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[–] julysfire@lemmy.world 36 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Linux is the only viable solution to this mess. And no it is not as scary as it seema

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 20 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Does Lemmy have a "Stallman was right" community? Or is that just all of Lemmy.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 11 points 5 days ago

Most of it, yes.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 3 points 5 days ago

i was thinking the same thing

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Does Lemmy have a “Stallman was right” community?

!stallmanwasright@lemmy.ml

EDIT thanks Cricket

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If you replace the c/ with ! it will become a clickable link that will take the visitor to their local instance's copy of that community.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

!stallmanwasright@lemmy.ml

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

No problem, thanks too! :)

[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

See ya on Windows 7 with 0patch micropatches :D

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

It's not fear, it's laziness and just general fed-upness of dealing with computers and the overwhelming complexity of everything nowadays. There's nothing fun or thrilling about computers anymore, it's a black box to me now.

[–] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

FreeBSD has been on a bit of a glowup arc too though, at least for general desktop use. No, but really, there needs to be a viable third option other than Windows and Linux in the desktop PC space.

[–] FourThirteen@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm so glad that they're clinging on! FreeBSD is great and they've made some serious moves these past years.

[–] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

NetBSD even explicitly banned AI from their codebase to boot, as quoted from their Commit Guidelines:

Code generated by a large language model or similar technology, such as GitHub/Microsoft's Copilot, OpenAI's ChatGPT, or Facebook/Meta's Code Llama, is presumed to be tainted code, and must not be committed without prior written approval by core.

Unlike Linux, whose recent embrace of AI in the codebase is worrying to say the least, you flat-out cannot submit AI-generated code to NetBSD unless it's approved in writing*.

*originally in another reply, but deleted that and moved it here.

[–] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 1 points 4 days ago

Unlike Linux, whose recent embrace of AI in the codebase is worrying to say the least, you flat-out cannot submit AI-generated code to NetBSD.

[–] bobaworld@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Still waiting for nvidia to pull their heads out of their asses and fix gaming performance on their GPUs under Linux before I make the jump myself. And no, I don't want an AMD GPU.

[–] jnod4@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What's wrong with amd? In the market for a gpu right now

[–] bobaworld@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Nothing really wrong with them if they offer the performance and features you want. But I am a high end user and I also use some software that's really reliant on CUDA. So they're not really winning in either the performance or the features department for my personal use.

[–] Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Nothing. The current generation card is slightly worse in rasterization performance while handily slapping my 7900 XTX in Ray tracing performance.

Obligatory GamerNexus Video. https://youtu.be/yP0axVHdP-U

[–] julysfire@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I use NVIDIA on Linux and nothing no issues or performance hits

[–] 7toed@midwest.social 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm just shocked Fedora is playing well with a quadro series card, and I'm not looking back. If there's some bottleneck, it's no larger than the one on my general experience with windows. Though I would very much like to be runnung a non-tainted kernel.

[–] bobaworld@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah I understand that things have improved a lot. But it's the 10-30% performance hit in DX12 games that keeps me from wanting to dive into Linux as my primary OS on my gaming machine. If they can get that closer to parity with Windows, I'm all-in on Linux for life.

[–] DireTech@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It’s fine. Not sure where you heard it’s terrible.

[–] bobaworld@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I know it's not terrible, but there is a performance disparity there that you can't ignore. If someone is spending $1000+ on a high end GPU I think it is fair for them to expect a level of performance that's a little better than "fine".