Re: GNU/Linux is the Empowerment of the PC. So What Do You Do?

On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 11:36:55 -0000 (UTC), vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote
in <uurc4n$1vjvo$1@dont-email.me>:

On Fri, 05 Apr 2024 20:27:32 +0000, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote
in <17c37c35720e7ddc$20295$3326957$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com>:
 

Provide testimony.  Otherwise you do not fucking belong to a
revolutionary Usenet group.
 
Testify!  Fucking lackey assholes!

 
Sorry, didn't hear the sound of your whine over all this ocean noise!\
 
The superior sound-routing capabilities of pulseaudio allows me to
stream video through Twitch or YouTube without having the sound of
another video bleed into the stream.  Also, IM pings (such as from
WhatsApp) don't have to be on my stream.  This is handled with a virtual
audio device.

Furley Fart couldn't bring himself to answer all of my message, so I
suppose turnabout is fair play:  Herein are his points, paraphrased.

"Real men do only one thing at a time."  Then go back to MS-DOS, weirdo.

"Learn ALSA" -- Friend, you must not have been using Linux for very
long.  After OSS, ALSA was the only game in town, and is still
the driver component for pulse.  I was running mplayer on my
HTPC with ac3 passthrough when you were a gleam in your father's
eye, Son.

 
Before, I've actually bought products for Windows that claimed to have
this capability, but they never worked right with OBS-Studio.
 
Speaking of which, I used xdaliclock for a visual timer.  There is no
xdaliclock port for Windows, so there's another reason to keep using
Linux.
 

Here is where he snipped.  Let's see what he took out of my post!

I shudder to think what would be necessary to build Pan for Windows.
It's not a cakewalk on Linux, either, but much more manageable
(Sidenote: It escapes me why you don't take the time to stop being a
"distro lackey" and build your own Pan from sources.  Jedi knights build
their own light sabers, don't they?)

[ crickets.wav from the distro-lackey Farley ]

Anyway, back to streaming:  when I stream, it's usually games, and those
games often used DirectX.  The Linux implementation of DX is DXVK, which
uses Vulkan -- and can run faster than Windows. Elite Dangerous Odyssey
uses Frontier Development's _Cobra 4.0_
engine, which I cap at 90 FPS.  I run the 60Hz display at 4K resolution
with all the knobs cranked up to "Ultra".  There's still plenty of
overhead to run OBS-Studio, which can stream the video while writing to
the 10G-Base-T attached NAS.

[ Farley describes this as "cacaphony" -- but it describes
realtime rendering using high-performance computing, the
likes of which Farley never sees on his single-task system ]

A word about the NAS:  it is a Synology DiskStation, which also runs
Linux.  But that is more of an appliance, with web-based GUI management
software.  I record at 4 Gbit, because the disks are only 6 Gbit SATA
drives.  That is RAID5.  The new NAS that I haven't assembled yet will
have a RAID0 volume for captures; it will be a two-volume NAS with the
other volume either RAID5 or something I haven't tried yet:  Synology's
hybrid RAID that allows one to grow the volume.

[ "cacaphony" again?  Clearly, Farley has no knowledge of modern
high-performance Network-Attached Storage systems.  So, "crickets.wav"
again from him. ]

Conclusion:  Farley is a blow-hard.  (But you already knew that.)

Captain's log, supplemental:  The guy asks for people to post about
their uses for Linux, then ridicules a fairly reasonable response.

Linux is a good OS for high-performance computing.  Farley has never
posted once about any HPC he's done -- mostly, he posts about how
enamored he is with updates to his distro.  Boooriiing.

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-v