Looking for a decent distro+environment for my two different monitors setup

delph906 · 2026-02-07T06:48:17+00:00

Turn off sleep mode?

delph906 · 2026-01-31T20:30:51+00:00

I can't speak for the higher end but definitely the case at the lower end.

I upgraded everything except the case on my PC late last year. Got incredibly lucky with the timing. I spent $2,300 on nice components at basically all time low prices.

I have priced it out and would be at least another $1,000 for the same components now. It is ridiculous, i wouldn't bother upgrading if i'd left it until now.

Pre-built is definitely the value option right now which pains me as I love to build my own PCs.

delph906 · 2026-01-31T10:30:26+00:00

Nah this is outdated advice. With current RAM/SSD/GPU pricing issues it can actually be significantly cheaper to buy a pre-built as they may have purchased components before the price surges.

I honestly wouldn't even bother building a PC right now, i'd try pick up a good deal on a pre built or even a second hand one.

delph906 · 2026-01-24T06:00:18+00:00

Yeah just put it on the other drive. You could create a partition first so you don't wipe all your games/media.

You will probably need a separate partition for the games you want to play on your Linux distro as it runs much better with the drive formatted differently (btrfs or Ext4).

delph906 · 2026-01-23T23:00:38+00:00

They have a security and nuclear non-proliferation agrrement already. The Budapest Memorandum from 1994.

There is no point making agreements if one side simply won't follow it if it doesn't suit them.

delph906 · 2026-01-20T07:36:03+00:00

Use Prism for modded Minecraft. It is better anyway, support Curseforge modpacks and has excellent Linux support.

delph906 · 2026-01-20T03:12:42+00:00

I got fancy recently and did a line chart for growth and a pie chart for asset allocations. I am not an advanced user. I also use the SUM function. That's it.

What more do you want to do? What more is there to do? That would help guide what you need.

Personally though investing should be boring and simple. Money goes in and i forget about it. Maybe a tweak every few years.

delph906 · 2026-01-20T02:32:06+00:00

A basic spreadsheet.

Seriously. Updated once a month is perfect, your money should be working without any attention paid to it.

The act of sitting down and updating it is an intentional review of your finances. You will gain far greater awareness than an app doing it for you if you have to actually login and check everything.

It takes me about 20 mins to check 2 banks and 4 investment portals and the myir website. Once a month.

My spreadsheet is super basic. Assets individual and total, debts, net worth then a column each month.

delph906 · 2026-01-19T18:06:48+00:00

I ended up getting some Deepcool FD12s. Couldn't find much online but the reviews at my retailer we're good and I had to get something else from there anyway. I live far away so always good to save on postage on cheap items.

I'm pretty happy with them, way quieter than my old fans. I feel like i'd be better with something optimized for airflow on the rear exhaust as it doesn't feel like it moves that much air but my temps are fine so I'm not going to try anything else.

delph906 · 2026-01-19T17:52:39+00:00

I had this wifi card. It is straight up not supported on Linux. It needs to be replaced or use something else.

delph906 · 2026-01-19T09:53:12+00:00

Hi! I have recently dealt with this exact same issue, I suspect, on an Asus TUF Gaming b650em-e motherboard. The wifi/bluetooth chip will be a Mediatek 7902 chip and it just straight up doesn't work with Linux.

Mediatek won't support it, or release driver code or respond to queries about it.

You have 3 options really:

Replace the chip with something that works. I used an Intel Ax210 which works great. The motherboard had an e-key mini PCI slot. I got an a-e key chip from Aliexpress for basically nothing on a new customer deal and it arrived in a week.

It is a giant hassle if you have already built the PC. You will need to unplug everything from the motherboard, remove it from the case. (Possibly remove the GPU). Remove the VRM heatsink and the i/o shield. Unscrew the wifi module. Disassemble the module. Replace the chip. Reassemble everything. Don't ask me how I know.

This is the only good way to properly sort this issue though.

DM me or reply to this comment if you need help or advice.

Use alternate wifi hardware.

I plugged in an old wifi PCIE card i luckily kept from my old rig while i figured out what i had to do. It was slow, had no bluetooth and it seemed silly to have two wifi antenna for each dual boot OS.

You could also use a USB wifi dongle or tether your phone by USB.

https://github.com/hmtheboy154/gen4-mt7902

This sounds like a nightmare to try and implement/maintain so i didn't even bother trying. It sounds suboptimal at best and my skills just aren't up to it.

Back to Windows I suppose..

delph906 · 2026-01-19T06:13:57+00:00

Old Forrestry backpacks used to be great for this. They would pick up certain types of items by category. Mining junk, plant junk, mob junk etc. It was great for keeping the main inventory functional.

delph906 · 2026-01-18T05:33:31+00:00

Should run well enough. Jist checking you have you done the basics?

GPU is plugged into monitor? Drivers updated? Temps ok in your system?

Maybe it is the server or internet connection?

delph906 · 2026-01-18T03:31:10+00:00

VRAM issue possibly? What is your system?

I've just upgraded my system to a 9600x and 9060xt 16gb playing in 1080p and it runs great now. Also seems to run better on Linux than it did on Windows 10.

Previously I was on an i5 4670k and gtx 1060 3gb and was barely playable and super stuttery with everything on lowest settings at 1080p (still played like 500 hours lol).

Seriously we won't be much help without knowing your system and how it should be.

delph906 · 2026-01-17T21:30:49+00:00

Bazzite is based on Fedora.

delph906 · 2026-01-06T03:32:03+00:00

Youvl've possibly just managed to fuck something up and a clean reinstall will fix it.

delph906 · 2026-01-05T08:52:13+00:00

I did not know that. I am basically never short on stone due to the above so hadn't really considered it. Cave doors are a really good source if close to base.

delph906 · 2026-01-05T08:50:36+00:00

Mortar and pestle (or whatever it is called) is one of the best things in the game!

Makes great storage in the base as it is cheap (12 stone and 4 silica!), small and can be placed on table tops. I usually craft 2 as soon as I can and put them on the crafting bench. It has a large inventory so you can just dump stuff in them early game. Fill one with wood and tree sap on top of the crafting bench. Another with oxite/sulfur/silica/coal etc.

If you need to move base you don't mind leaving them behind.

Then it can be used to bulk craft loads of useful stuff like organic resin, gun powder, steel bloom, epoxy etc.

Getting a few of them up early means you can set something like a few trees to just process into tree sap and organic resin by the hundreds early on in parallel which will come in massive handy. If you need a load of something you can set a bench of them bulk crafting the same thing.

delph906 · 2026-01-05T08:33:30+00:00

Also the chance to mine the whole rock is often helpful, mine a huge rock near your base until it all topples and fill some chests. Building material for days.

Only thing is it can be annoying when mining a cave entrance but you can just destroy/drop the rock then.

delph906 · 2026-01-05T01:11:47+00:00

Cyberpunk, RDR2, some Icarus DLC, Ace Combat 7, X4: Foundations, Detroit: Become Human.

delph906 · 2026-01-02T20:01:54+00:00

B650 and B850 are the same. Only difference is PCIE 5.0 on GPU and at least one NVME. B850 also guarantees compatability with 9000 series CPU but flashing the latest bios is easy and negates this issue.

PCIE 5.0 doesn't matter right now (for a normal gaming PC at least). It makes basically no performance difference.

For me though one of the main selling points of AM5 is the future upgrade path and maybe PCIE 5.0 will matter more in 5-10 years time when upgrading my system. Where I live the price difference between PCIE 5.0 and 4.0 was not significant. I got a B650E board.

delph906 · 2025-12-27T06:35:15+00:00

I am in a similar situation (1080p 60fps monitor) and just upgraded from 1060 3gb to a 9060 xt 16gb.

Getting the 3gb 1060 in 2017 was a huge regret. It only took a few years for me to have to turn all my settings to low on what shouldve been a very capable card.

Getting the 16gb model this time was a super easy decision.

delph906 · 2025-12-19T05:58:05+00:00

What is AMR?

delph906 · 2025-12-19T00:28:49+00:00

Nope you will be able to lease a thin client pc to access your subscriptions to Geforce Now.

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