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  • The ‘document’ part also seems to be insanely hit-or-miss from my amateur experience. Self-documenting design/code is… well, not. Auto-generated documentation is also usually just as bad IMO. Producing good documentation really is a skill in and of itself.

    Also small personal opinion: If your abstraction layers or algorithms are based off a technical concept, you should probably attribute that concept and provide links to further research, to eliminate future ambiguity or in case your reader lacks that background. Future you will probably thank you and anyone like me who immediately gets lost in jargon soup will also be thankful.






  • That is some fair criticisms mixed with some things that are unfortunately not tackleable by linux devs. Arch is more a toy for configuring IMO; you lose alot of productivity up front getting it set up. I can’t really speak for Wayland.

    I’ve also been a fan of using Voicemeeter Banana, since it allowed me to output to both my speakers and headphones simultaneously, but only binding the audio control buttons to my headphones. Currently nothing like that functionally exists on linux that I’ve been able to find yet.

    Nvidia has historically dragged its feet when providing support for its GPUs, and I definitely noticed alot of issues when running an Nvidia GPU back in the day, though I can’t speak for how much of that is explicitly Nvidia and how much that’s linux Dev lag.

    Discord is even worse. It was news to me when switching back this year, but Discord has altogether stopped maintaining audio for game streaming. It’s closed source, though, so there’s nothing that can really be done about it. Overall, a not insignificant blow for gaming on linux.

    I still get bad vibes from PopOS and have steered clear of it because of it. I would recommend you try Linux Mint at some point, since I’ve had a good experience with it and I regularly see others who equally recommend it.




  • I did a similar thing on linux mint while trying to get my audio system working how I wanted. Luckily it comes with terminal-accessible rollback by default via timeshift and I was able to revert the mistake.

    Linux’s modularity and customizability vectors for complications which Windows lacks, which is both an advantage and an issue. I prefer having it over not, though.



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    5 months ago

    Just hopped back over to linux mint again after years of making due with Windows

    • Went with cinnamon cuz pretty.
    • switched to CobiWindowList so I could see all windows on either of my monitor menu bars.
    • switched to CinnVIIStarkMenu for a more familiar menu system.

    Not much change, I can lean on the habits I’ve gotten from windows, and now my switch is pretty much unnoticeable to me.

    Funny enough, Lutris has made it alot easier for me to access games I usually would just have downloaded, like my itch.io library. Proton has tackled all my other games fine. Hell, I even got Tarkov running smoothly, even though you can only do offline raids on Linux ATM.



  • Nevermind a new version. I’m still waiting for them to add some libraries by default so we can access the debian wifi hotspot feature.

    I’ve been wanting the steam deck to support built-in ad-hoc LANs since it was announced. some folks brighter than me got it working by installing two or three libraries (via pacman). It mostly works, but since it changes the base libraries, it gets erased every time you do a system update. The solution would be to just have those installed on SteamOS by default. Even just that would provide the steam deck community a new tool for messing with.