There is no way any laptop from 2021 doesn’t run windows well enough in a VM. Did you give it only 1 core? 2 gigs of ram? Did you not install the guest tools so you get stuff like 3d acceleration?

At work we run windows in a VM on 15 year old hardware with 0 graphics acceleration and it does A OK.

Settings > trackpad > click

You can change the force required to “click” the trackpad. That applies to dragging too.

Are you really going to nitpick over the st and ignore their entire point?

enjoy the experience by making friends and trying new activities.

Big emphasis on this. Nepotism and cronyism are the best ways to get a good job. If you don’t talk to people, and keep in touch with them after college then finding a job is going to be that much harder. GPA doesn’t mean shit if someone in the right position really thinks you’re a good person for the job.

Don’t worry guys, they’re serious about it this time.

They’re totally not going to do something to piss off everyone developing games for them in like 6 months.

Valve did a lot of work to tune the APU in the steam deck for efficiency. It’s custom silicon at the end of the day.

AMD just kinda took one of their existing laptop APUs and threw it into handhelds instead of laptops.

That my friend, is entering operating system politics.

But the TLDR is: resistance to change, lack of support, bribery, a combination of all 3, features, and much much more!

DXVK (which also runs on windows) alone gives you a huge performance benefit. Playing world of warcraft on windows I’ll see about a 30% reduction in CPU usage and higher performance.

Proton doesn’t just get you to almost matching Windows’ performance. Proton easily outperforms windows even on higher end hardware where windows bloat isn’t a concern.

Proton is the compatibility layer that valve makes that lets you run games on Linux. Proton uses DXVK a program that converts Direct X API calls (windows only) to Vulkan API calls (runs on anything). DXVK alone gives you huge performance benefits (especially on older DirectX 11 and older games) and you can run it on windows.

Proton gives you a ton of other tools that can make huge performance differences.

the gains come from the reduced overhead that linux has compared to windows

literally the next line

…the games here are being run through proton

I really hate the dismissal of the heavy lifting proton does. Proton is what makes gaming on Linux so great. So many native linux games perform worse on Linux vs their windows counterparts. Then again, I’d expect nothing less from Dave2D

A good UI/UX is what Linux needs most to get people to switch. Valve has the money to pour into actually making something people want to use. Now I just hope the desktop release gets the same polish.

And this is the reason why I use lemmy and not mastodon.

Absolutely. That’s why race to idle is a thing. As soon as the CPU is fed cycles it races to complete the task as quickly as possible. When the program first launches and starts monitoring the only thing it knows is that it was just doing something. It hasn’t had a change to not do something. It’s now completed its race and now it’s able to relax for a second and idle.

Can you change them in your bios? Most have pretty reasonable fan control curves built in.

Just make sure you enable hysteresis so they don’t bounce up and down constantly.

Good news is that QMK isn’t typically on garbage (yet) so filtering by has QMK first helps a lot.

Nooooo! I Love my code. Feels like it was just yesterday I got it.

Thankfully when I first got into mechanical keyboards the flood of the cheap slop hadn’t happened. So like worst keyboard you’d find is like a sturdy plastic housing with a metal backplate.

Switch tester to find what you like. Then buy once cry once. Don’t get gamer garbage, find one that works out of the box the way you want. Maybe QMK so you can program it once to do what you want, then you never need the software ever again.

While good for privacy, this sounds like an awful UX change for the average person. Some sort of nice toggle to disable it would be good, but removing it all together would probably annoy more people than it benefits.

I hated Tesla in 2018, and I still hate them to this day.

… they already have your emails. Not only that, but just about everything else they could possibly want to know about you.

Unless you plan on moving to a more private provider I wouldn’t worry about that.