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Hate is always foolish and Love is always wise. 
Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind. 

Never be cruel.
Never be cowardly.
Never give up.
Never give in.

  • 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.

  • Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?

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  • Still one of those things that comes up a lot. It's been causing issues for 3 separate computers in the house all on very different hardware. Whenever I search about it I find lots of current complaints about it. So it's still one of those things that needs to be ironed out.

  • Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?

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  • On and off linux user since ages past. Not the most linux guru type. I'm fine with opening the terminal and doing things as needed, but I still have to look up half the command, for example.

    Anyway... windows / m$ finally just pissed me off so much I switched entirely to CachyOS / KDE for my daily driver. I tried a few distros with limited success before settling into that one. I wanted something that would have fairly fresh updates and be easy to setup for gaming. CachyOS really was a pretty seamless experience. Their "just make gaming work" button just made gaming work (I'm still on nvidia for the time being unfortunately).

    There is one hiccup that is a common problem with all linux distros I have used for one reason or another. Wake from sleep is a thorn in linux's side. The s3 deep sleep issue hasn't been a problem on cachy as far as I can tell... but there is an feature of nvidia where it tries to save the vram components on sleep and then reinitialize them on wake using a daemon or a service... but sometimes this crashes (as far as I can tell) on sleep... so it goes to sleep... and the system wakes up fine.. but it will never actually reactivate the screen.. and it waits for video to kick in... so it's essentially locking the system and I have to force reboot. It isn't every single time, and the lastest patch of the driver seems to have made it less frequent, but I still don't leave anything open I'm afraid of losing when I put the system to sleep because of it. If that could be fixed, it would be basically running perfectly.

    I've basically gotten all my apps back up and running (with one windows only app that I don't use regularly so it's fine). Gaming has been great. I can't think of much that I play that hasn't worked by just clicking "play" in steam or heroic... and when they don't work... it's almost always just a quick trip to protondb to figure out which proton version I need to use and then it's fine.

    Actually I have found one other weird bug where discord sometimes keeps running, but won't allow me to type at all. I can see incoming text, and close the app normally so it isn't crashed, but I can't type or paste into it until I restart it. It's some kind of weird error with electron from what I understand but I haven't done a deep dive to fix it yet.

    So after fulling switching to linux and helping a couple other people also switch for daily driver, I would say we're at the point where linux is ready for the "average user". We've been creeping up on that for a while, but there's been a lot of improvements to QoL in the last couple years that make it a feasible prospect for most people at this point. Some distros like linuxmint I feel like you could install and just use without every needing the terminal or having much of anything missing from "non-techie normal user" standpoint.

  • PC game recommendation for my partner and I

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  • Yeah, we saw the announcement and prompted us to reinstall it for some coop play.

    Looks like it goes on sale like... every month or two. https://isthereanydeal.com/game/terraria/history/

    Grabbing it for a fiver is like a no brainer if you get into the style of game. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a sale when the patch comes out to promote it.

  • PC game recommendation for my partner and I

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  • Some obvious suggestions seem to be:

    • Terraria
    • Stardew Valley

    Sorta requires another account... technically.. .Minecraft. IDK, maybe hytale would fill that niche. There's also some FOSS options like luanti that would be nearly indistinguishable.

    • Left4Dead2
    • Portal 2
    • No Man's Sky

    Some lesser known stuff:

    • Core Keeper
    • Dungeon Defenders
    • RoboQuest
    • Valheim

    Category suggestion: Kart racing. There are no shortage of brands of that... sonic just came out with a new one and there's a couple really good sonic kart racers already out there that are on steam and console. Played a lot of sonic and all stars racing transformed with my wife and we had fun... it goes super cheap on sales and has remote play together so you'd only need one copy for both of you... https://isthereanydeal.com/game/sonic-and-all-stars-racing-transformed-collection/history/#price-chart:overview , mario kart, etc.

    es-de is a really nice front end you can have in steam for couch coop emulation, I hear.

  • "Nobody's reinventing the wheel" with Marathon's mechanics, says former art boss, so the visual design needed to take risks

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  • Says the guy about the project that got nailed for stealing art... and is making a game that looks like they just took source engine and turned off textures. Sure thing dude. 🙄

  • Portland, OR, but in the morning

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  • If you're just wandering around doing street photography.. there is no end to nice places. Check out the water front. Wander down by OMSI. Go check out the Hawthorne shopping district.

    If you're looking for places to GO... the zoo or the Japanese Gardens are must visit spots. Also you can go IN OMSI and check out the science museum.

  • Ubisoft shuts down any possibility of Rainbow Six Siege becoming playable on Steam Deck

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  • Ubisoft shuts down any possibility of Rainbow Six Siege becoming playable on Steam Deck

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  • Ubisoft shuts down any possibility of Rainbow Six Siege becoming playable on Steam Deck

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  • There isn't a single one of my favorite games made by ubi... and ubisoft is half the reason for that.

  • Cannot run game bought from itch.io on steam deck because of missing licenses

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  • I'm a little disappointed that Jenny's number doesn't correspond to an actual appid...

  • GB and GBC

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  • The South Pole Just Moved. Here's Why [the ice sheet the marker is on is shifting]

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  • The put out a new marker with a new style each time afaik. So if you're a member of the 300 club, you can tell which year it was done by the pole marker I suppose. :)

  • GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux

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  • There should be real hotkey editing in the settings or it should respect the OS hotkey settings. As of now the only way to toggle this is by diving into about config and finding the flag.

  • I was recently gifted a Steam Deck for Christmas! If you only had a budget of, let's say 50 bucks, what would you get?

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  • Ur-Quan... isn't that the one that stole the plot from mass effect?!!! /s ;) Glad to see it mentioned... great game. So many hours spent playing that in story campaign but also super melee multiplayer back in the day. Great soundtrack.

  • I was recently gifted a Steam Deck for Christmas! If you only had a budget of, let's say 50 bucks, what would you get?

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  • It also imports your steam wishlist

    Can also directly import from gog, hb, and fanatical. EGS is on the todo list also once they have an api or even just a public facing library. All this time and egs is still pretty bare bones on features.

    True, though you don’t get the existing cloud saves so if you’ve started a game already it’s a little annoying.

    That's annoying. I wonder how hard it would be to just copy or use some kind of sync to move the files yourself.

  • I was recently gifted a Steam Deck for Christmas! If you only had a budget of, let's say 50 bucks, what would you get?

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  • Not a game recommendation specifically but a money extending protip.

    Head over to ITAD and make an account. Then you can get notifications when all the games you’re interested in go on sales from legit resellers (including steam itself). As well as when there’s free games to be had. https://isthereanydeal.com/

    Edit: also… if you collect the weekly freebies from epic games you can install heroic games launcher on the steam deck to play those.

  • 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