Pharceface

joined 1 year ago
[–] Pharceface@lemm.ee 42 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I recall playing the tutorial. Never went online. Dial up sucked. Interesting tidbit, if you shoot your drill instructor at the range you're dropped into a prison cell at Fort Leavenworth. All you can do from that point is listen to somebody whistling and drag a tin cup across your cell bars.

[–] Pharceface@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

For me it was partially Windows 10 placing suggested apps and ads in the UI. The other part was just curiosity. After some distro hopping I landed on Mint, then Fedora and finally Arch where I've been for about two or three years.

[–] Pharceface@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Windows phones were really solid, OS was very user friendly and stable. I personally didn’t feel the “app gap” that a lot of others complained about but, I use my phone for browsing, calls & text. If I recall correctly it was also ahead of the curve with PWAs, integrated them really well. And price/performance was good on some models like the Lumia 650.

[–] Pharceface@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I use Olauncher, pretty similar to Niagara and is FOSS. https://github.com/tanujnotes/Olauncher

[–] Pharceface@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Just to be an absolute rebel; Solus

[–] Pharceface@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chimera is the bees-knees. I've got my son's computer configured with it and have had zero complaints, it just plays games and makes working roms/emulation so easy.

[–] Pharceface@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

+1 for Nobara. All the optimizations make some significant differences in frametimes in my experience.

[–] Pharceface@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll check it out, I do have something on hand though that I'm thinking of going with. As any self respecting "computer guy" I have waaay too many towers around the house and am right now planning to try to use an optiplex 5040 MT as a proxmox box running a pfsense VM and maybe some storage too.

EDIT: Fixed some typos/grammar

[–] Pharceface@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nice, I’ve also thought of installing PFsense on it and using it as my home router. But that seems like kind of waste of its potential. It’s perfectly sized for that purpose though.

 

I've come into a 2018 Intel Mac Mini, its got an i7 and I've upgraded it to 32gb of RAM. I feel pretty constrained on MacOS as I mostly just game. How function are eGPUs under Linux? I'm pretty comfortable on Linux, its what I use on desktop daily. But I've never tried anything with external graphics on it. Xorg seems like it could be a mess with config files, is Wayland any better?

 

Potentialy dumb question here, is there any benefit to using btrfs on a non system disk? I'm fairly ignorant on file systems, asfaik btrfs largest benefit is snapshotting, not sure of anyothers.

[–] Pharceface@lemm.ee 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Pharceface@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I had this hunt earlier this year myself; ended up going with the Acer Nitro 5 15. Its fully user upgradeable with DDR4 RAM, two m2 drives and even a 2.5 in drive. And it has a TB3 port for charging and works with external graphics as well. Everything worked under linux right out of the box.

[–] Pharceface@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yea I've got the same GPU and its normally very capable of high settings with everything I normally play but Starfield is kind of a bear it seems.

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