• mub@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Omg when I meet someone me and they say they’re a gamer. Why is it always fucking Dota?

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Anyway, almost the only game I play in spare times since years, is The Dark Mod, it’s free and works fine in Linux, Windows and even in Mac.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      OpenBSD loses because it’s permissively-licensed instead of copyleft.

    • unalivejoy@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Wasn’t a big reason some people don’t like systemd because it didn’t run on FreeBSD?

    • Hexagon@feddit.it
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      3 months ago

      My pocket calculator: does not run anything

      Conclusion: my pocket calculator wins. Always

      • black0ut@pawb.social
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        3 months ago

        I run Void with runit.

        I’ve tried to completely avoid systemd, and so far I think I’ve managed. It’s still a pain in the ass, because a lot of software depends on it.

        As an upside, startup time on my old lappy went from 2+ minutes on barebones Arch with systemd to just under 40 seconds on Void with runit.

        • msage@programming.dev
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          3 months ago

          I don’t even care about the boot times.

          Perhaps because I don’t use DEs my PCs boot up quickly, and servers aren’t supposed to be rebooted outside their maintenance windows. So why would I care about pArAlLeL bOoTiNg.

          Oh well, I’m just an old man yelling at clouds.

          • black0ut@pawb.social
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            3 months ago

            The thing about parallel booting is it’s only faster in systems with lots of cores, and the overhead of the parallelized code is sometimes enough to negate the benefits in older processors.

            My machine is a Core 2 Duo lappy, which allows me to run most modern programs cheaply. However, it’s slow (even though I don’t use DEs either), and laptops are the kinds of computers you boot multiple times a day. That’s why I care about boot times. And in this case, you can see that booting with a parallelized init system is slower than booting with a “regular” one.

            Yeah, Systemd might be the new fad, but I still believe there are lots of things to learn from the simple init systems. After all, an init system should only focus on initializing a system, and it shouldn’t be as complex and complicated as Systemd is.

            I might be just another old man yelling at clouds. But hey, that makes two of us now.

    • silliewous@feddit.nl
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      3 months ago

      I thought all systemd haters would have died by now due to old age. At this rare chance, I have a question: How did it feel to live together with actual dinosaurs?

      • Bo7a@lemmy.ca
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        3 months ago

        I finally gave up the hate and embraced the poeterring-ing a few years ago. Can confirm I de-aged by 15 years as a result.

      • TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Why do people hate systemd anyway? I’m not that tech-savvy but I’ve always used it and I don’t recall ever having a problem with it

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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          3 months ago

          I think it’s largely a combination of curmudgeons that hate change and people who are strict Unix ideologues. SystemD, while being objectively better in many ways is a monolith that does more than one thing. This violates some of the Unix program philosophies (small programs that do one thing). The truth is that the script-based inits were terrible for dependency management, which is something that SystemD explicitly addresses and is probably one of its greatest strengths, IMO.

          • msage@programming.dev
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            3 months ago

            It’s the main strength, and for that it deserves praise.

            For the feature creep that goes into it, and everything hard requiring systemd stuff (way beyond just the init system) just to start, no thanks.

            • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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              3 months ago

              That’s very fair. Having managed system services for custom application stacks with hard dependencies on one another, that strength is worth it to me.

              I don’t mean to come across as saying that the Unix philosophy is wrong. Just horses for courses. Systems where there is a likelihood of interdependent daemons should probably consider systemd. Where that’s not an issue or complexity is low, more Unix-like inits can still be a solid choice because of their limited scoping and easy modification.

              • msage@programming.dev
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                3 months ago

                Again, init system is OK.

                Suddenly logind, networkd, resolvd, timesyncd, and every other systemd subsystem is way too much inside the one supposed init system.

  • macniel@feddit.de
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    3 months ago

    Oh they already activated Vanguard for League of Legends? Because before that it could run under linux.

  • Enzy@lemm.eeSvenska
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    3 months ago

    The game runs just fine. Vanguard is what is preventing it.

    Either way GNU/Linux wins.

    • AppleMango@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Yes, there are versions of WINE and Proton that are specific to running LoL, but it’s still somewhat of a headache to get running.

        • AppleMango@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Might be one click to install it, but it doesn’t immediately start working after that, at least according to what I’ve seen. WINE and Proton work well in general, but I’ve seen problems when it comes to LoL specifically.

    • Specal@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Used to be able to before vanguard. When I used SolusOS as my main OS it used to run better than on windows… Apart from the client but that didn’t matter too much

      • Vespair@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        I will never understand why so many people were just okay accepting all this invasive bullshit like Vanguard. There’s so many games I just can’t even consider because I refuse to implicitly tell game companies their unchecked behavior like this is acceptable.

        These are fucking video games; there is no goddamn reason a glorified toy should have root or kernel-level access. It’s wild to me the amount people who will accept anything, no questions asked.

        I’m sure Hell Divers is fun, but it ain’t worth it to me to find out.

          • Vespair@lemm.ee
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            3 months ago

            Cheating sucks but a- people are still cheating in these games, b- there are just as effective anti-cheat strategies that don’t require invasive access, c- cheating in a literal GAME is not enough of a real world issue to sacrifice real world privacy

      • DacoTaco@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Im still waiting on them deploying it. I have a windows installation that does not boot using uefi, and therefor can not run vanguard. So when they deploy it its finally bye bye league after 14 years haha

        • jyte@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Holly shit, after looking things up it’s even worse than I thought…

          Playing Valorant will need to enable TPM 2.0 and secure boot under windows 11 OS, you have to check that your motherboard is support TPM 2.0 system. (NOTE: If your system unable to support TPM2. 0, the only way that you can play Valorant is change your windows to older version as windows 10.)

          Damn, Riot effectively turning PC into console…

  • lemmybereal@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    This is exactly the reason I am going to install linux on my main Desktop, crazy coincidence of this meme. The temptation to play that addicting game is sometimes hard to resist. In linux I am more inclined to spend my time on stuff I learn from.

  • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I once visited a friend’s house and when I saw their computer’s desktop I dragged LoL to the trash bin and they didn’t even try to stop me.

  • ColdWater@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    I really wanna switch to Linux so bad because of windows 10 support is ending soon and windows 11 suck ass I especially hate chatgpt and edge and boring desktop environment and sloppy navigation around the os and inconsistent design and everything else really, the only reason I use computer is games and a bit of documents editing but I lose half of my fps when I played on Linux which is a big deal when all I have is a potato laptop, hopefully by the time windows 10 ended support gaming on Linux will be at least 80% of the windows performance

    • Lumelore (She/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I switched to Linux a few months ago after building a new computer as I didn’t feel like paying over $100 for an OS that has ads in the start menu and spammy popups.

      Almost all of my games work fine and don’t have any issues with lag. The exception is GTA V which doesn’t work at all and Sims 4 which works fine but EA’s launcher has given me a few issues.

      You shouldn’t have any issues with document editing or web browsing. In my experience printing actually works better on Linux than it did for me on Windows.

      If you want you could dual boot or keep an old windows system around to play games that aren’t working on Linux, but in my experience, most games, especially indie games, work just fine on Linux.

      • TheRedSpade@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        GTA V which doesn’t work at all

        YMMV. Works out of the box on the deck and I don’t remember having any problems with it on arch.

      • anon5621@lemmy.ml
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        3 months ago

        Yesterday played in it.Pirated one version works fine since it’s doesn’t relay on any laucher ;)

      • Moody@lemmy.zip
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        3 months ago

        You can literally just download Windows for free from the Microsoft site.

      • ColdWater@lemmy.ca
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        3 months ago

        Dualboot could work, I tried it before and didn’t go very well I might give it another chance, by the way does online games with anti cheat that works on Linux under wine will that get me ban?

    • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Trying not to be one of those “but did you try” replies, but personally, I would run Fedora xfce spin to see if anything changes.

      Cutting edge kernel modules + minimal X11 DE will rule out stupidity from Wayland and make it easier to try some different settings.

      AMD is supposed to work out of box, but I’ve heard there are some quirks with certain GPUs in which you may need to set some kernel flags.

      Ex: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/how-to-install-amd-graphics-driver-on-fedora-36/74052/5

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      the only reason I use computer is games and a bit of documents editing but I lose half of my fps when I played on Linux which is a big deal when all I have is a potato laptop

      You might be using the wrong driver or something. Usually Linux has at least comparable framerates to Windows, if not faster.

    • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      Damn they’re ending support next year: October 14, 2025. I thought it would continue a few more years.

  • toastal@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    One of my best friends I met playing LoL so I don’t know if regret would be the word, but… Going to Linux exclusively was one of the easiest ways to break the habit.