None of the big ones have matched Win11 performance on my machine, or even come close enough to justify switching. I’m hoping that SteamOS’ planned Nvidia support, which reportedly is being developed with some degree of collaboration with Nvidia, will move that needle.
For gaming, until the instant I can run SteamOS on my rig
Just different enough to break your rc files when you try to migrate :)
There has recently been some spirited debate on here about whether Linux users should be condescending elitists to disgruntled Windows users, I assume that’s what this refers to.
OS 9 released 25 years ago. That’s technically less than 30 but I think the point stands.
Yeah, this guy is either trolling or doesn’t have the faintest clue what a good education actually comprises.
Yes, wholeheartedly. They’re not cheating the school—they’re cheating themselves. If you’re paying 200k+ for an education, for what earthly reason would you then skip the actual education?
Those are arguably the most “made for humans” languages—they’re made to make humans laugh and/or headbutt a railroad spike in frustration
It’s not a matter of what people can use, but what people do use. Like it or not, Discord is the de facto standard, and it’s a lot easier to install workarounds that make Discord usable on Linux than it is to convince all your friends to switch platforms.
For many people, socialization is a core part of gaming, and Discord is far and away the most common platform for that socialization.
Eh, depends on the language and the context. I still use 80 for C, but I’ve found 120 to be a much more reasonable number for Java.
I read that one, he literally described himself as mediocre programmer and is excited about gpt as a way for mediocre programmers to be competitive again. I’m sure he’s in for a really fun time when he has to find a bug in 12k lines of AI spaghetti he bolted together.
I presumed it to be a standin for just directly using Math.max, since there’s no nice way to show that in a valid code snippet
Not using thief is professional incompetence unless you’re doing something deeply cursed
Fair enough, though I contend that for a common-case application like a database-backed REST API where the architecture is basically standardized there is no meaningful time difference between writing crappy code in a clean architecture and writing a crappy pile of spaghetti.
I’ve been tasked with updating some code a senior programmer (15+ years experience, internally awarded, widely considered fantastic) who recently left the company wrote.
It’s supposed to be a REST service. None of the API endpoints obey restful principles, the controller layer houses all of the business logic, and repositories are all labeled as services–and that’s before we even get into the code itself. Genuinely astounding what passes for senior-level programming expertise.
That’s what’s really irks me be about JS–you can do just about whatever but you’re not supposed to.
It’s an imperative language, but best practices are to use it functionally.
You can omit semicolons, but best practices are to use them.
You can use sloppy equality, but best practices are to always use strict.
It’s admittedly quite good at what it was originally supposed to be: a voice chat service for playing games that’s easy to join, use, and share. The troubles began when they started trying to pivot to be a general-purpose public internet space provider, because the platform was never supposed to be that and they’ve done absolutely nothing to support it.
Only the ones who don’t grow up to be total code monkeys
Just like any other compute workload, performance is going to vary significantly by game and by hardware setup. Generally AMD hardware does see good improvements in Proton, while Intel + Nvidia is more of a mixed bag, and there’s plenty of reporting out there on slowdowns when switching over. I’ve invested real time in this—tried Cachy, Bazzite, Nobara, mucked around with drivers, proton distributions, launch options, all that. As much as I’d love to report Linux has blown me away here, that’s just not the case. The ecosystem keeps improving and I’ll keep trying because I fucking despise Windows, but at the end of the day I’m rolling with what works.