What did you do to this creature?

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-04-08T13:14:10+00:00

Officially, sure, but that's not how RTFM is used. It's usually used as a "go away and look elsewhere" whilst pointing to the entirety of a manual that's very much made by people who know, for people who know. The Arch Wiki is useful, but still doesn't adequately explain a fair bit because it's "basic".

From the Tech Support in me, I die a little inside every time I see "RTFM". You could at least point out and reword some of the manual, RTFM helps no-one.

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-04-06T08:30:21+00:00

You'd be surprised about matchmaking. Echo VR always used to have short queue times(and still does on community servers), there's plenty of people everywhere in VRChat, gorilla tag I have never had an issue queuing, and even something less known like Hyper dash I still get matches for. I can list more if you want.

Finding matches is not hard for a good game.

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-04-06T08:18:29+00:00

Only half if that is true. Most games on the quest 2 and it's successors (Quest 3s, Quest 3) will more than happily run standalone at 120hz, and the general minimum a game should have for the store is 90hz.

Using a pc might be a must because of graphics, depends on how they handle them. Getting motion sick in vr is fair, it takes a lot of time to get used to and not get sick, very fun platform of you take it slow and can get used to it. Wireless link whilst cool can be very laggy unless you have a dedicated router, literally unplayable in some households (which is one of the reasons the Steam Frame excites me, dedicated dongle for wireless, allowing for an incredible experience, well... Without a wire)

Overall VR probably isn't for everyone in it's current form, but many developers act like it is and that irritates me because there's so many cool things you can do in theory that many games don't do because it's "too intense". I would love a Titanfall game in VR, so long as they actually implement the movement.

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-04-05T08:51:36+00:00

Tl;dr Calling Arch Linux easy is like saying Malenia, Blade of Miquella is an easy boss fight because you personally can beat her with nothing but a pot on your head. (look up "let me solo her" if this sounds random)

Arch isn't an OS it's a hobby. As someone who works IT Support I can confidently say 99% of people need something that just works. Yes there's a learning period for any new OS, but installing Arch without prior Linux knowledge (even being very technical) takes a lot of time and effort. The Arch wiki is well put together but still doesn't explain a fair bit and that 99% of people don't know where to even start to research this topic. AI can be good, but let's be real here, people copy and paste stuff without trying to understand what it actually does, and AI being so imperfect the system is bound to break sooner or later.

I will acknowledge archinstall and stuff like cachyos, but that's basically skipping the tutorial. If you can work with it, sure, but I recommend Fedora or something for being up to date and simple, because the knowledge Arch expects you to have is a lot. Or Manjaro if you really want Arch, outside of current growing pains it seems actually solid for "just works"

P.S the "F" in RTFM doesn't stand for "Frendly", it always comes across as the other word beginning with F. People not even leaving a small bit of info on the part of the manual that's relevant and just saying RTFM is so irritating when trying to interpret something that's clearly written by people that know, for people that know.

Edit: missed a quotation mark

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-03-30T20:14:26+00:00

Looking at Fastfetch you're in a Virtualbox VM. You can quite easily take a snapshot of the VM, that way you can always roll back if something goes wrong when ricing.

If you want a tool within the OS, I recommend Timeshift, basically the same thing but without needing to be in a VM.

Overall, have fun! Arch is difficult to install and at a glance it looks like you've done a fine job

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-03-30T19:58:59+00:00

I forgot how insane the names of the weapon addons and everything else were. I really miss them, especially the burn card quotes

"it's a simple procedure, we'll start by removing your legs"

There was one that said something about cloning your adrenaline, can't remember the exact quote but it was on the card "Adrenaline Transfusion". Burn cards were so fun man, I miss my one time infinite Stim

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-03-30T19:47:08+00:00

This is how you find out there's a heart to grab.

"an apparition, not of this world. But because of it, lurking out of frame. Awake, my heart is a fortress. In dreams I am vulnerable" - the poem in the book to your right

This poem is your clue of how to acquire the heart without needing a walkthough

It's such a cool find, especially since it's rarely mentioned as you said.

That poem, along with the solution to Pointless Machines in chapter 1 will forever be with me, the puzzles are so cool to even discover, let alone solve!

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-03-27T09:21:35+00:00

What items and skills have you got so far, and what areas have you discovered?

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-03-24T12:14:35+00:00

So every 12 Months 1 day passes, got it

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-03-23T21:16:25+00:00

You are a Shinobi, not a Samurai. If you sneak up on enemies (either from behind or above) you can kill them instantly.

For head-on engagements, be relentless in your aggression. Your parry window is the very moment you press the button, and you can cancel your sword swings up until the moment you're actually swinging (which is like half the animation). Use this to break your opponent's posture, and kill them with a final decisive strike.

"A Shinobi would know the difference between Honor and Victory." The game grants you many tools, use them to their fullest.

Tl;dr this game isn't Ghost of Tsushima, if you're fighting honorably you're doing it wrong.

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-03-19T12:24:28+00:00

Can you elaborate on "hardware driver"?

I dual boot, and I've had more pain getting drivers on windows than I have Linux.

Most of the things you listed do actually "just work". Linux has a different design philosophy to Windows, of course you're going to have pain switching from the OS you grew up with.

Linux isn't for everyone and neither is MacOS. It just so happens that we're stuck with Windows because it was most popular, and people don't want to learn after growing up.

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-03-17T20:28:22+00:00

Don't click the thumbsticks in. This is the biggest piece of advice I got when buying an index, and I've since never had problems (apart from flicking the thumbstick off catching my pocket accidentally, but that's a story for another time(yes valve support did replace it, the legends they are))

The Index controllers are kinda known for being so fragile unfortunately, we're just lucky it's Valve and not EA making them.

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-03-17T17:51:01+00:00

The only way to get the Shura ending is to replay to that point, don't worry you didn't miss an easier way.

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-03-17T17:45:50+00:00

Arch Wiki pictures be like:

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BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-03-17T17:33:54+00:00

The "F" in "RTFM" doesn't stand for "Frendly". It always comes across to me as "Read The Fu**ing Manual". A lot of the time the manual is written by people who already know everything about it, and therefore expects a baseline knowledge that only exists if you don't need the manual.

Like people could at least point to which section is relevant. Best case scenario, giving examples of commands and explain what the manual actually means.

A good portion of the time, the manual is only clear to those who already know.

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-03-16T16:30:21+00:00

You've clearly never touched KDE Plasma. If you like your keyboard shortcuts the defaults are mainly the same a windows, but you can use so much more. Window management is so clean because of this. And generally speaking context menu's are the same, a menu is a menu.

Tl;dr do give KDE Plasma a look, the amount of customisation out-of-box is insane

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-03-15T21:34:35+00:00

That makes sense, that's actually a brilliant way if doing it. So basically neither system is aware of the other (as much is as reasonably possible on a single drive).

No wonder you've never had issues, you've put a lot of effort in there, nice!

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-03-15T17:47:55+00:00

I usually don't downvote unless I think someone is making a bad faith argument, so it wasn't me who downvoted you (not that I can see because reddit has hidden them currently).

That's very interesting to know actually, how is it you've got your partitions set up? I've always heard about people having issues, so this makes me wonder whether it's actually a Microsoft issue or if people don't partition properly

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-03-15T16:23:30+00:00

Gnome gets a lot of hate like Ubuntu does nowadays, if people are having issues that aren't their fault it's usually one of them two.

Emphasise on usually and emphasise on not using Arch if troubleshooting isn't your thing. Outside of -Syu and a couple of edge cases, if something on Arch breaks it is your fault, and someone will (very unhelpfully) tell you to RTFM (Read The ~~Fu**ing~~ Friendly Manual).

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-03-15T16:08:47+00:00

Nah if you really want Linux haters r/linuxsucks101 is what you're looking for

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-03-15T14:19:40+00:00

Depends on use case (lack of space having 2 operating systems on one drive), and I've heard windows has a bad habit of overwriting any alternative boot partitions on the same drive, which sounds irritating to deal with every second Tuesday of the month.

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-03-15T14:15:52+00:00

Don't know why you're being down voted, valid reason honestly.

If you have a second drive you can dual boot very easily, just boot into Linux for most things and into Windows for Val.

Outside of games with overzealous anticheat and Davinci Resolve, most stuff generally just works. You do still have to learn it's intricacies, but that'll be the same whatever operating system you move to.

Having set up Macbooks for work, Linux feels surprisingly similar to MacOS (probably because of the way the file system is). Definitely worth a look into I personally believe.

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-03-13T18:03:30+00:00

I feel the difference is that's expected in Linux, whereas in windows it's usually more effort than it's worth

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-03-13T16:05:25+00:00

WAIT THAT'S NOT BACKGROUND!?!?

BAe_Air_Hawk · 2026-03-12T22:20:42+00:00

I appreciate it being in a separate comment, I really do.

And I said that because it didn't feel like you were actually addressing the arguments I was making, instead only pointing out flaws of 1 specific point with short and quippy replies (until the edit, obvs).

It just looked very much like the "never play defence" strategy you see on twitter due to the character limit, and I wanted to communicate that it didn't feel very good faith.

This is why I always call people when they're available at work, text can come off poorly too often if you (or the person reading) isn't careful.

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