DaGeek247 of https://dageek247.com

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  • I think the real reason people recommend mint is, while deep down they know users will have a better time on Ubuntu, they cannot stand the idea of recommending that company’s product directly.

    I have no guilt when I say Ubuntu, and their managing company, have pulled enough shit over the years that it’s not a good first choice for a new user.

    But in practice the similarities are only skin deep and to me if they’re already going to need to learn all the ways it differs from windows, why not put the same effort into learning something that also varies

    The average user never leaves the web browser. The average gamer never leaves the web browser and steam. Skin deep is as far as most people ever go.

    This not a condemnation, but it’s important to be aware of the differences between the average user, the average gamer, and the average Linux user. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/



  • Plus I hate the windows style DE UIs so it seems like a weird choice

    The average user hates the changes involved in switching away from the windows distro. The thing you hate about it is an objectively good reason for recommending it to a new user.

    I have tried it multiple times over the years and I did not have great luck with things “just working” as everyone claims.

    I have used it for several years now (with multiple sets of hardware) with no issues. Every single Linux version is going to have something it can’t handle. Linux mint is stable and handles most stuff just fine. A bad experience is possible anywhere, so this isn’t really a good reason to not recommend it for new users.





  • If she was thinking of him without facial hair, I’m with her. If she was thinking of him with facial hair and still not liking it, I’m with you. You’ll have to ask and clarify for us next time you see her. The internet (me) needs to know if your friend has bad taste or not.




  • From the email;

    The gain in performance varies wildly depending on the application in question and the user’s hardware. For some games NT synchronization is not a bottleneck and no change can be observed, but for others frame rate improvements of 50 to 150 percent are not atypical. The following table lists frame rate measurements from a variety of games on a variety of hardware, taken by users Dmitry Skvortsov, FuzzyQuils, OnMars, and myself:

    Game Upstream ntsync Improvement
    Anger Foot 69 99 43%
    Call of Juarez 99.8 224.1 125%
    Dirt 3 110.6 860.7 678%
    Forza Horizon 108 160 48%
    Lara Croft: Temple of Osiris 141 326 131%
    Metro 2033 164.4 199.2 21%
    Resident Evil 2 26 77 196%
    The Crew 26 51 96%
    Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands 130 360 177%
    Total War Saga: Troy 109 146 35%

    The whole thing is worth a read to see how this works, but jumps from 110 fps to 860 fps is just insane. The wine team has done some really great shit with this.



  • Changing genders does nothing to this comic.

    Despite the word being used, it’s not actually a joke about rape. This is a joke on the same level as a weiner dog humping someone’s leg. The perspective of an overly amorous duck with the main characters butt in frame add to the humor of it, but it’s still only a crappy joke about an animal trying to get it on with a person.