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  • Reacting to LTT's 2026 Linux Challenge (part 1)! - The Bryant Review

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  • FFS... people need to stop platforming that shyster... 🤦

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • Core Keeper. They just had a big patch with a new section and biome. Started fresh save to run through it. Fun game. Still desperately needs an option or mod for “prevent ability to kill farm animals”.

  • Recommended cameras for beginners?

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  • Those sites are where I get most of my lenses, FWIW. I really like that they check them and rank them on condition then give a several month warranty on most grades. UPP and MPB show actual lens you’re getting on each listing as well. KEH doesn’t but their descriptions and grades are usually accurate. UPP is my favorite for price and quality but have a much more limited rotating stock of gear. I’ve bought multiple things from all three though.

  • Recommended cameras for beginners?

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  • First and foremost... I would check into buying used from a reputable reseller that guarantees their equipment:

    https://usedphotopro.com/

    https://www.mpb.com/

    https://www.keh.com/

    IDK where you're located geographically, but a couple of those do ship to different countries so they should have you covered.

    As for your specific camera needs, it's going to depend on the setting you're taking these pics in. It's less about subject (nature, graffiti, consenting butts) and more about speed and and light levels.

    You're right that taking a frozen moment from a moving vehicle you need a fast shutter (this is different from a "fast lens"). Most modern digital cameras should have no problem getting a fast enough shutter speed... something that tops out at 1/2000 or 1/4000 should be plenty. The farther away it is, the easier it will be.

    Nature pictures like landscapes are generally pretty easy to shoot. They don't move around much so you have plenty of time to set things up and find your scene. Nature pictures like animals... that's a whole other story and takes specialized stuff usually, depending on the animal. The good thing is that with interchangeable lens cameras, some of that is just the lens and can be upgraded when you figure out which niche you're trying to fill.

    When you get into these types of cameras, you are really buying into a lens system... that is a good place to start thinking about it. Will you be able to get lenses you like for a price you can deal with. Often that means not only how are the first party lenses, but are there good third party lenses. So take canon for example... great first party pro lenses, crap entry level lenses. Their DLSR has access to stuff like Sigma which are really good... their mirrorless they more or less banned 3rd party so you're sol. So a little research on that is a good idea.

    So my suggestion, personally, is to look at micro-fourthirds flagship cameras from the last decade and flagship DLSR as well. You will get a lot more bang for your buck and quality from an older flagship pro camera for the same price as an entry level new camera. There is a hidden price advantage for M43 cameras as well... the lenses are cheaper, lighter, and since it's an open format there's lots of choices from multiple manufacturers. If you get an Olympus camera, the lenses work on Lumix. If you get a TTartisans M43 lens it works on both. So you have a lot of choices for very inexpensive. Basically all M43 cameras have In Body Image Stabilization as well... which is really nice for getting rid of camera shake while taking handheld shots in lower light.

    As for software. There is plenty of stuff that will work well on linux... and lots of them are likely in your repos already or have flatpak or appimage. I really like RawTherapee for processing RAW images. https://www.rawtherapee.com/ There are some good scripts to get Affinity Photo working on linux these days as well such as https://github.com/ryzendew/Linux-Affinity-Installer ... just read thru the info thoroughly, but it's basically run shell script and click buttons on the GUI.

  • Linux gamers: Do you ever occasionally shut down your PC?

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  • Linux gamers: Do you ever occasionally shut down your PC?

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  • I've had the weird black screen on wake issue on Cachy due to problems with nvidia daemon not behaving itself. If you have an nvidia card you might look into that. Recent updates have mitigated the issue a bit for me. Sometimes when it does have the issue I'm able to swap to another TTY and then back and it will cause it to rethink it's bad decisions and the login screen will be there.

  • Linux gamers: Do you ever occasionally shut down your PC?

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  • I'm using an arch based distro so I get kernel and driver updates pretty frequently that need a reboot to load. There is some weird thing I haven't found a fix for yet, where sometimes a warm reboot forgets half my RAM (likely something to do with MCR)... but a cold start works fine. So I shutdown and restart and all is well. Once a week maybe?

  • How do you pronounce daemon?

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  • day mn

  • Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy

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  • If you're doing sync, you can tell it to remove items from your waitlist when they are added to collection. It won't work retroactively, but it will do it going forward.

  • Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy

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  • New Subnautica 2 video shows off a convenient and social dive elevator, while promising that multiplayer won't ruin single player

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  • Didn't they already take a dive in the socials when they removed the founders of the game and screwed the devs out of their pay?

  • Linux Mint isn't the answer for Windows refugees anymore

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  • Exactly. Like I said... it's a top recommendation for a reason. There's still tons of bleeding edge stuff to play with... but Mint has really nailed down "here... this will install painlessly, and your laptop is going to work fine".

  • Linux Mint isn't the answer for Windows refugees anymore

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  • "Linux Mint isn't the answer for Linux newbies switching from windows to Linux" -- someone that's obviously done distro hopping. They then go on to cite "professional work"... something that generally benefits from boring, stable, reliable OS... and "customization"... which is a great place to start breaking things.

    And their alternatives? Kubuntu, fedora, and opensuse. What? *buntu used to be a safe bet ... but they can't keep things even running these days. Fedora... a perfect newbie choice. No hand holding, half your features won't work as expected for a windows user because it focuses everything on foss only, out of the box. ... and opensuse. I wouldn't ever call opensuse "newbie friendly"... and they use their own packaging so all the common stuff you would want to look up for help won't be a simple one click fix since most guides and apps recommend apt, rpm, or pac.

  • Linux Mint isn't the answer for Windows refugees anymore

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  • It's not that people generally say "basic" ... they say "boring". It's designed to just work and be stable with some nice features but it has a slower release speed and the dev, intentionally, keeps things slow so that they can polish up all the features before they go mainstream on it. So it isn't doing anything revolutionary and it isn't giving you bleeding edge everything... it's just nice and stable. It's become one of top recommended distros for a reason.

    The main hiccups I see with it is that they are lagging behind on Wayland support... which is slowly becoming the defacto standard for desktop display tech. If you aren't really up on the x11 vs wayland debate... this likely isn't even an issue for you. Suffice to say they've tried to hang back on x11 for a while, which is the older but much more thoroughly tested way of doing the user space display. Secondly would be... because it's a slow burn on updates, you might not get the latest greatest updates for the kernel with the display drivers. So for gaming that could make things a little more finicky. People do use it for gaming... so don't think it can't be also used for that, just might run into hiccups.

    Good thing is you can test it out, and if it doesn't work out, try something else.

  • Overwatch 2 Is Just 'Overwatch' Again And Five New Heroes Arrive Next Week

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  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • I believe cinnamon uses gnome system monitor by default so there should be a way to set a custom hotkey for it in settings.

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • You should be able to switch tty to access the system directly from the pc. If you're unaware... ctrl alt f3 will switch to another terminal where you can login and access things. Generally your default sessions is in f2 (ymmv) so ctrl alt f2 should return you to your desktop where you left off once you nuke the offending pid.

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • PC game recommendation for my partner and I

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  • It's really hard to suggest games without knowing what you guys normally would play. You mention puzzle games. There are a ton of two player puzzle games that you play head to head which might be fun, but it isn't coop exactly. I highly recommend super puzzle fighter ii turbo. It's available thru emulation and I think maybe on steam via that capcom arcade thing. There are lots of games that fit into that category if it ends up appealing.

    If you have access to any of the games mentioned... maybe just have her try some of them and see what clicks. I know with my wife she wasn't really a "gamer" at first... and I just let her loose on my steam games and a few that she would have never considered before became favorites like half-life, portal, l4d2. Most of the valve stuff holds up really well and makes for good primers into FPS style gaming. We also got really into coop minecraft and dungeon defenders so hundreds of coop hours have been dumped into those. I'd pick a bunch of genre styles (fps, puzzle, survival, etc) and just show her some gameplay videos if she's reticent to play them sight unseen... see if anything sparks her interest. Then pick out some of the more well regarded titles from them to dive into. There are definitely classics that are considered classics for a reason.

    As for roboquest... I've enjoyed that one. The dev kept putting out content patches so it's gotten a bunch of content dumped into it. Fun solo and coop. I personally love the pop art comic style. The progression is rogueLITE... so you're slowly building up new stuff in your hub as you play, which makes for a nicer experience, IMHO. They even have a free demo on steam if you wanna try it out while you wait for a sale.

  • Linux @lemmy.world
    Durandal @lemmy.today

    Looking for help setting up dual boot system for a mostly beginner user and specific distro suggestions.

  • Photography @lemmy.world
    Durandal @lemmy.today

    Opinions on new-to-me m43 camera