MudMan

Honestly, this thing is playable on lesser hardware now, even.

I mean, rasterized and at lower framerates, but it does work well enough to play. It's missing the point a bit, because it's an absolute looker on high end hardware, but still. The story is worth getting through.

It's not a culture war if they make policy based on it. Can't really be shouting from the fence at the migrants being detained, put in camps and deported or the women being denied abortions or the trans people being arrested for having to pee that the culture war is a distraction and if they only looked at it from a class perspective everything would be fine.

I mean, you can, but after a while it starts to suspiciously just seem like you actually agree with the fascists and the anarchocapitalists on the issues, or at least that you're just as willing to use attackig marginalized scapegoats for your own political gain.

Yeah, I know.

But the thing is, while I understand that for hobbyists this is all cool Linux gossip that feeds Youtube videos and is entertaining, it's very, very far from what a normal user expects.

Which is, you know... no lore at all.

For the record, I ran an A770 on Linux for a bit on fairly recent drivers for a bit and there was definitely something wrong (frame pacing? straight up worse performance? I'm not sure). I should give that another shot one of these days.

People keep saying this, it keeps not being true. I mean, yeah, a ten year old card may be as far behind in features as the current drivers, particularly if you're not trying to use it in full, but even conceding that most people don't have top tier parts, the most popular dedicated cards are the 3060 and 4060.

Drivers aren't supposed to just show you a desktop, feature support and performance matter. "It works for my use case" it's not the expected level of support for mainstream usage, the same way "it works on my computer" is not a valid reason to dismiss a bug.

Yeah, people say this, but having seen a profanity filter in action... turns out most things do get caught. People just aren't that motivated.

It's a bit different when you're tuning an algorithm and people are just trying to cover a subject you've decided to disincentivize, I suppose, but then why bother? I guess as a token gesture towards regulators, maybe? Socials do seem keen on keeping the tone kid-friendly, though. There's lots of future money in those kids, you can't go scaring them off before you shake them by the ankles.

Yep, that tracks. Probably some people mixing up how much funding a studio was raising with the budget of the game's production.

The euphemistic language trend is baffling to me. For sure it's not a censorship problem, right? Adding a synonym to a profanity dictionary is trivial, it wouldn't fool anybody for any amount of time.

That is at least plausible, even though they don't mention a specific source so it's impossible to know if it's accurate and whether or not it includes marketing or just development.

But however you want to cut it, nine figures is absolutely triple A territory. I was a well grown man when we were scandalized at games starting to break 50 mill during the PS3 era.

That said, I don't believe the numbers in the billions being quoted for some games are accurate, either. At the very least people are being quoted the entire studio overhead, not just the cost of the game, and in some cases almost certainly just reporting incorrect numbers.

What do you mean, often? What's "often"? Linux's install base is what? 2-5% on desktop PCs, tops? And much of that has been fairly stable for a long time.

So who are these aggravated masses that are evening out the 90% of dedicated GPU users and the mass of people who just don't seem to have much of a problem and definitely not a motivation to move to Linux specifically?

There's a bit of size blindness in the community, where any movement is seen to be momentous and every inconvenience a turn of the tide and it comes off a bit delusional.

Also, "a thing to know" is one thing too many for people who bought a prebuilt PC and never touched anything about it until they bought the next one. And if they do buy a new GPU or whatever they expect to just jam it in there, turn the thing on and expect everything to work right away. Having to wade through all those warnings about Nvidia and anticheat is itself an aggressive way of disincentivizing moving for many people. Honestly, I have a running Linux install and if I have to hear one more time that Mint is the best distro for Windows users and works just fine out of the box I may scream and take a sledgehammer to my boot drive.

Not what I'm saying. I'm saying that a) copy pasting into the terminal isn't the horrifying breakdown of usability Linux advocates seem to believe it is, and b) there are more pressing issues about how often you need to troubleshoot something in the first place.

On both Linux and Windows it's relatively rare to have to reinstall a driver in the first place because both are able to pick up your hardware, set themselves up and keep themselves updated with minimal user intervention.

The real problem isn't whether fixing the exceptions to that involves typing. The real problem is how often there are exceptions to that. In Linux it's way more likely that the natural process of setting something up or customizing something will require some fiddling, while Windows is more likely to make you install some bloatware or not give you much choice, but most likely will get things working for you the way it wants them to work.

That is very much a user-friendly approach, despite its annoyances. The problem isn't that there is a command line interface, the problem is that it's littered in the middle of doing relatively frequent, trivial things. On purpose, even.

No, that's not the equivalent at all because I'm not a gardener but I do use a computer to work.

Look, analogies can be useful to explain things to people who don't understand the paramenters in question, but we all know what an OS is. You don't need to talk down to anybody here.

Turns out the question isn't about gardening (or lube), it's between a FOSS OS that remains finicky and not perfectly supported and a few commercial alternatives with different quirks and approaches to monetizing the crap out of you but that generally have decent usability for mainstream non-technical users with general applications.

You don't need an analogy for that unless you're talking to a time traveller from the 1800s.

I've genuinely had problems with multi-speaker configs this year on multiple distros and very little guidance on how to troubleshoot it. But you're not wrong.