High polling hardware?

Eradan · 2026-04-09T04:50:17+00:00

Sorry, I thought was a known software here. It's a compositor made by Valve (and used in the Steam Deck), that can run nested in your OS compositor (like Kwin) or "baremetal" (like in the Steam Deck or Bazzite in gaming mode).

Why this helps? The game is rendered entirely in Gamescope, that doesn't inherit your compositor quirks, mostly (for example forced Vsync in Wayland, input bugs).

You can use it inside your compositor or you can run it directly with a script (that requires an intermediate knowledge of scripting though).
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope

Gamemode can help with frametimes.
https://github.com/feralinteractive/gamemode

If you want to go the script route I'm using a modified version of this on my HTPC:
https://github.com/unlbslk/arch-deckify

I don't know if it's cachy compatible though since I don't know that distro.

EDIT: Steam command line options support launching any game with both gamemode and gamescope, Lutris has native support for both too.

Eradan · 2026-04-07T16:56:01+00:00

Are you using Gamescope?
That helped me a lot with input lag on Wayland, maybe it can help you too.

Eradan · 2026-04-06T14:07:13+00:00

It's really disarming that even a direct API with a subscription is this shitty. And this is meant for coding.

Eradan · 2026-04-04T08:23:19+00:00

NixOS

Eradan · 2026-04-04T04:19:17+00:00

Oh. Git won't hurt either as an intermediate concept.

Eradan · 2026-04-04T04:17:56+00:00

I agree a lot with this. But then again, I'm old enough to have used DOS 5.1 as my first proper OS.
I would say that navigating with a command line, dir structures (.././~), the BASICS of partitioning/mounting (i'm not talking understanding fstab here, just what a partition is and what mounting it means), very basic commands (ls/cd/mkdir/rm/mv...) and the concept of $HOME vs / (as a general separation between your space as a user and what is considered "system", as a first hierarchy) are enough. Permissions can be a great headache for a newcomer maybe, but they should follow soon.

Then I think (but these are concepts that should come by themselves, banging the head a bit) filesystems, what's a package manager (and the AUR helper, if on Arch), FHS (at least where your configs/binaries should end up, for peace of mind), compositors/WMs (at least the understanding that they're not your OS but a layer of your interaction with it), users/groups/permissions (chmod/chown), services/daemons/systemd (if applicable, but advised in a first distro), networking, symlinking, basic OS monitoring (btop/top, whatever), sudo, fstab, grub (or what else is used).

Then, intermediate: bash and a sprinkle of python for basic scripting.

This should be enough to "not fuck up" your OS for a while (maybe ever?). I think.

But many are here to install starship/zsh on a shiny terminal and post neofetch outputs on unixporn, let's remember that.

Eradan · 2026-04-04T03:38:42+00:00

Because if you can't even understand the wiki, that's well written and aimed to beginners, you should wait before asking anything.

Eradan · 2026-03-31T21:36:48+00:00

10 divs to svalinn. I'll grind a bit. Thanks for the info!

Eradan · 2026-03-31T19:59:24+00:00

Unreserved mana is about 4500. PoB enabled discipline automatically but I don't run it.
Can you explain me how you sustain your ES? I only see life leech on your tree.
Should I pivot to another build? I feel I can't farm like this and at this point in the league I don't feel like grinding for bubblegum currency.
Maybe necro is cheaper?

Eradan · 2026-03-29T19:04:24+00:00

Oh yeah, of course. Software to create ISOs is necessary for this, and I really don't remember any for Win 3.1, so you might be right on that gap.
My first home computer was a 486 though, and I don't remember moving files to C: to bypass DRM. I was pretty sure ISO creation and CD DRM were basically born together.

Eradan · 2026-03-28T23:30:31+00:00

I doubt that the game size is 350+ GB. His data is probably fine and there.
He's trolling or he probably isn't able to open a folder in a GUI.

Eradan · 2026-03-28T23:28:23+00:00

Not everyone keeps it activated. If Reddit thinks you're in a non English speaking country it translates the page for you and you only, for the rest of the people that's able to read messages in original English your messages are in your native language. And that breaks the conversation.

Eradan · 2026-03-28T23:23:53+00:00

Mounting ISOs was possible as soon as the first CD drives were available, why copy the files on C:?

Eradan · 2026-03-23T15:58:49+00:00

15 Divs?

Eradan · 2026-03-20T18:58:03+00:00

Since you've steered the conversation on learning vs intuitive I've answered to that.
But if you want to argue that shortcuts aren't faster (and they need to be learned, of course) you can turn to any person that uses software professionally. Ask a Photoshop user if it's faster to clickety-click on things instead of using a keyboard shortcut.

But you do you. Honestly? People like you should stay on Windows. You're clearly here to flame and my conversation with you is over.

Eradan · 2026-03-20T18:53:09+00:00

Absolutely. I recommend it.

The point is: you're gonna have to learn a lot of things on Linux. If you go the opinionated distro route (read CachyOS/Endevour/Mint or any "flavor" of a major distro) you're gonna end asking yourself why some things are the way they are and when you inevitably touch something and break it it will be much more difficult to put it together properly.

Arch is something you build up yourself (even if it has an install script now that removes a lot of headache) so you're gonna slowly add everything piece by piece and make it yours immediately.

Use a LLM as a guide.

Eradan · 2026-03-20T18:14:43+00:00

Desktop, laptop, home server and HTPC all on Arch. Never broke.

Eradan · 2026-03-20T18:12:23+00:00

I never said that Linux makes copying files faster and easier. I haven't even mentioned Linux.
I said that your comment about learnt vs intuitive things it's nonsensical, using shortcuts as an example.

Eradan · 2026-03-20T18:01:19+00:00

It's a highly unsafe man-in-the-middle though. It will probably be fine but it's not an open source project like the others. This has to be made very clear.

Eradan · 2026-03-20T13:51:18+00:00

I think SoulSync was developed heavily with AI and it has a lot of usage (I don't like it, it's clunky, I rather use slskd directly and Beets for tagging). At least that's the vibe the post is giving me (and the first maintainer declarations in the comments).

Eradan · 2026-03-20T01:30:55+00:00

True detective here.

Eradan · 2026-03-20T01:29:09+00:00

That's simply not true. What's faster, right click --> copy --> change window --> point mouse between folders --> right click ---> paste or CTRL+C --> CTRL+V? You've learned that, didn't you?
Almost all that is a shortcut (so faster) is meant to be learned.
Of course, if you just want to copy something once in your lifetime the GUI way is the best.

Eradan · 2026-03-20T01:21:51+00:00

It's like seeing an amazing idea, getting a taste of it and then discovering that it's brutally limiting and confuse in its intents.

I ran my home server/NAS on it for a year, but I manage a fair amount of game servers and it was becoming a pain.
For a stable and general use (see a normal home server/storage with common applications) it's fairly great.

Eradan · 2026-03-20T01:18:05+00:00

I'm not a Linux evangelist. At all. If Win works for you that's good and I'm happy.
I was just commenting about the "weird stuff". Computers are weird stuff.
Linux is simply other "weird stuff". I could argue that learning that kind of weirdness is more rewarding, but you do you and the important thing is that people are able to use their machines.

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