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Rentlar

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  • Have you or someone close to you converted to Linux recently (with Windows 10's end of support)?

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  • Feel free to take your time, Microsoft's the only one setting deadlines here.

    Posting to !linux4noobs@programming.dev could potentially help if your setback is technical in nature, and not like life stuff.

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  • How do desktop functions perform on Linux Mint compared to Windows on your current machine, qualitatively speaking? I've kept my parents' 13 year old laptop alive with Linux, a replacement battery and SSD, so 2 more years should be no problem unless your needs drastically change.

    You'll find there are dozens of ways to "install" an app on Linux, in varying degrees of portability, ease of install and ease of upgrade.

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  • Thanks for sharing and congrats on making the jump! In my experience, when I broke Linux, most of the time it's because I wanted to try something new, and only occasionally an updated software breaks something, but it generally only takes a bit of effort to pinpoint the culprit. Especially on Mint, once you have things working they'll work as they are, and any issue you may encounter will be easy to resolve after you figure it out the first time.

    On Windows it was the inverse... Microsoft often wanted to try something new on me.

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  • Thank you for sharing! VR has been a well reported pain point, but interesting to hear that Linux Mint handled it well now. I don't own a VR headset -- which one do you have that played nice with Mint, if you don't mind me asking? In case I ever feel like getting my own.

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  • I used to play League several years ago, and even before Vanguard anticheat, updates would break my ability to play through wine every few months, enough that I gave up.

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  • NTFS is rough to deal with indeed. Right now getting niche hardware to work is one of Linux's barriers to adaptation. If the device's data streams are documented well, it can be technically possible to create homemade device drivers, but you'll have no hair left to pull before you even begin.

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  • Bazzite gets thrown around a lot as a beginner distro nowadays, haven’t tried it myself. Its immutable quality sounded to me like it was designed to be hard for beginners to break, so I guess you should give yourself an award for that.

    Hope it keeps going well, you'll naturally get it as you use it and deal with the odd curveball.

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  • Thanks for sharing your experience. So now that you've tried it, is KDE familiar enough to you? (I did put my parents' now 13 year old PC on KDE for similar reasons).

    Good news is that KDE is the front-end interface that is packaged with many distributions (including Bazzite) so you won't lose the basic look and feel if you decide to move.

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  • One from my friend. He has tried Linux before but switched back due to issues. When this Win10's EOL came up I floated trying it again. Which he then did that weekend. It worked great for the most part. One game had install issues, but worked after we resolved them, another Proton game had full screen problems with no monitor output when the "Adaptive Refresh Rate" setting was enabled in the OS settings.

    That software-hardware interface problem wasn't documented anywhere, so it was just a lot of fiddling with all the settings one-by-one and trying various things to get it working to no avail until he got there.

  • California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind

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  • Battery essentially removes 90% of the issue of matching peaking demand from solar wind and tidal renewable supplies that woukd have required coal/LNG/nuclear/hydro.

  • Stephen Miller Threatens to Arrest Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

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  • There we are again... any remotely threatening statement against the administration is antifa terrorism, but threats against state and local officials are freely given from this administration.

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  • Voter turnout exceeds expectations in California's Prop. 50 special election

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  • ... but don't let any good news or bad news stop you from voting if you haven't yet!

  • Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon

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  • Ah okay.

    In protest, everyone in that school should walk around with rulers, wrappers, bottles and other things sticking out of their pockets to trigger the system.

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  • Essentially this AI is a racist markov chain that can be simplified:

    Skin colour = dark -> something in his hand = true -> result = A WEAPON A WEAPON!!!

    It is doing good work replacing the police's job of racially profiling minorities. Very efficient.

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    AlmaLinux gives Btrfs a home after Red Hat kicked it out

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  • Redhat was great, fedora was a collabration with them and the community, and lots of code (including proprietary code RH bought from 3rd parties and released for free) was contributed to the linux ecosystem by them. An open source ecosystem with dedicated professional enterprise support and tailoring to commercial needs was an excellent model, later mimicked by Ubuntu. I'm not against that.

    But of course after 2018, it would be the start of its downfall under IBM ownership. I guess they're trying to make it more like Windows now. Since they are a tiny arm of a behemoth corp, they're probably receiving more pressure from their parent to give less to the community while taking more.

  • No plans filed for Trump’s new ballroom despite demolition being under way

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  • This is actually surprising that this government building is just being torn down without any public information filings saying how much is being torn down...

    Is this just shoddy incompetent engineering that is standard fare for anyone working for this administration, or is there something being hidden from us?

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  • Yeah. It's tough, probably the only other thing you could do is lead by example.

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  • Well just ask what their plans are over the next year, if there's anything new they wanted to try, even just like a pet project not even a job.

    Lazy is a label people paint others or themselves with. It's not an innate character trait, it can be gained or lost.

    Little nudges and brainstorming are fine but I don't think anyone wants someone else's vision of their life pushed on to them. What's more valuable is if you could support them with things they've expressed they want to do.