Zhyl

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by Zhyl 4y ago
I think you do need to go on. What you've just described is absolute fiction.
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by Zhyl 4y ago
I think this is on the money and makes me sad.
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by Zhyl 4y ago
And have you tried it in the last 5 years? Desktops like KDE and things like Proton have genuinely meant it's crossed a threshold.
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by Zhyl 4y ago
I also see the complement. My comment's top reply is someone including an attack on Linux rather than expanding on their main motivations (unless they see them as one and the same?) and the responses and children thereof are then all a
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by Zhyl 4y ago
If you're still interested, I would try again now. The experience has come on in leaps and bounds in the last 5 years. I haven't had a WiFi issue since 2018
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by Zhyl 4y ago
I mean you can do that now. * Install the OS of your choice. I would recommend Nobara for minimal tweaking for games. PopOS is another popular choice * Install steam and enable proton for all games in Settings * If you want Steam desktop UI
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by Zhyl 4y ago
It looks like you edited your comment to expand, so I'll address the new points separately. I think the first thing to note is going back to my OP in that I simply don't understand why people like yourself will go to such lengths
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by Zhyl 4y ago
The Steam Deck is a full PC that boots into a console UI. You can switch it into desktop mode which uses KDE - a very popular desktop environment. You can dock the Stem Deck using a USB-C hub to connect to a monitor, keyboard and mouse. Thi
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by Zhyl 4y ago
As a counter point, I've had multiple issues with my HP Envy on Windows that are similar (keys stopping working, random glitches in software).
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by Zhyl 4y ago
I think the issue I would have with your sentiment here is that you say Linux users are hand wavy about things that make it non viable, but I also see your main argument as having a fair amount of handwave, especially the phrase "they
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by Zhyl 4y ago
Your comment here is pretty typical of a medium grade HN response. That is to say: * Thorough and well thought through. Well written (unlike, say, Reddit) * Polite, doesn't attack the person you're responding to or represent their
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by Zhyl 4y ago
Termux is still live and kicking on FDroid. I don't know if there are particular features that you're thinking of that have been nerfed, but I use termux all the time and love it.
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by Zhyl 4y ago
Friend, I've had each of the arguments stated above as absolute statements. The format of the arguments aren't coherent or well thought through. It uses the quoted argument as a jumping off point before going into an anti-Linux ra
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by Zhyl 4y ago
The main sentiment in the article which I don't think I've seen addressed in other comments is the fervency of the people attacking the mere notion that Linux is a viable option. I can understand Ballmer's "Linux is canc
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by Zhyl 4y ago
>We won, but also we lost big. This is why the Steam Deck is important. It's a reminder that computers work for us and that games are supposed to be fun. It's a shame that the mobile equivalents (Pine Phone, Librem 5) aren&#x27
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by Zhyl 4y ago
You can dock the Deck and use it as a desktop with a monitor, mouse and keyboard. It runs a KDE desktop and many people have said they're using it as their daily driver now.
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by Zhyl 4y ago
I still see people arguing against it in very much the same manner as the article outlines. "Linux won't be viable for gaming until it has Anti-cheat" EAC and Battleye announce Proton support "Linux won't be viabl
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by Zhyl 4y ago
An increasing number of games with Anti-cheat work. https://areweanticheatyet.com
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by Zhyl 4y ago
I actually find this one of the easier things with Perl. Just add one `while` loop over the diamond operator and then pass the files to it via bash globbing.
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by Zhyl 4y ago
This is one of the things that I think Perl (still) does really well. It has flags to allow for command-like one liners and has built in things (like the diamond operator) that make it very quick and easy to write 'filter' scripts
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by Zhyl 4y ago
There's a typo on the instructions page. The example has 'rises' but the rest of the explanation uses 'raises' I love this as a concept, though. I think if I were to expand this I'd maybe have pre-defined strin
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by Zhyl 4y ago
It doesn't seem like you can zoom very far (on Android, at least), which to me undermines quite a lot of the wonder of fractals.
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The wait list for the Steam Deck has been cleared(old.reddit.com)
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by Zhyl 4y ago
It can, but that means that there's room for improvement for Google's internal communication and external expectation setting.
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by Zhyl 4y ago
But the language they used wasn't ambiguous. They said they were committed to it. If they want to give themselves wiggle room to backtrack on decisions based on performance, they need to find a way of being enthusiastic without making
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by Zhyl 4y ago
To this end, I really enjoyed "Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive"[1] which was included in the recent Itch bundle for Ukraine. It mixes adventure game with escape room, and whilst there is still a puzzle element to the game, it
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by Zhyl 4y ago
Most of the high end of itch is on steam, so you could life a happy and fulfilled life without hearing about itch at all. On the other hand, if you're someone who is frustrated with the commercial nature of current stores and are pinin
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by Zhyl 4y ago
It's an indie store, the natural successor to the flash game websites of yore. Getting games from there sight unseen is like picking up some games from the bargain bin - a lot of rubbish but the occasional gem. It doesn't need &#x
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by Zhyl 4y ago
FWIW itch.io also runs on Linux and have developed their own 'Proton-alike' which automatically sets up Wine prefixes for Windows games. They're standing on the shoulders of Giants, but I also don't see (m)any of the oth
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by Zhyl 4y ago
Wow, they literally released it a few days after I checked for it :D

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