lost_faith
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- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 4 days ago:
The Foss drivers work for most things, you need the official drivers as they have the DRM (or whatever it is that gives screen priority to the headset) set correctly for VR, from what I read about setting up VR but that info could be out of date now. My next card will be amd least I’m running a ryzen 7
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 4 days ago:
I don’t know about the upstream stuff but to get certain games running you had to contact them to make the game work for you, nothing like Proton today. I did support them for about a year or so as I wanted to encourage more gaming compatibility.
I never ran Arch, but did run a gauntlet of distros like RHEL5, Fedora, Fedora Core, Mandrake, Mandriva, Debian, Ubuntu, and prolly a few more I’ve forgotten. At the time, yeah, video drivers were a mess for gaming, most of the time the drivers did install for both ATI and Nvidia on my machines but they were never bleeding edge so they had a lot of time to get well working instruction sets, Nvidia is still a pain(cause the smart people can’t fix the issues Nvidia won’t) and thats the vid card I have atm 4070ti super, shoulda gone AMD instead. My only issue with linux now is the VR part of it(thankfully Proton are still working on it and there is a better desktop access program that actually lets you control the desktop), the games do not run as well as under windows so I will most likely have to retain a windows partition for the games that do not work well under linux(all of the flat games I have installed work as well as under windows and if I don’t look at the task bar I forget which os I am using), but all that glorious storage will be moving under linux by end of 10.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 4 days ago:
Did you ever get into Cedega back then?
- Comment on YouTube Can't Put Pandora's AI Slop Back in the Box 1 month ago:
the amount of slop I see in my feed is getting insane. i used to scroll 2-5 lines to find something interesting, now i scroll and scroll and scroll and pull up something from my personal library instead
- Comment on Mexico suing Google over relabelling Gulf of Mexico 3 months ago:
Tear it down, break it up
- Comment on Showing your ID to get online might become a reality 3 months ago:
goes to rotary phone, calls ISP - Cancel my service
- Comment on NVIDIA disclose new security flaw in their Linux GPU drivers 3 months ago:
You guys barely care about linux users, if I had been forward thinking when I bought my rtx 4070ti super I would have purchased a similar AMD. Just open your damn drivers so the actual smart people can make it work.
- Comment on If COBOL is so problematic, why does the US government still use it? 5 months ago:
Only draw back is getting replacement parts when they go down.
I remember an old Undergrads ep where Gimpy was at a pc war games/hacker camp and when he tried to hack in to the opponents systems they were using like 10 yr old macs (at the time 2001 was when the series aired) and he couldn’t
- Comment on Final Fantasy VII Rebirth director thinks mods "breathe life into the PC market", following previous request to please not give Cait Sith a dump truck ass 6 months ago:
Ohh, how I’d like to destroy that Cait Sith, never liked that little…
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 10 months ago:
I cannot seem to find that setting in uefi to turn on that chip… Anyway, I keep trying to get my VR library (98 games) to register more than 3, and room setup is a major stroke of luck.
If there are any suggestions on a distro that will power my rtx 4070ti super, ryzen 7 3800, 32 gb ram, HTC Vive, on its own 4tb sata SSD, I would like to hear them. So far Kubuntu has gotten me the closest.
- Comment on What are you playing this week? June 17 2024 Edition 1 year ago:
Just started a second play thru of Half Life 2: VR Mod
- Comment on What are you playing this week? June 10 2024 Edition 1 year ago:
Oh, some Raft:VR mod, just finished Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice VR (what a wild ride, amazing game), Into the Radius v1.0 beta, and a last run thru HL:A only 2 more achievements left
- Comment on Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price 1 year ago:
and now you can pay for that privilege, along with paying them to harvest your data. I guess the “If its free you are the product” no longer stands