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Cake day: July 21st, 2023

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  • Oh yeah sure let’s just have two games that are almost identical, split the efforts of the devs into maintaining them both and releasing consistent updates, split the efforts of the server administrators into maintaining them both, and detract from your concurrent player base from our new game to keep our old game on life support.

    Yall are some crybabies. CS:GO was alive for 10 years, CS2 has been out for 1. It took some time to re-work Dust 2 and add it back into the map pool. I miss agency, I miss cache, but those maps are being reworked and added in over time. It’s a long game scenario here. Give it time and enjoy the free to play game that they sunk a shitload of resources into dramatically improving, that they are going to maintain for at least another decade, just like the last game.





  • This is entirely plausible, but I don’t know if it’s there yet. I’ve long since moved to AMD GPUs so I can’t really fiddle and find out. Give the open source drivers some time to mature.

    Until then, you are reasonably safe running Linux with secure boot turned off. I’m no expert on the matter, but I’m not familiar with any ongoing threats to boot loader in Linux distributions. Stick to your official repos to be safest, unverified user maintained sources like AUR and COPR are possibly more likely to harbor security threats, don’t use them if you don’t need to or don’t know what you’re doing. Password your bios and require a password to log in to your operating system. Common sense is a better defense than secure boot.












  • Love it when people speak with authority and are confidently incorrect. Eugenia is right.

    You could potentially use flatseal to grant the flatpak the necessary permissions, and you might find out what those permissions are by looking for other users experiences with the flatpak version.

    Or, you find the .deb file and it installs natively without being sandboxed. OR, you can find a PPA repository for it, load said repository and install your software.

    But those things require learning a little. Linux rewards self starters who can use a search engine and forums. Hope this maybe points you in the right direction.



  • I spent my first year of Linux installing a new distro, or same distro with a different DE probably every other week, sometimes more than once in a week. The Linux ecosystem rewards self starters with curiosity and the ability to search for answers.

    LearnLinuxTV is an amazing YouTube channel, high quality distro tours and reviews, as well as tutorials at various levels of mastery. ItsFOSS and Phoronix are great sources for Linux news that help you build some awareness and vocabulary. The official forums of almost every distro are extremely helpful places to find solutions to problems. You just kinda have to be motivated to seek out the answers you need as they arise.


  • That’s one thing I find particularly neat about Fedora, it has all of these software package groups that can be either added on at install, or installed at any time, including:

       3D Printing
       Administration Tools
       Audio Production
       Authoring and Publishing
       Books and Guides
       C Development Tools and Libraries
       Cloud Infrastructure
       Cloud Management Tools
       Container Management
       D Development Tools and Libraries
       Design Suite
       Development Tools
       Domain Membership
       Fedora Eclipse
       Editors
       Educational Software
       Electronic Lab
       Engineering and Scientific
       FreeIPA Server
       Games and Entertainment
       Headless Management
       LibreOffice
       MATE Applications
       MATE Compiz
       Medical Applications
       Milkymist
       Network Servers
       Office/Productivity
       Robotics
       RPM Development Tools
       Security Lab
       Sound and Video
       System Tools
       Text-based Internet
       Window Managers