LOL isn’t that the truth. I wanted my desktop to not bother chugging watts through my 3090 and generating excess heat when barely KDE Plasma and a browser is running, but trying to set up GPU offload just left me with a blank terminal screen.
Thank God for the geniuses who implemented Snapper rollbacks in OpenSUSE! Otherwise, the Nvidia drivers in the repos work fine and I’m scared to touch them…
and if it bugs all you can do is wait for the devs to fix it for you.
“Oop, sorry, we only promised 2 major updates! Your 2 year old device is abandoned now.”
–The mobile industry
We need a decently-hardwared Linux phone so badly…
People can do whatever they like, and heck I find CLI intimidating sometimes, but I’m always learning something new a little bit at a time.
I’m tired of seeing it in every field of interest that has any kind of payoff, whether art or FOSS.
“I’m [(almost always) a guy] who (maybe has kids and) has a job. I stopped learning anything after I got my job-paper / degree / highschool diploma. I shouldn’t have to learn anything anymore. I am happy to shell out disposable sad-salary-man money (and maybe my soul idk) to any mega-corp that offers me a “create desired outcome button” without me having to think too much. It’s [current year]! I shouldn’t have to think anymore! Therefore Linux is super behind and only for nerds and I desire its benefits so much that I leave this complaint anywhere these folks gather so they know what I deserve.”
Agh. I gotta go before this rant gets too long lol
Hey, points for Lutris! Thanks for sharing!
I’ve had issues in the past installing stuff with Lutris, although for advanced scenarios like using community engines and stuff, that’s really cool. I definitely have both installed on my machine for different reasons. Lutris handles EA / Origin stuff pretty well. (Titanfall 2 and Sims 2 Ultimate (not the Steam one) run beautifully on Linux, truly glorious!)
Electron annoys me as well, but I will say that I appreciate how Heroic hooks into GoG APIs. It handles auto-updates, cloud saving, play time logging, that kinda stuff that made Galaxy decent and had a degree of convenience-parity with Steam.
(Maybe Lutris does this too now?)
For a complete newbie , I’d say Heroic has a bit of a smoother and expected ramp to just “Download game and run.” But if you want more control, Lutris definitely has more options!
I also can’t recommend Bottles enough for other games that aren’t from distribution platforms. Shockingly simple.
Off the top of my head:
Gmail or any email: Thunderbird is pretty sweet and I need to use it more, but mostly just use the web clients anyway.
If you own GoG games, you can use Heroic Launcher instead of GoG Galaxy. It’s gotten amazingly good, really fast. :)
It was gonna be twins but they deduplicated, so conveniently the one simply holds a reference to the existence of the other one.
Honest question: I thought this limitation was the purpose of exFAT? 🤔
I don’t use it much myself though so I’m not sure.
I can’t help but try to phonetically call it “BUTTERFURSS”. O.o
That was my thought…
“Somehow they got the Plex app installed…”
Jellyfin somehow works on freaking Roku, even, and WELL. Just give the URL to connect to, they pick a profile, and boom, “Netflix who?”.
(Also, unlike Netflix, it’s not BOMBARDING my PiHole with a gazillion telemetry requests per freaking second holy crap NF calm down. It’s a treat when I have something I want to watch on my Jellyfin drives lol.)
maybe I should try my luck with the command line.
Today’s your lucky day! :D Here’s a really simple (and fun) way to start trying it out.
https://linuxjourney.com/lesson/the-shell
Such a lovely site.
Something to remember is that even Linux’s GUI is essentially just “visual shortcuts” for shell commands. Having the terminal open doesn’t necessarily mean mucking about with the complex inner workings of your system. (But you can do that too!)
You can do really simple low-risk things like moving files around, making new text documents, renaming stuff, and starting simple script programs, in your home directory.
Heck, easiest way to make it less intimidating? Update your system with it.
sudo apt update
or
zypper dup or so on. (Depending on distro)
rm to remove stuff is the scary command that’s worth treating with great respect. Get in the habit now of double checking yourself before slamming enter. I usually move (mv) things I intend to delete to my /tmp/ directory so I have a chance to fix it, or else it just erases on next reboot.
Oh, and lastly, we’ve all done it and those who say “Well I never” are lying…but try to avoid copy pasting commands you don’t recognize from the internet into your terminal! (Many forum replies are just like “try this long complicated one-liner to fix your issue!”)
Harmful commands can be hidden in text weirdly enough. There’s examples online but it blew my mind how that was possible. So at the very least, type it out yourself, and it couldn’t hurt doing a quick lookup to see what it’s supposed to do before committing to it.
The Linux community is often super helpful and lovely, but old posts could potentially be poisoned by bad actors and such, so keep your head up out there. :)
Not gonna lie before I read your handle I thought these were all named after ways of passively-aggressively clearing your throat. 😂
“error: hostname must not be left blank.” lol
I just read this as:
you’re sat in front of a CEO
the fun stops.
Agreed. Lol
“Have you been to the cloud district lately? Oh what am I saying, of course you haven’t!”
Ha! Clever and humerus!
Like after specific Terminator models, or characters or…?
Lol just had a funny thought:
“What’s the server’s name?”
“Max”
T800@localhost: ping Wolfie
PING Wolfie (192.168.1.10): 65 bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.123 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.110 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.115 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.118 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.121 ms
--- Wolfie ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.110/0.117/0.123 ms
“Your server is pwned…”
Slightly unrelated but when my family was remodeling our kitchen in the home I grew up in, we pulled the oven out and found the side of the cabinet had an interesting scrawl on it that must’ve been from one of the builders:
“When you’re out of Schlitz, you’re out of beer.”
I found it so amusing wondering what the motive behind that was. So I guess your hostnames kinda reminded me of hidden beer-related tradesman graffiti. XD
One possibility could be because in conventional “computer counting” in (most) coding languages, it starts at zero. Like if I make an array of things
[]
monke would be []
chimp would be[]
peanut would be []
Once I learned about this concept I started naming enumerated things from 0 usually just to keep a kind of consistency. Maybe I think if it’s a habit, I won’t make those mistakes as often with code. I dunno. :p
Lol your arr stack.
"Jen what did you do?! I told you never open that door!"
Saaame. There was a while there where Wayland didn’t work on the repo version so I had to go full manual, but otherwise it’s been almost perfect now, Wayland and all.