It’s actually a good thing that visual learners get a chance to learn useful stuff by watching videos. Not everyone has the attention span required to read through a Wikipedia page.

For anyone wondering what Proton GE is, it’s Proton on steroids: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom

For instance, even if you have an old Intel integrated GPU, chances are you can still benefit from AMD’s FSR just by pushing a few flags to Proton GE, even if the game doesn’t officially support it, and you’ll literally get a free FPS boost (tested it for fun and can confirm on an Intel UHD Graphics 620).

Congrats! Your laptop will be even happier with a lighter but still nice-looking desktop environment like Xfce and you even have an Ubuntu flavor around it: Xubuntu.

HIP is amazing. For everyone saying “nah it can’t be the same, CUDA rulez”, just try it, it works on NVidia GPUs too (there are basically macros and stuff that remap everything to CUDA API calls) so if you code for HIP you’re basically targetting at least two GPU vendors. ROCm is the only framework that allows me to do GPGPU programming in CUDA style on a thin laptop sporting an AMD APU while still enjoying 6 to 8 hours of battery life when I don’t do GPU stuff. With CUDA, in terms of mobility, the only choices you get are a beefy and expensive gaming laptop with a pathetic battery life and heating issues, or a light laptop + SSHing into a server with an NVidia GPU.

I was learning C/C++ back then and although the nostalgia is strong with this one, Turbo C++ was obviously shit (and Borland quickly killed it later anyway), and while looking around for alternatives I found DJGPP which introduced me to the GNU toolchain and so the jump to Linux to have all of that natively instead of running on DOS was very natural. My very first distro was Redhat Linux 6.2 that I got as a free CD along with a magazine (also got a Corel Linux CD the same way that I was excited about given how their WordPerfect was all the rage back then but I was never able to install it, I don’t remember what the issue was) and it looked like this (screenshot from https://everythinglinux.org/redhat62/index.html ):

Ubuntu used to ship free CDs too: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ubuntu_10.04_CDs.jpg

They stopped doing that in 2011.

In addition to all the responses here, one thing you could also do when you have a question about a distro is to just fire up a VM using for example VirtualBox and try the distro to see for yourself. Or even better, make a live USB and boot from it.

I just tried it right now, you create a session when opening your file the first time kak file.cpp -s name_of_your_session, and then on the other windows you connect to that session with kak -c name_of_your_session. It really works, they share the same buffer and copy-pasting works just fine.

For those who have tried Kakoune, once you’ve included things like Treesitter and the clangd language server, which one feels faster, Kakoune or Neovim?

I’m still a Neovim main but one thing that I find interesting in Kakoune is their “client/server architecture” which apparently allows you to have one master Kakoune instance and multiple slave instances that would be in sync, kind of like how you can have multiple windows in any modern IDE (I’m not sure if Kakoune shares the clipboard with all of those instances?). That thing is still not available in Neovim (or Vim for that matter), which is a pain in multi-screen setups.

neovim, works amazingly well

patiently waiting for it to land on Arch

I’d say go for AMD because their APUs are excellent, but they will be expensive. You can find used/refurbished ThinkPads in really good condition for very cheap (~$200, see this thread where I learned about this), and most (all?) of them have Intel CPUs.

Anyway, right now Linux works perfectly well on both of them*.

*: If the kernel version is greater than 5.19.9 (issue first appeared with the 5.19.10) and less than 6.4, you’ll likely have an annoying keyboard issue with Linux on new AMD Ryzen laptops, as typing will be extremely slow. That has been corrected now and with an up-to-date kernel you shouldn’t have any keyboard issues on an AMD laptop.

won’t be big and professional like gnu

that didn’t age well

yoo I didn’t know about used/refurbished Thinkpads being that cheap, I just checked and indeed you can find a T480 with 16GB of RAM for $248 on Amazon!

Geddit still works, it’s an open-source read-only Reddit client that doesn’t use the official API and uses RSS feeds I believe. It’s really great for following the news and reading some wikis, though scrolling is painful right now.

Lite-XL looks really cool, it’s awesome to finally find a modern editor that is not using webview bloat for the UI.

it apparently has a Moses simulator or something like that

switch to using BSD

TempleOS has always been the answer, no vulnerabilities as it can’t even connect to the internet

Swaylock with Hyprland, I just run it from a terminal whenever I want to lock my screen but I guess I should make a keyboard shortcut for it.

Just as a reference, these Phoronix benchmarks don’t show any conclusive evidence that the Zen flavor of Arch Linux kernels is faster.

Are you logged in though? When I try to log in Reddit answers with a “you sent an invalid request - invalid client id”. API changes are definitely taking effect.

Ngl I was sad when I opened RIF today and it redirected me to the old.reddit login form. RIP RIF, Reddit was fun with you 😔

As one commenter there mentioned, there’s no mention of Rust in the article (except a “More Rust code” bullet point). Rust is literally becoming a meme and a buzzword at this point with people getting excited about something when it mentions being written in Rust without asking questions about code quality, speed etc…

This follows GPL

I’m a GPL noob, can someone elaborate on this? My belief was always that if you get your hands on GPL licensed software then you have the right to redistribute it under the same license for free or even charge for it.

Screenshots? What makes it special? Is it CPU/memory efficient?

When you land on their GitHub repo you have nothing describing the project, only build instructions.

cool, just subbed to !programming@programming.dev

Reddit refugee here, anime/manga nerd and mainly shitposting but I also like to engage in Machine Learning and C++/Python discussions.

because the world needs more hugs 🤗

The issue is and has always been the software, not really the hardware. AMD’s ROCm libraries are still complete garbage and a headache to install. Can’t say the same about CUDA which works on the vast majority of consumer GPUs from Nvidia out of the box.

Lemmy’s UI on desktop is… dogshit and really needs some love. Some web designer could volunteer for a better desktop theme? But thanks to the Jerboa app it looks amazing on Android!

Only issue right now with Jerboa is that it allows very long images to occupy a large space on your frontpage, I think it should show them as thumbnails instead.

the click to copy feature is neat

I wonder how? Unless ad-blocker extensions are currently leaking some piece of info indicating to the website that we’re using them?