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Betonhaus said:
Well trying KDE Neon is definitely better then if you just did apt-get install plasma-desktop then got shocked because half the KDE stuff was missing. On the internet you learn not have high expectations of other people.

Would you consider trying Linux Mint with its default Cinnamon DE?
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I would probably hate it, but I will consider trying it if my current system breaks one day.
 
Is Zorin OS a thing? Last I checked it hasn't forked Gnome but it did mod the shit out of it and the app store was broken whenever I tried to use it.
 
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It's up. Do your own testing. Show us your numbers. Wayland is at least a frame slower on average for me. Notably i3wm was capable of achieving negative delay, meaning the cursor responded before the keyboard LED. I consider this acceptable because I want to conservatively bias the numbers favorably towards the display managers. I'd rather underestimate the delay than overestimate it.

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The Big Bad D said:
@CrunkLord420 Maybe also try to get measurements with fullscreen unredirection.
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I can't find anything regarding hyprland and unredirection. It's apparently a thing in mutter. If anyone has experience with this I'd be happy to try. Maybe I'll just go ahead and test CS2 in full screen since that's a very real world example. Or maybe not, I don't want to get VAC banned cause my mouse is moving a million miles around the title screen. Xonotic, perhaps.
 
volatile puar said:
Lunduke sperging about Jews.

Didn't he literally develop a split personality to appease the free software extremists by developing Canoe Boot.
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New video from Lunduke reporting on the financial report of Canonical. Some interesting quotes, he says that it's weird to him when companies mention DEI efforts in their financials, which implies that he has no idea about ESG scores and Black Rock, Larry Fink, or whoever. However, later in the video he nootices that Canonical mentioned ESG and he says "they worked the ESG in there", and I don't think it's very plausible that he knows about ESG without knowing about Black Rock. Is he a retard or a liar, considering he went through his whole deboonking Jews in tech thing without mentioning them.
 
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CrunkLord420 said:
I can't find anything regarding hyprland and unredirection. It's apparently a thing in mutter. If anyone has experience with this I'd be happy to try. Maybe I'll just go ahead and test CS2 in full screen since that's a very real world example. Or maybe not, I don't want to get VAC banned cause my mouse is moving a million miles around the title screen. Xonotic, perhaps.
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I configured hyprland to tear, a feature only available for exclusive full screen windows. Testing with vkquake showed results in line with Xorg, both the cursor and ingame camera movement. My criticism of Wayland is they need to stop vsyncing the cursor in normal desktop usage, draw it to a different plane, I don't know or care. WDDM can vsync explorer.exe without making it's mouse feel fucking awful, why can't Wayland?

If you're full screen gayming you can enable tearing, that's good. If you have a high refresh rate monitor, this may not bother you. But general desktop mouse movement on a 60hz display just feels bad. We can't just pretend like it's normal for one of the primary interface devices to objectively perform worse than all other display managers (X11, WDDM, Quartz). That's the best Linux can do? Pathetic.

PS. tearing in hyprland is officially "experimental", so that's great. Werx for me though.
 
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CrunkLord420 said:
Still playing with my benchmarking kernel module.
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I'd be interested to see the difference between X with and without compositor. Also a best case value (on modern linux at least where the graphics driver is in the kernel) using an application that uses libdrm directly would be valuable information. (I think SDL has a backend for it)
 
volatile puar said:
Removing 32-bit support doesn't hurt the Steamdeck any more than it hurts any other distro that wants to have gamers using their distro, and besides that, the Fedora team didn't realize that it broke Steam until it was pointed out to them that the flatpak doesn't work, which seems to have put the breaks on the plan. Also Fedora removing 32 bit would not affect SteamOS at all since it's their own distro which is based on Arch, not Fedora. Finally, if Fedora was collaborating with Valve, what would actually happen is that Valve would get off their ass and remove 32-bit dependencies from Steam, by which I mean, port the already 64-bit only Steam app they developed for MacOS to Linux, which would be fairly easy since MacOS is Unix. The only thing happening here is that they wanted to stop supporting i686 because it has become annoying, and they didn't realize removing 32-bit support would be so controversial.
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There are games that are 32 bit. That's the problem

Edit: I'm a retard. Apparently it's a non issue for games now on linux
 
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volatile puar said:
it's gambling a good enough drm solution to appease video game publishers.
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Why is it that the majority of games don't use steam drm then, and all the big publishers that actually care about DRM implement custom Denuvo which also has nothing to do with Steam? The vast majority of games on the platform have no DRM (and steam drm isn't customized per game and any game using it solely is cracked usually same day) so if this is actually their main business they're doing a pretty shit job at not only implementing it but pushing it as well.

Their main product to publishers is the entirety of Steamworks but much more importantly it's access to the full PC gaming community which has rejected all the alternatives, not the optional DRM that doesn't even slow piracy down.
 
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Battlefield42 said:
There are games that are 32 bit. That's the problem
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There are situations where running a 32bit userland can get pretty significant performance boost compared to a 64bit userland.
Significant as in up to 10% but most often a little less.

Would you say no if your cpu-bound game could be running 5% faster and with 5% higher refresh rate for free by just running it in a 32 bit userland?
 
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Cuckoman said:
There are situations where running a 32bit userland can get pretty significant performance boost compared to a 64bit userland.
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https://wiki.debian.org/X32Port -- This is where Debian explains the value of such, for those of you who find this interesting, as it's not trivially obvious.

Debian Wiki said:
X32 is an ABI for amd64/x86_64 CPUs using 32-bit integers, longs and pointers. The purpose is to combine the smaller memory and cache footprint from 32-bit data types with the larger register set of x86_64.

There are three principal use cases:

  • vserver hosting (memory bound)
  • netbooks/tablets (low memory, want performance)
  • scientific tasks (want every % of performance)
Compared to amd64, x32 offers significant memory savings, often on the order of 30%, and modest efficiency gains. The 64-bit registers can make computation more efficient. Since 8 additional registers available there is less pressure compared to i386/i686.

Compared to i386, speed increases are more pronounced, especially in code that's under register pressure or operates on 64-bit or floating-point variables. It also avoids i386's penalty for PIC code, where EBX is essentially reserved for the Global Offset Table (GOT).
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McSneaks said:
Why is it that the majority of games don't use steam drm then, and all the big publishers that actually care about DRM implement custom Denuvo which also has nothing to do with Steam? The vast majority of games on the platform have no DRM (and steam drm isn't customized per game and any game using it solely is cracked usually same day) so if this is actually their main business they're doing a pretty shit job at not only implementing it but pushing it as well.

Their main product to publishers is the entirety of Steamworks but much more importantly it's access to the full PC gaming community which has rejected all the alternatives, not the optional DRM that doesn't even slow piracy down.
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Which Steam games can be run without the Steam launcher?
 
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volatile puar said:
Which Steam games can be run without the Steam launcher?
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It's an abuse of terms to even call it a DRM. Steamworks integration doesn't even seriously attempt to prevent you from running games. A simple tool like https://github.com/atom0s/Steamless lets you run anything you want.

You can even download anything from steam for free using steamcmd.
 
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"It's not DRM because I can defeat it". "It's not intrusive DRM". Just because there are a lot of control freaks who think they can make a pick-proof lock doesn't mean that everyone is retarded. An anti-piracy measure only needs to be somewhat inconvenient to deter a lot of piracy, and publishers get really scared when customers have the ability to simply copy their files, like could be done on the Playstation by anyone with a CD burner. If this DRM is not important to Valve's business model, why don't they sell exes instead like GOG does?
 
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