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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do you have places where you can buy those old business drives? Are there websites for this market?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think it's still a migration of a rather knowledgeable part of the windows users. I did migrate a year ago because of frustrations from windows pop ups showing up like they own the computer.

I a still reluctant to recommend it to my partner who is comfortable with windows but not really techy. As long as Linux works, it works. But when you need something a bit more involved or something breaks, the terminal will be harder for those users who might not have ever opened CMD in windows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Please add a disclaimer to the documents stating it was machine translated. Machine translation can get it wrong or take liberties, make up stuff. Please inform your readers so they can be on the lookout.

Keep in mind the translated stuff by machine translation won't be 100% what you say in your native language to other students. Be careful not to spread wrong information or knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Translator here. They do make up stuff or omit stuff they don't like. Machine translation is fine for tourists or to translate a ikea manual in the wrong language. If there are stakes, risky. They got good enough to make sentences that look right so it can be tricky to spot the errors if you don't pay attention.

Numbers are typical errors. Sometimes it's there but the number has changed. Sometimes it's not there at all. Oh and if you have currencies a translators knows a document from the UK in pounds that is adapted for France will have to be converted in euros. Machines don't.

Generally speaking when a client wants to use machine translation, it costs them more money in the end because of the extra time needed to correct everything to a high human grade standard.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Take it easy, you'll get your vr legs eventually. The key for me was to learn to detect when my body was starting to feel bad, stop immediately and go take a break. If you stop the symptoms early you can take regular short breaks instead of being drowsy all night.

Also, find some easier games for your stomach. Typically, stuff in a vehicle/plane/spaceship is easier for the brain because it understands something is moving but not you.

Static games work too. Beat saber is the classic but I'd like to recommend SynthRider.

Also, play around with the settings when you're fresh and see what works. The black blinders on the side help most people but it make nausea worse for me.

 

Hello everyone,

I've been on Pop_OS for a good week now and I'm liking it. First linux too. I have a series of small questions though and hopefully someone can enlighten me.

Question 1) I have a 3440x1440 screen. The resolution once booted is fine. During boot and up until the login screen, my monitor keeps displaying "HDMI 3440x1440" and flickers as if reset or switched port. I suspect it's because the screens before the login screen are not compatible with that resolution. I have no idea whether I'm supposed to see something or not until that point. Is there a way to "fix" it if there's even anything to fix?

Question 2) Also boot related. Booting anything else but Pop_OS is relatively quiet with the occasional Hard drive working noise. With Pop_OS, my hard drive makes almost uninterrupted sounds as if writing/reading from boot up until well over a minute after login. What is it? Timeshift already working? I'm slightly worried it's bringing extra wear and tear to my drives.

Question 3) Is there a way to display peripherals info? I'm thinking about my wireless mouse battery level. I'm going to dig that info specific for my mouse after work today, but I'm wondering if there's more of a "general blanket" solution to display very basic info from any connected device somewhere. I used to do stuff like that with Rainmeter on Windows.

Thanks!

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Hello everyone!

TL;DR: CP2077 worked via Lutris yesterday. Doesn't work today. No idea how to troubleshoot Linux, need pointers.

I've made the switch to Linux three days ago and I'm trying to figure out how to handle gaming. I've been recommended to use Lutris on my recent post about me switching to Linux and that's what I did.

Not gonna lie, I watched a couple videos, read a couple wikis and then jumped in the fire, eager to play, so I don't fully understand what I'm doing yet.

Yesterday, I told Lutris it could find my copy of Cyberpunk 2077 on my Windows disk. Filled the config panel as instructed by the youtube video (Linux Experiment) and launched the game.

Worked perfectly immediately.

Today, it crashes on launch with a RED error saying 'Cyberpunk 2077 flatlined'.

I'm on Pop_OS and did some updates yesterday so I suspect it might be related?

On Windows I'd know how to troubleshoot on my own, but here I'm confused as to where to start the investigation. Could you give me pointers for me to go under the hood and figure out what's going wrong?

Thanks for your help! :)

Summary of info: Pop_OS 22.04 up to date. Cyberpunk installed on different disk in a windows partition. Using Lutris. Need anything else? PC specs useful?

 

Edit2: Writing this from Pop_Os! I had experience with Mint for my Self hosting rig and wanted to see other pastures. Decided to rearrange my three drives, two of them are still Windows, another I emptied and dedicated to Pop OS. That way I still have easy fallback to Windows if I need to do something fast and then I'll know what I have to add to Linux over time.

First things first, I've setup auto-back up. For now it's google drive because it's the easy one. I have to figure how to self host Nextcloud and then use this as a backup storage.

Steam is installed and to be fair, I'm happy with the native linux games. Still going to take a look at Lutris and co out of curiosity.

I mostly miss MusicBee right now. Any recommendation for the most solid music player? Also, what's a good movie player? I used MPV, I need something capable to deal with 3440x1440 resolution and stretch properly.

Also, I wanted to install Bitwarden and the first thing that showed up is Snap Store. I remember hearing about Canonical in a bad way so should I stay clear from that?

Hey!

Today is the day. I finally got fed up with Windows booting up with an advert that I already had yesterday and had clicked on "remind me in three days" reluctantly. I'm finally tired of killing Telemetry.

Now that gaming is less important for me, I feel like now is a good time to switch mainly to Linux. I might keep a small spare drive with a Windows/Steam partition for the occasional incompatible game.

I've just started transferring my precious files to an external drive and I'm preparing for my Exodus.

Still unsure about the distro I'll choose, I would like to avoid distro hoping. But now I made up my mind, I'm leaving windows for the foreseable future.

I started self-hosting three months ago as a way to trialing Linux with the added bonus of being useful and my server is still up and alive so I'm confident I can use Linux without breaking it.

Any welcoming tips?

I'm a bit anxious about the big change, but also relieved I won't have to put up with the bloat/adverts.

Edit: Two hours in and so many kind and useful comments. Thanks for the welcome party! You're all a bunch of good humans :)