Quoting: Mountain ManClassic virtue signaling.

Nothing wrong with virtue, nothing wrong with signaling. *shrug*

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Quoting: 14

Quoting: stylon

Quoting: 14You could solve that problem by adding another drive and dual booting. :grin:

I might just give that a try... can you recommend a good guide to doing that with Win 11?

General steps I can remember from memory are:
1. Install Windows first (done)
2. Boot to Linux thumb drive
3. Install Linux and boot loader onto dedicated drive. Do not overwrite your Windows drive or boot loader.
4. Go into your BIOS and tell it to boot to the Linux drive by default
5. Once booted to Linux, tell Grub to scan all your drives for other operating systems so that when your BIOS boots to the Linux boot loader, you can select Windows if you like. You can even have the Linux boot loader boot to Windows by default.

And, of course, the Arch wiki [External Link] covers this topic in detail. :)

As always! :)

Stylon, mind the warning in the coloured box here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dual_boot_with_Windows#Fast_Startup_and_hibernation [External Link]

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Quoting: soulsourceNope, and the title sounds too frigthening for me to even look it up.

Well, it's not the original title... :D

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/uckns3/how_i_fixed_my_whiny_delta_fan_with_electrical/ [External Link]

https://www.pcgamer.com/maybe-dont-jam-electrical-tape-in-your-steam-deck-to-fix-fan-whine/ [External Link]

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Quoting: soulsource

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: soulsourceThat'S good news. My girlfriend keeps complaining about the "whining" of the Steam Deck...

So she's... whining about it? ;)

But to be serious: Such sounds can be very annoying.

It indeed is. Just judging from the noise level, I don't think there's a big difference between the PS4 and the Steam Deck, but the PS4 noise is at a lower frequency and therefore more calming than annoying.

Did you try the "just put something inside and all is quite" trick to be found on YouTube?

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Quoting: soulsourceThat'S good news. My girlfriend keeps complaining about the "whining" of the Steam Deck...

So she's... whining about it? ;)

But to be serious: Such sounds can be very annoying.

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I had some performance problems with the demo (Nvidia 1660 super, settings maxed out). I guess it's running good for you as you don't mention anything?

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Quoting: Lycurgus87What will be next? The cars?? oh wait thats already happening, and its the same problem because humans getting so entitled and stupid they don't even bother to learn how to drive properly anymore..and companies adjust cars for ppl who not willing to learn to drive.

Cars might be a good comparison: Yes, you should know how to "drive" your computer. But you shouldn't need to be able to fix its "motor". Yes, that's of course a nice thing to know, but most won't, and that's all fine.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: sulixAnd there's no evidence yet that this is a 'lazy' port of any kind

I'm glad my first impression was wrong and I take it back. Aside from that mentioned vsync performance issue, it sounds like a good performer and a good effort overall. That's a relief :)

But then, "The game may crash at launch" didn't make too optimistic...

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Quoting: Lycurgus87

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Lycurgus87Mate you are tiny bit condescending
(snip)
Or the other options again..the tree over there.

You're condescending, says the guy who told me to climb back to the nearest tree.
But I wasn't. I am a tiny bit now: The point went over your head. The point was, there are lots of branches of knowledge that can make claims that if you don't have them you are inferior. It is rare for the claims to be valid; claims about the arts or political economy or DIY home maintenance are no more/less valid than your claim that if I don't want to learn computers I should return to the apes. Do you get it now?

Yes there are lot of branch of knowledge and you don't need to know all but...and this is a big but, usually you don't need to know all that because you don't want to use it.

BUT if you want to use something you have to learn it.

Also you don't understand basic package management and yet somehow you qualified to say that snaps are wrong. HOW would you know exactly? Also there are plenty of google finds if you really want to know how to remove it. You know..instead of speak of "forced" snaps.

If I get a car, I want it to drive, decently, and without me needing to know how to tune the motor. And I'd still feel qualified to say e.g. that the acceleration is not as it should be.

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Quoting: F.UltraProbably designed by the same geniuses that designs the self scanning check out stations that have a touch screen and then either a IR reader for a card (drivers license in this case) or VISA/Mastercard touchless reader and if you accidentally scan your card before touching the screen it locks with a "you must touch the screen to begin before you scan your card". Ok so why is the damn scanner even active before I touch the screen if this is so important and secondly why is it so important?

Right, we've got the same with our attendance recorder! (Yeah, for some weird reason, this is a thing where I'm developing software...) If you try to use the touch screen with the hand you're holding the card, card is registered first and device is confused...

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