Random Thoughts

[Jackalope]

Take pain away from one area, it becomes noticeable in other areas.

It works the other way as well: introducing new pain lessens the apparent severity of existing pain. If you break your foot, you’ll forget all about that toothache.

Boru

I remember the last time I took one to the junk, my back never felt better.

[Ravenshire]

A word of warning if you have an Nvidia 40xx video card. The Linux Kernal may not yet be updated to drive it. In that case, you can use the motherboard's on board video until you can get the proper Nvidia Linux driver installed. It's fairly easy and pretty straightforward, even if you have to compile from source as I did. There are loads of tutorials for it. Mint should have a place in the settings where you can select to use proprietary drivers but, YMMV.

ETA:
The latest Steam OS (in all honesty it's a fork, but compatibility is there) is now available here. It's an Arch Linux fork, but being developed for Steam, by Valve, (then translated for desktops/laptops) it will probably run steam games better than a Debian system. When I get time, I have a spare SSD partition to give it a spin on.

Thanks for the head's up. I've just checked and it's not that graphics card. It's a gaming laptop rather than a custom built PC, so not the latest and greatest graphics card, if that's what that is.

And yeah, deal, you can be the guinea pig on Steam OS I think I'd best stick with Linux Mint to start with, if nothing else so my dad can help me set it up. I'm not as tech savvy as I used to be... I guess that's a result of the complacency that using Windows breeds

Currently running a backup of my Debian system from a live disk of the latest, greatest steam OS (holoiso). Since Windoze no longer resides on that machine at all, Ima test drivin' the Arch Linux based Steam system. The latest kernel update in Debian fixed my kernel panic at boot, but broke a bunch of my games. 

[emjay]

Thanks for the head's up. I've just checked and it's not that graphics card. It's a gaming laptop rather than a custom built PC, so not the latest and greatest graphics card, if that's what that is.

And yeah, deal, you can be the guinea pig on Steam OS I think I'd best stick with Linux Mint to start with, if nothing else so my dad can help me set it up. I'm not as tech savvy as I used to be... I guess that's a result of the complacency that using Windows breeds

Currently running a backup of my Debian system from a live disk of the latest, greatest steam OS (holoiso). Since Windoze no longer resides on that machine at all, Ima test drivin' the Arch Linux based Steam system. The latest kernel update in Debian fixed my kernel panic at boot, but broke a bunch of my games. 

I'm sorry to hear that. I'm afraid I couldn't say whether POPOS is any better because I've only used it for a few games so far. Come next year when Windows support ends for Windows 10, the plan is to reuse its partition for another installation of Linux... so that I can use POPOS as my main and the other to "distro hop" as much as I need to, try things out etc. Frankly I'd love to drop Windows now but I'm playing a game with my sister and it needs Windows, sadly, so we've basically got a year to finish the game but I doubt we will in time.

[Ravenshire]

Currently running a backup of my Debian system from a live disk of the latest, greatest steam OS (holoiso). Since Windoze no longer resides on that machine at all, Ima test drivin' the Arch Linux based Steam system. The latest kernel update in Debian fixed my kernel panic at boot, but broke a bunch of my games. 

I'm sorry to hear that. I'm afraid I couldn't say whether POPOS is any better because I've only used it for a few games so far. Come next year when Windows support ends for Windows 10, the plan is to reuse its partition for another installation of Linux... so that I can use POPOS as my main and the other to "distro hop" as much as I need to, try things out etc. Frankly I'd love to drop Windows now but I'm playing a game with my sister and it needs Windows, sadly, so we've basically got a year to finish the game but I doubt we will in time.

Once I figure out the install and play around with the gaming capabilities a bit, I'll let you know how it works. Steam is working diligently to keep increasing compatibility, so in a year, who knows.

[Fake Messiah]

Neil Armstrong is dead but his poop still lives on.

[brewer]

Neil Armstrong is dead but his poop still lives on.

Have they tested it for space covid?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Neil Armstrong is dead but his poop still lives on.

Have they tested it for space covid?

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Boru

[Silver]

These headphones are taking for-freaking-ever to charge. Granted, they haven't been used in forever.

[Silver]

People on telly always be saying, "She'll only be a two hour flight away" as though there are going to be regular flights just to visit someone who lives elsewhere.

[Fake Messiah]

Spaceballs are better than Star Wars.