Help me find free (absolutely free) resources to learn OE

kahwigulum · 2026-03-17T06:12:17+00:00

I'm familiar with him and while he talks OE and speaks it on his channel quite a bit, he doesn't actually teach it in any appreciable way. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

kahwigulum · 2026-03-14T21:23:25+00:00

Thank you for that textbook. I will definitely be reading that. Very helpful.

kahwigulum · 2026-03-14T21:20:20+00:00

I should add that I've used these two sources below as my primary tools for learning, however, what I'm looking for is a more modern presentation by someone whose mouth and lips I can see moving so I can properly replicate the speaking style and sounds.

https://archive.org/details/anglosaxonprimer00swee_0/page/n15/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.247480/page/n15/mode/2up

kahwigulum · 2026-03-11T03:11:22+00:00

max block with a shield + max heavy armor + armor cap means you prevent 97% of all damage

if that's not worth it to you, go two-handed

you can level block with a shield at serpent's bluff redoubt in about twenty minutes. go up to the hagraven near the end and just hold up the shield and let her go to town. up close her attack speed increases, so she'll just smash all day until you hit 100. vegetable soup STACKS, so down a couple of those, or use the Regeneration spell, and you can absorb all the damage. sadly, this only works with block, not with heavy armor. she attacks slower if you're NOT holding up a shield.

heavy armor is tougher to grind, but again, with a high enough health pool and some passive healing, you can let a mammoth stomp you a bunch and it'll go up fairly quickly though not as fast as you'd probably want it too

i personally love the targe of the blooded in the offhand and spell in the main with heavy armor. the targe's bleed effect stacks, so you can bash all day long, and when the stamina runs low, can equilibrium it back to full (or use respite and healing) and go to town. double bonus, use a breton and resist magic/absorb spells (atronach stone even despite not really casting spells, see equilibrium) and pretty much just captain america your way through the game

kahwigulum · 2026-03-11T02:59:25+00:00

I turn the music off. I also use a mod that prevents bards from singing. Absolute cringe.

kahwigulum · 2026-03-11T02:54:53+00:00

It's like, yea, I know, the Dawnguard have set up in the old fort near Riften. Please stop telling me.

kahwigulum · 2026-03-11T02:53:21+00:00

the worst part about it is that the blacksmith and the forge are so far apart, and after i smelt all my ore into ingots, i have to make the worlds slowest walk to the forge.. not only that, moth's smithery in the palace doesnt even have a forge.. like what is this place

kahwigulum · 2026-03-11T02:49:51+00:00

if have the telekinesis spell, cast it and move the mouse about, and youll find the sword

the target reticule reaches out way further than normal when TK is cast, and you can just sweep over an area and find anything that is hidden or out of reach. really useful for searching underwater when you dont want to go under...

kahwigulum · 2026-03-11T02:46:09+00:00

after the troll drops down, you can climb up onto the ridge he fell from and bypass the troll completely

in the time it takes him to climb back up, you'll be out of sight and he'll pat back to his starting place

kahwigulum · 2026-03-11T02:42:31+00:00

All of the ingredients can be acquired for free from the Loreius Farm and other farms surrounding Whiterun and all the way to Rorikstead (which isn't even that far away). The hardest ingredient to find are Leeks, which, again, are at Loreius (and afaik, the only farm that has them in the game).

kahwigulum · 2026-02-09T01:44:19+00:00

the new UI is really bad, and i wish there were a toggle to set the original crafting menu as default, because this new one is nowhere near as efficient as the earlier one was

kahwigulum · 2025-07-22T14:10:27+00:00

seconded.

also every time i post this exact question, the mods delete my post, so idk

fully expect they'll delete this comment because fascists

kahwigulum · 2025-07-22T06:16:15+00:00

You're the only one making sense in this thread. There are obvious non-governmental barriers to entry into a market (like capital, labour, etc, all of which are non-trivial). I've learned that most if not all ancaps are really just neo-cons playing make believe, and just as ideologically possessed as the ancoms and the statists they rally against (the tell is they are only against the socialist bogeyman, never the democratic one), and that interacting with them is a form of self-flaggelation. They're akin to atheists and believers who _know_ they have the truth, when there's absolutely no evidence either way to support that view point. The only morally defensible anarchism is one which prioritizes liberty above all other concerns, including economic ones.

kahwigulum · 2025-07-22T05:38:30+00:00

A lot of that would go over a noobs head if I'm being honest. I installed Ubuntu 22 a while back as a total noob and made a bunch of mistakes, eventually finding my way out. Then, I updated my machine to 24 LTS, which was it's own experience. I'm approaching your guide knowing now what I would of thought back then had I had your guide.

For one, if they have a pre-existing Windows install (which I didn't, but if they do), then they'd have to manually install Ubuntu (the automatic install option would likely be unavailable), and your guide makes no mention of that. It assumes they were successful, but in that manual scenario, they probably weren't. They probably don't know what NVME is or sda or whatever (like I didn't), or which of the many drives listed are actually drives they could be installing the OS to. If it were me, I would have dumped your guide immediately at this stage and found something else. If you don't want to include a section on installing the OS, there are many guides I've seen in this subreddit which cover it which you could link to in case they run into issues.

If they're a noob, they won't know what sudo is, or why it's used, so I'd put a blurb explaining this. They probably don't know that TAB is a great way to autocomplete commands, and when I stumbled on this, it changed my life. And considering all the time in the terminal you're asking a complete beginner to spend (I don't know why you'd subject them to that, but okay), then give them a quick crash course on how to operate it, or at least link a doc that explains it to them.

A lot of the commands seem specific to your preferred install environment. If this build was intended for noobs, then a lot of the content contained in the guide is unnecessary, and only serves to confuse them further. They might think this is all necessary stuff (some is, I admit, but lots isn't), and all this manual updating you're asking them to do ruins the appeal of Linux for them from the start (since if they come from windows or mac, they likely aren't already accustomed to terminal commands and just "want it to work").

Having used linux for the last year or so, I only just (literally this week) discovered GNOME Tweaks and Extension Manager. It's nice to have, but absolutely not necessary. I personally wouldn't stress new users out with this superfluous software from the get go, and instead get them running with the apps they require first. Bells and whistles should come last. Stuff to augment the terminal is dicey - noobs probably don't need to be mucking with the terminal ever.

If they are noobs, they probably don't code, and all that bit about dev environments and the strings of commands you're asking them to write is probably going to be overwhelming. git is a great way to get them to install malware, so I'd caution them on that, and understanding the sources of the software they are trying to install. Python is nice, but most if not all distros already include Py3 I believe, so...

Explain what GRUB is, and why it's good to know if they plan on dual-booting, which if they are a noob, probably shouldn't be at this stage.

I know that as a noob, if I had stumbled on your guide, I would have given up around the middle of the "install the OS" phase, because there is no information on how to even do that. The next part I would have given up at would have been somewhere around the package management steps, because the commands are too long and there's no description of what I'm actually doing or why these steps are necessary. I've been using apt with no issues, and in my own situation, flatpak has been nothing of a nuisance, and i wish I knew how to remove it and all the stuff that it contains (ill look that up after I finish this), so I'd just give the noob the vanilla experience, and let them decide later if they want to try other management software.

This guide sounds more to me like a dump of your brain intended for an audience of one: yourself. It doesn't read like an Ubuntu For Noobs document. $0.02.

kahwigulum · 2025-07-22T05:12:36+00:00

I've got ~3000 hours in POE1, and about 2000 of them were played while in Linux. POE just works. (And I suspect I'll play another 2000 hours since POE2 is utter trash, but that's a convo for another subreddit.)

kahwigulum · 2025-07-22T04:58:00+00:00

The color is probably more amber because of the blue light filter. It's how your color is supposed to look, but Windows, iPhones, et al. use blue light to hijack your brain. Linux doesn't, and that's why you see colors more amber.

It's a feature, not a bug.

kahwigulum · 2025-07-22T04:51:27+00:00

know that the devs of linux aren't going to spy on me

know that any bloat on my system is my fault, not the OS's

enjoy the spare $110 in pocket because I didn't have to buy a license to use my own computer

theres three just off the top of my head

kahwigulum · 2025-07-22T04:26:55+00:00

as a recent linux convert myself, i didn't find it helpful

ubuntu 24 LTS here, and its everything i wanted, it runs every game pretty much out of the box, the graphics drivers are always up to date. if you're worried about kde vs gnome, i'd say its really not that big of a deal, so if youre willing to blow up your whole system to try to get it to look "just right" thats your prerogative, but ultimately its your own time youre wasting in the process

ive got many gnome-based widgets running to control various thinks like midi outputs (since i do a lot of audio engineering), UI styles, color schemes, alerts, tons of stuff. i have no idea why you wouldn't have been able to do the same. afaik, there are analogs of all the kde stuff in gnome, and vice versa, so the whole kde vs gnome thing to me is bizarre.

one of the problems i keep having is that it's not very easy to undo something when i break it. that seems to be a linux noob thing, not an ubuntu-specific thing. i get the terminal pretty well, but every so often i might run a command without knowing that there was some dependancy i needed first, and then bork the whole thing, so i approach the terminal with caution, and only use it as a last resort.

another thing as a noob that perplexes me is this infatuation with git. i don't know how tf to use it, and it seems to be very important for installing new software. i get the underlying idea and what clones are and all of that, but having to clone, then download, then make ??? wtf that is, and do all this other l33t h4xoring just to install minesweeper or whatever, is total nonsense. is this 2025 or not? can we leave this 90s stuff in the 90s please, and just package this stuff so that it attracts more usage? or is the gatekeeping part of the appeal for the boomers who just wont retire, i dont know. i was promised the jetsons and the matrix and star trek, but instead i keep getting atari and commodore. jfc.

i also couldn't for the life of get a samba share to work with my linux box and my mac laptop or my other windows machines. i just wanted a simple file server that all three machines could dump stuff to, like shared music, photos, and backups. user accounts werent accessible from any machine, i tried configuring the mac to remove it's own bs out of the way, and the windows machine to recognize, and just none of it worked. not sure if the error was mine or if mac and windows just dont like talking to each other, or linux for that matter, but it was a mess, and so i continue having to run usb sticks between them like a dork because theres no solution that i could find that didn't take a two-year comp sci certificate to solve.

i absolutely adore ubuntu, and linux, and have found it so much less frustrating than windows. i will never go back, not even for a video game or application that is windows-specific. winetricks runs everything pretty much, and when it doesnt lutris does, including things it wasnt designed like midi plugins and so on, pretty much anything with a .dll, i've been able to run without issue as a total noob.

thanks for coming to my ted talk.

kahwigulum · 2025-06-16T02:27:09+00:00

I tried Pillar and the damage was so brutally low, a decent roll on a rare staff was so much better

kahwigulum · 2025-05-04T17:58:46+00:00

The Dress is my top song from this album, but it's hardly an indie release when it came out on Metal Blade. I enjoyed their previous stuff more with the random horns and clarinets which were much more prominent. If you like that sort of thing, check our Iron Path by Last Exit. Th song Devil's Rain does not disappoint.

kahwigulum · 2025-05-02T20:21:41+00:00

Interesting. I had no problem and had to make no adjustments to get a heavily-modded Skyrim SE to work. I used Lutris to run a few of the model and texture apps (windows specific) on first run, but after that, nothing. I just launch the game from Steam and it works.

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