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- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 8 hours ago:
Helldivers works fine on Linux, I play it from time to time.
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 8 hours ago:
Ms office windows apps are kind of great compared to libreoffice
Did you give OnlyOffice a try? flathub.org/apps/org.onlyoffice.desktopeditors
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 8 hours ago:
VS Code (i know it’s still MS but I do C# .NET work and rider is too expensive, I don’t want a subscription for an IDE)
VSCodium is a thing too if you want to un-Microsoft even further.
I use it for C# development on Linux and it works well.
getting a password manager
Bitwarden and Keepass are usually the go tos, depending on your use case.
then a new browser
Firefox or if you want to decouple from Mozilla as well, Librewolf works pretty well.
potentially a Google pay replacement
I’m not aware of any open Google Pay replacements other than taking a card with you.
As soon as you get rid of Google on your phone, you get rid of Google Pay.
- Comment on Monitoring OPNSense Logs with Grafana Loki 1 day ago:
You had me at “No Java”.
- Comment on Man, I really slept on Days Gone (mini review) 1 day ago:
I never heard of this game until it came out on Steam but I bought it on launch and was not disappointed. Really fun game.
Also, I noticed that the remaster update dropped today. Might just hop back in.
- Comment on Metro 2033 Redux is free to claim on GOG for the next two days 1 week ago:
The Redux upgrade is available for $20 or with an active Switch 2 Online Membership*.
*Additional charges may apply; dedicated servers not included
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
I assume you tried adding a new printer through KDE? There’s usually no driver needed if all you need to do is simply print/scan.
Does it fail with both options?
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
Which one, Bedrock or Java?
For Bedrock there is an unofficial launcher: flathub.org/apps/io.mrarm.mcpelauncher (Disclaimer: Never tried it)
For Java there is the offical launcher: flathub.org/apps/com.mojang.Minecraft
Alternatively, for Java, there is also the much better unofficial launchers like Prism: flathub.org/apps/org.prismlauncher.PrismLauncher
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #9 3 weeks ago:
Played a few hours of Last of Us 2 last night. Ran pretty well (80-100fps) on highest settings in native 1440p but with a 7900 XTX I can of course just brute force through it.
Surprisingly, the game ran flawlessly out of the box. Didn’t need to add the SteamDeck=1 variable like in the other newer Sony games.
Does not run with Proton-Tkg for some reason, so no HDR for now.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 3 weeks ago:
I don’t really mind tinkering with it, already know my ways with emulation on PC. However, I have no knowledge on Linux and that’s what worries me a bit.
If you know your way around PC emulation, you’re not going to have any problems. EmuDeck takes care of installing all emulators. You only have to manually add your key files, firmware, BIOS, etc. It works just like on Windows and the KDE desktop is in many ways identical to Windows.
You might also want to check out KDE Connect. It is pre-installed on the Deck and can pair with your PC for remote input, file sharing, etc.: kdeconnect.kde.org
So the Steam Deck can run the PS2 emulation and play these games (just as the PC can?).
Yes, the Deck is an emulation beast. Finished Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, Ico, Wind Waker HD and Echoes of Wisdom entirely on the Deck.
Most of the games of the Switch I’d like to play are the Mario games. I can name them all if necessary but will do it later (at the moment at work).
The less demanding games like the Mario Party games and Mario Kart run with no issues in all emulators.
For more demanding games like Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey, you might want to grab the last yuzu EA AppImage that released. You can find it quite easily by searching but you can also DM me if you need it.
For reference, the last release was version 4176 with an MD5 checksum of 9f20b0e6bacd2eb9723637d078d463eb.
Can the Steam Deck run Breath of the Wild without issue?
There are 3 ways to play Breath of the Wild on the Deck:
- Ryujinx/Ryubing (installed by EmuDeck out of the box)
- yuzu (no longer available)
- Cemu (the Wii U version)
I spent dozens of hours in Breath of the Wild on the Deck in yuzu to collect a few Koroks when I’m bored. Since I dumped my savegames from my switch, I just started where I left it on my Switch.
Ryujinx unfortunately struggles running Breath of the Wild, it runs the most demanding areas at about 20 fps. Which is on par with how the Switch natively runs the game but yuzu can reach 30 fps easily in those areas. Ryujinx also has quite severe shader stuttering when first entering an area, which yuzu does not have.
Cemu runs the game flawlessly, but it is the Wii U version. Doesn’t make much difference which version you play on PC since you can mod either to look good. I just played on yuzu because my savegame was from my Switch.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 3 weeks ago:
Death Stranding really clicked for me when “Bones” by “Low Roar” in the first real delivery mission comes on. Takes slightly more than an hour to get there and even then, it definitely is not a game for everyone.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 3 weeks ago:
Heavy emulator user here, the Deck made my Switch obsolete but I did play Tears of the Kingdom on my PC so I can run it at 60fps. On the Deck, ToTK can struggle to reach even 30 in many areas without community modpacks. Smaller titles like the latest Zelda and Metroid run flawless.
However, the Deck can also run every other console up until Switch/PS3/Xbox 360 as well as my full Steam and GOG library and it has a full desktop on it.
If you don’t mind the tinkering to get the emulators configured, the Deck is a no-brainer for me.
If you want to save some money, you can also get the smaller Steam Deck. It is trivially easy to swap the SSD if you later decide you need more storage.
- Comment on Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users 3 weeks ago:
- jellyfin didn’t like when files used periods instead of spaces.
At least that can’t be the problem since my entire library (except music) uses periods instead of spaces.
Then again, I spent quite some time organizing my library when I first started using Radarr and Sonarr. Ever since those manage my library I had no issues in Jellyfin.
- Comment on Is Baldurs Gate 3's voice acting so great that it ruined other games for me? 3 weeks ago:
BOY
- Comment on Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users 4 weeks ago:
Wow, I haven’t used Plex in years. This reads like some Windows 11 installation guide with all those checkmarks and hidden options.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #7 4 weeks ago:
I really wish GOG would do more to support Linux and the Deck. I started buying a little bit more there ever since Heroic came around but overall the Steam experience is still vastly superior.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 4 weeks ago:
I thought the human operators only steps in when the emergency button is pressed or when the car gets stuck?
Do they actually get driven by people in normal operation?
- Comment on Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be? 5 weeks ago:
Hardware MIGHT be controlled by signal RGB
OpenRGB to the rescue: flathub.org/apps/org.openrgb.OpenRGB
controlling the pump in my AIO?
What do you need to control about your pump? I sure hope it works without OS support.
Or the sound levels on ny headset?
Move the volume slider up or down?
Or the DPI in my mouse?
Save them to the mouse as profile if it can or use Piper: flathub.org/apps/org.freedesktop.Piper
in AMD you lose access to certain features like AMFM2
FSR Frame Gen works just fine, not sure why you need fake frames in more games.
the FOSS solutions are not industry standard, so sure, I can learn to use LibreOffice, but that’s worth absolutely nothing when you apply for a corporate job and they expect you to know how to use outlook as a bare minimum
There is also OnlyOffice and online MS Office. Not sure what you need to know about Outlook to open it and use your eyes to read the mails.
even the Google office suite is being adopted faster
Good news, it runs in a browser and works on every OS!
Ah, but if the software is available there’s still a chance it doesn’t work because it’s missing a dependency or something and you have to ask people to use the terminal and… Sigh
I have not fixed dependencies issue on Linux since the early 2000s. Flatpaks are your friend flathub.org .
All in all, it’s just behind in many ways, sure, for some people it’s ok, and for laptops I’d think is mostly ok, great even.
I run it on my high end PC and I disagree. It’s ahead in many ways.
- The graphics drivers are included and don’t need any bloated software to work
- It has a banger OpenGL driver, which makes games like Minecraft run significantly faster.
- It has a very active community for game support for games where the developer does not care
- It translates older DirectX versions to Vulkan automatically, resulting in a performance uplift and more stability. People on Windows are installing DXVK just so older games work. Look up DXVK in the Steam forums.
- It downloads shader caches from Valve, preventing shader stutter in games that don’t do it on their own
That list could go on for a while and it’s only for gaming.
I haven’t even gone into installation and not having to run ShutUp10 every time just to make the OS usable. Or how KDE is so much cleaner than Windows. Or how I don’t have any ads in my start menu, don’t have to force download Candy Crush on first boot, don’t have pre-installed apps I can’t remove, don’t have to block my own OS in its firewall to get rid of telemetry, don’t have to be told that I need to upgrade to Windows 11 constantly.
For work: Docker just works, complex networking setups are not a pain to setup, creating VMs is so much easier and has so many more features. VPN is so seamlessly setup. I can read almost every file system on the planet and use ROCm without jumping through hoops. Not to mention I don’t get Copilot and Recall shoved down my throat.
Are there issues on Linux? Sure, lots of them. But if I find them I can tell somebody about it and don’t have to deal with them for centuries.
I’m rooting for Steam OS to release to desktops because my living room PC is LITERALLY just for gaming, so that “could” work nicely.
SteamOS is just a modern Linux distro with Steam pre-installed and in autostart. If stuff works there, it works on regular Linux just as well.
Bazzite achieves the same thing right now: bazzite.gg
- Comment on Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be? 5 weeks ago:
Why not install Linux for them once Windows 10 is dead?
They are a prime candidate for a dead simple Linux distro with the “Web”, “Mail” and “Documents” shortcuts on the desktop and nothing else. Can’t get a virus, can’t get scammed by fake Microsoft support and most won’t even notice.
I have installed Fedora Kinoite for my mom and have had zero complaints.
- Comment on Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be? 5 weeks ago:
Your best shot is with Monado, which supports the Rift S: monado.freedesktop.org
I only have an Index, so I can’t speak for how well it works or how easy it is to setup.
- Comment on Qobuz reveals how much it really pays per stream, and I want to see more of this transparency to help us spend money more ethically 5 weeks ago:
MQA was so weird, replacing a perfectly fine lossless open codec with a proprietary lossy codec. Also, so many people suddenly telling you that MQA sounds better than FLAC.
I once wrote a downloader for Tidal and always “downgraded” to 16-bit FLAC when I detected the “high quality” version is in MQA format.
- Comment on The new 3B "fully open source" model from AMD 1 month ago:
I disagree, LLMs have been very helpful for me and I do not see how an open source AI model trained with open source datasets is detrimental to society.
- Comment on The new 3B "fully open source" model from AMD 1 month ago:
I’ll bite, what is malicious about this?
- Comment on Results of the 2024 Reddit Anime Awards 1 month ago:
I didn’t know what One Piece Fan Letter was since I’m stuck somewhere in the Wano arc but I just watched it and it’s really good.
Can recommend if you watched One Piece until the time skip.
- Comment on What host names do you use? 1 month ago:
You are missing the Muse for your Poet. :D
- Comment on "One Punch Man" Season 3 New Key Visual, PV, Reveals October Premiere 1 month ago:
Consecutive Normal Punches
- Comment on Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70% 1 month ago:
It’s a credit or debit card where you can change the number any time. Prevents shady online shops from loosing your credit card details. Revolut and N26 offer it for example.
Of course, the shop still has to accept credit/debit cards or you have to go though PayPal as guest.
- Comment on Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70% 1 month ago:
You are telling me you are paying via PayPal without involving the banking industry?
I have the choice to either tell PayPal and my bank what I’m buying or just my bank. I chose the latter.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 1 month ago:
I once got banned for “vote brigading” on Reddit because I upvoted a crosspost that was deleted later, so this comes as no surprise. They have been monitoring upvotes and downvotes since forever.
- Comment on Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70% 1 month ago:
Do you need one?
I recently deleted my PayPal account and use a virtual credit card instead.
So far no issues with paying. In the rare case that credit card is not available you can always pay without account in PayPal via credit card.
