So how does that work given that most Steam games are x86/x64 and the M2 is an ARM processor? Does it emulate an x86 CPU? Isn’t that slow, given that it’s an entirely different architecture, or is there some kind of secret sauce?
I ran it perfectly on a 33MHz 486 with 4mb RAM for a long time. Even Doom II with some of its heavier maps ran fine.
“Perfectly” would mean it ran at 35fps, the maximum framerate DOS Doom is capped at. In the standard Doom benchmark, a dx33 gets about half that: 18fps average in demo3 of the shareware version with the window size reduced 1 step. Demo3 runs on E1M7, which isn’t the heaviest map, so heavier maps would bog the dx33 down even more.
I’m sure you found that acceptable at the time, and that you look back on it with slightly rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia, but a dx2/66 and preferably even better definitely gave you a much better experience, which was my point.
If anyone can enlighten me, This is pretty much why you can find DooM on almost any platform BECAUSE of its Linux code port roots?
I mean yeah. Doom was extremely popular and had a huge cultural impact in the 90s. It was also the first game of that magnitude of which the source was freely released. So naturally people tried to port it to everything, and “but can it run Doom?” became a meme on its own.
It also helps that the system requirements are very modest by today’s standards.
It ran like absolute ass on 386 hardware though, and it required at least 4MB of RAM which was also not so common for 386 computers. Source: I had a 386 at the time, couldn’t play Doom until I got a Pentium a few years later.
Even on lower clocked 486 hardware it wasn’t that great. IIRC, it needed about a 486 DX2/66 to really start to shine.
Yeah but you said you wanted a dual-boot machine for your next computer, with Windows only for gaming. What I meant is: why not get a head start and make your current computer that dual-boot machine?
Without knowing what was being hosted, the only surefire way would be pulling a complete disk image with cat or dd.
That’s not surefire, unless you’re doing it offline. If the data is in motion (like a database that’s being updated), you will end up with an inconsistent or corrupt backup.
Surefire in that case would be something like an lvm snapshot.
If you wanted to stay on a similar system, RHEL 9 would be a good option or one of its “as similar as possible” like AlmaLinux.
No love for Rocky?
Also Oracle Linux is still free, and fully compatible with RHEL.
Use Xorg with the proprietary driver instead of Wayland for the time being. Much less issues. You can always switch to Wayland later when either Nvidia support matures, or when your next computer has an AMD GPU.
Or get a cheap ass AMD GPU, like an RX6400, plop it in as a second GPU and run on that in Linux. Perfectly serviceable for plain desktop stuff.
Or run on integrated graphics, if you have it. Again, perfectly serviceable for plain desktop stuff.
It’s not just about trusting Microsoft, but about control over the technology. Users will never have real control over AI technology, it’s too valuable and the inner workings are anxiously being kept under wraps by the big techbro companies. It also runs on their computers for the most part, so of course we can’t trust what’s being done with it, regardless of whether Microsoft has been a good boy or a bad boy recently.
Whether DNSOverTls (dns-over-tls) is enabled for the connection. DNSOverTls is a technology which uses TLS to encrypt dns traffic. The permitted values are: “yes” (2) use DNSOverTls and disabled fallback, “opportunistic” (1) use DNSOverTls but allow fallback to unencrypted resolution, “no” (0) don’t ever use DNSOverTls. If unspecified “default” depends on the plugin used. Systemd-resolved uses global setting. This feature requires a plugin which supports DNSOverTls. Otherwise, the setting has no effect. One such plugin is dns-systemd-resolved.
I don’t use NetworkManager, I’ve never even used Tumbleweed and I found the answer in all of 10 minutes. Of course that doesn’t help if you’re so clueless that you didn’t even know that you were using DNS-over-TLS, or that DoT is a very recent development that differs significantly from regular DNS and that it requires a DNS resolver that supports it.
when every other operating system does?
Like Windows 10? (Hint: it doesn’t)
You use Arch. Mr skillful
Who cares what I use. When I’m messing with something I don’t understand, I at least read the documentation first instead of complaining on the internet and calling the whole community toxic and, I quote, “Butthurt Linux gobblers” when you get the slightest bit of pushback.
I have had so many instances of having to spend hours upon hours upon hours just do figure out how to do some basic shit on Linux that I can do on every operating system within a matter of 5 minutes