Kaldo

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[–] Kaldo@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago

That is what their marketing wants you to think, the reality is going to be its just another soulless shallow designed-by-committee AAA rpg. Nothing ive seen so much has led me to believe otherwise and they have quite a streak of bad games to break.

[–] Kaldo@beehaw.org 13 points 5 months ago

That's a shame, it's a really fun movie and great to watch in cinemas. Doesn't reach the highs of fury road but it was still a really good time for me personally.

[–] Kaldo@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I remember trying it quite a few years ago but it was too much work to learn to play it at the time, I knew how long it usually takes for games like DF, kenshi or rimworld to click and wasn't sure if star sector is worth it when I had x3, factorio, m&b to occupy me.

I am always tempted to give it a try but the number of new complex games keeps increasing while the number of my brain cells keeps dropping xd

[–] Kaldo@beehaw.org 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy is a public forum, discord servers are usually for invite-only, more closed-off communities, and we're not talking about a lemmy replacement but rather how this is inadequate as a discord replacement.

[–] Kaldo@beehaw.org 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

I don't know about discord issues, the hype behind is it mostly that it's free, very convenient, feature rich and can easily integrate bots. Its the go-to place to build communities nowadays.

Matrix issues that I read about can be seen here https://telegra.ph/why-not-matrix-08-07 . I haven't done my own research tho so I don't know if all of this is (still) true

[–] Kaldo@beehaw.org 15 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Hope we get some comparable options yet, I only know of matrix and that one allegedly has tons of security and performance issues.

[–] Kaldo@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

IIRC the web app had some intrusive ads(hard to remove and taking a bug chunk of screen space), is the offline version any better?

[–] Kaldo@beehaw.org 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I use jerboa so I'm not affected afaik but I'm curious why the uncertainty about update, they are (generally) a good thing for performance and security. Have there been issues before?

[–] Kaldo@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago

I've started to tinker with home server and self hosting recently, I was just wondering if the feeling of 'everything is held together by a thin wire that could snap at any point' ever goes away? Thanks 😁

Feels like there's alway some issue that requires a special unique workaround that could stop working at any point

[–] Kaldo@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago

It is, I'm just saying that even games that worked fine on steam deck had issues on my nvidia laptop so I doubt its the game's fault.

[–] Kaldo@beehaw.org 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Well, valheim now works straight out of the box on Pop_OS so that's an improvement! Haven't downloaded other games so not sure about that just yet though, still setting up my usual programs now.

On the other hand I kinda hate its GUI, I installed that gnome extension to make the toolbars customizeable and now it just crashes every once in a while, for example just few minutes ago alt-tab stopped working and everything minimalized and became unresponsive so I had to force shut it off. An hour ago I closed the laptop lid and when I reopened it later, the OS woke up to the login screen but everything was frozen and I couldn't do anything. It's a bit of a cursed OS, you can't even click the folder path to copy the path, I miss mint lol.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Kaldo@beehaw.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I've been trying Linux Mint on my old dell laptop with an nvidia GPU and it's been just one impossible issue after the other.

Even games that have native linux versions like Valheim don't run if I'm running off the GPU (but run if i switch to the integrated intel gpu but with terrible performance). Some games that work with proton work fine but have tons of weird issues like not being able to type specific characters on the keyboard, or the game and the entire OS just randomly freezing after 15-20 minutes - it happened in both warframe and guild wars 2 for example. Every time it happened I had to do a hard reboot since it was completely unresponsive.

I tried installing bottles and couldn't get through the basic setup of the GOG launcher without getting black screens in it. There were some workarounds with no-sandbox launch arguments at one point but I think I eventually gave up on it. Steam had tons of issues with launchers freezing, or steam itself getting stuck on constant shader updates every day I start the game.

I tried changing proton versions, installing wine and lutris manually, changing nvidia drivers (randomly trying other one since there's no useful info online about which to pick or which ones even work...) and it never got to a satisfactory point. I still have no idea which drivers im supposed to be using (if it's not the recommended ones that come with Mint), or how to properly update them manually.

I've had steam somethines just not run at all, I run it and nothing happens. I see it in the process manager, kill it ,restart it... it gets the temporary update popup and then disappears with no error message whatsoever.

I actually own a steam deck and I never had any major issues with it, so my only conclusion is that this time it's the fault of either linux mint (which is supposed to be the stable, no-nonsense OS), or the different hardware - probably the GPU.

So yeah... is the conclusion wrong, or is it really simply pointless to try linux with nvidia?

edit: hardware info:
GPU: GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
CPU: i7-7700HQ
I'm currently running Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon
Nvidia drivers in use are the latest ones available from the driver manager (currently nvidia-driver-550).

Will try PopOS! next

[–] Kaldo@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago

Check out against the storm for a fun and difficult game

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