I have to say, Dubigrasu, you've really knocked this out of the park:

https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/245680 [External Link]

You're the fourth top contributor overall and I see that GOL has moved up to rank "558 of 252994". Insane. Especially when you view the top contributors and many have literally only contributed to GOL!!

Incredible and nothing to feel guilty about if you need to reign it in a little. I went for two or three weeks without any GPU jobs for the same reason, but without GPU, you're only really scoring about 10K a night, whereas you can easily top 200K a night if you use your GPU (I'm on a GTX 1080). But wow, does the PC get hot!

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It's weird. I hate tiling in the same way I hate fullscreen windows, apart from when I'm playing games. I think it's a carry over from being old. Back in the VGA era, you only really could run fullscreen. I remember going to university and they had these insane hi-res green screens attached to crazy-powerful unix PCs and suddenly I could have the equivalent of 10 full screen windows ON SCREEN AT THE SAME TIME. It defined me, I think. Clearly, because tiling WMs are lame.

Besides. I have pretty backgrounds. You can't take that from me.

(I realise that I can still have 10 full screen windows on screen at the same time in a tiling WM. My point is that it doesn't feel the same, because it just looks like one massive full screen window with a bunch of stuff going on. Nope. It's not rational. It's just the way I feel.)

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Quoting: Avehicle7887Went ahead and bought the game today. It handles ultrawide resolutions really well and this is really one of the few as many 2D games don't scale well.

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Is having huge black borders unusually well support? :)
(Though I wouldn't know how they could do it better, given their checkerboard setup.)

See Ehvis' comment earlier in the thread - there's no corruption, menus and backgrounds fill out correctly.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Perkeleen_VittupääDistrohopping ended here on this distro. Nvidia-driver installation (as far as i remember) was a world of pain everywhere else.

Thanks Phil and the whole Manjaro crew!

I've never had a problem installing nvidia drivers on Kubuntu. Just open the driver manager, click, and you're done.

In ten years of using Linux, I've experienced precisely one time where I struggled with the Nvidia driver on Ubuntu - when I tried to install it from Nvidia's site. I can't even remember why I was doing so, but I couldn't get it working and had to revert to the distribution driver from the command line on that occasion.

Otherwise, installing Nvidia driver is about 4 clicks - Settings, Driver Manager, choose your version, hit apply. I never understand why some people seem to have such a hard time with it. Even across the 6 or 7 various cards I've had over the years.

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It absolutely kills me that games like Destiny 2 and PUBG can now run on Linux, but I can't play them, except through Google's proprietary bandwidth hog.

Kills. Me.

I mean, great that people can benefit and play it. Especially until the end of May while it's still free. But I have zero interest in this model of gaming. And it hurts. It really hurts! :)

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I fancied giving this a go, but you need to register a DragonEvo account before it lets you play and I was just... naw. It's free though, so maybe I'll give it a go eventually.

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I've had lots of fun with this one. I'd recommend it, although no where near (for me) the same level of replayability of Dreamgate or Slay the Spire. It's one I'll go back to though, as I was just scratching the surface of the core game with the five hours or so I've spent so far.

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Quoting: NanobangIt's been a few years since I had Manjaro on one of my machines. I liked it for the most part. I was just getting used to using pacman --- and really digging the sweet logic of it --- when an update broke something with my Steam Controller, and I didn't discover it until I opened Steam to play something with a friend. The next day, after a bit of fruitless troubleshooting I went back to Xubuntu because when I want to play a game, I want to play a game.

Still, I find comfort in knowing that Manjaro's always in the wings for the day when Canonical is bought-up by Microsoft, or Ubuntu refuses to let me install anything that's not a dog-diddling SNAP. At times being an Ubuntu user can be as troubling as it is troublefree --- so it's nice to know that options such as Manjaro are around. :)

I hope to be on Mint for a long time for much the same reason. All the power and compatibility of Ubuntu, but they have one eye on switching directly to Debian instead. No snaps on Mint, no Gnome-shell. Just a beautiful, snappy (see what I did there?) polished desktop. It's bliss.

I might give Manjaro another shot at some point in the future, but my two attempts at installing it previously didn't go well. On the first install I got to the LightDM/GDM login prompt, but entering anything at all gave me a blank screen for a few seconds, then dumped me back to the login. The second attempt on the same day after burning a new LiveUSB dumped me straight at a command line... no GUI at all. That was about 3 or 4 years ago though. Definitely worth another shot at some point, as long as there's an XFCE or Cinnamon option.

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Quoting: Zlopez

Quoting: ExpalphalogWhat's the difficulty level like?

I got Darkest Dungeon when it came out and I absolutely loved it right up until the final dungeon where the difficulty spiked so hard that it made me uninstall and never play again. That game was tough, and I can handle tough. It slowly increased in difficulty as your stable grew in power and was very well balanced throughout almost the entire game. Then it suddenly went straight from "Only by careful planning, strategic gameplay, and a bit of luck can you beat this boss" to "The first minion you encounter is going to wipe your max level party without breaking a sweat."

I felt the same way when playing it. It has really nice start and the difficulty is raising as you level up, but then you just get something that is almost unplayable. Never finished it because of this. I like tough games, but this was too hardcore.

Quoting: GuestYeah that kind of garbage game design, *ahem* "hard core difficulty", is all the rage with kids these days...

Darkest Dungeon is essentially a basic JRPG like Final Fantasy series without any real story, with a labyrinth to navigate, cool artwork and edgy themes, and tons of grinding and difficulty to make an 10hour game into an 100hour slog. And kids eat this trash like it is candy and rate it "best game evah" and "masterpiece". What can i say, perhaps i am just old.

I looked through some of the positive reviews and most of those people didn't played more than few hours of the game, which is explaining the high score.

Just had a look at my Darkest Dungeon playtime - 11hrs. Glad it's not just me that got sick of the weird, forced grind on this one. It's a shame though, because it had a lot of style.

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Quoting: EagleDelta

Quoting: scaineI actually prefer Mint's approach of using an integrated Timeshift.

I messed with Timeshift a bit, but had to abandon it since I didn't have enough storage space to actually use it. Since most of what I have is either pulled from soemthing like Steam (for games) or is stored on a Git server, I don't really get any benefit from Timeshift :(

I think Timeshift (in Mint's case anyway) is more about backing up your actual system - it isn't really focused on your files/games/home. You can ask it to include dotfiles from your home folder, but by default, it's trying to protect you from installing/changed something in the system and realising you've messed up and need to rollback. Almost like a virtualbox/vmware snapshot. I like that it supports btrfs if you have a btrfs partition handy, otherwise it falls back to rsync.

Quoting: EagleDelta

Quoting: scaineI'm also surprised to hear you say that Cinnamon is buggy. Amazing that my experience can be so positive, while yours is negative (and vice versa for Gnome Shell).

I should've clarified a bit here. Cinnamon is great..... if you're using Mint. Just like Pantheon + Elementary and Budgie + Solus. They all work with other distros, but were designed for the distro that created them and it shows. Try running cinnamon or pantheon in another distro and it will be a painful experience (at least when I've tried it). I have complaints about Pop as well, I'm just not ready to give up the QoL work that System76 has put in to go to something else.... yet

Yeah, that's often true. Although I loved Budgie when I tried it on a base Ubuntu 20.04 beta install a couple of months ago. I just couldn't get GDM to obey my panel preference, so I jumped to Mint.

If I ever find budget to buy a System 76 laptop, I doubt I'll install Mint on it, as there's definitely something to be said for having that "designed together" feeling of hardware and software. I mean, hey, I guess it works for Apple. System76 could do worse...

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