Tech Over Tea - Even Vtubers Are On Linux | KyloNeko

Episode Date: February 6, 2026

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Good morning, good day, and good evening. I'm as it was your host, Rudy Robertson. And today, well, I don't know what this is going to be because Kylo's back, so we'll see how it ends up going. For anyone who doesn't know who you are, introduce yourself, and we'll just go from there. Hi, I'm Kyle Aneko. I made the Linux guide to V-Tubing, and it has snowballed.

By snowballed, what do we mean here? So what I mean what do we mean here is So like originally like you didn't see me That one sorry I need to I probably have it in my recommendations but Let me see if I find it just keep going Yeah so basically it's snowballed

And we now have a full Discord full of Linux V-tubers Before there used to be a lot of things When it was like starting out like there wasn't that many But now it's kind of like people are like Oh I don't want to use Windows anymore Can you help me out? And there's even some people who aren't even V-Tubers in there that kind of just started using Linux as well. Yeah, because I remember last time, last time, I think you had just basic.

I think the guy to have been up for a while, maybe a couple of months at that point, but it was still... Like two or three months, yeah. Yeah, yeah, but it still really didn't have that much going to it just yet. I remember being very... Now it's got it. Yeah. It being very like, so curated to your... set up and there's still being a lot of things that were like missing outside of that.

Yeah, there was like a lot missing out of that. And then I started having people help me, like, Ren and, and other people as well. So, like, it's definitely, it's definitely, like, became a lot bigger than what I thought it was going to be. And people are, like, actually benefiting from it. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. For anyone who, I guess, doesn't know why you swap to Linux, just tell people that.

And then I guess I don't know where we're going as we go. All right. So like one of the main reasons why I ended up swapping the Linux to begin with is basically how Microsoft is handling their system. Because I started seeing telltale signs of them, you know, basically having an overall bad OS. And I've even explained this before in like videos I've made that they started to say, oh, we're going to release co-pilot. And I'm like, well, this isn't like the... This isn't, oh my God, this isn't like the best, like, decision that they're going to make since basically spyware. Now they are getting to the point to where the AI that they put into their system has basically been a part of the system now instead of being in like an add-on.

So like people can disable it, but you're not really going to get rid of it because I've seen some videos people trying to like remove it and all of a sudden they're locked out of their computer. they can't get into it and something breaks it's not it's not good and just that windows has a habit of when people disable stuff after system updates sometimes it just comes back on yeah there's also that too i mean that's always been the thing since like windows seven probably even before that that i know definitely a lot of the the data collection stuff that came in with eight that was a big deal every other update it would just reenable every single toggle oh yeah it definitely definitely would do that. And a lot of people are just getting tired of it because people would like start streaming and all of a sudden Windows update or they get a random crash or it just doesn't like do like it doesn't do it for people anymore. Like before like you have like Windows 7, Windows 10. Yeah, Windows 10 probably wasn't the best OS, but it wasn't the worst one either. Now Windows 11 is kind of flu-solidified to the fact that yes, it is a bad OS. Get the fuck off that. I think I think with the direction that Windows 11 is going or just Windows in general, a lot of people are now.

actually considering and not just the fact that Windows is getting bad it's one thing if it's bad and there's no other options people are starting to realize that actually is another option there is another thing you can use and it actually is pretty good if things were happening like this maybe seven or so years ago when you know stuff Windows 8 and Windows 10 were happening you know no one wanted to move because back then it was

a much worse state like gaming wasn't really a thing general software availability was an absolute mess not like it could have been way worse but still a mess compared what it is today so now you actually have a legitimate alternative and with Linux getting more popular

it's like a snowball effect so things that were missing most of the time are missing because there's not really either anyone who's ported it or any way to get it working but as more and more of people use it becomes more and more of a

a viable platform to try to solve these problems. Or there wouldn't be any demand for it until there was. So like the call before the storm, like, legit was like the Steam Deck going, oh, this, this can play, this isn't Windows, it could play games. And most people probably who bought the Steam Deck, they even realized it was Lennox. So they go ahead and, you know,

play their games and they're doing just fine with it for the most part until they run into an anti-cheek game that doesn't support it. But, uh, uh, basically like, it's getting to the, point where people are like, okay, well, let me start, like, taking a look to see what the alternatives are. And, you know, I've done some digging before with, like, some people

saying, oh, is anybody, like, actually using this? Like, yeah, people are using this. Without even letting me know, like, there are videos, people like, oh, I'm starting out on Linux. I'm a V-tuber or I'm starting out on Linux. I'm just, like, doing this challenge kind of thing. Like, you start seeing, like, ex-employees of tech tips starting to do this now. Like, people are starting to see the appeal of Linux now because they're like, huh, maybe I could go without League of Legends in Valerant for a better. experience. So like, yeah, it's, it's, it's a lot. But it's, it's not bad. It's actually like gotten progressively good. And I've also noticed like, yeah, there's like a whole whole lot of like Linux

distributions. But there is, you know, a lot of people kind of the zeroing end about like five or six, maybe seven. And like the, and the, the ones that I've mainly seen people kind of like latch on to lately is like Pika OS, Nobara, Kashi OS, VAS, Linux Minut and now ZoranOS because people are using that apparently at least they downloaded a lot of it I'm not sure how many of actually are using it but

we have at least six OSs where it's basically there's probably more but I mean I guess Amarchi for people people will talk about as well like not everyone's using a thing based on Fedora you mentioned CassiOS I would encourage

people to stay away from Ubuntu unless they know what they're doing just because of Buntu, like, I'll often see these benchmarks from Foronix, and it's like, yeah, CasuOS performs way better than other distros, and it's comparing it to a Buntu. It compares to, like, Fadora and A Buntu. It's, like, half a percent better than Fadora, and like, 10% better than Ubuntu, because Ubuntu is just shipping old garbage. Yeah, Ubuntu is kind of this different, but, like, when you're starting somebody out, you kind of want, like, want them to get used to the OS first.

He's, like, they're starting out from Windows. They don't know anything. And that's the whole point of like the V-Tuber guide. Like I want to make sure people are able to start, look at the guide, make sure it's easy to read. I add resources that probably aren't directly related to V-tubing even though they can be used for V-tubers. So like, you know, I want to make sure the experience is not to be bad. And if they have issues, they can reach out to me to my, my Discord that I have. That's for like tech support. So like, and people have and that's great.

And it's also progressed to the point where the community in there has also started to help making videos as well because I've already made like a follow up to one video that you know you and me and a couple others that were in as well like you know benny and lace and in rent as well so like there was like a bunch of people on there and just plugging me another video later on but um there's definitely like a lot of progression towards like the whole oh we're going to use Linux now let's stop using this Windows OS because of the decisions they're making Yeah, I think it's honestly, it's overall a good thing. Regardless of whether people actually stick with Linux, at least knowing that the alternative exists there, so that if things do get progressively worse, they know that there is a fallback there.

And if they, if there's something that's progressively worse, like their OS, let's take example of Ubuntu, people didn't like, some people didn't like snaps. Well, they kind of moved to like Linux man. to kind of move to Fedora, Arch, other places. Like, you know, you always have that option. You don't really have that option with Windows. You might have additions you can change to, but those are progressively becoming harder to change to because when Windows 10 LPS loses its support

and then enterprises does its support, what are you going to do? You're going to use Windows 11? That's the only thing that you can realistically do in a consumer market as far as, like, trying to get, like, actually updates for it, Now, there are people who still are on Windows 7 and people are on Windows 10, of course. Like, they're never going to leave.

Yeah, there are people that bring, um, but the ones that do. They're people that bring, like, patches over from the server version. And there's like a weird community of Windows hacking that people do this in. But most people are not doing that. They even do it through, they even do it to an extent for XP systems, which is crazy. Yeah. Um, which is, which is kind of good because, like, if you have a community backing it and Microsoft's no longer doing it, that's the equivalent of hosting a monster on their private server.

which I might be doing. We'll get the month's done to later. Oh, yeah. But yeah, it's definitely gotten to that point. And just like just like a couple days ago, we like got iPhone tracking working for YouTube studio. And it might end up progressively going on to other programs too. I had to test it.

I had to update it. I went ahead and like, you know, got it all up there. And thanks to Himmeline, it's just variable to the code it. It's like, it's like something. that's something people were asking for. Like when the guide was originally there, like a couple days afterwards, like, probably like around the month,

somebody was like, oh, is there any solution to the USB iPhone tracking problem? That was an issue that was on there for like months until it eventually got figured out. Like, yeah, now it's possible. Now it's considered a system service through system B.

So now, like, if you just install it through the EPA or you build the package, it will go ahead and launch in the background. And what you would do is you would just go ahead and enable USB tethering on your iPhone. And then on the YouTube studio, you would have to actually go on to the wireless part of it and make sure it's got the right port. Because basically what it's doing, it's not really a wireless connection. It's looking for a port because it's trying to communicate with the phone.

And then once it does that, it just works. And the iPhone doesn't even have to be online. For anyone who might not be aware because a lot of people are not each of you watch this, why does anyone care about iPhone tracking? So basically, the thing that iPhone tracking does really good is it's got a thing called a thing that has with like ARKit tracking, which ARKIT tracking are blend shapes. I do ARKIT tracking whenever I get the, whenever I'm able to do that. But I've done it before.

And there's about 52 blend shapes, which, the program on the iPhone, which is this facial recognition being used for an app, is really good because Mac knows what they're doing with that. And it's basically able to make the facial movements on a model, whether it's 3D or 2D, if it's compatible with it, more like one-to-one to your face when you're looking at the device. So it basically makes it where people are like having a little bit more of a realistic representation of what's going on.

Now, not everybody can get an iPhone and there are some other alternatives, but that would be one of them. And it makes it this easier for people to kind of not have the mess of the webcam and it's kind of just interface directly with it. Right. And especially if you've paid for a model that supports iPhone tracking, going back to not using it just doesn't make any sense. Yeah.

Yeah, that's the thing. Like, I'm just selecting to not use it, so I can't be asked to set it up. I don't stand for it. Better enough. Yeah, it's just one of the things that were that was added, which is really good. I know somebody else is making Spout 2 lately, and once that's done it, it's going to eventually be added. And other than that, like, there's been a lot of, like, other additions as well. Like, I found, like, various, like, plugins.

various V-tubing programs over the course of time. And I've even had people sort of complain, like, hey, why is all this stuff on here if it's just for V-tubing? And I'm like, well, do you think somebody's actually going to want to go look this stuff up? No, they're not. They want it to get, they want it right there. They'll look it up later. They want to see what's on the guide first.

Right, right, right. Yeah, and like, you know, some of the stuff here, like art programs, aren't necessarily directly tied to V-tubing, but makes sense to include here as it's something that is like very much related. Yeah, like the multi-suite programs in case people decide to write Google Docs. So right now, do you think there's anything that is

still obviously missing from the Linux side? Like anything where somebody might trip up that they would probably, obviously, besides like Antity and stuff they've already mentioned? I would say like one of the things people are probably going to end up tripping up on. And this is like for anybody is basically just trying to get OBS set up in general because some OS is kind of interface with OBS differently. Like for example, PICA OS, like yeah, you can use the native version, but it's actually worse than using the flat pack. But if you're going to use something like Linux Mint, using the native version is just fine.

So like that's probably going to trip people up depending on the OS. and then you also have to go through flat sealed ad permissions, environment variables to make sure certain things work. Like, there's still that hurdle at least. People have to like sort of go through. And I do eventually want to like, if I went over,

I do get the test rig made and I do want to like start making videos and like how to get this stuff actually set up from a visual point in view instead of just like, you know, just text because that's the thing that's missing is some people can read stuff, but some people are visual learners too, which is probably one. why people like the Linux guide to Voting series I've done so far,

which will have to make more of like, you know, Pop OS and Bazai, you know, when I was using Twitter, which we can discuss that in a minute after after a bit on how I feel about that. You know, I've made posts like and they both basically want me to make videos at that point. So that'd be good, right? And so like, and you know, just to show that it's possible to V-tube on it. I think with, um, With OBS, there's sort of two main issues with it.

So problem number one is when you are using, when you're using the native package, you're going to miss out on the stream integration stuff, except for the distros like Ubuntu that have the official package. But if you use the flat pack, then you have, yes? You can run it in X, Whalen, still get it on. No, no, not the, not the, not the browser windows.

Oh, oh. Logging in with your Twitch account so you can just automatically get your stream key. Oh, I didn't know it was actually a difference with that. Oh, okay. But, yeah, that's like, uh. Okay. That is the thing you can do.

You can log in with YouTube or Twitch or Restream and it'll just automatically grab it for you. The problem with the flat pack, even though there is an official package, plugins. Because if they're a flat-packed plugin, they work. But then if you want to use anything that is not flat-packed, getting it to work is really awkward and it's not officially supported and it's kind of,

it's in a weird location that's not like super well-documented. Yeah, you kind of have to like, you could put it in the plugins folder and then do like the LD library environment path, but nobody knows how long that's going to work. Yeah. There might also be a way to put it in the files folder if it exists, but yeah, it's just they need to like, they need to fix that. The Dev's explicitly said it's not supported

so that it's not going to happen. Yeah, it's not going to happen apparently, but hopefully there's like always that solution to get past it. Yeah, yeah, I hope, but

I don't know, we will see what happens with OBS. Most of the plugins I use are supported. And the thing with, this is another thing, right? The more people to use Linux, the more plugins are going to be flat-packed.

So it's a problem that exists because there's not that many users, but when there are more users, you're going to see more people building their plugins to work properly on Linux. Yeah, and that's always a good thing because people are starting to see that there's interest, especially when you're having big tech channels,

like the Toasty Bros. also like kind of, do Linux videos just out of the blue. So it's like, it's really refreshing to see stuff like that as opposed to when does this, when does that, when does this OS actually work? I would like to see a lot more like, I guess, in-depth Linux stuff from General Tech channels. A lot of the Linux videos are like,

I installed Fedora, I installed Cash US, I installed Bazzite and most of the videos end up being based the same thing. It's like, oh, getting affinity work or getting a DaVinci Resolve working is kind of annoying. I can't use Photoshop. Oh, anti-cheek games. Oh, you know, just a lot of the videos tend to just blend together. Or I've been on Linux for 30-day challenge and then they basically barely do any Linux things

for about 15 of those days. Yeah Like I get it right I get it why people Make these videos and they're good videos I do appreciate they exist But yeah Yeah

When I see someone doing multiple of those videos And that's like kind of all they're doing It kind of goes into that It kind of starts looking like a lot of those Older Distra review videos Where it was basically just like wallpaper reviews That's crazy

That's crazy Like I guess like the main distinction with the videos that I make They're kind of there's tutorials where I walk people through how to use a specific OS So it's like the Nix OS video oh my God I had to like I had to like learn how to use that OS four hours before I could make the video And I had to reach up to the lace somebody else to like help me with stuff It was crazy but I got it working would I recommend the OS though?

No, I would not. And if it was Jin 2, I definitely wouldn't because I couldn't get that shit installed. Well, you couldn't install GENT What did you trip up on? So I was trying to use an install script and I was like, oh, they make an install script, let me go ahead and do that. And you're like, oh, it's generally working.

I go put my password in. Then it takes forever to install. Like, it just takes way, too long. Yeah. So like, yeah. And then I wake back up and it's installed like, oh, let me see. Let me see like, you know, what this is. And I go to log in. It's like, why is my password not working? Why is my password not working? I know this is the password. It was simplest, you know, very simple password. And, uh, wasn't working me. So I go to install it again. I'm like, okay, let me try something else. Let me try a different password.

Was it working at all? So it's like, what am I doing wrong? So I was like, I'm just going to making no-bar video instead. Fair enough. To be fair, most people probably are not going to use GENTU. Like, if you're using GENTU, you probably already know what you're doing. And if you don't know what you're doing, you probably know enough about Linux to take existing knowledge and then, like, get it ready on GENTU. Yeah. Now, like, to be fair, GENTU is faster than Arch.

if you can actually install it and use it, but most people can't, so that's why people will use Arch. By the way. Okay. Look, technically compiling packages in our own system is faster, but considering the amount of time you're going to lose compiling the packages anyway, like, yeah, maybe it's faster,

and if you update overnight, it doesn't matter. Yeah. Yeah, just take a whole day off. yeah I'm good on arch I am I am perfectly happy on arch and if if I ever stop using arch I'd probably go to just Fedora or something

to be honest oh that's I thought about it too like if Debian was ever a thing like if I stopped if I didn't have like if I had issues trying to use like Debian unstable if Pika OS ever went down because I'm using Pika OS and it's like a optimized

alternative for like Linux gaming and content creation stuff like that I'd probably end up using like Fedora on one computer and Basilite on the other one. We're using PICRS last time I had you one? No, I was on Linux Mint. Everything was on Linux Mint. Right.

Yeah, I had switched because I wanted to get a different package set, and I also kind of wanted to get away from Ubuntu. Recently, I found out that the LMDE version of Linux Mint lacks features. That's great. I'm always so confused. No PPAs for you. that, yeah, that's, that's because it's based on Debian and Debian doesn't do PPA. It's, it's, you can, okay, you can technically use PPAs on Debian.

Yeah. They're just completely unsupported. Yeah, but on Pek-O-S, you can use PPAs. And I think on Debian, unsteable, if you can figure it correctly, you can use PPAs, but yeah, my server is using Debian. So I was like, oh, this is, this is perfect, but it's using XFCE. and learning how to use Docker, Docker Compose, was quite in networking through a double nat.

It was kind of crazy. Yeah, my, I need to, I need to. People keep sending me emails like, hey, hey, Brady, do you know a link on your website's broken? Hey, do you know this app that there's a link to? It now points to a random other website. I really need to go and actually fix up that site. Did Socrates ever, like, email you back?

I did get a couple, and then he gave up after that. I think he might still be spamming on Matrix, though. I don't know. Oh, I see. I think it'd be funny if I got those emails. I didn't. It'd be entertaining. I have a public email.

I mean, we do that. You know, I know you watched the videos. They are some very interesting emails. I realize, out of the fact, that I actually missed a couple of them, and they were just as unhinged as the main ones. Oh, it's crazy. It'll be entertaining, though. It's, like, kind of refreshing.

Like, it's not threatening you. It's kind of like, it's not threatening you directly. It's threatening you in a philosophical thing anyway. Or threatening you in a way that is just not going to happen. Twelve years of eternal damnation. That was my favorite one. Then the aliens are going to abduct you, and then Doom guy's going to pop out.

and kill the devils. Yep. Yep. Yeah. So, sorry, we got sidetracked there. What actually, what brought you to PICA OS? Oh, so basically the thing that brought me to PICA OS is when I was going through the installer, because it, when I was, it actually happened when I was doing the tutorial video.

So like, like the Linux guy's got of YouTubeing tutorial video on my YouTube channel, I look at it and my reaction was, oh my God, this is great. It gives you everything that you could ever ask for. I mean, with this, a couple of presses of a button, and then typing in your little password or long password, and then it just works. And then, like, you don't have to worry about it too much. And it's, this really good.

It is a hobbyist OS, but it's still considered good. It's like along the same lines of Nobara. And their support Discord is something you probably should, you should probably use if you could use their OS. You can, like, put support requests. because on the Nvidia ISO, I found a couple bugs that I actually reported and they got fixed.

And like less than a day. Yeah, it's really good. I definitely, I always, I support the project. I mean, I'm like a Patreon supporter there, so it's good. Well, not, I mean, co-fi supporter. I mean, not Patreon or whatever. But, yeah, I mean, people need to support that OS because it's really good,

especially since it uses Debian, which is very stable, even though, I mean, Debbie and Unstable is really stable in comparison to like a lot of things. And it's got optimizations that are great. Like it's got Falcon D, which is very similar to tuned. And it's also got like the ability to take a look at your kernels, change your drivers. You could change a bunch of things on it if you want to. It gives you really good out-of-the-box experience. And I think it's honestly one of the OSs that are like actually perfect reviewtubers with the caveat of their native version of

OBS on there probably should be changed to a flat back and it's out of the box because the flat pack genuinely just works better on it. And if I have to add like environment variables and you know, explain how this needs to work on Linux guy they be tubing. I may end up doing that later for PICA OS specifically. It could work for other OSS too, but it's just what I would recommend. There are some people who would opt to use no barra, which is fair. There's no barra out of the box also has a bunch of good things. and it also has the additional thing of making it really easy to install

DaVinci Resolve. So that's good. Yeah, that is something a lot of people a lot of people point to. I am happy with Kaden Live, but if your entire development workflow is built around, or your entire video editing workflow is built around DaVinci,

it's hard to move away from DaVinci. And there's, if you're not going to use DaVinci, there's not really another good option on Linux unless you want to do like Lightworks There are there are a couple actually Because I listed them

So there's affinity on Linux Because Matt's creative And I mean like native Like natively supported Because DaVinci is native native native Yeah Okay Flowblade shot cut open cut

They're basically like Windows movie maker And so they're yeah They're kind of like They're okay they're not great, but they're okay. Caden Live is like the closest to Sony Vegas you ever going to get though. And honestly, I love that because

when I was like first using it, I was like, how do I use this? Like, oh, it's the same stuff basically. Oh, I can edit videos still good. And it's free. It's even free for Windows users if you're still stuck on that OS. And of course you have

Microsoft basement. Yeah. Most people aren't going to be using light works. I mean, Maybe if you're using puppy Linux. Sorry, what? Wait. Maybe if you're using a Linux distribution, that's like,

you can't use Kate in life for whatever reason. I guess so. Yeah. I'm trying to find a rational reason. No, Lightworks is a great tool. It's just not something that most regular people are going to use. It's still an option. It is an option.

Yeah. Yep, and that's the great thing about like FOSS software and You always have that option. It's always good stuff. It's always like, oh, I don't like this certain thing. I don't like this distribution. Let me try this other thing. And then they become a distro hopper, and then eventually they land on an OS,

but they keep hopping on distros because they like doing them. I think distro hopping is one of the, it's kind of a weird thing, where people are swapping distros to solve a problem that oftentimes they don't need to swap to solve. but they're just looking for something where the problem just doesn't exist out of the box and for some problems you can find, like you can find solutions to that

like some distros handle the installation of a video driver's better but sometimes I think people are just like moving for the sake of moving yeah I mean you could use something like Blendoess to stop distro hopping or you could

do what Traffleton does because I was on Traffleton stream talking about stuff before where they run Bazai and then they use DistroBox. Which is actually a really solid solution for a lot of things if you want to install stuff because if this your box is in the flat pack and they do a version update, well, it's all going to be in that flat pack still. It's not going to be removed. One thing we kind of jumped over was,

so the Steam Deck came out like two or so years ago now. This year the Steam Machine is going to come out. We don't know what pricing is. like rumors that came out less rumors more of a I think it was a it was a a check retail website

oh they had some prices listed for a steam machine but Valve doesn't sell through that site officially so that would be like they had prices set up for like second hand market stuff so now a lot of people are running with

those prices see if we can actually find what they were Steam machine leaked price Um 950 for the 12 gig model 1,070 for the 2 terabyte model Again, these are weird numbers And they're like currency conversion prices

From a third party reseller Yeah, I mean, to be fair Like the way things are headed right now With like GPU prices skyrocketing The uh Fram shortages is happening. Who knows where RAM is right now?

I mean, there's a good deal on RAM for like $80 for like 2666 MHz RAM. It's still cheaper than getting $3200. It might feel the boost clock for $3,200 though. I mean, you might want to take a look at that, but it's not good. And I kind of like, I think like if the steam machine does go up, it's based off the RAM price alone. Because everything else would have already been paid for.

if Valve was cool they would take a loss on it and still make a lot of money off of it and you know Gavin can still buy his yacht you know this won't be as good yeah I'm looking at um 64 gigabytes in Australia it's anywhere from like $1,100 to $1,700 I don't know what USA pricing is but like probably around $700 for that yeah I mean it's not bad I mean to be fair like if somebody wanted a second to stream on. Like some people do this too, like where they run Windows as their gaming computer and they use Linux as their streaming computers. It's very stable because they don't have to worry about Windows update crashing their computer or OBS being bad because

honestly, OBS is better on Linux than it is on Windows most of the time. Sometimes it's bad though, so you can roll, so you can roll back. But most of the time you have less issues on Linux than you would compare to Windows from what I've noticed. I don't know. I started streaming on Linux. so I can't really comment on that. I was streaming on Windows prior to this, all the stuff, and it was bad.

Whenever they did an update, something would break on OBS, and then, okay, well, I go try swimming on Linux, and it's like, I'm not having that many problems. There might be like plug-in issues every now and then, but if you have an issue, just roll back to the last flat pack you were using, or last version of the native package you were using. Well, not just that.

You just notice the deal with randomly you're streaming, then Windows is like, hey. Yeah. Windows update time. Enjoy. I like to own my computer, not my computer to own me. No. No, you don't want that.

Yeah, you're right. I don't. I want my computer to own me. You're right. Absolutely. Yep. That's exactly how you do. I need to sign to my Linux account and activate Linux right now.

Mm-hmm. Let me do that. I need to make sure that they take all the information from me and I pay $114 per year for each individual OS upgrade. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Does anyone actually pay for Windows? I'm sure someone does. No.

I'm sure businesses do it. Yeah, that's basically it. Businesses have to, yeah. It's kind of like the, it's kind of like Winera, where, like, Winra actually is a really successful, like, software, like how much money it's made. but it's literally just because of businesses and like audits and stuff like that

I mean to be fair on Winrars like in the remorse defense they do sell merch and uh that's a more recent you actually buy that yeah what I don't understand is why people don't use 7 Zip but it's free and it does everything Winr does except you don't have to like do anything and then on Linux you can use PZip which is based

Oh hello uh Discord? Hello? Discord? Right. I don't know. It's been.

The seven zip-re-packaged. Oh, you froze. I did. I was like, what? Hello. Okay, we're good. I was just about to restart Discord. I saw you, like, sitting there.

I was like, oh, was just something I said? Oh, it froze again. What? Discord, what are you doing? Um, I was having problems. with it earlier. You're gonna smile

and it's like, oh no. I'm gonna restart Discord. Give me one second. If you have issues, use Vincourt. I... Okay. Hello. Okay.

Hopefully no more Discord crashing. Honestly, I'd recommend installing Discord, Discord Canary in Vincord, just to have it. Yeah, I do have Canary installed.

I use a regular Discord client in Canary. I just have Vincourt on the computer just to have it. I don't know, maybe it's time to try it Vincourt. I don't know. I've heard about it for a while. Yeah. It's really good, but like, there's always risks involved, you know.

Yeah, Discord's been weird. Like, they were weird in the past about third-party clients. I haven't heard anyone getting banned in a while. So, you know. Yeah, I mean, maybe they could do a similar thing RuneScape did with Rune Light and just to prove it. Yeah. The main problem, though, is they want to... The reason they have issues with a lot of digital clients is they will add features they want to sell as part of their, like, premium thing.

So whether that be, like, custom profiles or, you know, maybe they want to have... Maybe they want to sell, like, themes or something. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my God. It is really bad right now. Is your computer buying? No, it's probably...

hardly fine. Huh. We'll see how it goes. I can swap over to the web client if I need to. Yeah, I mean, yeah, or you can like, yeah, use a different thing. But like, did you ever resolve your CPU problems? So, not resolved yet, but I know what the problem is, and the problem is going to be resolved. So I did take the system to a technician.

He tried the CPU in his... own system and there was no issue with the CPU. So it's the motherboard that is is faulty. Oh. Yeah. So it could have been a worse problem, that's for sure. Yeah. Either way, it's under warranty, so it's not that big of a deal.

Yeah. That's good. That's good. But I would like to use that system. That would be nice. Yeah. Yeah. be good. Are you currently on your old system?

Yeah, yeah, still on that one. Just waiting on the new motherboard, and then I'll be on the new one. So probably next weekend. Ooh, that sounds good. By, like, hopefully the middle of the week, I'll have, like, a PC upgrade. And then I won't be buying anything for the rest of my couple months, do the other reasons that I don't want to discuss. But, yeah, like, I was said, like, the whole Linux guide improving over time

and people, like, showing support for that. because like I had people make comments like, you know, I really like this and they like they reach out to me telling me thank you over the course of all those months that I've been doing it, which I'm still going to be doing it. It's really good. And I just want to make sure people like have that alternative as opposed to having stuck on Windows. Because a lot of people are stuck on Windows and, you know, the more people that decide to use Linux, they'll be less stuck and they'll be more, you know, there'll be basically a better better understanding. how to do things like that. Eventually what I want to do is I want to make a separate, like, I don't know if it's going to be like a separate guide or, I mean, I might have to be, is if FreeBSD ever gets some good things happening? I could probably start adding stuff to that and

make that its own thing, but I've got to decide on that. You would need to solve the gaming problem on FreeBSD for anyone to realistically care. And yeah, I think you can do a little bit of gaming over there. It's just The BSD world is the BSD world. The BSD world is like another layer. Yeah, yeah. Got Windows, Linux, then BSD. I think just having stuff outlined for at least the main distro bases that people use,

I think is a good, a good position to be in. Oh yeah, that's, that's obviously, like, good. Like, I basically already covered basically every major distro, as far as, like, what they're based on. I just I just want to be more videos at some point Yeah, this is what I want to do Because more people want to see that I know Of course, but like it's

Definitely definitely definitely something that I need to be done Lately I've been getting into web development more And I did a recent update to my website I even have another website besides that And You know, when you take a look at kaileneko.net, you're going to notice it looks a lot different and it's it's very uh Cameron's I mean Cameron's world expired inspired um which I took a look at the Geo city's site and I started taking a look at GeoCity sites going like you know I love the stuff this is

what the internet used to be the internet had personality to it like and then Yahoo decided to say no so Neo city stepped in and then they did say to keep it going and uh you know looking at Cameron's world Like looking on that website alone is very interesting. It's got a lot going on. And it basically forces you to discover things. Now you might be wondering, oh, where is my old website? Well, you can still find it. It's like you'll still see the old site if you're able to find it.

And it's very, it's easy to find, I would think. You just kind of click on like the email at the bottom. And it'll take you to the old one. Yeah, it's an emo, it looks like NECO arc. Then it will take you to the old site. Because I still wanted to at least keep that. And then I also have like some web rings for other people who have making their NeoCity sites and another VTuber site for Orange is Orange.

So like that's, I think that's really cool. And learning HTML is definitely something that people should be doing more, especially now since we're dealing with like, I don't know, Twitter being shit. right now. So like, it would be really good for people to kind of like do that. That way they have the, the way they can like share

their art, share the posts, you know, make their own blog like I've made, learn how learn how certain things work. Even if you do use like a template for it, it's really good. And I think more people should be getting into that, especially with like

you know, resources like the HTML cheat sheet in W3 schools. And eventually I do to make, like, I want to add sound as well as, like, have, like, a moving part of a background at some point. Like, I'm still learning things. Uh-huh. Get that full GeoCity experience.

Actually bringing you back the 90s. No, I think it's a good thing that more people are, at least some people are interested in, like, actually having their own site, because that was the way things were. This idea of everyone just being on these, like, core websites. That's a relatively recent thing. Obviously, it's been a thing now for like 15 or so years, but that's not how the web always was, and it doesn't have to always be like that.

You can have your own personalized presence on the web. Yep, and there's also sites like Space Hay, and kind of like give yourself a MySpace clone. You've got Neo Cities. There might be a Forka Neo Cities as well somewhere. But like these sites exist, so you can make a website without having to pay like the Squarespace fees. You can make it for free if you want to.

On HTML, you can get a lot of mileage out of one gigabyte. If you pay $5 to NeoCities, you get about 50 gigabytes, which is still a lot for that. So like you get a lot out of that. And I've definitely put the work I in, I could around the time when I was doing my 2.0 reveal, especially with like this model here, my NECO arc model, which like if you go on, the website, there's a model showcase button that actually shows you all the models I put on here,

except the PNGs of like the low poly model, NECOARC model I'm currently using, and then the old models I was using. So like, there's definitely like a whole like model repository. They like show people like where where things were sort of progressed in that front. Another thing I think like some people could probably get into is learn how to make their own. server. And I've had a taste to that recently when I was making servers for Monster 3 Ultimate and 4 Ultimate

on the 3DS. And I can't tell you where to get that stuff but you can do what you can, you know. But it's a really interesting thing. Basically what it does that it caused me to learn how to learn how Docker desktop works. And it learned me

I basically had to learn how to make a Docker Compose file. I had to make it to where the OS is essentially on the press of a button will boot up Docker desktop, boot up the containers,

connect to the internet. It just works. And now it's running through a thin client I just wasn't using. And it's just going to be on until it's like a power outage happens or turn it off by accident. You've kind of be exploring a lot of random things

on the side. Oh yeah. Definitely. It's good to have that experience. experience because like, you know, Linux is like the beginning and then it kind of puts you down a rabbit hole. They're like, oh, what else can I do? You just start discovering. Well, I can do a lot of the stuff on Linux actually, a lot more stuff than I thought I could do on Windows.

Like, I have an advanced or basic like an intermediate understanding like when it comes to like computers in general. I can not have to take them apart. I know how to like, you know, mess with software. I know how to do like tweaks and everything. But like Windows, sure. I used to do Windows. Linux is definitely like something that

definitely kind of opens your eyes to like what the possibilities are. And you're not like stuck. Hmm. Yeah, once you have that power, like you might as well just you might as well just, you might as go to see what you can do with it.

Yeah. But like at the same time, for someone who doesn't want to do that, who just wants to, who just wants to, you know, use their system and just be done with it. Yeah. I mean, if you just want to use your system and just be done with it, there's like actually tiers on what I believe are what people can use. So, like, first you have something like Bazite, which is basically base level OS, play games, surf the internet, maybe stream.

Nothing's super, you know, difficult, at least out the gate. Then you have, you know, if you want something a little bit more personal, but still simply you have Linux, Minx, Minutes and Zora and OS. Linux Mint and Zora and OS are distributions that kind of guide you on what you can do, but they still kind of give you everything. Um, but they are also built on older package sets. So you're not like on Wayland, but you are still, at least given enough, enough room to, uh, to learn things if you want to learn stuff. And then you have Pika OS, Kashi and Nobara, which is basically like everything before that where it's like easy to use as it's on package sets, but it's more up to date.

You get more up to date packages. You're on Wayland. Uh, you still have room to, to learn things. But also. gets a lot of things out of the way that you don't have to worry about anymore. That way it gives you more time to, less time to troubleshoot things and more time to just kind of use it. And then if something does happen, it's not that hard to troubleshoot because, at least in these discords,

if you were to ask somebody from the dev team or ask somebody from the support team, they'll help you. They won't be like, oh, congratulations for joining Linux, but you're on the wrong OS. You should be using Arch.

Yeah, you guys. You get a bit of that. Yeah. You get a bit of that in, uh, some place on the internet. That's that's that is, that's sure. Yeah. That's what people like, I have some people like try to say, oh, we got to have a PhD to use Linux. Like, no, you don't.

You could just use BASite and just use it. You don't have to like learn how to code the whole. You don't have to learn how to code your, your way or your wallpaper. Like, you don't have to do that. You don't have to do what the GIF say and go, I'm installing, installing a, uh, A web browser, and the middle of lines of cones happen. No, it's like, you go to Software Center and you type in Zen, Brave, Chrome, or Firefox, and you hit the install button, and then you put your password in it, and that's it.

You're not like, oh, I got to type in Terminal. Like, a lot of these distributions nowadays, you do have the option for Terminal, because they want to make sure that you have that option. You don't ever have to use it. You can use their package managers by looking at their names. You can use software centers. You can use flatpack through the software centers itself too. So you don't have to do any of that at all.

And so you don't need a PhD. You just need to know how to use computer. And even if you don't, there's always ZorinOS. I think Zoran's a, I think Zoron's an neat idea. Like they really wanted to make a experience that was very familiar to Windows. I do think there's... Oh, yeah. There's issues that come with that because when something is very familiar, you're going to expect it to work the exact same way.

So there's some concern with that. If there's any areas where it is a bit weird, then that stands out even more than using something you know is weird. I think it needs to be familiar for people because if it's not familiar, they won't use it. Now if now if but it needs to be the preface that it's not going to be the same some things might work very similarly to it, but it's not the same and people need to be aware of that. That yes, it's you want something similar out the gate because you'll see some people who have been on Windows for years and they go, oh, I like KDE and everything, but I started using Hyperlin and Neri and oh my God, it's open my eyes. And you'll have people like that or you have people like me or it's like I just like KDE and cinnamon. I don't want to use anything else. maybe I'll use XFCE for like server tasks.

It's really good for that actually. And like it's just really, you know, it's less of a headache you have to deal with and you just kind of just use your computer without having that issue. Like it's not like, oh, I have to, I have to consult a dictionary on how to use my OS. Like, no, it's, that's not always the case, especially with modernized distrails with optimized defaults. And I will always recommend optimize defaults. for distros because this leaves people the open door of, oh, I don't have to do this, these 50 things,

and it could just be done in one button. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think, I do think people tend to like overcomplicate the experience. A lot of people still, like, there's definitely distros where it does kind of feel like you have to do everything yourself. Obviously, like Arch, which is some extent, Jen 2. obviously if you want to go something with like a Linux from scratch yeah absolutely but NixOS you always have to like I don't know what else you can do I have limited knowledge of NixOS

so don't crucify me in the comments but um you have to go to a config file and that's how you update your OS go to a config file then you have to also get rid of orphans that sounds horrible but you have to get rid of like the orphans and you're on the latest version of NixOS well getting rid of all the old prior version so it doesn't eat up your disc space Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, yes, I can't say, actually, I can't say that, that'll get that, that'll get the video flag. You can type it to me, you can type me what you were feeling. I was going to say, I was going to bring up, I was going to say kill alongside the other word you said. Oh, I see, I see, yeah, you're going to do some hunting.

Yeah, I don't think YouTube will appreciate that. Yeah, we'll just take that entirely out of context. You can always edit it in post. Yeah, that's an option. Yeah. So, where do you want to go from here? Do you want to talk about Twitter stuff? Do you want to talk about Monster Hunter?

Let's talk about Twitter stuff first. Okay. Yeah, because Monster Hunter's pretty good, and that's a lot to talk about. So, Twitter, I am done using Twitter at this point. I will only use Twitter on my alt account for YouTube and Twitch support, because that's the only way that you can get a hold of them. Um, they technically have their own support. They don't do anything with it.

But like, I have a massive problem when it comes to AI stuff. Like, there are certain things I can this kind of let pass. Like, you know, if it's a Tulek XR animator that I'm currently using, it's not like taking information from me. It's just using what's on my webcam and kind of translating it, which is fine. But if it's like, or stuff like Nero-Sama, I mean, that's just, that's just Videl doing stuff in his basement or something. just working on his own little project that's like self-contained as far as I'm aware

but like when you start having people like you know take AI art and you start having people take music and start like defiling that stuff basically in my opinion like and I made like a whole like gen AI is a mistake video where now we're having a situation to where this has gone beyond just generating art and music people are now taking pictures of women and children in making them do things they probably shouldn't be doing. So I was like, do I want to be associated with something like that in my opinion? Like yeah, there might be people there as well. And, you know, if you want to still use Twitter, that's fine. This depends like what your tolerance is with that kind of stuff. And I'm just kind of done with that because it's like, I was just

annoying. So I thought about like one day. I was like, do I want to continue to use this? Like, it might be banned in the UK at some point as far as I'm aware. I could be wrong. But, you know, like this is not yet, but I know they are. There's definitely a discussion of pursuing that. They honestly should because anyway, like any like any point in time, like, you know, they have an AI, but the AI has no guardrails on it right now. It can kind of just do whatever. They might be able to, like, go in and like delete a bunch of things and clear out their media tab and, you know, have, have them like, you know, oh, I can't prompt that kind of thing. And, changes the image, but then people will just find ways around it and still get it the prompt

stuff. So it hasn't fixed the issue. The only way to really get that issue fixed is if you get rid of GROC and you replace it with something else at this point, or if you just drastically change how it works, like make it to where it can't generate any images until it's fixed. Because at that point in time, it's just like, you know, very much invasive on people. Like, you'll have like somebody just, you know, taking a selfie and you'll see like a couple comments down where it's no longer a selfie. It's very, um,

very sticky situation that they're in. So like not good. So like it's, it's something that I just don't want to do and people might be going, oh, like you're going to ruin networking and everything like that. No, I'm not.

I'm on blue sky. I'm on Vt. I have a Reddit account. I mean, Reddit's almost as popular as Twitter if you think about it. There's a lot of, uh, there's like a lot of subreddits.

And yeah, there are AI subreddits. but you can always just ignore them. You don't have to join them. Like, if you don't join an AI sub ready, you go to a different one, you don't see any of that stuff in there most of the time. So, like, it's more curated rather than just being out in the open for people that kind of just wreak havoc on.

So, like, yeah, it's just not something that's good. And I feel like they're going to have, like, a lot more problems down the line. I'm like, I might just like cut it loose now, private my account. Like, I'm not deleting the account, but I'm going to private the account and just not use it. and just, you know, see what happens and just use the other socials I've been using, which is always good to, like, not put all your eggs in one basket.

Yeah, you should always... I've always said you should have, regardless of what you, like, feel about Twitter, you should have accounts on other platforms. If only just to reserve your name, but just, like, it doesn't hurt to just cross-post things. Oh, yeah. And it's like, even if you're not going to use a site,

like kick or rumble, just reserve your name. You don't have to use it after that. And then just reserve your name. But like, yeah, it's just, it's a huge situation that they're in because they're going to end up facing a lot of legal issues. If people are going to argue, well, this is publicly declothing them or publicly making them look in a very derogatory manner. And now they're trying to change their terms of service on the 15th. to where it's like if you continue using our service you're not going to be able to participate

in a class action lawsuit I hold up is this the one that sorry there is some stuff that was actually um actually like just misinformation I don't remember exactly was that sorry this is like 10 different things that

happening at the same time. There was one thing where people were thinking a terms of service change was happening based on a GROC AI post, but you might be talking about a different term. GROC was hallucinating. GROC was hallucinating, but it's still part of their

terms of service. I might have to, you might have to check it, I could be wrong, I hope I am, that if you use their terms of service after the 15th, you can't pursue it in a class action lawsuit against them. regardless of, you know, and if that's not the case, then, you know, I'm also leaving on principle alone, so I'm not having to deal with that.

AI bullshit. Yeah, okay. So that specific thing, I've not, like, fully read through it, but it seems like there's no actual major TOS change. Granted, there's a whole manner of other changes. That, that, I knew that one sounded familiar. Um, if I recall correctly, that was entirely based on Grok AI seeing a change was happening. Um, but at the same... Yeah, and that's the thing.

Grock AI is actually bad. You good? Yeah, I'm good. Okay, go on. Oh my God, what is happening with Discord? Discord, stop doing this. You froze. Yeah, okay, sorry, say there again.

Yeah, so Grock AI is like actually bad. Like, out of all of them, like, it has, like, like no that it's it's like less it hallucinates a lot actually um it's just not good it's very unreliable um i still wouldn't use any sort of like chat gpt interface because honestly they're all bad and basically they're fueling like i mean the ram shortages were bad like and it got nivitia and a md going all in on it so it's like not good for anybody like what are they gonna do like the Steam console is going to save everybody because they're going to be able to actually PC game, let's be honest.

But like, it's going to be a lot difficult to get. It might cost a lot of money. Yeah, look, the AI is weird thing. I understand wanting to leave Twitter because of it, but I think one needs to remember is just like, whilst it is something built into Twitter, you're never actually going to escape this AI tooling. Like, you can go to Blue Sky, you can go to Macedon.

Your data is still being scraped. All of that art is still being added into these models. I see a lot of people thinking they can, like a lot of artists, for example, thinking they can leave Twitter. And if they go to Blue Sky, then... Zah. Oh, yeah.

We good? Yeah, you're good. You're not frozen. Oh, now you're frozen. Oh, no, you're not. I was saying I see a lot of artists thinking they can just go to blue sky

and that means their art is just not going to be added into one of these models and that's just not how that works like if you're posting it online it is going to be on the internet it's going to be in these datasets

even if it is being the script you're not giving it direct access to GROC which is like a major thing because then people can't go and edit your image they would actually have to go out of their way to download your image just to edit it, which is like an extra step for them. That's not great. There's also a site that I would recommend uploading art to you is called Newgrounds.

They are extremely anti-AI, and they are amazing. They have been the best site ever, and people continue to use again. Like Spadouru uses Newgrounds, and they've been on there forever. Like a lot of people have been on there, like, people have been on there, like, People from Game Grumps have been on there as well. I might end up, you know, using it at some point. But like Newgrounds is like a great place to post art. Another place to post art would be, you know, your own personal NeoCities website.

You can still use stuff like VT, you know, VT dot social. You still use stuff like Macedon and Blue Sky as well, you know, even if they are getting hit by AI scrapers, it's not exactly giving you direct, it's not giving them direct access to whatever. in terms of service are allowing for Twitter. Because apparently anything that you post on Twitter is their content now, and at least what you posted. And they could do whatever they want with that, apparently. So, I mean, of course, there might be some caveats,

like my whole V-Tuber guide. You know, probably got scraped by the internet already. But there's also a thing where I have a license for it, where it's like, oh, it could be used freely. You could change it freely, but you can't make money off of it. It's a community thing. There's an... There's in this weird state where, like, a lot of these, a lot of these, like, licenses,

a lot of, frankly, the existence of, like, copyright is kind of being put into question. And it's not just something happening from this side. There is lawsuits happening from the music industry, but at the same time, they want to be using it. And there's lawsuits from... like, like, um, from like authors unions, but then some of them want to be using it.

It's like all these different sort of, like this is something which I think is still going to be sort of a discussed for the next like 10 or so years. This is not a problem that's going to be ironed out like anytime soon. It's basically do as I say, not what I do. Yeah, I guess in some ways.

Yeah. Like, oh, uh, I don't want you to do that to me. However, we're going to do it to you. So, uh, good luck. Like, oh no, it's not good.

So, like, yeah. With that being said, there are some people that are so irrational, they don't even know what reality is anymore. Oh, my God. Oh, have you, this was on, so there was a collab between Fortnite and Kisina I announced. Oh, my God. And the replies to it were hilarious. because a lot of people have no idea who keys into I is, because they started watching V-tubers during COVID. They thought this was some, like, collaboration with an AI, because they have no idea about their history.

So that's another thing that people kind of need to, like, understand. Like, NeroSumann doesn't help this. Even though it's a great project that doesn't help us at all. There are people who actually think V-tubers are AI. They think that I, I'm a machine. I'm a machine. like I'm not a machine. I am essentially a ventriloquist with the ability to use a model piloted, detached from my hands into a virtual space to let people see it. That's basically what a VTuber is,

a ventriloquist at that point. We're a ventriloquist without actually having to learn that piece of skill. So, because we're all like piloting puppets at this point, like these are our representations, these are who we are. A lot of people will think, that oh this is AI like Kazuna AI is not an AI that is an actress a voice actress that also had multiple voice actresses that eventually had the original voice actress come back yeah the whole big mess so like um yeah it's just people just like Quibopop didn't help this like they actually used an AI yeah that wasn't great that was uh yeah another mess is where we people started having trying to gate

keep V-tubing. Like, yeah, I understand burnt peanuts probably not in everybody's recommendations, right? You'll have people like get mad over, you know, them winning the V-Tuber awards even though they say they're not a V-Tuber.

I mean, by definition, they are, but if they feel like they're not, and I guess it's okay to respect that. Any way you look at it, though, it's a lose-lose situations. They were shitting on B-Tubers to begin months, so I don't know. Yeah. I don't know

Yeah Yeah It's like not Not amazing The situation to be in When it comes to that But Like just like the game awards

The streamer awards V2 rewards They're just Like some V2 rewards Are actually like real And they mean things But a lot of them Just kind of just don't

It's kind of like just the Hot Dog Measuing Contest I remember back when back when Keiz and I first started, there were people because, you know, her schick was she's AI, that was her like, her

law. There were people that legitimately did think even back then that, and this was at a point where, for anyone who doesn't know, this is like, what, eight years ago? Yeah. Like, we didn't have the AI that we had

back then, wasn't even remotely close to what is, what was even a thing a few years later, and people even back then were like, this is AI. How are you watching an AI YouTuber? Oh, yeah. Like, honestly, I blame Cleverbot for being one of the first few things to exist on the internet. That's how the chat GPT handles things. It's like Cleverbot, except worse.

Like, yeah. I'm good. yeah it's just clever about's an old one for people if they don't know it's basically uh people would have like relationships with this thing uh and they and it would basically um it's it's like not a detached process it's actually learning from everybody that's typing at once so

it you could be typing stuff and it would already know like certain things during that during that session and it's like oh oh it's learning stuff and in a way like clever about it was kind of like a way to I guess kind of like paved away for certain things, but like I feel like it's also kind of like at fault for it. Like it's neat for what it was worth at the time. I used to use it like this talking with it. It was bored one day on the weekend. But it's at least, at the very least it's the OG.

So it's very limited. But yeah, it's definitely one of the things you could blame for being the start of this AI stuff. Well, with the AI stuff It is a bubble But I think a lot of people misunderstand What like a bubble means When the bubble pops It's not like AI is not going away

It is here to stay permanently at this point Yeah But what is going to happen Like what happened with the web Most of these Like AI integration into every little thing Like all of these random little AI companies You know

Like Taco Bell drive-thrus where, like, stuff like this where it just doesn't even make sense to be using the tech. It is just worse than, like, what already exists. Or I've seen, oh, something I saw

recently, and it was just so stupid. People were doing this, I don't remember if it was ChatGP or some other custom models, some LLM-based model for playing chess. And, like, that's neat. But, like, we've had machine learning models for chess.

that outperform people since the 90s. This is, we don't need it, like, we don't need to do LLMs for every single thing. That's already a solved problem. Oh yeah, definitely is already a solved problem. And people are always, like, trying to solve things that aren't broken as well, which isn't, like, always great.

Like, when you're having, like, Ubuntu moving over to Rust, like, I mean, it works fine on C sharp. I don't see what the problem is. C sharp? C, you mean? I think C++, I think. Oh, they're moving like, like pseudo and a couple of other things over.

Yeah, they're moving a bunch of stuff over. Honestly, they shouldn't have pushed it to that other update. They should just made it a separate ISO in itself. That way once it's done, it's done. And they can kind of like have an easy way to integrate moving over instead of like trying to mishmash code together and make it work. And then it doesn't work. Well, that's what I did on a point release rather than an LTS version.

Just so if they need to like roll things back. then they can easily do so. Yeah, and besides, like, we don't need any, like, you know, chess bots. We already have Magnus Carlson. I think they're already pretty good. We don't, we can just hook them up to a computer and, you know, they can be the chat bot. Again, like the chess spots we have are, have been outperforming people for a long, long time now. Like, that's, people haven't been the best at chess for a long time.

Like, chess bot, like, chess bot. Like, chess bots are so insanely good at this point that people learn new moves from them because they approach the game in a way that, in a way that people wouldn't even think to approach it. I mean, they're essentially just task bots. That's basically what they are. They're just a task bot.

I mean, it's, there's speed running the game, doing as much moves as they can a little less time. So it's like, it's just really good. good for that. Yeah, people kind of just need to like maybe not rely on AI. Because the problem that's going to happen is it's going to be like, oh, you will

have a fridge, you will have a stove, you will have a AI in your life. Like, you don't have to have AI in your life. I've had people go like, oh, it's the future, it's going to take over everything. And like, it might take over a lot of things, but doesn't have to take over your life if you don't want to use it.

You should have the option to not use it. Speaking of AI and all the things Like I already hate it whenever I make calls Sometimes and I have to talk to an AI Automated system and you go to say something It doesn't even register your voice or Yeah It's just bad

It's like you have to scream at it before it recognizes Oh this person's mad and pissed off Let's get a human because I can't register emotions So yeah Did you see from From Razor Project Ava. Project Ava. What is that?

You probably know it as the AI companion in a jar. Oh, that thing that they were meming before. Like various people, like this was a meme before. Oh, that. Oh, didn't people already have, like, is this going to be the second coming of, like, people having mental breakdowns? Because there was a thing before this, or people had, like, anime wifus that they married and stuff,

and all of a sudden they randomly disappeared one day, and they're, like, mourning their losses. and because the service shut down. Well, this is going to be a similar thing when the service ends up shutting down. It was basically when the AI bubble starts popping, it's going to be similar to how crypto and NFTs happen. It's still going to exist,

but people aren't going to be talking about it as much because it was bad. Nobody wants to use it. But don't you want to fake her on your desk? No, I don't. I don't. You want fake ex-log around here. faker

I am look at this point I am aware that I'm not changing anything so I just sit back and just watch the world happens

like there's no no one stressing out about it oh I'm not I'm just kind of like worried about other people like I'm trying to get some of my friends to move order to London's and one of them's kind of like

partially doing it like uh like they still use Windows 10 but they also have NixOS in the laptop and they're like oh I really love NixOS like thank God you love it You love something.

Oh shit. Like, you know, we played stomach rub blasts to you the other day. So, like, it was really cool. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, no, that's cool. If you can get people, if, if isn't the reason that people actually move over, fine. I'll take it.

That's cool. Yeah. Like, yeah. I mean, I guess, like, I guess, like, I guess you could say it's dog fooding, which, like, no, not a lot of people know what dog fooding means. You're testing it. You're trying to, you know, make sure that, make sure the food's warm, make sure it's taste right for you actually install on your main systems.

You can kind of just install on a laptop or like a small computer spare thing and kind of learn how to use it. Then you go like, okay, well, I think I can actually replace Windows now. Let me go ahead and try my desktop with stuff and, you know, other stuff like that. And we're also getting solutions like Windboat, which is basically another compatibility layer, even though it's like basically a container that uses Docker that is in a compatibility layer, essentially it's essentially a compatibility layer at this point but it's also a VM

that you can kind of just run applications in like paint.net and you know Microsoft Word if you wanted to on Linux without having to actually install a dedicated Windows drive without actually also messing up anything on your Linux install I believe the main limitation

with it right now and I'm I know that they're working they're working on it is a hardware acceleration Oh yeah, they're definitely doing that Because they already started showing Like some gameplay of like Even though it wasn't great

But mega bonk So like if they can Over acceleration to work on it There's a chance It's a small chance So ever so slight chance That a good chunk of those anti-cheat games Will end up working on it

Now the kernel level ones won't But the regular anti-cheat ones will And that's going to be a huge milestone It's going to go from Oh 7% of games don't work 2.0. 3% of games though. Hopefully. I hope at least.

Yeah. At least 93% of games do work and honestly that's enough to get people to move. Yeah, the main problem with the kernel level stuff is a lot of the kernel level stuff also does VM detection as well. So, yeah, it's like... Yeah. Even if you're running it in a Windows VM, a lot of the type will still be like, hey, no, you're not...

You can't run it like this. sucks to suck. Oh, we've unauthorized access, can't access it, your band, from Valorant, or if you install Windows 11 without a TPM enabled,

your band in your base. There was another, another Tim Sweeney post the other day of him talking about how great, um, open platforms are. And all of the,

all of the replies were like, hey, so when do you bring Fortnite to Linux, there was a there was an account that basically looked like Tim Swinney's account yeah the fake tweet it before the unre tweeted it so they thought it was Tim

Swini going when's Fortnite on Linux yeah yeah like Tim Swini needs to add Fortnite on Linux anyways because the closest bridge of gapping closest gap that's going to be bridged right now is going to be G-Force now

that's going to be on all Linux platforms eventually yes they actually do have a thing about that yeah You'll be able to play things like, I think you could play League of Legends on it too. Probably. But you'll be able to play like Fortnite on it at least. But you're going to be doing it through cloud gaming, see, internet connection has to at least be kind of solid to do that. Preferably fiber or gigabyte or something like that.

That way you can like, you know, receive the download and put their correct upload whenever you're doing things. But it will be an option and I will try it, you know, for things that I'll, free so I won't like you know knock it but it's not it's not a solution right it is it's it is I mean it is a solution it's not the solution the solution would be give us like a

a native version of epic of the epic game store make it to where fall guys I mean fall guys does work but like not officially but fall guys fortnight everything that's like core epic game stuff make that all work on Linux do the same

things to people on the Marvel rivals team did when it come to enabling stuff like Bazite per OS specific rules and stuff make sure it doesn't get flagged and then make it where it's secure that way there wouldn't be any hackers and if there is any hackers they'll just ban them

and like that's the problem with Apex Legends like the Apex Legends had people like oh we can't support Linux anymore we got to move away from Linux but then they still had like a larger spike in hackers because it's Windows users who are spoofing themselves as Linux users then try to say that Linux users

are the ones doing it when Linux users barely have any of the tools available to actually do that stuff. I know this because Rintraud to install a molecule on something and it didn't work with like cheat engine. Like cheat engine is basically one of the main things or any sort of hacking tools. Like you wouldn't be able to easily do that on Linux unless you're like a mad Gimey set coding. And a 99% of users who use Linux just forgetting don't know how to do any of that stuff. So I don't see where the train of thought Apex Legends had. I guess they were trying to mitigate something that didn't really need to be made. indicated, it kind of piss much

them to go off. Yeah. This is a problem that, again, they will accept supporting Linux when there's enough people on the platform. At the end of the day, that is

the criteria. Because a lot of the time these games do support MacOS. And MacOS in a lot of cases they actually can't, I actually don't think MacOS allows them to do kernel level anti-cheat. They do if it's built

into the game because Riot has already done it with Mac. I believe on Mac they actually don't I think they have a different energy system on Mac. I think it's Vanguard but I think it's being ran in like some sort of container to interface

with the YouTube. Maybe that's what it is then. But like they will work out solutions in cases where there's enough audience to work out a solution. Oh, yeah. But which is crazy because Mac OS really has an audience as it is, considering how expensive it is.

And you would think that they would add it to Linux, even though Linux would have, like, technically a better audience because it's free and open source and the ability to download it is within the USB drives reach. Yeah, but Mac is a weird one. Like, when I was in university, a lot of my professors only used Mac, because to them Mac was the continuation of old school Unix

I mean I guess it could be I mean Linux is kind of like an off branch of that too thanks to Mr. Torvalds for making Linux so like I always think like Mac OS is Fisher Price Linux because you can still do some Linux things on it

it does have a terminal to my understanding and you can't install at home brew applications through Homebrew or through Brew. So like you can do that still and you have the option to just, you know, people have been, people have been rice their Mac OS test stocks. I mean, they can do it. There's a, um, Tiling window manager for it, a couple of them actually. Yeah, and there's also a compatibility tool for it as well as to run Windows programs.

Like I think it's called, um, uh, it starts with a C. Um, macOS Windows. compatibility yeah um do do do do do what the hell I know what it's called yeah no I remember it as well

um I remember people in the dark age just for talking about it um no I don't know it doesn't matter people people know what it is yeah yeah you'll know what it is

but like it's it's basically a compatibility it's basically their version of wine um or bottles and they can just kind of just run things through Yeah, I believe the If it's the same tool we're thinking of I believe that was like a

It was intended for developer porting It was a from what I remember It was never intended to be like a A consumer thing but it worked well enough That people just started using it But it might be something else If possibly

God damn it Discord Why are we disconnecting again? I don't know Maybe they might need your ID Oh yeah, when the ID stuff came in in Australia Thankfully they all Every platform was like yeah you're an adult So it wasn't concerned for me

Yeah Oh it's called crossover Ah yes yes yes You're crossing over into Windows There was another one that I was thinking of Cross has been around for a while I don't know It's fucking this fucking app man

I hate this so much I have not had this much I haven't had this many issues with Discord in God knows how long Sometimes they just do it And then Yeah They're just lame for it

I guess so I don't know Yeah I don't know It is what it is Yep Yep And it kind of just is what it is

I mean your other option is using Discord Canary Maybe Canary I don't know, maybe it'll be less Canaries? Kind of okay. Maybe. Or Vencord or whatever or the web app. Like you launch it via web app and it works that way

too. But like, yeah, I mean there's, you know, people have options for things and some people just want to use Mac because Mac is like not a bad environment. Like right now, if somebody had the option, if they didn't have Linux as an option, their other option would be Mac. And yeah, you have to be.

who uses BSD and then it says 0% nobody uses that um it's probably like one angry person like I use BSD why you're talking about and then um

basically it's like you know it's really good for like video editing the price you have to pay those you're paying Adobe so I mean you could also get it

You can also get affinity. I mean, kind of see money doing that. But yeah, it's just, it's good for some workflows. I don't think it's good for everything. But it's still at this point in time, if you were to say Windows 11, Ubuntu or MacOS, I mean, it's still an option. And one of the better options would be at least MacOS and that, like, out of those three for like people who use general use of their computer who aren't vtubers, streamers play a lot of games. Granted, there

are games that do work on macOS through their own store and through Steam that supports it, but it's not a lot in comparison like Linux and Windows alone. Yeah. Just use Linux. There's just Linux. Or dual boot.

You know, if something absolutely has to work on Windows, get Windows 10 for the time you can, so you save yourself a headache. Get another drive, put like Bazide on it, or something like that if you're not trying to mess around with it and just use both computers you know the better time using Linux anyways as less overhead um I've seen people who had crashes on the title four update for Monster Hunter Wilds I have not had a crash yet um and

you know the certain mods you can put on there like the decompression removal mod that kind of makes things more stable as well so it helps make the frame timing is good so stuff like that is like you know a better experience experience overall. Lately, I have been playing a lot of Monster Hunter. And it's, you know, let me down off rapid hole. Yeah, go down the rabbit hole. Let's see where we go.

So I played a lot of generations ultimate. And I was like, oh, this is really great and all. But I kind of want to play three ultimate and four ultimate. So I start getting everything going and you have to do a lot of things for that. Like, you have to, you know, get the emulator. You have to obtain the game from your 3DS legally. and you have to also go into the files, change the web server API it connects to. And that's just the play on through a public lobby.

If you want to host your own lobby, you have to make your own servers. And, you know, as I've explained earlier, you have to go through Docker, have your own dedicated system for that that runs 24-7. You have to make sure the rooms are accessible. You have to make sure the room ID is good. You've got to make sure, like, a lot of things are lining up correctly. You've got to make sure you port-few. which I had to use that, which I have a double-knack configuration to where I have a router emitting the Wi-Fi while the main router's in bridge mode. So that way it kind of can actually port forward things how it's supposed to be.

That way I actually get my internal external ports that I need for stuff like Monster Hunter and for those rooms to be accessible to people. So like now I have the possibility of playing three ultimate fours metal line because it utilizes a land. connection, which the 3DS, you know, where people used to actually go outside and touch grass, you'd be able to actually, you know, meet up with people and play locally. Other things have happened, too, from what I've been able to get set up and get working. Monster Hunter 1 and 2 in Monster Energy, they all run on their own private servers and they run through a native PS2 or emulator and you have to go through a DNS service to get everything set up.

And once you get that set up, you get your account set up, you get logged in, you can start playing online with people. Like it was back old, like the olden days, and I think like 2004, maybe. I don't remember. I don't know, I don't know, I don't remember when Monster One came out. Monster One was 2004. Good guess. Okay. Good. Good. Good.

Good. I didn't, I didn't directly know that, but I know I saw it somewhere. But like people have sort of doing that. where they're playing online. Not only that, there's also services you can actually access through open VPN through specific servers by accessing their specific

like open VPN server when you do create an account through them to be able to also access freedom, Freedom Unite, Freedom 2 online as well. So there's even more Monster Hunter games you can play online. And then there's the other Monster Hunter

game that not all people know about but they do, you know, they play. It's called Monster Hunter Frontier, and those do have dedicated servers. And I have a guide that I made in one of their discords, in renewal, on how to actually get it working through Port Proton instead of having to push it through Steam,

because I thought it was stupid to have to open up Steam every time to play that game. So it's really good. All those games are great. People who don't like Monster Hunter, obviously, won't play it. I think it's foolish to compare it to Dark Souls, because it's not the same thing. Dark Souls is also really cool in its own right.

I love Dark Souls and Souls games, but Monk's Junk's has lately been my thing. And this month we're supposed to be getting a Tidal Update 4. I mean, we already got to the update 4. We're supposed to be getting an optimization fix for PC. That way it helps make things run a little bit better. Because right now there's a fix where it makes things run pretty good, but we want to make it run better.

So hopefully they drop the update. and then you still have also the possibility of playing World and you also have the possibility of playing Rise still and I guess

generations if you have a switch so there's a lot of options from Monster Hunter and they're all really good part of you want to go back and try out one just to see

because I know I know the original controls for one are like very rough for anyone who doesn't know you attack with the analog stick yeah So it's basically when you attack with the analogue stick,

it's supposed to simulate like you're doing a swing. Yeah. So it's like, there's that. But there's also a mod on Monster Hunter and this is Japanese version of the game, which are objectively better, is the translated Japanese version of the game.

And you get the plus mod along with it. It gives you the PSP controls. Hell, this happened. Okay, I'm good. I need to get something doing. Okay. You alive? Yeah, I'm alive.

Okay. Yeah. What is the, what does the PSP controls change? So, basically the PSP controls changes it from having to do the sword swings on the buttons. I mean, I mean, on the stick to the buttons on how basically it would work. It basically gives it the, since there's enough buttons on the PS2 controller, it just gives it the PSP layout. And then the right stick is like the camera. Oh, so more akin to every other game.

Yeah. Basically, it makes it more like the portable games. Right, right, right. Okay. So, not, like, I've seen someone play the... Like, I can only imagine how it felt to actually play that game originally. But one thing I do think is... Well, part of the reason I do kind of want to go back and play some of the older games is...

In world, you feel like you're pretty strong, pretty quickly. Like, the first hunt, you're already taking down a large monster. In the first game, aren't you, like, fighting some fucking lizards in the first, in the first division? Yeah, you're fighting, like, every portable game always starts out with, oh, let me go ahead and fight a velocodrome, a jindrome, a great jaggy, you know, stuff like that. Um, the world does kind of do something similar but you kind of get a royal ludruth knockoff the fight instead so it kind of just does that which isn't like ideal like yeah it's it's it's cool and everything but um it's not like how monster hunter was doing it where they start you off with fanged wyverins and then they get you to

thank geese and they kind of like progressively make things harder until you have to fight the penis monster and then and then the giganax as well so Which, that would be Kezu. So, yeah. So, like, you have, like, all this progression. And playing the older games kind of gives you a little bit more perspective. Like, as you're playing, like, the games, Monks Runner has definitely changed.

So it has went from this hunting and gathering gameplay loop to mainly just hunting and then some gathering. Wilds definitely is at fault for this. Worlds at fault for this, rises at fault for this, like those three games are. And Generations is partially at fault if you get the DLC. like the free download for it. But like the other games kind of just encourage you to go out and, you know, search, gather, get everything going.

And then if you could somehow manage to get through Monkschondor 1, you get through low rank and high rank, well, when you get to Monksdor G, which is the expansion, because back in the day, they didn't release updates. They gave you a whole other game. And Oxenoggi released them like the PS2 and the Wii, which that was a whole different. situation with the weeks it was like a precursor the try coming out um but like when when they move like

you can move your saveover from monster under one to monksander g and then monksander g to monksander two doss i think so get that at the very least and it's a really cool experience to have when you're playing the older monksander games because um monster under one and two and g well they're they're a complete different game in comparison to playing like their improved ports which was freedom freedom them to and Freedom Unite because they made those games a little more streamlined where it's like less like you start out with more weapons in your box you get you know there's less issue with quests trying to complete them the completion requirements are not as great great as like they like not as bad as they used to be and it makes things like a lot easier to actually go through the games with now I do encourage people to still play the originals and then play the portable games because they're all they're technically different games um and three Ultimates case, since it is based off Try and portable 3rd. It's like its own unique game as well.

Because Try had the city of Locke, but Monkst 3 Ultimate had the city in Marina. So, yeah, you kind of gain and lose things there. For anyone who has no idea at Montstantia, you're just saying you're just saying words. Yeah.

Some people will get it, you know? Yeah, I personally, I've only played world and I've never got a round of finishing ice spawn but yeah that's basically where I'm at I do want to play Mormon Sunter it's just they are they are games that you can really put a lot of time into yeah um one of the games that are kind of respects your time

the most would be rise because the hunts are really short the progression is really fast and the story's not very long and the hub quests don't take that long if you're playing with people. So it's really fun and that's basically, you know, a good thing to get somebody into the series. And then I'd say wild and then world because world's more like this slow methodical game. You got to see the environments. It's more like, yeah, the gameplay is good, but they also wanted to show the graphics at the time to be also really good.

And this was like an intentional thing because when they were, you're looking at the monsters, like instead of them just waddling around and rise, you know, this existence. interesting. They're kind of just like living in the environment. You see how they interact the environment. They'll kind of do things without like even being provoked to do it. So that's interesting. And Wilde's kind of brought that back a little bit, um, which that's like the main distinction between like the portable games and the in the in like the worldish games. Um, like this is the point where like realism kind of like works in its favor because it makes the monster more interesting and the more, more, more.

of a lore instead of a boss rush fest of monsters you just run right through and just kind of do stuff. I'd say probably maybe one of the exceptions to this would be Monkstra in the 3 Ultimate with like the underwater sections. Like a lot of people didn't like the underwater, but it also added a bunch of things that the other Monster 100 games kind of lacked, which it was brought back in Wilds for at least the monster. So that's good. Hopefully they make a whole expansion based off of it.

I would like that. it'd be cool to bring back a bunch of like like bring back Cadius from 3 Ultimate bring back dire Morales I mean you're already brought back Gasmazios you have Gormagala like you're well on your way to like add a bunch of monsters I mean at some down along the line I could

see them adding white Fatalus as well or even Crimson Fatalus so I mean they have a lot that they can work with yeah I do actually have I think I do have rise on Steam so I know that you've we didn't get we do need to get around to actually play at some point oh yeah we definitely do like I think I'm like only like I have like a character that's like on like maybe the like almost done with the

four star quests I think so like it wouldn't take long to get you up to that because I mean one to three star quests are like basically nothing but um the bulk of the game is like G rank and high rank for stuff like that and it'd be really fun. They have a lot of cool monsters in there. Like they even have a dragon that's basically Dracula, which is really cool.

So that'd be really cool thing for you to look at, as well as like a bunch of other things. So that's like, really, really good game. People gave it shit for no reason, but it's actually really good in hindsight in comparison to Wilds.

Yeah, I think when Wilds came out, a lot of people looked back and was like, wait, Huh The only caveat To rise is the spirit birds Okay That's the only caveat

Because you have to run around And grab spirit birds To get your full maximum potential Right So the only way around that Is if you really wanted to You can get a prism spirit bird At the start of every quest

Through a mod if you wanted to do that Right You don't have to do that But you know It really just depends on who you're playing with And what you decide to do but regardless I mean most of the time we wouldn't even need that

so it's a good game in general the only distinction the only thing I kind of want them to bring back in wilds is there's a thing in Luxembourg frontier that there was multiple things actually I want them to go beyond like G rank

or master rank I want them to go to Zenith and there's another game that had Zenith ranks Frontier had Zenith ranks Okay. And I think it brings some monsters back from Frontier. Like, like, like the armored Tigrex or the unknown version of the dragon or some stuff like that. Or some of the more wacky monsters you could fight in that that are like not really in the main series. It'd be good.

And if they can also ramp up the difficulty for people. Because people are at the beginning at wall, it's like, oh, this is easy. Like, well, you're playing through low rank. You're playing through a required story. Right. By the time you get the high rank, they're going to start adding tippered monsters, and start adding other things as well, and it's going to be a lot harder. People are already getting clapped by Omega Plantes all the time,

because Final Fantasy 14 moment in Gmazios as well. So, like, people are already saying that the game is getting harder now. Why not ramp it up to 11? And after you add G rank, add another expansion on top of that, and add Zenith rank monsters to where the Zenith Monsters look different. Um, visually and they have different movesets and, you know, they're harder to fight. But, uh, they're really cool. And I guess like the only like example of this, like what a zenith rank monster would look like is if you're fighting Kushaladora. I mean, um, tooth care off. I mean,

and monster in their world, that monster cannot die. You can only repel it. And it is one of the more bulky monsters to fight. And it's very, and it hits really hard whenever it does. hit you. So, yeah, it's just, it's, it's really good stuff. Or Zafi Jiva as well. It was funny when I was hearing people talk about Wilds being easy. Like, world is also really easy until you get to master rank. Like, low and low and high rank and they were not different. Like, yeah, if it's your first Mons Tunter, of course, going through, like you're going to get clapped by, you want to get clapped by great juggerus. You're going to get wrapped by Rathelos.

But once you get used to it, like, by the time I was, like, I think from, like, Ratholose, um, what's the, the, what, what, the spiky boy with the dive bombs?

Uh, no, Guanté. Oh, no Giante. Yeah. Like, no, from, like, Ratholos to no,

Giante, like, most things are pretty easy. But then, like, when you, like, you go through high, like, all that stuff, like, that's fine.

It's not until, like, you go into, like ice spawn that world actually becomes difficult. And why, like, I presume most of the Monster Hunter games are pretty much like that. Like, low and high rank. Oh, yeah. Obviously, the older games, because they had a lot more things you had to, like, worry about. But the actual difficulty of the game doesn't start until the actual, like, end part of the game.

Like, the modern Monster Hunter games, the, like, the mobs or the, like, the ads, they kind of just don't. world with the um the the easy mode gear oh yeah yeah that mean that i mean that's just to get you the iceborne i have no issue with the easy mode gear i mean i guess it kind of works to kind of get people going i do think that they should the easy mode gear should actually just be a reward for completing low and high rank like you should get you should get a reward for you like oh here's your here's your um defender gear for completing low rank here's your guardian gear for completing high rank and you can now use this an iceborne or whatever. Right.

And like that should be a reward not out the gate, but I can kind of understand why Capcom does that. Because not everybody gets the game on release and they kind of want to catch up with their friends. Yeah. And they have to use that gear to catch up with their friends to play through things faster. So that's good, I guess.

I don't really have any issue with it. Some people do. I mean, I use it as well if I want to like play the game just to get things going quicker. because I'm the second character that's different. Yeah,

world's kind of slow and plus I've already played it on the PS4 the entirety of like the base game so I really don't have to really worry too much about that. Same thing with Rise. I've played the entire base game on Rise on the Switch.

So like if I want to use the defender or guardian gear I'm going to so I can just get my Norgakuga stuff again or get my Devil Joe stuff again. Like stuff I kind of like actually want to use.

like it's just like temporary that point. What they should do for while is basically what I said though. It should be rewards not at the gate. Like oh you completed the story. Here's the fender gear. It's slightly better than all your, it's better than all your low rank here, but it's still worse than all the high rank gear you're going to get.

Right. So it's like it gears you up for high rank. Yeah. It's basically like a middle, like a middle ground. And then like if you get like, oh, you complete high rank. Well, here's your middle ground to meet G rank. You use this gear to get your other gear. And then you get generic gear that kind of surpasses it. Like, if you do like a couple hunts. So, like, that's what they should be doing.

In the older games, they didn't do that, which is actually good. But it didn't really get people into the game as much, especially, like, when you're doing stuff like that. In Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate, they didn't give you any armor. What they did is they actually, I mean, they didn't give you a bunch of armor. You still had, like, all the starting stuff. But if you did the download stuff, which like every monster under game does, you can get like additional resources without having to like farm for things and just kind of just run through the game that way too. So like there is, there's that at least, you know.

When it comes to Wilds, how is the performance doing now? Because that was the biggest problem the game had. The performance is actually really good. That game is actually built around Fram Gen. Um, it people, like you could play the game without it, but you're not going to hit 60 as easily just yet. Um, you got to, you got to use frame gen. And turns out the way they're doing frame gen is actually lowering the CPU percentage while giving you more frames, which is okay. I mean, this is probably like the only instance of like, AI I would probably like say is okay. If it's improving how a game works, it's okay. But it shouldn't be the solution all the time. I think in Capcom situation, they were having so many problems with Wilds optimizing it on launch that they released it in a terrible state

and they relied on people using Frangent. That is what I think happened. And now they're going to fix it because there's less issues on PS5 and less issues on Xbox now. And they might be gearing up for Switch. And if they want to fix it for Switch, they might end up using the PC port as a base.

So that's why they made the announcement that the update's going to happen hopefully pretty soon. for like the further optimizations which would be really good and then there's also a thing you can also do which you can decompress the textures to have it run through

like RRI framework oh it did it again god damn it makes it so the game runs a lot better and you have better frame times so it's not going to have so many dips but you still have to be on frame gen

because that game is just bad in that situation, but it's a lot better than what it was. Like, I'm not getting crashes. It's not causing my whole computer to freeze. It just works. Yeah, when the, like, beta open week, whatever it was before the game came out, I did the first hunt and my entire PC guy. Oh, yeah. That, I did the same thing happen to me. I did the first hunt. Killed a Chattacabra. Is this got doing this? Oh, this is like, it's frozen. Yes, it is.

Yeah, you said you killed the Chattacabra and then it died. It died again. Yeah, I killed the Chattacabra and then the whole computer froze. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep, the whole computer froze after you kill the Chattacabra and this is like, and the thing is like the benchmark they released. Like, everybody ran the benchmarks on Linux in Windows. Oh, the game runs great. It's amazing.

I can run it in 4K, 60 FPS. It was all a lie. Yeah. It was all a lie. They were lying the entire time. They were just trying to buy some time just to release their product. And you know what's crazy?

Even as bad as the launch, it did. It still sold quite a lot of money. I mean, it still sold quite a lot of copies to make a lot of money, and people still played the game regardless. Yeah. I think that the funny code before the game came out is a lot of people were saying,

oh, well, the build we're playing is actually like an old build. This is the build they showed off at some early convention a few months back. It's going to be so much better on launch, guys. Then they release it and all of a sudden the PS1 game appears.

Yeah, the low-poly models were something else. Yeah, I mean, you can enable them on ARU framework. They exist because they're being used as a base to hold all the textures and stuff. Yeah. technically if you wanted to run it on a potato you could at least back then it the weird thing is back then it wasn't even performing better

if it had the low poly models well there's a huge difference is between intentionally making your low poly models look good that way it stands to test the time like the 3DS and PSP games versus oh we're supposed to have these high fidelity models why does my character look like it got smashed by a pancake or like a

cylinder or something. Why is my legs like above the skybox or something like that? Like what did they do to their game? I think they can send a lot of other people have, sorry. You guys say something? Oh yeah, in PS5 and Xbox are having issues too. Like they could be good.

PS5 was probably the best optimized. Xbox was also having a lot of the same issues because it's like similar to windows how it's being built and has underlying issues too so yeah it's not not great I think the main concern that

besides performance I think it concerns a lot of people have with wilds is it is like Monster Hunter's mainline games are getting faster yeah and like a lot of a lot of like classic fans I see sort of that's a problem they have with world and it's a problem they have with wilds it's like portable and mainline a sort of getting closer and closer

oh yeah they definitely are like if they want to hit that sweet spot again just make rise to make rise to but give it the uh give it the give it the wilds i mean make it as big as wilds if not bigger, but don't go all out on the graphics like you normally would. Give it like a maybe better graphics than rise, but not super bad. That way it could be more or more platforms, make it crossplace where people can play, and then make it to where people can run it on their Steam deck at like 60 FPS, 1080P or something like that. That way they have a better experience and it basically gives them a lot more to work with

rather than, oh, people are trying to play it on the Steam deck, get 25 FPS for free and then the Steam deck crashes Yeah Yeah Yeah What do you think is going to happen with the Steam deck Because I know they

People were like freaking out the other day Because they discontinued the lowest end skew of it And the reason why they did that is because ramp prices That's why I mean it's a 64 gigabyte model What are they losing I think what's going to happen with the Steam deck is they might end up

making a Steam Deck 2 and a Steam Deck light. Because they're already searching, they're already going into Arm architecture to get games running really well. Just imagine a Steam Deck light cheaper than the Steam Deck. So people can play a lot of their, like a bulk of their PC games that support the arm translation layer, which is basically a proton translation layer for arm devices. Imagine that.

And then it's like, it's like the kind of like a Switchlight situation, like $200. $200, $120 gigabytes to start out with and then expand it with an SD card. Right. They can do that and then you have the they make a Steam Deck too.

Make it come with like you know options for one terabyte, two terabyte four terabyte hard drive. Upgrade the GPU, the RAM, the screen resolution. Maybe make the buttons more ergonomic to use. Make it even better to use as well. Maybe include a glass screen

protector and have it, you know, be like essentially like a really powerful console that runs like a modified version of Steam OS that's like really good. So like if they can do that, that would be honestly, it'd be really amazing. Because I like I have like my cousin ends up using like the Steam ROG ally X on Windows. And I'm like, well, you could get a lot more performance if you installed Bazolid on it. And then he was like, well, I want to play these games on here. you're like, I understand that.

He goes and boots the last of us part two, and it takes 14 minutes to boot. Right. Yeah. That's not good. Yeah, it's not. I also have to fix it because somebody put the ROG AlliX too close to the laptop

heat and it kind of messed up the screen. So I had to fix that. And honestly, opening up an ROG ally X isn't that hard. It's just easy to move things around and switch it. Yeah, I don't know. I remember people who were talking about there being like a Steam Deck 2 for a while,

and Valve said early on, they're kind of just waiting for there to be enough of a performance leap. Yeah. And right now, what, we're at three years? Steam deck. Yeah, I mean... Yeah, three years. The Steam Deck is kind of like almost on par with a 76.

I mean, their spec should be for like a 7600, basically. Like, I have a 7600 XT, which is a little bit above. that. But they still, like, their OS is still built for the 7,600 or 7,000 series and up. So if they get, like, an equivalent to a 9,000 series GPU and CPU or, like, you know, a good, like, X3D chip or something like that, then that'd be really good. I think right now what they could do, though, to benefit from, I guess, sort of benefit from the whole crisis of the RAM shortage is to start looking into ARM.

because if they can get into arm since they are capable of doing it with a VR headset so you can play games like Hades you know 2D games and some 3D games if they can go ahead and do that and make it like a mobile device, people buy for like a cheap amount to kind of get people

like into that Steam ecosystem that'd be really good for them because then they would be like okay well it's not quite a Steam deck but I can play Hollow Night and Silk Song we can play all these 2D games I can play some of these 3D games that aren't super demanding. You know, I have the ability to play like, you know, as much as I want, I guess I'll surf the web on it. So this is an armed device, I might be able to also go into Google Play Store.

So like, you know, depending on what they want to do with that, you know, they have a lot of possibilities. Yeah, so as to not cannibalize the steam machine. I would imagine if we have another Steam deck, it probably won't. be for at least, I would say another year, year and a half. I think that's, I think that's right, because I want to make sure the steam machine is going to be somewhat successful. Because like, if you're going to have people who are going to go all out, they're like, okay, well, I've, I'm going to go use nothing but the steam machine, steam deck, and headset, put an SD card, use the entire ECOSystem, switch between SD

cards and stuff like that. Some people will end up using it for their home theater center. So people will be like, okay, this is perfect. I'll have a console at home. Then I can take my Steam deck with me. And then I can potentially take my VR headset with me too. So you're going on a business trip, play your game. Say you're playing like Dark Souls, right? Oh, you just saved after you beat like, I don't know, Gravelord Nito.

And you're like, oh, I hope I can play this at home. Well, you know, Steam cloud savings is a thing. Go play it on your Steam machine. now you're at home going through the rest of the Duke's archives to kind of just continue your game without really any pause or breaks in between you don't really get that with like modern consoles nowadays like there are rumors of a PlayStation handheld

right now but it's not really like really super confirmed it's supposed to be like oh this is going to be like the PSP 3 or something or the PlayStation Portable 3. Yeah, we'll see what happens. I don't have high hopes for what Sony is doing. Then when you have Xbox and they're like,

everything is an Xbox. We lose them. We lost them. God damn it. Well, what an episode this has been? Did we just fully DC? I think we might have fully deced, actually. I can hear you, though. What? I can hear you.

Okay. Sure. Whatever. You know what? We're at the two our mark anyway. God damn it. What the fuck? This, man,

I don't... Hopefully I can iron this problem out and perform. Look, hopefully it's just this cool, and it's not a problem. I don't know. we'll see um anyway uh let people know where they can find all of your stuff okay so you can always find me on kaileneko dot net has all my socials link there um you'd be able to go to my blue sky my vt dot social uh eventually have my reddit on there as well which you can you know when i start working on that reddit account more and then uh you know you can reach me there you can always find me on discord as well

I'm also on Twitch and YouTube and hopefully those links will be in the description and then when you know if you have any problems with Linux you can try to come out to me and I'll try to see what I can there's also people in my Discord who are willing to help people

I think that's a really good quality to have maybe you might even be able to participate in the next community video we do which is really cool I never even thought you would even get that far and it's a great thing to see. And, you know, even if you're not a V-Tuber and you just want to get things up and running,

still come to the Discord. I understand it says V-Tuber Linux, you know, tech support. It's also a tech support Discord whenever I'm free or whenever somebody else is free. And they can kind of just like, you know, help you out with certain things, kind of guide you. I mean, I had somebody going to the Discord who wasn't a V-tuber and they were like, oh, having issues with Linux meant, I just want to play games. Go install Bazite. You'll be fine.

Yeah. Nothing else you want to mention, nothing you've got coming up that you want to highlight. I mean, I've been doing a lot of Monster Hunter streams lately. Eventually, I will be doing a Mega Man classic marathon. And I will have those listed on Blue Sky and VT. dot social and in my Discord for a schedule whenever that happens. I think it's really cool that we're getting Mega Man

dual override in like a year. So that's gonna be cool. But I'll be definitely be doing that. May end up completing some other Mega Men games along the way as well. And maybe even also continuing FF14 if I can. But I've been doing a lot of stuff

like that. And then maybe there might be more model reveals at some point whenever I get the chance to do that. And you know, if you always want to support me, you can always go to my Kofi and my throne. It's not required, though. You can always just show up with the stream, say hi, follow,

communicate in the Discord, and it'll definitely be more things to come. I'll be getting a new GPU soon, so any sort of limitations I might have with higher fidelity models will probably go away with the two extra gigabytes of VRAM, hopefully, and then, yeah, and eventually I'll have a test rig up at some point whenever I get the chance to test out more OSS's. The see, oh, you know, you dedicated the Bazziate. This is how Linux V-Tubing works on BazZite. It's how Linux V-Tubing works on PopOS, Cosmic. This is how it works on O'Marchi or something like that.

Like, I might eventually go into that point of doing stuff. I just have to, like, kind of hold back parts. One of the other words of wisdom is if you're upgrading your PC parts, keep your old PC parts. You're going to want to do that. There's so many shortages right now. You're going to have a hard time trying to get anything. Also, don't be afraid to get lower speed RAM if you have to, but not super low, because those are going to be cheaper than trying to get higher speed RAM.

And if you're trying to build a NASS server, go with older hardware like DDR3 or any sort of throwaway PC that somebody doesn't want on like Facebook Marketplace. Because then you'll be saving a lot of money doing that, and it'll be repurposing old hardware from it going to a landfill. Yeah. Yeah, fair enough. Yeah. Nothing else you want to mention. That it? I think that might be it. Unless I forgot something. Just send me a link off because I can add into the description if you did.

Yeah, I'm not sure if I forgot something or not. That's the thing. Yeah, well, that's how it always goes. Anyway, I guess I do my outro and then we'll sign off. Yeah. Okay, so my main channel is Brodie Robinson. I do Linux videos there six-ish days a week. Sometimes I stream there as well.

check that out and you will see things. The gaming channel is Brodie on games. Right now I'm playing through Silk Song and probably maybe a finished DMC Devil May Cry if I have check it out and you'll see what is

there instead. And if you're watching the video version, you'll find the audio version on basically every podcast platform and the video is on YouTube at Tech Over T. How do you want to sign itself? I'll give you the final word. Brody, you should She'd play Monster Hunter with me.

I should do that. We'll get a round to it.