twinnie

twinnie , 4 months ago to memes in At least we looked up from our own cellphones long enough to do something

There’s loads of evidence linking excessive phone and social media use with mental health issues, and taking phones away is an easy win.

twinnie , 4 months ago to linux in My Windows 10 install broke, but I'm hesitant to switch to Linux.

I recently switched from Windows 10 to Fedora so I can share my experience. I’ve dabbled with Linux in the past but there’s always been immediate issues which have caused me to never stay that long. It’s too easy to just ditch and go back when everything on Windows just works out of the box. I was getting sick of all the privacy issues so decided to totally bail and go balls deep. I found it easier to push through all the problems by adopting a mentality that I was living with this now and I eventually started to enjoy fixing all the problems (it took a few weeks). Everything’s working now and solutions are out there, you just need to google and power through.

Installing Steam and Nvidia drivers is easy. You open the settings of the “App Store” and enable third party repositories. Once you’ve done that the Nvidia drivers and Steam will turn up in there and can be installed with the click of a button.

However, and maybe I’m just unlucky, but the dream of Linux gaming has been an absolute non-starter for me. I guess people on Radeons may have more luck but with my 2060S I haven’t really gotten anything to play acceptably. Even with Proton-GE and whatever other hacks people talk about everything has been unstable, slow, or both, and that’s if it starts at all. I’m sure it’s probably just the certain games I’m trying to play but I ended up partitioning my drive and installing Windows 10 again just for gaming.

Something else to try is Nobara, it’s a Linux distro built for ease of use and gaming. If I’d heard of it earlier I’d probably have tried it first but I’ve got Fedora nicely set up and I don’t think it includes anything I can’t simply install myself.

twinnie , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to linux in New to Linux? Ubuntu Isn’t Your Only Option

Bit of a noob but what’s the practical differences between Apt and the others. I use Fedora and the only difference I notice is that instead of typing apt update and apt upgrade, I just type dnf update.

twinnie OP , 4 months ago to linux_gaming in Guides for working settings for each game

Thanks, I appreciate the reply and I read all of it. I do understand that nVidia are a bunch of fuckers and I’ll be looking elsewhere in the future but I simply needed CUDA at the time of buying. I took another look at my mobo and it only has one full sized PCI slot and it’s obviously got my nVidia card in it right now. Buying a new GPU plus mobo is simply too much when I can just dual-boot into Windows for now. I was planning on keeping Windows around for the sake of random bits of software I need and so my wife can occasionally use my computer (she won’t want to learn Linux). I’m not a serious gamer or anything, I’ll just have to live with it.

twinnie OP , 4 months ago to linux_gaming in Guides for working settings for each game

Using a guide I read, done through the terminal. That’s all I remember. How could I tell if I’m using Nouveau?

twinnie OP , 4 months ago to linux_gaming in Guides for working settings for each game

Are the built-in drivers somehow different to the ones you download?

twinnie OP , 4 months ago to linux_gaming in Guides for working settings for each game

Nonetheless getting a new graphics card is kind of the nuclear option. Would it actually help that much. DEATHLOOP would still crash surely?

twinnie OP , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to linux_gaming in Guides for working settings for each game

It does actually only have two slots, and the other one can’t fit anything because the 2060 is too big.

edit: Correction, I only have one full sized slot.

twinnie , 4 months ago to worldnews in King Charles III diagnosed with cancer, Buckingham Palace says

What exactly do you hate about him? Is it his stance on climate change or the Prince Trust maybe? The Royal family are an important source of culture, tourism, and soft power when the UK’s overseas influence is waning. What good to you think will come of getting rid of them?

twinnie , 4 months ago to memes in Explain how!

I’d just assumed it was fake.

twinnie , 4 months ago to technology in Raspberry Pi is planning a London IPO, but its CEO expects “no change” in focus

Any alternatives that aren’t Chinese?

twinnie , 5 months ago to technology in Netflix wants to retire basic ad-free plan in some countries, shareholder letter says

And now Prime is doing the same, and Disney wants to tackle password sharing. If everyone had just cancelled Netflix when they started this shit we’d be paying $5 per month and we’d be sharing passwords on all of our streaming services.

twinnie , 5 months ago to news in Netflix is going to take away its cheapest ad-free plan

This company represents the worst aspects of capitalism now. They’ve got anCEO whose only objective is to get shareholders to vote for his insane annual bonuses, and he does that by trying to squeeze as much money as possible out of his customers. It won’t be long before they start cutting costs on providing content so everyone’s going to be paying more for less.

I cancelled Netflix a while ago but it’s a shame because I quite liked being a legal customer for everything. Now I’m a conscientious objector.

twinnie , 5 months ago to technology in Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March

Seems like a terrible investment, I can’t see what they can possibly do to add value. Everybody who wants to use Reddit is already on it and anything they do to try and milk it will just lose them users.

twinnie , 5 months ago to world in White House says ‘it’s the right time’ for Israel to scale back Gaza war as fighting hits 100 days

I’m no defender of the US or anything but I doubt they’d be bombing refugee camps and hospitals.