Cralder
bruhduh
fluxion
NatanoxNot knowing how anything works, being scared by errors that you don’t know how to get around or deal with, not knowing alternatives for your former favourite apps to do things quickly, wondering if you get the peripherals you currently own to run?
naah thanks mate, hard pass.
Not knowing how anything works
I mean, that’s how you start learning stuff - not knowing how something works
Being scared by errors that you don’t know how to get around or deal with
Isn’t that the case for every OS in existence? When something breaks, you don’t know how to deal with it. Enter google/ddg/whatever
- Not knowing alternatives for your former favourite apps to do things quickly
See point 1 - and yet there are Linux apps that let you do things quicker than Windows stuff. I can’t imagine myself at this point having to use frigging photoshop to crop or add a border to a image when you could do that with a ´magick -crop´
Wondering if you get the peripherals you currently own to run?
Wasn’t that the whole point of live images? Not that they will charge you for downloading them. And hardware support is infinitely better today than back in the day. Just look at what the folks at asahi did - that’s nothing short of incredible
My brother in penguin computers, that wasn’t a negative post. I just mentioned all the things to point out that switching OS can be really hard and the first time getting to Linux ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. 😉
Really just needs one problem with some necessity you can’t fix to screw up the whole experience. Doesn’t even have to be Linux’ fault; just thinking about god damn printers…
That’s less of an issue these days. In the 2000s it was like that, especially since people used all sorts of add-in cards. These days a lot of those cards have merged with the mainboard (networking, sound, USB) or have fallen out of fashion (e.g. TV tuners).
The mainboard stuff is generally well-supported. The days of the Winmodem are over. The big issues these days are special-purpose hardware (which generally doesn’t work with later Windows versions either), laptops, and Nvidia GPUs (which are getting better).
Ah, the old Nvidia problem. It’s true that Nvidia’s Linux driver isn’t very good (although I don’t think their Windows driver is very good either, it just has more features).
The 3D Settings page is specific to the Nvidia Windows driver. Even an AMD user might’ve been slightly confused (although AMD ships comparable features, just located elsewhere under a different name). This is indeed something the Linux drivers plain don’t have in that form, although I can’t remember the last time I felt a need to really muck around in there.
Admittedly, overriding game rendering behavior might not even always be possible, seeing that DirectX games are run through a translation layer before the GPU gets to do anything.
I wasn’t able to find solid info for AI upscaling even on Windows, mainly because of the terrible name of that feature and because Nvidia offers both “AI Upscaling” and “Nvidia Image Scaling” and I have no idea if those are the same thing. The former seems to be specific to the Nvidia SHIELD.
Unless you’re talking about DLSS, which is supported.
The HDR one is odd but might again be related to the Nvidia driver not being very good. This should improve in the future but they are admittedly trailing behind.
See this is what I mean. You don’t even know what I’m talking about because these features don’t even exist in Linux yet. Thank you foe confirming that the 3D Settings page still doesn’t exist. I won’t be switching until it does.
Furthermore, AI upscaling has nothing do with DLSS or Nvidia Shield. It’s a GPU feature that upscales any video playing on your PC to 4K, whether it be in a video player or your favorite browser of choice. It’s a really neat feature to have (especially for watching older content), and not something I can go without now that I’m used to it. Same goes for SDR-to-HDR conversion. Yes I’m aware that it’s not true HDR, but it’s convincing enough to fool me. YouTube videos look so much better with it on. Whites are whiter and colors really pop. Again, not something I can live without, now that I’m used to it.
It doesn’t matter to me who’s fault it is; what matters to me is being able to use the features I paid for, and for that reason alone I’m stuck with Windows. Believe me, I really want to switch and get away from all the privacy-invading telemetry, but I can’t just yet.
^ See this is the other issue I have with Linux users. $20 says you hate 24/30Hz to HFR conversion as well. You’re all the same.
Call it “shiny” and “fake” all you want, but it looks a lot more real to me than the dull, stuttery, pixelated video we’ve all been fooled into believing is superior because Hollywood told generations of people that it was, simply because the technology wasn’t there yet. Now it’s here, and you people call it “shiny, fake, and rendered” because you’re old and stubborn and unable to accept the fact that technology evolves.
If the point of video is not to capture a slice of life, then what is the point of video? 1080p SDR @ 24 FPS, does not look real to me, but 4K HDR @ 120+ is much closer, even when upscaled to that.
You see, you had some sympathy here until you threw the whole community under the bus because some rando on Lemmy.
But I guess you disgruntled Windows users are also all the same, hurrdurr.
Find some Linux device manufacturer if you want to make sure everything that exists works just as-is, and if you’re angry about missing features go to those bozos at Nvidia, Intel and AMD to complain them not being up to snuff.
This is a case of you having some very specific requirements that can only be met in a certain way, that being Windows in this case. Whether or not a switch makes sense depends on how important those requirements are to you. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.
I personally found the ability to override a game’s rendering settings to only be worth it in very few cases but that’s me. But if you use it a lot then you use it a lot.
As for AI upscaling, my main issue there is that Nvidia chose a name so generic that it’s hard to google. And then they made a second unrelated feature with a very similar name.
There is AI video upscaling for Linux but it probably doesn’t work quite the same way Nvidia’s offering does. That might be a problem or it might not; I admittedly only invested a minute to look it up so I don’t have any details.
The same applies to SDR-to-HDR. There seems to be something but it probably doesn’t work like what you currently use.
So in the end you’ll have to decide whether you’d be more annoyed by not having those features or by having to use whatever zany shit Microsoft come up with. Not a great decision but that’s life.
I personally might have stuck with Windows longer on my desktop if my 4080 hadn’t turned out to be wonky and Nvidia’s driver hadn’t turned out to be so capricious that I had to spend two months ruling out plausible error causes. That drove me back to AMD, which made the switch easy. But again, that’s me and not you.
Midnight WolfTossing Gentoo onto an old Pentium III box, typing emerge world and coming back four hours later to see if it’s done was awesome.
And no, it wasn’t done compiling KDE yet.
But I definitely wouldn’t want to experiment with Linux on my only PC with no way to look things up if I break networking (or the whole system). Thankfully, this is no longer an issue in the age of smartphones.
Flax
Avid AmoebaPTSD of wifi and gpu drivers:
dog war flashback meme
Possibly linuxmake output substantially.
BjörnI was alive during that
Yay
rovingnothing29
Synapse
RichardI don’t know the guy, but I can relate
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woelkchen
NotSoMewwoFor full context: The mod abuse was a incident between sirsquid (Liam/GamingOnLinux) and ‘go $fsck yourself’ (the person that comments this on every linking to GamingOnLinux.com). The alleged mod abuse is Liam deleting a post by ‘go $fsck yourself’ criticizing the title on one of his articles. Liam later stepped down as moderator.
Was Liam being a childish? Yeah. Is there a reason why ‘go $fsck yourself’ is being vague about what the mod abuse actually was and to what extent? Probably.
Incident was at 2024 May 22 Mod Log: lemmy.ml/modlog/15063 Incident Thread: lemmy.ml/post/15894308
For more context, after Liam stepped down: lemmy.ml/post/17376889/11932442
Pretty succinct and includes 99% of the situation. Thanks, and well done.
Only things I would add would be: Being a moderator on lemmy and not knowing that modlogs are public is baffling. That alone really outlines the fact he was unqualified for the role.
And that it seems pretty obvious the comments were only deleted by him to hide his own. He had already shown an inability to be measured and collected, as well as a poor understanding of the platform from a moderation perspective. Then, his clear disregard for the only rule for the community by lashing out at something that could have been more easily dismissed entirely. He should have just deleted the comment without a response.
It all serves as solid evidence that he was willing to abuse his mod role for something so minor, and a person like that wouldn’t stop there.
The real cherry on top is how pathetic it is to go to mastodon to complain about the public mod logs on lemmy.
It was a single small incident out of (assuming) months of moderation and he later stepped down.
I am asking you to have some empathy, your comments make the situation look like he was being a master manipulator when all he had was an ego problem and a conflict of interest.
We’re humans, we do stupid things. Just because he is a bad moderator (because many people who get moderator status often end up abusing it) and did a single bad incident shouldn’t invalidate his blog nor it should mean he is an awful person.
I’m not sure why you see it as a single incident. It was a series of choices—actions—that outline his overall behavior. I don’t see how a person who shows no empathy towards others, particularly from a position of ‘power’ over them, then refuses to acknowledge their poor behavior should get any empathy themselves.
It has always been a very easy option, if he wanted, to ameliorate the situation himself. Instead he chose to stick to his choices multiple times.
You’re not wrong that it could be considered taking the high road to never bring it up. However, too often do people abuse that expectation to avoid consequences and just continue their behaviors. Without acknowledging their own actions there is no evidence that this is just not their own standard of behavior.
SkunkWorkz
Stewbs
GHiLASome say he’s still coming to this very day.
They sell it.