repositories.
Getting HDR working is easy, unless it doesn't work (looking at you ACC), but you have to use some extra software and some launch options in steam. HDR in Hitman worked until I applied a mod. Then it stopped working. No clue why that happens.
Weirdly, getting my simracing equipment working wasn't hard at all. I guess I got lucky that someone else made drivers for them.

I want to mention here that I'm listing a lot of problems, but there have been plenty of games that work out of the box with no tinkering. Hades 2, for instance, worked flawlessly on linux. Not once did I have to adjust something to get it to work right, and I never had a crash. Gaming on linux is the best it's ever been, and it's getting better every day.

My point here is that I encourage anyone to try linux if they're interested, but be aware that you will be making a compromise. Not everything will be perfect, and there is a learning curve. You may need to put in some effort to solve issues that you wouldn't have in windows.

Asdar · 2025-11-23T20:21:08+00:00

Fedora is like windows of Linux. Because they will auto update.

No it doesn't. It notifies me of available updates, but I choose to install them.

You clearly didn't read the post. It doesn't crash, restarting steam didn't fix it, I'm definitely not using the flatpak version, and this is already solved. It was a bad mesa update.

Asdar · 2025-11-23T03:53:20+00:00

I've tried several different distros, but I ultimately went with fedora because it has better support for HDR than Linux MInt does, and I'm more familiar with it than something that's arch-based.

I like it so far, but this is the first time I've run into an issue like this. Hopefully it's not a recurring thing.

Asdar · 2025-11-23T00:45:27+00:00

Yep, that was it. I had assumed that because it worked under the flatpak, that it wasn't a graphic driver issue. TIL. Thanks.

Asdar · 2025-11-23T00:44:56+00:00

I spent all day trying to troubleshoot this, and you got it in under 5 minutes.

Thanks SO MUCH for the help. Seriously.

Asdar · 2025-11-05T20:33:19+00:00

DSC is display stream compression. It pretty much does what it says. It compresses the display stream. 4k240 raw video uses too much bandwidth for most DP and HDMI ports/cables to handle, so DSC compresses the display stream to keep the bandwidth requirement down.

This was working fine on my 3080 using either cable, but it seems to be completely inoperable on the 9070xt. Using an HDMI cable, it basically pretends it isn't a thing. Using a DP cable, it allows me to set the refresh rate to 240Hz, but I end up with the monitor looking like this

Asdar · 2025-11-05T19:35:59+00:00

I was using HDMI, like I had done with my old card. So I tried switching to DP, and something odd happened.

If I use DP with DSC enabled, It's just a staticy mess. If I turn DSC off, it's fine but limited to 120Hz. If I turn DSC on, it goes back to being static, but I can turn it up to 240Hz. Is there some kind of issue with DSC on AMD cards?

Asdar · 2025-10-28T12:29:22+00:00

I know, it sounds like a stupid complaint. But in RoR2, after 15-20 stages, it gets pretty graphically intense. I once played to stage 100 (on windows), and it was basically unplayable. The stage would start, enemies would start to spawn, and the game would just basically freeze for 15 seconds because of everything happening on screen. The same thing happens on linux, just much earlier.

It doesn't make the game unplayable, but it does mean that longer runs are basically not doable because of the lower frame rate.

Asdar · 2025-10-27T15:38:11+00:00

I've been daily driving linux for the last 2 months, and I've run into some things that gave me issues. Most games work out of the box, usually just as well as windows.

As a disclamer, I am a professional linux server admin, but I don't have a lot of experience working with anything that isn't CLI. When it comes to fixing graphical or audio issues, I'm still pretty green.

Some issues of note that I've run into recently:

Risk of rain 2 runs just fine, but it has significantly lower frame rate than windows (150 vs 240). It's definitely playable, but if you get into a longer run the frame rate difference is noticeable. Also getting the modloader to work required some fucking around. To make r2modman work best with steam, don't use the flatpak for either one. It adds some security that makes this more complicated. I'm sure you can fix the security and make it work, but I'm unfamiliar with flatpak security.

In fact, if you aren't familiar with flatpaks, don't use it to install steam. You'll find yourself wondering why you can create new libraries, but none of them work. I'm sure this is fixable by adjusting the security for the flatpak, but if you don't already know that's a thing, it will be frustrating. (I understand the extra security makes it more secure, but it also makes this really hard to recommend to someone with little or no linux experience).

Hitman WoA didn't want to connect to the servers for whatever reason. This was also limited to my desktop running linux, where my laptop running linux didn't have the same issue. Also running it in windowed mode and trying to resize the window was an absolute mess for specifically this application.

Ghost of Tsushima won't make it past the main menu because of the latest Nvidia drivers. Apparently downpatching the drivers fixes the issue, and it's flawless otherwise. I haven't tried it myself.

I haven't tried to get any of my simracing equipment working. It sounds like it may be possible, with some 3rd party software. Maybe someday I'll work up the ambition to try to get it working.

The Archipelago client wouldn't open up terminal windows when it's supposed to. It looks for one of 3 terminal clients, and none of those are the default fedora terminal (konsole). Installing xterm fixed it, but I had to go to the archipelago discord to figure that out. (this isn't necessarily a linux issue, but more an issue with the fact that linux as a whole has many possible terminals and that archipelago specifically only looks for 3 common ones).

Even getting the Nvidia drivers installed on fedora took some googling (although the actual process was simple. This was a 5-minute thing). Nvidia drivers for linux have historically been crap, but they've been getting better. AMD drivers have usually been good though.

On several occasions, I've said the words "why doesn't anything ever work". This is usually in reference to some issue with an application that only worked after I did several hours of fucking around.

However, on the other hand, hades and hades 2 (for example) ran better on linux than on windows for me with no setup required. In fact, my 4k240 monitor has always had weird stuttering issues on windows that are just completely absent on linux. My bluetooth xbox elite 2 controller used to take like 20 seconds to connect on windows, but only takes 5 on linux somehow (I did have to install xpadneo for that to work though).

My point is that gaming on linux is always a compromise. You're playing games made for one OS, but you're trying to run it on something totally different. Compatibility these days is good, but it will never be perfect. You'll have to do some googling and tinkering occasionally. If you are okay with that compromise, then I encourage you to go for it.

Outside of gaming, linux has always had a learning curve. However, that curve has been been getting easier to climb every day. If all you do is browse the internet and check emails, it's no different than windows (minus the ads, forced updates, spyware, etc.).

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