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BlueSquid0741

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  • Shows that were only popular in your country?

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  • While I understand the show had a cult appeal in many countries; Monkey (the live action Journey To The West adaptation from the 70/80s) must have had a pretty big surge in Australia when I was a kid.

    I’ve heard new zealanders around my age and older talk about it the same way, but not really people from other countries who tend to remember it for being lame/cheesy but don’t seem to have much attachment to it.

  • What is the worst online community, that isn't Reddit, that you know about and all should avoid?

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  • I clicked here to say Kiwi farms too.

  • OpenMW 0.49.0 Released!

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  • That’s awesome

  • When was your house built?

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    1. I was also born 1985.

  • Meta buys into Scale AI in the quest for fresh data

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  • Holy fuck, that thumbnail

  • New to Linux – Need Help Installing Tekken 7 or Tekken 3 on Fedora KDE (Step-by-Step Guidance Needed)

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  • For tekken 3 you’ll want to emulate PS1.

    Install duckstation.

    Download a tekken 3 rom - search for tekken 3 CHD and you should easily find one.

    Open duckstation and load the CHD file.

    Play Tekken 3.

  • I'm impressed by Rambo III for DOS

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  • If I’m playing Sega, I’m not wasting my time on Rambo iii, but if I’m running through some dos games of absolutely give it a shot.

  • Devils Panties 07/03/2025

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  • I assumed a ‘Camp Crystal Lake’ kind of what’s in the water vibe

  • Anthony Albanese names his top 10 Australian songs of all time – and there’s one big surprise

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  • It’s a terrible article that leans into shaming of listening habits if your favourite songs don’t include artists from a diverse range of backgrounds.

  • Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why

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  • Do a lot of people log in to search engines?

  • So you want to start playing Castlevania games (a giant primer)

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  • Portrait of Ruin is a direct sequel to Bloodlines/New Generation as well.

    Order of Ecclesia is the only ds game that doesn’t rely on touch screen gimmicks too, and it’s so much better for it. Portraits of Ruin is still playable at least without touchscreen, but some of the bonus modes, like playing as the sisters require it. Dawn of Sorrow sadly was absolutely gimped by touchscreen crap, but a romhack is available to remove it.

    Unfortunate turn of art style in the DS era too. They lean heavily into a crisp anime style compared to the earlier look of Symphony and the gba titles which were anime inspired but had a very fitting gothic painting style.

  • What is the biggest scam you've fallen for?

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  • New car it used car?

  • Which Distros Are Doing Best Currently?

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  • I don’t know mate. I thought we were having a cool discussion about Linux shit but you seem really hostile now. Get lost, clown.

  • Which Distros Are Doing Best Currently?

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  • And also PCLinuxOS and Mandriva, those were the big recommendations as well. But we’re pre-dating the common distro hopping discussions I think we had in mind by going back that far too.

  • Which Distros Are Doing Best Currently?

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  • I’m not discussing quality of distro here, but people’s changing perception of Debian over the years. The way that people currently use/suggest/recommend distros has put Debian more in favour than say 10 years ago, 15 years ago.

    It’s always been good depending on use case, but people currently are recommending it more for general use than has been typical before. And I think it is, as you said, that some of those past limiting factors are not a big problem anymore. I did suggest that in my first post.

  • Which Distros Are Doing Best Currently?

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  • Oh yeah, there’s a big difference now in distro conversations.

    Debian was never talked about as a serious contender in distro hopping, discussions around “best distro for me”, starter for new users, etc. Just an occasional; “of you’re going to choose Ubuntu, just pick Debian and go straight to the source”.

    But it was often pointed out that Debians pros is what made it not recommended for general end-user. It’s strong for servers and productivity. But its stability meant kernel and mesa updates were slow, many programs lagged. Gaming performance suffers and new hardware support is weaker. It was recognised that Ubuntu and Mint would add convenience for everyday use cases on top of Debian.

    Especially the early to mid 2010s was all about “bleeding edge/rolling release is too likely to break, Debian is too stable to get updates, pick something in between”

    Now, this problem is being lessened, at the same time people are liking the stability for general desktop use. Bleeding edge became highly recommended 5 - 8 years ago, and now in 2025 people care less about that and it’s easy to make stable distros work for your needs just as well.

    Now people will regularly say “use Debian, it’s solid and reliable” and not follow up with “you’ll have to deal with old packages though”

  • Which Distros Are Doing Best Currently?

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  • The Arch derivatives, CachyOS and EndeavourOS. They’ve really done a good job with Arch and cultivating their own communities. It’s paid off for them and Arch isn’t really seen as just a hobby distro like 15 years ago, or a meme like the last 5 years.

    Bazzite, for both general desktop use or dedicated for gaming. Just strength to strength from the project. I hope Fedora’s proposal to remove 32-bit libs doesn’t hurt them. By far the best, just untouchable, atomic distro.

    Linux Mint for the first time in about 10 years is being seriously recommended to new users and not laughed off as a Linux Windows clone. That team has never stopped putting in the effort and deserve it. I don’t know how they’re going with/plans for Wayland, but I hope smoothly.

    Fedora. I’ve never used it personally. But since starting with Linux in 2006 I’ve only ever seen or heard of it as kind of “being there” but not really talked about much. People are talking about it now as being a reliable and solid choice for new users and intermediate users.

    Debian. I do see Debian mentioned now a lot more than it has been in years. I think people generally are becoming more satisfied with the idea of a stable OS, ages not writing it off as being left behind, constantly out of date, can’t run latest AMD graphics, etc. In my mind, flatpak helps that a lot, since you don’t need to wait years to get the latest versions of programs, but I don’t know for sure that is helping this current wave of success.

    On the other hand:

    Tumbleweed seems to be stagnating. They’ve made some changes and moving away from yast for the first in forever. The switch to selinux has affected proton usage in a way that it’s not super “new user friendly”. Even amongst people wanting to try out Opensuse, you often see “I’ll give Slowroll a try.”

    PopOs’ cosmic desktop is still in early stages, and you do hear good things, but popos seems even less talked about now. They might have hit their peak 3-5 years ago, or maybe it will come around again for them like some of the distros above.

    Nobara was massively talked up a few years back. But not so much now. And you do see discussions like “Nobara had too many problems on this machine, I just went straight-up Fedora”.

    The other main hobby/enthusiast distros that were getting discussed more in the last few years - NixOS, Void Linux, Alpine. Not so much anymore. NixOS definitely did take off a lot more than the others, but it still just doesn’t come up as often as a couple years ago.

  • Bazzite founder might shutdown whole project if Fedora drops support for 32 bit packages

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  • Interesting. I wonder if opensuse wrote up their own solution to this. I did find a post from Cachyos Petr last year responding that he’d like to see more how opensuse boatloader is managed.

    I only ever used grub with tumbleweed.

  • Bazzite founder might shutdown whole project if Fedora drops support for 32 bit packages

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  • Grub was really the only option if you wanted a snapper rollback though.

    But now Limine is the new choice for me.

    Systemd-boot doesn’t play with snapper.