IngeniousRocks (They/She)

The only thing that will get me back on windows is the Net Yaroze SDK which came out for windows 95-XP, I have a period accurate airgapped PC for that stuff though.

Straight up piracy - probably only like $3k, if we’re including backups of a personal physical media collection well over 20k.

I don’t care about my distro. The choice I make when decicing on a distribution is entirely based on use case. I have LMDE on my server. I have Mint Cinnamon on my macbook. I use arch when I’m doing minimal installs for basic functionality. I don’t have a distro of choice for ARM, I’ve used rasbian and I use muOS on my rg35xxsp. I’ve been looking at learning gentoo and deploying that for raspberry pi as I have some projects in mind for some micro arcade cabinets and want as little overhead as possible in regards to background processes

Its important when manually installing the Nvidia drivers to remember to blacklist the Open source nouveau driver.

Anyone know if this fixes MSAA? I’m kinda sick of having to override my antialiasing in the Nvidia Xconfig app to force fxaa

AMD drivers are open source and built into the kernel. You should have very little problems with team red on linux. From what I’ve seen the new Intel cards work pretty well too.

Nvidia is known for their problems on Linux.

Home cooked meals are why I can afford to be a housewife!

My partner and I only bring in around 48k/yr and thanks to cooking from scratch for everything its totally a reasonable amount!

I make a loaf of multigrain sourdough every week for our breakfast egg, onion, jalapeno, sandwiches, egg prices included that’s 12 a week for breakfast at the highest. Dinners we use whatever produce is in season, stews and casseroles are most common. We usually end up at around 40/week for dinners.

Add that to the fact that I’m a nerd who can selfhost out services (I run a jellyfin server with all of my physical media backed up to it, so its my Netflix and my Spotify, and idc about piracy so I rip stuff I get from the library too) and were also spending only electricity on media every month… Usually.

Edit: spelling

Stable Distros such as debian hold updates longer for testing, for example the newest Nvidia driver in the Bookworm Stable repo is 530(535 maybe?) wheras rolling release or bleeding edge distros might have up to 570 already.

You’re always able to manually install any software not available in your distribution’s repositories, but beware, in some cases here be dragons. Most of the time these manual installations are trivial, but in the case of Nvidia drivets for example, its VERY important you properly prepare your system, lest you end up in a state without graphics. This is of course, easily repairable, but a pain in the bum and something that can scare away new users.

Originally Ohio, now the American Southwest (I won’t be more specific than that).

Left Ohio a decade ago, never going back that place is terrible. There’s like, no sunlight, gives ya the SADs (seasonal affective disorder) real bad in winter. Life in the desert is nice, basically infinite hiking. I do a different trail every week, usually around 5 miles or so. I’ve got a big 13 mile loop planned with some friends soon, I’m excited.

“These enemies attack and initiate as a group, taking a 5% penalty to calculated damage to account for missed hits in the group”

I had a teacher tell my class one year that you could defeat the markings by running chapstick along the black horizontal lines on the left.

That same teacher said that’s why he didn’t batch feed so that he’d hear the machine try to stamp and fail and know he’d need to hand grade that one.

It is possible to tighten security to the point where the system is unusable. Security and convenience must be balanced. The trick is to create a secure and useful system. ——The Arch Wiki, Security

Seems OP wants to play online only games, disconnecting might make that impossible.

My personal server is how I handle my backups. Currently, they would not be considered good, safe backups as I only have one copy of each but my partner is getting my 16TB of storage to throw into a RAID10 array to migrate the server over so I have actual parity data and can recover things that get borked.

Presently I have 5 TB of storage strewn across a few HDDs, SSDs, and a 0.5TB SD card. Its jank and its held together with spit and prayers, but its mine and I made it.

Obviously, nothing of import gets stored on my server, just backups of my physical media collection, which I still have access to and can backup again if need be.

I don’t even like fedora ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I just thought it’d be easier.

Buddy I’ve got my pronouns in my username please don’t misgender me.

Additionally, your response is needlessly hostile. You’ve offered no additional information and have chosen my comment to be a naysayer on presumably only because it is the top comment on the post. You’ve contributed nothing but vitriol to this thread.

I couldn’t give two shits what distros people use, and I’m not a fucking shill. OP wanted a suggestion, I gave 4. I used tobhse Fedora because it’s easy, with a large community, and with the bleeding edge release cycle the newest libraries became available more easily without enabling testing repositories or using sketchy PPAs that haven’t been vetted.

If OP weren’t noob, and weren’t someone who has already broken a mint install three times I’d have recommended that use something Debian based or Arch based, but they are, so I didn’t.

Historically yes, but this appears to not exactly be the case any longer.

Reference https://github.com/fedora-silverblue/issue-tracker/issues/284

There does appear to be a way to do it, from a cursory glance at the above it seems that Fedora and Windows need to have separate EFI partitions, I’m not all that invested though (I don’t use these distros nor do I dual boot) so I don’t really care to look much deeper.

People seem to love bazzite, is it all its cracked up to be?

I’m happy with my lmde htpc/server/gamingrig/clusterfuck so I’m not planning on changing, but I’ve been in the market for a handheld gaming PC and its been on my list to try.

LMDE (mint sans ubuntu) user here, gaming is a dream, but sometimes a nightmare. You may need eventually to manually update the graphics card driver If you’re on Nvidia, as the debian repos it pulls from are hella out of date. Otherwise, smooth sailing.

You’ll likely only encounter problems on native games, Feral ports specifically seem to assume people have a libraries that they don’t, so I often find myself launching their games in a terminal a million times to figure out what libraries are missing and manually link them or just copy them into the game lib folder.

OP specifically declines to use Linux mint, per their final point in their post. As a 2 decade user who is currently using Mint, OP is right. The windows experience is so handholdey that new users often aren’t familiar with even HOW to research to fix their problems. Mint, a distribution that gives you training wheels but will not hold your hand is not ideal for someone who has already broken it several times, doing activities they didn’t feel were necessary to share.

OP needs an immutable distro.

Based on your last paragraph, you might fall in the supernoob catergory. You’ll want an immutable distribution, you can’t break those Unless you tell it to let you break it.

As a windows user, you’ll find familiarity in Fedora Kionite.

If you prefer a touchscreen oriented experience consider Fedora Silverblue.

There’s a few other options on the page I’m linking, I haven’t tried and therefore can’t recommend either of the others.

https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/

Edit: my formatting was 🗑️

Edit 2, electric boogaloo:

OP in your post you state you want Wallpaper Engine to work, unfortunately, you’ll have issues there. Depending on what you’re trying to accomplish with wallpaper engine you may be able to do the same using KDE Plasma. I personally use a VLC command line call to enable animated wallpapers on my rig, there’s not exactly a standard for it on Linux so many of the solutions you find will be clunky. Just remember if you go around messing with your xorg.conf file you need to have a backup of it so you can undo changes easily in a terminal.

You’re welcome to DM me if you need assistance.