ChristianWS

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[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have a bunch of issues(some way smaller and borderline nitpicks) with windows, but I guess there's some big ones:

  1. Linux runs smoothly on older computers, even with KDE which everyone talks about as if it was heavy. Windows is a slug in comparison.

  2. Linux is free, truly free. Microsoft can't beat that.

  3. Shit just works (unless you are on Nvidia...), don't need to install drivers and shit like that.

  4. most of the software you don't get from a random website and they all update at once, rather than having each one update itself and only itself

[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Issue is that Immutable also conveyed a different type of information. When I first heard of it, I genuinely thought it was something like DeepFreeze for Windows

[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I'm thinking about doing some really weird shit by sharing the steam folder between users and then mounting compatdata inside each /home so that save files from proton games are individualized.

Sadly this requires a more traditional distro instead of ChimeraOS or HoloISO, which I didn't really want, but it offers more possibilities later down the line

[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The issue is that AFAIK there is no way to get an event when the Steam user is swapped

[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It depends on the game. If the game uses Valve's recommended file path there's no problem. If the game uses Steam Cloud it will sync your save file with what it should have.

[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Those distros are basically focused on offering a console like experience on Linux, as in, a machine that is hooked to a TV, has no keyboard or mouse and only method of input is a gaming controller. They all start directly into Steam Big Picture mode, and there's a single system user, all users are Steam Users. This works, but has the issues with save files I'm trying to get a solution that hopefully doesn't involve changing to a traditional distro

[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 9 months ago

Afaik it isn't an option in SteamOS/HoloISO/ChimeraOS and would require a more "traditional" distro to be used, which does fixes those issues, but now we have other issues, like how those distros aren't made to be used as consoles, and there's the issue with Steam Family Sharing (as I understand, you need to be logged with the Steam Account in each system user you wish to share the library with)

 

I'm thinking about making a dedicated gaming PC which is to be shared in our household. ChimeraOS/HoloISO seems the ideal solution to that... Except that games thay it means that all save files of games that don't use Steam Cloud OR write save files on Valve's recommended directory are shared between users.

Is there any tool that can recognize the current active Steam User and swap save files on the background? The other solution is to forego using HoloISO/ChimeraOS/SteamOS and install a traditional distro and make different users have different system accounts, but that sounds a nightmare to deal with due to Steam Family Sharing requiring that all steam users are logged into each system users, so the library is shared across all of them. Not to mention config files are going to be separated as well...

[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 9 months ago

Btrfs is really cool, just a warning: I had a surprise when I found out the subvolumes make a device more of a hassle to mount externally, you can't just put it on an external HDD enclosure and expect it to work as painlessly as it is with more "traditional" file systems, I had to mount each subvolume manually as GUI file managers only mounted the root.

It's not complicated, but more than I'd hoped for.

[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I don't really understand that argument, and I want someone to correct me:

If you were keeping your battery at the ideal charge (i.e. 20% to 80%) that means you are really only using 60% of your battery during its lifetime. I've been using my phone since July of 2021, always changing it to 100%, preferably only charging when it gets close to 0%. Using AccuBattery I get the battery stats and after 2 years and a half, the battery capacity is at 85%.

I still have 85% of usable battery, this is more than the 60% I'd get if I was using the battery ideally. So I don't really get this argument about taking care of the battery cause it appears it would take a while before the battery is degraded enough to hold less charge than the recommended rate.

[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 9 months ago

Some apps have useful information that you can glance using the notification, like Tasker or those Battery monitoring apps. Dismissing those notifications is a pain in the ass for users that use them

[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 10 months ago

Not really cause the function isn't the same. A red light means stop indefinitely until the light stops being red, a stop sign is more of a stop and then go. I do admit my wording was rather poor, tho.

In my country the Red Light is a predicable function of the road, so turning right on red is fundamentally removing part of the function of the red light. I know crossings in some countries are...weird, but here, if you see the light turning red and are immediately in front of the stopped traffic, you can cross it to the median cause no traffic is going to cross it. A right on red remove this predicability, and even if you absolutely need to have this function, you can just add another traffic light that controls that lane.

[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I find absolutely baffling that the red signal, the signal made specifically to mean stop, the stop signal, can allow traffic to go through it. If you really need to let cars to go through, just add another traffic light for conversions

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