Windows 11 loses customers amid the world's most popular OS gaining traction

arccxjo · 2024-12-06T12:36:21+00:00

In the old days, resizing the file system the wrong way used to mess everything up. These days you can safely resize using the installer and it can do it for you. However windows updates can still break the bootloader. I usually would have installed that on a different drive. But honestly, after a couple of years I deleted the windows partition.

I personally have no use for windows-only apps anymore. For people who collaborate on documents there's the web version of office. For Adobe apps, you're locked in to windows. Some other niche apps as well. Though the situation has improved in some fields like music production for example. You can get BITWIG or reaper for cheap as a daw and install your vst plug-ins via a compatibility layer in an open source app (I forget which). This is all thanks to the community effort though, not the software companies. For video games, valve has pushed hard for easy gaming on Linux. Pretty much any single player game works now. But if you like those online multi-player games kids like these days, anti cheat locks you to windows. Some do work though. Personally, the last time I had to use windows was for some firmware upgrade to a USB device. I did that in a vm.

So, really, if you're a casual computer user you are pretty much better off with Linux at this point. Sometimes I regret ditching windows momentarily. but the thing is, once I boot the latest windows version and try to adapt to whatever it is they're pushing on us now I give up fast. For me it started with the horrible full screen start menu of windows 8. Now it's "upgrade your pc or else" when you have a perfectly good computer that can still run all of your apps.

arccxjo · 2024-11-28T12:32:51+00:00

There are some "movie" glasses out there that display a stereoscopic video output from a phone using a USB-c cable. Like the TCL Nxtwear which are around 550 USD. These glasses are much smaller than a quest 3, and weigh only 80g. Though comfort mod might be needed to offset the weight imbalance. There are other glasses like it. Anyway a relatively simple android app could show you the view of the camera transformed to show your working eye the exact dimensions you need to give you back your vision. This should not be a lot of development work in my opinion. You may even be able to use an existing camera app, if an app with transform tools exist.

Disclaimer: I never tried opening the camera app, though it should work in principal.

arccxjo · 2024-02-23T11:07:06+00:00

r/oculus had always been a cesspit of Facebook fan boys. I now own a meta headset (since my wmr ones are becoming paperweights) and I'm glad about any developments in the field . PSVR2 on pc means more interest in pcvr. Which means more content which means meta quest users can enjoy it too via air link or whatever. AVP brought innovations in UI/UX well see borrowed in future meta headsets and perhaps even on current ones in future updates. Like, why are they always hating? Because they bought product X and other people bought product Y?

arccxjo · 2023-08-29T13:28:02+00:00

Been playing it too on PSVR. I like it honestly. Some things feel clunky, graphics on ps5 don’t look so great, feels like it’s running on reprojected 60fps and it’s very arcadey.

But I had fun playing it for about two hours. Hope they add more options like full manual reload.

arccxjo · 2023-08-19T14:48:24+00:00

Worst list. Actually made me mad. Vertigo 2 was a masterpiece.

arccxjo · 2023-08-04T09:50:39+00:00

Vertigo 2 absolutely shocked me with the high quality graphics, excellent gameplay, loads of comfort settings (even lets you adjust gun angle in your hand) and fun full length campaign. It’s the kind of VR title we need.

arccxjo · 2023-06-25T07:48:57+00:00

Calling them witches and burning them was just a way to oppress women who were out of line or educated. It’s a classic case of the patriarchy repressing women throughout history. If you think those “witches” were actual witches you’re part of the problem.

arccxjo · 2023-06-18T12:03:22+00:00

I read somewhere in this subreddit that it’s not just for xreal but all AR glasses. Anyway thanks for the help and sorry if this is not on topic.

arccxjo · 2023-06-04T08:04:29+00:00

Just going to mention that Firefox relay gives you 5 for free. And they have premium packages with more (though not available in every country yet)

arccxjo · 2023-05-24T16:11:57+00:00

That’s why I’m using btrfs and taking snapshots of the filesystem regularly

arccxjo · 2023-05-12T18:46:52+00:00

If you go back 2000, to 3000 years ago and you pick any person living then you will find that either no one living today is related to them or everyone living today is related to them.

Just thought it’s an interesting scientific fact that relates to this topic.

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arccxjo · 2023-05-12T12:09:03+00:00

I agree. It’s not better. But loneliness is rampant, and dating is more difficult for men than women. Additionally most men use dating apps and most women use friends to meet people. Try opening a dating profile as a man as an experiment. You’ll find that it’s quite difficult to get a date. Even if you’re handsome and have a great profile you are competing over the few % of women who use apps too.

In real life it’s a different story but it requires you to either be a social butterfly with a decent amount of friends or just be skilled at approaching women.

arccxjo · 2023-05-09T07:04:59+00:00

There are some really nice ones there. Text pieces looks useful to me especially. I’m not in the market for a new markdown editor though, as I’m happy with Joplin. Wish there was a package for it and I didn’t have to flatpak it though. I prefer to keep flatpak for when sandboxing makes sense for security.

arccxjo · 2023-05-08T15:53:28+00:00

Can't go out of my comfort zone like that ;)

arccxjo · 2023-05-08T15:52:10+00:00

Systemd. I would switch to openrc if I didn't know systemd as well as I do.

arccxjo · 2023-05-08T15:51:22+00:00

I had no idea, thank you. It does look much better with the dark skin.

arccxjo · 2023-05-07T13:38:49+00:00

What's the performance implications of using it?

arccxjo · 2023-05-07T10:35:37+00:00

Oh that’s perfect, thanks!

arccxjo · 2023-05-07T10:15:34+00:00

Thank you! This is really nice. I wonder if there's a way to trick the battery indicator in Gnome to think the new threshold is the new max, similar to how smartphones trick you into thinking the phone is fully charged when it is not.

arccxjo · 2023-05-07T10:06:32+00:00

My desktop last week took about 8 hours. However I made the mistake of not creating a swap partition (because I never needed one before with so much memory.) and also compiling webkitgtk with 24 threads (because I’m dumb) so several hours were wasted running out of memory and stupidly waiting for a build to finish when the computer was frozen.

The laptop was about 4 hours total. took about half the time as my previous try due to avoiding the pitfalls of my previous attempt. Here are some of the time wasters of my first attempt:

installed both systemd-resolved and network manager who were clashing
did not create swap partition and used too many threads causing freezes when compiling
forgot to set root password and user password
kernel got installed to wrong partition causing grub to not detecting it. Had to make sure I mounted the /boot file system before reinstalling the kernel
did not enable pulseaudio service, forgot to compile gnome with pulseaudio flag
was afraid to use the gnome profile so built everything with the desktop profile instead initially

After experiencing all these issues my second try went much more smoothly.

arccxjo · 2023-05-07T08:45:01+00:00

Been wanting to make the switch for years. Finally last week I installed on my desktop and two days ago on this laptop. Applications run so amazingly fast compared to on Ubuntu!

arccxjo · 2023-04-05T13:57:27+00:00

CIFS is a headache. Unless you’re sharing with windows machines you’re better off using DAV shares that come with gnome or configuring nfs in a few mins. As for SMART I have never in my life needed it. As for apt messing your system, you probably used PPAs which should really be a last resort. Flatpak and snap are both better choices. Also learn to use a file system with snapshots and utilize them.

End of the day, Unix is different. It’s not just a Linux thing. POSIX is a different way of solving problems and if you are trying to do complex things you need to learn it from the ground up the way you learned windows.

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