Sucks it didn't work out. Reading up on Nobara it looks like it pulls a bait-and-switch between the install media and what it installs. Namely, the install environment is xorg but it installs Wayland, which is nuts to me not only because Wayland isn't really ready yet but because what's the point of having an live boot image if it's not going to simulate what the real environment is going to be??

I haven't encountered an nvidia driver issue that didn't immediately fail and cause problems. If it affects your configuration, that sucks a ton, but on the upside it failed right away. All in all a much better problem than flakey WiFi drivers randomly dropping connections or your USB 3 ports being useless even for USB 2 or earlier.

The majority of stuff today either works or doesn't and that's really ideal, especially with that live image from which you install the OS. Can just do a pre-flight check with your preferred gear and make sure dmesg is clean before you commit.

They're flapping their arms trying to create the butterfly wing flap that gets the judge to also order a gag on people they declare to be Trump allies.

Or, more correctly, just plain old discrimination.

Funny you mention that. If a party fails to disclose something that is known to exist as part of discovery, the courts can make a negative inference.

In case you were wondering why the pigs ordered surveillance equipment turned off and no one was allowed to observe.

Sure. But don't underestimate government looking for any excuse to push behavior.

I would expect:

• Legacy highways' lower usage means more maintenance dollars per car. Even freeways become toll roads. Those who have a robot car, what the government wants me to have, will have their complaints heard about why they should pay to maintain roads they don't use. Of course people today complain about paying for "public" works they don't use, but this one is tied to behavior so it'll actually work.
• More maintenance dollars but less will be actually spent because fuck the people. Degrading conventional roads with those old fashioned painted lines and signage will have speed limits lowered in the name of safety. Expect a single lane on these old roads to be in great condition, and those will be for "special" cars and drivers, like HOV/LEV lanes today: special meaning government and super wealthy who need speedy access to their private jet terminals. My state already has "dedicated transponder toll lanes and roads" with higher speed limits and even those limits are never ever enforced as people who can afford to use them treat it as a free-for-all.
• If your car can go into manual mode, insurers will charge many times more in premiums. The automatic cars will have some anti-accident certification or warranty (that will likely be bullshit). Whether the actuaries agree or not, the government will reinsure companies against losses from self-driving accidents with no such luck for human drivers. Again, the very wealthy will shrug at a rounding error while you and I will be priced out.

When I was young, the prospect of high technology and thinking machines excited me greatly.

Back then I thought these machines I would be able to own would answer to me and not a government or corporations.

I don't know about the game specifically, but you don't get a Netflix deal, or participate in PAX and GDC, by having the "wrong" politics.

Some people draw a line between the content and the people profiting from it, but in case you don't.

I don't have an answer for Windows -> Linux, precisely. I've never tried moving a game in progress from one to the other. Files? Central NAS means I never had to go from desktop to desktop. Running TrueNAS [Core] on that machine, so that's a third operating system that is more server focused and, frankly, I don't do anything there that isn't out of the box functionality.

If someone put a gun to my head, I'd probably set up a Windows share, then use the Linux file manager (gnome, is what I use, in case it comes up) to mount that share and copy. I'm sure the other way works as well, I'm just personally more familiar with setting up Windows shares because it's easy to just give the Everybody role access to everything and it works without any fuss over my local network, whereas for Linux you can't really get away without needing some kind of credentialed user for network file sharing.

Not basic stuff at all. You're asking good questions off the beaten path.

While not a virtual machine, I can see how Wine has that feel. Especially if you've used Unity mode in VMWare Workstation, or something similar, where there's an option to have guest applications "appear" to run outside their little window.

Getting a Windows game into Lutris can happen two ways. Easiest is installing via Lutris installer, if your game is not too obscure. For obvious reasons, the installer will only have hooks for official retail setup files, so under a black flag, things get trickier. Even then, still check out the Lutris installer to easily see if there are recommended patches and fixes.

If you just have a setup.exe, there's a "install a windows game from executable" that works mostly like the Lutris installer except you will have to give it a name and which version of Windows Wine will try to work like. Like the Lutris installer, this will also give you a path to where all the stuff is installed.

You might also have just a bunch of files, no installer or setup.exe. This is a bit harder still but not too awful. Unzip it someplace, use the "add a locally installed game" option, and select Wine as your runner. The defaults are usually pretty sensible, but I certainly haven't tried every game ever made.

Rest of the setup: Working directory is implied to be where the main executable is, so don't mess with it. Don't set up arguments unless you know you need them: these go to the GAME not the runner. Wine prefix sets up a Wine sandbox of sorts, what you observe feels like a VM. You could just one use, but MB are cheap these days, I just use a separate prefix for each game, and I just use the directory where the game is installed. If it doesn't work right away, scan down the list of runner options and see what might be sensible.

"Where do I drop files?"

Once you've got the game installed, and perhaps run it to check, check the Wine prefix directory. It'll look something like this: https://files.catbox.moe/sfug25.png (pardon the censoring, but you understand). From there you have a directory that is your "fake" C: drive. If you keep a separate prefix for every game, you also don't need to be particularly hygenic here. Installing to the "fake C: root" is just fine, there's no real advantage to using Program Files.

Using a mod manager? Copy that in to your wine prefix. (Not strictly required, but I'd recommend it). Then hit the second collapsible menu on the Lutris UI, corresponding to Wine options, and "Run EXE inside Wine prefix". It will automatically open a file picker, to the directory where your prefix is, and it will run it in that sandboxed environment.

If you are using your mod manager a lot, you have a few quality of life things you can do. If the manager launches the game, just go into the game's configuration in Lutris and set the mod manager exe as the executable instead of the game proper. If not, you might want to consider Duplicating the game and changing the executable of one of the copies to the mod manager. Using Duplicate will have both the "games" (really, one game and a supplement) pointing to the same prefix so they're in the same sandbox.

"How do you organize your files / multiple hard disks / conventions"

That's a very personal question for sure: I have a system that works for me and make no warranties that it will work for anyone else. It also has limitations, for sure, but I see it as those four junk drawers in my house full of random shit but I know exactly which one I need to get into when I need to find a 20 year old ticket stub. I have a central NAS where I save most of my files, so each computer has a "local stuff" and a "network stuff" folder. On my final Windows 7 machine, it's a permanent network mount at a letter, and a directory link to that network mount. On my Linux machines I fstab entries, which was a pain in the ass to get working right and would definitely piss you off. Still, stick with it and it's one of those things that stays solved once you solve it, and you'll never have to look at it again.

In both cases, I have a pretty loose divide between stuff I made, stuff I converted, and stuff I downloaded. From there it's really anything goes. I bought Old School Essentials a while ago, and I had all the pdfs on a local computer's "Downloads/Reading/Games/RPG/". Then I have a script to move stuff from local machines onto the NAS. Sometimes automatic, sometimes manual, depending on how often I'm accessing it. Sometimes I'll manually copy things over if it's slow over the network to work with.

Multiple hard disks? I don't do that anymore, so this is coming from blind memory. Modern linux will automatically mount internal disks "somewhere" and make an icon available but the file browser will tell you where if you need a path by right clicking and picking properties. You can have more control by using fstab but, again, a pain in the butt because if you don't pay attention you can break shit.

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With enough experience and time, you'll come up with the ways you're comfortable doing things which will be different from above. But hopefully this is enough to get started.

It's up to you.

I know, it's an unsatisfying answer. But there's no technical reason why you couldn't. I think the default is ~/games/whatevername and you're free to install games to any mounted file system.

Personally, for my entertainment, I like being able to just back up my home directory and not think too much about or keep track of other places my stuff can be. Is this efficient? Probably not, but sometimes a decrease in cognitive load for years to come is worth the 1 or 2% reduction in gaming performance from sharing drive bandwidth with your OS today.

The thing is, source code doesn't know anything about a code of conduct. There is no way for the repo to know if it's being cloned by a communist ally or an actual human.

Don't forget that these scumbags have been using software written by normal people for decades to satisfy their needs and advance their causes. Stupid anti-capitalist idiots on iphones or a deliberate mindful decision, doesn't really matter. Rejecting the use of something useful for failing a purity test isn't very pragmatic.

Although I did talk about Lutris, and KiA is gaming centric (maybe still?), non-entertainment software is something to be used. Unless we all want to go back to CPM and 16 bit PCs?

Give these Linux orgs money? Hell no. And using paid commercial software (or using Microsoft software which spies on you for financial gain) gives them money. But I don't see a practical reason to not use a hammer that's just laying on the ground in front of me just because its imagery is part of the hammer and sickle.

Visual Studio project files and solutions are easy and work great, until they don't. Everyone I know that develops on Windows eventually has to go and tweak those xml files when something automagical did the auto part but not the magic part.

Everyone's got a breaking point, it's just at a different place per person.

I wish the Linux community would get their thumbs out their arses and make some kind of easy to use normie distro

Ubuntu, Mint, Pop_OS, Zorin. Used Zorin to play the old switcheroo on my parents and they barely noticed. In fact, the only time I was "required" to enter the terminal was to add the repos for LibreWolf so they have a decent privacy-focused browser. And that's only because I wanted to be lazy and copy/paste that task. Everything regular people might want is in the GUI. And, let's be honest, power users on Windows are dropping into command line / powershell anyway.

that let's me do gaming easily

Lutris is fantastic for a "just work, damnit" gaming shell. Surprisingly it's even easier and better at running Windows 98 era stuff on modern graphics hardware than Windows 10 is. Half an hour of reading is all you need: wine prefixes, runners, etc. No one is born knowing it, but give it a shot and it will pay dividends. Switching up between playing Sacrifice (2000) and Mad Max (2015). My wife is playing Baldur's Gate 3 (ulg, 2023). Wrapped up playing some Touhou games (Lutris has a retroarch wrapper) a while ago. All within the same UI.

Current complaints about Linux:

1. (a big one) Support is shit. Always been shit. Lots of really old no-longer-useful advice floating around out there. And if you don't know a magic word to search for, you might never find it. If you're having printer issues, for example, you're just going to have to know to add "CUPS" to your searches. We do have a woefully slow c/linux so getting some activity here from like-minded people would be good.

2. "Not invented here" anti-pattern, probably more accurately stated as "Not invented by a woke marxist." Commies and SJWs are working hard to strip away old stuff that works and replace it with new stuff that doesn't but is woke (Wayland over Xorg, systemd over initd, and more). But if you just want to use your machine and not mess around in the internals, the defaults are all very sensible and usable.

Ye getting BTFO for even saying the J word opened up a lot of my friends eyes. And, frankly, myself included.

"Everyone I don't like are Nazis" are what happened. Nazis hate jews, so, badabing badaboom they have to LOVE jews, and virtue signal hard on that point.

But it's splitting the retards. A whole bunch have been trained that skin darkness corresponds to worthiness. Opposing Nazis and protecting brown people are in contradiction, hence the meltdown on the left.

It just shows how much The Message is worth to these types. The more of your own land you burn and salt in support, the more dedicated you are to the cause.

Everyone who has it on Steam should apply for a refund.

CDMediaWorld was basically my guide to which labels and chemistries were the ones to get. It was crazy how much research was there, down to which brands came from the same production lines with a different name on it. Despite the copyright at the bottom, I don't think it's been updated in 20 years.

Most of the discs I burned back in the late 90s and early 2000s are still kicking. I recently transferred my old SD fansubs and stuff to M-Disc BluRay. As an aside, these are expensive, but it's nice to condense my hoard old cakeboxes into a 20 disc case.

That said, maybe 5 years ago I picked up more CD-R when my stash of blanks was used, for use with a PC Engine CD. I recently revisted and, of everything I tried, all the stuff I burned on old stock is still good and the majority of the stuff I burned on new stock had a lot of errors. Same burning hardware, all tested when it was fresh.

The same problem with floppy disks back in the day. At the tail end of production, the media was absolute trash with shit quality control. I would recommend to anyone who needs media for legacy formats today to do a little Retail Archeology and check out the back and bottom shelves of office supply stores to find new old stock instead of whatever they're shipping out of warehouses today.

I finally understand. These assholes are paid per typed character.

Bitchute had a thoughtcrime purge of their own a few years ago, complements of the UK as I understand it.

Dunno, I don't see them as much different than hiring voice actors to play a character, with the extra freedom of picking their own schedule so long as it meets a minimum amount of hours per week.

Lots of lawyers have opinions on this but I don't think this particular entertainment form has much case law, if any at all.

O'Keefe's hidden videos show there are deliberate efforts to get people outraged and focused on what they want the public to be focused on.

Good strategy, except for people not doing shit about anything either way. But there's no objectives like stacked objectives, so the public focusing on something you control is a convenient way to snag their eyeballs for the next psyop when it's ready.