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  • One of the first issues I had problems with was figuring out what was wrong with Street Fighter 6 giving ultra low frame rates in multiplayer, but working fine in single player. It needed disabling of split lock protections in the CPU.

    A recent update in OpenSUSE made the computer fail to boot half the time and made the image on the right half of the screen garbled. I rolled back to before the update and am using it without updating for a few weeks to see if the GPU driver problem gets ironed out.

    I installed VMware Horizon for my job’s remote work login and it fucked up my Steam big picture mode and controller detection. I didn’t bother trying to figure that out and just uninstalled VMware remote desktop.

    I managed to install my printer driver, but manually finding the correct RPM file to install would not be tolerable for normies.

    I still can’t get my Dualshock 3 controller to pair via Bluetooth despite instructions on the OpenSUSE wiki. I’ve stopped trying to troubleshoot that and use my 8BitDo controller instead.

    I still can’t find a horizontal page scrolling PDF app.

    Figuring out how to edit fstab to automount my secondary drives is not a process normies would be able to execute.

    Plasma recently added monitor brightness controls to software and these seem to have disappeared for me now, and I can’t figure out why.

    I can’t get CopyQ to launch minimised no matter what I do.

    My KDE Plasma task bar widgets for monitoring CPU/GPU temp worked till I reinstalled OpenSUSE, and I can’t figure out why they’ve decided to not work on this fresh install. System monitor can see the temperature sensors just fine still. fixed

    Flatpak Steam app wouldn’t pick up controllers for some reason. Minor issue, but unnecessary jankiness.

    My laptop fingerprint reader plainly isn’t supported.

    People do not tolerate this amount of jankiness. And this doesn’t include the discomfort with relearning minor design differences between OS’s when switching. Linux is a bit of a battle with relearning and troubleshooting things that would never be problematic on Windows.





  • Most people aren’t ready to accept the message of privacy importance. I would say that’s the vast majority actually. Many in my family throw all sorts of personal information into “online contests and signups”.

    Privacy now is like climate change was 20 years ago…incredibly important, but hasn’t come to the forefront for most people, governments, etc. Say your message politely and only when welcomed, and otherwise leave people to make their decisions.

    If you’re actually interested in changing people’s minds, it is an incredibly difficult and complex process, but you can start learning about it. Here’s an author whose podcast I follow and he’s doing really good work on the subject:

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/09/how-minds-change-by-david-mcraney-review

    A lot of other comments talk about hitting him with some bullshit " gatcha" or some variation of scolding…which is all bullshit and counterproductive.



  • You’ve basically described my situation exactly. I built a PC 6 months ago for Linux. I distro-hopped for a good while and settled on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Now I’ve put OpenSUSE on my laptop too. I would highly recommend it.

    I went for an AMD GPU and have never had any problems with it. Linux is not as painless as Lemmy would have you believe though. Be prepared to learn some hard lessons and keep your data physically disconnected from the PC while you do it.

    You’ve asked about WiFi drivers further down…on my PC, the only distros that had the correct WiFi drivers out of the box were EndeavourOS and ZorinOS. The rest all needed wired LAN to get them going.





  • cRazi_man@lemm.eetoGames@lemmy.worldGood game soundtracks?
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    Super Meat Boy - Ballad of the burning squirrel

    Super Meat Boy - Forest Funk

    Super Meat Boy - Betus Blues

    The composer for Super Meat Boy has done lots of great tracks for Binding of Isaac and Crypt of the Necrodancer too (Danny Baranowsky)

    Enter the Gungeon - Abbey or Die

    Enter the Gungeon - Behold the Boss Eater

    Enter the Gungeon - Boss Battle Beating

    Metal Gear solid theme

    Nine Sols - Collage

    Hades soundtrack (all of it) + if you search for the composer (Darren Korb) then you’ll find loads more great soundtracks he’s done (notably for Bastion).

    Hollow Knight soundtrack (all of it + the piano cover version)

    Street Fighter 6 - Viator (theme for Ryu + there’s a real cool metal cover that is on YouTube by an indie metal band)

    Wipeout HD soundtrack (all of it)

    Super Hexagon (all 3 tracks)

    Hotline Miami soundtrack

    Dead Cells

    Lots of people have rightly mentioned FTL

    Frank Kelpacki has done tons of great soundtracks across the whole Command and Conquer series and it’s worth searching through.

    If you’re into chip tunes, then it is also worth checking out Streets of Rage 2 soundtrack.

    In case you haven’t noticed, I’m really into video game instrumentals. If anyone else is interested, there’s a great podcast called Sound of Gaming by BBC radio 3 that is worth going through the back catalogue of episodes.



  • Everything seems critical when you haven’t tried living without. Meat eaters can’t comprehend living without meat. Car drivers can’t imagine living without cars.

    I wondered how people pass their time without phones. Then my autistic son started demanding holding onto my phone for every waking minute he is not at school. Now I spend my day without the phone.

    Now that YouTube has stopped working on NewPipe, I’ve stopped watching it…and it felt a bit uncomfortable to miss my videos before bed, but now it’s not a big deal. None of these things are critical. There’s a near infinite world of choices available to us now. We just need to pick something else.