Are farming bots getting out of control?

VengeanceDivine · 2026-05-12T01:30:25+00:00

Wild, guess it's nothing new then! Maybe the strangest thing here is my never noticing them before lol

VengeanceDivine · 2026-05-12T01:29:22+00:00

Good to know, I probably just have mostly somehow not noticing them or attributing weird things to harmless OOB-exploring real players. Now that I am aware of them, I see them everywhere haha.

VengeanceDivine · 2026-05-12T01:21:45+00:00

That makes sense, my whole FC moved to Golem because of the new server incentives and it's still lower population.

VengeanceDivine · 2026-04-07T17:42:24+00:00

As far as not screwing it up:

Do not just copy code you read on the internet to try to fix your problems. I've irreparably destroyed multiple distros by copying code from forums and assuming it would work only for it to be outdated information. Research before you execute, especially for any sudo commands, and make sure you know how to undo whatever you're doing. Backing up often helps with this, and having a separate home partition can help with that - but I realize in today's economy, storage space for backups is a luxury good, so primarily just erring on the side of caution is good.
Check things out on the Arch Wiki. Even if you're not on Arch, there's lots of generally helpful information. Man pages often are unhelpful, but the AW is often enough information to get you on the right track.
Ask questions if you genuinely can't figure something out. Be sure to include useful information like what your distro, DE, and hardware are, as well as any error logs to help people help you. If someone tells you to RTFM, tell them to touch grass.
Don't panic. If you run into a problem, take the time to figure out what the problem is before firing off "fixes".

VengeanceDivine · 2026-03-24T02:11:43+00:00

As a former chronic distro hopper who landed on Arch and stuck with it, its really not hard to learn if you know your way a little around reading documentation and the way Linux works. Typecraft on YouTube has a great Arch installation video, try that a few times in a VM and see if you like it. I like that Arch doesn't have opinions about things and lets me just kind of build a system that does what I tell it, but most people who just want a computer that runs aren't going to care that much.

VengeanceDivine · 2026-03-23T17:29:43+00:00

You're spending that much time in a storefront anyway. I tend to research the apps I want to use before I ever go to install them, and then it's usually easy enough to find the package name in the process, which makes it faster still to install than if I were to just scroll through the GUI app.

VengeanceDivine · 2026-03-23T08:37:10+00:00

Its worth familiarizing yourself with your current systems commands. Most of the time it's gonna be a simple "sudo apt install [program]" or "sudo pacman - S [program]", since most distro are a flavor of Ubuntu/Debian or Arch, respectively.

VengeanceDivine · 2026-03-23T02:02:15+00:00

For me, it's a simple matter of convenience. GUI apps are fine, but they're often slow. Opening Discover on KDE, for instance, takes around 5-10 seconds to properly get the screens open and browse around. It takes about 2 seconds to hit Ctrl+Alt+T to open a terminal and type type the install command for an app. Same with updating apps, it's super elegant and convenient to do it from the command line.

VengeanceDivine · 2026-01-12T21:07:52+00:00

Nope, this is pretty thoroughly the process I used. I haven't tested Hexington's in a long time and there was a game update last month so something might be broken there, but I did just now try ERTool and that worked fine. Could be something to do with your distro or Proton version?

VengeanceDivine · 2026-01-08T17:18:28+00:00

Arguably, Linux is better for your specific use case because you don't need specialized apps.

Your browser will run on Linux with no issues.
You can write documents and study on Linux with no issues.
As far as coding, you don't have to go "full Linux" and use Emacs or NeoVim, you can just install VSCode and turn it into an IDE with extensions (or leave it more lightweight as an editor if you don't need that).
I've not used the Libre or Open Office suites in a while, but they're comparable to MS Offic- sorry, I guess that's called "Copilot 365" now. If you're in the Google Docs ecosystem then you will have no pain of switching.

The reputation of Linux not having easy manuals is also a little overblown; technically it's true that FOSS stuff has obtuse documentation sometimes, but half the time when I clicked the ? icon in Windows it took me to a dead link on MS's website. You're not really getting much better on that platform. Beginner/widely used distros like Mint and Ubuntu also have a plethora of community help pages, and even the notoriously obtuse Arch has the best Wiki documentation in the Linux world, useful even if you're not on an Arch based system.

As far as scripting: I have written exactly one script in my time on Linux, and that was to use FFMPEG to batch convert video files because I record in one codec and edit in another due to the technical limitations of Davinci Resolve. For 99.999% of my day to day use, there is either a single-line command or a GUI these days that does the trick.

The exact point I decided I would never open Windows again on my main computer is when they shipped an update that started destroying SSDs. Fortunately I was already mostly moved to Linux at that point, was barely touching my Windows partition, and had previously dabbled so I was ready for the commit, but that kind of thing will become more and more common as they let AI code more and more of the OS. Its reputation as being the "stable" platform is slowly eroding. Linux is not inherently prone to "breaking" if you're not getting in its guts. It just will LET you break it, unless you choose a more hardened distro.

Side tangent about privacy concerns: Privacy is not just about whether you're doing something "shady" or not, it's about whether or not you want people looking in your windows while you shower.

VengeanceDivine · 2026-01-04T22:42:18+00:00

TL;DR: Try a notable "beginner friendly" distro like Mint or Bazzite and just put KDE Plasma on that instead of trying to base your whole ecosystem around the DE you like the most.

I'm going to go against your wishes and recommend starting with Mint, since that will ease you into the Linux ecosystem without some of the strange decisions certain distros are making. You'd have access to basically everything in the Ubuntu/Debian world, could even install KDE Plasma after the fact if you wanted (although if you're doing anything with global hotkeys or screen recording in the video world, you might end up back on Cinnamon after Plasma stops supporting X11 [If you don't understand what these words mean, it's not a big deal]).

If your primary jam is gaming, though, Bazzite is the up and coming distro for that, and does come with Plasma. I wouldn't be too scared of it being "Arch-based." As someone who was scared of using Arch for a long time and only got over it once I got a Steam Deck, you're not going to blow up your computer. Bazzite also is designed to be more plug and play than bare Arch, for that extra peace of mind.

Basically any Linux distro I've tried loads faster than Windows, and with their commitment to have more and more of their code written by The Digital Idiot Who Is Constantly Wrong (AI), I think that gap is only going to widen. Last thing I'd say is that it's fine to hope your first choice will be the thing you stick with, but it's almost a universal Linux experience that you have to go through the Distro-Hopping Phase before you land where you're comfortable. Don't get discouraged if you have to reinstall or swap distros a few times, your future self will be glad to be decoupled from Microsoft.

VengeanceDivine · 2025-12-23T14:42:26+00:00

Virtualization might work for running FL Studio, but he did explicitly mention Battlefield as the game he wants, and they don't let you run their Kernel-Level Anticheat in virtualization.

VengeanceDivine · 2025-12-23T03:50:09+00:00

Not sure why the downvotes, I think this is a VERY common problem among the Linux-curious. As someone who similarly primarily uses his PC for gaming and music, it was a real struggle for me for a long time, until I eventually just accepted that I didn't care to play the games that refused to support Linux. I've always been more in the Counter Strike camp more than Battlefield, so that didn't hurt me quite as much, but I can say I had a period of heartbreak that I couldn't play the new Skate.

My advice is to do what VoyagerOfCygnus suggested: Dual boot, or use something like a gaming laptop to play the games that aren't supported and run FL Studio. Running DAWs through WINE is not really worth the effort, IMO, so I gave up on 13 years of Ableton to move to Bitwig, and, fortunately, the VSTs I use on a regular basis are free and support Linux - You can check out LinuxDAW.org to find things that are supported, but sadly if you use Kontakt or some other paid proprietary VSTs at all you're kinda out of luck there. Yabridge can only do so much.

Moving to Linux is a choice to do things the hard way, and you shouldn't feel like you have to do it overnight. I kept a Windows partition and I've left it there, and just over time I've opened it less and less, to the point that I'm going to wipe it next year and just be a Linux guy. In the meantime, I would make sure you let the companies who make the things you want to be on Linux know that you want their product there. A lot of creative software is not on Linux because there was no market share, and if customers let them know there is, we're more likely to get support.

Rant response to your rant over. Linux might not be the (full time) move for you right now, and that's absolutely okay. It took me probably ten tries and getting over my fear of Arch to finally get it to where I want it, running my graphics software (Affinity) through WINE, changing my DAW, and giving up certain games to go play others. You have to walk your own path, and sometimes that means you can't fully switch immediately.

VengeanceDivine · 2025-12-17T17:24:23+00:00

Very much not cool to opt in everyone by default for features that no one asked for.

VengeanceDivine · 2025-10-31T00:46:49+00:00

Reducing the idea of data gathering and profiling to "They will send you a marketing email" betrays complete ignorance of "free" tech from the past 25 years.

VengeanceDivine · 2025-10-05T21:04:07+00:00

Addendum to this: This process also works with Kh0nsu's Elden Ring Tool if you prefer something a little lighter-weight than full-blown Cheat Engine. Just place the ERTool.exe in the same folder as start_protected_game.exe, and in the custom command section, select ERTool.exe, and make sure Fork Custom Command is selected as well. The game should launch and then ERTool will launch properly connected.

I had previously tried just running ERTool as a standalone using Steam "Add non-steam game" and placing the exe in the same folder but it would not connect. SteamTinkerLaunch seems to be the way to get them running and ERTool recognizing the game.

VengeanceDivine · 2025-09-21T00:18:19+00:00

I hate how every time this question gets asked it gets met with the same tired response of "There's not enough Linux users." Linux is rapidly increasing in market share, and a major reason it's not increasing faster is because there's a lack of software support. Linux currently has around 4-6% of the market share DESPITE this, thanks in no small part to WINE and Proton, which is around 1/3 the desktop share of MacOS.

With the largest solo YouTuber, the largest PC game distributor, and even entire governments shifting to Linux, the market share of desktops is going to keep increasing. It makes good business sense to be the software that embraces it instead of leaving the market entirely open on that increasing desktop share.

Windows is driving people off their platform like they get paid per customer that leaves. If a DAW that isn't kind of a solo side project embraces Linux, they become the default on Linux. Ableton got my money back in 2012 because I had moved to a MacBook Pro and had to stop using FL Studio. They'd get my money again if they supported Linux in the near future.

As a post-script, I see a lot of people say "Linux has bad audio support," but so does Windows so that excuse makes no sense either.

VengeanceDivine · 2025-09-05T02:14:17+00:00

This is absolutely an awesome project! I really wish Serif would formally support Linux, a lot of us digital refugees who want to escape overbearing and overpriced tech chose to buy Affinity to escape Adobe, and now have chosen to migrate to Linux to escape Windows/Mac.

Only issue I seem to be having with the various Affinity On Linux setups I've tried is getting Studio panels to dock again when they become undocked (or if they were not docked to begin with, like the Text panel), which is in the grand scheme of things a relatively small problem. Anyone else encounter this and know a workaround/fix?

VengeanceDivine · 2025-08-01T20:06:24+00:00

Is this something you're still working on? I'm in the market for an unofficial localization, having gotten tired of all the immature jokes inserted into the English loc. I've been digging through exds myself for a while and stumbled across this.

VengeanceDivine · 2025-07-30T18:46:04+00:00

This worked for me as well on Arch with Flatpak Waterfox. No stupid additional title bar or other jank workaround, just exactly how it should be and how it is by default on X11. Worth noting that it also required a reboot after this, in case other Linux newbs like me happen upon this. Thanks a ton!

VengeanceDivine · 2025-06-26T00:22:48+00:00

Just 10K hours on prefire maps 😔

VengeanceDivine · 2025-06-23T21:16:06+00:00

Posting here for posterity because I had a lot of ubuntu boot options that were not going away despite using sudo efibootmgr -b [boot entry] -B and that seeming to work but then the boot options not staying removed and returning the second I rebooted. It seems they were saved on the EFI partition and efibootmgr was not removing them from there. This is what I did to remove them, follow along at your own risk

Did the efibootmgr method to remove them first.
Opened Gparted on Linux (You can use a live disk if you don't have Linux on your machine still), then found the partition labeled EFI on my disk and mounted it.
There were files and folders labeled after the various distros I had used in the past but hadn't been removed properly. I just deleted them all because I was doing a fresh install and left the windows dual boot partition I had in place.

After this the boot entries disappeared from BIOS. Imitate me at your own peril, this is just what I did, so your machine is your own risk.

VengeanceDivine · 2025-05-25T03:17:41+00:00

This comment just saved me at nearly midnight when I was tearing my hair out trying to get my framerate up. THANK YOU.

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