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    [–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago

    Peace was never an option

    [–] [email protected] 85 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    The Linux community is united! (Unless you mention Rust, or Wayland, or systemd, or Snap, or GNOME, or...)

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

    You've made an enemy for life!

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Rust as well? In what way? (Genuinely interested, just don't know much about that community)

    [–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    There's an ongoing ~~debate~~ tantrum about introducing Rust code to the kernel. Some people are pushing for it, some people have made it their life's purpose to make sure that doesn't happen, it has led to a wave of maintainers resigning, and Linus is sitting with his thumb up his arse when his leadership is needed.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

    Interesting, thank you for explaining!

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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

    Very accurate description

    [–] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago (3 children)
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

    Now we need Cardi B Linux alongside Hannah Montana Linux.

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

    For this wet-ass penguin

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    Wireless Ass-Penguins

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Windows is only better for you if you have a high-end Nvidia GPU and/or like having a good HDR implementation (KDE's HDR support is a joke by comparison). If neither apply to you, then there's no reason to ever use Windows.

    That said, from what I've seen since I joined Lemmy, most people here couldn't give a single fuck about HDR. In fact, every time I even bring it up, I get nothing but hostility from the community (cause how dare I dual boot instead of using Arch fulltime? *sigh*).

    You're missing out on a colorful image that more closely resembles real-life (clouds and sunsets look especially beautiful in HDR), but if you've never experienced it before then I can understand why the general opinion around here is that HDR is useless. I mean, I used to think that VA panels had good contrast and that IPS had superior colors, until I got a 4K144Hz HDR OLED... Hell, at one point I used to think that 60 FPS looked smooth too...

    Anyway, that's the end of my little rant. You can go ahead and downvote me now.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

    The only thing Windows has ever done with my HDR is decide for no reason to put insane contrast and color temps on my displays. Then I have to flick it on and off repeatedly until it looks a bit less terrible

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

    I don't know how to feel about it tbh. My steam deck and vita have oled displays, the tv downstairs has hdr, but it never made as much of a difference imo. Like when i'm sitting at my va monitor i don't feel like i'm missing anything. Maybe it's just a personal thing in terms of what you're most sensitive to. I feel like i'm most sensitive towards refreshrate. I also don't bother with ray tracing cause even in the best examples like cyberpunk, people usually have to point out the difference to me because i barely notice it.

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    [–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    I honestly hated idea of linux for soooo long. Ew. Like ew. Doesn't work, borks, needs command line, wtf is that steaming pile of...yeah. Ew.

    But insert the goddamn bird with cracker meme after I tried Nobara last year (tried some other distros too). When Windows 10 loses support, I am pretty confident that Nobara will fill most of my needs.

    And, well, have some IT experience, with linux too, so occasional terminal isn't that bad. I was simply afraid of constantly having to work in terminal.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (15 children)

    I use CLI a lot because I find it much more convenient, so I'm genuinely curious where do you actually still need it in a modern distro as a standard user?

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    It's not that you neeeed it for most basic stuff, but if you search how to do something the results are more commonly terminal commands.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

    In my experience learning Windows 10 for my job, the results of searching for how to do something are: 'click-this' tutorials that don't work because Microsoft changed something in the next edition, editing the registry, or PowerShell commands. The registry editing sometimes doesn't work because Microsoft changed something. The PowerShell method is the way to go, because Microsoft has embraced the command line.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

    Yep, when posting how to do something, between 'select an example and paste to answer' or 'series of screenshots to illustrate a gui way', the text copy/paste wins on laziness of answer.

    Besides, there's a decent chance that a person has to solve it for some arbitrarily large number of systems, and speaking in CLI is a vocabulary that can more trivially be made headless across a bunch of systems.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

    Which is honestly a good thing, it's so much better than instructions that are like click here -> drag to the left -> open a three level deep menu -> check the box -> reopen that menu -> click go. Or even worse, instructions that are a video

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    [–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Wait until someone starts complaining about bad GUI...

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

    Which one? 😁

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    As a relatively recent Windows refugee, I want to share a recent success that has made me feel fully confident in never needing Windows again and fully feeling the Linux superiority.

    I got Cyberpunk with all my previous mods running.

    Maybe not a big deal for most people, but this was one thing that had kept me holding onto dual boot on my main device. Conversations online also kept making modding on Linux seem so impenetrable.

    Then I decided to spend an afternoon figuring out modding games in general on Linux, and yeah parts of it was tough for me to figure out, but now I'm confident that anything I used to do on PC, I can probably do better on Linux.

    I am ready to take up arms alongside the Weaponized Assault Penguin squad.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    I'm going to be playing through cyberpunk again after not touching it since the launch fiasco and recommendations?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

    For mods? Personally I just browser Nexus mods for what looks fun or interesting. Just getting command lines going is fun enough for a start. I always at least start a run giving myself a bunch of cash. But honestly, the vanilla game is plenty fun now and pretty well balanced compared to when it started. Still finding side content and weird stuff

    For general modding I started with the Redmodding Wiki and then I got over complicated trying to use a mod manager, messing with Steam Tinker Launcher and Mod Organizer 2. In the end just did things manually following the redmodding wiki.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

    I'd trust you on my 6.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Meanwhile, countries that surrender to the microsoft side of the force just bend over again and again and again...https://ioplus.nl/en/posts/trump-has-free-rein-over-dutch-government-data

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    My dad always used to tell me how the dutch government was jokingly bad at IT & other stuff. But booooooooooooy did i not expect it to be this bad

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    Temple OS the best! PLUTO IS A PLANET

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

    Both were created by the same person

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    One of your statement is wrong and its not the latter.

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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

    You heard about Pluto? That's messed up

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    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

    Windows is unfortunately still better for gaming. Full stop. I still use both in different settings. Fuck Apple though.

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