@glyph Did you quote post something?

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@cthos I have a better understanding these days of why anti-cheat is such a big deal (games without it, like TF2, do tend to turn into absolutely intolerable cesspits of botted cheating) but the answer to KLAC _must_ be "no, figure out another way"

[codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org]

@glyph here in Olympia, WA.. i've been known as "that computer guy who will make your laptop run 100x faster for free"

I do it by installing #nixbook , a Linux distro. It's WILD to see people's reactions.. like they were about to toss their computer in the trash, and then they're like omg, how is it is so fast

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@codemonkeymike that's awesome. what is your support load like for that? how many people have successfully stuck with it, and how do you migrate their data?

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@cthos (the monkey's paw curls and a developer reading this thinks to themselves "I guess we could use AI for it instead")

[cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev]

@glyph Oh gods don't give them ideas!

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@cthos why not, just put a random number generator in charge of consequential real-life punishment and resource-allocation decisions, what could go wrong

[cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev]

@glyph I feel like this is already happening in a bunch of places, like "Automate your performance reviews!"

[alys@selfy.army]

@glyph will be interesting to see whether the spiking memory and hard drive costs boost Linux as well.

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@cthos I did already mention in the thread above that the Cool Zone is mostly _not_ good

[nexalilly@social.vivaldi.net]

@glyph We stopped using the official Minecraft launcher because it kept breaking on windows and was awfully slow. No issues with either of 2 third party launchers.

Like, it's one thing when performance is reduced a bit but when their first party software fails - on a fresh windows install (twice, different causes) - it's a sign.

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@glyph I can anecdotally say I get about 5% better framerates on Linux than on Windows with the same hardware, even back before Copilot was a thing.

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@glyph First-party Microsoft games on Linux is a thing in 2025 and I cannot wrap my brain around it.

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@glyph @cthos The extent of the Cool Zone is real and significant, but it is not the world.

[ubernostrum@infosec.exchange]

@glyph Upside: fewer people using Windows and all the shady user-hostile stuff it does.

Downside: Gamers™️ will develop opinions about systemd.

[catriona@tech.lgbt]

@xgranade @glyph There is the odd game (FFXVI, for one) where I get a lower framerate on Linux than I did on Windows, but those are rare, and generally my experience is the same as yours.

[fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social]

@glyph @cthos FWIW valve have said on the record that they are actively working on another way. It's also worth noting that Easy Anti Cheat doesn't need kernel level access, and seems to work correctly in the games I play that use it.

[fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social]

@glyph I was just telling a bunch of my friends that I unironically believe that 2026 is the year of Linux on the Desktop.

[cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev]

@fancysandwiches @glyph it does! Dead by Daylight, for example, works great for me.

[cap_ybarra@beige.party]

@glyph i have no idea if any of this maths at all but dear lordt i want to believe

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@ubernostrum what rough Gamer™, his hour come at last, slouches towards lkml to be born