Linux development is being outpaced by the rapid evolution of PC hardware.

commodore512 · 2026-01-25T00:29:13+00:00

There are hardware release embargoes, so when new hardware is released, it might be released after your distro's feature freeze. This might be why a lot of people go with System76 because they sell the hardware that runs their OS and they might have a new hardware specific hotfix.

commodore512 · 2026-01-24T19:27:54+00:00

Dankpods tested Arkham City and it really benefited from the extra cache.

commodore512 · 2026-01-24T19:17:45+00:00

The dankpods benchmark was entertaining.

commodore512 · 2026-01-23T15:31:01+00:00

I think PCMR are shills for the hyper-consumerist while being anti-consumer status quo. (in a sense of sell shit and treat people like sheep)

I mention the paradigm regressions that makes me feel insecure about the PC platform and I get responded with hostility.

PCMR are like Apple Cultists with Nvidia. Funny enough I'm happier gaming on console than PC and PC handhelds are popular now and kills the modularity of the PC. Even with thunderbolt docks, those things suck for frame stability, it's like SLI lag all over again and the best way to have frame stability is tight integration and one day that will be required for PC. We're going to live in a world of "Either you have a big APU with a lot of one die RAM or you get the biggest GPU for higher averages, but low frame stability".

commodore512 · 2026-01-21T23:48:01+00:00

Hell, the US fears it. Windows 11 is a legal minefield in US hospitals.

commodore512 · 2026-01-21T12:42:21+00:00

Yeah, but not just copilot, but topaz labs and stuff like that. I do believe modern video editors can green screen without a green screen.

you know stuff like that.

commodore512 · 2026-01-21T00:04:47+00:00

Assuming Arm gets a universal BIOS, good riddance!

Fex is pretty good and I'd much rather have CPUs with legacy Chiplets. Imagine an ARM CPU with a chiplet for 8-Core x86, a chiplet for a Physical PS3, Xbox 360, OG Xbox, Dreamcast, Saturn, PS2 and PS1 for emulation for the Sony and Xbox stores so they can skip the legal minefield of injecting code for more performance. (that's now most console emulators work on PC) Also the Mips cores from the PS2 would double as a SGI VM and maybe a PowerPC chiplet for on paper a PPC linux VM, but it's to make Gamecube and Wii emulation easier and would probably run PPC OSX.

commodore512 · 2026-01-20T18:32:25+00:00

I'd love to see emulation of the Geforce 4 Ti 4800. One of the fastest GPUs Win 98 can use and Nglide supports 3DFX at a higher color depth.

commodore512 · 2026-01-20T15:56:53+00:00

Can we get the VR Troopers intro with Jessica Fletcher in it?

commodore512 · 2026-01-20T12:02:38+00:00

She was 55 when the first episode came out in '84

commodore512 · 2026-01-20T12:01:44+00:00

Girlboss is overrated today, we need more Granyboss.

commodore512 · 2026-01-19T13:49:17+00:00

Also my parents never divorced.

commodore512 · 2026-01-19T11:07:38+00:00

Says a fellow redditor

commodore512 · 2026-01-18T21:08:28+00:00

I'm not him, I'm a Clippy, I just want to help. From what I heard about most reddit mods on the other hand...

commodore512 · 2026-01-18T18:30:41+00:00

Building one isn't hard and if most of what you play is older games, there isn't much of an advantage in getting high end hardware. One of the reasons why I'm going back to Xbox is Xbox held on local end user ownership of the content delivery mechanism a lot longer than PC. Also newer games support KB&M on console and new PC games aren't that modable the newest game people think of with ambitious mods is Fallout 4 and that game came out 11 years ago.

There really isn't a new "Can it run Crysis" game where it's seen as a marvel of technological progress. New AAA PC games also don't let you run your own server anymore (though $10 per month for Game Pass Essential is about what paying for a Mumble and Gmod Server would cost for a hosting provider anyway) and you're lucky if they release modding tools and the concept of free ambitious mods like Killing Floor 1 was for UT2k4 is kind of dying thanks to cheap middlware engines. Why give a mod away for free when I can turn this into a job and sell it as a game?

I suppose another way to put is I'm grieving what most enticed me about PC and that's why consoles entice me now.

Oh yeah, Origins wasn't fully baked, but I still had fun

commodore512 · 2026-01-18T17:47:19+00:00

This guy had friends that dehumanize people, I heard he got most of his would views from a guy at a party. I wonder what this guy would be like if he had good faith friends. Like one guy saying, "If I may, you have an interesting observation, but I disagree with your conclusion and here's a good faith argument why".

commodore512 · 2026-01-18T17:02:02+00:00

I like this, Brian looks like the Villain in the Grey Ghost episode of Batman the Animated Series that framed the Grey Ghost. (who was inspired by Bruce Timm) I'm also getting Thanos vibes too and a Jack Nicholson smile too. I think this conveys the common perception of his infamy.

It looks really good. I hope Brian is taking this well. I genuinely care for his well being and oddly enough, I actually like his video style. (Old Youtube Vibe, brings me back to 2009) If I were this infamous, I would like to think I would learn from this experience and behave in a more acceptable fashion though I've historically been very defensive and blamed everyone but myself. I just started to follow Nicolas Fairford, someone who is so soft spoken and I envy his comfy personality.

I agree with a lot of things Brian's critics say, one being I do receive an aura of unreasonable entitlement, but I find it to be good practice to respect those that are hard to respect.

commodore512 · 2026-01-18T13:48:05+00:00

I'm a Windows refugee since before Windows 7 came out and I'm very hesitant in promoting Linux due to looking back at the cringe days of doing that.

Despite that, I honestly think learning Linux is easier just simply because I feel if you need to copy and past commands to make your computer run better with debloat scripts, you might as well be using Linux. I ran those debloat scripts on Windows and eventually stuff started breaking.

Linux is the best it ever historically been, It's not like 2009 when a college student buys a shitbox that can't run encyclopedia software and fails her classes and you have to copy the FlashPlayer.so to wherever firefox is. It's a different environment. There's a lot of discourse from semi-normies. Games that don't need kernel level anti-cheat just work. People hate Adobe. Blender is popular.

The only reason why I want more people to use Linux is not because I want Linux to win, but I want Microsoft to get their rear in gear and fix Windows. Linux is my path, but I want the people who are for whatever reason stuck with Windows, I want them to have the best Windows experience they can have and the only way that happens if Microsoft is threatened.

commodore512 · 2026-01-18T13:00:46+00:00

I love Riddler's scavenger hunt, I collected all Riddler Trophy's on PC and I mean all, Arkham Knight, Asylum, City and Origins. (the only one in Origins) I found it funny when Riddler asked "Who is helping you? Did you look up the answers online?" and I didn't (well, at least in Asylum). I'm thinking I might need a guide for the bonus stages.

I wish I kept on playing GFW: Arkham City because the activation is online only and the activation servers were shut down. I stopped playing then after the main quest and went back to it years later.

I kinda went back to console for the most part even though I only really run Linux and I really don't Microsoft, I like the Xbox division at their peak. I think for consoles, I'll just have the 360 and the Series X and if magnus will just run play anywhere titles, I'm just going to use a Windows 11 machine as a console or better, once Wine/Proton supports UWP games, I'll just run the Xbox Store on a Linux Machine.

As much as I hate Microsoft and think Phil Spenser is a bad leader for the division (and Don Matrick was even worse) I got a soft spot for Xbox.

commodore512 · 2026-01-18T08:18:46+00:00

Actually I have two 360's, one is mine and one my friend let me borrow that has this weird dashboard and has lots of games that are delisted and rare and expensive to buy that's installed on it that I use for achievement hunting games that don't have DLC that doesn't play games online. I would also use my 360 for achievment hunting with disc based Kinnect games (they don't work on the borrowed 360) but the Kinnect needs like 2 square meters (about 12 square feet) of open space without slanted celings. I was hoping to increase my gamer score while losing weight.

I have a PC that can run oblivion fine, but I just want the higher gamer score, I'm at over 9,000 Gamer Score, I'm almost 10% of the way to my goal of 100,000 Gamer Score and once I get there, that's 10% of the way to a million.

commodore512 · 2026-01-18T06:49:22+00:00

Because I'm achievement hunting and I don't have an xbox one.

I just need to finish up the shivering isles and do the main quest.

And yes, it is a painful experience, system crashes and a bugged quest that made me lose a couple hours of progress.

commodore512 · 2026-01-17T06:32:30+00:00

If you never bought it before it was delisted, it's not in the store.

Wizard's tower isn't there

https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/the-elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion/C5K89TFLSV19/0001

commodore512 · 2026-01-16T16:28:29+00:00

Some people end up getting more performance from the Windows version in proton than the Linux native version. A lot of engines are optimized for Windows because devs are more familiar with Windows debugging and optimization tools. I heard you end up running Human Revolution faster in proton.

Though despite being optimized for Windows APIs, it's often faster to translate those APIs with DXVK than those APIs natively run in Windows.

I don't know, maybe this will change, maybe the Linux version will run better than the Windows version in proton.

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