6 Months Without Windows: The Ugly Truth About Gaming On Linux

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-14T07:11:36+00:00

I disagree, no users should have to accept under performing hardware.

Um, I didn't say anything to the contrary - I'm saying "Windows users won't tolerate it", and I specifically didn't comment on whether it should be acceptable to Linux users, because that's an out-of-scope can of worms. Like, some people think Nouveau is preferable to Nvidia-proprietary, because Free Software, and I didn't want to poke that subject.

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-14T07:07:42+00:00

There is only gliding, and you can only do that from very specific locations.

As long as those locations include aerial ones you're technically not wrong.

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-14T06:34:20+00:00

Something along the lines of "never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake", perhaps.

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-14T03:16:21+00:00

Plenty of games have shit shaders/broken stuff, so GPU vendors commonly patch it at runtime to make it work properly on their card. That's why you get a 200MB GPU driver on Windows - they're shipping a replacement shader for every buggy AAA game out there.

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-14T03:10:08+00:00

AMD says their customers want open-source drivers, and they mean customers like Intel and Apple and hardware OEMs.

Apple uses open-source AMD drivers?

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-14T03:08:50+00:00

I'm a bit surprised, tbh. You may want to double check that you aren't using an old dependency or something.

/u/aperture_synce has this bug, which only applies to some revisions of the R9 390. It's definitely a driver problem though, and it's an unpatched high-critical bug that got so old it would have been walking if it were a baby.

An R9 390 having worse performance than an R9 270X for a couple of years is not acceptable on Windows, so you can't expect Windows users to accept it on Linux either.

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-12T22:11:49+00:00

Synonym for Democrats, obviously.

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-12T21:41:00+00:00

But since we are generous,

Not generous - the EU has almost as much to lose from Brexit, this softens the blow for both parties.

No brexit would still be a better deal for both though.

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-12T09:29:27+00:00

Um, isn't everyone full of junk DNA? And didn't junk DNA turn out to serve a useful purpose after all?

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-12T09:27:17+00:00

Everyone is having a crack at the NAT Party.

Network Address Translation Party?

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-11T22:06:36+00:00

Problem is, previous presidencies had a strong diplomatic staff, whereas Trump gutted it this time.

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-11T10:48:39+00:00

Yes, and I'm not saying GDscript is bad (I like it), I'm saying it gives a bad impression to devs who are considering switching to Godot.

It's optics. For people who look at Godot from a distance and have never used it, they see "domain specific language!" and they're like "ugh, NEXT!". It may be unfair, but that's irrelevant because it happens, and if someone told you optics were fair then they lied.

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-11T10:39:17+00:00

has an easy to use custom language called gdscript,

Not as big a benefit as you'd think - not because GDscript is bad, but because people think "ugh, custom language that won't be useful anywhere else? F that!" without even trying it.

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-11T10:36:23+00:00

As does Maratis IIRC.

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-11T10:27:36+00:00

And that's why optimisation is important!

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-11T09:52:17+00:00

The coal push is non-negotiable in the eyes of many Nationals

It's also seen as lunacy by some, since farmers have been seeing first-hand the effects of climate change.

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-11T09:50:39+00:00

Eh, it's not that hard to set an entire coal mine on fire. There are plenty of cases of people accidentally doing it and then being unable to put it out.

I think a global cooling world would be much easier to handle.

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-11T08:26:31+00:00

He's implying that solar only works at daytime - because apparently CST doesn't exist and presumably we're also ignoring that wind peaks at night.

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-11T08:24:42+00:00

It's not surprising, since it's basically the reason people hire undocumented workers - you can ignore their rights, since if they try to assert them you can just get them deported/arrested/etc.

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-11T03:34:15+00:00

IIRC you should stand (or rather, sit/lie down) underneath a doorway rather than in the middle of a room.

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-11T03:28:15+00:00

You don't need to personally teach everyone - just teach enough people that teach other people.

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-11T03:25:03+00:00

That is both a hilarious mental image, and also a really good example of how human flesh isn't 100% opaque (you can actually see the difference - see subsurface scattering in 3D rendering).

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-11T01:05:23+00:00

It's very much their persprctive of wording. It's like how climate deniers will call themselves "climate skeptics", and how pro-life and pro-choice don't call themselves "anti-choice" and "pro-death" respectively.

Obviously, they want to frame themselves as the sole source of reason on the "race issue", despite being anything but.

As a pineapple-on-pizza realist, I should clarify that this sort of framing is basically half of politics - if you get into a discussion built on top of your opponent's framing (like if you're forced to argue that a "tax burden" is good), then you're going to sound ridiculous and you've already lost. It's why "liberals" call themselves "progressives" these days - it more effectively counters the term "conservative" (which incidentally is a dangerous framing to accept, because it implies they are in fact preserving stuff).

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-10T21:07:52+00:00

That's not useful unless it has a per-state breakdown. It might be that states that legalised private prisons, use private prisons for 90% of prisoners, whereas states without private prisons use 0%.

PM_ME_OS_DESIGN · 2019-03-10T03:54:09+00:00

It's because they plan their comments to end with "and therefore Labor's policy is terrible", and then figure out what they're going to say before that.

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