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Steam is working on adding zstd compression for game chunks (every game file is split into 1MB), it currently uses LZMA. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (9 children)

I don't know much about compression algorithms. What are the benefits of doing this?

Coders or lemmy, what editors do you use? Is it worth learning a new one? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My editors

  • Professionally I use Jetbrains stuff (intellij, pycharm, etc).
  • At home I use Neovim because I like to have lsp support, I'm too cheap to pay for IDE's and I dislike VSCode for personal reasons. For quick edits I use default text editor e.g. kate/gedit.

My opinions on learning new editors

  • If you need to go fast now, use what you know best.
  • If you have time to learn just try whatever looks cool. Learning a new editor/way to edit text will broaden your horizons even if you don't end up using it.
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

While I agree philosophically and would prefer the Debian based version. I personally have had issues with it, myabe it's my Nvidia graphics.

So for a beginner I would reccomend the version that is considered the "main" version at the moment. Currently it is still Ubuntu based afaik.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Why would anyone criticize Mint as a suggestion? It's easy to use and stable. I have been using it on my main pc for abut a year with barely any issues (i had more problems on windows). I have tried other distros: mutable, immutable, rolling etc but I always come back to Mint if I want things to just work.

P.S. I have used ubuntu professionally for about 7 years and while I don't always like it, it is still a solid choice.

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Mounting ssd causes graphics glitch during liveboot (imgur.com)
 

I tried to install Arch Linux on my old faithful latitude 7490. After partitioning and formatting the drive I tried to mount the root partition and got this random glitch. When I unmount it the glitch stops. Maybe my laptop is trying to tell me I'm not ready for Arch 😅

I haven't seen something like this before so I thought I'd share.

In the video: The screen of a laptop showing Arch Linux liveboot terminal. After creating partition table and formatting the partitions. I try to mount thebroot partition to the liveboot filesystem. The mounting succeeds but the text on the screen starts to shift andnjump eratically. Looks like the whole image shifts. Then I try unmounting the partition and the screen goes back to normal.