open source developers are an inexhaustible source of unending miracles that work for free and are fueled by incoherent, conflicting, entitled demands from 14 year olds.

Ah, I see you’re a Bazzite user

e: (No offense to the Bazzite user, I’m sure you’re a special little guy and not at all a problem.)

and on linux, the ‘sync’ command will manually flush the buffers if you’re worried about buffered data not being written to the drive.

It gets weirder the longer you look at it.

Sure, let’s just say the guy was overzealous with the (silicone caulk? lol) adhesive compound. Maybe the white cord is DC power, replacing the battery… but the red wire that’s right beside the ‘power’ wire is a USB cable plugged into the phone’s USB port.

What is plugged into the other end? It’s Zalgo isn̴̝̂’̶̯̾ṭ̷̆ ̶̫̈i̷̹̚t̴̩̉?̶͊͜

Honestly, if someone is just looking to get started cheap and easy, buying a pi and installing pi hole is a great first project that has immediate positive returns. Adding more services can be easy (if you used containers) and expanding to add more services is cheap.

Then, when you decide to spring for a server box, those Pis can still be useful as home automation devices. For example, they can control a decent amount of programmable LED strip lighting. Attached to a sensor shield, a solar panel and battery it can do atmospheric monitoring outside (while also controlling your driveway lighting) while being easy to integrate into HomeAssistant.

If you need to retire it, you can throw some emulators on it (retropi), load it up with a few thousand ROMs and donate it to a place that buys kids toys for holidays/their birthday.

Super key for DE keybinds or other global hotkeys. Nothing uses it so you don’t have to worry about collisions.

My NAS is a steam library, some games will even run off of it perfectly fine. It’s mostly to free up space on my SSDs with games that I’m not actively playing.

They did say the word driver, yes.

That is in no way evidence that their current problem is a problem with their gpu driver.

Inside the word install is the implication that they installed and configured lot of things in addition to the driver. Considering that the game launches but fails to play some multimedia file it’s incredibly unlikely to be a low level problem like an incorrect driver. This is typically a missing proprietary codec or library inside of the wine environment.

By default ctrl-b ctrl b is how you access the remote tmux. It can be more comfortable to use a custom bind though.

It’s not too late son, turn away from the dark side. May the terminal be with you

Oh, right now I’m sure that it is way easier to use the mouse, because most people have been practicing using the mouse and a GUI for years and years. Once you’ve had practice with the terminal and autocomplete you can do most tasks fast far quicker.

Staring at this browser, see how long it would take you to grab your mouse, click the file explorer, navigate to /etc/, and then locate and open the fstab file (there are over 100 files and directories in this directory). 10 seconds? 15?

I’m using a terminal called yakuake and it’s bound to F12. So if I press F12, a terminal window slides down in the top middle of my screen. It’s always on top as long as it is visible so nothing can take focus away. To do the same task I press: F12, type “cat /et” <tab key>“fs”<tab key> <enter key>. If I wanted to edit it, I’d type nvim instead of cat. If I wanted to copy it somewhere I’d type cp instead of cat and then press, at the end of the previous command: “./pro”<tab key>.

If it’s a command that I’ve typed before, I can press CTRL+R in the terminal and it will open a search of my terminal command history. I can start typing part of the command and the search results will show me the top 25 commands that (fuzzy) matches what I’ve typed, I can press up and down to select the command I’m after, enter to put it into the command line.

Once you’re in the mindset of thinking about problems from a terminal point of view there are a lot of useful applications. If you’d rather move files in a GUI-like experience (a TUI) you can use nnn, a TUI file manager. Still have to use a mouse to change music? Run mpd and ncmpcpp. nvim gives you a text editor, tmux the ability to open multiple terminal sessions inside of the terminal.

Much like switching to Linux from Windows, it takes a bit of learning initially but that little bit of learning will pay dividends.

Welcome back to terminal land. Pick up basic tmux (attach, detach, change session, open/change panes, scroll/copy/paste), it really helps when you need to type a command and also read the output of another command or config file.

For example, pressing ctrl-b % splits the window into two panes. So you can read the man page for a command and then use ctrl-b and left/right arrow to swap between panes. Now you’re back to 'alt-tab’ing between windows without the need for a mouse.

Adobe, uhg. AutoCAD is another one that you’ll run into that just can’t work on Linux. Our engineers all use Linux at home but have to use Windows 11 in order to use AutoCAD.

I’ve tried a few different pre-packaged distros but was never happy. So, I just build everything on Arch. It’s only frustrating to install the first 37 times and I get as clean a system as I can without going the Gentoo route and compiling everything specifically for my hardware. I’m using a 20TB ZFS array served over NFS to my wireguard clients. Then various container things (pihole, jellyfin, sonarr/radarr/qbittorrent, etc).

I was going to virtualize Windows, but I can play all of the games on Linux and the ones that I can’t won’t work in virtualization for the same reason that they won’t work on Linux.

It’s a lot to learn, but the knowledge is more durable than learning where Microsoft has moved the menu option to in this version (or learning the new arcane method of summoning the old menu from the nether realm.)

I have the FRL issue.

Every time I wake up my monitors, my second monitor acts like the cable is disconnecting and reconnecting every few seconds. I hotkeyed a script to re-set my display (disabling the display and then re-enabling it) which fixes it temporarily (until my monitors sleep).

I had the Darktide problem but I think disabling upscaling fixed the performance/stability issue.

The post where the user is missing proprietary multimedia codecs, unrelated to NVIDIA drivers or the comment by the person decrying the problems had by NVIDIA users despite not using NVIDIA cards?

They’ve started open sourcing some components, which is nice, for sure, but not enough to game on.

I read this a lot but I’ve been using nvidia-open, on Arch so I’m not running a LTS distro or anything, for over a year with no breaking issues.

It’s especially annoying in threads where someone is having a technical issue and as soon as they say they have an nvidia card you’ll see a bunch of people decide that it’s a driver issue.

Their issue is that they’re using Valve’s Proton which is missing some commonly used but proprietary video codecs. Using GE-Proton will ensure that they have the correct software to play videos.

I do the typical Arch troubleshooting, wait a few hours and then yay -Syu and pray they’ve released a patch.

They’re likely related in that they’re using a similar teaching method of having the student image that they’re the turtle and then reason how their instructions would affect the outcome. It’s easier for kids to learn that way than to try to explain the high level concepts, and later once they have the intuition of what a loop is, or a select statement, they can learn the more abstract terms.

Gaming is often a motivator.

Absolutely. The Venn of 90s IT students and gamers is a circle.