Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "NTSYNC Takes Linux Gaming To New Heights" video.

You don't have to. You can package kernels yourself. The Linux kernel is built to make debian packages of itself. It's easy to do. It's the way I'd recommend doing it for anyone using a DPKG distro in fact. Then you can manage your custom kernel with your package manager.
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@fortifyve Linux performance is variable due to how many possible different configurations of Linux there can be. There's no definitive setup you can point to and say this is vanilla Linux. I'm not even sure if it is practically possible to tune Linux to any degree close to optimal. There's just so many variables to contend with. So what works one way for someone likely is going to be different for you. Because the odds you're doing exactly what they're doing is remote. Regression is also a factor in Linux. Development is not linear. The latest kernel isn't always the greatest kernel. That's just reality. Not every change is for the better. We advance two steps forward and one step backwards. Progress is a messy business.
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@Winnetou17 the influencers you list don't test Linux in any meaningful way. They all suffer from commercialitus. They're only in it for the views.
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@saiv46 packaging a kernel on a DPKG based system is so easy even I can do it. I have no idea how to make any other kind of a package either. There's tools to package up the kernel though. If I want a new kernel I just download the source code and build it. But then when you do that you have to maintain that custom kernel you've installed. As a rule unless I need features in a later kernel version I don't bother upgrading the kernel. There's no other benefit to doing it really. Later kernels don't always run better than earlier ones. That's not how it works.
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Messing with your kernel compromise is a definite possibility.
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There's a native Linux client for both rar and 7z. So I've no idea why you're using Wine for either of those. Wine shouldn't take that long to start either.
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@angeldirk00 if that's the case the fix should be easy enough. Delete the old version and install the new one. That sounds like the most idiotic bug of all time. Why is there a default wait? What is the program waiting for? If it can't handle the files waiting won't help. Nothing is going to change in a minute. Or is it just done to annoy the user enough they fix it?
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It sounds like you can get it now. You might have to apply a patch though. Why wait for the bleeding edge to come to you when you can rush headlong over it yourself? Once more into the breach my friends! If you want to live dangerously Linux will give you that option. Brodie said it's on the mailing list and patch takes email as input. It was made to do stupid stuff like that. Scary. It'll pick the code out of the message and try to apply it to the source tree. That's what the devs are doing. Which is why patch is coded to do it. It does help somewhat if you have some idea what you're doing though. But there's a slim chance it'll just work like magic too.
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@redheadsg1 those people shouldn't be running Linux then. They're not going to derive any benefit from it.
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@telldo8016 there's not distro that comes stock anywhere close to what I'd want to use. Realize what I can do is far from what I want to do. Or to put it another way just because I can do something does not mean I want to be doing it. Yes I can run Linux distros stock but no it doesn't make me happy doing that. Running Linux I've found very specific programs and resources that I prefer. Window Managers, terminals, fonts, there are many to choose from. I've made my choices too. The odds of any distro having my choices as the default are nil. I don't even like to use a Display Manager. Console booting used to be stock. But it isn't anymore. I run Linux because I can configure everything how I want it to be. Then I configure everything how I want it to be.
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@telldo8016 you're moving the goal posts. This isn't about what works well. Plenty works well enough. That doesn't mean I want to use it though. My happiness happens to be very important to me.
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@matyasmarkkovacs8336 I've experienced dependency breakage in my package manager using backports in Debian. So I won't use backports anymore. It worked until it didn't. Once it didn't I couldn't fix it. It happened a while ago so I can't remember all the gory details today. All I can tell you is there's no way I'll ever use backports ever again. It was one of those it's nice while it lasted deals. Then it wasn't nice. If I wanted a newer kernel I'd install one manually. Not that doing it that way isn't without its shortcomings. But I can at least deal with those problems. Right now Debian is giving me another problem with DKMS that I can't figure out. It can't build me a new binary Nvidia module. But that's unrelated to the old backports issue. That looks like this: Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.10.0-34-amd64 (x86_64) Consult /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/495.29.05/build/make.log for more information. I've tried various fixes for that which I found online with no resolution. I only bring it up to say it isn't all peaches and cream all the time.
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Targeting a CPU is a kernel config option. I don't know what it really does as far as optimization goes though. I've spent time tuning kernels and I've achieved a 20% speed increase booting up. But as far as running the OS goes I've never noticed any performance boost. In short if you want your PC to run faster then you need a faster PC. That was my takeaway from it all. But you can chase the will-o'-wisp and see what you get out of it.
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None of that should impact native Linux at all. It's just for Wine. I'll make a point of making sure it isn't installed on my system in the future. I don't like having kernel features I'll never use.
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@angeldirk00 with open source community projects they just don't have the resources or the authority to do everything. You can't tell volunteers fix it or we'll fire you and find someone that will. If no one wants to work on something it don't get done. But sometimes other groups come in and do the heavy lifting. Professional outfits. Valve is working on Wine.
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Anyone can go download the kernel, build it and install it in any distro. This is Linux that we're talking about here after all. Changing kernels is Linux's reason to be. Although configuring a custom kernel can be somewhat of an advanced undertaking. But if you're not extremely tuning it isn't that challenging really. You can do a make oldconfig and then just enable the new feature you want in menuconfig. This guy is a bit too full of himself if he thinks Arch is something special because they release half baked kernels regularly. Big whoop de do. Back in the day everyone upgraded their own kernels. We didn't have a whole lot else we could really do. So it was a pretty popular thing for Linux users to do. All we had was make config too. It was a simpler time.
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Perception is reality. Consider what that really means.
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