Feyter

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[โ€“] Feyter@programming.dev 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My best advice is:

Don't listen too much about what strangers on the Internet say you should do or use.

Non of us has statistics to pull from. Mostly it's individual experience mixed with personal preferences. All that could be different for someone else. E.g. some people will have problems with Nvidia, other with AMD.

Stick to the basic and add fancy stuff later on.

Don't pick a distribution because of the Desktop environment. Or because someone said it has a nifty feature. People create new distros all the time just for fun and not because there would be a real reason for it. Looking on the release cycle would probably be the most basic decision you should take. Read about the differences between "rolling release" and "long time support" and decide base on you personal use case.

Have a backup strategy

This is nothing limited to Linux but since you are planing to switch your habits, there is a high possibility you will mess up at some point. Best would be you try to stimulate the worst case and look if you would be able to setup your system in a VM or something.

Don't be afraid to try things out

Especially when you know that your backup is working. There is not much you can lose. Don't be afraid of using Arch Linux e.g. just because someone on the Internet said it's just for pros or something.

So this last one is maybe just the consequences of all the above. But yeah I guess that's all I could say for now ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] Feyter@programming.dev 36 points 1 year ago

That's my take on it

[โ€“] Feyter@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like if there is one, not many people in Fediverse would use it. Because staying anonymous and not constantly spread person stuff like your location has somewhat high priority for the people here.

[โ€“] Feyter@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Dude... Your talking about mixing ancient technology with space age hardware. What comes next? Watching VHS on the switch?

Good luck getting your setup to work. The drivers for PS5 are completely open sourced by Sony so I think it would make your life much easier by investing in a new controller ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] Feyter@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I started a small YouTube channel about game dev stuff and I find it increasingly annoying as a creator.

Seeing ads when I just want to look up one thing from my own video, no possibly to switch out a video when I detect an mistake...

I already created a PeerTube channel and will most probably use this mainly.

[โ€“] Feyter@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Maybe it depends on who you ask or where you are. Maybe a US vs EU thing? I never was a professional Musician, but when I started reading about creating/composing music for Video Games I learned that many professional Studios run on Windows because of proprietary standards and software. that is not available for Apple (and Linux)

[โ€“] Feyter@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Really? last time I checked Windows was the dominant player in professional music production but I guess trends can change very quickly.

So there is no real reason preventing Linux to become the domint system at any time.

[โ€“] Feyter@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can only support this answer. Especially the official doc's are great.

I generally recommend not to blindly follow a tutorial. Instead think of your own little game (something of the scope that could be a mini game in Mario Party) and than divide it in small problems and start solving one after the other with the recourse mentioned above.

After finishing the first game your ready to make any game you want.

[โ€“] Feyter@programming.dev 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I love this kind of features, that are not that hard to implement but brings you so much.

[โ€“] Feyter@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Maybe it's a thing about analogies that they don't need to be 100% accurate. So I guess it's ok ๐Ÿ˜„

[โ€“] Feyter@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If we talking about the complete structure of the fediverse changing to connect to a single service (like abandoning Activity Pup and instead using a closed protocol that is controlled only by one company), then definitely Yes that is the worst idea even.

But since many fediverse services will simply not be able to use Blue Sky's protocol, because it is designed for a very limited use case, I don't even see why should talk about this.

However if Blue sky would adapt to the fediverse. It would only be a win for us. If they decide to not play by the rules they will be band. Fediverse is very robust and we don't need to be afraid of anything as long as we stick too our basic principles.

[โ€“] Feyter@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think that is a very bad analogy, because all of those are browsers that (historically) had all their different underlying engine but basically everything made the same. It was the same functionality implement 3 times.

With AP, AT and whatever X uses, it's a completely different mechanism.

So it's more like an Single Player Game, and Online Shooter and an MMO. In the end everything is a game but the way they are built and functioning is completely different.

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