GFGJewbacca

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GFGJewbacca ,

"Shortly before the Patrician came to power there was a terrible plague of rats. The city council countered it by offering twenty pence for every rat tail. This did, for a week or two, reduce the number of rats—and then people were suddenly queueing up with tails, the city treasury was being drained, and no one seemed to be doing much work. And there still seemed to be a lot of rats around. Lord Vetinari had listened carefully while the problem was explained, and had solved the thing with one memorable phrase which said a lot about him, about the folly of bounty offers, and about the natural instinct of Ankh-Morporkians in any situation involving money: “Tax the rat farms.”

-from "Soul Music" by Terry Pratchett

GFGJewbacca ,

EndeavorOS might also be a good option, from what I've heard. It's Arch based, but easier to install and use. I recently switched to Garuda, also Arch based, but focused more on the gaming community.

GFGJewbacca OP ,

Sorry about that. I'll keep that in mind if this gets taken down. Thanks!

GFGJewbacca OP ,

That's really cool! Didn't know that. Thanks for sharing, since I've just subscribed to the community.

GFGJewbacca OP ,

I did select a number of programs to install during setup so I had everything I needed. Spot on!

GFGJewbacca , (edited )

I have an ASUS ROG laptop running Fedora 39 right now. The reason Fedora is popular with these laptops is that the controller that switches between the two graphics cards is native to Fedora. It's explicitly recommended on the site.

EDIT: It looks like there are more distros that work on ROG laptops since I did it. Pretty cool!

GFGJewbacca ,

Woah, you were involved in the project! That's really cool. I've had Garuda on my mind for a while, and earlier today I was able to boot it off the live USB with NVIDIA proprietary drivers. That's a really good sign for me, so I think I'm gonna go for it once I've backed things up.

GFGJewbacca ,

I've been using those on my Fedora install without a hitch. I think I'm gonna go for the Garuda install today after I finish backing things up. Excited!

GFGJewbacca ,

What a cute traveling companion! Lucky you.

GFGJewbacca ,

I’ve been running Fedora 39 on my ASUS gaming laptop because it’s the only OS that natively supports the utility to deal with the discreet graphics card. I was thinking about using bazzite for the next gaming desktop I build. What do you think about it? I’ve been using Nobara on my Surface Pro 4, but I can’t update using dnf anymore because it would alter some protected drivers, and I don’t want that issue with another distro.

GFGJewbacca ,

Celeste is a wonderfully brutal game. I love the characters and the whole idea behind, “conquer a hard thing just to say I did it.” To be fair, that is what it feels like when climbing mountains or other large rock structures

Plants vs Zombies is the best tower defense game out there. Y’all can fight me on that.

GFGJewbacca ,

This is the correct answer

GFGJewbacca ,

Haha, this is perfect. You encapsulated Shadowrun combat perfectly. How does the Darkness fair in the matrix is my question.

GFGJewbacca ,

Did you know that Alfred Krupp, one of the guys responsible for the arms race that led to World War 1, absolutely loved the smell of horse manure? He loved it to a point where he built a house designed so he could always smell it. Wild stuff.

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    GFGJewbacca ,

    I’ve been running Nobara on my Surface Pro 4, which is based on Fedora. It comes with all the surface drivers built in, which really helps. It’s been working pretty well for me.

    Made the switch to KDE

    I’ve been using Fedora for a couple of months now, and have been loving it. Very soon after I jumped into this community (among other Linux communities) and started laughing at all the people saying “KDE rules, GNOME drools,” and “GNOME is better, KDE is for babies.” But then I thought, “Why not give KDE a try? The...

    GFGJewbacca OP ,

    I do agree that GNOME is really beautiful. I spent time making the taskbar more like GNOME before commiting to using KDE.

    GFGJewbacca OP ,

    I hear you there. I like the workflow of GNOME, and I wish I could make the app launcher in KDE be as minimalist as the GNOME launcher in ArcMenus. But at the same time, a number of things I was using the launcher for can be done as a keystroke in KDE, so it kinda makes up for it.

    GFGJewbacca OP ,

    That’s why I’m calling it a playground fight. They’re both good, but right now I’m loving KDE. GNOME is really beautiful. I organized the taskbar in KDE to be similar to default GNOME, but with some extra stuff that I’m digging too.

    GFGJewbacca OP ,

    Sleek is a great way to describe GNOME. It’s really pretty and slick, and I was sure happy with how it worked. Plus, with all my google accounts hooked into GNOME, Evolution just pulled all that info and gave me real easy access to my mail. I wish KMail did the same thing.

    GFGJewbacca OP ,

    Yes! I wholeheartedly agree with you. There are pieces of GNOME I wish I could bring into KDE, and vice versa.

    GFGJewbacca ,

    Sailor moon, you ain’t got no hands!

    GFGJewbacca ,

    Thank goodness. I could really use this for my laptop.

    GFGJewbacca ,

    And now I will leave Earth for no raisin!

    GFGJewbacca ,

    I updated from Fedora 38 yesterday, and my Asus ROG Zephyrus G15 is working even better than before. The tool for controlling the discreet graphics card is working flawlessly now, unlike before. I would strongly recommend upgrading.

    GFGJewbacca ,

    I’m talking about asusctl, supergfxclt, and rog-control-center which is a GUI front end for the previous two items. You can find lots of info and guides on it here.

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    GFGJewbacca ,

    I somehow doubt that Chromium is safe from this. I would imagine that anything built off of Chrome will have this implemented, because otherwise they’re just “leaving money on the table.”

    GFGJewbacca ,

    I hope it expands the endgame content, since that’s the only thing I think Grim Dawn is lacking. It’s the only ARPG where I’ve gotten a character to lvl 100. Overall, a dynamite game.

    GFGJewbacca ,

    Pretty sure the official rules have killed off the idea of the peasant rail gun. Now a barb raging before impact to halve falling damage, or doing the same thing with a Moon druid in 5e, that’s just exploiting the rules.

    GFGJewbacca ,

    This is like saying, “people need air to breathe.” The fact this is a revelation to gaming studios is deeply concerning.

    I played some when it was in early access, and I’ve been absolutely loving BG3 now that it’s officially released. I haven’t felt like this about a game in a long time, and it’s probably because Larian studios treated this like Divinity Original Sin - a complete game with loving care. As I saw in another review, they didn’t make a D&D game, they just made D&D.

    GFGJewbacca ,

    Didn’t Bush Jr call his Iraq war a crusade? Yes, he did.

    GFGJewbacca ,

    Such floofiness! All hail the floor!

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