I’ve been running LM Studio on Bazzite and I had to do nothing to get it working. Just go to the LM Studio website and download the .appimage for Linux. If you open it with Gear Lever it will install like an app from the app store and show up in your launcher with an icon.

From there I have just been able to download models and use them from in the app. In fact I setup a local server to connect to my IDE and have been trying out local models for coding. It’s pretty cool

I would definitely recommend trying Bazzite first. It’s basically SteamOS but targeted towards general hardware instead of just the steam deck and steam machine.

For a long time SteamOS didn’t have printer drivers because why would a steam deck need printer drivers.

Out of all the users I’ve recommended Bazzite to generally people waiting for SteamOS or people wanting to escape Windows 11 with a Linux distro that “just works” are the happiest with it.

If you plan on gaming on atomic Fedora it is basically just that with everything already preconfigured. I chose it because it came with Nvidia drivers, codecs, a bunch of tweaks and gaming utilities preinstalled (protonqt, distrobox, lutris, etc)

You could install all of this on Fedora but IMO it’s convenient to just have everything already configured for you if you were going to do it anyways

I also like that it is atomic. Builds on the same image tag guarantee an identical build, which completely fixes the “works on my machine” problem when helping my friends. Two users on the same release will never have mismatched shared libraries or rogue packages, everyone on the same tag has the exact same environment. Plus, it makes rolling back bad upgrades incredibly easy

I’ll probably buy it for PC but they haven’t even announced if they’re making a PC port. The PC version of GTA 5 didn’t come out until 2 years after the original release date and wasn’t even based on the original version of the game. The PC port was based on the enhanced edition.

I wonder if by time the game launches for PC if there will even be an ultimate edition or if it will just all get rolled into an enhanced edition or something.

You should consider looking into fail2ban or Crowdsec.

I recently added Crowdsec to my firewall and it seems to work pretty well. I don’t host any public facing services on my network. But maybe someone else with more experience can chime in about it. I believe both tools are pretty good for stopping bots

How many times did they “sunset” gear over the years?

4 or 5? I’m surprised they kept doing it with how much it seemed to alienate the player base every time

I’ve always thought the licensing for Jetbrains IDEs is a pretty fair way of licensing software. If you stop subscribing you still get access to the last version of the software you paid for but you don’t get new versions anymore. And if you stay subscribed you get a loyalty discount after your first and second years. So it provides an incentive to stay subscribed long term but if you do leave you still get access perpetually to the last version you bought

Are they going to go back to calling it Cortana?

This sounds like it could’ve been a story about a featured build on CPU magazine. Maybe some cube shaped open air PC and how it was going to change the future of case design?

As far as things that are going to change everything performance wise maybe 3D caches? I could see there being promotional art of that with a blue cube showing how memory layers are stacked.

Windows 95 with the Microsoft Entertainment Pack

Yeah in Calgary I don’t think I’ve seen a single person at a signing table. They have a bunch of flags and crap out too really trying to entice people but it’s always empty. I also feel like they’ve been out for weeks if not months at this point?

Maybe some of the more rural areas had more people signing

I know this was the goal of Nano (XNO) originally. I still love the idea of it but with all the regulations and stuff now I think nano is kinda dead (or at least unpopular) It seems the only crypto used for transactions is Monaro.

I remember years ago hearing about a Minecraft server using it as “premium” currency which I thought was interesting. I think the idea was you could earn real money on their game server.

It’s so cheap now you could probably use it as currency for a game if you really wanted

Edit: not gonna lie I think Nano is a pretty cool name for a decentralized currency. Better than some of the weird coin names out there

My favorite part of the steam deck is how I didn’t have to pay to “upgrade” the games I already own.

Oh and how I didn’t have to buy my game library again

Any specific reason you want to run a Lemmy instance? Or just trying something new?

If you could miniaturize them I would totally take a house hippo

That was a really good review! I think the only thing I disagree with is the people I know who are looking to escape Windows 11 aren’t the same people distro hopping. While I agree that it’s awesome Linux has so much variety; if a new user doesn’t get a good first experience with Linux they kinda just write Linux off and go back to Windows 10.

The first distro experience needs to be smooth and they need to use it for awhile before they will consider hopping to a different Linux distro instead of just going back to Windows

Would having a synced Keepass database with a composite key protect against this?

When I made my database I created a composite key file that never goes online. I locally copy it to any device that needs to access the database. The idea was even if the password got compromised you can’t access the database without the key file

I originally did this and ended up having to remake my account on .world. I just couldn’t stand the negativity and constant fighting on .ml. I was able to find a non-ml alternative to every community I was subscribed to. YMMV but it was completely worth it for me

So they basically created a hashing function?

I really want to switch but I need a launcher that lets me swipe on the dock left and right like how I can with home screen pages