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  • Hey Battery, are you OK? You've been saying 0% for 15 min now.

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  • I'm just going to point this out, I asked for no tech support.

  • Hey Battery, are you OK? You've been saying 0% for 15 min now.

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  • No Pillow... yet, but yeah I've tried to look for replacement, but she's a ~Gigabyte~ Clevo so finding parts isn't easy.

  • Hey Battery, are you OK? You've been saying 0% for 15 min now.

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  • Nah, she's toast. Ran multiple distros, and the same problem persisted across Fedora, Arch, and Ubuntu. It's also an Intel machine, and I've been eyeing a Framework with AMD. Which is why I've stated I am not looking for tech support.

  • PC Sticker Rule

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  • Na its a Poco X3 Pro running the google pixle photos app. Mostly because LineageOS stock photo app doesn't support all cameras

  • PC Sticker Rule

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  • Would it shock you that it wasn't taken on a pixel?

  • PC Sticker Rule

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  • There are dozens of us.

  • PC Sticker Rule

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    1. cuz my pc had a spot for a floppy drive.
    2. have a few old pcs laying around which makes my life easier to have.

    It has a internal usb to floppy drive adapter so everything works

  • Lost my 3DS Stylus Rule

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  • No issues man! Happy your enjoying them

  • Lost my 3DS Stylus Rule

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  • The fix is scheduled for the next release

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  • This is true, I wanted to play a game and it looked broken in Linux. When I went back to Windows I discovered that it was a problem with the game. Then I went back to Linux and it ran better than it did in Windows.

    Typical Ubisoft experience.

  • I've never played games. Suggest a couple of addictive games I can play on Linux

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  • In Settings you'll find an option called "Compatibility" here you'll find 2 options, I'll advise the Steam Play for supported titles, but the all other titles option is more desirable, but the results may not be desirable.

  • I've never played games. Suggest a couple of addictive games I can play on Linux

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  • Here a quick run down of PC gaming in general and the state of it on Linux.

    PC gaming has boiled down to Clients which will manage your games, this would be your Steam, EA App, Ubisoft Connect, GOG Galaxy, and many many more. These Clients act as both the Store to buy your games, the Game manager to install and delete your games, the online client to let you play online with friends, and the DRM to ensure that you and only you can play your games. Out side of GOG most PC games will not run without a client installed.

    In Linux there is only officially Valve's Steam which is compatible. You can find Steam as a Flatpak or as a Package in your distros Package Manager. Thanks to Valve's Steam Deck console there is a shocking number of Linux native games to choose from, however thanks to Steams implementation of Wine called Proton, many native Windows games are also compatible. Proton can be enabled for all games in the settings, though the results cannot be guaranteed.

    Hardware wise, your default controller is your mouse and keyboard. But Linux is compatible with, from my testing, any modern controller compatible with Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo systems. For certain generas of games you may want to consider getting a controller if you find your mouse and keyboard is frustrating to control your game with.

    In terms of games it really depends on your tastes so a recommendation is difficult. I'd look at what TV Shows, books and other forms of entertainment you'd like to discover titles which you prefer. If you aren't afraid to raise the Jolly Roger you may find some classic games on older video game consoles online as ROM files which you can play on open source emulators. Linux is compatible with a wide array of them, though Retroarch is used as a hub that has a minor learning curve but is compatible with everything. (Just make sure to install the Flatpak version or the steam version).

    Last piece of advice, Humble Bundle bundles is a good place to find a lot of games for cheap. Not all the games are bangers, but often can include games from small developers than can often fall between the cracks of many user recommendations. You can find them here: https://www.humblebundle.com/games

    Here are some game recommendations which I feel would be fun to anyone who wants to play games.

    • Antichamber A Fun Indi puzzle game which twists reality and loop back onto itself.
    • Fallout 3/The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim - Some of the more critically acclaimed games, both are adventure games in the same style, but Fallout has guns and based in the Post Apocalyptic Future, while Skyrim is more like Dungeons and Dragons.
    • The Stanly Parable - A Hysterical narrative adventure with no combat. A YouTube playthrough will explain the game better than I could.
    • Team Fortress 2 A Team Based First Person shooter, also the first Free game here. It's an older title but it still holds up and can be a lot of fun once you get the hang of it.
    • Besiege A sandbox medieval weapon construction game. The tutorials will get you going and you can many many silly things.
    • Portal/Portal 2 Puzzle Platformer shooter, where you play with physics to solve puzzles. It's a must play and is often on sale.
    • SimCity 3000/Cities Skylines A City Building game where you can build and manage your own City. SimCity is an older title but holds up well IMHO but Cities Skylines is a more modern game (Skylines 2 is a buggy unoptimized rushed mess. Avoid it for the time being)
    • Civilization 6 Strategy game where you can build an empire. I prefer 5, but 6 is the go to game right now.
    • Rollercoaster Tycoon/Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 Make your own theme park, from the rollercoaster to the rides. OpenRCT2 has a more modern look to the classic.

    Now just because I am recommending Steam doesn't mean the other launcher won't work in Linux. Lutris and Bottles can be used to install and manage your Windows apps, with varying degrees of stability.

  • One Year Anniversary Giveaway! - WINNERS CHOSEN!

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  • Ditto!

  • Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux!

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  • ELI5: when a computer stores something like a file or a folder, it needs to know where it lives and where its contents are stored. Normally where the a file or folder lives is the same place as where its contents are. But there are times where a file may live in one place and its contents are elsewhere. That’s a symlink.

    So for your video example, the original video is located in Downloads so the video file will say I am movie.mp4 and I live i live in downloads, and my contents are in downloads. While the symlink says, I am movie.mp4 I live in home, and my contents are in downloads over there.

    For a video player, it doesn’t care if the file and the content is in the same place, it just need to know where the content lives.

    Now how software will treat a symlink as an absolute. For example if you have 2 PCs synced with cloud storage, and both downloads and home is being synced between your 2 pcs. Your cloud storage will look at the symlink, access the content from pc1 and put your movie.mp4 in pc2’s downloads and home. But it will also put the contents in both places in pc2 since to it, the results are the same. One could make software sync without breaking the symlink, but it depends on the developer and the scope of the software.

  • I wanted to try and add a Pokeball to my e-reader case, and tried embroidery today.

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  • In retro spect, Nintendo E-card reader being called e-reader is rather confusing. Though would’ve been fun if I got an e-card with Pokemon Manga on it. 🤣

  • I wanted to try and add a Pokeball to my e-reader case, and tried embroidery today.

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  • I am just happy it turned out well.... and my e-reader case had easy access to the cover fabric. That's 1 point for making your own case.

  • I've Installed multiple Linux Distros on my Editing Rig to see how well Davinci Resolve Studio works. Here are the results.

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  • For me the "best of Gnome" was having the online accounts actually be usable in the desktop. In KDE if I was to sign in to my Google account my calendar events wouldn't show up in my desktop calendar, while one Gnome and by extension Cinnamon it does.

  • I've Installed multiple Linux Distros on my Editing Rig to see how well Davinci Resolve Studio works. Here are the results.

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  • I think you need to define "normal".

    Normal as in, drag and drop clips and music then output the results. Not much since they are both free, but Kden arguably better is better since it's compatible with AAC audio.

    Normal as in, doing YouTube for fun. Then the workflow is a lot easier, like being able to duplicate entire video tracks, or change the order of the layers. A very robust effects system with Fusion that can be copied to other clips in a timeline.

    I personally prefer Resolve for my workflow, as it makes my life easier. But I do usually have Kden on my laptop since (a) Resolve doesn't work on Intel GPUs... yet (b) I see it as a better MS Movie Maker.

  • Your first distribution

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  • Ubuntu Late 2000’s. I wanted it because of the CUBE. But left because the only game which worked was TF2.