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  • I mean the native NixOS package of Steam (instead of flatpak), not that the Steam package uses native libs.

    I believe Steam on NixOS always uses the Steam runtime, because NixOS isn't FHS compliant, thus apps wouldn't find any libs. No, I don't think there's steam-native on NixOS.

  • Interestingly I've currently crashing issues with running CS2 through Steam native on NixOS, while the Steam flatpak works like it should.

    The part about drivers is true though, as GPL is the reason I'm using native Steam.

  • I personally dislike recommending NixOS at all for new Linux users. Even though it's packaging and file system differs from other Linux distros, it's necessary to understand how general Linux works to understand why and how NixOS works.

    E.g. systemd services in NixOS are often times more complex as they include the full nix store path or execute a script which simply executes a command. This is because of how they are generated and obvious once you have experience how other distros systemd units look like.

    PS: I appreciate you helping people find a good distro. I'm merely nitpicking and complaining which doesn't help anyone :D

  • Windows doesn't shutdown completely anymore, instead it's more similar to hibernate by default. For ntfs-3g (userspace/fuse ntfs driver) there's the remove_hiberfile option, which deletes the file and might delete some temporary data. I've personally never lost unsaved data because of this, but I closed apps before rebooting anyway. It's not recommend though and might not be available for the ntfs kernel driver.

    [1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/145902/unable-to-mount-windows-ntfs-filesystem-due-to-hibernation#145904

  • Is anyone even running anything besides maybe FreeBSD on desktops? Most advantages of BSD over Linux seem to be relevant for servers, but not really for typical desktop usage.

    Additionally, apps use toolkits anyway, which provides backends for Wayland and X11. If at some point X really isn't viable anymore, people will put in the work and port Wayland from FreeBSD to other BSDs.

  • Torrents are pretty much perfect, but are held back by peoples slow internet connections. If ISPs provided symmetrical connections (e.g. 100MBit/s down and up) P2P file sharing would be everywhere.

    Sadly most providers in Germany heavily favor download speed. E.g. a friend of mine has fiber optics 250MBit/s down and 50MBit/s up. That's a 5:1 ratio!

    PS: Symmetrical connections would also be great for other use cases. E.g. simple, e2e encrypted P2P video conferences.

    Currently in video calls with more than a few people, a device sends it's video stream to a server which then sends it to all other participants. This increases cost for Zoom/Teams which then get passed to it's users.

    The better solution would be for each device to send it's video stream to all other participants directly (p2p). This would result in video stream bandwidth times the amount of participants (e.g. 5mbit x 10 participants = 50mbit/s up).

  • Does it translate to lemmy, or is it a completely seperate data ignored by lemmy? E.g. does boosting result in a regular upvote on lemmy or is it ignored? If it's ignored, is it possible to boost and additionally upvote a comment on kbin?

    Would there be a disadvantage to automatically upvote a comment if it is boosted, for better compatibility with lemmy?

  • Manually configuring wireguard might work and protonvpn provides config files [1]. It's unrelated to the issue, but wireguard additionally supports port forwarding which increases download speeds for torrents.

    I've no idea why the network isn't showing up.

    [1] https://protonvpn.com/support/wireguard-manual-linux/

  • Security and performance are hard to measure but it's at least questionable that they're behind in either.

    Firefox misses multiple security features Chromium had for years, altough they did add some like site isolation though mutliple processes. The following link showed up first after searching. [1]

    Security isn't everything though. I love how Firefox has local translations, which I've wanted for many years.

    [1] https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html#sandboxing

  • I'm not yet sure how I feel about the changes. On the one hand it is true that randomly dying isn't much of a problem anymore (Hanzo headshot, etc), but I've died multiple times behind cover where I'm pretty sure I got hit because of the hitbox changes.

    That said, before this patch there were enough moments as e.g. Soldier where I ran away from fights the enemies should've been able to kill me. I'm glad they didn't change the movement as it'd feel terrible.

    Edit: From my few metal rank quickplay matches I'd say yoyoing is less pronounced. Player survive with 20hp quite often, but healing them up takes some time. It'll be interesting how the game is played in a few days/weeks.

  • There's good and bad regulation. The EU is putting some really good laws in place, but there's enough with bad (side) effects too.

    Anyway, I'm happy to report that unattended updates work as they should sith F-Droid Basic for a while now.

  • Iirc they also use BattleEye in addition to EAC, so depending on their implementation it might not be as simple (unless they put in some work).

    Epic talks about anti-cheat on Linux not being good enough for them since they aren't kernel level. Which might be fair since Fortnite is big, altough most people probably won't change their OS while cheats are also available on Windows anyway. At the end of the day Fortnite is only one of many games which don't support anti cheat on Linux for whatever reason.

  • Yes, but especially for 3D games this often leads to worse performance and bugs, since the developer still has to be able to test the build. The big reason proton is so great is that Valve is responsible for fixing games on proton, while the dev just has to support a single (Windows) build.

    Obviously some devs also fix a bug only found with proton, but it's something they optionally do, without taking responsibility for fixing all bugs.

    If it was so simple for a game studio to release on all platforms, we'd have macOS x86 & macOS ARM builds too.

  • The concurrent release of all Gnome components at the same time is one of the reasons Gnome is the preferred DE on commercial distros, as it makes planning and releasing new versions easier. All components are designed to work with each other and what doesn't make it in the release comes half a year later. Also, Nautilus (Gnome File Manager) is deeply integrated into the desktop.