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[–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago (16 children)

It does not support kernel level anti-cheat!

Huh, thought you were mentioning only the cons.

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[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

Good luck playing any of the biggest, most played games in the world without it.

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[–] Yttra@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (13 children)

Then I guess they don't exist.

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[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 0 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Unlucky for you then. I’m gonna be having an absolute blast on Battlefield 6 in a few months 😀

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[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I very seriously doubt that but cope away haha

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[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 point 1 year ago (10 children)

You doubt I'll be having a blast playing Battlefield 6? Why?

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[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 1 year ago (9 children)

Why?

it's made by ea

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[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 point 1 year ago* (8 children)

A few things here.....

I've already played the game for 20+ hours. I loved almost every second of it, and some of the things I didn't have already been addressed. They're taking player feedback seriously.
Battlefield 6 is made by a whole new studio, not "EA DICE", helmed by one of the best in the history of the industry for these games - Vince Zampella.
Not everything by EA is bad, and anyone saying anything like that is immediately showing they shouldn't be listened to.
Again - I've already played the game via the beta. I know I'm going to have an absolute blast. I didn't like the last few BF games, so I didn't buy them. This one is a return to form from what everyone has seen and played.
You tell me to "cope away" while basing your entire opinion on a wikipedia article that's pretty much got nothing to do with the actual game that's being discussed lol. Who is "coping"?

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[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

RIP

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[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

Have fun not playing the biggest game of the year I guess, along with all the other most played games of the year.

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[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If I wanted to spend my time/money/energy on corporate slop I would be on Reddit.

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[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 point 1 year ago* (4 children)

lol "Battlefield 6 is corporate slop" is certainly a hot take (a great tag to give you too haha). I'm sure you only enjoy the finest of artistic games that are all anti-establishment and must be played on DIY hardware using solar power.

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[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Welcome to Lemmy haha.

Sounds like you should just go back to Reddit and take you "downvotes to disagree" with you.

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[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

I didn't downvote you because I disagreed with you, I downvoted you because your comments add nothing to the conversation and are essentially pointless spam.

I think maybe you're the one who needs to go back to Reddit though, not me. That's 2 comments in a row you've brought it up without so much as a mention of it from me lol

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[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Ok buddy, downvote whatever you want and get as tilted as you want but it's not going to change the fact that most Lemmy users don't give a shit about playing corporate slop games from EA.

It seems like it upsets you that we're all happy with the games we can run on Linux. Which is a weird thing to be upset about unless you deep down just resent the fact that we are cooler than you (I use arch btw).

You have very strong Reddit energy which is catching me off guard. Very strange to see someone defending microsoft/ea on the fediverse. Stranger yet to see someone basically rage commenting about it haha.

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[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 point 1 year ago*

Get "tilted"? What on earth? Is that reddit slang?

it’s not going to change the fact that most Lemmy users don’t give a shit about playing corporate slop games from EA.

Only because they can't because they all use Linux. And again with the "corporate slop" rubbish? Really? lol. What about Battlefield 6 is "corporate slop"? I can't wait to hear this.

You have very strong Reddit energy which is catching me off guard. Very strange to see someone defending microsoft/ea on the fediverse. Stranger yet to see someone basically rage commenting about it haha.

You have to be a parody account, right? Right? Like there's no way a person actually says these things and thinks this way, even on here.......right? You just can't get reddit off your mind lol.

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[–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

Don't give a shit about live service multiplayer PvP-games infested with FOMO battle passes, I'm afraid.

I'm quite content with co-op and singleplayer games, thanks for worrying though.

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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (15 children)

You jest but would you really install Arch on your grandmother’s PC?

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[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

When my wife's grandparents had to get a new computer they got upset about the new windows interface and the fact their old games didn't work, so I set them up with Linux and a DE that resembled XP (it's what they were familiar with), and I was able to get most of their games going.

They used it without issue until they died.

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So you're saying Linux killed your wife's grandparents.

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[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Now that would be a funny headline.

No sadly COVID lockdown isolation did them in. I've never seen minds and bodies decay so fast. I have another friend who developed full-blown psychosis from it too, and at this point it looks like he's never coming back. The lockdowns were harder on some people than we were/are ready to talk about I think.

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Yeah, it's honestly crazy to me because I think lockdowns were a net benefit to me. I was able to spend more time with my SO and kids, I had time for exercise and hobbies since I didn't need to sit in traffic, and I didn't need to spend as much social energy making small talk (I'm introverted). I honestly thrived during COVID. Getting COVID sucked for the week or so I had symptoms, but that was honestly a small price to pay for solitude.

But then I see headlines of people literally going crazy, see a dramatic increase in road rage in my area (which didn't have lockdowns, only social distancing for businesses), and see my own extended family struggling.

I feel so bad for people like your grandparents that suffered. I just personally wish the COVID lifestyle was more accessible.

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[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago*

I just personally wish the COVID lifestyle was more accessible.

Same, it suited me quite well and I feel bad saying I missed it because so many others, including some of my own family and friends, suffered. Now that I'm back in the office 5 days a week, I lose >2 hours a day with my kids. I had my own parents say "i don't get why you're complaining, we got by before COVID" while refusing to acknowledge it's different because one of them stayed home with us, while my wife and I must both work to survive.

I grew up in a religious conservative family. These and other experiences drove me to the left in a big way. I see now that thinking we can solve systemic issues with individualism is bullshit. I want a world where my wife or I could stay home (or some communal solution) to raise our family right rather than having a bunch of latchkey kids and being stuck doing chores from the moment we get home until the moment we lie down. Some people say "well that's how I was raised" but it isn't right.

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[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 point 1 year ago

You couldn’t get windows games working in windows?

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[+] drspastic@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Depends on her needs. If she uses it for Facebook, no problem, since I'll be admining her system anyways

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[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

Why not ? I suppose that as long as a browser (and whatever else she need) is working, my grandmother would not need much more. And I could also install a windows11 theme on KDE, if I really want to. A icon is a icon

And in the end I think that my grandmother would be able to mantain neither a window machine, so I don't see the problem.

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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

I think most of the replies to my remark thought I was questioning Linux for grandma overall. I wasn’t. Just Arch. I don’t think grandma needs rolling releases.

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[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

In my opinion also Arch is usable on grandma desktop.
True, it is a rolling release but I would suppose that on such machine there would not be that many packages installed and if the network is configured correclty (so nothing can connect from the outside) it would be not be a big problem, after all what grandma use is not updated on a daily basis.

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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

But that means she’s not getting security updates and since she’s grandma she really needs them. On the other hand, if you’re automatically upgrading her Arch install then there will be breakage she is hopeless to fix.

So what advantage does Arch offer grandma over a traditional release LTS distribution which will be nice and stable, not breaking or changing unexpectedly on her but still remaining current with security patches?

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[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

But that means she’s not getting security updates and since she’s grandma she really needs them. On the other hand, if you’re automatically upgrading her Arch install then there will be breakage she is hopeless to fix.

True, but that would be the end result in any case where an update do something wrong or require some sort of manual intervention, it is not strictly tied to Arch. But you have a point here.

So what advantage does Arch offer grandma over a traditional release LTS distribution which will be nice and stable, not breaking or changing unexpectedly on her but still remaining current with security patches?

Only to have some newer software, but you can also update Arch every once in a while, the fact that it is a rolling release does not mean you need to update every day. The everything will depend on which distro normally uses the person who install the grandma machine

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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

I used Arch for about 7 years. I still have it installed on an old PC but I haven’t used it recently. Every time I told pacman to update everything it felt like an adventure. Never knew if I was going to reboot to a working desktop or to a console printing cryptic error messages that take a while to Google on my phone before I get things back up and running. I wouldn’t wish that experience on my worst enemy’s grandma!

It all comes down to the maintainers of Arch putting all of the responsibility for breakage (especially due to old configuration files) 100% on the user. That’s not a system any normal person should use, that’s a system for Linux hobbyists. A LTS distribution where “don’t break the user’s install no matter what” is the rule is absolutely the only system I’d ever trust for grandma.

It’s fine if you want to assume all responsibility for updating grandma’s system and fixing breakage every time. I don’t have any interest in doing that. If I’m at grandma’s house I want to spend time talking to her, not fixing her computer.

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[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it 1 point 1 year ago

I used Arch for about 7 years. I still have it installed on an old PC but I haven’t used it recently. Every time I told pacman to update everything it felt like an adventure. Never knew if I was going to reboot to a working desktop or to a console printing cryptic error messages that take a while to Google on my phone before I get things back up and running. I wouldn’t wish that experience on my worst enemy’s grandma!

The only times I got this kind of problems where when I didn't read some announcement or for some reason some packages (the kernel) were way too old, normally never had it on a normal update. But as I said, you have a point, even if in the end I would point out that a grandma would never be able to solve any problem caused by an update, irregardless of the distro or the OS.

It all comes down to the maintainers of Arch putting all of the responsibility for breakage (especially due to old configuration files) 100% on the user. That’s not a system any normal person should use, that’s a system for Linux hobbyists.

Only partially. Normally Arch put the new configuration file as a [something].pacnew and it is the user that should then do something, but as long as the software that use the new file could undertand that it is using an older file and it is able to handle the eventually missing new keys or removed ones there will be no problem. On my desktop I have a bunch of [some_program].conf.pacnew and everything works. Is it optimal ? Maybe not but it is not broke.

It’s fine if you want to assume all responsibility for updating grandma’s system and fixing breakage every time. I don’t have any interest in doing that.

Honestly, a grandma would just need Firefox with a couple of extension (uBlock Origin and really few others) and a network with all inbound ports blocked (so no one can connect from outside) and few outbound ports open (very few, just the common ones to use a browser). Maybe she need Openoffice, probably a DE (but a window manager could be enough) but she don't need a lot of software we all install on out machine. It is true that Arch could be a problem when updating but I think we are talking of a very small set of packages that need to be constantly updated and in my years of Arch usage, basic packages rarely break something while updating.

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

good I'm convinced. just one thing... which graphic design programs does it run natively?

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[–] fxdave@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

figma

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

ok so it's useless

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[–] fxdave@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 year ago* (3 children)

May I ask what's your job? I'm a web developer completely fine on Linux. I used windows for a long time, I tried mac for some month. Linux is the best.

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

developer is completely different from designer. I'm a graphic designer, and I also do animations and videos. I use adobe illustrator, photoshop, indesign, premier; affinity designer, photo, blender. I use figma too which is good for prototyping for web or apps, but not graphic design in general. and certainly not photo editing. inb4 gimp--completely unusable for pro work.

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[–] fxdave@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

For 3D animations, Modo has linux-x86_64 binary. Blender is native also.

I've never been into 2D animations.

For compositing, The Foundry Nuke is native also. (If you've got the money, or you're willing to buy it from seejeepeers)

For video editing, most youtubers use DaVinci Resolve.

Inkscape is slow as it's using SVG for its backend and not as polished as an illustrator but it is feature-rich. Adwaita icons are designed in inkscape. It's not a big sacrifice.

I learned photoshop when It was the CS4 version. I know it's got a lot of AI features since then. Luckily, I left it before I could get used to them, so now I can use gimp. And btw, check gimp's new release candidate. It's a huge step forward. Everyone could give them their adobe cc subscription fees and we could see how they compete after that.

Why do you use affinity if you have adobe?

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

i like it much better than adobe. up until a recent update in illustrator it even performed better but now AI seems to have surpassed it. but i find affinity designer's tools much more useful, although there's been a bug that pisses me of with the contour tool for quite a while now. but i tolerate it because overall it still allows me to design icons much faster.

in case you're interested in specifics:

the pixel persona in AD allows me to work on raster images without leaving the program most of the time (not all affinity photo features can be used but still having a limited raster editor mode feels much better and smoother than switching between programs). AI simply doesn't have this in any capacity.
AD's corner tool instead of AI's corner rounding with the direct selection tool is much more capable and useful because it's nondestructive. you can change the original shape with the rounding still applied, which is something you cannot do on AI.
AD's contour tool, despite the bug that doesn't properly round corners when you expand, is still much more fluid to use than AI's extremely clunky, 1998-ass-feeling offset path. apart from not requiring entering fucking numbers into a fucking dialog box and instead allowing you to offset the path with simple scrubbing... it's also nondestructive so it can stay on an object even as you edit its original shape. so i still prefer to do workarounds for the bug rather than dealing with that terrible experience in AI.
gradients are so much better in AD than AI i don't even know where to begin. it's just easier to use and more importantly you can use transparency gradients separately from color gradients (but also can have opacity info on a regular color gradient as well). so you can have an object that goes from 100% blue on the left to 0% green on the right but also add transparency gradient that goes 80% from top right to 20% on the bottom left and see the combination as a result in one object.
AD has "erase" as a blending mode which is small but can be very useful if you're designing something to be exported to png. Has a couple more modes that AI doesn't have but this one's the most straightforward and useful imo.
It's nothing huge but I like the vector crop tool in AD, you can just crop anything without thinking about it.
consistency between programs when using affinity is a great experience you don't get to have when working across Adobe tools which even for the most closely related ones feel like they aren't being developed within the same company but different ... I wanna say planets? yeah it's like they're being developed in different planets instead.
one time payment for major versions only. i bought affinity 1.0, got all the updates for free up until 2.0, which i was able to buy on discount for upgrading. now i get all the updates on 2.x for free.

there are things that AI does better and i use it when i plan to use those, and sometimes use one and copy paste to the other to use the best of each. best highlights are repeat function (Ctrl+d). now there's also radial repeat which can be great. blend can be very useful... most of the time though i go with AD.