3 arm Tux, nice!

And it worked fine with finding the game’s folder under .steam?

I mostly mod Bethesda games, so MO2 is the defacto and it’s what I default to. So I’m kicking myself right now for not trying other mod managers if MO2 just wasn’t the right tool for the job…

I loathe gnome, so whenever I recommend “Ubuntu” I always specify Kubuntu for that reason.

The average joe has no idea what “desktop environment” means and will not understand how you can just swap DE’s even. So starting them off with Kubuntu specifically is ideal IMO.

Ubuntu is fine for grandma, or even Mint, but someone born in the last 40 years will probably appreciate Plasma more.

If you’re really wanting to use “Ubuntu” but don’t want any of the standard options then PopOS is fine from my experience.

I haven’t tried modding on Linux in a while, so seeing “SteamOS” support is nice to see as that probably means proton support.

Last time I tried modding Fallout New Vegas on Linux…it didn’t end well.

Not sure why anyone is still using Verizon.

US Mobile has access to their networks and it’s cheaper. Same service. Been with USM for nearly 2 years now. My parents and siblings all switched over too. Moved our numbers over with zero issues.

Verizon not in your area? Cool, USM also has access to T-Mobile and ATT.

People need to learn to shop around, especially in the current economy we’re in.

Yeah and the stuff releasing right now will be “old hardware” in 5 years.

I’m still gaming on a Ryzen 1700X. And my GPU is a used RTX 3080 I bought off eBay for $500 two years ago.

That 3080 was over $1000 during the GPU craze last time. And what was I using before that 3080? A 1080ti I bought at MSRP, which I still have and is my backup because hey, it’s nearly 10 years old and still works.

I’m not saying go buy a dual core Pentium, but “old hardware” isn’t some boogeyman and “we will eventually not have old computers” is like saying we’ll never have old cars.

And guess what, if everyone stopped buying all this overpriced crap then prices would come down, but we all know that isn’t going to happen.

Great post and I agree 100%!

something new shows up

Doesn’t even have to be a new thing either. Video games are still used as a scapegoat. Same as with music, and TV shows, and movies.

The “internet” is still killing teenagers because of social media bullying.

I wished our lawmakers were of a less senile age so we can write and pass more appropriate laws for this stuff…but not much we can do.

And new computers can break.

Might as well never buy anything because everything can break!

This is where I’m at. I’m selling off some old DDR3 RAM I have and I’m hanging onto my DDR4 stuff and systems.

Just bought a 3700X to replace an aging Ryzen 1700X. $100 on eBay, so not bad.

For your 5800X if it does die(*knock on wood) then at least you can snag a 5700X or 5800X on eBay for $200. Hopefully that stays consistent.

Looks like someone used that shadify url generator lmao

Yeah and the e-waste centers will clean up the hardware and resell it.

It’ll be a flood into the market. Supply and demand and all that.

I see the mastodan handle, but is there a git or anything to pull try out myself? Would be hilarious to show this to some coworkers

The entire internet? Whatever problem you had on windows you can just Google it and there’s either a YouTube video, reddit thread, or some obscure forum post that fixes your exact issue by copy and pasting some Powershell commands or a random bat file or GitHub project.

Linux? It’s gotten better, but the community side can get quite toxic or outright ignorant of how to troubleshoot any kind of issues tbh.

Oh for sure. Kind of forgot about that.

I usually build my own PCs, or I buy certified refurbished systems from eBay, so I usually don’t pay the Windows tax(or its baked in).

But definitely a good option to get something for cheaper, I do wish more systems had a Linux or no OS option.

And even if I plan to use Windows on a system, I usually re-install Windows anyway. Can’t be too careful with what has already been installed on something.

And to clarify, it’s pretty much only Ubuntu that is the Linux option with the standard SI’s. And I’m pretty sure it’s standard Ubuntu with gnome, not Kubuntu or being able to select a different DE, etc.

So it’s an option…but not something I’d seek out from Dell or HP specifically.

I also had the same experience with Mint having outdated packages. And at that time I was a Linux noob so I figured I’d just wait until Mint updated their shit.

Well days turned into weeks and then about 3 months later, still with no updates from Mint, I jumped ship to Fedora. Which Fedora was nice but then I hopped to Kubuntu and now I’m on CachyOS.

I see all of this Mint hype and while I do love Cinnamon; I would never put Mint on my own devices going forward. It’s definitely a distro I would put on my mom’s laptop or a grandparent’s device. But their release schedule is abhorrent.

TIL there is a whole ass mediawiki for explaining XKCD comics.

I’m already trying out LibreWolf on desktop and IronFox on mobile.

So far everything is working, probably another week of testing/using and then I’ll just uninstall Firefox.

Gnome is good if you want a Mac-lite interface and have zero plans on customizing it. Install more than 2 or 3 extensions and your DE breaks.

Or just install any other DE and have a working distro again.

Kubuntu is fine. I’ve been running that without issues for months now.

Bazzite is good too. But do push for the KDE version.