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Welcome to libre

A comm dedicated to the fight for free software with an anti-capitalist perspective.

The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.

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Resources

Free Software, Free Society provides an excellent primer in the origins and theory around free software and the GNU Project, the pioneers of the Free Software Movement.
Switch to GNU/Linux! If you're still using Windows in $CURRENT_YEAR, flock to Linux Mint!; Apple Silicon users will want to check out Asahi Linux.

Rules

Be on topic: Posts should be about free software and other hacktivst struggles. Topics about general tech news should be in the technology comm or programming comm. That doesn't mean all posts have to be serious though, memes are welcome!
Avoid using misleading terms/speading misinformation: Here's a great article about what those words are. In short, try to avoid parroting common Techbro lingo and topics.
Avoid being confrontational: People are in different stages of liberating their computing, focus on informing rather than accusing. Debatebro nonsense is not tolerated.
All site-wide rules still apply

Artwork

Xenia was meant to be an alternative to Tux and was created (licensed under CC0) by Alan Mackey in 1996.
Comm icon (of Xenia the Linux mascot) was originally created by @ioletsgo
Comm banner is a close up of "Dorlotons Degooglisons" by David Revoy (CC-BY 4.0) for Framasoft

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Windows users, why don't you use/try Linux? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm curious as to what everyone's reasons are! The Linux desktop has came quite a far ways in the last few years and is improving every day. I'd say for most people, Linux could easily replace Windows as their daily driver nowadays.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Vulkan is that it's a much more modern API

Absolutely, older APIs tried to smooth development by abstracting more from the hardware, Vulkan tries to give the developer as much control as possible. If you know what you're doing you can write more performant games with Vulkan, but on the flip side development is slower. The matters less and less though, as most game dev these days uses middleware like Unity or Unreal which does all the graphics pipeline management for you. This also ties into modern graphics hardware being more configurable than ever, meaning the more restrictive APIs can waste a lot of the hardware's potential.

I did a bit of research after reading your comment and from what I can see, Elden Ring has some bugs in it's rendering pipeline that can cause cached shaders to be recompiled for no reason, this is what causes all the stuttering on Windows. Proton devs managed to write custom implementations of the DirectX functions that it uses incorrectly, to force it to work the way it was presumably intended to. That's awesome to me and really shows off the potential of Proton. Obviously other games which aren't huge releases aren't going to get that kind of treatment, but I can definitely see dedicated communities fixing issues like this in games.

Super cool, I'm glad you mentioned Elden Ring because I hadn't considered Wine/Proton could be used like that.