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Can't heat expansion do this?
The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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Can't heat expansion do this?
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I've used Linux for servers and laptops for ages but I never had the heart to replace Windows on my desktop, mostly because of muh gaming. Windows 11 finally pissed me off enough to back it up, wipe it and replace it with Fedora, with KDE since I'd heard it had improved so much in the past few years. Got the nonfree repos and the semi-proprietary Nvidia driver set up and it's so far more stable and performant than Win11 since I first installed it, even with debloating. It's not even performance parity, every game I'm throwing at it is just running outright better than on Windows. I'm just now locked out of games with shitty anti-cheat I wasn't playing anyway.
I've replaced one horrible megacorporation up my ass with another, but at least Red Hat trims its nails. Maybe I'll try Arch again soon, who knows.
Thank you for reading my blog post.
EDIT: RTX 3080 and 5600X for reference.
I've replaced one horrible megacorporation up my ass with another, but at least Red Hat trims its nails. Maybe I'll try Arch again soon, who knows.
Thank you for reading my blog post.
EDIT: RTX 3080 and 5600X for reference.
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If more and more people switch to linux these games will eventually bend the knee to the penguin. Most games I want to play work straight up, with little to no issues. Not to mention a decent amount of Multiplayer games will work just fine, such as TF2 or Marvel Rivals, to name a couple.
Lot's of people are switching over actively. Great to see.
ProudSkibidiTolietAryan
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Ok so HOW complicant I was.
I had a PERFECTLY good psu in the back.
I would have it crash and go on and off. With it randomly shutting off sometimes multiple times a day. It going from GOOD to FUCKED over and over the months.
The final weeks of it had it NOT being able to play games as easy as black ops 3 without it consistantly CRASHING.
If I had to guess how many times it hard crashed is about 300 times. Which is a GOOD thing. Because the PSU sucessfully turned off everything before it FRIED out my entire SYSTEM. EVGA is no joke it saved my ENTIRE COMPUTER over 300 FUCKING TIMES THATS INSANE.
What finally made me go to replace it was when simply LAUNCHING games as simple as people playground would crash it,Then I restarted and it crashed on simply STARTING linux. But even still it did not flicker the display. Like it was refusing to die being frozen instead of shutting off with the screen not changing being frozen. All while still preventing my system from being fried. This was when i FINALLY replaced it
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Escape from Tarkov is the only game I somewhat cared about stuck behind kernel anticheat, and even it has gotten some recent lip service from Nikita about a Linux version coming Soon
.It's the Year of the Linux Desktop (For Me).
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im kind of shocked most of the pro linux anti windows videos im seeing lately are from gaming channels and not tech channels (gamers nexus being tech channel, bellular news being gaming channel, in case there was any confusion)
its the shitheads at lmg and teksyndicate and pretty much every techtuber-tries-linux video moaning about windows while dismissing linux as a non-solution, to an increasing number of audience members saying theyve already made the switch
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I don't know if I would credit him for my willingness to make the switch, but I am willing to bet a lot of gamers were swayed by PewDiePie's videos on Linux gaming.
Andy Soying Out
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"WHY LEENOOX ISNT LIKE WINBLOWS DOODD!!!!11! WHY CANT I RUN DUHWEENKEEE DOOOODDD!!!111! LEENOOX SUXX!11!! ITS NOT MY FAULT I DELETED MY WHOLE OS TO INSTALL STEEEEM!!!1!!!"
I hate these videos and people so much. I want them far away from Linux and FOSS in general. Let the goycattle stay in the goyranch.
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You know, thinking about it. It seems like the channels that work out deals with hardware/software companies always seem to be the ones that are making the anti-linux videos.
It could be a coincidence. But it does seem to be a pattern. Then the few times they will say something positive about linux it will be because they're trying to suck up to a company ( valve ).. Meanwhile it seems like the youtubes that have nothing to gain or lose by talking about how they're moving over to linux (well besides the views on the video), or they are trying out linux, tend to be a bit less one sided. Even the ones where they don't end up actually moving over to linux. They tend to come off as a bit more objective.
idk. I'm not saying I'm 100% right about that. But it seems like a pattern to me.
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I feel the urge to explain something here, which may have been posted before but I feel would be a decent reminder if so.
DARPA, since 2024, has this program called TRACTOR (Translating All C TO Rust). This program's purpose is self-evident and is a continuation of prior efforts. DARPA has spent tens of millions of dollars in this project in the past 2 years alone on this effort. The preliminary results? If you translate C code faithfully to Rust, you also translate the bugs. And if, IF, you build a transpiler that is so good that it can detect all potential C bugs in rust, then why not patch the original bugs in C anyways? The project has been widely considered a failure (which is consistent with a DARPA project failure rate of 80-90%, but they account for that and aim for moonshots anyways so whatever). That is as far as Rust replacing C goes for critical infrastructure in my opinion.
Now with regards to the Linux kernel being Rustified, two out of the three core maintainers for the "Rustifying the linux kernel" project have quit (the 2nd one leaving in late 2025). This leaves Miguel Ojeda as the sole Rust for Linux maintainer, and if anything this release and headline I find to be mostly a participation trophy AND/OR ragebait for clicks than anything substantial. Rust is fast becoming less and less relevant by the day, and of all the companies out there I know of only Cloudflare that actively writes the majority of their tools in Rust still (not that it means much when they're just writing anti-rust like fucking up "unwrap()" calls but whatever). Linux 7.0 concludes the Rust experiment because more or less everyone of note is bailing out on it. I don't expect much heavy development going forward.
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There is basically no kernel code that relies on it. I believe the only thing of value that is written in Rust is some Android driver and considering that writing rust kernel code is harder than just writing it in C due to the later being native and having far greater amount of documentation it is not likely to improve. As such i fully expect Rust to be removed from kernel by 2036 due to introducing significant maintenance overhead while not providing anything of value.
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there are some other rust bits and pieces, but nothing major is relying on rust.
The main things that come to mind besides the android binderfs thing is a couple reimplimentations for things that are available in rust, I think they're experimental, and they're definitely optional. Like there is cpufreq available with a rust version you can enable if you enable rust support. I think maybe perf has an option for that as well. But not a ton else.
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Meanwhile, I love FOSS so much I'll suck the flakes off of Stalman's feet like a remora to a shark.
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If you think that's bad, wait until you find out how much of a shitshow Matrix clients (especially Element) are.
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Linux Mint are considering longer development cycles and spacing releases further apart.
Longer Development Cycle
If we look back at the last ten years and the projects we invested resources in, we see two things. Well, I see two things anyway, I hope you’ll agree
I think one of our strengths is that we’re doing things incrementally and changing things slowly. We are introducing change and sometimes it annoys some of our users, but we’re doing it in a way that doesn’t radically affect who we are or the user experience we provide.
Another important strength of ours, as I see it, is that we value our independence and we are able to react and develop our own solutions when we’re not happy with the alternative. We made some bold moves in the past, sticking to LTS, rejecting Snap, developing alternatives to a new GNOME that didn’t feel like GNOME, and I’m really glad we did. These decisions weren’t easy to make and some of them cost a huge amount of time and resources to implement. But looking back, I think they were key. I think we’re first and foremost an operating system: a product, a user experience. We’re also a “distribution”, but we’re not just a distribution.
Whether we “distribute” (for instance with KDE) or we actively develop solutions (for instance with XApp and Cinnamon), we spend a lot of time in release management. Releasing often is important because it means we get a lot of feedback and bug reports when we introduce changes. We follow the same process over and over again. It’s a process that works very well and it produces these incremental improvements release after release. But it takes a lot of time, and it caps our ambition when it comes to development. With a release every six months plus LMDE, we spend more time testing, fixing, and releasing than developing.
We’re thinking about changing that and adopting a longer development cycle. As it happens, our next release will be based on a new LTS and we just ran out of codenames
Stay tuned, we’ll have more information on this. Obviously the codenames strategy doesn’t matter much, but we are very interested in adopting a longer development cycle.
August Levasseur
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There used to be a Kiwi matrix server. And a Kiwi fediverse server, and a kiwi gitlab server. Those all died around the time drop kiwifarms hit, and I don’t think Jersh has talked much about bringing them back. Mayhaps that’s part of the reasoning behind Tartarus, reworking kiwiflare to make it easier to host multiple websites behind it, including multiple kiwi services.
Edit: thinking about it some more, I think the only one of those that’s likely to come back is the gitlab server. Iirc, the chat feature on the farms was essentially made to deal with the death of the matrix server, and the fediverse instance probably died for good when Null got unbanned from twitter.
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This is not a bad thing.