SimplyTadpole

@SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com

(she/they)

Hi! You can call me Tadpole. I enjoy maps/geography, sci-fi and speculative fiction, classic and sports cars and motorsports, and retro and retrofuturistic technology from the 70s-90s. Also a racing, role-playing, indie and retro video game connossieur.

I am a certified lurker.

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SimplyTadpole,

For what it’s worth, I’ve had Linux spew similar CLI errors when booting up complaining about a critical CPU problem, when the problem actually was that it was reading data off of a dying hard-drive. (Removing said drive, as well as replacing it with a new, healthier drive, made the issue go away.)

Not saying your problem is actually a dying storage device, but that it’s possible the issue might not actually be your CPU itself.

SimplyTadpole, (edited )

From what I’ve seen, Boomer Shooters were actually often developed by Gen Xers (and played by Millennials), and both of them despise being lumped with the boomers - hence why they dislike the term :p

SimplyTadpole,

A fellow Undertale Yellow enjoyer, I see you’re an enby of culture.

SimplyTadpole,

I’m basic…

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/0563c82e-8c88-4c3b-9ca6-35754042975b.png

Fedora Kinoite, Plasma desktop, Arc shell theme, and Catppuccin window/app theme.

I included more information about my setup on my Codeberg page.

SimplyTadpole,

I haven’t, Fedora will only get Plasma 6 on April. :c

What happened to the clock widget?? I really like it and don’t want to lose it…

SimplyTadpole,

Crud, I had no idea. I thought they’d still work on 6 :c

SimplyTadpole,

Hm, if so, then does Hypnospace Outlaw also count? That game has a lot of secrets and special programs that let you find hidden/unique stuff, and it’s used to find crucial things in the final chapter, but most of them are already available right from the beginning if you know where to look, and the game is designed in a way where finding those early on is intentional for second-time players (either because it helps skip some chapters, or gives you useful upgrades sooner than you’d normally find them).

SimplyTadpole,

Heavy Metal Blahaj!!!

Linux for desktop market share surpasses 4% for the first time, says Statcounter (www.neowin.net)

Statcounter, a website that tracks the market share of web browsers, operating systems, and search engines, is reporting that Linux on the desktop has over 4% market share for the very first time (Statcounter records ChromeOS as a separate operating system despite being based on Linux). Statcounter doesn’t provide any...

SimplyTadpole,

Last year’s December marked my one-year birthday of daily-driving Linux as my primary OS consecutively, while this January marked one year of me using a single distro reliably without running into weird issues that’d lead me into a distrohopping frenzy. I am still proud that I managed to pull this off! I guess third time really is the charm.

I had previously tried using Linux two other times before - the first time was around March 2021 when I had to finally upgrade my computer and switch out of Windows 7, and since I didn’t like Win10, I wanted to try out Linux. Sadly, I didn’t know much about it at the time and made a bad first-distro choice in Manjaro, whose installer broke so horribly that it somehow nuked my entire SSD. Lesson learned: Don’t use Manjaro.

Second time was in November (also in 2021), where I mustered the courage to try again after many frustrations with Windows 10, but with a different distro (initially Pop!_OS, but I had a terrible experience with its community and switched to Linux Mint the next day). My days on Mint were pretty great and I still remember them fondly, but there were many things that I needed but couldn’t use as Mint’s repositories were ancient and lacked them (and I didn’t know about Flatpak at the time), so I tried switching to other distros with newer repositories… and kept running into all sort of bizarre, nonsensical issues nobody else had (such as atrocious gaming performance, archives not working, and other things I don’t remember), and my requests for help were often either ignored or responded harshly, so I ended up giving up and returning to Windows…

…Uh, that didn’t last more than 6 months because for some reason Windows 10 hates me and started giving me even worse issues. I managed to find a nicer and more forgiving community of Linux users who could help, so I mustered the courage to try again. And thankfully, with my prior experience, I managed to make it stick this time by finally resolving some of the bizarre issues I had - it got to the point that I sometimes forget I’m using Linux, lol. I’m very glad I could contribute to the 4%.

SimplyTadpole, (edited )

I know you’re talking about Nvidia specifically, but I find it kinda funny how people say that regarding X11 and Wayland even for AMD and Intel, because for me the experience is literally the opposite – when I try playing games on Xorg, they always stutter and freeze really badly to near-unplayable extents even when FPS counters report they’re running at 60 FPS (or if I set them to the lowest possible graphics), but ever since I switched to Wayland, the issue was just gone and games run flawlessly now. And note that I’m using Plasma, the one people often said had a worse Wayland session than Gnome and Wayland-based WMs.

I don’t know why this is the case for me specifically when it seems like literally everyone else reports the opposite happening to them (and afaik Wine and most Linux games still run in XWayland). Does Xorg just hate me in particular?

SimplyTadpole,

Is 3DS emulation effectively dead now? Citra was the only good 3DS emulator out there from what I’ve seen…

SimplyTadpole,

I’m so mad that Citra was also killed because of this. This means that 3DS emulation is effectively dead, since the next best emulator, Panda3DS, can’t run most games…

SimplyTadpole,

I already had it installed via Flathub, hopefully it won’t somehow uninstall itself 😅 (Or that I ever need to wipe my system…)

SimplyTadpole,

Not that I know of :c If anyone knows, I’d like to know.

SimplyTadpole,

well, in that case, hello there little gay person within my cellular device

SimplyTadpole,

I’ve been absolutely obsessed with Hypnospace Outlaw and Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath. The latter has gotten me interested in the retro shooter genre since its gameplay is genuinely really fun (but I don’t really know many such games outside of Doom), while the former has been keeping me in a perpetual state of hype exhaustion waiting for its sequel to come out, which won’t until next year…

SimplyTadpole,

Sorry for the dumb question, but what do you mean by “non-official distro”?

SimplyTadpole,

Sounds about right, I had nothing but bad experiences with Nvidia on Linux.

My experiences with AMD are far from perfect and I still have some bizarre issues nobody else has , but it was still a pretty big improvement.

My experience using Fedora Atomic (Budgie) for a month or two. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

I would just like to preface this. This is the first blog post I’ve ever written, so please please please give me feedback if you can. I also didn’t intend on it being here on Lemmy, but Hugo is quite a complex tool that’ll take some time for me to understand. Webdev is not my cup of tea....

SimplyTadpole,

I’ve also switched to Fedora Kinoite a little over a year ago after lots of issue-driven frantic distrohopping followed by me having temporarily given up on Linux, and it really stuck for me as well. Fedora Atomic is honestly really cool, and it’s been more reliable than most other distros I tried (even Workstation itself!), and I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels this way ^^’

SimplyTadpole,

I’ve been chronically obsessed with Hypnospace Outlaw…

SimplyTadpole,

I bought it but haven’t played it yet, I really need to overcome my laziness and do it 😅

SimplyTadpole,

Eh, issues aside, I’d rather have a greedy late-stage capitalist developer than a proudly neo-nazi developer.

SimplyTadpole,

I can’t speak for OP, but I remember reading about two years ago that Linux Mint is a poor choice for gaming because Cinnamon’s compositor can’t handle more fast-paced games (even just 60 FPS) and will reduce them to a stuttery mess even if the game’s otherwise running fine. I’m not sure if this is still the case, but I did deal with it back in late 2021.

There was also the stuff about Lutris developers abandoning their support for Mint (in a letter I feel was frankly way too harsh, rude and unprofessional) due to it doing some weird stuff with system packages that made the Lutris program generate weird bugs that couldn’t be replicated in other Ubuntu-derivative distributions. However, that can be circumvented by using the Lutris flatpak.

Honestly, I do hope those are no longer issues. I have a soft spot for Linux Mint since it was the first distro I daily-drove (and has a similar UI to Windows XP my beloved), and even though I don’t use it anymore, I still follow its development from time to time and I’d love to see it getting better and universally usable for everyone.

SimplyTadpole,

Trust me, there is a seriously disturbing amount of genuinely misogynistic women out there. I’ve had the misfortune of dealing with them many times…

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