They didn’t say Ireland wasn’t an island because of it… But, for the record, Canada isn’t an island anyway so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I really can’t answer that either I’m afraid, as I’m using one of the “gaming distros” (Garuda Linux) and just haven’t had anything but good luck with it really. I tried Bazzite on my laptop, but was having some nvidia driver issues and decided to try Garuda before diving into trying to fix it and, well, Garuda “just worked”. The last general use distro I used was Manjaro probably 5ish years ago and I hated it, had nothing but troubles (and have since learned that Manjaro is kind of notorious for falling apart).
you have to change the init configurations for every single game you download (even if it’s just for enabling gamemode)
I haven’t had to do this for a single game I’ve played. Am I lucky? What does “gamemode” do? (Am I missing out on something?)
The worst I’ve had to do to get a game to work was change to “Proton Experimental” in the compat settings for one game that had basically just launched. (I also remember the EA launcher being terrible when I played “It Takes Two” with my partner, but I don’t remember what was terrible about it and also remember them having problems on Windows so I don’t know if it should count or not, lol). My partner is still using Windows, and we game together a lot, and honestly I think they have games crash far more often than I do. Games take longer to launch for me though - “Processing Vulkan Shaders” takes up to a minute or two if it is the first launch since boot of a larger game. No idea what happens if I skip it, so I don’t.
It’s honestly been such a breath of fresh air, I am so grateful for the talented people making this shit work so well, especially in the last several years.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search resultsEnglish4·1 month agoI’ve never thought about it until now, so thanks for that…
I’ve said it in my head as “Seer” and then the letters X N G. I didn’t even CONSIDER part of it is supposed to sound like “search”…
Crozekiel@lemmy.zipto Linux@lemmy.ml•Found my new favorite Linux laptop manufacturer/jEnglish15·1 month agoThat “about” page is fucking wild. They spend like half the page sucking themselves off over how great of a job they did designing their own logo, and then the other half telling the user the proper way to reference the company and its products. I really want to spend some time on the live chat breaking all the rules, like not capitalizing every letter of their name…
Crozekiel@lemmy.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to NotepadEnglish4·2 months agoI use Notepad on my work computer daily. I never save any documents, but it is handy for a quick copy/paste of info I need for a short period of time. We aren’t allowed to install anything on the computers, so it’s what is available.
I could live without it, but I do find it marginally useful, basically as digital “scrap paper”.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zipto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from LemmyEnglish1·2 months agoI personally love Alexandrite.app as a UX. I’m so used to it that I get confused when I follow a link and see a default Lemmy instance, lol.
Welcome! So happy to see new converts, and even more when they have an “it went well” story!
Crozekiel@lemmy.zipto News@lemmy.world•What the US PornHub ‘ban’ is really aboutEnglish3·3 months agoI didn’t know that… That’s even worse. It is probably a company already setup to share data with Texas officials for the purpose of oppression.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zipto News@lemmy.world•What the US PornHub ‘ban’ is really aboutEnglish2·3 months agoThese states didn’t block pornhub, pornhub blocked these states. Those states passed laws that would require legitimately operated adult sites to check ID at entry and then worry about keeping that information secure against breaches. This is more likely step 1 for those states to taking legal action against websites they deem are “adult oriented” for mentioning Queer people existing and not checking ID first.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zipto Linux@lemmy.ml•Discord's native linux screensharing is now on the stable branch.English3·3 months agoI’ve been using that for ages to share my screen, but it doesn’t bring over the audio which can be annoying, but otherwise works great. I am sure there are ways to get the audio into it, but it felt like it would be more trouble than it was worth.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zipto Games@lemmy.world•what was the last game you played in 2024?English2·3 months agoSame! I’ve got over 200 hours in so far. It scratches that itch so well.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft closes the door on Windows 11 supporting older hardwareEnglish131·4 months agoThose people that don’t know options exist are also people that don’t care about or know about support life for something like the OS - they just see it as what the computer comes with. Most of them probably wouldn’t have upgraded from 7 to 10 without it just doing it itself. A lot of them will just keep using 10 well past the end of support.
Also, I really enjoyed Railcar’s subversion of expectations with all that lead up to what we all assumed was a Linux recommendation to end up being pirated windows. That got a chuckle out of me. I feel like the haters didn’t get the joke.
Wait, what happened to Ondsel? I’ve been using it for the last several months as it just seemed to make more sense than FreeCAD did…
Crozekiel@lemmy.zipto News@lemmy.world•Americans in Puerto Rico can't vote for US president. Their anger at Trump is shaping the raceEnglish1·5 months agoYou make it sound like Puerto Rico is some tax haven where they don’t pay the federal government anything, but Puerto Rico pays more in total federal taxes than 6 US states.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zipto Games@lemmy.world•Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pagesEnglish101·5 months agoI’ve been shouting from the rooftops for years that this stuff is malware. I’m not the only one. No one listens.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zipto News@lemmy.world•Americans in Puerto Rico can't vote for US president. Their anger at Trump is shaping the raceEnglish5·5 months agoExcept we made an exception for citizens that reside in Washington DC. They have no representative in the senate, but were given 3 electoral college votes for president and vice president.
So we totally can (and have) extended the right to vote to citizens living outside one of the 50 states to vote, we just won’t for Puerto Rico. :(
Crozekiel@lemmy.zipto News@lemmy.world•Americans in Puerto Rico can't vote for US president. Their anger at Trump is shaping the race19·5 months agoState or not I think its pretty ridiculous that they are american citizens but can’t vote for president of the united states… People living in DC get to vote and aren’t living in a state.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•Windows Recall is secretly installed and enabled on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare)English50·6 months agoWindows 10 on day 1 was still ‘calling home’ and recommending candy crush in the start menu as I recall. I had to dig into the registry to gut the windows store from it entirely to get windows 10 to act how i want an OS to act. Windows 7 was the last good windows IMO.
I made the leap 2 years ago on both my gaming desktop and laptop. Running Garuda Linux and have loved it. The only ‘hole’ I’ve run into is fusion360 - i just can’t figure out freecad and autodesk really don’t seem to want their software running under wine…