MangoCats

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Now you make me question whether it's a future deportation destination...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

It's a farmed turkey, it's mostly white meat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

It definitely depends on what you are trying to get out of it.

I'll grant: low lag audio performance in Windows is... dismal. Which is why everyone had conference call lag adjustment issues in 2020, "go ahead", "no you go ahead", "ok" - both start talking simultaneously again... It seems better these days, I'm sure that's at least in part due to training of the conference participants, but maybe they have been working on getting the lag down without too many dropout / stutters.

We have a bespoke low lag audio system that was specifically implemented in Linux even though we put the GUI in Windows because of those lag / stutter issues, years back the audio was done on a dedicated DSP chip, but a Core i7 is more than up to the task on Linux these days.

The Linux audio pains I refer to were: A) audio just doesn't work at all, and B) audio works, until you start to try to use two audio applications simultaneously - then they start to mess each other up. Both of those were better in Windows long before Linux came up to speed. But a lot of how Windows audio gets acceptable performance is big laggy buffers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Attitudes develop over time... his may indeed be a defense mechanism or simply a response to all that hate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

things before were way worse… why not throw Sticks and stones at those people?

My earliest memories of Linux audio were in Slackware in the mid 90s, reading and re-reading the HOWTO that started off with a bunch of attitude about how real computer users don't need audio, but we can do it anyway "so, if you must hear Biff bark..." and then a bunch of very unhelpful things to try following that never ever worked on any system I ever tried to use them on. Diverse systems that, of course, all played audio through Windows flawlessly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

But he’s also an abrasive know-it-all. A modicum of social skills and respect goes a long way towards making others accept your pet projects.

You mean like Linus Torvalds?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Linux audio has been a cluster^$%< of epic proportions since the mid 1990s. At least you can make single application systems work well these days, but Windows has really whipped the llamas ass on the audio front for 30+ years now, in terms of "it just works" user experience - without being hyper-draconian on the application ecosystem.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

I see most often that it's the people who live in init.d - interact with it multiple times a day - who are most vocal about systemd hate. I'm going to call "old dogs don't like new tricks" on that one.

I do get into that layer of system maintenance, but it's maybe 1-2% of my time, mostly a set-it and forget-it kind of relationship. There was a time when the old ways were easier due to more documentation and guides on the internet, which I lean on heavily because I interact with this stuff so rarely. Those days passed, for me, 8-10 years back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Could be the difference maker in a game someone wants to play on their system.

One reality of the world is: the developers choose what hardware/OS configurations they target. If the makers of your game don't target your RAM efficient system, you're outta luck. Developers make their choices for their own reasons, but even with the ever-growing FOSS communities, the majority of developers work for a paycheck, that paycheck comes from profitable businesses and those businesses have very strong influence on what the developers work toward. The businesses only exist because they are profitable... FOSS may not be bound by those realities, but it lives in a world dominated by them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

90mb ram

If you're in a system where 256mb of RAM is the limit, sure - go for the RAM efficient OS options, they're out there.

Can you even buy less than 2GB of RAM in a desktop system anymore? Even the Raspberry Pi 5 starts at 2GB (and, yes, the older models have less, but I did say desktop system, implying: reasonable desktop performance.) Maybe if you feel the need to use a RasPi 3 as a desktop for something then you should dig around for one of your more efficient OS configurations, but I'll note... back when RasPi 3 was the new model, Raspbian came default without systemd, but offered a systemd option. The systemd option booted from power off to the desktop (such as it was) in about 1/3 the time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

With AI, you can be 100% sure you can use the image however you want, without any repercussions.

For now... maybe. The courts haven't really settled that issue yet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

AI should be able to do a really good systemd debate by now, the available training material is immensely huge.

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