Draghetta

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[–] Draghetta@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

IDK man, I’ve had rather poor experience with extensions. At least in gnome they pretty much filled in for some feature that should have been there but it wasn’t hip enough for GNOME (ie systray).

Ever since gnome 3 came out I found myself time and time again in the loop where something is missing, I build myself some smorgasbord of extensions to make the experience the way I want it, then a new gnome minor is released and some of those extensions are now abandoned / incompatible with others / suddenly buggy / behaving differently so I have to start over. It’s not very different in kde, extensions get abandoned and break in there too, but I never had to have more than two at a time.

When it comes to DEs I’ve learned over the years to stick to the core as much as possible because extensions are just not reliable, which is also the reason why I don’t use gnome anymore.

I don’t think the analogy with IDEs really holds: language extensions in major IDEs are usually maintained with some degree of professionalism, for example the Ansible extension for vscode is maintained by Red Hat. It’s a very different ecosystem from the one made of pet projects started by people who one time felt something was amiss in their DE, and pray the gods they still have that opinion and care enough.

Edit: just to be clear I’m not dunking on this extension or extensions in general, I’m just explaining why somebody would want to avoid relying on them too much

[–] Draghetta@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Yes, that is the upstream. Valve’s downstream of wine is called proton.

[–] Draghetta@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

That’s not what is surprising.

Gaming under emulation is not exactly easy stuff even under optimal conditions, when your drivers and userland are not experimental/hacks and you are running on the same architecture - try doing AAA gaming on Linux using a windows VM and you will see.

Setting aside gaming for a moment, cross-architectural emulation is stupidly slow because it cannot use any hardware features, it’s all software work on the cpu. Do you have a Linux machine? Try downloading a Firefox binary for another architecture (aarch64 for example) and run it, try watching a youtube video, if you haven’t died of old age in the meantime. Now Apple has this rosetta magic thing to emulate x86, but it was never meant to run (and it was never used before) on bare metal Linux.

Now what happens here is that there is a vm that runs a vm of a different architecture (arm 64k vs arm 4k) that runs another vm of different architecture (x86), and somehow you can game on it with competitive performance. All of it with a dnf install.

Simply put, this is unheard of.

[–] Draghetta@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Sure, man. Be uninterested in politics if you like, but don’t think for a second that this will make politics uninterested in you.

[–] Draghetta@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Never lose a chance to be the bad guys those Germans.. how about sending weapons to those who are being slaughtered in Europe, instead of the slaughterers in the Middle East?

[–] Draghetta@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago (4 children)

That’s not how it is though, is it. By not voting you are not exempting yourself from political life, you just choose not to matter.

You are not passing on the snake bite. You are letting others choose the snake for you.

[–] Draghetta@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago (3 children)

So arm 16k emulates arm 4k which emulates x86, and somehow the performance is great. I am without words.

[–] Draghetta@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Downvoted for speaking the (technical) truth

[–] Draghetta@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

This is the best explanation of anything I’ve read in years. I think you are spot on. There would be a lot less polarisation online if people understood this.

[–] Draghetta@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I’m considering it too and I don’t even like survival or horror games, let alone the two.

[–] Draghetta@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Best of luck my friend

[–] Draghetta@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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