Apocalypteroid @ Apocalypteroid @lemmy.world

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So I've learned! I'm no programmer so I guess I'll just wait until the software catches up. Hopefully won't be too long!

The UK is generally disappointing

John Cena has the physique of an overgrown dwarf.

Oh man, still my favourite FPS of all time. Titanfall 2 comes close but nothing will beat Unreal Tournament.

KILLING SPREE

This is 100% a plan to tank US stocks so him and his buddies can buy them up cheap

Thanks of taking the time to write all this. I'll certainly give it a go once I've worked up the will power to go back down the rabbit hole!

Hello old friend

Thanks this is very helpful. I was steering clear of the more terminal heavy distros as tbh I find the terminal a bit daunting as a noob. I'll give it a go tho.

Thanks, I'll give it a whirl and see how I get on.

Oh interesting! What model surface do you have? I have a surface pro which I was considering converting (before the above nightmare) but have read that MS have made it super difficult for anything later than a 7 and I have an 8.

Yeh, I'd come to that conclusion myself. The laptop I bought was a 2023 lenovo legion 9i which is have discovered is not a particularly popular model but shares a lot of it's DNA with the far more popular 7i. So I figured most of the software and fixes would be cross-compatible. Turns out that I was wrong. I'm not giving up hope yet, and I'm not gonna get rid of the laptop anytime soon. Maybe they'll be a new kernal that come out which fix the issues I've been having.

Oh no, it's The Piddler

A lenovo legion 9i

Linux is going to cook your own food, then realising that you don't have half the ingredients, so you either have the choice of going to the shop where all the food is labelled in Swahili, and there's no pictures of what's in the packages, and a lot of the people who shop there are kinda stuck up and look down at you for not speaking Swahili, and by the time you've gone round the shop three times and asked for help and you're still not sure what you've got in the trolley but you buy it anyway and then you get home and you've got some of the stuff for dinner but you're still missing some essential ingredients OR going to McDonald's and getting everything on the menu but Ronald follows you home.

I'm probably gonna get hated on for this but here's my story:

About 3 weeks ago I bought a new gaming laptop with no OS with the intention of installing Linux myself and ditching Windows.

I'd read a lot online about how Linux was now competitive with Windows as Linux emulators could run Windows games with a 10-15% boost in performance. I read that it was all a case of finding the right distro and that Linux is much more user friendly and compatible now. So I did a little research, made myself a ventoy boot USB with Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Pop, Garuda and Fedora to see which one I liked best.

None of them worked properly. All of them had weird little quirks. Some I could live with, some were completely infuriating. So l did a little tinkering as I was determined not to give in. None of the distros detected my hardware properly, and so I went away found forums with similar issues and I fixed most of them. However, no matter what I tried I could not get the laptop speakers to work. No problem, I thought, I'll be either using headphones or BT to my soundbar (as that worked fine). So having given up on the speaker issue, I downloaded some games. In all of the distros they ran like shit. Sound bugs, laggy game play, some wouldn't play at all. Again, I tried tinkering with the settings, using a different version of proton, different sound drivers, different graphics settings, different commands and programs which might solve the issues. No. Each different distro threw up different issues which I spent hours and researching and experimenting. I tried a few more distros and found new issues which needed more research and more experimenting.

Over the three weeks or so I was trying I became irritable and depressed. I'd spent a lot of money on the laptop and I was unable to use it because no matter what I tried, even with relatively low resource hungry games, they did not run well at all, and even linux itself seemed slow and unresponsive in comparison to what I was used to.

So after hours and hours of climbing the walls and snapping at my wife and neglecting my kid, I downloaded Windows. And everything just works. There are bespoke programs for my graphics card and everything in my steam library runs beautifully with very minimal tinkering. So now I have a dual boot system, windows for games only and Linux for everything else.

I hate that I'm still enthralled to Windows, but seriously, Linux is just not ready for mass adoption. If something doesn't work on Windows , it's usually a case of just downloading the correct driver and Windows normally knows which one you need. If something doesn't work on Linux it's a slog through paragraphs of text which all assume some basic knowledge of coding or Linux's file system or some other jargon, or watching endless YouTube videos and then still getting nowhere. As a working husband and father I just do not have the time to put into it.

Tl;Dr - Windows is much easier than Linux. That's why everyone uses Windows.

Here's some genre smash for you:

Big Dick Energy - The Lambrini Girls

Wandering Star - Portishead

Just Hold On - Sub Focus & Wilkinson vs Pola & Bryson

Social media is polarising. Lemmy, for example, and to a lesser extent Reddit, are politically left leaning. Xitter and Truth Social both very right leaning. Across all platforms voices to which do not conform to the status quo are either attacked or silenced. It's anonymous mob mentality. The human animal was not meant to communicate this way, it's not healthy, it just creates echo chambers on both sides, spreads misinformation, and is addictive.

Same. I'm not sure Lemmy is any better tho. I know, I'm a hypocrite.

This.

I wear a mini-skirt regularly and have never got pregnant once.

But I suspect that is due to my dick and balls dangling out for all to see.