I don’t know when it will happen, but hopefully it will, or at least slow down.
1 Like
By slow down you mean gradually sag?
Yes. Also, what does everyone thing about this question from the Nobel Prize organization’s website?
1 Like
Is this a poll of some sort?
1 Like
Yup. It is indeed a poll on the Nobel Prize website.
1 Like
I am afraid we are not allow to answer this question in the forum…
1 Like
Now this is interesting.
3 Likes
I’ve also heard of some addiction experiments in mice/rats I think…
1 Like
Mice addicted to cheese does not sound too strange.
1 Like
No, those experiments were much less “fairytaleish”.
1 Like
You are referring to this?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-old-experiment-with-mice-led-to-bleak-predictions-for-humanitys-future-180954423/
1 Like
No, it was an experiment where they blasted mice or rats with loud colorful stuff for a while. Maybe it was ADHD experiment and not addiction idk.
1 Like
To continue onto my transition to Linux, I initially installed Steam with flatpak, but it had terrible performance, would often have trouble launching and it did even crash at times. Games either did not run or ran very poorly. So I reinstalled Steam through rpmfusion and the performance looks a whole lot better. I haven’t tested games yet, but I hope it’ll be good.
Update: Games run good so far. Also…
How come is it using Steam Play? Doesn’t Portal run on Linux natively like all Valve games? I checked the local files and the game executable ends with .sh and not .exe. Dependencies seem to end with .so and not .dll.
2 Likes
So Magic Mushrooms evolved more than once…
https://www.science.org/content/article/mind-bending-twist-magic-mushrooms-evolved-twice-independently
2 Likes
Guess magic finds it’s wayS.
2 Likes
It does immediately after that say that “Steam Linux Runtime 1.0 (scout)”. So you have selected the native linux version of portal to play, so that’s what you play. I don’t know why it says Steam Play, though. Maybe Valve has selected Portal to run better through Steam Play or you’ve changed some setting which causes that text to appear?
3 Likes
I think it would be kind of funny if microsoft made win12 “good” as that would follow the “trend” of them having cycles where one windows version is “good” and the other is “bad”.
2 Likes
I should clarify that I misremembered this. I have had the computer since 2018, the CPU is from 2014, I think 2013 must’ve been my first computer, though I can’t remember any details about that anymore, there are a scarce few files from the mid 10s on this one from that one, I think.
Anyways, windows 10 is about to end support and this computer is too old for W11, so it’s going to be put into permanent offline mode so it doesn’t get any bitcoin miners (as if it hasn’t had any already lmao)[1].
For my next computer I’d like to use linux, because windows 11 looks like ai trash, I just don’t want to do it on this one because I don’t want to risk damaging it.
Though I don’t know when the upgrade will be, since I have other things to do so not much time for PC anymore, and I don’t know belgium about linux distros.
R.I.P. SantaClaus [2] - Unknown, 2018 - October 14th 2025
3 Likes
They’re supposed to be dropping security updates for longer where I live so I’m staying with my inupgradable win10 for longer.
2 Likes
Another problem appears. In games that run Source Engine 2013 such as Portal 1 or Half-Life 2, certain musics like the ending song of Portal don’t play natively on Linux, but they do play on Proton. Weird. But Proton runs worse for those games than the native versions. For Portal 2, Proton had the best performance in terms of FPS but every way to run the game led to random stuttering. It’s really annoying.
I think I’ll use my many Steam Decks as my gaming computers while I’ll use my PC for everything else such as browsing and going on this forum.
Well, I’m going to test CS2 and Dota 2, but yeah. That’s my verdict.
3 Likes