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[–] julysfire@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Linux is the only viable solution to this mess. And no it is not as scary as it seema

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Does Lemmy have a "Stallman was right" community? Or is that just all of Lemmy.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

Most of it, yes.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 weeks ago

i was thinking the same thing

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Does Lemmy have a “Stallman was right” community?

!stallmanwasright@lemmy.ml

EDIT thanks Cricket

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If you replace the c/ with ! it will become a clickable link that will take the visitor to their local instance's copy of that community.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

!stallmanwasright@lemmy.ml

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

No problem, thanks too! :)

[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

See ya on Windows 7 with 0patch micropatches :D

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's not fear, it's laziness and just general fed-upness of dealing with computers and the overwhelming complexity of everything nowadays. There's nothing fun or thrilling about computers anymore, it's a black box to me now.

[–] bobaworld@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Still waiting for nvidia to pull their heads out of their asses and fix gaming performance on their GPUs under Linux before I make the jump myself. And no, I don't want an AMD GPU.

[–] jnod4@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What's wrong with amd? In the market for a gpu right now

[–] bobaworld@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Nothing really wrong with them if they offer the performance and features you want. But I am a high end user and I also use some software that's really reliant on CUDA. So they're not really winning in either the performance or the features department for my personal use.

[–] Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Nothing. The current generation card is slightly worse in rasterization performance while handily slapping my 7900 XTX in Ray tracing performance.

Obligatory GamerNexus Video. https://youtu.be/yP0axVHdP-U

[–] julysfire@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I use NVIDIA on Linux and nothing no issues or performance hits

[–] 7toed@midwest.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm just shocked Fedora is playing well with a quadro series card, and I'm not looking back. If there's some bottleneck, it's no larger than the one on my general experience with windows. Though I would very much like to be runnung a non-tainted kernel.

[–] bobaworld@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah I understand that things have improved a lot. But it's the 10-30% performance hit in DX12 games that keeps me from wanting to dive into Linux as my primary OS on my gaming machine. If they can get that closer to parity with Windows, I'm all-in on Linux for life.

[–] DireTech@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s fine. Not sure where you heard it’s terrible.

[–] bobaworld@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I know it's not terrible, but there is a performance disparity there that you can't ignore. If someone is spending $1000+ on a high end GPU I think it is fair for them to expect a level of performance that's a little better than "fine".

[–] DireTech@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If by disparity you mean sometimes Windows is better and sometimes Linux is better. I have one of those GPUs. Give it a try before you slam it. Valve has thrown so much money into Proton that support is amazing compared to when I tried a decade ago.

[–] bobaworld@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Benchmarks are readily available, I have a 5080. Some DX11 and older games do run slightly better on Linux. But a lot of them don't. And pretty much 100% across the board DX12 games run 10-30% slower on Linux compared to Windows. Nvidia has even acknowledged the issue and claims to be working on a solution.