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Pop!_OS in early 2023, I used it for about 3 weeks before my bootloader broke so bad even Pops own recovery tool couldn't fix it. I went back to Windows 10 for another month before trying again with EndeavourOS and haven't had to use Windows since.
Funnily the thing that triggered me to install Linux on a spare SSD was I couldn't play Battlefield 4 on my Windows install anymore because the EA app randomly stopped working even after reinstalling the whole thing, Got the EA app and BF4 working on Pop within an hour.
I've only had like 3 games from FitGirl not work fine installing with Lutris.
2 of them needed some dependency like .NET installed first, and only one I could get working at all but the DODi version worked fine.
Everyone kept telling me Wine sucks even before I switch to Linux. But I've had it work fine a lot more times than not, even for some old obscure software that barely works on Windows 10 anymore.
I'm still a relative newcomer and switched fully in 2023 after having zero experience with Linux before that year.
I feel like I've only just gotten comfy with regular Linux and don't feel like reworking my setup around the quirks of an atomic distro.
And if you count the Steamdecks "SteamOS" then the only time I've remembered it isn't standard Arch is when it's "atomicness" is forcing me to do workarounds for something that I can easily do on my Arch based desktop.
But I'd give NixOS a try if their docs page didn't block my VPN when literally no other FOSS or Corpo site does...
Honestly might be the other way around for me. I was mainly a multiplayer guy for the longest time but most franchises I was invested in quickly went down the drain and a lot of the newer battle-royal style shooters didn't appeal to me.
Started mainly playing older games that had been on my backlog for a while. And videos of the Steamdeck running them games started popping up.
So since I already hated Windows 10 from the start and I didn't need my PC to run the latest AAA multiplayer games anymore, seemed like a better time than ever to switch.
I still play some multiplayer with Battlefield 4 and Battlebit Remastered. (R.I.P Battlefield 1 and Ironsight on Linux though...)
EndeavourOS because someone said it was Arch for lazy people, and I'm a lazy people.
I did use vanilla Arch before for a while, but just ended up being more work for the same setup with more issues from stuff like missing dependencies I didn't have to worry about with Endeavour.
Only other distro I've used was Pop!_OS when I first tried out Linux.
Just without the ridiculous tie.
The Simpsons.
There's something new to see every time! I've only just got back into watching the early seasons again recently.
Heavily depends on the game and how the patches are installed.
If the patch comes as an exe, on Lutris next to the Play button you'll find a wine glass icon with a menu next to it, you can use 'Run EXE inside Wine prefix' to run the patch installer and I've had it work most of the time. Sometimes you'll need a .NET dependency which you can install through Winetricks using the same menu.
A lot of patches for older games require DLL files which you have to manually declare in Wine, One again in that Wine glass menu you'll fine 'Wine Configuration' and in the Libraries tab of that, you declare what DLLs you need to "override".
I don't play either of those games you mentioned but I mainly play and mod older games these days and had pretty good luck running 95% of them through Lutris. You just sometimes have to find workarounds.
Think most people just use ROM as a catch all for "console video game format" these days.
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As a Librewolf user I wouldn't make it default for casual users this kind of distro is aiming for. Sure enabling logins to use it as a main browser is piss easy, but that's still more work than the average person wants to put into setting up their system.
Waterfox would be the better choice since it's just default Firefox in every way besides Mozilla's spyware.
Gives me more Windows 8 flashbacks than Mac.
An interface that works well on touchscreens, but feels clunky on mouse and keyboard and the general theming of it looks more phone like than a desktop PC. Gnome itself being harder to theme doesn't help with that.
That being said I'd pick Gnome over all else for touch devices. I threw it on an old Surface 3 and it worked better than the original Win8 interface.
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I know at least one person who said they use Googles DNS because it stopped them getting pissy letters from their ISP.
Some people only care about privacy to the point were they don't see the immediate consequences for their actions.
I've been using DDG since 2016 and never felt it was worse in terms of "search quality" than Google.
Especially nowadays I hear friends whine near weekly about Google, but it's still somehow "better than DDG".
Honestly people just make excuses not to change what they're use to. Even if what they're used to has changed around them for the worse.
My only real complain I have is I wish 'search by date range' was less finicky use and also worked in the image tab like it does in Google images.
If you still like the workflow of VS Code and just want it without the Microsoft Ai and spyware crap, Then you got Vscodium.
It's basically the open-source code of VS Code compiled without the invasive M$ stuff.
I've been wanting to abandon ship for years, but sadly convincing the average gamer is another story.
Which is the main reason most of us are stuck using it if we want to talk to friends.
It's not really an issue for the end user. But it's basically made for companies to take advantage of free hobbyist developers without needing to give anything back in return.
So if you're the kind of person who runs to foss software to get away from corporate tech bull, having a license that benefits companies more than users just kinda feels scummy.
My ex had one of them RGB everything rainbow gamer PCs.
Windows would auto boot to update in the middle of the night and turn the whole apartment into a rave...
The only time I did was WAY back during the launch of Firefox Quantum. It was a huge back-end change pushed overnight to the main branch, breaking most extensions including one I similar couldn't live without at the time. I even switched to PaleMoon for a while until everything sorted itself out.
Been using LibreWolf for almost 2 years now which does a good job at gutting all the parts of Firefox updates I don't want.
Lately it's been sifting through IMDB collections to find movies to watch.
That or I check the groups I'm in to see what I'm late to the party on now.
Archives of video game mods?
Honestly the old ModPiracy subreddits were more useful for finding de-listed mods from bigger modding sites like Nexus than bypassing any paywalls.
But Reddit seems to have cracked down particularly hard on them lately so where's the next best place to go for this sort of thing? I'm mainly asking for a friend who's trying to hunt down an old Minecraft mod currently.
Swapping out my Nvida card for AMD. Anything I should know about before hand?
I just got hold of an AMD RX7800 XT to replace my current Nvidia RTX3080.
I'm likely overthinking this but from what I understand I should just be able to swap the cards then uninstall the Nvidia drivers correct?
I'm running EndeavourOS which I installed with the option to include the Nvidia drivers by default so dunno if that changes anything? I've been daily driving Linux for exactly a year as of this month but I still kinda feel like a newbie sometimes lmao. Thanks in advance!
(Update) I got my AMD card installed and loaded up Wayland with no issues, only thing I had to install was the AMD Vulkan drivers for Steam.
Is Debian with automatic updates a good idea?
So a while back I threw Ubuntu 22 LTS on an old Surface Pro 3 and gave it to my Dad.
He loves it, but he's the type who's been burnt by updating software in the past, so he basically refuses any whenever prompted.
Been thinking about throwing Debian with Gnome on it for a while, and wondering if it's stable enough to just let updates happen automatically in the background?
I got no experience with Debian I basically jumped right on EndeavourOS as my main distro when I started using Linux full time.
T7Patch for Black Ops 3 now works on Linux!
About a week late to post this but someone could probably use this info.
This is a community made patch to fix serious issues playing Black Ops 3 online everything from stuttering in menus to RCEs, it's basically a requirement even if you're just playing zombies with friends.
The latest version no longer requires you to run an exe along side the game and is officially supported on Linux now.
(Solved!) Data recovery, point me in the right direction?
I've been on Linux for close to a year but I'm still kinda a newbie and the past 40 something hours have been really testing me.
I had my 4tb backup HDD break on me in a strange way, it still mounts and at first glance seems to still be working, But KDE throws an error saying the drive won't mount (even tho it is?) and I'm unable to copy files from it using Gui or Term commands it just freezes up without throwing an error message, It also freezes after using Ls more than once or twice on it.
Now last night I used clonezilla to copy the entire drive to a portable HDD of the same size, now that drive is giving me the same issue. So I'm assuming it's a software issue and not the drive itself? at least for the 2nd drive.
I already tried fsck to no avail and I'm abit stumped on where to go from there. Any help would be great!
Edit: Should also add the drives EXT4
Update: At the directions of a Gentoo nerd I know. I'm currently in a live boot of Ubuntu copying files to anothe
Tuning keys upgrade recommendation?
I got this Harley Benton DC Junior a few years ago and it's been my main axe since.
Only issue is it has the worse tuning stability of any guitar I've owned, Not only going out of tune but getting it to correct pitch can be spotty in the first place.
Any ideas for replacement tuning machines? I've already replaced the nut with a graphtech one a while back and it only slightly helped when tuning up. I also don't mind drilling new screw holes if need be.
DeckMTP working in April 2024?
I just got Deck a few days ago. At first I was trying to sync files (Minecraft worlds, Gamesaves etc) using Syncthing but my WiFi was too spotty for it to work consistently and kept disconnecting. It also makes downloading games take forever, I can download a 30gb game in around 2+ hours on my wired desktop but it took almost half a day to download the same game on my Deck.
I eventually found DeckMTP which lets you just copy files over USB C like you would do on your phone. But even after switching my Bios USB setting to DRD it still wouldn't connect to my Linux desktop.
Apparently some SteamDeck bios update broke the DeckMTP plugin? But I'm finding a lot of conflicting information on the cause and solutions online, People saying it still works fine or that I have to update the bios manually or downgrade it to a previous version. Please tell me someone here knows what's going on? Thanks in advance!
First real Arch user moment
(Bonus update) I'm back on KDE6 and it's actually working! I ran Cinnamon for about a day before missing KDE and tried a fresh install of EndeavourOS. It worked fine, Wayland still doesn't work but I'm only getting minor bugs with x11 compared to when I tried to update from 5.27
(Update) Well finally back on my desktop but sadly not on my original install, Thanks for all the help and advice! Sadly every path just sent me into another brick wall, I'm starting to think my drive itself is physically failing as I couldn't mount it in chroot and even had trouble reformatting it...I'll keep an eye on it and not save anything important to it.
I've decided I'm just not cut out for vanilla Arch just yet and gone back to Endeavour but this time with Cinnamon (for now) Thanks again!
After upgrading to KDE 6 and experiencing too many bugs for it to be useable for me I went back to a snapshot I made right before upgrading.
Now I've spent half my Friday tracking down different syste
Lutris/Wine outputting audio to disabled audio devices.
(Solution) I was missing lib32-libpulse from my install, I guess it was a default on EndeavourOS and that's why I never knew about it.
I have both my monitors in-build speakers disabled within KDEs audio panel and have my FiiO USB DAC set as the default audio output.
But games running through Lutris are still outputting audio through my monitor and won't detect my DAC, even cycling through the outputs in game won't show the correct one. I've tried forcing the audio output using the Wine Configuration panel on Lutris and it seems to do nothing.
This is on a fresh Arch install using pipewire, I never had this issue running the same games with the same system setup on Pop_OS or EndeavourOS.
Hopefully someone has a fix, Thanks in advance!
Steam Black Ops 3 white texture bug
I've been playing Black Ops 3 through Proton just fine until a few days ago some of the textures mainly transparent ones like glass turned bright white, It happened after I switch from running the game on GE-Proton 8-9 to 8-25.
I've tried everything I could think of, switching back to 8-9 and regular Proton Experimental, manually clearing the vulkan cache and even reinstalling the whole game after making sure no files were left over.
Any ideas how to fix this? I am using an Nvidia GPU, which is normally the cause of my problems...
Other dual panel file managers similar to Krusader?
I've been using Krusader for a few months after looking for something similar to Double Commander which I used years ago, It's been mostly great but I've been having a few issues mainly when transferring or archiving larger files.
I've found making zip & tar archives with in Krusader takes a lot longer than doing so in Dolphin, Also I've recently been having issues when trying to copy or move large amounts of data to separate drives, last night I had a transfer fail on me twice then take a lot longer than expected when I finally fixed that issue.
I've already looked back at double commander and some of it's forks but stuff like most of them lacking a dark mode has been putting me off using them regularly. I'd ideally like it to be Qt based to it fits my KDE theming, But running a GTK program isn't a deal breaker for me.
Any advice or ideas would be great thanks in advance!