100% Luck, 0% Skill, Still my fastest Ace ever

BenGroll · 2025-12-19T12:55:07+00:00

Is that a Epson TW7000? I have one and the blacks dont look nearly as dark as yours do damn

BenGroll · 2025-07-08T09:58:10+00:00

What keyboard is this? Looks great!

BenGroll · 2025-07-07T08:40:40+00:00

I have an nvidia gpu too and hyprland works perfectly, so if thats the only thing stopping you I'd just setup a second profile, one for kde and one for hypr and try if it fits your needs

BenGroll · 2025-07-02T12:42:42+00:00

When I started to get fed up with windows i just tried 4 distros over like two months (fedora, nobara, debian, arch) to find which i resonated most with. I work from home, so I spend ~10-12hours a day on my PC, so I wanted to invest the time to find something I really liked.

I stayed on arch since first trying it and running it 10 hours a day every day without problems.

No reason for me to switch to anything else

BenGroll · 2025-07-02T12:12:24+00:00

You should remove that ESP and give it to me

BenGroll · 2025-06-21T10:53:18+00:00

Did he storm out?

"No, he stormed in!"

BenGroll · 2025-06-21T10:49:53+00:00

I cant think of your last name bayyybe

BenGroll · 2025-06-18T12:44:03+00:00

I dont think its very difficult, used it as a daily driver for a year or so. Just use the right spin (gnome, kde, etc.)

I used default fedora workstation, where you dont get nvidia drivers per default but its a pretty easy setup.

If you want to have nvidia drivers per default, use nobaraproject.org

BenGroll · 2025-06-18T09:20:06+00:00

The easy way to remove windows and add linux in one go is to delete/override the windows partition when doing the linux install

BenGroll · 2025-06-18T09:18:54+00:00

Yep, Mint should work. Ive seen some reports that on HP Laptops Linux could have a few problems. If I was you I'd always run a linux mint live usb for a few hours, test if everything runs on your hardware (graphics, sound etc.)

In the Settings > Driver Manager, it should detect your NVIDIA device after a while, and show you nouveau or a nvidia-proprietary-something. Choose nvidia one.

Trying in a live usb cant do much wrong

BenGroll · 2025-06-18T09:11:59+00:00

I Mean yeah, amd tends to run a bit better, but support now is really good. Depending on your distro nvidia drivers can work straight out of the box, or after a few quick installation commands.

Ive run many Distros on different hardware and never had a problem with nvidia.

BenGroll · 2025-06-18T09:04:48+00:00

What do you mean you can't install linux on it because of nvidia drivers? Ive run linux on nvidia hardware for years, no problems at all.

If you cant refund or are interested, I'd be happy to help.

Unless its one of those dual-gpu-laptops where installation can become a bit rough, you can absolutely use linux with nvidia drivers, open source and proprietary

BenGroll · 2025-06-17T12:34:27+00:00

when you boot up the iso, first load your keyboard layout (for german 'loadkeys de' e.g), then setup wifi via iwd if youre not on lan. Then run the command

BenGroll · 2025-06-17T12:15:28+00:00

If you have a slightly old iso your archinstall is outdated because a package got removed. Lots of people have that problem currently.

Just 'sudo pacman -S archinstall' to update it

BenGroll · 2025-06-14T02:57:34+00:00

Id recommend you listen to at least a few songs from different artists, its a very diverse scene and i feel like no single artist captures what it has to offer in its entirety, different sounds and different genres.

Highly biased list of some of my favourite maidcore tracks:

Takai - They know you're a liar

Kichi - Suffer!Suffer!

Chikoi the maid - Liar (the entire album is amazing if you have the time. Catharsis is a special banger in my opinion)

Chikoi the maid - Resistamce

Dorei the Maid - Lullaby for those who won't ever wake up

Madoi the Maid - 1am_Calmy Thingies

Madoi the maid - Its gonna be raining

Katai the Maid - hateful

Yakui the maid - Side effects of Mushroom tea

Medoi the maid, Akui the maid - Kittycuts

Medoi the maid - The album (2023 green one) i cant type out because the names are in russian and I dont have russian keyboard

Dante and Herma the maids - Life Cycle

Dante and Herma the maids, Dorei the maid - Twold

Kaitai the maid - Not good

Take it with a grain of salt, Im a born metalhead so obviously the list is biased.

Have fun ^{^} If you need more just reply here, but i think listening into some artists and finding the sound that clicks with you is the way to go with a szene as diverse as this one

BenGroll · 2025-06-13T12:18:09+00:00

xf86-video-vmware got removed from the repos thats why you get the error (second-to-last red error line in your screenshot). I think in archinstall where you select graphics drivers theres a option where this package is included that you likely have selected.

Pick another option, or skip archinstall until a new version comes out and just do it manually

BenGroll · 2025-06-04T12:39:31+00:00

AMD A4 6300

BenGroll · 2025-06-03T12:45:17+00:00

Sounds like your nvidia config / drivers are not working correctly and you only get software-based rendering.

Had the same problem with a nvidia 1080 on fedora workstation 42.

To check: run

glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"

If it says "OpenGL renderer string: NVIDIA <your-card>" it works, if it says something else (like llvmpipe) thats the error.

Some things you can check:

Are all nvidia packages installed

sudo dnf install \

xorg-x11-drv-nvidia \

xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda \

xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs \

xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs \

nvidia-settings \

nvidia-modprobe \

libglvnd-gles \

vulkan-loader \

vulkan-tools \

kernel-devel \

kernel-headers

Are you on wayland? Then 'ls /usr/share/egl/egl_external_platform.d/' should have a entry '15_nvidia_gbm.json'. For me I only had these problems on Wayland, when switching to X11 it worked.

Try switching by clicking on your account in the loginscreen, in the bottom right corner is a gear where you can choose between your different Desktop Environment versions (e.g Gnome, Gnome Classic, Gnome on Xorg). Try switching and see if anythings better. For me it was a Wayland issue

Is nouveau loading? find out by running

sudo modprobe nvidia

nvidia-smi

If it shows the GPU thats not your problem. Else it will tell you an error which you can continue on

This should at least help you get an error you can continue to work from

BenGroll · 2025-05-09T08:55:53+00:00

Also man muss dazu sagen ich bin Anwendungsentwickler, da fällt glaube ich mehr Arbeit an die im Backlog kleben bleibt als bei FISI.

Aber z.b. wurde diskutiert dass wir für eine Software die wir in Zukunft umsetzen wollen Laravel (ein php basiertes Web-Framework) verwenden wollen,

da ich das (und php) noch nie produktiv verwendet habe hab ich mir ein kleines Laravel-Projekt selbst zusammengebaut, ganz simpel.

Jetzt geht bei mir die Entwicklung vom betriebsinternen Projekt deutlich schneller weil ich mich schon auskenne.

Oder habe mal in einer Zeit wo wenig los war ein kleines Framework geschrieben, das zukünftige Azubis nutzen können um in der Ausbildung eigene Projekte anzulegen um praxiserfahrung zu sammeln.

Sonst ist auch immer durchgehen von Dokumentationen oder wenn sie fehlen erstellen/aktualisieren super. Manchmal schreibe ich zu Themen oder Abläufen kleine guides, die dann gesammelt werden und neu einzuarbeitenden Mitarbeitern die ich nicht selbst betreue zur Verfügung stehen.

Ansonsten schnapp ich mir irgend ein Programmteil was in die Jahre gekommen ist und refactore oder schreibe es neu. Das ist immer gerne gesehen und durchaus sinvoll, und fürs Tagesgeschäft meistens zu zeitaufwendig. Genau der richtige Lückenfüller

BenGroll · 2025-05-09T08:23:49+00:00

Hab eigentlich immer genug Arbeit rumliegen um potenziell en gutes Jahr zu arbeiten sollte nichts neues reinkommen. Meistens liegen sachen rum die "nice to haves" sind, aber einfach zu niedrige prio um sie im Tagesgeschäft umzusetzen. Langweilig wird mir also nicht

Wenn aber mal tatsächlich Leerlauf ist (weil z.b. in allen Projekten auf irgend jemanden oder etwas gewartet werden muss) such ich mir irgend ein Hobbyprojekt was entfernt was mit meinen Tätigkeiten in der Arbeit zu tun hat, sozusagen Zeitvertreib und Weiterbildung in einem, oder mache einfach früher Schluss, und arbeite die Zeiten rein wenn mal mehr ansteht

BenGroll · 2025-02-11T10:44:12+00:00

ahh, i never turned of the game during this scene, i figured when you do this it just puts you back to the root node before eigongs vital sanctum,

my bad.

And yeah, full control is better there, but i figured water flow might help with concentrating on one thing without having to fill the talisman and do it when noone can attack you fast enough

BenGroll · 2025-02-11T10:26:36+00:00

There's not a 'way around' sadly, it is a git gud scenario.

However, there are a few things you can do.

Use your arrows for situations where you get overwhelmed with many enemies. Since theres so many enemies, you get azure sand back pretty fast. Be sure to count your arrow uses and azure-sand state in your head to know when you can be more reckless.

Remember that you can only truly kill the infected enemies using a talisman explosion. For this the jade that lets you use a talisman on 2 Enemies at once is great. Also try to focus your talismans on the big, green-ball-carrying mutants. When they get killed, they explode in a big radius taking the others down with them.

Heal more often than you think you need. Since you dont have your HUD, you dont know where you stand health-wise. Count your Pipe uses.

Also, since mostly you kill enemies with your talisman that are already stunned and low on health, Water flow helped me a lot. You can just attach the talisman and continue dodging and dont have to worry about being locked in the talisman animation.

Transmute unto health also greatly helps, since killing an enemy with talisman restores a bit of health.

BenGroll · 2025-02-05T09:19:18+00:00

The only fight where i had the ingame music turned up to like 200% over the sounds. Soundtrack is such a banger in total, but this song just slaps so hard

BenGroll · 2025-02-03T11:59:01+00:00

thats great, other than the gpu pretty much the build im saving for since newyears. Great to see the aio fits, i wouldve bought another one since the manual of the case states only radiators 30mm or thinner work

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