I switched full time to Linux last year and primarily use my computer for gaming. It’s been great. I play games through steam so YMMV with other systems. I haven’t had any issues playing a variety of games such as Factorio (built for Linux), GTFO, Horizon: Forbidden West, PEAK, Ready or Not, Plate Up… It’s been rare for me to have an issue. I remember an issue trying to play Plate Up via steam remote play.
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halloween_spookster@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about?English87·29 days agoBlockchain is just a ledger. Most systems don’t need a ledger, they need a database. It was a solution looking for a problem in most cases and the marketing/business types don’t listen to the engineers if the engineers are even in the room.
halloween_spookster@lemmy.worldto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL there is a law called Marchetti's Constant. Humans only tolerate commutes of less than ~1 hour. Housing outside that limit will fail.English22·30 days agoWhen I interviewed at a company some years ago, the commute would have been ~an hour on a normal day (potentially longer if I did park-n-ride). I was very forward about wanting to only come into the office once or maybe twice a week. The manager I was talking with brushed off my commute time by basically saying that the commute wasn’t that long and he knew others that commuted much longer. That was a huge red flag for me and I did not proceed with them. I don’t care what others will tolerate. If management is going to ignore concerns like that, I don’t want to work there. It was really apparent that he wouldn’t let me work from home more than maybe once a week if I was lucky.
halloween_spookster@lemmy.worldto HistoryPorn@lemmy.world•French Man Getting Arrested For Being French, France 1847.English5·2 months agoBake him away toys!
halloween_spookster@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•mysql or postgresql? Which is better for an Internet-facing applicationEnglish61·8 months agoWe have both MySQL and PostgreSQL in our production environment. Postgres is way nicer as a user of the DB. I created a document months ago outlining a dozen different things that Postgres does that MySQL either doesn’t do or does worse. I can’t speak to managing the DB as I don’t have experience with that.
halloween_spookster@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Tired of hearing about “The offshore team”English3·8 months agoThe company I work at is considering moving some/all of the “not business differentiating” work (aka boring or terrible yet still critical work) to teams in India. I agree with roughly colocating teams (by time zone. Working 12 hours apart from half your team isn’t practical). I disagree with the Indian teams taking all the bad/boring work.
halloween_spookster@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•Thinking about switching to Linux; main concern is son's gamesEnglish3·10 months agoI have been running Linux full time on my gaming PC for a number of months now. I have found only a few instances where a game hasn’t worked. I know that certain games won’t work because of their invasive or Windows specific DRM, but for me personally I don’t want to play those games anyway. Some examples of games I can play without issue: Horizon: Forbidden West, Brotato, Plate Up, GTFO, Dome Keeper, Noita, Enlisted, Power Wash Simulator, Risk of Rain 2 …
halloween_spookster@lemmy.worldto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Mindustry: an extremely high quality (and difficulty) FOSS tower defense gameEnglish6·10 months agoI highly recommend this game! I played through it with a friend and really enjoyed it. I think I recommend it with more than one player
halloween_spookster@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality.English15·11 months agoYea, what about your liver? Have you asked how it feels today?
halloween_spookster@lemmy.worldto Work Reform@lemmy.world•More than 28% of Americans are now searching for a new job — the highest rate in a decadeEnglish91·1 year agoSome blame needs to go to
aicorporate busidiotsFIFY
halloween_spookster@lemmy.worldto Cool Guides@lemmy.ca•Cool guide to boiling a larger sized eggEnglish2·1 year agoI can’t speak to specific numbers but it absolutely does. The higher the altitude, the lower the boiling point. The lower boiling point the lower the temperature you’re cooking with and you have to cook it for longer
halloween_spookster@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•I put my number in a secure form for a trusted bank and immediately got spammedEnglish0·1 year agoYou might want to consider a more thorough wiping of your area code next time. It’s pretty easy to figure out what it is through the scribbles
halloween_spookster@lemmy.worldOPto Linux@lemmy.ml•Error when loading Ubuntu live USBEnglish2·1 year ago- I tried a different USB with a fresh download and got the same error.
- I’ll try a different distro :+1:
- I’m not logged in when I get the error in the photo. That’s what ends up coming up as the live USB boots. It won’t even load into live mode. The only time I was able to get that working at all was with safe graphics mode but it failed to even start the install
halloween_spookster@lemmy.worldto Privacy@lemmy.ml•The US government will let you use facial recognition to access services online - but don't worry, your data is safeEnglish10·2 years agoBiometrics are a terrible security feature IMO. MAYBE if used in conjunction with other things like a username and password, but never on its own.
It seems to vary. I had few issues with my 2080Ti but my friend had nothing but issues with his 3070. He switched to an AMD card and it worked without issue. Nvidia doesn’t put nearly as much emphasis on their Linux support as AMD does, but that doesn’t mean that Nvidia cards aren’t usable.