Chewy @ Chewy7324 @discuss.tchncs.de

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It's definitely just my opinion. Honestly did not mean to imply otherwise.

For my opinion I usually create a comment below my post to seperate my opinion and the post itself.

On-topic: I do believe it's useful to have this switch and there's nothing stopping distros to change their default. Completely replacing the default keybindings might be surprising to long time users, but I also believe it should be done at some point. For the meantime this switch can be simply added as an alias.

People who only use the terminal to edit a few config files are usually fine with nano. Even more so with these new keybindings.

For more involved edits an editor like VSCode is usually more useful anyway.

For me vim works well, but I've already taken the time to learn its basic usage.

Maintaining btrfs is more work than maintaining ext4, which basically doesn't need any. I.e. running btrfs scrub is important to keep performance up. Monthly scrubs are good because they don't take as long if done regularly.

Btrfs balance can free up some space, but otherwise isn't important on SSDs.

It's amazing to see how Alyssa Rosenzweig took Faik Ekstrand's NVK and repurposed it for Apple Silicon. I think this is a great example of the strength of open source, where code can be repurposed (if a competent enough individual comes around).

I've heard before that NVK is good building block for the future to make better drivers for all GPU's, but I'd never thought it'd be reused this fast. I wonder whether they'll be able to take NVK improvements easily to Honeykrisp, and vice-versa in the future.

Also, it's incredible how the state of Linux on MacBooks is better than in the late Intel days, now that such competent developers focused on getting the hardware running (it's been quite difficult to install Linux on some Intel MacBooks, I believe because of their security chip).

Yes, Linux OS are usually lighter on hardware. But if we're talking about gaming and other heavy applications usually have the same hardware requirements.

Windows Defender, update checker and other system services on Windows do tank performance by a few percent as shown by those "debloated" Windows images.

But DXVK also usually reduces performance by 5-15%, even more so for VKD3D. This outweighs the performance gains of less background services. Not to mention I'm (and I guess most people are) running apps like Discord, Spotify and Firefox in the background.

There're games running better on DXVK than native D3D, but that's usually because they are using an older graphics API that isn't optimized on newer GPUs. Both GTA IV and Sims 3 use DirectX 9. Interestingly, running older titles om Windows with DXVK also results in performance gains.

I certainly didnt notice any difference [...]

Me neither, except for a few games where my hardware was already struggling. Without direct comparisons I'd say a 10% performance overhead is negligeble too.

They likely don't play Valorant, Fortnite, Roblox, Rainbox Six Siege, Destiny or League of Legends.

Basically all of my games run well on Linux, but I wouldn't dare say they run better on Linux than Windows. Some do, e.g. Minecraft, but almost all other games have at least a bit lower FPS.

If games build for Windows in general ran better on Linux it'd be pretty surprising, given the amount of investment into Windows gaming there's from many more big corporations than we have on Linux.

Linux gaming is better than ever, but there's enough people expecting too much and going back to Windows because of Linux gaming shilling.

I'd call it ppa without the drawbacks, aka. breaking the OS on upgrade (from wrongly packaged or out of date ppas).

Thank you, that's a really useful list. A week or so ago I didn't know there was an (unofficial) Firefox Nightly flatpak remote, so I had to use a tarball. This would've saved me a bit of time.

I also didn't know flathub subsets for verified/floss apps were already available.

Torrents are based on the idea that everyone using them pays for it with their bandwidth and hardware cost. Except for those leechers who don't share.

I'm paying more for my seedbox than for my usenet subscription. If I used my own hardware I'd pay with stress on my hardware, e.g. the disks aging and failing earlier because of seeding. The power consumption is also not negligeble, altough the server is also used for other purposes.

With private trackers this idea of an equal exchange is more obvious because of ratio requirements.

Edit: I'd say it's similar to open source in that no single individual has to pay for it, but someone does have to, for it to exist. Most often with their (valuable) time and knowledge. If no one helps out and does their part (through money or time+knowledge), a project won't survive for long. Same is true for torrents.

Same. It's been great on a few occasions, but I'm not playing much in general. It still came down to a third of my playtime being on Steam Deck last year.

Though I have to say I did use it more than I expected over the last two years.

I will be surprised if Spotify won't announce a new more expensive HIFI subscription with their support for lossless audio. Imo this still makes it less interesting than Tidal/Deezer/Qobuz since it'll still be impossible to permanently download music from Spotify.

Nonetheless it's great that Spotify will provide lossless audio for those who want it.

Are you using multiple monitors? With X11 multi-monitor setups one of the monitors always tears if the framerate aren't multiples of each other (e.g. 120Hz + 60Hz works fine, 144Hz + 60Hz results in tearing with one of them). This is also the case with variable refresh rate (FreeSync), but VRR shouldn't be an issue as it's not enabled by default on X11 iirc.

You'd have to manually enable Wayland, because PopOS disables it by default (does not show in the login menu/GDM). Keep in mind that PopOS is based on Ubuntu 22.04, which is quite old at this point. Wayland might not be as good of an experience for you because lots of improvements happened over the last two years.

PopOS will release their new COSMIC wayland desktop environment with updated packages in a few months, which should work well for gaming and fix your tearing issues.

If you want to try whether Gnome Wayland solves your issue, you can edit /etc/gdm3/custom.conf and set WaylandEnable=true. After a reboot you should be able to select Wayland in the bottom right corner at login.

You're right, thanks for correcting me.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/10598850

You're right, my apologies for confidently spreading misinformation and thank you for pointing it out. Material You colors are available on LineageOS and GrapheneOS, probably CalyxOS too.

With Android 12 GrapheneOS and CalyxOS choosing different colors was not possible, maybe because they didn't implement something at first, but with 13+ Material You works as intended.

I've edited my parent comment accordingly.

Google has always been able to remove installed apps remotely, although I believe they only use it for malicious apps, not for apps that simply get removed from the Play Store.

But I've also been mislead by the headline.

Clickbait makes me appreciate my preferred small tech news outlet, which has been doing serious journalism without sensationalism for over 25 years. The authors even interact in their forum, which is still active because of how the site actually cares about the community.

My mental list of sites I try to avoid is longer than the list of actually good sites. Sadly those thrash sites get pushed up in rankings of Google News and similar aggregators because clickbait clicks well.

It's important to note that Android ≠ AOSP (Android Open Source Project). Most of the actually interesting features advertised in a new Android release won't be available to you if your not installing Google Services.

E.g. heavily advertised features like Android 12's "Material You" adaptive themes aren't even available on AOSP and thus GrapheneOS, CalyxOS or LineageOS.

New privacy features often already existed for years on custom ROMs like LineageOS.

This is why since around Android 10 I'm not even following new Android releases, at least not beyond reading glancing over an article. I didn't even notice my phone updated to from 12 to 13 (GrapheneOS) until I noticed the new background apps menu, which is pretty much all of the changes.

Edit: Being able to set a language per app is a great feature of Android 13.

Edit 2: As pointed out in comments below, my Material You example was wrong.

A better example are heavily advertised translation and image editing features, which are sometimes locked to Pixel and definitely locked to installs with Google Services. Same is true for apps like "Digital Wellbeing", which don't work on AOSP but its features are advertised as Android features.

tl;dr
Android updates are even more uninteresting if your using a custom ROM, because most features won't even be available in open source Android.

Shares aren't necessarily voting shares, but I don't know how that works and if it's even relevant for the private Valve corporation.

So maybe Gabe Newell does have full control over Valve, or he might not.

It's definitely interesting that it's only 25%.

It's great how Firefox can be customized through userChrome.css und user.js. I'm only using the former to put the tab bar in the same row with the url bar to save vertical space while using sidebery/vertical tabs, but it's good that it's still available.

Visually impaired people prefer being able to use the browser and actually be able to understand the content of websites.

These features are local, private and improve accessibility, so I really don't see any similarities with telemetry which can be turned off anyway.