It's been almost a decade since I last tried running Rift on Linux. Back then, the experience was sluggish due to state of Direct X emulation.
However, I recently decided to give Rift another go, since it's now available on Steam via Proton. To my surprise, the performance was perfect! Steam has packaged the emulation so well that almost all of my games run smoothly.
What a difference a decade makes for gaming on Linux!
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| Running well on the potato APU |
I'm back to using Linux as a desktop for the umpteen time since the days of RedHat 5.2. This time it looks like I might just stick to it since it finally feels "right" as a desktop (most importantly my Windows games and apps runs under Wine).
This time Linux feels right as a desktop.
One of the first things after moving is to install Virtual machine manager for development. In goes Virtualbox, and then tried to "fstrim -v /" and got "discard not supported".
Turns out that discard has to be explicitly turned on using "VBoxManage storageattach <VM name> --storagectl "SATA" --port 0 --device 0 --nonrotational on --discard on"
