soaring_penguin

The thing with Nvidia is that you need to install the proprietary Nvidia driver. The open source driver is in general not recommended for gaming. In general, Nvidia was the better choice for gaming under Linux four years, but possibly my knowledge is outdated since Steam gaming is working mostly with AMD hardware.

I think you are being unfair. He is clearly stating he is using Claude as a development tool, and is asking specifically technical questions here to improve his understanding of the subject and if what he is getting back is correct. He is not relying on the LLM for this, but merely using it as a starting point ( one has to start somewhere).

If you are a beginner, I recommend Ubuntu or one of its derivatives, it just works out of the box and is easy to keep up to date. And it is the one that Laminar uses to compile xplane. i like gnome myself, but Xubuntu is maybe better if you come from windows.

Mspark, you were right about Wayland. A couple of years ag,) like a decade. The world has moved on, you didn’t. Wayland (and xwayland) have evolved and are now the default for most modern Linux desktops. And most of us are reporting a huge gain in fps, with Wayland. But of course you are you and you pick one example to prove the world otherwise. you are a smart man, I have no doubt, but you are rigid in your opinions. And this makes discussing with you tiresome, I am sorry to say that.

And don’t rely on any LLM for confirmation! This statement is false.

try running anything other then the most basic on that. You won't be able to start x-plane on those mini pcs. at all. granted, x-plane will not run very great on the cheapest mac mini, but it will run with settings tuned down.

I agree with a) some of us are very vocal advocates, but not with b) Linux users tend to know better than most other people how computers work. Also nowadays Linux supports most hardware out of the box, this was different a few decades ago. I would even say that the scale is tipping because you can not install windows 11 on your older but still recent hardware nowadays. And also all the bloatware that comes with Windows, I cringe every time I have to solve a problem on my dad’s laptop.

SDF Global is regionalized autogen, meaning it just replaces Laminar default buildings with more appropriate ones for the region, the placement hasn't changed from default. X-World is using the real world building footprints and uses facades to place buildings on top of them, with additional extra landmarks, like churches, windmills, industrial structures like cooling towers, silo's, ... added to the mix. We don't know yet what X-World pro exactly entails, but we can expect it to build on top of the existing Simheaven (X-World) tech.

This has been tried in the past, Flight Unlimited was a long time my favourite. I believe the same can be achieved with a better, more diverse landclass system. Third party could then fill in the gaps much better than what is possible today. For example the mountain sceneries by Frank Dainese and Fabio Bellini are very detailed but not compatible with some other sceneries, due to the 1 arch limitations in the xplane landclass.

I think Tony has his own secret recipe …

Expecting this to be comparison with real life, I was searching for the screenshots. Then I realized those were not real life pictures, but actually taken in sim! Very well captured, thank you.

The problem being that SFD Global was written for X-Plane 11, and there hasn't been an official update for X-Plane 12. I have only Autogen and Landmarks installed, and dropped Terrain textures and Forests and Forrests. Autogen has been improved for several regions, like New England (US of A), Scandinavia, Mediterranean, Asia, Africa, Caribbean, ... . To get X-Plane 12 trees annotated to the autogen, you have to put a small patch in place which you can find on the org: https://forums.x-plane.org/forums/topic/195634-sfd-global-additional-files-3d-trees-on-autogen-for-x-plane-12/ (my excuses for the direct link to the org). If you want to combine it with X-World, I recommend to overwrite the Library.txt in SFD Global Autogen directory with the one I linked to higher up in this post. For me this adds a lot of variation to the default Laminar models, even in its current state, but I am using it for several years now. I don't know what Laminar is cooking, especially since the developer (MisterX6) joined them. They promised a complete update of the scenery, but only a few parts have been touched up to now.

I agree, but only if you are not using Ortho overlays. The library.txt that I uploaded replaces the outdated and often wrong facades used by XWorld by the SFD global buildings. The disadvantage is that it doesn't always align well with the building footprint. The result is very plausible to my eyes (and I know the region very well). fyi, before you spend money on SFD Global, MisterX made a freeware version for Japan, look for Japan Pro 1.02 on the org. So you can check if it is something for you.

result in the Southern French Alps (Les Alpes de Haute Provence): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gfqcbo4kg3wg8tyfm3v46/Aspres_sur_Buech.png?rlkey=5nv300i3exij6dv1qozokjv16&st=5bm0dv9c&dl=1

If you want to combine SFD Global with Sim Heaven X-World for X-Plane 12, I combined a couple of adaptations in one library.txt, to be put in the SFD Global Autogen folder. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vvc38irtp5vi2r8eq4umc/library.txt?rlkey=pw3i1uagw05eo00zr1zju3a5w&st=rz2qcv47&dl=0 This one works best for me as it includes the Mediterranean area.