No Man's Sky @lemmy.world cosmicrookie @lemmy.world 2d ago

Every single day!

Every day NMS has to update. Is this because I run it on Linux or is it just how NMS is? Today it was a 4,6 GB update

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I think it's just the game, because I also run Linux and NMS is the only game that does this. No other game that I can think of is routinely downloading relatively large updates like this.
Since I've switched to linux, a lot of games have been starting doing shader pre-caching updates regularly. Might be that.
- For me, the Vulcan shader pre-caching is different. It is a pop up with a percentage indicator. This is a regular steam update like it used to be on windows.
  
  I get those popups too at times, but they are not what I am referring to. The shader pre-chaching updates I mentioned work in the same way you described your phenomenon, through the regular update menu.
Welcome to Linux. Where you’ll spend more time monitoring and updating your dependencies than actually using the software.
- Sorry - that is not true. Actually i have never done that (at least not manually), and don't even know what updating dependencies means. It runs all updates automatically and has not failed once. I have run Linux for half a year, and only used the terminal a couple of times to adjust some weird thing that did not work out of the box. Linux has come a long way!
  
  What took the longest time, was getting to learn new software instead of the usual suspects, like Photoshop and DaVinci
  
  For my two mints, Ubuntu, arch, and various arm instances it absolutely is. Guess you don’t do much.
  
  These people agree
  
  https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewforum.php?f=59&sid=e0d57cf7f4031c6d90fe1ca00def9dc3
  
  Here too
  
  https://displaylink.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=108555c06d04d00b60db7255af52f2fb&f=29
  
  This is the typical refrain. Compile it yourself else no
  
  https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=37791
- I've been on Linux full time for over 3 years - the only time I deal with dependencies is during my twice-monthly manual updates and new app installs, and even then I've only run into conflicts that required me to do more than hit y/n a couple of times, and they were easy fixes. My updates every 2 weeks take on average less than 5 mins total, most of it stuff downloading and installing while I continue to do other stuff.
  
  If you're having a shit time with dependencies frequently, you're probably doing something wrong. Switch to nixos if it's that much of a problem, no more dependency issues.

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