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  • Domi@lemmy.secnd.metoTechnology@lemmy.world•Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be?English
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    19 days ago

    Hardware MIGHT be controlled by signal RGB

    OpenRGB to the rescue: https://flathub.org/apps/org.openrgb.OpenRGB

    controlling the pump in my AIO?

    What do you need to control about your pump? I sure hope it works without OS support.

    Or the sound levels on ny headset?

    Move the volume slider up or down?

    Or the DPI in my mouse?

    Save them to the mouse as profile if it can or use Piper: https://flathub.org/apps/org.freedesktop.Piper

    in AMD you lose access to certain features like AMFM2

    FSR Frame Gen works just fine, not sure why you need fake frames in more games.

    the FOSS solutions are not industry standard, so sure, I can learn to use LibreOffice, but that’s worth absolutely nothing when you apply for a corporate job and they expect you to know how to use outlook as a bare minimum

    There is also OnlyOffice and online MS Office. Not sure what you need to know about Outlook to open it and use your eyes to read the mails.

    even the Google office suite is being adopted faster

    Good news, it runs in a browser and works on every OS!

    Ah, but if the software is available there’s still a chance it doesn’t work because it’s missing a dependency or something and you have to ask people to use the terminal and… Sigh

    I have not fixed dependencies issue on Linux since the early 2000s. Flatpaks are your friend https://flathub.org/ .

    All in all, it’s just behind in many ways, sure, for some people it’s ok, and for laptops I’d think is mostly ok, great even.

    I run it on my high end PC and I disagree. It’s ahead in many ways.

    • The graphics drivers are included and don’t need any bloated software to work
    • It has a banger OpenGL driver, which makes games like Minecraft run significantly faster.
    • It has a very active community for game support for games where the developer does not care
    • It translates older DirectX versions to Vulkan automatically, resulting in a performance uplift and more stability. People on Windows are installing DXVK just so older games work. Look up DXVK in the Steam forums.
    • It downloads shader caches from Valve, preventing shader stutter in games that don’t do it on their own

    That list could go on for a while and it’s only for gaming.

    I haven’t even gone into installation and not having to run ShutUp10 every time just to make the OS usable. Or how KDE is so much cleaner than Windows. Or how I don’t have any ads in my start menu, don’t have to force download Candy Crush on first boot, don’t have pre-installed apps I can’t remove, don’t have to block my own OS in its firewall to get rid of telemetry, don’t have to be told that I need to upgrade to Windows 11 constantly.

    For work: Docker just works, complex networking setups are not a pain to setup, creating VMs is so much easier and has so many more features. VPN is so seamlessly setup. I can read almost every file system on the planet and use ROCm without jumping through hoops. Not to mention I don’t get Copilot and Recall shoved down my throat.

    Are there issues on Linux? Sure, lots of them. But if I find them I can tell somebody about it and don’t have to deal with them for centuries.

    I’m rooting for Steam OS to release to desktops because my living room PC is LITERALLY just for gaming, so that “could” work nicely.

    SteamOS is just a modern Linux distro with Steam pre-installed and in autostart. If stuff works there, it works on regular Linux just as well.

    Bazzite achieves the same thing right now: https://bazzite.gg/

  • Domi@lemmy.secnd.metoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday!English
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    24 days ago

    Copying from an older comment of mine:

    IPv6 is pretty much identical to IPv4 in terms of functionality.

    The biggest difference is that there is no more need for NAT with IPv6 because of the sheer amount of IPv6 addresses available. Every device in an IPv6 network gets their own public IP.

    For example: I get 1 public IPv4 address from my ISP but 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696 IPv6 addresses. That’s a number I can’t even pronounce and it’s just for me.

    There are a few advantages that this brings:

    • Any client in the network can get a fresh IP every day to reduce tracking
    • It is pretty much impossible to run a full network scan on this amount of IP addresses
    • Every device can expose their own service on their own IP (For example: You can run multiple web servers on the same port without a reverse proxy or multiple people can host their own game server on the same port)

    There are some more smaller changes that improve performance compared to IPv4, but it’s minimal.

    My unifi kit can convert us to IPv6 but I’m hesitant without knowing what devices it will break.

    You don’t usually “convert” to IPv6 but run in dual stack, with both IPv4 and IPv6 working simultaneously. Make sure your ISP supports IPv6 first, there is little use to only run IPv6 internally.