Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.
Somehow I collect low-powered laptops.
Don’t lie to us. It’s not a mystery. I can almost guarantee 80%+ of the people in this thread have something they both collect and pretend it’s a mystery/weird that they do.
I used to collect fixed blade knives. Had to give them away when I moved to the UK, not worth the hassle if I was asked about it.
Now I have the start of a collection of old mini-synths that I keep meaning to circuit bend but never get around to.
I was hyped when I first heard about it. And with them dropping the shitty mechanic that was putting me off, I’ll definitely grab it at some point.
Looks like it’s 20% off right now, but reading through the recent(ish) reviews, it looks like it’s still in a state that I would likely find aggravating. Namely AI jank, and enemies spawning/despawning while in view.
That said, a positive review makes an excellent point:
@Mango-killa
We bullied the devs into releasing the game early and are upset that it’s unfinished. I love the concept, but still needs a ton of polish and tweaks to be perfect. Give em time to cook.
It’s been on my wishlist, despite the now defunct water mechanic, since I heard about it. And I’ll give the Devs the time they need to cook.
It was a stupid mechanic, and the reason I lost interest in the game.
And you also have a type there! 😉
Oh, absolutely, and that’s exactly what should happen.
Some folk are just really really petty, and will self sabotage to “prove themselves right”.
I mean, that is legitimately cool, and I’m happy for you. I’m still left with a bad taste in my mouth, people building up stuff for a Google controlled group of products. Especially with them being so very anti-consumer. I really don’t want to yuck anyone’s yumm, but I really really don’t think using or improving Google products is in anyone’s best interests.
Ew, cool, but making Google products more attractive to users is not something I think should be considered a priority or even a good idea.
It took me awhile to find the info. I looked through their documentation pages hoping they would give me a clue, nada. I googled it and had to reword it 3x and then go through a couple articles. Would have been nice if they’d just put it on the about page.
Serpent OS is an independent distribution written from scratch by Ikey Doherty, which means that it’s not based on an existing GNU/Linux distribution.
For some of the last really stubborn pieces of software that kept me locked it to at least dual booting windows, I’ve found running them in bottles is working really well. Bottles has a community preset for Fruity loops Studio, but it wasn’t really working. Oh it would run, but with massive input and audio lag, most VSTs just wouldn’t work with FL in that install. What does work, is creating a bottle for gaming, and then just installing everything through the “run exe” at the bottle prefix page. After 8 years of dual booting, I finally nuked my windows installs.
…damn you…this is also true.
…sunovabetch…I literally just facepalmed. Feel dumb for not having even considered looking into if I could do that. Well…guess papa has a weekend project…
This would be me, except the wife says it’s “wasting energy.” And rather than argue with her I’ve decided that in an effort for the dream of “happy wife, happy life” I’ll just deal with sub 1min boot time
This is exactly why it took me so long to nuke my dual boot windows drive. One program, Fruity Loops, I couldn’t ever get to run well enough to be usable in an unfrustrating manner. Just recently got it chugging away in bottles, there’s a community made bottle for it, but I found that doesn’t actually work. At least not for me. Took 3 weeks of tweaking things to get it going, but I got there in the end.
I just tried and it doesn’t seem to work for me.
Wait…do I need an optical drive for this to work? I think I might have a plug in drive somewhere…
Wherever you land, I hope Linux treats you well. Keep trying different distros, there’s a lot of choice out there, which is kinda the problem tbh.
Try Garuda, the gaming edition is well configured for Nvidia cards, and from what I’ve seen AMD, out of the box. There was some small issues I had Nobara that I’ve not had with Garuda, and at the time I was trying Nobara it was just GE doing all the dev work on it. It has a very active forum where the dev team is quick to answer questions. The two times I ran into an issue that turned out to be a bug, I had devs replying quickly and it was fixed quickly. Highly recommend.
It’s broken on some instances.