Aglos77

I suppose we’re using different builds of 2024 because I only fly GA in MFS, and to be honest, flying straight into a storm front has no effect on my cessna in real-time weather. 🤔

The weather in MFS isn't scary—that's the reality—neither while flying nor when landing. You have to role-play and do what you would in real life, but in the simulator, there's really no need for that. There’s a lot of work to be done, but honestly, I have serious doubts that they’re actually willing to do anything. I imagine a day with realistic bad weather isn’t very pleasant for more casual players, because honestly, after many years of promises, it’s hard to understand why so many things remain the same.

I bought a computer after going several years without one at home—except for a small work laptop—when the 2020 beta was released. After a couple of years, seeing that despite the promises, the weather simulation wasn’t improving—it was only getting worse—I bought a copy of XP12. Despite having invested a lot of money in 2020 and owning 2023, I do most of my civilian flights in XP12—the main culprit is the weather. With every patch and every update, there are always improvements, but for me, the weather and physics are the main components of the simulation; I suppose others value different things. I hope that someday Asobo takes the weather more seriously; I have some gems in the hangar that I’d like to fly more often.

I’m currently switching back to Windows; my experience with Steam has been very good, and the same goes for Xplane. I’d even considered sticking with OpenSUSE for good – I loved Btrfs – but there’s the Nvidia issue. I’ve been struggling with it for quite a few days; I’ve read everything, but in the end, on my system, Nvidia doesn’t work properly with G06, G07, kernel 6.19 or 6.18 LTS, X11, Wayland, etc. Quite simply, on my system it has issues in Linux when it comes to hibernating or performing a clean shutdown; there was one occasion when I had to unplug the power cable just to get the computer to boot with minimal VGA output. I was just trying out shutdown scripts for systemd as a last resort, but honestly, I’ve run out of patience, especially after scouring the web and reading about so many cases with similar or related issues. I’d install a power strip with a power cut-off switch to ensure the graphics card really does switch off, but my wife also uses the computer and I don’t want it to have a problematic start-up whilst I’m away from home. AMD has a significant advantage over Nvidia on Linux, from what I can see.

The funny thing is that I know plenty of people who complain about Microsoft’s privacy practices and yet use Google’s services every day 😜

My computer is actually more than capable of running X-Plane 12 and DCS smoothly; RAM has never been an issue with Orthos + Simheaven – I’ve never used more than 14 GB. The bottleneck in X-Plane and MFS is still the VRAM. Ultimately, it’s about knowing how to tweak the games and not going overboard with the settings. I’ve switched back to Windows again; I’ve really remembered why I stopped using Linux and FreeBSD at home. When you’re young and enthusiastic, it’s great fun, but now, if I’ve got an hour to enjoy a video game, I don’t fancy spending that hour fiddling about with the operating system – that’s where the folks at Apple have a real advantage.

Until they port it to Vulkan, DCS is a joke on Linux, especially if you're using VR.

You have to give good old J credit here. After spending several days getting almost everything set up – OpenSUSE, X-Plane and AutoOrtho on my machine – I really can’t tell much difference in performance. In the end, what affects X-Plane the most, as always in my case, is the VRAM and multi-threading. I’ve got an i7 11700F, a 3060 Ti with 8GB of VRAM and 16GB of RAM. On the downside, I’m missing out on add-ons like TDS’s Garmin, and I’ll probably have to struggle with more than one complex aircraft. I’m going to stick with OpenSUSE for a while longer because I’m curious to try Steam and other games, but I’m clear that in my particular case, Linux isn’t worth it for gaming – you miss out on too much to gain basically nothing, except spending hours figuring out how to get X-Plane and the rest of the add-ons to run properly (which, deep down, is fun).

I’ve been trying out X-Plane on OpenSUSE for several days now, and to be honest, I’m not sure if it’s worth the hassle of getting everything to work properly

jcom How has DCS been working for you? I understand it doesn't run very smoothly on Linux.

For me, the masterpiece in Airliners for MFS remains Leonardo's MD80.

If it's as good as X-Plane, you'll understand why many of us don't like Inibugs aircraft.

Is there any way to progress from basic GA aircraft to airliners?

Hi I have seen that there are binaries in the latest version of map enhancement for those of you who use Linux.

That is the key.