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From Windows to about 6 recommended distros for gaming.

I am not bad with computers and have a beginner+, maybe intermediate level knowledge of Linux and I kept running into some problems here and there with different distros. Most claimed to work out of the box (which may be the case for some users, but I have a shit ass Nvidia 1060 and that was not at all the case, until I...

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I’ve had very good luck with Linux Mint and a GTX-1080. It does require opening the Driver Manager and clicking the button with “Recommended” next to it.

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You can, though it might not be a great experience. Using Gnome on Mint especially is kind of funny tasting given the distro’s history.

Mint used to ship a KDE version but stopped to focus on other things, as there were plenty of distros that offered a good KDE experience. Kubuntu and KDE Neon are both fairly close to what Mint KDE would offer.

When Gnome decided to do whatever Gnome 3 was, a lot of people didn’t want that. And I know of four DEs now that sprang up that were trying to fill the void that Gnome 3 sucked into the world with its creation:

  • Mate. The good old fashioned “we don’t like the changes, so we’re gonna fork it and keep making the old thing ourselves.” Mate is Gnome 2 that kept on chooglin.
  • Cinnamon. At first, the folks who ran Mint tried to release a set of extensions for Gnome 3 to make it work more like Gnome 2, then decided to fork Gnome 3 to make their own DE and called it Cinnamon.
  • Unity. Canonical’s DE they made during their “re-invent every single wheel” phase. They abandoned it in favor of Gnome with some extensions to make it look a little like Unity did, and my understanding is some teenager picked it back up.
  • Cosmic. If I understand right, and I might not, System76 has bent Gnome into such a pretzel for Pop!_OS that they’re calling it their own thing called Cosmic.

Mint ships two of these four DEs. They make Cinnamon themselves and they work pretty closely/share members with the Mate community. They also offer an xfce version for a few reasons, another GTK-based DE that isn’t GNOME.

So using Gnome on Mint, the “anything oh god anything but Gnome” distro is just kinda funny to me.

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IIRC Chip’s Challenge was an Atari Lynx game which was then ported to Windows.

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First to clarify, you mean with the clutch pedal “out.” Pushing the pedal down actually disengages the clutch, ie forcing the plates apart to disconnect the engine from the transmission.

In a gasoline powered car that is in gear, yes there is a braking effect. Diesel engines don’t, which is why semi trucks have a thing called a Jake Brake.

Also, depending on what went wrong with your engine/why it is shut down, you may not want to choose to do this.

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One other fairly important detail in that 99% off the shelf parts 1% copyrighted BIOS: IBM contracted with Microsoft for the operating system, PC-DOS. And for some reason this deal was non-exclusive, so if someone else built compatible hardware, you could just buy a copy from Microsoft without the IBM branding on it and it’ll run. Which is exactly what Eagle, and then Compaq, did.

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When it comes to line breaks on Lemmy, one is none, two is one.

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Yeah I’m pretty sure PC standing for Personal Computer was at one point a trademark of IBM. The IBM 5150 PC launched into a world full of different and incompatible microcomputers, even those that shared processors weren’t software compatible with each other. Hell, one of the things that sank Commodore was nearly none of their own machines were compatible with each other; most code written for a VIC20 wouldn’t run on a C64, etc.

It was IBM designing a machine from off the shelf components, buying an OS from Microsoft, and relying only on the copyright on the BIOS to keep the machine proprietary that led to their ubiquity even 40 years later. Compaq wrote a non-infringing BIOS and was able to put to market a machine compatible with the PC’s software library. And now, for the first time in microcomputer history, you had a de facto industry standard. Build an 8086 machine with ISA slots, write or license a BIOS that MS-DOS can talk to, and now you too can run that growing software library.

This was not a decision anyone made. The 8086 was quite literally slapped together because the engineers didn’t think it was going to be much of a big deal, IBM didn’t set out to create a standard that would stand for decades after they gave up all involvement with it. The modern x86 PC was metastasized as much as it was designed.

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Somebody uncowboy his boots too, I think he just hooked his thumbs in his belt and said “howdy little lady” to a girl on the street. Quit it Breighdon, you’re from Vermont. John Bon Jovi is a more convincing cowboy than you.

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also his name probably isn’t Sue.

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when it’s three generations old now.

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