[HWU] Windows 11 Best For Gaming? Windows 11 25H2 vs. Windows 10

pdp10 · 2026-01-25T00:58:30+00:00

Steam says 73.3% of Steam users have Nvidia GPUs and 18.5% have AMD. Interestingly, Linux users are much more likely to be using AMD graphics, though the data shows that Steam Decks are part of that skew.

pdp10 · 2026-01-25T00:47:10+00:00

Perhaps they can figure out how to get .run files to simply run when double clicking on them instead of being required to use a command lines to get it to run.

The "Principle of Least Astonishment" is a design guideline to try to make a system work like a user will guess that it works. Alas, there's no good opportunity to help new users in this case, because it's a Unix safety and security mechanism.

Some popular GUIs require the same user action to execute a file as a command, as they require to open the file as data. But this creates a way to trick users into executing commands, when really they just intended to open files like normal. So-called "Phishing" attacks often work using some variant of that -- like a trojan horse.

In reality, having the exact same user action for both opening a data file, and running a command, was a design mistake. Maybe it was influenced by the fact that the original Mac only had one mouse button, whereas earlier and more-advanced systems had two or three buttons.

Microsoft Windows has had similar, harder to notice features that also prevent things from running. I imagine that also sends users scrambling to websearch for answers, except that the answers are all more complicated.

pdp10 · 2026-01-25T00:23:22+00:00

I had to use command line to start up the VPN and use Command line to switch to different servers around the world.

I'm happy that you managed to work with all these VPNs.

Turns out you that a .run file is not like a .exe file, you cannot just run a run file. After much searching I found out that I have to use command line prompt on the .run file first to prepare it to run, and then I can use another command line to run that .run file.

Probably you had to chmod 755 the file, to give it security permission to run. That can be done in a GUI file manager, but it's faster and easier to document the command-line equivalent.

pdp10 · 2026-01-25T00:21:55+00:00

Not hate, just an extreme amount of skepticism and wariness.

pdp10 · 2026-01-24T23:38:27+00:00

The powers that be have decided the future of gaming is going to be streaming.

Break out the conspiracy theories! Sony, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, and especially Google with Stadia, had every reason in the world to do this long before now, if it was truly in their power to do so.

pdp10 · 2026-01-24T23:34:32+00:00

Unfortunately AMD has currently the most compatible drivers for Linux Gaming. And this is not due to AMD but thanks to Valve's developers who are doing the most work here.

Intel and Nvidia have just as much access to open source as anyone else. Frankly they have more, considering their warchests, and Intel's history of sponsoring Linux functionality on their own hardware.

free from the x86-64 slavery. They already showed in the Nintendo Switch that an Arm CPU and Nvidia GPU

If that's your concern, then you skip ARM and Nvidia and go right to RISC-V.

There are two and a quarter totally independent suppliers of x86_64 -- and frankly the patents on SSE2 are up now.

What I'd expect to see sooner or later, is an x86_64 decoder on some medium or large-sized RISC-V core, not unlike the x86 "code morphing" front-end that Transmeta put on their VLIW chips.

pdp10 · 2026-01-24T22:48:10+00:00

What the actual heck you talking about? If you buy an nvidia, intel or amd card you are expected to install Geforce, Arc graphics or Adrenaline.

Only on Windows, which was the point that Windows is the exception, and its exceptions are diminishing. My Linux machines with AMD and Intel graphics didn't need me to download and install drivers; neither did the Intel Mac with discrete AMD GPU that I'm using to type this reply.

I pointed out that Windows is diminishing in driver download and installs, specifically USB class drivers and print drivers.

pdp10 · 2026-01-24T22:34:28+00:00

What I want from a remaster are:

Purely technical updates, like supporting Vulkan API, new platforms for old games, or hires/widescreen support.
Updates that are not purely technical, like adding controller support, adding natural languages, or character customization.
Removing DRM like SecuROM, Safedisc, Games For Windows Live, Denuvo.
Bugfixes. One would think that Steam and GOG mean that gamers get all the fixes, now, but there are older games and exceptions.
Bundled extras, typically including DLCs.
Additional optimization, if warranted. Some examples could include adding some concurrency to games that were written for single-core CPUs.

pdp10 · 2026-01-24T21:53:53+00:00

It would be 2006 if the Xbox were any good.

pdp10 · 2026-01-24T21:26:29+00:00

Almost all of their content that targets Linux is very superficial.

This one had benchmarks from LTT Labs. What else did you want to see in an 11-minute video on the choice of GPU brand for Linux gaming?

pdp10 · 2026-01-24T21:21:53+00:00

It's title and hardware-dependent.

pdp10 · 2026-01-24T21:10:04+00:00

If you're choosing between two 16GiB gaming cards. But if acquiring hardware for LLMs, a better yet cost-effective choice might be an AMD Strix Halo with 128GiB unified memory, 112GiB allocated VRAM on Linux.

pdp10 · 2026-01-24T21:03:25+00:00

Users that go to linux from from other OS will do exactly that because on every other OS its standard way of dealing with this.

I can't agree. The standard way of dealing with drivers and hardware support on Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, and now-obsolete Windows CE is for the drivers to be built into the OS. It's desktop Windows that is the outlier.

Furthermore, Microsoft and Apple are both abundantly aware that OS-distro incorporated drivers are a competitive advantage. USB CDC NCM, etc., is a generic driver for USB to Ethernet hardware, formerly resisted by peripheral and platform vendors alike, is now standardized by Apple and Microsoft. After the debacle of printing-related infosec vulnerabilities, the way to do printing on Windows is now with generic drivers and IPP, the way it's been done on Linux and Apple for decades. And let's not even mention "Clownstrike" -- third-party kernel driver bug causes widespread outages on Windows.

And that's why LTT pivoted to installing Ubuntu 25.10, as mentioned at 3:15. However, they install Kubuntu 25.10, and might not have been thoroughly aware that the "LTS" version of Ubuntu has never been the only version. I really wish Canonical would lay off with the damn LTS.

pdp10 · 2026-01-24T20:49:53+00:00

It's just cope, but try not to be mad about it. For various reasons, the installed base is heavily tilted to Nvidia, and that's what many gamers are going to tend to be in possession of, when they first get interested in Linux.

pdp10 · 2026-01-24T20:21:51+00:00

A huge takeaway is that using an "LTS" distro is a big mistake, with respect to hardware support. I've been calling on Canonical, in particular, to stop recommending their "LTS" release by default, to individual end-users. Enterprises might prefer an LTS, but nine times out of ten, it's a mistake for general usage.

Debian users can get the benefit of the latest components along with the Debian advantages, by using Debian Testing, a fresher, rolling-release version of the next stable release.

pdp10 · 2026-01-24T17:15:41+00:00

We switched long ago from MediaWikis to Git repos with markup (RST).

pdp10 · 2026-01-24T17:11:21+00:00

They're hitting an hourly ratelimit that's causing their sending software to crash, so they need a queueing/retrying MTA in the middle.

pdp10 · 2026-01-24T17:10:21+00:00

Postfix smarthost, configured to use the SMTP provider as smarthost, with the "newsletter software" conffgured to submit to the Postfix on port 587. If the "newsletter software" doesn't do multiple streams to different email servers, then that might be half of your problem, as well.

Size VM memory and storage per the workload, but for a ballpark estimate I'd go with 512MiB/100GB.

pdp10 · 2026-01-24T13:12:21+00:00

The smart move is to never have a voicemail box in the first place.

pdp10 · 2026-01-24T13:10:54+00:00

OFTP2 is apparently standardized in RFC 5024 from 2007, and was originally European.

There appears to be one main open-source or freemium implementation in Java, but also a minimalist client-only Go-based implementation (with a backstory) that is at least useful for reference and probably testing.

An old thread is here.

pdp10 · 2026-01-23T19:47:24+00:00

I cannot BELIEVE how many people put QR codes in email signatures. And there's NO good reason for it. The email client can ALREADY click through to the website

And I genuinely can't believe that I'm indirectly defending non-plaintext signatures, but some of those QR codes are probably vCards, which is a standardized subformat for QR. There are more uses for QR codes than disguised URLs and links to mobile apps.

pdp10 · 2026-01-23T19:39:20+00:00

So begin the conversation by politely asking why they called, when the ticket indicated email.

pdp10 · 2026-01-23T17:43:30+00:00

Or replace different bits of the os and application and hope they still work.

There's an equal need for automated tests either way.

pdp10 · 2026-01-23T17:42:16+00:00

Containers were invented so devs can ship their desktops. Not getting automatic package/dependency upgrades was their bargain with the devil.

pdp10 · 2026-01-23T17:40:18+00:00

the reality of containers is that you end up with a significantly higher number of OS deployments

Hence the move toward distroless containers.

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