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DeaDvey ,

OMFG just the other day I couldn’t play gta singleplayer without logging into my rockstar account, had to go through customer support to play my fucking game I “owned” on steam.

DeaDvey ,

Oh no! not the central lemmy server!

DeaDvey ,

You can always boot a live environment and edit the file from there if anything goes wrong.

DeaDvey ,

Same, years of LEGO practice comes in handy it seems.

DeaDvey ,

That’s just what an aussie would want us to think… 🤨 🤨🤨 /s

DeaDvey ,

My friend, who has never watched Star Trek, was convinced it was Star Wars ripoff.

Linux mint or zorin OS for layman beginners who just want everything to work and focuses on stability , privacy , security ? Also what to do if I switched to mint and WiFi stopped working ?

Hey, so I just put this part up first because this is the one I urgently and importantly need answered even tho I wrote that hideous text block first (sorry English isn’t my first language )....

DeaDvey ,

If you have another spare USB stick you can put a Windows iso onto it (I assume you know how to do this if you have a Linux Mint usb) and so if your WiFi stops working then you can boot off of that, however, I have never had any WiFi issues on Linux personally so I don’t think it’s a huge issue, that’s just me though. Linux Mint and Zorin OS are both pretty similar for beginners other than the look of them, so I’d just go with whichever you prefer the look of. I can’t really say much about the app stores though.

DeaDvey ,

Making a Windows USB should be a very similar process to making a Linux Mint one, download to ISO and flash it onto a USB stick using whatever program (I recommend etcher.balena.io) and if you can get another USB stick that could be pretty good or you can always flash Windows onto your Linux Mint USB once you’ve installed Linux Mint. Side Note: You can also Dual Boot Linux and Windows fairly easily so you can use both OSs on the same machine.

DeaDvey ,

Ah, didn’t know about this, that sounds like the way to go.

DeaDvey ,

Taking out the USB should let you boot into Windows without any BIOS configuration as Linux Mint isn’t installed. When you install an Operating System, it gets put onto your internal storage from the USB, but if it hasn’t been installed yet from the USB it shouldn’t ever touch your Windows Install. In BIOS you can change the order that different devices boot if they are present. eg: USB drive then Hard Drive then SSD then DVD. So if you unplug the USB Drive then it should go onto the next device, the one Windows is installed on so that should boot. Unplugging the USB should be totally safe but turn the computer off first, I can answer your questions, I’m happy to help.

DeaDvey ,

np

DeaDvey ,

Linux might “just work” but it highly depends on what you use it for, gaming is getting better but is not going to be nearly as good as on Windows and there are some proprietary software that straight up don’t work such as MS Office and the Adobe Suite. However programming is very good on Linux and general office tasks and browsing the web works completely fine.

DeaDvey ,

You should probably be good then, at the moment gaming seems to be the main deterrent for Linux, and yeah Libreoffice is great and works for most people, just doesn’t have some of the more specialist features for some people.

DeaDvey ,

I have to use Teams as a student and we never even do video calls, just sharing files, and there are so many issues we have with it such as bugginess and no one understanding the UI.

DeaDvey ,

We could call it… “the lap-top”!

DeaDvey OP ,

Maybe the true reward was the widgets we made along the way.

DeaDvey OP ,

I can’t leave something the same for too long or I start to get bored.

DeaDvey OP ,

Yes, this information will be vital for when I become a Professional Linux Desktop Ricing World Championships Competitor.

DeaDvey OP ,

I LOVE Hyprland

DeaDvey ,

Not specific to Mullvad, but you can use flatpak or your distro’s package manager (probably apt) to install programs, On Ubuntu, you can open the software program and search the programs to install it, that should be the first thing to do when you want to install something rather than going to the website.

Abnormally high ram usage on idle (NixOS)

My computer over the last week has (after using the computer for a few hours) shown very high ram usage, around 50 - 60% out of 32GB, even though nothing in htop appears to be the culprit with the highest consumer being Firefox at 1.6% ram, even in a tty, around half of my ram is being used up even though no process shows over...

DeaDvey OP ,

How would I find this out?

DeaDvey OP ,

<span style="color:#323232;">               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Mem:           32032       20961        2048         464        9022       10152
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Swap:           2048         138        1909
</span>

Here’s the output

DeaDvey OP ,

It just that games sometimes crash my computer if 100% ram is being used

DeaDvey OP ,

Ah ok, thanks.

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