He’s a guy, I think I heard not so great things about him but I never paid attention to him. I think I heard he leaked the source code for counterstrike or something?
He did? You mean CS2? Maybe. Anyway, I asked because I just watched a video that spoke about how he incited his fans to harass Valve employees amid the TF2 bot crisis by revealing their work email address. Not cool. I kind of lost interest in his videos as ever since he finished playing Half-Life Alyx, he seems to have started hating Valve, feeling betrayed by them and progressively losing his mental sanity to the point where I’m wondering whether he sometimes acts like a child. I mean, just watch the first two minutes of his Aperture Desk Job video. Hearing him yelling “JUST MAKE A WHOLE 
ING PORTAL GAME GUYS” felt like cringe and overreacting to me. I did not watch the rest of his video as I did not want to listen to him complaining for 30 minutes.
ING PORTAL GAME GUYS” felt like cringe and overreacting to me. I did not watch the rest of his video as I did not want to listen to him complaining for 30 minutes.
Which Linux distro family is better?
- Arch
- Debian
- Fedora
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I’m really thinking about switching to linux. I’ve already checked and apparently most of my programs are compatible, but I’m kind of scared of the whole thing about everything being harder than windows and that I might lose some files
Move all the files to a flash drive and move them back to the computer after you install linux
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Then Gabe will just slash the technical specs of the headset. I’m not going to buy any VR gear before the screen door effect (due to low resolution screens) are fixed. I tried the original HTC Vive once and was immediately blown away by how terrible the picture quality was, I was able to clearly see the individual pixel lights and the image had really bad colours and brightness because of that.
If you compare something like a base model macbook air to similarly powerful Windows laptops, the price is just a bit higher. Apple’s pricing only becomes ridiculous when you upgrade the ram or CPU, then they charge you for the upgrade and the privilege of taking away the lower powered part. That’s just totally predatory in my opinion and a very morally questionable thing.
I mean any change is going to be more difficult as you are more used to the way you do it now. I doubt that a new computer user (if such a thing even exists in 2023) who first experienced Linux would have much difficulty getting the basic usage down like how you open programs and where you install new programs from (hint: it’s not through downloading random installers from the internet).
I’ve only tried the Index so far and it was good enough for me. The only real problem I had with it was the stuttering caused by overheating issues, which I hope will be solved for the Deckard. I actually stopped using the Index because I was afraid that overheating could actually kill the headset overtime. I admit that the image quality might not be perfect, but I got used to it. At this point, if you’re going to wait that long, you might get Valve’s third headset, which will most likely use OpenBCI hardware.
Very old people could have trouble with computers. Or farmers since they don’t rely that much on computers (except for buying stuff and equipment from afar).
Not to forget that some distributions are harder for new Linux users. I’ve heard that Arch is pretty difficult for beginners. Question: Would you say that Fedora is good for beginners? From the video I shared, it looks like Fedora has a better package manager and easy syntax while having rolling release, which I find really attractive for security purposes. Also, does it use Wayland? I’d like to use my RTX 3090 on it.
Oh man, I like that thumbnail.
I also used the index and I like it but it has major tracking issues for me which I can’t find anyone else having.
The package manager is the last thing the average computer user needs to worry about. Linux has already failed the average user if they have to touch the command line at all. So it is all about the desktop environment and the available software through easy means. For example GNOME desktop has a “store” program that lets you browse and install a ton of software, slightly depending on distro. Fedora now has enabled the full FlatHub access in GNOME software so there’s an even wider selection of apps the user can just search by name and install with one click now available.
Still, arch is not the best for the average user due to the change that the system will just be randomly broken due to updates. Fedora kind of has the same problem as they ship very new kernels and mesa versions (the upside being that game performance is much better with newer software).
There’s your problem. Nvidia is at least slightly problematic on any distro. You can pick distros that by default have closed nvidia drivers, but even then trying to use wayland is asking for trouble.
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You mean finger tracking or head tracking? If we both have different problems that not many people have, then my guess is that might have gotten ones that have fabrication errors.
What generally breaks after updates?
Ah, when I make my new PC I’ll have to return to AMD, I guess. I heard AMD worked better with Proton anyway. Speaking of Nvidia, I heard the CEO had a horrible presentation lately.
It looks like everything was prepared last minute as he was struggling to know what to say. I can’t imagine how terrifying that would be. You have to present new technology to hundreds of spectators in an entire hall and on top of that, you don’t always know what to say. I’d have a heart attack.
Both, every couple of minutes the index just goes grey screen for a second then the tracking gets back.
If it’s a manufacturing defect, then that’s unfortunate maybe I can get mine replaced soon.
I think they release updates every now and then so that if someone happens to update their system on an unlucky day, the desktop fails to start entirely. At that point you are left at a TTY console (i.e. terminal only with no graphics capabilities other than text).
Fedora has had problems where a new combination of kernel + mesa + GNOME is a bit unstable and crashes quite a bit or has some graphical bugs. And some games can be broken on a newer mesa version / kernel combination.
So that kind of issue only arises when using rolling release distros, right?
Rolling distros have it the worst. Fedora is not really a rolling distro but still ships very fresh packages every six months with a new release. Something like Ubuntu / Pop Os and Mint (which are better beginner picks) release more rarely and don’t have as new software. So all the users on rolling distros and Fedora have already bug belgiumd the software for many months before it gets into a “stable” distro. My GPU is only now about fully working (I bought it in January) thanks to the latest Linux kernel and mesa updates. Using a stable distro would not be possible with the latest gen AMD GPUs just yet (without explicitly getting a newer kernel and mesa than what is default in the distro).
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majority of the 3rd world also barely use computers compared to the 1st world folk
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found another false positive here
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I’ve never heard the word rαcy before, but I am sure the word accuracy is way more common than it. A solution to the sbelgiumhorpe problem could be comparing how the two words in google trends and not censoring the larger word if it is more popular than the shorter word inside it.
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Unfun fact: Hippity Hoppity, your breathing and blinking are now a conscious activity
Edit: Why did you put an anger emoji @50gens
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That word is solved already in your post. You do realize that comparing Google trends results would be massively complicated to program and very slow to perform on a bunch of words to check for censoring?
Fine, I’ll fix it.
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How many words are posted on the forums per second? Less than 1 I would assume. So all the program needs to do is
- Check if any words have a belgium word in them
- Compare the two, I assume programs can have internet access
- Add the larger word to the whitelist if it is more popular
- Dm the moderators if the smaller word is more popular. Actually dm in the previous case as well.
- Do nothing if the long word isn’t a real word
Even if it doesn’t scan all the previous posts in the forums, new unnecessary censorings would be reduced. They would be removed a short time after being posted.
I would heavily assume that paying for Google trends API would be required. Google does not like people scraping their website to steal their content.
This is massive amounts of manual work. You might as well suggest that moderators read each post, and edit it if they see any bad words in it.
You say like this is easy. A program will have to just rely on a dictionary with like a million words in it to know if something is an English word that has ever been in use. Even then slang terms are not added super fast to dictionaries.
This shows once again the difference between a layman’s understanding and the level of overexplaining that a computer program needs to contain to be actually created.
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