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AldinTheMage

@ AldinTheMage @ttrpg.network

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Love talking all things trrpg. I primarily GM Genesys RPG, sometimes also Star Wars RPG and Hero Kids.

Also into Linux, 3D Printing, software development, and PC gaming

  • Decided to try out Bazzite on my desktop PC - Distrobox feels like magic

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  • It's always something 😅

  • Decided to try out Bazzite on my desktop PC - Distrobox feels like magic

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  • That sounds really frustrating. When my 1070 croaks I'm going with an AMD. Probably not going to upgrade before then since I mostly play older games and GPUs are just too expensive these days. First it was crypto mining, now it's AI... I just want to play my single player RPGs!

  • Decided to try out Bazzite on my desktop PC - Distrobox feels like magic

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  • That sucks. I have definitely had issues with certain hardware on other machines. Even with this Bazzite install, sleep doesn't work (thanks to my Gigabyte MB, as the other poster mentioned) and I have some weird behavior with ethernet, but my asus wifi card is working fine, thankfully, and that didn't work properly on windows when I tried it before I stopped dual booting.

    Hopefully you can find something that works well with your setup. The most frustrating issues to debug are ones with support for some specific hardware that isn't widely used by other Linux users, and may not ever be fully supported. Now that I am fully on linux, next time I upgrade I'm going to try to find components that are proven to work, and will probably be avoiding both Gigabyte and nVidia.

  • Since I got zero votes for an animated version, I made one anyway.

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  • This is beautiful

  • Anon studies Organic Chemistry

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  • Only exception I have seen was when the professor was kind of a troll. He was a good teacher. This was in a pretty entry level physics class at a tech school, so we basically got a high school level physics as a pre-req for our degree in whatever 2 year program we were in.

    He spent the week leading up to the first big test talking about how hard it was, how people needed to take it seriously, etc.

    He handed out the grades after and everyone was visibly upset, nobody had a passing grade. Then he explained, after letting us freak out for a minute, that the score at the top was out of 50, not 100 and I think everyone passed

    After that the class pretty fun.

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    Sometimes people like to complain about windows and iOS

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  • "Install this bloated spyware in exchange for a little bit of convenience" is like 80% of modern tech and I don't know how people are just ok with that

  • Decided to try out Bazzite on my desktop PC - Distrobox feels like magic

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  • Huh, I may look into this. Sounds neat. Thanks!

  • Decided to try out Bazzite on my desktop PC - Distrobox feels like magic

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  • I still had to wait for a long time for shaders to load on initial launch on some games (DA Veilguard) but performance seemed fine. I didn't have performance issues on Ubuntu so not sure about your particular issues, but another thing to consider is based on your card, the latest nvidia drivers may not be correct - I had to download an older driver package for my card (1070) as recommended by nvidia. Bazzite had me select which series of card I had when downloading the ISO, so I assume it included the older drivers for my card. I haven't actually checked the installed driver version though

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  • I have heard of rebasing but I haven't dug into it. Sounds really cool!

    I do use my PC for gaming, but Bazzite did come with a lot of other "gaming" software that I don't use, so it's good to know there is a lighter weight alternative that otherwise has the same benefits.

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  • I have an older Ryzen 5, 16GB of ram and an nVidia 1070, so not cutting edge for sure. I downloaded the regular desktop version, not the steam big picture console-ish version, and steam account was not required. I just closed the steam window until I was done with my setup. I haven't seen any performance issues

  • Dolphin gets serious

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  • I installed Bazzite and it felt so much like installing Windows for me (huge install image, slow process, lots of loading wheels and user friendly "pretty" screens to get set up). It didn't feel great, but I figured I'd give it a fair chance and learn how to use a different setup than I'm used to.

    I still haven't had a chance to actually do much with it (only a couple of hours between work and other stuff) but I am really interested in the concept. After reading up more and watching some videos I now understand why the install process is so big and the reasoning behind it. This type of distro really does seem like a great option for regular users.

    Only issue I've had so far is connecting to my RaspberryPi to control my 3d printer using the .local hostname, since flatpak apparently has a bug with mDNS. IP works fine, and I did rps-ostree install a browser, which was kind of a pain, and probably not the correct way to address the issue, but that was within the first hour or so of using it and I haven't figured out the best way to do that type of thing yet. Really looking forward to learning more about the setup and how to customize stuff on top of it. Distrobox seems extremely powerful and sounds like it will give me everything I want.

    Still have vanilla Debian on my laptop, which I absolutely love, but using it on my desktop PC was kind of a pain due to some proprietary drivers required there (nvidia).

  • Somehow this is what's going to convince me to distro hop.

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  • pretty

  • Documenting the descent into madness

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  • This is the real pro tip. "Debian packages are behind" but you can just clone the repo or download the .deb and get the latest version of the tool you want. I know there can be dependency issues but I haven't run into any with the stuff I use.

  • No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"

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  • This is amazing! I will definitely be making use of this

  • No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"

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  • Expeditions are amazing, but I've only finished one because I'm usually out of the loop and start them way late. It would be amazing if they brought old ones back into rotation so people who are new or just missed them could earn the rewards eventually. I feel like they have enough now to make a pretty good rotation without feeling repetitive

  • “Red meat allergy” from tick bites is spreading both in US and globally

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  • Pork is red meat

  • Child labour with 10 years of experience, 'AI-native' accepting 250k lines of Cursor code

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  • Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming

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  • Definitely recommend playing or replaying old games. I've recently put hours into replaying Morrowind and Jedi Academy.

    The main game I've been playing lately is Mount & Blade Warband from 2010. Got it for a couple $ and have been loving it. I missed it when it came out and recently a friend had been talking a lot about how much fun it used to be.

    I have played a few newer AAA games that I uninstalled after a few hours. Sure there's some great new games, especially from small publishers or indie devs, but there's a lot more slop like you said.

  • I've honestly never quite realized up until now how utterly ridiculous it is that people (especially in the US) regularly demand that their food be chauffeured to them.

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  • Highly depends on local infrastructure. Unfortunately the most common city planning philosophy in the US (from what I have seen) is pedestrian hostile. And really it's not great for driving either. It just sucks to go anywhere.