Annie D

I finally, so far, have enough pieces in place that this seems to be usable. Time will tell if it lasts; I maybe already broke some stuff setting up Lutris, and it took me three goddamn distros to find one that would behave with Synergy, so this could all still implode terribly.

But for now, I have everything I need for work and play, ie. Synergy and FF14, and the transition has been tolerable enough.

With Dawntrail on the horizon, I had been planning for a while to upgrade my video card, but the recent tendency for MS to slip more and more adware and AI bullshit backward into Win10 was also making it feel like it might be time to try Linux on the desktop again.

Since this is the hot button issue right now, OK, let's go for it.

Surprise, this gets long.

I get 10K on my Windows 10 install. Same settings and res.

I figured it'd be lower because Wine overhead and X11, but this is just awful.

I love though how when your benchmark is low, it shows fewer characters on the end screen, and they're all looking at your character in disgust.

With Dawntrail on the horizon, I had been planning for a while to upgrade my video card, but the recent tendency for MS to slip more and more adware and AI bullshit backward into Win10 was also making it feel like it might be time to try Linux on the desktop again.

Since this is the hot button issue right now, OK, let's go for it.

Surprise, this gets long.

linus torvalds said "we never break userspace". then why'd you remove IPX support dammit. that was part of my userspace!