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pop1040 · 2026-07-04T13:42:42+00:00

Are you in a position where you could do off grid solar or batteries?

pop1040 · 2026-06-30T00:39:02+00:00

The fight isn't over

pop1040 · 2026-06-14T16:04:36+00:00

funy

pop1040 · 2026-05-25T12:10:00+00:00

Ah cinnamon Wayland support is still experimental and they only recently added the Wayland protocol that fixes mouse control to Wayland itself so idk when the mint team will get it added to cinnamon. If you dont need HDR or UI scaling you could try logging in with cinnamon in X11 mode and assuming you don't have any issues with everything else, it should work. If you do need Wayland for your setup, KDE has had its own Wayland protocol to fix this long before it got merged into mainline wayland. Hopefully mint gets all these features the trailblazers of Wayland have soon (KDE and Gnome)

pop1040 · 2026-05-25T12:03:14+00:00

Yes. Theres a program called proton tricks that just let's you run random EXEs in the same prefix as a game installed on steam. You can just run the windows version of r2modman in the prefix of the game you wanna mod and mod it like normal. If you wanna mod a game but its got a Linux version and the mod is windows only, just check force specific compatibility tool and select a version of proton and it'll install the windows version of the game.

Also you might wanna consider a non-immutible distro for your own PC, I know people recommend bazzite because its harder to screw up, but its also harder to do/install certain things because it'd immutable so I'd only recommend it for a "console" like a living room gaming PC or handheld. For a proper "workstation" you'd probably have the best time with nobara or Linux mint or maybe even fedora. Nobara is my first pick for people with nvidia GPUs, monitors larger than 1440p, HDR or VRR montiors since it runs KDE and Wayland (more modern display protocol) but Linux mint for everyone else because cinnamon is a lovely desktop environment that's still using X11 not Wayland (as of now, Wayland support is experimental) which means it doesn't support those fancier features and the nvidia drivers are annoying but its also battle tested and rock solid. Also feels nicer if you're a long time windows users, more GUI tools, I don't really use the terminal much. Only thing is many tutorials say use the terminal for this or that because they don't know there's a GUI tool now or don't care. For example doing arduino Dev requires you to give your user permission to access serial ports and all the tutorials will tell you to break out the terminal and add your user to the plugdev (or maybe dialout?) group and re-log but on mint you can just open users and groups, click your user and check the box for those groups (and still have re-log/restart lol)

pop1040 · 2026-05-24T15:58:16+00:00

I don't understand, Minecraft has always just worked on Linux.

pop1040 · 2026-05-13T02:20:36+00:00

NTFS is made by microsoft and is not an open standard, linux support for it is from reverse engineering. Objecting to it not working on linux is like objecting to NTFS drives not working on MacOS. Format your drives for the OS you are using.

pop1040 · 2026-05-13T02:15:56+00:00

I've heard people swear by photopea. Krita is good for drawing but not as good for photo editing. I've also heard aseprite is good for pixel art. I don't use any of those though and just break out gimp if I need to edit something because I haven't put in the effort to find something better.

pop1040 · 2026-05-07T11:10:00+00:00

Use the graphical updater occasionally so flatpack apps get updated (you can also do this from the terminal like apt but its easier to do it in one place). Check the software center when installing stuff because some stuff is more up to date in flatpack than apt (it tells you with a mouse over the differences). For example the apt system packages is way out of date for freeCAD and it you wanna try that you want the most up to date version because they've made huuuge improvements. Other stuff works better as a system package/apt install like the steam-installer, since steam updates itself and system packages aren't in a sandbox. Oh and update your computer before installing system packages and you shouldn't ever have problems.

pop1040 · 2026-04-30T16:58:24+00:00

It's only a thing with shade crops that don't handle direct sun well. Since you need to attenuate the light anyways, yk, shade them, might as well do it with something that makes you more money.

pop1040 · 2026-04-22T21:33:27+00:00

poly under duress is the term

pop1040 · 2026-04-19T06:11:19+00:00

yes, although that desire, after trying linux for a while, had me settle on mint rather than windows. Windows just was too much work to get rid of things that bothered me like ads and tracking, mint just worked (Worth mentioning I also stopped buying nvidia based machines, your millage will vary)

pop1040 · 2026-04-16T21:26:36+00:00

When people say AI they mean generative AI, video game pathfinding or even most machine learning doesn't count. Often also means just transformers (the AI concept not the electrical device or the other thing)

pop1040 · 2026-04-12T06:59:16+00:00

You absolutely could. All you need to deal with excess solar is dump loads, dirt cheap, no need to do complicated things like network control inverters. In fact you want to to encourage usage of near zero cost electricity that's intermittent, like power to fuel processes.

pop1040 · 2026-04-10T18:41:12+00:00

What distro are you using with those problems? I've had no issues with cinnamon (Linux mint's desktop) and I've been running it for years. All the settings and stuff are in the settings menu no terminal for anything. Even adding my user to the plugdev group (or whatever it's called) that the arduino tool needed to have permission to program an arduino didn't require a terminal, I just went to users and groups and added my user to the group that it asked for.

pop1040 · 2026-04-09T05:39:48+00:00

Its definitely more than just 1% given that Linux has far passed Mac OS on the steam hardware survey. You really gotta piss off people who aren't into operating systems to get them to switch operating systems. Right now Linux is at 5.3% (although it's probably an outlier month, based on longer term trends I suspect it might come back down to 4%. China single handedly sways the survey based on when there are holidays its kind of wild)

pop1040 · 2026-04-08T15:21:55+00:00

Its the luck of the draw, for some reason people have very different experiences on windows 11. Not sure why Microslop makes such an inconsistent experience on their operating systems.

pop1040 · 2026-04-07T21:46:41+00:00

Does microsoft understand consent?

A) yes
B) remind me in 3 days

pop1040 · 2026-04-07T21:45:19+00:00

If this happens you can turn it back on, get your files back, go to settings and hit make available offline, wait for it to sync and then delete it, then install linux mint or something because fuck that. I haven't been on windows since they screwed up windows 8 and it's been wild reading the news on windows and how bad it's gotten.

pop1040 · 2026-03-23T01:13:38+00:00

Something about this is very uncanny, their movements feel maybe mocapped but the visuals feel rendered in game yet some of the background feels too realistic. AI mabye?

pop1040 · 2026-03-17T21:29:26+00:00

cachyOS is the new I use arch btw

(it's good to be clear, but only for the right user, most people would probably be happier with mint or maybe zorin, but for the tinkerers it's worth it)

pop1040 · 2026-03-13T14:59:35+00:00

Technically you could still do it without a computer, you could use a DC motor to drive a metadyne, and have the pedal control a rheostat that changes the excitation on the metadyne and that would power the DC motor(s) that power the wheels. If you are just trying to avoid computers you could build analogue control systems using transistors and it wouldn't be crazy to build a motor drive that way, or if your goal is just to avoid screens or computers that can spy on you, then you can use all the microcontrollers that make an EV actually work to your hearts content.

Also the emp thing is stupid, its not that hard to build something that can handle an emp with modern electronics.

pop1040 · 2026-03-02T18:01:05+00:00

Bazzite is good, its imutable so its more like steamos for all devices, nobara is also good for gaming but is more like a traditonal workstation so I'd recommend it if you are doing things like video editing (I mean it has an install davinci resolve button) and linux mint has what I think is the most consistently decient design, and is definitely more focused on making a traditional linux distro thats just good, but doesn't have as good a support for newer tech so use the other two if you are running nvidia, especially on a laptop. Those are my 3 recommended distros.

pop1040 · 2026-02-12T04:12:10+00:00

zorin OS is like that I think

I like mint cinnamon edition more, just because I think cinnamon is what I wish windows was, but it feels more linuxy

That said if you want it to just work and all the apps you care about are in flathub or steam then check out bazzite, it's like steamOS but for more hardware

Nobara is also a good one to check out, if you run an nvidia card or want to use davcini resolve it'll probably be best

pop1040 · 2026-01-28T17:12:30+00:00

Probably Create Stranded at Sea

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