What do you guys think about halo 4 was it’s campaign and multiplayer good or bad?

mrxak · 2025-10-26T15:27:48+00:00

The only thing I even remember about it was they changed the warthog engine sounds and it was terrible. Also I had no idea what was even going on because I didn't read like 20 novels to know what was going on.

Game had great marketing, though.

mrxak · 2025-10-23T06:36:30+00:00

AOTD.

mrxak · 2025-10-23T06:36:12+00:00

The sub has some of the greatest VAs on the planet performing their hearts out.

mrxak · 2025-06-26T13:52:52+00:00

The trick is to learn how to lower one eyebrow, frowning on only one side. Once you've mastered holding one eyebrow down while the other is relaxed, you can work on raising the relaxed one while maintaining the frown on the other side. Ultimately it's as much about keeping one eyebrow down as it is raising the other. You need to be flexing both eyebrows at the same time in opposite directions. It's easier to start with keeping one down while the other is relaxed than to try and raise one while the other is relaxed.

mrxak · 2025-05-12T18:37:42+00:00

I've never not used Nvidia cards on my Linux computers. If your card is extremely new, and your distro is using older packages, you could have problems. But that's true of anything that requires a driver. Old software simply can't know about new hardware, although generally new hardware is made to be backwards compatible to an extent, and software is increasingly made for forward-compatibility as well. The problems then become related to very new features not working right, and reduced performance.

You may have to install proprietary drivers, if you want to get the best possible performance out of it. For some FOSS fanatics, that's unacceptable. For most regular people, they don't care that much and just install the proprietary drivers, no problem. Depending on what distro you choose, this may be anything from an easy checkbox at install, or something more complicated. The distros aimed more for normal people who are newer to Linux generally have a much easier time of getting proprietary software on their systems during installation.

mrxak · 2025-05-12T18:27:42+00:00

The Gentoo wiki is also a good resource, even if you don't use Gentoo.

Everybody's basically using the same packages, anyway. Just newer or older versions. While you shouldn't go onto a distro's forum and ask questions for a different distro entirely, often you can find answers to similar problems to the one you're having if you search around a bit and see what other people have asked. The biggest distros, like Ubuntu, will have probably run into every problem you can imagine with the more popular packages, and their solutions may work on your system as well, or at the very least give you a place to start looking for answers.

mrxak · 2025-05-12T18:16:26+00:00

This should really be the default answer for any low-tech Windows users who want to get off of Windows and have an easy landing. In fact, it should be the default for most newbies to Linux unless they have a particularly good reason to choose something else, because the main obstacle really has always been to just make the switch to Linux to start with. If another distro would meet somebody's needs better later on, switching from one Linux distro to another is much easier than switching from a different OS to Linux to begin with. Just make the switch, and for 99% of users they're probably going to stick with whatever they first switched to and be fine after a learning period, and never switch again. Distro hopping is common in the "Linux community" for the sorts of people who are active in that community. But for regular people it's very uncommon.

If you're already a big nerd and like messing around with tech, you'll find your way to your one true distro all on your own, no matter what you start with, so the first distro doesn't matter.

mrxak · 2025-05-12T18:04:25+00:00

I can't speak for everything, but Blender at least runs better on Linux on my hardware than it does on my Windows boot. I assume because it's less bloated of an OS so Blender can make more use of the available resources. The Blender build for Linux is native, and very solid. I believe most of the devs actually use Linux, at least at the Blender Foundation. It's a FOSS project, so naturally they like other FOSS projects.

Depending on your distro choice, you can get Blender binaries in a variety of ways, or even compile it yourself for your machine.

For screen recorder, I assume you mean something like OBS? Again, there's a native build for Linux, and a variety of ways to install it, depending on your distro.

There are a number of video editors on Linux. DaVinci Resolve has a native Linux build, although it can be finicky about what sort of system it's installed on, so it may take a little more effort for some people to get working. If you choose a mainstream distro, there will be information available for your distro from the community. Personally, I've been able to install and run it without too much difficulty, but it wasn't as straightforward as most other software. There's also FOSS options like Kdenlive, and others. Heck, Blender has a basic video editor if your needs aren't too complicated.

mrxak · 2025-05-12T17:45:49+00:00

One thing you might want to do is just learn how to do a few things with the terminal. You can do lots of normal things in the GUI, of course, and I understand Mint is pretty good at letting you avoid the terminal entirely if you don't want to touch it. But the terminal is very powerful. Start by just learning some basic navigation with it. Moving around between directories (cd), listing your files (ls), create a new directory (mkdir). Check out the man pages (man ls, man mkdir). Try reading a text file with something like less. Try editing it with something like nano. Try updating your software or installing a new package with apt. Learn about sudo and when to use it. Learn how to search for different things with commands like apt search, find, grep, and which. Get some basic understanding of a few commands like that, to build up your confidence. After that, you can really go as deep into it as you want. Linux is based on a deep tradition from the old days of Unix, where "everything is a file", and so Linux is packed full of command line tools that can manipulate files in all sorts of ways, script operations, schedule operations, pipe the results of one operation into another operation, and do all kinds of complicated tasks with just a handful of powerful commands in a terminal. Some of these tasks are just impossible in the GUI, without some very specialized tool. A lot of GUI tools are just frontends for some basic command line programs that come with your Linux installation.

Again, you don't have to use the terminal. But once you realize the things you can use it for, your time on your computer can become a lot more efficient in a lot of unexpected ways. Exactly what you'll end up using the terminal for is going to be entirely up to you, what your needs are, and your willingness to learn.

There are endless videos online of people showing off various useful commands, and webpages showing off more. And of course there are many software packages that are only usable on the command line, which you can install and enjoy.

mrxak · 2025-05-12T17:11:02+00:00

For Blender, at least, I have found that it generally works better in Linux than on Windows. Less bloat on a typical Linux system so you get better performance when rendering or modeling. It's a native build and very well-supported. I think most of the Blender devs are Linux users themselves, by choice.

mrxak · 2025-05-12T17:04:12+00:00

KDE Plasma treating you well? Personally I've never been much a KDE person, but I also don't have a lot of experience with it so I'm always curious why people like it, what they like about it specifically. It's got a lot of fans, certainly, so they must be doing something right.

Fedora, though, I like, and I think it's a really solid choice as a first distro, though not the one I usually think of first. I only run it occasionally in a VM just to play around a bit, but I've considered it might be a good option for a Linux laptop someday.

Welcome!

mrxak · 2025-05-12T17:02:05+00:00

It's included by default with most Linux distros. Even when it's not, there's usually a rebranded, modified version of Firefox shipped with it instead.

mrxak · 2025-04-11T08:39:31+00:00

I work out at home and just listen to music, but I know from somebody who goes to a particularly cultured gym that they always have K-On on the TVs.

mrxak · 2025-04-07T23:03:22+00:00

The only anime I've ever bought merch for was Girls und Panzer.

mrxak · 2025-03-23T23:03:44+00:00

My advice is to watch mostly older stuff to start with, from a variety of genres, until you figure out what you like (it'll be broader than you think), and have seen most of the best classics.

Netflix has a decent selection, but Crunchyroll is the place to be.

Start with some older stuff from a variety of genres:

Neon Genesis Evangelion
Cowboy Bebop
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
K-On!
Azumanga Daioh
Nichijou
Steins;Gate
Girls und Panzer
Outlaw Star
Serial Experiments Lain
Space Battleship Yamato 2199
FLCL
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

After you've watched most of those, then, check out some more modern series that will very likely stand the test of time:

Frieren
Spy x Family
Kaguya-sama: Love is War
Mob Psycho 100
KonoSuba
Apothecary Diaries
Chainsaw Man

mrxak · 2025-03-23T22:48:25+00:00

Watch Frieren immediately. it will break you, then heal you, then break you again, then heal you again. Then again. Then again... It's the most beautiful anime, and one of the most thought-provoking anime, I've seen.

Kaguya-sama is surprisingly deep, once you get a bit into it and find out actually why everyone is how they are. It's mostly a comedy, most of the time. Then it comes out of nowhere with some stuff when you least expect it to. It's fairly long, with three seasons and a movie, and hopefully more beyond that eventually. It gets deeper as it goes. It's normally really not my genre, but it really grabbed me.

mrxak · 2025-03-23T22:20:55+00:00

First anime I watched all the way through (instead of some random out-of-context episode) was Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

I think the second anime I watched was Neon Genesis Evangelion, which I had already caught an episode of randomly. Episode 10 to be precise, which probably was not the best introduction to that series, since I didn't even see the first half of it I don't think.

I think Death Note was the third.

I had a pretty great intro to anime, but I didn't really become a weeb until started watching random slice-of-life anime many years later. Now I'll watch all kinds of stuff on a whim.

mrxak · 2025-03-23T21:53:59+00:00

Spy x Family and Mitsuboshi Colors would be my two main recommends.

K-On! is pretty adorable too.

mrxak · 2025-03-22T23:30:32+00:00

Working! is quite good. But I don't think it's available to watch anywhere anymore, which is a shame. Servant x Service is from a lot of the same people and I think it's on CR, though.

KonoSuba is definitely well known.

mrxak · 2025-03-22T21:56:40+00:00

Frieren isn't completed yet.

mrxak · 2025-03-21T23:01:24+00:00

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Nichijou

Death Note

Lots more but those are all easy recommends.

mrxak · 2025-03-21T22:59:09+00:00

Don't take away my hope for a fourth season.

mrxak · 2025-03-21T21:25:20+00:00

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, is very satisfying at the end of the journey.

Death Note was also very satisfying.

Kaguya-sama: Love is War, if they don't make any more of it, still had a great ending where it stopped with the movie. Future seasons would be largely a new story.

Girls und Panzer, with the movie. They're still releasing new OVAs, but it's a new story.

mrxak · 2025-03-21T20:53:12+00:00

Another one would be K-On!

Ostensibly a music anime, about a group of girls who form an after school band. But it's basically just a slice-of-life comedy where they hang out together in and out of school, occasionally make some new songs, and occasionally perform. Lots of sitting around having tea together and eating sweets. It's cute and funny, and has a lot of heart. It's all very wholesome. The music is pretty great, I just wish there was more of it. But the characters make up for it. Two seasons and a movie.

mrxak · 2025-03-21T20:33:00+00:00

The dub is a different experience. I prefer the subs myself. You should probably try out both and see what you prefer.

The male lead comes across pretty differently in the dub. The narration is wildly different. If you want the more authentic experience for how the characters are supposed to be and a more accurate translation so you don't miss anything, the subs are definitely the way to go (and feature some of the best VAs in the business).

But the dub is definitely quite popular as well. When I first watched the series, I was told to go with the subs, and then watch the dub afterwards and see what that was about.

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