• don
    5•6 months ago

    They don’t think it be like that, but it do.

  • @[email protected]
    12•6 months ago

    NGL I bought a new MacBook (m1) as that arm processor is just killer. Still mis Linux on that machine though.

    (I know about Asahi, but I haven’t heard about it’s current state in the last few years since it’s initial debut)

    • @[email protected]English
      3•6 months ago

      Asahi’s pretty decent now, so far as I’m concerned. They’ve still not cracked having more than one display, but otherwise I can’t think of anything I’ve not been able to do with it.

  • Psaldorn
    4•6 months ago

    I can do indie grade game development on an M1 MacBook air. It’s wild how tech has progressed.

    But I do my day job work on a Linux mint laptop and have a windows gaming pc until such time as I can fuck that useless piece of shit software into the fucking ether where it belongs.

      • Psaldorn
        3•6 months ago

        Right now none specifically, but I haven’t really done an audit. I understand it’s pretty good nowadays with proton.

        What I don’t want is to accidentally play an unsupported game and get vac banned or something.

        If stellaris, total war and a handful of others worked I could probably convince myself to look into dual booting to try it out. I imagine OBS is fine. Streamdeck works on Mac so might be ok.

      • a baby duck
        2•6 months ago

        FFXI for me. It’s a lot better post Steam Deck, but last time I set it up on Linux (maybe a year ago) a lot of the visual mods that are registry-based weren’t working properly, the font rendering was awful, and certain addons and plugins just didn’t work (guildwork in particular since it launches a background exe, others related to showing/hiding certain UI elements.) It runs, but it’s far from comfortable. Might be good enough in a VM and I’ll probably try again next time I resubscribe.

        • @[email protected]
          1•6 months ago

          Resubscribe? Is FFXI paid by subscription?! 🤯

          But yea, that game seems a bit messy for my taste as how it programmed 🤭 not experienced coder here, but what you describe sounds like it is as windows: programmed like a patchwork rug.

  • @[email protected]English
    9•6 months ago

    I may be cute, but my compulsion to read every line really hampers my ability to complete basic tasks.

  • a baby duck
    17•6 months ago

    I’m using a new M3 MBP at work and it literally brought my compile time from 20+ minutes on a pretty beefy Windows machine down to about 6 minutes. Based on that alone, it’s hard to imagine using anything else for serious dev work at this point.

    Having said that, there’s a lot of goofy Apple fuckery going on too. Multi-monitor support is limited to two displays, so if you want more than that you’re stuck with an expensive third-party dock and DisplayLink drivers, which cause color artifacting in high motion like you’d expect from a heavily compressed video, which leads to eye strain. Mouse support is terrible without a third party app to fix the goofy scroll wheel acceleration curve they’ve built in, and even buying first-party peripherals doesn’t solve it. I need a third party app just to prevent Mac OS from opening iTunes every time I connect a Bluetooth headset… So many little dumb things to deal with.

    • @[email protected]
      3•6 months ago

      I need a third party app just to prevent Mac OS from opening iTunes every time I connect a Bluetooth headset

      I have Macs for 10+ years and I never had them open iTunes when connecting a bluetooth headset.

      • a baby duck
        1•6 months ago

        I couldn’t tell you when it started, but it’s definitely a thing now, which is why projects like noTunes exist

  • @[email protected]
    22•6 months ago

    I’ve read Xenia’s rant and agree with it 100%.The only thing missing is something about media servers and self-hosting.

    You cannot fix me, for I am not broken.