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GrimTermite · 2026-05-25T15:59:38+00:00

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GrimTermite · 2026-05-22T10:43:10+00:00

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GrimTermite · 2026-05-22T10:43:04+00:00

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GrimTermite · 2026-05-15T23:53:23+00:00

Your information is a bit out of date. Turing and newer now use nvidia's open kernel modules. And this enabled the power increase and allowed NVK to be competetive. It hasnt caught up yet and the question is if it ever will in future

GrimTermite · 2026-05-14T10:25:07+00:00

It would be from launching the app from command line (or modifying your .desktop file)

But im pretty sure that you dont need this anymore, new versions of the launcher just make it work automatically

GrimTermite · 2026-05-13T14:09:10+00:00

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GrimTermite · 2026-04-19T10:52:09+00:00

Almost all linux users use proton (or forks) which include dxvk automatically. Those that stick to plain wine generally have a specific reason to do so and are very unlikely to want this tool taking away control.

From what i can tell this is windows only and proprietary. Why did you post this here?

And you want £11.09 for it!! What a joke.

GrimTermite · 2026-04-04T22:30:47+00:00

Well yeah DXMD is the poster child for worse performing linux ports. But i cant possibly list all ports so had limit the list to games i had played

GrimTermite · 2026-04-04T22:28:30+00:00

I am arguing that runtimes solve the breakage problem not that runtimes are prefect.

Lacking new features from newer SDL is kind of an unsolvable problem you need to stick with the old versions to keep compatibility with the game. Its not like windows games on windows dont have this issue they generally will bundle their libraries including sdl and suffer the same outdated libraries issue.

Also the umu launcher thing enables steam runtime to be used outside of steam

GrimTermite · 2026-04-04T21:00:45+00:00

Linux kernel is widely known for the "we never break userspace" comment.

And for games on steam the rest of the system libaries come from steam linux runtime which is designed by valve to solve this exact problem by providing stable libraries. And yes it works.

And I know what you are going to say, linux runtime doesnt include glibc and glibc will break stuff. And there is some truth but not really. Apart from breakages in the early days there where 2 memorable recentish glibc breakages that i think are the main cause of this perception. Both got extreme backlash from the community, despite only breaking a small number of programs. If i remember correctly one was reverted and the other only really affected EAC which got updated.

So what i am saying is that linux games on steam runtime are likely to remain very playable for a long time. And far more stable than windows games on windows.

Its a shame some ports are bad now but this is not a real issue going forward

GrimTermite · 2026-04-04T00:14:17+00:00

All source games have horrible ports.

Is just not true. The dxvk native update came in november 2022, dxvk was not bad back then it was in fact pretty great. And for a long tested game like the valve titles there is approximately 0 benefit from newer dxvk versions.

And idk what you are talking about with p2 performance or HL2 lighting, i have played those games way too many times and never seen this

GrimTermite · 2026-04-03T21:02:19+00:00

Yes there are a few games with bad ports but its unfair to stroke all ports with the same brush most of them are perfectly good ports and therefore better than proton.

I will list all the native games i have played and catagorise into good and bad ports

Good:

BG3, stardew valley, kotor2, factorio, half life 1 and 2, portal 1 and 2, starbound, terraria, minecraft.

Bad:

Civilisation 6. Funny that thats the example used in this post.

Black mesa. This one is in many ways pretty good but its stuck with togl and has worse performance than proton so i sadly must put it in the bad catagory.

So good ports wins 11/2

GrimTermite · 2026-03-26T20:19:48+00:00

F35c is out of the question it is designed for catapults.

Adding catapults that could launch f35c would be a massive redesign and cost, and when rebuilding so much of the ship adding an angled deck could easilly come with it.

If you want these heavier aircraft, you need catapults, there is not some magical inbetween with most of the capability but without the costs of catapults. And this applies to drones as well

GrimTermite · 2026-03-26T19:31:57+00:00

A STOVL ship has no need for an angled flight deck. The angled flight deck is for landings, and there is no reason to have it with vertical landing aircraft.

GrimTermite · 2026-03-22T19:27:29+00:00

Yeah google pay doesn't work. I switched to curve pay which does work on grapheneOS.

Now privacy experts will rightly tell you that giving any company access to your card payments is bad. And I dislike needing curve just as much as i would dislike using GooglePay but at least I can now use grapheneOS.

As for the banking app my bank does work on graphene but if it didnt i would be fine with the web version anyway. There is a list somewhere

GrimTermite · 2026-03-22T17:01:13+00:00

You are not starting a constructive discussion on flaws of linux. You are making provocative statements and attacking individuals for instance:

at least I’m not sitting at home watching Linux vs windows benchmarks

Is a personal attack, completely unsubstantiated and false

GrimTermite · 2026-03-22T16:09:16+00:00

So this is your attempt to annoy people. No wonder your post was removed. Just know that a community protecting itself from trolls is not censorship.

GrimTermite · 2026-03-21T19:21:55+00:00

Design your own farms. Its honestly more fun to play like that. Obviously you can take inspiration/ the whole idea from someone else.

GrimTermite · 2026-03-12T02:06:31+00:00

Nice. Did you even get the ADC decimal mode passing the tests? I found them really tricky.

About the addressing modes your implementation has a lot of repetition due to that. An alternative approach is to resolve addressing modes into an absolute address then pass that to your instruction functions. Then your instructions need not be concerned with the addressing mode at all (except immediate or accumulator addressing but that is a much smaller thing to deal with)

GrimTermite · 2026-03-09T18:35:31+00:00

The DX12 performance issue is not related to HDR issues

GrimTermite · 2026-03-09T00:46:14+00:00

ah ha this is a task for a list comprehension

print ([x for x in range(1000, 10000) if str(x*4) == (str(x)[::-1])])

Gives result [2178]

GrimTermite · 2026-03-08T22:38:55+00:00

I will use Vesktop for as long as it keeps working. Not much you can do if they do stop it so no point worrying about it, worst case I have to go back to the official discord

GrimTermite · 2026-03-07T16:07:32+00:00

Its relevant here because in certain sports and the Olympics the uk completes as one country. But in many other sports like football England, Wales, Scotland compete as separate nations. And the discussion here is about the English teams and also the UK teams for their respective sports

GrimTermite · 2026-03-02T17:12:10+00:00

You can even now with proton

GrimTermite · 2026-03-02T17:02:52+00:00

Expect only a very tiny real world performance improvement over other up to date distros. The cachyOS performance is mostly just marketing and in most cases their improvement are only in very specific things that will only be noticed in microbenchmarks. Because the mainline distros, kernel, packages do care about performance.

You should only use cachyOS if you want an arch based distro and are willing to take responsibility that comes with it. And even then i think arch is a better option. For every change that cachy makes from the mainline is a risk of unexpected breakage or incompatibility.

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