Victor

Yeah, vaguely 😅 I use syslinux for booting, habit from when I used to dual boot, so I was luckily not affected. But yes, it is definitely wise to check the news before upgrading system-critical packages!

How much is a Mac Studio though? I imagine it would take me a few years of power consumption to catch up to the difference in price. 😅

What do you have to do to work your GPU down in power consumption like that?

Who could say. Not I. 😁

You still haven’t answered what’s newer than AI agents.

And for the record, you don’t think this is picking a fight? Or at least acting like an immature peace of shit? Honestly. GTFOOH. You’re supposed to be a grown ass person.

https://vger.to/lemmy.cafe/comment/15147260

I’m not the one who picked the fight. You were acting like a smug POS from the start, and I tried to be nice but it was a doomed endeavor. And nobody is using emojis as “a weapon”. Only you understand where that’s coming from. Might align well with your twisted world view.

You using cat petting as a metaphor is not obvious lol. Just because it’s obvious to you—the one saying it—doesn’t mean a person who is not inside your brain can be considered as having no brain. You even have a cat. It’s not very far-fetched a thing to do for an incel.

The fact that you’re getting so upset shows me I’m right.

The fact that you think I’m upset shows me your delusions are just as predictable now as they were at the beginning of this dreadful correspondence with you.

I moved from Reddit to get away from elitist schmucks like you, among other reasons. Sad to see Lemmy getting more and more of you coming over as time goes on. Yuck.

I don’t mind development being a little slower if it means the software is more stable and performant.

Now, that said, I can’t really speak to the fact that Rust is more performant or stable than some other language X, as I don’t know enough to make such statements. 😅

I’m just saying.

I like the way you phrase things there, pal. 👌

Hey, if you have the space and don’t mind the extra heat and electricity consumption 😎👌 all good by me.

Why is Flatpak Steam worse for performance? I’ve been using it for years, seemingly better performance than Windows on the same system. Something inherent about Flatpak?

If you’re serious about gaming I recommend KDE as your desktop environment, plays nicer with HDR, VRR and fractional scaling than Gnome.

Mm, I don’t think I’d be willing to sacrifice my Niri workflow. Niri also supports fractional scaling and VRR, but not yet HDR, which I can live without until it’s implemented. 😁

I guess we have different use cases is all. People who primarily use their computers for gaming.

My PC is:

1. My media server
2. My workstation when WFH
3. My entertainment center if the TV is busy
4. My gaming PC
5. My hobby development PC

(In no particular order.)

Is it the goal of Linux to be usable by the average person? Just asking.

I consider myself an average person. I’m a completely self-taught Linux user, until I learned a bunch more at uni, but that was a small fraction of what I know now and after I started using Linux.

I just followed the installation guide and searched the internet when I couldn’t figure something out myself, just like I expect from the average schmuck. Especially a gamer schmuck who might know a thing or two more than average average schmucks who barely use computers at all.

You know what I mean? Like are we expecting Linux to do Windows levels of handholding?

I know a lot of gamers who will happily drop into the firmware of their motherboard and tweak the timings of their RAM, but they can’t expect to learn some command line commands? Read some documentation?

Huh.

I guess with my 16 cores and 64 GB DDR5 I don’t really notice anything hampering my frame rate. 😅

But on my old PC with just 12 cores and 32 GB DDR4, I would sometimes close Firefox and all those YouTube tabs to get some memory back and make some CPU cycles available. Gosh darn Linux just handing out memory on loan rather than what’s available. I don’t use a swap file either. 😅

But I guess just closing stuff down isn’t an option? Is it like services running?

Fedora installations have been pretty smooth.

ended up using the terminal for installing all updates.

My experience as well with my Arch installations after a decade with that distro. I run a system upgrade because I want to, not because I need to. Never does it break unless I’m careless when upgrading and not checking the news page beforehand, which you are supposed to do. As long as I play by the rules, it’s super stable. (Never did it break for me anyway though. Never happened apart from hardware failure.)

Although admittedly I almost never do check the news page before upgrading, but/because there’s rarely anything there. And after a while you learn to recognize the volatile packages which can break your system, so e.g. if systemd has an update I’ll check the page before hitting enter, and so on.

Why don’t you do the “everything else” part on your gaming PC as well so you don’t have to have two?

True. Let’s hope it’s a great stepping-stone. 😊👍

You’re like the kind of person who refuses to use code autocomplete.

Wrong. So many things you’ve been wrong about in our correspondence. Yikes.

By the way, my god, what an awful personality you have? Nobody asked you into the conversation and you did nothing but act like a complete schmuck. I’m not surprised you live alone with a cat.

Tagging you as “Vibe-coding schmuck”. Enjoy your cat who will die in a few years while I will come back from work every day (from my home office) to a loving wife and two great kids who are all my favorite people in the world.

Sayonara. 🫡

I’m surprised people are so keen on these gaming-focused distros.

I just want a great, general-purpose computing system that can do gaming as well. 😁

Okay, “bud”, I’ll be fine. I’ll “figure it out”.

You seem really nice, by the way. Keep petting your cat.

fuck me…

You mean to tell me AI agents aren’t the latest fad? That that was “last year”? Go on and tell me what’s so new that you’re using then?

It’s not about keeping up with the juniors, it’s about keeping up with the seniors who got laid off because of the “economy” and are now flooding the market.

Yes it is. They are my only competition, because I am the senior. I also work for a consulting company, and we’re the (senior) people who replace workers being laid off when the company realizes they actually needed that workforce. 👍

The idea that you’ll figure it out when you need it is the wrong path to be on. It’s going to happen, like it or not.

What’s to “figure out”? You install it, you prompt it, and off you go (bug hunting).

That’s why I’m confident enough that when I actually do need it, it still won’t be more difficult than what it is now. When it’s actually relevant for me, it’ll probably be even more simple to use than it is now.