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wafflesies said:
im looking at my 3090 and 5800x with 32gb ram and thinking "is this a retro gaming machine"
it doesnt help pc gamers say "holy shit you're still on ddr4?!"
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People who care deeply about having the latest thing always are turbo faggots and should rope immediately
 
Lonjil said:
People who care deeply about having the latest thing always are turbo faggots and should rope immediately
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Have you even thought about future proofing your machine? By next year you are going to at least need 120gb of DDR5 memory for your machine to even be usable. If you aren't running at minumum an intel core 9 ultra 285T, you might as well throw your computer in the garbage, it's going to be useless in a week anyway. I wouldn't even spit on a computer with anything less than the current line of Nvidia card.
 
I'm looking at installing winapps so I can run Microsoft Office and the Adobe suite on Mint, is podman or docker better?

I use docker on my server so I'm more familiar with it, but since I have neither installed on my desktop I might as well go with the better option, whichever that may be.
 
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prollyanotherlurker said:
120gb of DDR5
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LOL
Poor.
1TB RAM is the minimum for 2026.
Betonhaus said:
I'm looking at installing winapps so I can run Microsoft Office and the Adobe suite on Mint, is podman or docker better?
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I'm not fond of the Docker ecosystem but their proprietary stuff only applies to people using their desktop products.... so far. I've moved to Podman but it definitely has more assembly required for doing stuff. I do like that it can run, often, entirely without root.
 
Well I decided to finally check out Xlibre for myself and...goddamn it just works!

Linux flavor: Debian Trixie
DE flavor: Openbox+Compton+LXDE

Installation was as easy as:
Code: 
$ sudo apt install extrepo
$ sudo extrepo enable xlibre
$ sudo apt update

Then I used Synaptic to install it.

The replacement was seamless. My laptop screen and external monitor worked perfectly. I logged out and back in, they worked perfect. I rebooted, they worked perfect.

I've been running tons of shit simultaneously, emulators, VirtualBox, media players and everything just works(tm).

Viva la fucking Xlibre!

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@Betonhaus : am keeping the usb dildo though
 
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wafflesies said:
im looking at my 3090 and 5800x with 32gb ram and thinking "is this a retro gaming machine"
it doesnt help pc gamers say "holy shit you're still on ddr4?!"
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5800x and 64 gb ram here. Though i did upgrade from 6600 to 9070xt. Went from 50-60 fps in RoN to 200.
 
DavidS877 said:
I've moved to Podman but it definitely has more assembly required for doing stuff.
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If you install the docker compatibility plugins (e.g. podman-compose, podman-docker), it's basically a drop-in replacement that doesn't require a gay daemon. imo the switch is fairly painless for a majority of use-cases.

innocent jogger said:
I edited it. :lol:
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Leave it up, pussy.
 
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prollyanotherlurker said:
There are people here that have strong opinions about not liking tiling window manager.
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I'm going to say, based on my own experience last night, is because compared to a modern Mac or Windows DE there's no intuitive control.

I installed i3-wm and logged in using sddm and thought it froze. I noticed it was saying a package was missing in the bottom so I looked into that and saw I was supposed to install the i3 meta package. When I did that and restarted sddm to log in again it still seemed frozen. Mouse moved, but couldn't find any way to interact with it. Tried meta+e to open a file manager and nothing. Meta+T thinking that would open a terminal, and nothing. I gave in and searched for how to do it and it was meta+enter.

I felt so completely lost on a computer for the first time since I was 4 years old. It really made me want to give it an honest shot though, so I'll see if I can read the manual and use it over the weekend.
 
Vesperus said:
If people are dropping gnome for turning into a hot mess, there's a chance KDE will change direction. Failing that:
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Main KDE contributors have been coping for a decade about next release being amazing on Wayland. It would be a nice but I'm not holding my breath.
Notifications popping up in wrong corner after sleep or DPMS event hasn't been fixed since 6.0 dropped so that's cool.
 
ghastlyretard said:
I'm going to say, based on my own experience last night, is because compared to a modern Mac or Windows DE there's no intuitive control.

I installed i3-wm and logged in using sddm and thought it froze. I noticed it was saying a package was missing in the bottom so I looked into that and saw I was supposed to install the i3 meta package. When I did that and restarted sddm to log in again it still seemed frozen. Mouse moved, but couldn't find any way to interact with it. Tried meta+e to open a file manager and nothing. Meta+T thinking that would open a terminal, and nothing. I gave in and searched for how to do it and it was meta+enter.

I felt so completely lost on a computer for the first time since I was 4 years old. It really made me want to give it an honest shot though, so I'll see if I can read the manual and use it over the weekend.
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Yeah. Coming into it you are going into it to a keyboard centric way of running your comptuer, and it is probably a good idea to open the config file. So you can read what the default keybinds are. To learn them. Also if you don't have dmenu already installed definitely install that. IIRC super+d should be the keybind to launch that.

Being a vim user I tend to use the vim keybinds to move between winows., and I like window managers that let me cycle focus between the windows rather than thinking about which direction I need to move. So it will just go through the order the windows were opened in, and then back to the beginning.

Thinking back to when I first moved to tiling window managers. I definitely did need to get used to it. Because it is different, and I did need to learn how things worked. Now I don't know how I was happy without them.
 
y a t s said:
Leave it up, pussy.
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A little demystification of "Linux is better for gaming than Windows because lower latency". Just because I think it's a very interesting thing to know.

Here is PresentMon stats for GTA:SA running via D3D9:
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And here are the PresentMon stats for GTA:SA running via DXVK:
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It's not Linux that's magic, it's DXVK that's magic. Somehow translating DirectX into Vulkan leads to lower latency and better frametimes [ispoiler[(even though this game isn't a great example for frametimes since a) SilentPatch fixes it's bad frametimes and b) it runs at >200fps when not framelocked since it's a PS2 port from 2005)[/ispoiler], and it just so happens that since DirectX is a Windows native API and DXVK is a Windows native DLL, you can get these benefits under Windows proving that this isn't a Linux exclusive benefit, but due to Linux essentially relying on DXVK to run Windows games, it passively gets those benefits whereas on Windows you have to dig in the game files yourself to apply DXVK.

I don't know what it is exactly but it feels like Vulkan unhooks the input from the framerate since those 33ms are what you'd expect from locked 60fps, and by pure magic DVXK can apply this to DirectX games when doing API translations. Not to mention that with these older D3D9 games you actually get a performance uplift with DXVK over DirectX. Hell, I applied it to Crysis which uses DX10 and I still noticed an uplift. It's pure magic, and everyone can benefit from it.
 
So Ubuntu, for whatever reason, has decided to replace the GNU coreutils with rewrites in Rust. This has been causing some executables to break.

Which leads one to ask -- why did this change happen at all? Rust doesn't increase the performance of coreutils. The coreutils are simple enough that the class of memory safety bugs Rust prevents aren't relevant (if you have C programming experience, just check out the source code and you'll see what I mean -- there's not a lot of exotic stuff happening with memory, and programs aren't very long). Canonical is just throwing away software that's been working perfectly for decades for what would be at best a 1-1 equivalent, and at worst, breaking their users' systems, for absolutely no reason. How does a real company have decisions like this get approved?
 
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