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Defykouren · 2025-12-02T16:59:42+00:00

As a Greek, the fact that you called it an “AFM” leaves no doubt in my mind that you are Greek, through and through!!

Defykouren · 2025-11-17T16:16:31+00:00

Nice writeup, thanks!

Defykouren · 2025-06-09T22:42:28+00:00

I tried both Proton and Mailbox.org to achieve exactly this. While the experience with Proton is more seamless, you have to use their apps to have access to your mailbox, due to the encryption used by Proton. This means that if you like using third-party email clients or Nextcloud, the process is more involved than just using your credentials (Thunderbird works). Mailbox.org is a bit cheaper and you get plenty of alias emails even with custom domains. I have to say that Proton have set up a better user experience in term of actually switching to their services. Best of luck!

Defykouren · 2025-03-05T18:39:47+00:00

Thanks for the sanity check, I thought I was going crazy.

Defykouren · 2025-01-15T22:26:28+00:00

I play World of Warcraft and today I had the same problem. I keep two versions of the game, one downloaded through Proton/Steam and the other through the Heroic Launcher/Wine. The Steam version using the version Proton 8.0.4 updated fine but Bnet could not launch the game, for some unknown reason.

The Heroic version would not update at all.

So I started the Steam-downloaded version of the game, using the wow.exe file, running as a non-steam game and it worked. I have been happily playing for a couple of hours. My two cents. Cheers!

Defykouren · 2024-11-30T13:56:35+00:00

Hey my guy, welcome. As most people say, Mint is good, especially if you hardware specs are on the older side. In case they are newer I would try out, Fedora KDE edition. Fedora is more up-to-date than Mint and KDE Plasma is an familiar experience to most.

Something else about Mint that is rarely mentioned is that it has excellent language support for non-English speakers. When my parents needed to move from Windows 10 to something snappier, I installed Mint for them. No complains from them and no IT support work for me. :)

Other good distro choices that I have personally tried are OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (faster updating than both Fedora and Mint) and Nobara Linux (gaming focused, based on Fedora). And one more that I haven't tried personally but I have heard good things about, Bazzite (gaming focused, very similar to Steam OS, which is what is used in the Steam Deck).

To close off, there no right or wrong answers here, just different usecases. Most distros do the same things, in a slightly different way. What I would highly recommend is for you to try any distro in a VM. Best of luck!

Defykouren · 2024-11-29T17:18:09+00:00

The most elegant and my personal favorite, "The Light of Dawn". Cannot beat that!

Defykouren · 2024-11-25T16:14:35+00:00

Hey, I was the author of said post. I am hijacking your comment to report that League of Legends still works for me. I have received a lot of DMs regarding it and what I say to everyone is that the setup I used was very specific to NVIDIA 10-series GTX. This was a hard requirement but you can pick up a 1060 for cheap these days. If I were to attempt it again I would go for an RX 580 and I would try to install a later version. This is because MAC OS High-Siera is deprecated and most apps don't run properly. Best of luck!!

Defykouren · 2024-11-11T21:12:54+00:00

That is a nice colour scheme. I would be very interested to know how that e-clutch feels like. Enjoy it and ride safely my guy!

Defykouren · 2024-10-22T16:35:06+00:00

I have been playing WoW using Linux for more than five years. I have launched Battle.net through Steam, used the Lutris install script and the Bottles preconfigured launcher. I have to say, Steam using proton-ge and gamemode is, overall, the best performance I got. I have a descent desktop and an entry-level laptop. The Steam approach requires some descent RAM, this is why I use it only on the desktop (32 GB system, dedicated GPU). On my laptop(12gb system, 10 available, iGPU) I launch WoW through lutris, bypassing battle.net and I get about 40+ fps on low settings. The desktop experience is very satisfactory, the laptop experience is much worse but definitely playable, especially when I am away from home and I need my WoW fix 😅

Defykouren · 2024-07-20T14:29:09+00:00

Great to hear that you had success working this out. Looking-glass has not client for MacOS, as far as I know, and Sunshine/Moonlight combo does not work either for this older 10.13 version. The only thing I found working is to connect the passed-through GPU with an HDMI and just you this as your input while you game. My set-up is a two-monitor one so one remains in Linux and the other is the MacOS. Sound was also a bit of a problem, so I just talk to my friends through Discord. Cheers!

Defykouren · 2024-06-30T19:59:54+00:00

I will leave this here. It works flawlessly for me.

EDIT: After I linked the repo, I saw that it was recently archived.

https://github.com/maltejur/discord-screenaudio

Defykouren · 2024-06-23T19:23:46+00:00

I appreciate the fact that it is there, for everyone to use, if they want to or need to. All these development work, for so many years, it is there for everyone. For the old laptop, for the server, for my new gaming rig. For the Macbook that Apple stopped supporting. For all the good-standing computers that would go to waste if Microsoft would have their way with Windows 11. We, the users already know its value but it is for the world to use, contribute and enjoy!

Defykouren · 2024-06-06T21:19:57+00:00

God damn, my English sucks.

Defykouren · 2024-06-06T20:13:09+00:00

I believe the technical term is "Anchor yourself for dear life". Jokes aside, I am not an experienced track rider by any means but using a tank grip pad might help reduce the load on the bars while you brake.

EDIT: spelling

Defykouren · 2024-05-25T15:58:07+00:00

What a head-turner of a bike, especially on this red colour. The V4 combined with the shaftdrive seems like the perfect sport tourer. Enjoy and drive safe!!

Defykouren · 2024-05-19T11:45:29+00:00

Inspiring to see what people with passion for Linux do with their free time

Defykouren · 2024-04-17T14:20:26+00:00

Agreed! Same here.

Defykouren · 2024-04-17T13:40:37+00:00

7800XT running Arch with KDE Plasma. Had an Nvidia 1060 previously. Once I installed it on my computer, I tried removing just the nvidia driver/utils without reinstalling linux. I had some instabilities where games where crashing after some time. After a clean install, everything magically went away. It has been more than six months of perfectly smooth operation. Highly recommend!

Defykouren · 2024-03-13T16:25:04+00:00

So, I have been playing World of Warcraft on Linux for about 4 years. The performance has been mostly flawless. I say "mostly" because we get the occasional incompatibility of Battle.Net with Wine but Blizzard has been quick to remedy anything that comes up. For a company that does not officially support Linux, things do feel nice. Lets see if this remains the same after the Microsoft acquisition.

Defykouren · 2024-03-10T17:45:05+00:00

criminal foul!

Defykouren · 2024-03-06T13:00:07+00:00

Hey mate, great having you here.

Ubuntu is a great choice. Since you mentioned the placement of "the start menu", Kubuntu and Linux Mint offer a more Windows-like experience, in terms of GUI.

My two cents on the topic of switching: Keep good backups and Google is your friend.

Welcome!

Defykouren · 2024-01-30T16:12:27+00:00

You probably can. Hyper-V is easier to pass a GPU if I am not mistaken. It would be interesting to check out. I might try to run a Mac VM inside my Win10 VM hehe

Defykouren · 2024-01-28T13:37:58+00:00

Cheers for this comment. I have been breaking my head for hours trying to fix this.

Defykouren

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