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MyNameIsAtticus, do games w Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

Red Dead Online is almost always my go to Fishing Game with friends. It just does the fishing aspect really well. Bonus points when the camp is setup near a river or pond

letsgo, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

My laptop still works perfectly well so if Microsoft don’t want to support it any more then I’ll bung Linux on it. I’ve already got my Mint stick ready, just need to get round to it.

JAWNEHBOY,

Nice! I was lucky to have extra drives when I switched to Linux on my PC, haven’t done it on a laptop yet. Do you just back up all your data to an external SSD/HD beforehand or go the partition route?

letsgo,

I wiped it after I left my last job so there’s next to nothing on it anyway now. They did give me a laptop but due to a stupid conflict between the AV and VPN one of the processor threads was maxed out causing the fan to run on full noise mode all the time.

CheeseNoodle, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

Jumped to linux for a test on an old laptop, currently on windows on my main PC but got parts on the way for a new build that’s going to be Linux.

Mouette,

Welcome to the other side, make sure to enjoy and use actual documentation of your software instead of random Q&A answered by ‘Community Moderators’ on Windows forums :)

Ttangko, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?
@Ttangko@lemmy.world avatar

I’d consider switching if somebody spoonfed me into being able to use/know it’s basics.

I am currently way too overstimulated with switching to privacy-focused and less (US-)corpo-reigned alternatives (like lemmy instead of reddit)

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world avatar

I installed Linux on a raspberry pi recently (first time using Linux in 15+ years), and in addition to reading stuff on Lemmy, I found that this is a really good use case for chatgpt or similar LLMs.

I was able to get chatgpt to explain stuff to me, ask it to dumb it down further, provide examples, correct my incorrect assumptions, etc.

Trainguyrom,

LLMs have been trained so heavily on Linux documentation that you can even have it hallucinate a Linux terminal at you!

pinball_wizard,

I’ll second recommending Raspberry Pi as a secondary machine. That way your primary computer is still around as a fallback.

If you have a spare monitor to add, a Raspberry Pi 400 for $100.00 is a great way to try out Linux on dedicated hardware.

The Canakit version even comes with a printed welcome guide.

communist,
@communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz avatar

I have 15 years of experience and am willing to do infinite of that on matrix.

filister, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

I am on Linux and won’t change to W11 for sure.

pinball_wizard,

I too choose your path of not being tempted away from Linux by the lure of an ad-riddled Microsoft-account-locked expensive “upgrade” to Windows 11.

corroded, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

Windows 10 IoT LTSC has support until 2032. Just saying…

vaguerant,
@vaguerant@fedia.io avatar

I've heard about this, but can anybody who's gone through it describe how much effort it was? Do you have to do a from-scratch Windows install? Did you lose any of your stuff? What level of computer expertise would you say is enough to handle installing LTSC, e.g. could your parents do it?

towelie,

It’s super easy, particularly if you follow a guide your first time. Your parents could absolutely do the install if you set up the USB for them. The hardest part is finding a safe download for the OS (they are .iso files) and setting it up on a USB stick (I recommend using a program called ‘Ventoy’ to do this).

I know that it’s a fediverse sin to post reddit links here, but there’s a genuinely superb megathread for Windows 10 LTSC IoT available that I recommend:

www.reddit.com/r/…/windows_ltsc_megathread/

In terms of actually installing you can initiate it by plugging the USB stick in and going through the start menu settings; or, when you boot up the computer you press F2/F12 to enter the BIOS screen, and you select the plugged in USB stick as your “boot drive”. This makes the computer open the USB stick instead of your already-installed OS.

wreckedcarzz,
@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world avatar

Disagree - I’ve done it, it is easy and straightforward, but anyone who hasn’t installed an OS on bare metal and used a certain tool that you can get from Github to activate MS products, isn’t going to explain the process as “super easy”. More like “a mother-fucking pain in the ass” and “why did you suggest this” and “what the fuck is an iso”.

This is definitely “I’ll swing by this month and install it” territory, not “here’s a guide, ez pz” for anyone older than 40 who didn’t major in CS.

towelie,

Most of those points are why I mentioned that setting up the iso on a removable drive is probably the hardest part. If you can boot to it then the rest of the installation process at that point is pressing ‘next’ through the W10 initialization.

But I’ll also concede that an average mom and pop likely can’t handle opening powershell to run massgravel and activate windows, even though it’s as simple as copying and pasting, then pressing ‘1’

Damaskox, do games w Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?
@Damaskox@lemmy.world avatar

Factorio is fun for me until oil comes up.

I have managed to play further with the black market mod. I can make whatever item I want, sell enough of it and buy the things I want or need instead of making them myself.

Other mods add more powerful machines that make items much faster. I like to do manually stuff with one machine only, then swap to something else with the same machine and repeat the process.

AngryCommieKender,

With the update, even if you don’t have the DLC, fluids have been rebalanced. You just have to place a pump every 200-250 tiles and everything flows.

For oil specifically, you don’t need anything but petroleum until what used to be late game. So just build a few (like a dozen) refineries and make sure that there’s actually oil coming in.

Once you actually need lubricant, and light oil, set up chemical plants to turn heavy oil into lube and light oil, and light oil into petroleum. It won’t be fast, but it won’t clog and it will produce what you need, slowly. You can use storage tanks as a buffer for your lube, light oil, and petroleum. Heavy oil isn’t used as a direct input for any assembler recipe.

I consider myself a Factorio apprentice, as I have yet to actually set up a proper train system. I’m slowly learning circuit logic, but can get to Gelba without getting stuck.

Don’t stress optimization, brute force works as well.

According to my father, who is an absolute Epic Wizard level computer programmer consultant, Factorio teaches you the basics of computer programming.

Agent641,

Oil is where Factorio becomes factoriohno

Toribor,
@Toribor@corndog.social avatar

The updated fluid mechanics are a lot more forgiving and basically have infinite throughput. It’s still a whole new layer of complexity but doesn’t have nearly as many confusing limitations as it used to.

Weirdfish,

I don’t think anyone plays factorio the way it was meant to be played.

With the new belt reading mechanics, I’m trying a single sushi belt play through and have made it as far as blue science so far.

Jumi, do games w What open-world games on Steam have satisfying movement, like Arkham Knight or Spider-Man?

Mirror’s Edge

drasglaf,
@drasglaf@sh.itjust.works avatar

I haven’t played it in 15 years or so, but I think it wasn’t open-world?

Jumi,

That’s true, I missed that

GunValkyrie,

Mirrors edge catalyst then.

ModernRisk, do games w Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer

I got excited for one moment =[

Cobrachicken, do games w GOG seems to be considering paid membership option

What a nigjtmare.

SplashJackson, do gaming w It's still going!

Don’t forget Untitled Goose Game!

RexWrexWrecks, do games w Is Baldurs Gate 3's voice acting so great that it ruined other games for me?

BG3 is definitely one of those games with good (even great) voice acting. But there are more of them out there.

RDR2 has some of the best writing and acting performances I’ve ever encountered in a game. The Last of Us is in a similar vein. The Uncharted series has some of my favourite voice acting, especially Claudia Black (Chloe) and of course Nolan North (Nathan).

Claudia Black also voices Morrigan in Dragon Age Origins, which is chock full of stellar voice performances. I’d argue that Dragon Age 2 and even Inquisition had some memorable performances but The Veilguard sucked.

teft, do games w Is Baldurs Gate 3's voice acting so great that it ruined other games for me?
@teft@lemmy.world avatar

Kingdome Come 2 has great voice acting too. Some really funny characters (Adder is my favorite crazy Pollack) . They suffer from a lack of voice actors though so some characters have the same actor.

doug, do games w Day 255 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots
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Anytime I can pet a cat in a game I usually take a 10-15 minute break (or just stop playing) to pet my cats irl. Something about petting a digital cat triggers me to appreciate my real cats right then and there.

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

I came across a shrine today with a ton of cats, and ended up doing the exact same thing with my cats. The both of them sat on my lap will i pet them

HalfSalesman, do games w Skill issue

I was a Halo 3 try hard and if anything I was nicer to female voices because I stupidly wanted to woo them. IDK exactly what the logistics of that would have been thinking back.

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