@glyph Did you quote post something?

[rachelplusplus@tech.lgbt]

@glyph "Users can only read 4 words" - Google apparently???

[funkybob@chaos.social]

@xgranade @glyph I think your problem here is... google has really _really_ deep pockets.

[fxchip@hachyderm.io]

@xgranade @glyph I would laugh if I were not scream-crying with bitter rage

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@glyph inshallah

[cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev]

@glyph "Windows is the gaming operating system" doesn't really even hold up anymore with all the work on Proton, the only remaining hold out are games with kernel-level anticheat and.... good riddance?

[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.