The reason to compile from scratch is that you can tell the compiler to use optimizations appropriate for the processor you're using.
Those optimizations are designed for very special cases and are quite useless in general. In practice it's completely useless to recompile all you stuff just because of some compiler settings.
Wish I had mod points. Seriously I installed the linux client, poked around, and uninstalled it after a day. The problem for me is that more or less than 90% of the games on steam aren't available if you're running linux.
So what? The game collection will increase over time. They also have still work to do to polish the Steam client itself.
It is already happening. For example the Catalyst 13.1 Linux release notes mention "[366820] Performance of Valve Linux games" as one of the improvements.
Now all I need is Office to work on Linux, Photoshop, Illustrator, my external audio interfaces, my PCI-X firewire card, ProTools, and a ton of other games and I am set.
I must note that lately Office has finally become usable under Wine. Wine is always a bit of a hack though.
For the other stuff, I think you would be screwed. You have to keep using Win/Mac.
Linux is slightly faster on recent PC. It remains fast when your PC gets older. As a result, Linux is a lot faster on older machine. The main benefit for me is that my system is stable. It does not get broken with automatic updates.
Meh. Win 7/8 are clear winners in these departments. Linux desktop was the speed king a decade ago but has been gaining a lot of weight. You have to run something really barebones like XFCE or LXDE to attain good speed these days. The newer Windowses, however, run snappily on older PCs too. The updates, while their installation can sometimes fail, are far less likely to break your system catastrophically than with Linux systems.
You can install linux applications from executables just like in windows. There is nothing that prevents you from copying all sorts of files wherever you want to.
In VMware Workstation 9 I got desktop effects and Quake 3 Arena working OK. Host Windows 7, guest Kubuntu 12.10. However in Q3A the mouse control was screwed up for some reason, in the menus the cursor stuck in the corners and in-game it kept me watching the sky.
I wish someone would do a C rewrite. People make excuses about the fully manipulable world and such but the reality is that there is nothing going on in minecraft that would make it tax a Pentium 3 without no gpu offloading had it been authored well in a decent language.
Even though it looks like just a blocky retro game, remember it's a completely dynamic world. There's a good amount of surfaces to draw and each block's state must be checked and maintained as they can be freely manipulated. Possibly a P3/1000MHz could just cut it though... I completely agree though that a C or, more likely C++ rewrite would be much appreciated.
Does not compute. Theft of a physical, tangible asset != making a duplicate of that asset. The so-called "theft" of digital goods = making a duplicate of that good, which in no way detracts from anyone's inventory, assets, or ability to continue selling those goods.
By that argument, should Steam online game downloads then be free too (or just cover the bandwidth costs)?
They can send unlimited copies of the product too without running out of inventory.
But to not swing the pendulum all the way, it should be noted that many people would probably get by just fine with a bit of less meat and at the same time gain a healthier lifestyle.
Thank you for saying this. The problem is indeed not the horse meat, but the act of putting 29% (one third!) of it in a burger without the customer knowing.
Entering wrong infromation for password reminders / security questions.
My opinion is that password hints and security questions are really just a bad idea which websites should possibly stop to use completely. They can easily ruin the whole security even if your password itself is robust.
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No, it isn't.
(However you can set it so using netplwiz.exe, just like in Win7)
The reason to compile from scratch is that you can tell the compiler to use optimizations appropriate for the processor you're using.
Those optimizations are designed for very special cases and are quite useless in general. In practice it's completely useless to recompile all you stuff just because of some compiler settings.
What chip? Are the open source drivers any good?
We'll see. There is no official confirmation on HL3 or new episodes for HL2, no matter what platform.
My guess is that a lot of the current Source engine games will eventually get a Linux version.
Wish I had mod points. Seriously I installed the linux client, poked around, and uninstalled it after a day. The problem for me is that more or less than 90% of the games on steam aren't available if you're running linux.
So what? The game collection will increase over time. They also have still work to do to polish the Steam client itself.
It is already happening. For example the Catalyst 13.1 Linux release notes mention "[366820] Performance of Valve Linux games" as one of the improvements.
Now all I need is Office to work on Linux, Photoshop, Illustrator, my external audio interfaces, my PCI-X firewire card, ProTools, and a ton of other games and I am set.
I must note that lately Office has finally become usable under Wine. Wine is always a bit of a hack though.
For the other stuff, I think you would be screwed. You have to keep using Win/Mac.
Linux is slightly faster on recent PC. It remains fast when your PC gets older. As a result, Linux is a lot faster on older machine. The main benefit for me is that my system is stable. It does not get broken with automatic updates.
Meh. Win 7/8 are clear winners in these departments. Linux desktop was the speed king a decade ago but has been gaining a lot of weight. You have to run something really barebones like XFCE or LXDE to attain good speed these days. The newer Windowses, however, run snappily on older PCs too. The updates, while their installation can sometimes fail, are far less likely to break your system catastrophically than with Linux systems.
Then why can't you say good things about MS products?
Whoosh.
What hardware?
You can install linux applications from executables just like in windows. There is nothing that prevents you from copying all sorts of files wherever you want to.
Sounds like good grounds for malware then... :)
In VMware Workstation 9 I got desktop effects and Quake 3 Arena working OK. Host Windows 7, guest Kubuntu 12.10. However in Q3A the mouse control was screwed up for some reason, in the menus the cursor stuck in the corners and in-game it kept me watching the sky.
It's not that much about doing things in some traditional way but rather the speed difference between native and managed languages.
I wish someone would do a C rewrite. People make excuses about the fully manipulable world and such but the reality is that there is nothing going on in minecraft that would make it tax a Pentium 3 without no gpu offloading had it been authored well in a decent language.
Even though it looks like just a blocky retro game, remember it's a completely dynamic world. There's a good amount of surfaces to draw and each block's state must be checked and maintained as they can be freely manipulated. Possibly a P3/1000MHz could just cut it though... I completely agree though that a C or, more likely C++ rewrite would be much appreciated.
Why better than Python?
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Ahem...the other dude's name is Mikko Hyppönen.
(comicbookguy-voice) Worst, summary, ever.
I have tested this. KDE is very responsive with a mechanical hard drive too. It seems to preload a lot of stuff into RAM.
Back in the day I liked the Infogrames logo very much, it remains one of my favorite game company logos.
Something like "Digital Freedom Party" would be good. The Pirate Party is a bit misleading.
Well, my same question could be asked for GOG.com.
Does not compute. Theft of a physical, tangible asset != making a duplicate of that asset. The so-called "theft" of digital goods = making a duplicate of that good, which in no way detracts from anyone's inventory, assets, or ability to continue selling those goods.
By that argument, should Steam online game downloads then be free too (or just cover the bandwidth costs)?
They can send unlimited copies of the product too without running out of inventory.
But to not swing the pendulum all the way, it should be noted that many people would probably get by just fine with a bit of less meat and at the same time gain a healthier lifestyle.
Thank you for saying this. The problem is indeed not the horse meat, but the act of putting 29% (one third!) of it in a burger without the customer knowing.
Entering wrong infromation for password reminders / security questions.
My opinion is that password hints and security questions are really just a bad idea which websites should possibly stop to use completely. They can easily ruin the whole security even if your password itself is robust.