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Sure you did, Microsoft. Sure you did... (media.scored.co)
posted 7 months ago by VolanteEternity on scored.co (+1 / -0 / +64Score on mirror )
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RonWeasley on scored.co
6 months ago 3 points (+0 / -0 / +3Score on mirror ) 2 children
Pirates of Silicon Valley is a must watch.

Also consider Linux.
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WeedleTLiar on scored.co
6 months ago 3 points (+0 / -0 / +3Score on mirror ) 3 children
Every year I grow more concerned with Linux being corrupted due to political machinations.

Still better than the alternatives
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HEXEN on scored.co
6 months ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
Mint Cinnamon has been a pleasure to work with.

Still not gaming with it though. Moving forward, I'm pretty sure I'll be building a separate gaming rig that just runs windows, and use linux for everything else.
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Sayori on scored.co
6 months ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
It's actively in progress.

On phones you have no other option, on PC you have BSD... **use BSD.**
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RonWeasley on scored.co
6 months ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
That is a very real concern. It's not that Linux is perfect it's simply not as bad as the alternatives. One decent resource is lunduke, who maintains a non-woke software list, including specific Linux distros that have maintainers or devs that are not aligned with, or even outright anti-woke. When do himself has some distasteful characteristics, but he's a useful resource for some specific things.

And it is light years beyond trusting Microsoft.
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revtreynine on scored.co
6 months ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror ) 1 child
Yeah Linux Mint is what I put on everyone's old PC that lacks TPM 2.0 and that are on Windows. Not that I am sure it's completely clean, but it's easy to manage and use for people wanting a Windows replacement. You can bypass the TPM requirement and secureboot on Win 11 with Microwin or Rufus but I don't want their security updates failing down the line if a stupid feature update fixes the workaround.

Linux just sucks for gaming if you have a Nvidia GPU and I'm not getting rid of my 4090 cus it was the one GPU Nvidia didn't screw people over on VRAM until the upcoming 50xx Supers. AMD 9070XT's however HAUL ASS on Linux. With some of the newer gaming distros people are seeing FPS lows better than Win 11 on DX 12 games which is flat out hilarious since Linux isn't doing that native. DXVK is usually better than DX 9-11 in Windows as well which is also pretty funny.
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RonWeasley on scored.co
6 months ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror ) 1 child
I have an Nvidia GPU in my 2-year-old Lenovo laptop, and I've had great success running Nobara Linux, and a few other gaming specific distros. NVIDIA drivers in general have gotten much easier to deal with over the last year, and as long as you're distro has a way to install them as part of the initial install, or a guided method to add them post install, it ends up being pretty painless in most situations, as long as your card is 10 series or newer.
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revtreynine on scored.co
6 months ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
Yeah it's just quite a bit worse than Windows for DX 12 games especially leveraging Ray Tracing, while AMD can be faster. If you play mostly DX 9-11 games Linux is actually faster on any make GPU and it even is on Windows with DXVK. The reason AMD is much better is it is more open, Steamdeck leverages AMD and the community can contribute a lot more than Nvidia which is much more closed. Nvidia just hasn't felt the need to truly go all in on supporting it yet. Adoption rates get better all the time though so I expect that might change soon.

Even on my Win gaming machine I am constantly using DXVK's DX 9 and 11 dll's and dropping it in non DX 12 games. It just runs them better. Off the top of my head Star Wars Fallen Order stuttered way less on my 4090 with it. DX 9-11 CPU threading and memory management is just such garbage that Vulkan layers are superior.

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RonWeasley on scored.co
6 months ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
All true. Closed source NVIDIA drivers tend to be more stable for me, so here's hoping that the open ones catch up.
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