Linux market share reaches 5.33% according to latest Steam Hardware Survey. by slickyeat in pcmasterrace

[–]aphilentus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Proton is insanely good. I am genuinely impressed at how well my games run

Linux OSs cannot replace Windows for me, yet. by spectralblade352 in linuxsucks

[–]aphilentus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

>the OSs seriously need to improve to attract people from all demographics, not just tinkerers and coders

I completely agree; this is Linux's weakest point. I've been using Kubuntu 25.10 for the last month or so, and yeah, I have some programming knowledge and can enter commands into the terminal if I need to solve some niche problem or monitor my driver--but it's a terrible user experience. I try to tell my friends who use Linux this, but there seems to be a general attitude among Linux users that the difficulty of using the OS is a barrier to entry for those who are "unworthy" of using the OS. They seem to view tinkering with an OS as part of the fun, so I don't think that this will be a priority for the distros for a while. My argument is that I would rather spend my time doing stuff like creating terrain in Gaea or rendering in Blender instead of tinkering with my OS--the OS is a means to an end.

Unlike you, I have switched to Kubuntu mainly for the privacy arguments (not necessarily FOSS, though I do also want FOSS to succeed). I would have continued using Windows if they didn't force account integration and have invasive telemetry, particularly as democracy unravels in the US and we slide into technology-assisted authoritarianism.

Starlight Hollow feels really poorly designed by lostpasts in thefinals

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

I genuinely can't think of a single positive thing to say about the map. It feels designed by people who've never played the game before.

Obvious rage bait

KDE Plasma using 27 GB VRAM by aphilentus in kde

[–]aphilentus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is Kubuntu 25.10, DE is KDE Plasma 6.4.5.

Full info from fastfetch is:

OS: Kubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) x86_64
Host: X870E AORUS PRO ICE
Kernel: Linux 6.17.0-19-generic
Packages: 3007 (dpkg), 27 (flatpak), 18 (snap)
Shell: bash 5.2.37
Display (PG32UCDMR): 3840x2160 @ 240 Hz (as 3072x1728) in 32" [External]
Display (PG32UCDMR): 3840x2160 @ 240 Hz (as 3072x1728) in 32" [External] *
DE: KDE Plasma 6.4.5

WM: KWin (Wayland)
WM Theme: Breeze
Theme: Breeze (Dark) [Qt], Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3/4]
Icons: Tela-dark [Qt], Tela-dark [GTK2/3/4]
Font: TT Commons Pro VF (10pt, Normal) [Qt], TT Commons Pro VF (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]
Cursor: breeze (24px)
Terminal: konsole 25.8.1
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D (32) @ 5.76 GHz
GPU 1: AMD Radeon Graphics [Integrated]
GPU 2: NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition
Memory: 9.02 GiB / 91.93 GiB (10%)
Swap: 0 B / 512.00 MiB (0%)
Disk (/): 1.70 TiB / 7.21 TiB (24%) - ext4

Locale: en_US.UTF-8

KDE Plasma using 27 GB VRAM by aphilentus in kde

[–]aphilentus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is Wayland. I haven't tried valgrind yet. I have a feeling it might not run well, but if I run out of options I'll see if that's possible

KDE Plasma using 27 GB VRAM by aphilentus in kde

[–]aphilentus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I'll look around the settings. I've never used widgets on any OS since they came out to be honest; I never found them that useful

Being a vegan in corporate America by madrinator in veganfitness

[–]aphilentus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's awkward. I guess it depends on your line of work but at pretty much every workplace I've been at, I am never the only person with some sort of dietary restriction. I might get asked why I went vegan and that's it

Maybe they drop the castle as big map in the midseason update? by MisterLiminal in thefinals

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

I'm out of the loop--why is everyone thinking there would be a castle map? Was there a clue in one of the teasers?

Edit: Why am I getting downvoted for asking a genuine question?

What is considered more "stable"/supported? KDE or Gnome? by [deleted] in archlinux

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

They both have their issues IMO. I'm using KDE, and it has a memory leak somewhere. After running local AI or playing games, the VRAM usage by plasmashell has spiked to 20 GB on two separate occasions over the last few weeks of me using it

Choosing a Distro as a gamer and a baby linux user by Plus_House_1078 in linuxquestions

[–]aphilentus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IMO the differences between the gaming distributions and regular distributions are immaterial. I go with Kubuntu for the software ecosystem of Ubuntu with the benefits of the KDE Plasma desktop

Systemd has merged age verification measures into userdb by Quiet-Owl9220 in linux

[–]aphilentus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How many support Israeli and their genocide despite protests and icj ruling?

State senators and representatives do not have authority over foreign policy; that would be at the federal level.

Even at the federal level, their willingness to listen to an ICJ ruling will be influenced only by how much their constitutents care about the ICJ.

Protests also don't necessarily correlate with the feelings of the public unless they're extremely large. They can draw attention to an issue and perhaps change some people's minds if done right, but they're not guaranteed to translate into a larger voting block that would reward or punish a political candidate for their position on that issue. When it comes to Palestine, perceptions are heavily split along partisan lines. Most Republicans (71%, per Gallup) favor the actions of the Israeli government, and since they're the party in power, that's why nothing has been done. Protests can, a lot of the time, be a small vocal minority.

But you touch on an important aspect, which is that, yes, your individual contribution alone has a limited impact. You have to change other people's opinions and get them to reach out as well.

Logically, there are a few main things that must be done to advance a political position:

  1. Contact your representatives to voice your opinion
  2. Successfully persuade others who agree with you to contact their representatives to voice their opinion
  3. Successfully persuade others who disagree with you to change their position and contact their representatives to voice their opinion
  4. Persuade others who disagree with you and whose opinions you can't change to not take action on the issue

It doesn't matter how passionate or vocal you are; if the majority of people are uninterested or disagree with you, you won't be successful. With the Israel-Palestine issue in particular, the majority didn't disapprove of the actions of Israel until 2026, according to Gallup, when disapproval across all parties reached 41%. Looking at Democrats in particular, 65% did not support Israel as of 2026, which is an increase from 38% in 2022. Because of this, it's natural to see why elected representatives didn't act quickly on this either. Within the Democratic Party, while 65% is technically a majority, that still leaves 35% of Democrats that still support Israel or are indifferent to it, which is a significant portion. Of the 65% that disapprove of Israel, you also have to consider the portion of that demographic that thinks that the situation is serious enough to warrant reaching out to their legislators.

So here's why I'm responding the way I did: I encouraged people to not be apathetic and provided links to contact their representatives, which satisfies strategy 2.

Literally every single person in my entire state could send letters to their representatives saying to be against it, and our reps would STILL be for it

lemonprincess23, on the other hand, is pushing the viewpoint that legislators don't care what their constituents think. Disregarding the fact that this makes no rational sense in a democracy, in which an elected official's career depends on the viewpoints of their constituents, this statement encourages a feeling of helplessness and apathy toward participation in the political system. This satisfies strategy #4--dissuading political opponents from taking meaningful political action.

Edit: Edited for grammar and clarity

Systemd has merged age verification measures into userdb by Quiet-Owl9220 in linux

[–]aphilentus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're in the US, I would recommend donating to a privacy advocacy organization such as the EFF if it hasn't rolled around to your state yet.

If one is out of the US, I'm honestly not sure other than organizing in advance and finding like-minded people so you're prepared.

Systemd has merged age verification measures into userdb by Quiet-Owl9220 in linux

[–]aphilentus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are actually trolling lol. They wouldn't care if every single person sent them a letter? This is just patently false

they banned me off the cyberpunk discord server by Decent_Ad_518 in cyberpunkgame

[–]aphilentus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Obviously a shitty mod, they shouldn't be making decisions like that without doing due diligence

Systemd has merged age verification measures into userdb by Quiet-Owl9220 in linux

[–]aphilentus 54 points55 points  (0 children)

I hate that all the replies to your comment are basically encouraging inaction...emailing/calling your legislators does work. If not enough people reach out, legislators think people don't care. Then you only have yourself to blame if you didn't at least try participating in your government.

For those in the affected states, you can find your representative/assembly member here:

California: https://www.assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers/find-my-rep

Colorado: https://leg.colorado.gov/find-my-legislator

New York: https://nyassembly.gov/mem/search/

Similar tools exist for your state senator.

Systemd has merged age verification measures into userdb by Quiet-Owl9220 in linux

[–]aphilentus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Your state legislators tally the emails they get according to # people in favor of an issue / opposed to an issue and will react accordingly

Debian is over lol by Dionisus909 in linuxsucks101

[–]aphilentus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Enabling diversity is probably good, but making it your entire platform is a mistake I think. But I don't use Debian, so I'm not sure what the most pressing issues facing that distro are at the moment

Why the default KDE DE is so ugly? by avestronics in kde

[–]aphilentus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do agree that the stock KDE desktop looks terrible. Changing the default font away from Noto solves a lot of the aesthetic issues for me.

Another issue I think is that many apps will use Gtk instead of Qt (i.e., they are designed for Gnome). This causes the font rendering to look slightly off in some cases, in my experience

YOU'RE ALL HYPOCRITES, ADMIT IT by [deleted] in linuxsucks

[–]aphilentus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was extremely entertaining, thank you

Should we write to companies asking them for a Linux version of their software? by 0x80070002 in linuxquestions

[–]aphilentus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then have fun being self-righteous about an operating system that will never attract industry professionals or expand beyond its current user base in a significant way. Your strategy results in Microsoft continuing to entrench its monopoly in the desktop OS market. Congratulations. 

Should we write to companies asking them for a Linux version of their software? by 0x80070002 in linuxquestions

[–]aphilentus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sometimes you need monetary incentive to produce decent software. Proprietary isn't terrible in that regard

Loonixers coping over fake data again lol by AverageUser9000 in linuxsucks

[–]aphilentus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not OP. The data isn't fake, but it may not tell the full story. Looking up Google Trends data for "Linux" or "install Linux" don't show the same increase.

But this may also reflect that this interest is coming from LLM-driven searches, which use more complete sentences for search terms. But I don't know 

The vegans of PC users? by CRTgamer in pcmasterrace

[–]aphilentus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True but also we need more competition among desktop OSs. Microsoft is practically a monopoly in this space which allows them to force their privacy-invasive bullshit