I’m not saying it’s suitable for someone trying to be a professional fortnite player, but it’s perfectly playable without noticeable latency.

Fortnite is free on GeForce now (I think for X hours per day/session), and fully unrestricted on Luna if you already have prime.

End of the day it lets me enjoy spending time playing a game with my kids that they love, and doesn’t cost me anything or require me to dual boot. It’s not for everyone but it’s an option for some.

I’m not sure if there’s functionally any difference, but technically yes it’s not running “on” Linux.

My experience is exactly the same as it would be on Windows so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Nope, I decided to go straight into the deep end a couple years ago. I tried out a few different distros, ran Bazzite for a good while but was having issues with openvpn and my workplace’s old-ass endpoint, switched to Fedora + Plasma and haven’t touched windows at home ever since. Still have to deal with it at the office but at least that’s not my problem to manage.

Homelab runs debian pretty much exclusively, which is stable and reliable.

It runs just fine with Chrome + an extension to spoof a Windows user agent + either Amazon Luna or GeForce Now. Probably any other “play remotely in browser” service as well, but those are the ones I’ve used.

For what it’s worth I also played with this method when I was running Windows, because I don’t want to install a rootkit just to play a kids game.

I have tried it with Chromium and Librewolf, it works okay but I would get random input lag sometimes. Fortnite is basically the only reason the Chrome flatpak exists on my system.

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Meanwhile, me running Fedora 24/7 and still playing Fortnite just fine with my kids: 🌕👀

and it let me bring my own RAM and NVME, which really helped close the price gap.

not any more 😭

Fair point. Just remember that almost everyone that’s in the Linux Desktop space has formed a subjective opinion based on past experiences, and the popular hate for Ubuntu is there for a reason. Sometimes it’s a silly reason, sometimes it’s a valid reason.

Anyway, if I’m recommending a distribution for newbies it’s going to be (1) something KDE-based (or possibly LMDE if they’re a Mac convert) and (2) something as far away from Canonical’s shenanigans as possible.

I was going to say something similar. Ubuntu as a server in 202x is… well it’s certainly a choice you could make…

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utility classes are just a small step away from style attributes

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files with 10k lines of code

oh my sweet summer child.

I was once charged with maintaining an application with a median line count of 40k. The largest file was 87kLOC with 2nd place going to a 69kLOC (nice) file filled with interwoven C and inline assembly. My favorite was a 51kLOC file with a 32,621 line function.

Miracle I didn’t develop alcoholism during that job.

unless they’re bacon biscuits

https://handwiki.org/wiki/Software:WinG

IMO if you’re running Ubuntu at all in prod you already fucked up.

Real professionals use LFS, obvs

Definitely. I go through that same nightmare every time I have to onboard some new acquisition whose devops was the startup cfo’s nephew.

You can use the S3 API to interop with basically every major provider. For most core components there are either interop APIs or libraries that translate into provider-native APIs.

It’s 100% doable to build a provider-agnostic stack from the iac all the way up to the application itself.

This is why OpenTofu exists.

Actually there were seven kings prior to the establishment of the republic, at which point they expelled the rulers… a reg-ex if you will.

Right, loans and stock market shenanigans are different animals. I assumed you were talking about the former given the context of “how did OpenAI find the money to pay AMD $78bn”.

In retrospect, I suppose options could have played a factor… but then again this level of ratfuckery is well beyond my understanding, so you could tell me Santa gave them the money and it’d make just as much sense.