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Go-On-A-Steam-Train

@ GoOnASteamTrain @lemmy.ml

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  • Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare

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  • I just switched over to Mint from Windows 10 a month ago, and besides from setting up my quirky USB audio for music making, I was astonished as I rarely needed to look anything up. :)

    Using DuckDuckGo helped I think, but presently, most of my questions I searched came back with forums with real people talking, which was lovely.

    I remember trying this in 2010 and... nope, everything was a project, command lines everywhere, and it was a pig. I was very impressed this time, everything quietly worked. :) Even every steam game I threw at it, even ruddy GTA San Andreas, which never ran for me on Window 10!

    The searches/sticking points I looked up were

    • what the heck am I doing with partitions. (eventually nuked windows anyway)
    • how do I get my specific USB audio card thingy to work.*
    • how to mod fallout new vegas** (gave up and reinstalled on a windows pc, too many .exes)
    • how to auto-mount a second hard drive for steam so I don't have to click the disk every time I boot.

    *there was actually a human-made guide for my usb audio when I searched on DuckDuckGo, which was made by an utter saint of a person!

    ** it ran fine, but I was in the middle of a save, so wanted to keep my mod loadout :)

  • New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC

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  • Oh fantastic! :) Thank you, next playthrough I will get things going on Linux in that case, as that's new to me! :) Like a fool I tried nexus mods vortex in Wine initially because I didn't know better!

  • New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC

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  • I can second this! For me it meant that I could finish my game of modded fallout new vegas, and connect to my work's microsoft vpn nonsense (IT support didn't fancy trying it on Mint but that's another story!)

    I now have a personal OS that I like, and a windows partition for those few things that I can't be bothered to troubleshoot.

    So far the list is just those things and the Unity Engine as Visual Studio debugs better than code in my experience. :)

    Having the option to flick back is great :) In the XP days, I loved the WUBI(?) tool that let you install ubuntu dual boot as an exe, but I think that's not a thing these days., :)

  • Punk Rock Legend And Producer STEVE ALBINI Dead At 61

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  • f-droid website

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  • That's bizarre! Glad it's working, but what the Dickens made it behave so strangely? I imagine it wouldn't be anything nefarious, especially since its only fdroid, but... Damn that's odd!

    Glad it solved itself at last :)

  • f-droid website

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  • Curses! That's incredibly strange

  • f-droid website

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  • I don't know if this useful, but the link works in the UK... I would be interested to hear if you have any luck with it, sorry I can't be any use beyond this.

    I had the thought of trying a VPN set to other countries if you can, or different DNS settings, but I imagine you already thought of it but can't think of much else.

    Best of luck with it :)

  • Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot.

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  • That's awesome! Thank you for the rundown, I'll save this comment for the day that I get to making the jump :) It might be a while until I can, but it would be nice to jump back over to the comfortable Linux environment again :)

  • Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot.

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  • Ableton working in Wine you say...? Thank you for sharing, as that would be excellent to try! :)

  • Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot.

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  • Agreed, not just plugins its also Ableton Live for me! There is nothing that scratches that for me, bitwig does look promising eventually though. :)

    Then on top of that wanting to develop games without learning another game engine (I'm far into a game, and can't change engine without starting again)

    And I wanna play Baldurs Gate 3 again dammit! (To be fair I think that might work and haven't looked) :) .

    I used Linux for 5 years and loved it, have a pi and a degoogled Foss phone as much as possible. I am an ally to it all, but have usecases which dictate Windows ... I think it's not unreasonable to want something to get better without binning 70℅ of why I use my computer. :)

    Edit: I just learned this thread, wine might work with Ableton, this is great news :)

  • ‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit

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  • I am the same - I obliterated all my posts and comments, and try to see whatever answer I can't find elsewhere, and run.

    It was much easier than I thought it would be, which was a nice surprise. :)

  • Introducing Raspberry Pi 5

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  • Thank you friendly robot :) I couldn't stop assuming PoE meant Pillars of Eternity! 😅

  • Open Source Music Software Thread

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  • Thanks for sharing this! :)

    I got a kick out of seeing helm on your list, as I was using the developer's Unity engine integration for a game when I started coding :) Fantastic synth.

    I could also recommend hydrogen as a drum machine - it plays nicely with lmms, which is cool! :) There's also tuxguitar which I use as a guitar sketchpad when I just want to jot down a thing I'm playing, or learn a complicated song. :)