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  • Albbi@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.ml•Please help me choose a disto!
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    11 days ago

    I was in the sane situation as you and what I did was buy a new drive to put Linux on so I could dual boot and get used to things without wiping everything. Linux can even mount your Window drive if you need to access data on it.

    I tried a few distro myself but landed on Garuda Dr460onized Gaming. (You can look at different versions here) The gaming version came with steam and Heroic installed and had a nice colour theme picked. Gaming has been great and all Windows games that I’ve tried have worked better than when I was running Windows. (Rocket League, Hades 2, Uncharted 4 to name some) You can always keep Windows on your other drive and boot it for games like Fortnite that have kernel level anti cheat.

    The only issue you might have is that Garuda is pretty bleeding edge with when updates get applied. This can be good or bad. There were some issues getting dual screens working for me at first, but those issues have gone away completely now. I also had issues with the top menu bar crashing and disappearing. Lasted about 2 weeks and then an update fixed it. (Survived by using the Meta + Spacebar search launcher and Ctrl + Alt + T to get into a terminal) So updates to fix issues come out somewhat quickly, but issues pop up too. I actually think it’s been pretty stable right now.

  • Albbi@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.ml•This is the only Windows thing left on my computer
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    1 month ago

    I used to have this really awesome early 2000’s transparent blue plastic keyboard with all the newest media keys. The only problem was that it had 4 windows keys on it! One on either side of the spacebar. The right side of the spacebar was Alt, Windows, Context menu, CTRL. That was a bit weird but it was alright. The next placements were crazy though. Someone figured there was space for more keys right below the Delete, End and Page Down keys but I guess they couldn’t really figure out what would be best for there so they put a 3rd Windows key, a 2nd Context Menu and then a 4th Windows key right there. This was pretty close to the arrow keys and if anyone remembers gaming in the early 2000’s, pressing the windows key accidentlly would often just crash your game completely. If you could get back into it, it could take quite a while for it to respond again. So if you were playing something like Warcraft 2 multiplayer, that button was a fucking nightmare.

    Ugh, I loved the colour of that keyboard so much I put up with all those windows keys.

    edit: I can’t believe I found it! I’ve tried searching for this keyboard a few times, but finally found proof on this site!

  • Albbi@lemmy.catoGaming@beehaw.org•Nintendo now has a US patent on summoning characters and making them battle for you | VGC
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    2 months ago

    Specifically, the patent describes a situation where:

    • A console or other system is being used to run a video game from storage
    • The player controls a character in a “virtual space”
    • The player can perform an input command to make a “sub character” appear (i.e. summon another character)
    • If there’s an enemy where the sub character appears, the player can control a battle between the sub character and the enemy
    • If there’s no enemy where the sub character appears, the sub character will automatically move around
    • The player can move the sub character to a different location on the field, and if an enemy is there they can control a battle between the sub character and the enemy