@yon I mean, if Apple intend to make all the Macs gaming capable, they should add Vulkan support and make life easier.
Then again, “Pro” laptops and desktops tend to have the best graphics. Still, kind of sad gven they used to tout their Power Macs for gaming, as seen with the Rage 128 and even demonstrating games during the Keynote.
I found what the issue that caused Sakurajima Social to went down. Apparently, Redis claims that it ran out of disk space, but I see tons of free space, which only makes me more perplexed as to what causes this to happen. Needs more investigation, but I have one clue as to why it's doing it.
@irfan I really need to find the root cause. The backend appears to be working, but Nginx cannot communicate with it through the reverse proxy. I think this is the second time this happened this month.
Apparently, there is a refresh of the ROG Ally with more RAM. I kind of wish the Ally had a USB 4 port instead of that proprietary port for GPUs as it's a lot easier and perhaps cheaper to get a Thunderbolt 3 eGPU enclosure and slap an AMD or Nvidia GPU.
Not that I plan on upgrading, seems more like a sidegrade as it's using the same APU, but have slightly more RAM.
@mikoto True, especially given that Gamer's Nexus video with them doing a warranty claim for broken sticks, and getting an invoice for an unrelated problem that doesn't need fixing.
@dopey_kun@fujiwara No matter how many people hype up Desktop Linux, I don’t think it will ever go mainstream. Don’t get me wrong, Linux is great for server, but not so much with Desktop Linux as it's not the easiest thing to use and it takes a lot to get stuff fully working, especially if things break. @yon
probably know this well. While I am very skilled at computers, I do not use Linux as a main OS as I want things to work and I need commercial app support.
Another drawback as to why Desktop Linux won't catch on is the lack of support for commercial apps, which are typically only made for Windows and Mac, namely Adobe products, and other creative software. Sure, there are open source alternatives, but they may not be as compatible with industry standard formats, not as fully featured, or not as easy to use.
I would only really recommend it if the user is willing to learn how to use Linux with the caveat that they will have to do a bit more to get things working or having to fix potential problems. Otherwise, the other best alternative is just to get a used or refurbished Mac as it has good support for commercial apps and not as intrusive as Windows 11. Hacking new macOS releases on unsupported Macs take a little bit more work, but it’s not difficult.
Or just pirate Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC, which has several more years of support.
If only we had more competition in the OS space... if BeOS and OS/2 didn't die off...
(I'm a Mac user, I hate Windows, but I have to use it sometimes, and at work)
@fujiwara@dopey_kun I have installed Nobara Linux on the Asus ROG Ally and yes, games run well on Linux as it improved a lot, but for productivity, this is a big weakness Linux has, and Wine can’t run everything. Even so, it still took a lot of work to get fully working though.
I don’t do any gaming on my Mac, the days where a Mac is a viable gaming platform is long gone, but it excels at other things as productivity. I have separate handheld PCs I use for gaming in addition to consoles.
@yon Never used Next for obvious reasons, but using the earlier versions of Mac OS X, emulated in PearPC in the mid 2000s, I wished i had a Mac instead of a shitty Dell. That is until I got the Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro in 2006
Also liked how you can do a lot of customizations through those Unsanity Haxies, although it can make the system unstable. Those were the day.
@yon Tech in general has been rather mundane for a while. Apple Silicon is interesting, but they are just sealed, unupgradable machines. Back in the 2000s and even the 1990s, Macs used to be easy to upgrade and perhaps, more repairable and upgradable than it is now. Of course, while I got my own computer, although the “worst” Macintosh, the Performa 6200, it was at least better than any PC at the time. During my childhood, I actually tried playing some of the games I had on an IBM PS2 I think and it wouldn’t run because the video card can only do 16 colors. I know CDs are hard to get working on Windows system back in the day.let alone a sound card.
I just not very nostalgic towards Windows 95 or 98 like most people. It’s just not a good operating system. I just don’t like Windows in general, which is why I still use Mac
OS no matter how buggy it is. Glad I am since Windows is adding some intrusive features with Copilot.
If only there is an alternate reality where BeOS and OS/2 were viable alternatives. More choices would be better than just Desktop Linux, which has it’s own usability and ease of use issues.