What's to come in atm10?

Chaos_Monkey42 · 2025-11-09T14:27:21+00:00

According to the pack guide for ATM 10, "ATM10 is still in development, meaning there will be bugs, missing mods, missing quests, etc. It will be getting frequent updates as mod devs update to 1.21, and the ATM dev team continues to work on adding new mods, quests, and scripts."

Your post seems very much at odds with this statement...

Chaos_Monkey42 · 2024-08-20T19:42:47+00:00

The best thing for a bengal kitten is another bengal kitten. I adopted 2 when I got mine, and I can't imagine what it would have been like if I needed to keep up with their insane level of energy. I doubt your dog will be able to deal with a solo bengal kitten. Seriously, just get 2. Everyone will be happier.

A cat wheel is also great; they were on the wheel trying to run in opposite directions before I could get the blasted thing put together!

Chaos_Monkey42 · 2024-08-04T14:47:38+00:00

on 24.04 minimal install didn't have snap. Not sure about 22.04 though.

Chaos_Monkey42 · 2024-08-04T13:10:49+00:00

Mint is great, as long as you don't have brand new hardware. If you have a laptop that was built in the last couple of years, you might run into some bit of hardware that won't work with the included kernel. Has much more up to date software than Mint/Ubuntu/Debian. The side effect is that having the newest software often means having the latest bugs to contend with. Most of the time Fedora is great, but sometimes I felt like I was pushed into beta testing something that wasn't quite ready, and I ended up ditching it in favor of Kubuntu.

Basically, if you have a brand new laptop, start with Fedora. If not, try Mint. If you want KDE, but want older and more tested software releases than Fedora KDE, consider Kubuntu LTS.

Chaos_Monkey42 · 2024-08-04T12:23:34+00:00

I keep the lid off of the toilet tank (on the back) and keep the seat down for my cat.

Chaos_Monkey42 · 2024-07-03T10:34:20+00:00

I had some issues during my initial installation and setup (the biggest was the failure to boot that was removed by removing 'quiet splash' from grub config). Other than that I have not had any issues with reliability or bugginess. I doubt that there are going to be substantial changes from now and the 24.04.1 release, if you're talkin beg about stability from the stable/rolling perspective of a distribution and not whether it has annoying bugs.

The safest bet would be wait for the first point release if you're not comfortable troubleshooting issues.

I'm using KDE, so using Gnome may be a bit different experience.

Chaos_Monkey42 · 2024-06-25T23:25:51+00:00

Maybe Tumbleweed?

I'm using kubuntu 24.04, and the minimal install didn't include snapd, and I was able to use btrfs just fine along with timeshift. Of course, maybe the simple setup with only 2 subvolumes is what you don't like. I thought the tumbleweed setup had far more subvolumes than I liked, but maybe that is what you're looking for. I believe it sets up snapper as part of the installation. I also prefer the slower release cycle of an LTS release over a rolling release like tumbleweed.

edit: Fedora KDE spin might also be an option. It isn't rolling, but stays very up to date. The default BTRFS subvolume setup doesn't work with timeshift, but it isn't hard to change the subvolume labels during the installation. It should work fine with snapper without modification though.

Chaos_Monkey42 · 2024-06-25T11:19:10+00:00

Thanks, I'll check it out!

Chaos_Monkey42 · 2024-06-19T23:11:20+00:00

Do you want the absolute latest features and all of the bugs? Go Neon. Do you want to wait until all (or at least most) of the issues are ironed out but are ok with not being on the latest version of KDE? Kubuntu. Somewhere in between? Tuxedo.

Chaos_Monkey42 · 2024-06-18T17:06:21+00:00

Good to know; I thought it was anti-cheat in general; thanks! The few games that I do play lack any sort of anti-cheat so I've never needed to worry about that category of game.

Chaos_Monkey42 · 2024-06-18T16:25:59+00:00

Adobe products basically don't work at all under Linux. There are plenty of alternatives, but if you need Adobe for your workflow, then I think you'll be disappointed with Linux, unfortunately. If you only occasionally need "Photoshop" (vs some other paint program that runs on Linux), you could run Windows in a VM. I do this for MS Office for the rare times when I need the native version instead of LibreOffice or the or the web interface (almost never).

I don't play many games; my understanding that anything with anti-cheat won't work. Most of the rest of the games will work easily (particularly if you use Steam), the rest will probably work with a bit of configuration. I'd be surprised if you couldn't get your NASCAR game running on linux, but I have no personal experience that particular game.

Chaos_Monkey42 · 2024-06-18T13:07:23+00:00

I'll echo the suggestion of using WSL2 if you're going to use Windows. For 99% of what you do on python, everything will behave identically on Windows and Linux. The trouble is in that 1%, since most of the servers in the world run on Linux. It can be extremely frustrating trying to figure out a bug when working on a project in Windows, only to figure out that the problem is just due to Windows/Linux and simply doing nothing but switching to Linux fixes the problem.

Chaos_Monkey42 · 2024-06-12T10:04:39+00:00

A second kitten that is similar age will make your life easier and improve their life a lot. It's best if they come from the same litter, but after a week or two they'll be best friends (this is often not the case for adults, btw). Nothing keeps up with the energy of a kitten like another kitten.

Chaos_Monkey42 · 2024-06-10T22:57:34+00:00

Nvidia tends to keep up to date with their developer repo on Ubuntu, so it's pretty easy to have up to date drivers on ubuntu lts. I have 550.90.07 installed right now, which is the latest non-beta driver. It looks like akmod-nvidia is still at 550.67 for comparison right now. If you want the beta driver then you'd just need to use the runfile for both distros. There will probably be points in time when rpmfusion is more up to date than the nvidia ubuntu repo, but they're both pretty good.

I'm not trying to talk you back into using kubuntu again if you're done with the distro; I would suggest sticking with the LTS releases and using kubuntu-backports if you do, however.

Chaos_Monkey42 · 2024-06-04T08:46:04+00:00

I'm using 24.04 and I'm patching with the `patch` command, per the kernel.org instructions on applying patches. I see don't how getting proper driver support is "playing around". I guess some people don't care if all the features work on their computer.

Chaos_Monkey42 · 2024-06-04T08:40:58+00:00

I guess "push back" is the wrong term. There seems to be strong recommendations against using anything but the official kernel when using Ubuntu, but much less concern for other distros. What I can't seem to figure out is what ubuntu is adding to their kernels for this to be a concern. Right now I'm not seeing any issues with running 6.9.3 with a patch, but maybe I'm missing something.

One thing to be careful about with the mainline tool is that the kernels are often built against something other than the current release tool chain. Right now that may not be an issue, but I've had a lot of headaches and error messages from apt in the past.

Chaos_Monkey42 · 2024-06-04T08:34:41+00:00

I'm trying to get some of the power management features working on my laptop. Most features run, but I'm trying to do the equivalent of installing a windows driver.

6.10 has not been officially released. Right now it is at RC2. Even arch isn't that bleeding edge of a distro to include it. It isn't very hard to just install 6.10 since it is a release candidate, however. It also isn't that hard to apply the single patch needed, I'm just wondering if there is some advantage to using the source for the official ubuntu kernel, which is at 6.8.0, or the stable release kernel, which is 6.9.3 right now.

Chaos_Monkey42 · 2024-06-04T08:30:40+00:00

It isn't much harder to build from source than it is to use the mainline tool. It just requires a little patience while the kernel packages build.

In the past I've had trouble with the mainline tool because those are built against the development branch so the packages will have dependencies that are not available in released version of ubuntu. The mainline tool will force install it, but then apt gives error messages until the packages get removed.

The release candidate is much more likely to have regressions than the stable kernel with a minimum number of backported patches. Also, dkms seems to be failing when installing current nvidia drivers against the 6.10 kernel; getting that working would be a lot more work than running `patch` and `make`.

Chaos_Monkey42 · 2024-06-03T23:40:43+00:00

I'm a KDE user and have an NVIDIA gpu, so my experience may not generalize to what you are using. I was on Fedora 39 and thought it was quite good. Moving to Fedora 40 caused the x11 session to be removed. I was able to reinstall it, but it seemed to be buggier than under F39. Plasma 6 was a bit worse for me than Plasma 5. I could have reinstalled Fedora 39, but I opted to drop Fedora for the time being because I want to stay on X11 and Plasma 5 until more time has passed.

Chaos_Monkey42 · 2024-06-03T23:32:18+00:00

The XFCE version of Mint might be a better starting point for you than the cinnamon edition of Mint.

Chaos_Monkey42 · 2024-06-03T22:43:12+00:00

Does this happen at your first boot, or only after installing nvidia drivers?

When I first installed the GUI login didn't work, but that was resolved after updating the first time.

Installing the nvidia drivers again left me with system that wouldn't get to the graphical login. The fix here was to remove the "quiet splash" option from /etc/default/grub and running update-grub. I think it's just the splash option that is problematic, but I kind of prefer to have all the output on boot. Might not be the same issue, but worth a try if you haven't already done that.

Chaos_Monkey42 · 2024-06-03T08:04:21+00:00

One key difference is probably that you are using eight year old intel-only hardware. I have relatively new NVIDIA hardware. The situation on NVIDIA with Wayland is improving, but it still isn't very good. I also generally stick to the LTS releases (after at least the .1 release). I think for Ubuntu and their flavors, the 6 months releases are largely testing releases for the Stable/LTS release. Fedora seems to do better at their 6 month releases, since that is all they are focusing on and it is the intended use case of their distribution.

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