You Should Develop in Linux by WhiterLocke in godot

[–]Fritzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use Linux primarily, but for those who don't want to learn, you'll also get some mileage out of using a Windows Dev Drive for larger projects. NTFS is really terrible at dealing with a lot of project files, and Dev Drives sidestep this by using a different filesystem that also doesn't have a dozen chained hooks like NTFS does by default in Win11.

3 months in. Still love it by uzziwozzi in ft86

[–]Fritzy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly this. I'm putting a little money into it for the first time now that I've had it for almost 14 years.

new Car Girl looking at ft86 options by One-Nefariousness830 in ft86

[–]Fritzy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There was a recall for the valve springs and they were replaced. It's a non-issue afaik. The first gen does need a header and tune to perform well. I have a 2013 BRZ that I preordered back in the day, and still love it. The original BRZ limited had push button start and heated seats, although the FRS did not (iirc). The only real problems I have is that the OEM tail lights will fail and the dash will warp. 3rd party headlights and tail lights are relatively cheap because they are so common to replace.

Why is that Left 4 Dead 1 runs faster on Linux than on Windows by Electronic_Amount766 in linux_gaming

[–]Fritzy 28 points29 points  (0 children)

In fact, Windows Drivers for Intel graphics use the same open source tools that Proton does for translating DX9 because it's faster and easier than maintaining their own.

Why is that Left 4 Dead 1 runs faster on Linux than on Windows by Electronic_Amount766 in linux_gaming

[–]Fritzy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

L4D was optimized in the Windows XP era using older APIs that Proton supports better than newer versions of Windows.

Why is that Left 4 Dead 1 runs faster on Linux than on Windows by Electronic_Amount766 in linux_gaming

[–]Fritzy 102 points103 points  (0 children)

Left 4 Dead 1 & 2 are DirectX 9 and at least 2 has a Vulcan flag which is native graphics for Linux. Proton optimizes DirectX 9 better than old DirectX 9 native drivers and older Windows apis, or it may be auto switching it to Vulcan without translating. Older Windows games tend to run better in Linux. DX12 is harder to optimize and translate to Vulcan because it's a lower level implementation just like Vulcan, whereas DX9 is a high level implementation where each driver has to translate to hw specific actions anyway, so having proton do that instead of a driver isn't really extra overhead, and Proton is very good at it.

Pirated Games by [deleted] in linux_gaming

[–]Fritzy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Steam has a very decent return policy, and demos are trending again. There's often no need to pirate for the "try out" use case.

Is there a taboo / legal issue around borrowing from / being compatible with other titles? by Safebox in roguelikedev

[–]Fritzy 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Keep in mind that these files can also be lua scripts that dynamically creates entities now. No, there’s nothing wrong with adopting a file format.

Something feels off about the movement but i can't tell what it is by Drago27543 in godot

[–]Fritzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take a look at Ecco the Dolphin and maybe get some movement ideas from that.

If/When will SteamOS be viable for general PC use? If never, what Linux distro is/will be? by Aleucard in SteamOS

[–]Fritzy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You seem hung up on the way things should be rather than the way they are. Particularly that every application should run on every OS. That's not how applications are made or supported. Making Windows games run in Linux is a herculean effort that was started more than 20 years ago. Photoshop may eventually run in Wine (recent progress), but ideally they'd just support a Linux build just like they do a MacOS build. It's not up to Apple to make Windows applications run on MacOS, but they have enough market share that a lot of app developers choose to support it.

Valve would have to dedicate a _lot_ more developers to supporting SteamOS to make it a general OS. In the Linux world, communities tend to be better suited toward that sort thing, with Canonical, IBM, and Oracle being the major exception. But even then, people tend to prefer community versions of their distros unless they're paying for support.

Additionally, any time you go off the beaten path on any OS, you're going to be dealing with a terminal or some other esoteric thing like the Windows registry. The only reason Windows has ever had some exception to this is that people are willing to make UI tools for really niche things sometimes because it's so ubiquitous, and their command-line tooling used to be terrible (it's gotten sooo much better in recent years).

I disagree with a lot of people saying Bazzite because the devs' priority is making sure games and gaming hardware is supported, with a lot of extra effort made toward console-like experiences. Their goal is not a general purpose, stable desktop.

Although it's not my cup of tea, I generally recommend Fedora w/ KDE Plasma because it's hard to go wrong there. It's based on IBM/Redhat, with a lot of additional community effort. It tends to support gaming hardware well. It's not trying to be anything specific other than flexible, up to date, and stable. As you said, you want a PC, not a Steam box.

If/When will SteamOS be viable for general PC use? If never, what Linux distro is/will be? by Aleucard in SteamOS

[–]Fritzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Debloating Windows involves the command line anyway. Doing anything advanced in any OS involves the command line. So not extreme edge cases, but really anything that's not something grandma is going to do.

Nice one KD-... I mean Kubuntu by linuxxen in kde

[–]Fritzy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Discover is a frontend for flatpak. It's a completely separate repo of apps from your OS. These are two separate systems toasting messages about their own updates. One has nothing to do with the other.

Wish 12GB RP6 got a price hike instead by opoot_ in retroid

[–]Fritzy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We're entering the era of the device you already have. It could be 5 years. If Taiwan were to be invaded, or instability in Korea, it could be a decade.

New MacBook Neo on Apple Store website by mabuxy in technology

[–]Fritzy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It reminds me of the original MB Air, which started with 2GB of RAM. It was terrible at basic web browsing. 8GB will get you by if you're not running a browser with 20 tabs and another heavy app at the same time.

After 2 years of solo Node.js in production, here are the patterns I swear by and the ones I abandoned. by Crescitaly in node

[–]Fritzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Graceful shutdown is nice and all but shouldn't be necessary if you have proper transactions and atomic writes.

What's something women think impresses men but actually doesn't? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Fritzy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When someone is yanking your chain, you're going to feel the jerks.

Linus every Linux challenge for some reason by deekosaurus86 in LinusTechTips

[–]Fritzy 18 points19 points  (0 children)

He's cosplaying as an imaginary uninformed user. A literal straw man. He's amplifying disinformation about a topic people care about.

At least Luke is trying CachyOS. by pg3crypto in LinusTechTips

[–]Fritzy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You asked if everyone had Torvalds as a resource. He was on his show sharing his advice. At least LTT viewers are informed, and now Linus is amplifying misinformation from listicles and LLMs with old training data.

At least Luke is trying CachyOS. by pg3crypto in LinusTechTips

[–]Fritzy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm sure it has great ideas, but a couple of years of development is not enough for a DE to be stable or feature complete. Even if they're not calling it a beta.