fartsparkles

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’ve run the gauntlet of distros too (including setting up distcc across several boxes so I could run Gentoo everywhere (which is far too much of my life I can never get back).

  Arch is the best of Gentoo/Slack with the ease of Ubuntu/Debian.

  Also sounds like I need to buy a new card as I’m nvidia too right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No I didn’t. I think the public source was a nightmare to build and get working (never tried, friends did though) and I wasn’t going to pay for it when the Wine project was publicly annoyed by the proprietary forks not contributing upstream (didn’t Wine relicense because of Cedega?).

  I payed for CrossOver over the years as they had Office working pretty well and as much as I use FOSS office suites for personal use, inevitably someone sends me something that wouldn’t open and I’d have to use MS Office.

  My biggest gripe with using Linux for gaming over the years was drivers and needing to switch between them since some would be good for compositors (typically the FOSS ones), others for gaming (typically the proprietary blob ones). Then there was the regular breakages etc.

  I wish I had switched to Arch sooner as I’ve had so few issues with that distro given the core packages are so minimal, there’s less opinionated cruft that other distros have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been 12 years since Gaben committed to Linux publicly and honestly. It’s impressive to see that Valve has remained committed all this time and become a stellar contributor to the Linux ecosystem.

  They could have forked and kept their toys to themselves but instead they’ve continuously pushed their hard work upstream for every Linux distro to benefit from.

  My behemoth of a gaming rig is to be switched over to Linux in the coming weeks, bringing my use of Windows to an end after 30+ years (my gaming rig is the only system I still have Windows on).

  I’ve been using Linux since 2002 and if you told my younger self it would be the ex-Microsoft people behind Half-Life that would kill Windows, I’d have laughed you into oblivion. And yet here we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MindsEye director reportedly says the studio will relaunch the game, as around 300 staff are at risk of being laid off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Turns out Leslie wasn’t the biggest reason GTA was such a huge success and they’re not taking it well…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paradox Interactive's return-to-office policy may be driving employees away from the studio⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, these mandates have been a positive. We’ve been hoovering up incredible talent to join our team since we’re a remote-first org (we have offices and co-working spaces for those that want or need it; some don’t have space in their homes to work or want the in-person socialisation).

  The stupidity of these orgs with these mandates - their best and critically important talent are the first to leave. Not to mention how some of the best talent have long left the major urban areas and will never be moving back.

  I feel incredibly bad for the juniors though, who will be left picking up the pieces of these terrible management decisions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto FiveM Players Quit In Disgust As New Sources Corroborate The Rumors⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If true, this whole story is utterly appalling. I feel so bad for the original founder.