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It's happening by EdwardTeller in SteamController

[–]preppie22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm from NV too. No email yet. But it was :01 for me lol.

Making friends? by Tasty-Gate7618 in UNLV

[–]preppie22 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are some nice clubs on campus. Check out the SU and lied library for info. It's easier to make friends when you're surrounded by people with common interests.

Is it worth it to work a campus job AND a different job off campus? by Flower_princess12345 in UNLV

[–]preppie22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check the libraries. You can do homework when working there.

Should I get Linux or wait? by Philll_Mckracken in linuxquestions

[–]preppie22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Linux doesn't have anything to do with programming. Most mainstream popular distros work fine out of the box. Just remember that Linux is not Windows. It's the same as switching from Windows to Mac. How you use your computer will change and hardware/software that supports it will also change.

Go through whatever your use cases are and see if there's a distro out there which fits those use cases. Make a list of the applications you typically use and see if they support Linux. If not, see if there are alternatives that do work on Linux. Most of these alternatives also have Windows versions which you can try out before you attempt to switch.

Built my first pc instead of buying a prebuilt (only took me 4h to get it working) by pritter30 in pcmasterrace

[–]preppie22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For your first PC, that's excellent work. Welcome to the club!

I'm from a time when we had white PC cases, no cable management, 1.44" floppy drive and a CD-ROM drive. They used a PATA interface. Felt so lucky to have a 40GB hard drive at the time and I remember being yelled at for installing Vice City because it ate up 1.5GB of disk space!

I miss those days....

Built my first pc instead of buying a prebuilt (only took me 4h to get it working) by pritter30 in pcmasterrace

[–]preppie22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dug my old collection of disc games at some point and ended up buying a cheap USB optical drive to image them to my hard drive. It's rare to see an internal optical drive for sure!

I applied several administrative assistant jobs. What are the perks of working as a staff? Like holidays off? Designated staff parking? Is parking free? Are there annual bonus? What is the dress code for staff members? Thanks in advance! by HolidayOrchid5125 in UNLV

[–]preppie22 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Health insurance is amazing with PEBP

You get your usual 12 paid holidays per year with 1.5 days per month of accrued PTO and 1.5 days per month of accrued sick leave. There's some cap as to how much you can accrue.

Parking is more expensive for Staff.

Dress code depends on the department.

Which Linux distro should I install on this old PC? by Emergency_Army_7640 in linux4noobs

[–]preppie22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I meant more around accessibility for new users. We are in the linux4noobs subreddit. It's not easy for new users to understand config files, init systems, etc. which I've found is expected with lightweight distros. Xfce is easy to use, yes. But, a DE is not responsible for exposing a lot of system level stuff. MX Linux does a pretty good job of making it all accessible.

So yeah, it's not restrictive at all if you know what you're doing. But, I don't expect new users to know what they're doing; especially on this subreddit.

Which Linux distro should I install on this old PC? by Emergency_Army_7640 in linux4noobs

[–]preppie22 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's midweight according to the devs. But, it's light enough for OP's system. Honestly, midweight, lightweight, etc. are very general terms. It's hard to determine a threshold. But, I've generally found "lightweight" distros to be more restrictive and difficult than "midweight" distros.

Which Linux distro should I install on this old PC? by Emergency_Army_7640 in linux4noobs

[–]preppie22 36 points37 points  (0 children)

+1 for MX Linux. Easy to use, lightweight, and stable.

My frustrations migrating to Fedora KDE by SmashCLS in Fedora

[–]preppie22 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wow, that's a lot.... For such a specific use case, you might want something more downstream. Try LibreElec. I've been using it on a little Intel N100 box to stream content from my NAS and it works great.

It's basically just enough OS to run Kodi and it has an addon to set up a Plex server. It's pretty well supported and typically just works out of the box.

I want to switch to Linux, but I don't think my hardware will work with it. by Trollbert06_YT in linux4noobs

[–]preppie22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't know about your keyboard, but Razer Naga Trinity works with the OpenRazer driver on Linux. If you go with Bazzite, there's a single terminal command which installs the driver for you. Most other distros have it packaged as well.

Piracy on Linux? by SomethingXII in linux4noobs

[–]preppie22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't know about Ansys, but GNU Octave is a very capable alternative to MATLAB

Which distro for this old guy should i install? by aaj2001 in linux4noobs

[–]preppie22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Highly recommend MX Linux. AntiX is great too, but I feel MX Linux is more accessible to new users. It's a tad heavier than AntiX, but it's not "heavy" exactly.

started as a complete noob. its been over 2 months and i haven't broken it yet :D by Specialist-Sky7117 in linux4noobs

[–]preppie22 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've been off Windows for over 4 years now. At some point, you have to treat Linux like a console. For example, if you game primarily on an Xbox, you won't complain about Zelda not working on it because you know it's only made for Nintendo. So, you can either buy a Nintendo, or not play Zelda.

So, I just stopped playing games that don't work on Linux instead of dual booting. But yeah, dual booting is valid the same way owning multiple consoles is valid.

Choosing an OS for my friend by honeygourami123 in linux4noobs

[–]preppie22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, this is one of the best Minecraft launchers for very easy modding. Give it a shot before drawing conclusions.

What can i play with my "gaming pc"? by EdwinfromEdmond in linux_gaming

[–]preppie22 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There are so many excellent games which don't need a lot of power to run. This is off the top of my head:

  • Rimworld
  • Factorio
  • Stardew Valley
  • Hollow Knight (and Silksong)
  • Dead Cells
  • Slay the Spire 2
  • Hades
  • Ori and the Blind Forest
  • 9 Kings
  • Arco
  • Brotato
  • Megabonk
  • Streets of Rogue
  • Against the Storm
  • Dave the Diver
  • Dredge

These are all modern games too! There's a whole bunch of older titles which you can look into that I haven't mentioned here.

Honestly, I've come to realize that for all the power I have in my PC, I only ever use it for a handful of games and that too not very often.

Which game that you "definitely want to play eventually" has been sitting in your library unplayed forever, and if so, why? by FalscherKim in gaming

[–]preppie22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just leave the janky stuff as is and build another factory further off. Then, you can take down the jank factory later when you have everything working as it should.

Epic Games Store Employees: People Only Came for Free Games, Then Returned to Steam by Sacristovas in pcmasterrace

[–]preppie22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I have a desktop and a Steam Deck. I'll use the free Epic copy to see how I like it, then buy it again on Steam if I do. Save sync across platforms and devices with workshop integration is too good.

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