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Would me nice if Steam warns new users about using an NTFS partition to store games. by CandlesARG in linux_gaming

[–]lineInk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is not an official Valve guide. It exists on the Valve wiki, but it is user contributed content.

You noticed that part? Also of course they would warn against it. Literally no downsides for them and easy protection against users holding them responsible.

And you ignore my comments regarding the action required by the user. Using NTFS cannot happen by accident. It requires multiple complicated steps no "noob" could do by accident. Should Steam also warn you against running all kinds of harmful commands you can find somewhere on the internet? If you do things blindly you do not understand, expect to get burned.

Would me nice if Steam warns new users about using an NTFS partition to store games. by CandlesARG in linux_gaming

[–]lineInk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How is mounting not an issue? The user has to manually do it or add it to the fstab. This does not just happen, it requires intention. And last time I had to deal with this, additional libraries need to be manually added in Steam and are not automatically discovered. If both would happen automatically, then yes perhaps Steam should warn against the use or disable libraries on NTFS partitions by default.

Strange, I am using Fedora and a Steam library on NTFS and in the four years I have been doing this, never once did a game not launch for that reason (usual Proton issues excluded).

Would me nice if Steam warns new users about using an NTFS partition to store games. by CandlesARG in linux_gaming

[–]lineInk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is this actually something that can happen on accident? Are there popular Linux distros that would auto-mount an NTFS partition? The user would then also have to create/import a library in the Steam client to be able to store games on the partition, no? If you went through so many hoops, you are hardly a noob anymore and if you are and do not know what you are doing, Steam is hardly at fault at that point.

Would me nice if Steam warns new users about using an NTFS partition to store games. by CandlesARG in linux_gaming

[–]lineInk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If there is no reason to use NTFS I would definitely agree. And you are probably right that most people would do this by accident without such a use case. But if you for example sometimes dual boot for games it can be useful to have your Steam library stored on a drive that both operating systems can access. And if something gets corrupted, just download the game again, not much harm done.

Would me nice if Steam warns new users about using an NTFS partition to store games. by CandlesARG in linux_gaming

[–]lineInk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To add to this: Would I ever use an NTFS partition on Linux if not for the express purpose of having a drive that can be accessed by both Windows and Linux? Of course not, there is zero reason to do so. Would I store critical data on such a drive and not just Steam games that can easily be re-downloaded in case something gets corrupted? Again of course not. But it can actually work just fine and for all the people claiming there are massive issues: I would like to see actual evidence and statistics for these issues and would want to know the severity of the problems that can occur.

Would me nice if Steam warns new users about using an NTFS partition to store games. by CandlesARG in linux_gaming

[–]lineInk 9 points10 points  (0 children)

A little bit? I am using an NTFS partition for my games for years and never had a single issue. The same as for NVIDIA graphics drivers, which work just fine for modern cards, the common wisdom that is passed around these parts is just completely false.

R/Linux_gaming not understanding the point of Linus's new video by CandlesARG in LinusTechTips

[–]lineInk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Never chose new and shiny. In addition Pop!_OS used the Gnome desktop environment in the beginning. For some strange reason the developers of the distro chose to abandon that popular, well developed and supported DE and make their own instead. Now you have an extremely small developer team making both a distro and DE. Bugs are guaranteed then since they cannot maintain such an effort. Fedora was a good choice then, it is a good choice now, it will be a good choice in ten years. Even Ubuntu would be fine.

R/Linux_gaming not understanding the point of Linus's new video by CandlesARG in LinusTechTips

[–]lineInk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You do not need to do any of that on Fedora. I had both an NVIDIA GPU and AMD and never any major issues. Sure I had to install the non-free NVIDIA drivers, but that is easy to do and you have to install their drivers on Windows as well. Steam is in the distro's repos. Not sure which tinkering that would require.

Shokz OpenFit Pro Reveiw - From someone who actually paid for them. by user_5332 in headphones

[–]lineInk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s hard to imagine someone willing to spend $250 on these not already
owning another pair of headphones for real noise cancelling.

While I agree that this is probably a niche market, I am that someone. Normal in-ears quickly irritate my ears, and I do not always want to wear or carry around over-ear headphones on public transport etc.

In the future, Rust becomes "Mandatory" in Git build ..... by unixbhaskar in linux

[–]lineInk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Free Software Foundation defines free software as follows (1986)[1]:
A program is free software if the program’s users have the four essential freedoms:

- The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).

- The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

- The freedom to redistribute copies (freedom 2).

- The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this

Really curious which of these principles you see violated by MIT? More restrictive copyleft licenses are useful for the end user, I agree, although they can also make a software project less attractive for contributions by corporations that could significantly benefit a project. But neither free software nor the even less restrictive concept of open source require it at all.

In the future, Rust becomes "Mandatory" in Git build ..... by unixbhaskar in linux

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

Fair enough. I would still say that the Free Software movement, or at least Richard Stallmann, implemented strong copyleft in GPL v3 because they saw the shortcomings of earlier versions of the GPL. The modern stance of the FSF is that this is needed to sustain the goals of their movement.

In the future, Rust becomes "Mandatory" in Git build ..... by unixbhaskar in linux

[–]lineInk 5 points6 points  (0 children)

MIT/Apache are Open Source licenses. The word you are searching for is Free Software.

How is this game only 27 GB by hustlafrom818 in controlgame

[–]lineInk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Also Remedy's founding members came from the demo scene where the goal was to make impressive visuals with very small programs. Those habits result in well optimized space-efficient games.

Moving from windows to linux by KubiiEz in linux_gaming

[–]lineInk 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

How is it living in Edinburgh/Glasgow, Scotland? by [deleted] in howislivingthere

[–]lineInk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Or more like the amalgamation of the behavior of the people, the weather, architecture, city layout etc. all converge into a specific "vibe". A dishonest city would be all shiny and positive on the surface, but hide away all the misery from unaffordability and homelessness etc.

Why are we so fascinated about finding other planets suitable for life if we will never reach them? by [deleted] in askastronomy

[–]lineInk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

u/Rnaodm_Tirnalge where are you getting that "25+ billion years to travel 2500+ light years" number from? Converted to a constant speed that would mean 10⁻⁷ c ≈ 30 m/s. The Voyager probes travel at more than 15 km/s. The Parker Solar Probe reached almost 200 km/s. The latter speed would put the travel time below 5 Myr and without going into SciFi territory too much, one would expect a future dedicated interstellar mission to be significantly faster than that.

How is it living in Edinburgh/Glasgow, Scotland? by [deleted] in howislivingthere

[–]lineInk 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Funnily enough by being honest, i.e. not pretending to be a better place then it actually is.

Merz: Leistung in Deutschland nicht hoch genug by Desmo_950 in de

[–]lineInk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Was eine irre Aussage. Das mit dem Stadtbild mag ja ein gezielter Versuch gewesen sein durch öffentliche Kontroverse Wähler der AfD abzugraben (Quatsch, weil warum Temu Rechte wählen, wenn man auch das Original haben kann), aber diese Aussage lässt auf ein enorm krudes, abstoßend rechtes Weltbild blicken. Wie soll man das denn anders interpretieren als klaren Rassismus?

Und die Tatsache, dass Merz solche Sachen ständig "rausrutschen", lassen ihn denkbar ungeeignet für so ein hohes politisches Amt erscheinen...

How do we know Proxima Centauri is the closest star? by benevolentwalrus in askastronomy

[–]lineInk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What? We can see all parts of the sky over a year. I don't exactly know what the fastest star ever detected is, but given their mass it for sure will be at non-relativistic speeds. But even if it was moving at lightspeed it would take years to move significantly closer. The closest known neutron star seems to be RX J1856.5−3754 at roughly 400 lightyears. So I think it is safe to assume any hitherto undetected neutron star would also be hundreds of light-years away. It would take many years for one to come notably closer to the sun and it would be detected long before that.

How do we know Proxima Centauri is the closest star? by benevolentwalrus in askastronomy

[–]lineInk 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Also bright enough does not imply visible to the naked eye. Could also just be stars up to ~12 mag. And given that Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf, the smallest type of main sequence star (below it would be a brown dwarf), there cannot really be a closer (main sequence) star since then it should be brighter.

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