Just to be clear, watching Star Trek, or Sci-Fi in general, isn't a requirement of being a lemming. It just helps parse the memes
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No, it is a requirement 😡
Love sci-fi, cannot stand anything Star Trek with the exception of newest Star Trek movies.
Well now you have something to post to unpopular opinions too!
What don't you like about it?
It's too cheesy for me. I really enjoy darker, more gritty shows like BSG and The Expanse.
Give Deep Space Nine a go if you haven't it's the slightly darker side of trek.
I started with The Next Generation and loved it. On Deep Space Nine now, I think it's ok but I think I love TNG more.
Classic Trek is pretty preachy about things that are mostly popular opinions now.
Yes, Kirk, I agree about everything, didn't you have a third act asspull to grab?
On the other hand the new movies didn't have a point at all, just pew pew pew which is timeless AND brainless.
They weren't popular back then.
And I can think of a few people who worship the Constitution without understanding anything in it.
That's true, but isn't an argument for a modern viewer to get interested.
Welcome to the club! I did the same thing earlier this year, although I ended up moving from Mint to openSUSE Tumbleweed after a couple weeks due to needing support for some bleeding edge hardware.
Thanks to Steam / Proton it’s been relatively painless!
Welcome to the club! You might need to enable proton in the steam settings, I think it's under compatibility?
Thank you! Yes, it needs to be enabled there. Its basically just 3 extra clicks and the game is good to go :)
You may know this already from the Steam Deck, but I highly recommend installing protonup-qt which will enable you to install the glorious eggroll versions of Proton. A lot of game cutscenes don't work with vanilla proton but will with ProtonGE.
I'm surprised this still isn't enabled by default
I’m proud of you. Linux Mint was my first daily-driver distro and it’s still one I’d recommend to newcomers. I hope you have a great time with it!
I dont know you but it means a lot :)
Good times! Thanks for sharing your experience!
Having a Linux PC and a SteamDeck, as well, I've been quite pleased with the various ways they compliment - streaming, install from peer, etc.
That is for later, but definetly will do some experimenting with the deck.
Welcome to the world of Linux gaming (minus your Deck, of course)! Hope you have fun.
Welcome brother.
Yea I switched from Windows to Fedora and aside from issues with music production, I have been happy with the switch. Its a weight off my mind knowing i dont have to worry about Windows stealing my data anymore.
I'm probably going to be switching to Ubuntu or something Ubuntu based since it seems it will be a bit easier to work with for making music. Not that Fedora hasnt been great in general but i think my specific needs like having yabridge for Windows vsts is making me consider switching.
Take a look at AV Linux and Fedora Jam.
Highly recommend Reaper fwiw.
I have looked at Fedora jam, my issue with it is the same issue I currently have with no way to use yabridge that I could find though this may have chnaged since i last looked.
AV linux does look promising, just haven't deep dived on it yet. My concern was that its done by a single dev iirc but again i haven't done a deep dive quite yet.
And also a huge fan of reaper. Been using it for years now and I love it so very solid recommendations. I appreciate it. :)
For Fedora, it's three commands:
sudo dnf copr enable patrickl/yabridge
sudo dnf install yabridge --refresh
After a wine update, run:
yabridgectl sync
And AV Linux is one dev yeah, but it doesn't much matter. It's just a tweaked build, it's based on MX so you're still getting all the updates needed, just with some config changes more or less.
Fwiw I use straight Debian, but I've also been using Debian for so long that it's graduated college, met a partner, got married and is considering kids.
Ubuntu I avoid these days because I think Canonical is running it into the toilet, with so many bad decisions (snaps, pro subscription, etc) that I just won't touch it.
That said, AV Linux is essentially deb based anyway (MX is based on Debian), so it's a nice setup if you don't want to have to think about your kernel.
Fedora I also like, I'm just less of a yum/dnd guy than an apt guy (which I have literally typed into RHEL machines before remembering I was being an idiot).
I will have to give this a go then on Fedora because i would rather not reinstall for a third time since switching lol. I appreciate the advice.
When i last checked, the copr for yabridge was out of date but i was looking at this months ago and its also entirely possible i was looking in the wrong place or was reading information that was out of date.
Again, very much appreciate the help. Linux is still a new thing for me so any help is always welcome.
That's great to hear! I am still dual booting mint and windows but I am slowly moving towards being fully on mint. I recommend checking out Lutris if you have games on other stores, it also works well with running windows games.
Thank you. I have a relatively big GoG library, so Fedora is already installed :)
Also check bottles, it is available on flathub the largest repository of flatpaks. Flatpaks are inter-distribution packages. Just note that not all of them have to be provided by the developers and there may be proprietary programs. It makes flathub richer in software than the official repository of some distributions. There are only GUI apps. They are sandboxed (usually, see permissions). If you are curious about how secure flathub is compared to the official repository then watch this.
Reverse defenestration (throwing Windows out of your computer)! Congrats!
Happy ascension brother!
It's a good time to migrate to Linux!
If you need to run the EA launcher, I found it works best in Bottles.
Kick ass, Good job
Yay! Glad you're enjoying it so far :)
I can also say the past month or two rocking Mint have been a breath of fresh air, everything feels fast and I've only had one GOG game not run (think I could with some effort) :)
Even the Unity game engine works, and debugs, it's lightyears ahead of my previous goes at Mint over the years (and they only "ended" because of needing music software for college and uni!)
Hope it continues to treat you well! Also you may wish to indulge in the greatest Linux feature I know, which is Wobbly Windows - it makes your windows wobbly when dragged, which is very enjoyable for reasons I am not sure of! :)
I mostly play older games on my Ryzen 5 2400g with 16gb of RAM and an RX 580 I bought off a crypto miner, though I did manage to get Starfield running at 1080P in Win10 with a framerate and detail level that doesn't make me want to gouge my eyes out. Still, I think I should be pretty undemanding for the current state of Linux gaming, and I'm just about ready to bail on Windows but haven't yet. Currently dual booting with Kubuntu.
Beyond a few stubborn games, I have Windows CAD software I think I could run in a VM with maybe 8GB of RAM and access to my GPU. What's the easiest way for a motivated amateur to get that set up? Having come up with MS-DOS, I am comfortable with a CLI conceptually, and I can copy and paste commands like a mofo, but I generally don't know the exact use and flags well enough to do much on my own beyond apt and mkdir. :-)
What’s the easiest way for a motivated amateur to get that set up?
There really isn't an easy way. You'd have to run the Windows VM within Linux then assign the PCI device (your GPU) to the VM. Look up gpu passthrough if you really want to dive into it. I find it much easier to just throw a second drive in the machine for a Windows install and dual boot. If you want to dual boot with Windows, make sure Linux is installed first and on a different physical drive, unless you want to be sad later, and by sad I mean learn how to unfuck your Linux install after Windows overwrites the bootloader due to some random update.
Congrats! Mint is a good place to start.
Brother, I did the same thing a year ago for my personal computer after always pissing and moaning about Windows even with having Linux at work, or for server stuff. LMDE6 only now, and I haven't looked back.
Not found a better OS for me than Mint :)
So far loving it!