Thread 11836442

Do you prefer stable or nightly?

>>11836442 (OP)
Nightly every single time. Stable builds are always years out of date I don't understand why theyre even offered, regressions barely ever happen at least not impactful ones.

>>11836445
Stable builds really do need to be hidden away somewhere. Too many uninformed normies just see the word "stable" and assume thats the one they should get and then wonder why they're games don't work/have graphical issues and poor performance.

>>11836442 (OP)
Is the input latency better on Nightly? It's pretty miserable on stable

>>11836442 (OP)
stable. nightly crashes frequently for me

>>11836442 (OP)
Stable is just something they offer as a prank for retards.

>>11836442 (OP)
1.4.0

>>11836445
>regressions barely ever happen
Try emulating ps3 some time.

>>11836454
Say wut?

Incoming normie. I thought stable is at the name implied, that is stable while nightly are latest fixes being made at the expense of possible new bugs being introduced

>>11836442 (OP)
Nightly. I think the case is the same for Dolphin.

>>11838076
"Stable" does _NOT_ mean that dosn't crash or is feature filled, in the world of software "stable" means _unchanging_. You can expect a specific functionality, even if it means you can expect a cretin bug.
Stable branches absolutely have their place, but is not always the best choice depending on what you're doing.

never ever use the "stable" build of any emulator ever, the nightly is always the one to get. In fact I think "stable" builds of emulators are there to filter retards and make them cry about games not working right

I run PCSX2 Nightly on Debian Sid.
I'm just audacious like than in general.

>>11836454
>>11838268
I never knew this. I always see software releases in tiers like
>stable
>beta
>alpha
>nightly
and always thought updates just steadily trickled their way back through and the closer you get to stable the more proven/tested the update is, leaving stable as the most robust and, well, STABLE build as opposed to beta or nightly builds that could be a lot more prone to crashing or bugging out because they're being tested still.

To me, "nightly" always sounded like a build only developers who want to be on the bleeding edge testing brand new unknown shit should download, while "stable" always sounded like the build intended for public use by anyone.

I see the gaslighters are out in full force today

>>11838356
>always thought updates just steadily trickled their way back through and the closer you get to stable
Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. All depends on how said project is ran.
PCSX2 is a bit notorious in particular in going multiple years between stable releases. Where MAME on the other hand has a stable release every 5-6 weeks.
Just got to do a bit of research on a case by case.

>>11837941
Why would anyone do that?

>>11838356
this is exactly what i thought and i have a fucking bachelor of science in computer science

>>11838792
lol wtf man... get a refund on your degree

>>11838887
As with anything, if you don't look something up you don't know. Nobody in any field knows everything. An organic chemist with a PhD might have no idea what to do in inorganic.

>>11836445
Disinfo trolling? Nightly builds are the buggy beta mode for new features, and the latest stable version was just released two days ago

>>11838440
Exactly.