• lugal@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    81
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    7 months ago

    I’m sorry to be the one who breaks this to you but linux is as binary as you can get. Ever wondered what 64 bit means? Bits are quite binary, that’s kind of the definition

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    59
    ·
    7 months ago

    message misunderstood, penis stuck in Linux user

    Uhhh I… I’m a Linux user 😳😳😅😫

  • I wonder what percent of Linux users dual boot. I don’t think I ever have I’m just remembering getting a laptop from an employer and going through the effort of partitioning the disk drive down to a bare minimum for Windows and setting up dual boot - I don’t remember actually booting into the Windows side more than a couple of times. This would have been over a decade ago. Either I’ve had a Windows-only machine supplied by my employer, which I wasn’t allowed to mess with at that level; or I’ve had a Linux machine. Even the computers I’ve bought that came with Windows pre-installed, I haven’t even booted into Windows before wiping the storage and installing Linux.

    I’m not some sort of purist; Windows just makes me angry when I use it - I’ve just always found it a frustrating experience, so I’ve never bothered with dual booting.

    It makes me wonder what the distribution is. Are the majority of Linux users dual-booters?

        • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          7 months ago

          Notice the past tense there.

          It should work. I used ALVR with my Quest 1. But I haven’t done it very often as I got too ill for VR gaming.

          • Ah, OK.

            Yeah, I went full in on PlayStation VR before I realized I would never get over the sea sickness - although, mine was mild, it was still enough that I found myself avoiding those games.

            But, what I did love was using the set to watch filmed-in-3D movies. Much as I once owned an XBox just so I could play Halo (and only Halo), my PS VR set is now only ever used to re-watch Dredd in 3D. Not enough movies are filmed in 3D, and the conversions aren’t with it, so I’ve mostly given up on 3D, myself.

        • Sabata11792@kbin.social
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          7 months ago

          I assume whatever I have to do to get it working is more effort than having a dedicated windows install.

        • Euphoma@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          7 months ago

          VR is not good on Linux lmao. I have a valve index and when I used it on linux, it had super bright lights on the edges of the display. I ignored this and played for like 30 mins and after 1 month of no VR usage (busyness), I tested it on windows again and now the edges of my displays in my headset appear to be permanently tinged slightly lighter than the rest of the screen.

          I’m not using my headset on linux again until people spend more time coding, because I don’t want to permanently ruin expensive gear that I have lmao.

    • Confetti Camouflage@pawb.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      7 months ago

      I have a number of IRL friends who daily drive Linux and we all at least have some small partition or drive installed with Windows on it just in case for that one program. I haven’t used it in over half a year and it was for some Need For Speed Underground 2 mod making tool that I used once and never needed again.

    • evranch@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      7 months ago

      Used to for one package - stupid tax filing software that won’t run under Wine, likely because it’s shitty garbage that was written in VB. The forms don’t reflow properly.

      I had enough of the two systems trying to clobber each other’s bootloaders and this year am running Tiny10 in a VM instead. The forms STILL don’t reflow properly in anything except for VMWare. Don’t ask me why, it’s financial software and it always comes out broken and is patched just in time to file before the deadline.

      Steam’s Proton and modern AMD drivers have been super effective in allowing me to do all my gaming on Linux now, and all my dev work always was. Don’t see much reason for Windows these days.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      7 months ago

      just dualbooted by debian thinkpad with arch linux today. Gave me nvidia drivers, and modern packages. I’m not sure i like it or not. I could install the same drivers under debian, but with debs, which is no fun, and would also still require optimus shenanigans, so it’s just generally not fun.

      Idk, fun experiment though.

        • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          7 months ago

          im not particularly sure, it feels kind of clunky, mostly because dualbooting. I’ve been using arch on my main workstation for like 4 years now, im familiar with it. I think i just need to fully configure everything, and probably write out some form of dot file for setting it up lol. Then it’ll be very similar to my primary deb install on that system.

          I did also find out that optimus sucks ass and is no fun. Setting it to dedicated nvidia graphics in bios helps significantly, though booting in optimus mode still leaves performance on the table, i assume due to overhead from the igpu. I’m not super familiar with hardware like this frankly. Like i said, interesting experiment, mobile hardware kinda ass though.

        • n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          7
          arrow-down
          6
          ·
          7 months ago

          Prolly just another person who doesn’t care what ya do but thinks this entire gender debacle absolutely moronic

            • Rob Bos@lemmy.ca
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              13
              ·
              edit-2
              7 months ago

              Not necessarily, I find it moronic too. Like why is it even a discussion? Let people do what they want. It doesn’t harm anyone and might make them a lot happier.

              • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                3
                ·
                7 months ago

                idk it’s one of those weird things. I’ve adopted the strategy of "i dont care, unless it’s something principally important to me. I do go around shitposting shower thoughts i’ve had from time to time though. This is one of those situations im guessing.

                i think part of the problem is the polarization. It’s so aggressive now that communities have started openly and regularly speaking about it, in order to naturally flush out the other party. It also has the secondary affect of creating an openly explicit safe space, which is an interesting concept.

      • mightyfoolish@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        7 months ago

        Linux is

        I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

        Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

        There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

        [I’m sorry, could not resist.]

      • callyral [he/they]@pawb.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        7 months ago

        Linux is an operating system. So is Windows. Hardware is hardware.

        errm, ackshually, as you said, windows and linux are both operating systems. therefore, they’re actually software, not hardware 🤓

      • palordrolap@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        edit-2
        7 months ago

        Seems to fit. The Apple apple in the logo was rainbow-striped between 1977 and 1998.

        The colours were in the order 432165 though, so an argument otherwise might be possible. Is it possible to be agy or bselnai?

        (And why does that read like Hungarian? I looked it up. “agy” means “brain”. this is a deep conspiracy! ~is dragged off screaming~)