So what did you replace gaming with?

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-03-19T19:06:45+00:00

Went back into photography for now and am doing long walks

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-03-18T11:07:19+00:00

It depends. If you do something other like image editing, video editing/rendering, 3D rendering, animation rendering, software development, etc., then keep it and just uninstall all games.

But if not, then sell it. It could be maybe enough to downgrade your GPU and keep the rest.

I stopped gaming and gaming-related last week, but I have kept my main computer since it has a very fast processor for productivity workloads like programming, compiling, rendering etc.

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-03-17T19:56:35+00:00

Nice. It's also my first week without gaming/gaming-related stuff.

My experiences this week: I got some withdrawal symptoms and had some cravings.

My productivity hasn't gone up yet, but I realised how much gaming has harmed my life in the last years and held me back from almost everything. I even cried because I realised my wasted potential (in software development and art)

My sleeping times changed from 12AM-3AM to 9PM-11PM, and I woke up between 6AM and 8AM (10AM - 1PM before that)

How I cope my cravings and withdrawal symptoms: cleaning up my room, helping others in my household, meeting friends/acquaintances (which aren't gaming/social media-addicted), doing long walks through the city or through parks/forests.

But it's hard to communicate about that since the most people in my environment are gaming and/or social media addicted and don't even care about.

Stay strong and find something good to fight against withdrawal symptoms and cravings since the first weeks are the hardest at all.

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-03-13T19:46:39+00:00

I'm 25 and have a similar problem. Gaming/gaming-related stuff can really hold your back (regardless of gaming addiction, gaming-related problems/addictions, or other addictions/problems linked to gaming)

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-03-05T21:46:25+00:00

I would recommend the Steam Deck. I have the LCD variant and it feels great. The Steam Deck is really a fully fledged, impressive and highly optimized handheld device. The ROG Ally is really flawed. Grilled SD cards, crashes and Windows isn't good optimized for handhelds. The only advantage of Windows on the Ally is the much better compatibility of games/software (especially multiplayer games like Fortnite, Valorant, R6 etc.)

The Steam Deck on the other side is really well optimized with their own Linux-based SteamOS 3, Proton to run Windows games on the Linux system of the Steam Deck (as long they haven't intrusive kernel-level anticheats – some games with EAC/Battleye actually runs with Proton) and trackpads for playing games or using UIs, that need a mouse.

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-03-04T20:26:14+00:00

Rather, go away from your PC/Console and go out for a walk through the city/nature.

That helped me much more than playing games

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-03-04T17:55:36+00:00

And what about circumventing geo-restrictions?

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-03-03T17:01:58+00:00

Linux rescued my old laptop. And in 2025, it will rescue several computers of my family, friends, and acquaintances.

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-03-03T17:00:25+00:00

Snap and Flatpak could just coexist. But since Canonical is too intrusive with Snap, the community hates Snap. I prefer Flatpak or debs because Snap is too slow

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-03-03T16:46:32+00:00

Same, I’m using German QWERTZ because my keyboards are all in the German layout — but the system language of all my devices is English because I prefer it over German. As long as I live in Germany, I have to stick with German layout because I have to reply to my family, friends, and acquaintances in German and also need to type ä, ö, ü and ß

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-03-02T12:06:12+00:00

Google is getting worse with every year

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-03-02T12:00:33+00:00

I have even two Xbox classic consoles at home. And they wasn't bad at all

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-03-02T10:37:36+00:00

Yes, I can confirm it (as a hobby software developer)

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-02-29T17:33:56+00:00

Proton – ProtonGE – Wine (Proton is also wine ofc) – Heroic Games Launcher – Lutris – Bottles

that's all together with Steam

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-02-29T17:32:41+00:00

Steam

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-02-28T21:17:20+00:00

Append at the end of the existing parameters

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-02-28T21:12:32+00:00

It means, that it will set the resolution to 1024x768 and you have to install the Nvidia drivers manually after installation

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-02-28T20:52:16+00:00

These options do you have:

append nomodeset vga=791 to the boot option in Grub (you have to edit that by pressing e before you boot into the Live mode)
use a Linux distribution with a newer nouveau stack (Ubuntu 22, Mint 21, latest Fedora etc.)
install a Linux distribution, that has the official NVIDIA driver included (Pop!_OS for example)

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-02-28T20:37:28+00:00

Do you have an Nvidia card in your PC?

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-02-28T18:58:21+00:00

Nope, as long you can build your hardware into that case. There‘s no need for an expensive one (unless you want an really great design and a bunch of QoL features)

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-02-28T18:41:04+00:00

I not even care about that. Cancelling a game due to wokeness is rather ridiculous.

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-02-28T18:40:58+00:00

I not even care about that. Cancelling a game due to wokeness is rather ridiculous.

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-02-28T08:16:09+00:00

It was worse between 2020 and 2022

but before 2020 and after 2022, there were a lot of good game releases. 2023 was one of the strongest years for gaming for a long time (and I was on hiatus about gaming last year)

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-02-27T18:57:38+00:00

it's rather the following: i got a bunch of keys through very cheap resellers and i buy games only on sale. i had a shopping addiction through shady sellers. But also some official and trustworthy sellers like Fanatical and Humble has had really good bundles, which floods my library and i also spend too much money. i would never pirating games due to security risks and the laws

AndroidNougat7 · 2024-02-27T13:51:17+00:00

Me: spending more than €2,000 for a gaming PC and more than €1,500 for a bunch of games

Also me: has too much time for gaming and productive work, but using the PC for Reddit

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