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PaperclipPerfector  4mo ago (text post)   2961 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for December 27, 2024

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Following up on downthread, I've installed Mint Linux on a fresh 1 TB NVME drive. All in all it didn't go terribly. We'll see how badly I fuck the whole thing up. I got Steam installed and played Quake for a hot minute. Currently installing Doom 2016 and Factorio. Working on getting my music library imported off another drive. Oh wait, that actually just finished, along with Heroic installing. Hot damn.

Edit: And right on cue, Assassin's Creed Origins is getting bombed with negative reviews because of Microsoft’s 24H2 Windows 11 update which has bricked the game for a lot of people. Black screens, crashes, and freezes, and still no fixes yet.

My Steam Deck tinker experiences tells me that everything works until it doesn't, and when it doesn't it really doesn't. Yes, you can get anything to work, but ultimately the juice frequently isn't worth the squeeze. Admittedly, the SteamOS is a fairly different experience than your average Linux distro, but Windows from a support standpoint generally works well enough where if something is broken it frequently isn't broken for too long.

I've been thinking of converting my laptop into a linux machine, but I doubt linux will support the 2 in 1 style as well as the touchscreen support as well as windows does (which is admittedly not great, but it works).

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