@glyph Did you quote post something?

[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

[quincy@chaos.social]

@glyph Not to mention the debris starting to fall in one's direction

[krans@mastodon.me.uk]

@morgan “Why push a Fedora distro these days?”

What's wrong with Fedora? It works perfectly well and is well-maintained. I've been a moderately satisfied Fedora user for 20 years…

@ubernostrum @glyph

[0xa1e8@infosec.exchange]

@glyph MS SQL Server perform better on Linux as well.

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/these-microsoft-sql-server-benchmark-results-might-surprise-you

[ambiguous_yelp@veganism.social]

@glyph Rome has never been lit this brightly before but I hope it gets cold again soon!

[ubernostrum@infosec.exchange]

@krans @morgan @glyph

*tips Fedora*

m’Achine

[pino@social.cologne]

@ubernostrum @glyph @morgan Why not Windows?

[morgan@meepletrove.social]

@krans @ubernostrum @glyph the initial complaint was that it was confusing for someone new to Linux to install a deb file on Fedora, which seems trivial for someone who's used Linux for some time however not to someone new.

Reality is this was the first experience and that experience was, why did the file that Discord gave me for Linux not work on Linux?

[mirth@mastodon.sdf.org]

@mcc @glyph I've started using an old laptop with not much installed on it for toy code and other things that I enjoy that feel less related to the messes around us.