• nyan_kas@piefed.socialEnglish
    19·
    4 days ago

    Proton.

    It allowed me to ditch Windows for good. Playing games on Linux, often with similar or even better performance than on Windows, was an insane idea ten or fifteen years ago. Nowadays it‘s rare to see a game not working on day one. And if it doesn‘t, Proton‘s devs oftentimes fix it within a day or two. It‘s an amazing piece of software with an amazing team behind it.

    • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
      7·
      4 days ago

      Proton is a god damn godsend. After wrangling four or five WINE tools for a decade, this is a beautiful innovation. Genuinely, made switching away from Windows viable.

      • shrugs@piefed.socialEnglish
        12·
        4 days ago

        here you go: systemd is so much better then sysv-init, it’s not even funny

        I really can’t take people serious that think sysv-init was the superior system. I mean for real, have you ever worked with it and all it’s shortcomings? It wasnt even a system, it was a bunch of bad init scripts

        • terabyterex@lemmy.world
          3·
          4 days ago

          i started my professional software development career in 1999. the amount of older guys who called the web stupid and a fad or “gopher is the future of the internet” was crazy. people hate change

        • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.caEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          I’ve been using it since I started using Linux 26 years ago until Ubuntu switched to upstart and then systemD.

          It did the job and was very easy to work with. I knew what the scripts did and I could write my own. And it didn’t ask for a date of birth either.

          • shrugs@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            11 hours ago

            funny, I also started around 2000 with Linux, so we have the same time under our belt. I remember doing manually dependency resolving downloading packages from freshmeat.net

            Let’s be honest, I hated that “/etc/init.d/apache2 start” went obsolete, muscle memory and habit are a bitch, but you have to move on sometimes. Otherwise, are you really arguing that some obscure start-stop-daemon wrapper that sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t, because they were created for suse not redhat were superior?

            systemd monitors the daemons, can show you used cpu time, can start daemons depending of if the system is connected to ac or uses battery or if a port got a magic package, it know which resources a service needs and much more, all without needing to manually write scripts. Do we really compare that to some scripts with bullshittery like:

            case $1 in
  start):
    start-stop-daemon $service_name
    ;;
  *)
   echo fuck off
   exit 1
   ;;

            sorry to be so blunt, and im pretty drunk saying this: sherly you can’t be serious, and don’t call me sherly.

  • SinTan1729@programming.devEnglish
    8·
    4 days ago

    neovim

    It just feels right. It took me some time to get used to the vim motions. But man, does it make moving around any project so fast and natural. I went in for the customizability. And that’s obviously there. But the sheer speed it gives me is uncanny. My past self with VS Code could never.

    I’d also suggest taking some time to write your own config from scratch once you get the hang of it; it’ll be worth it.