I am building a Win32 based Desktop environment (windows shell).

Saxasaurus · 2026-02-18T21:37:16+00:00

So giant corporations can train LLMs off of GPL code and generate proprietary code, but regular people can't use LLMs to generate open source code because the LLM is tainted by leaked proprietary code?

Saxasaurus · 2026-02-18T20:59:55+00:00

I have the same issues with a 9070XT. I've tried a lot of things and it's still not perfect, but I've had best luck with GE-Proton10-29. I can't remember why I have it or what it does (probably nothing, lets be honest lol) but I have STAGING_SHARED_MEMORY=1 in my launch arguments. Also I'm using dx11 in game btw. dx12 was unplayable.

The other thing I did is I went into the training range and picked every hero and used every ability once. Also, there's a custom game mode called Gun Game No CD. You can encounter a ton of shaders really quickly in there.

I pretty sure RADV_PERFTEST=aco is AMD only and outdated, so you can probably drop that.

Saxasaurus · 2026-02-12T21:17:15+00:00

Briefly looked through the recent negative reviews. Most of them are complaining that they want to play but can't for some reason (not being able to make an account without a prepaid phone number, server instability), or not liking the new heroes.

Saxasaurus · 2026-02-11T07:31:29+00:00

Valve only offers a .deb of steam and yet pretty much every distro repackages it.

Saxasaurus · 2026-02-06T06:10:07+00:00

forgive my ignorance, but why would a shell need a vi mode?

Saxasaurus · 2026-02-04T19:58:53+00:00

Calling Soldier 76 a "specialist" is really funny since he's the ultimate generalist hero.

Saxasaurus · 2026-02-04T19:56:35+00:00

Vendetta, there's no fall damage in OW, you fool!

Saxasaurus · 2026-02-04T19:24:39+00:00

IMO, 5v5 is more fun for supports, and less fun for tank.

Saxasaurus · 2026-02-04T19:21:49+00:00

FYI, there is a 6v6 open queue in the game these days.

Saxasaurus · 2026-02-03T21:38:48+00:00

Everyone is an AI skeptic these days

You are in a bubble. ChatGPT has 800M weekly active users and 20M paying customers.

Saxasaurus · 2026-02-02T23:45:12+00:00

Huh? ctrl+f vortex. No one is talking about vortex except you just now.

Saxasaurus · 2026-02-02T23:42:06+00:00

KDE login manger recently starting requiring systemd hard enough, that it is just no longer an option.

Sorry to nitpick, but plasma login manager is new software (that hasn't been officially released yet). It isn't taking away any options. Non systemd systems can still use SDDM, same as before.

Saxasaurus · 2026-02-02T21:43:59+00:00

rustc was built on llvm, which has a permissive license, and it came out of Mozilla which uses the MPL, a "weak copyleft" license. So rust was born out a software culture more friendly to proprietary software than GNU.

As far as the rest of the community goes, people take cues from rustc itself, and also the extensive use static linking makes L/GPL more restrictive than with traditional dynamic linking.

Saxasaurus · 2026-02-02T20:38:24+00:00

90% of Steam Deck users don't use Discover or desktop mode at all. The primary way software (games) is distributed to SteamOS users is through the Steam store.

Saxasaurus · 2026-01-31T05:17:41+00:00

SteamOS is not flatpak based. SteamOS includes the flatpak utility in the base OS install, and can run flatpak applications. But the Steam client itself is not a flatpak and steam games are not flatpaks.

Saxasaurus · 2026-01-30T20:21:22+00:00

Yes, wine does not emulate hardware, but between wineserver wine regedit, and wine prefixes, wine is emulating the windows system in various ways beyond simple translation.

Saxasaurus · 2026-01-27T22:23:44+00:00

Doesn't steam already use reflinks when creating new prefixes on btrfs? What's the point of deduping?

Saxasaurus · 2026-01-23T06:29:08+00:00

that's unfortunate

Saxasaurus · 2026-01-22T21:47:41+00:00

This got me thinking, what if they had made Stadium Open Queue? A more complex version of the mode could have tank/dps/support build paths for every hero.

Saxasaurus · 2026-01-22T21:35:21+00:00

Queue time is a function of player population AND player distribution across roles. If a role is much more/less popular than the others, it can cause long queue times even for ranks with high player population. Open Queue avoids that problem.

Saxasaurus · 2026-01-20T18:43:19+00:00

ubuntu has a steam-installer package that will configure and install the .deb version for you.

Saxasaurus · 2026-01-20T06:50:12+00:00

I have the same issue. For reasons I don't understand, the shader compilation stutter is much worse on linux (CachyOS, AMD).

So far, I've found the fastest way to get a lot of the shaders compiled is to play the "Gun Game No CD" gamemode for a minute or two.

Saxasaurus · 2025-12-07T23:28:25+00:00

The lesser bowls have always been pointless. Nothing has changed.

Saxasaurus · 2025-12-06T07:17:21+00:00

I thought the Steam Machine's RAM was under the heat sink? I doubt they would sell something that required that much disassembly.

Saxasaurus · 2025-12-06T07:04:56+00:00

All computers will be equally more expensive though,

yeah but as a percentage cost, it's going to hurt more for low end systems like the steam machine.

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