CalcProgrammer1

I switched Lemmy instances in part because lemmy.ml doesn’t have the old.lemmy (mlmym) interface available. For a while, mlmym had an official standalone site that could be used to access any Lemmy instance in the mlmym interface, but once they shut that down I was disappointed in going back to the standard Lemmy web UI that doesn’t stretch to use your entire screen width. I used some userscripts to make it better but finally ended up moving to lemmy.today because they run mlmym on old.lemmy.today.

It’s basically the old Reddit interface and that’s how I viewed Reddit for 12+ years, on desktop and on phone. Also, the mlmym/old Lemmy interface actually fits better on portrait phone screens than old Reddit as it hides the sidebar.

I hate Reddit’s awful card UI. I don’t want giant pictures everywhere. Let me read the headlines and then click to expand if I want. The overly media heavy Times Square looking overstimulation of modern web design is atrocious.

Will the performance still be there after the mandatory x86 to ARM emulation layer needed to play 99.9% of PC games on the hardware?

I’m loving the classic mode. Pretty much every character I play I like their old moveset way more than their new one. 6v6 is the superior format and I hated role queue when it was added. The only characters I think really benefitted from their reworks are Torb and Sym. Old Roadhog is way better, old Mei can actually freeze, old Cassidy can stun flash, these characters can actually do the things their kits were designed around. I even enjoy the chaos of no limits being the default. I get that comp players want balance and teamfights but I hate comp. I love the chaotic rush that is old Overwatch. I also loved 24/7 2fort servers in TF2. Gaming is supposed to be fun and letting me play whoever I want in a game where everyone has crazy OP abilities is fun.

I’m pretty happy with my Arc A770. It’s in my secondary build because it can’t do 4K 144Hz, but for the price it has been a great 1440p card and has solid Linux support. I would rather buy Intel than NVIDIA when it comes to a gaming GPU because of NVIDIA’s poor Linux support.

Roblox also doesn’t work on Linux IIRC. I don’t play it but it was in the Linux gaming news cycle a while ago that they broke Wine compatibility, not sure if it was anticheat related or not.

Except for more and more multiplayer games unfortunately. If you only play single player games, Linux gaming is awesome. If you play with your friends, the shitty anticheat situation means you may need to keep Windows around. I have Windows 10 just for Fortnite because my friends play. GTA Online just killed Linux play by adding BattlEye. Just today, one of the biggest online games that did work on Linux including its anticheat dropped support (Apex Legends). We desperately need a way to fight back against this bullshit, because it’s undoing all the incredible progress we’ve made. Valve needs to start banning games from their store for retroactively breaking Linux support.

On Linux I usually just keep them in my home directory because I’m lazy. On Windows though I usually do C:\git\ or D:\git\ if I have a second drive.

Why can’t they put the power button on the front where it belongs. It’s already stupid that they put it on the back, putting it on the bottom is downright idiotic. If they don’t want to mess up the oh so important Apple aesthetic just make it an invisible touch button or something. Apple hates usability.

This Android Translation Layer looks amazing for Linux phones. Waydroid is already pretty awesome, but it’s just running full fat Android on top of your Linux system and has all the limitations that brings (poor to no notification integration with the host system, poor integration of filesystem, extra resource usage for all of the Android services, issues with power management and suspend, inability to change resolution on the fly, poor integration with host onscreen keyboard, etc). I’ve used Waydroid on postmarketOS and it’s nice to be able to have Android apps available, but it almost feels like still carrying around a second phone, just that second phone is virtual. Something like ATL sounds like it properly integrates Android apps into the host OS. I need to give this a try soon.

If Rockstar hadn’t just royally screwed all Linux gamers over by adding that god-awful BattlEye anti-cheat to GTA Online, I might be interested. Now I see Rockstar does not care if I have access to the games I’ve purchased, so why would I want to buy more of their games? No thanks, especially not $50 for a 20 year old game. Rockstar won’t be seeing a penny from me.