We have W11 pro for work, it is janky AF. And I keep having to deplete the office AI.exe and aimgr.DLL stuff, otherwise it hogs the CPU, even when not using office.

Wut? I don’t buy games often or right away. I put them on my wish list and sometimes there are ridiculous sales. I think I have paid $20 max, and lowest was $2 for an prior version of a Rally game.

Yes, a hardware person I met through a family member said it’s hard and had they known how complex they would have chosen another dicipline

Yeah I would think so, it only has value based on what you can trade it for.

Wow you certainly learned a lot trouble shooting that.

I haven’t had something that annoying happen, usually it’s been install and use.

BUT putting Linux on an ancient dell box was a learning experience. I installed the system on the HDD. After shutdowns the aystem would wake back up. The solution was adding kernel quirks line to grub boot with a numeric code, which told the hardware to ignore the self wake up event from the USB bus.

Then when I wanted speed the bios didn’t support NVME boot. So I had to add a small ssd for boot partition , but have rest of system on the NVME drive. I didn’t want to reinstall and resetup so I was learning a lot about gparted and copy pasting partitions and editting fstab to cobble together a replicated set of partitions. It was a great way to understand how formatting, partitioning and mounts all worked.

Kill all 9 lives

You would have to run OpenSUSE tumbleweed to get the GUI equivalent of windows configuration.

Yast has a GUI app for everything from Samba setup to Bootloader config.

The trouble is: initially there is a learning curve to SUSE that is different than something like Mint

Yeah an SSD just crapped out this weekend, reinstalled Linux and steam and was back to my save spot in my game. That alone saves so Mich time and effort of backup retrieval or playing 100 hours over again

It’s like what I thought Iron Harvest was going to be.

Yeah, I should have expanded my thought. They use open source, but it is a paid proprietary system, I mentioned it as there is linux or windows offering but people choose what they know; Which is windows. But if you can get corporations on Linux (even non-opensource) it lends legitimacy for when other businesses look for an OS choice, which then can help Foss app adoption

Yeah LDAP, Kerberos, SSO and other systems are available on Linux. Biggest thing seems to be peoples reliance on MS office document compatibility, so even though the libre/open office type products can supplant that, it is a tough sell when your vendor or customer wants MS word as a requirement of doing business together.

We sell PDM/PLM systems, some people choose the Linux version for their enterprise, many choose the MS windows version, because its just what people know about.

I think Linux on steamdeck might usher in a new generations of people that know about Linux and want to try it in the wok environment.

People patented how to get jpegs of your camera to your PC by file transfer. Trolls in my opinion.

Academics can get Siemens NX CAD licenses at a very low nominal fee. Version 12 or lower runs on REL, SUSE but also will run on OpenSUSE.

Newer NX versions dropped GUI support for Linux, just headless cad for batching work.

Maybe they will bring it back once the X and Wayland transition is complete.

Again you are thinking the opposite, adding anticheat mitigation is less secure of an OS. You have unknown code accessing everything at the absolute lowest level. What you are asking for is a less secure kernel and OS to run anticheat

The down votes are because you are conflating terms. Linux has secureboot, allowing anticheat into the kernel is not secure. But I get what you mean, you mean a kernel that allows infiltration to check for cheats…that is something different

I have a modernized version of this concept of convection cooling.

Yeah the company I have worked for for a long time is growing, this year it has become apparent that some upper dudes have no clue what actually happens and just give direction they dreamed up that they think is how things work. The next level down is like just ignore that, that’s not how we get things done.

I get that the upper level is supposed to provide long term stragegy,(and some are brilliant minds) but when executive decisions are getting made when they don’t want to hear about the actual detail, there are poor choices made in an arrogant sort of way, and everyone just does an off camera face palm

Probably so they can also force you to cloud game

The modding is great, I got so much extra content for Mudrunner by the mods available in the community.

Same with Mech Warrior5, even just adding the war mod turned on more fire and smoke from salvos and thick clouds from burning mechs; it brought the game from a cartoony weapon feel to an actually battle scene.

This query made me think of this sketch as steams’ search techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMboDekgvz0

I’d say it is impressive since seniors typically have slower reflexes than the younger crowd

I don’t think I have ever used that app. Just cmd and powershell alone, or putty. I have been avoiding windows ssh since they log server and user name that accesses an ssh connection and sends it to microsoft during the connection attempt.

Do you mean powershell? If so you can install it on Linux https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/install-powershell-on-linux?view=powershell-7.5

Oh theses cows went wobbly, fell over and died, better feed them to our good stock to save money.

It was illegal in the UK till the mid 60s, Russia is still holding out

While my freezing of tabbed explorer is a daily prooblem, I’m glad I’m not dealing with your authentication issue. 😀

For me its explorer tabs freezing, I can move the window around, but can’t click any files inside. Then there is the Office ai.exe and aimgr.DLL that keeping getting installed with updates, and these randomly hog system resources even though I’m not using office apps at the moment. (In Microsoft Office/root/vfs/ProgramFikesCommonX64(X86)/Microsoft Shared/Office16/

I think a lot of what was art will die, you have logo generators and random people image generators that used to be done by a graphic artist, or a photgrapher.

https://this-person-does-not-exist.com/en

I have seen handmade tags, for stuff that wasn’t machine loomed, etc. But handmade clothing is mostly dead in the consumer world, unless you class mass production methods as handmade… Which they are made by hands in some stage

Microsoft has you covered, they sell a thin client box that has enough OS to reach the internet and use their browser and office swuite online.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/link

I mean yeah and no. I manage a team, I make 10%-12% more than the team even though technically we do the same tasks. The difference is I need to know their job, but also manage a schedule, and allocate resources, while planning sales for the future stream so they don’t run out of work. It’s a different skillset on top of the team skill requirement.

Not justifying a C suite at 20 million over dudes making 60k though

I get your point, but since people claim Steam is a monopoly, then by that logic they have a large swath of data on what counts as a gaming machine to the user base.

I get its not going to compete with a watercooled watt sucker, but that doesn’t seem to be the majority.

As a person that has gamed since 1983: Up until recently I was gaming on a 2013 dell mobo converted to a Core V21 case (that’s a lot of rewiring conversion --thanks dell), and using a CAD GPU.

Then work bought us new laptops with RTX cards. So graphics have improved for me.

Both of those are not hardcore gaming PCs, and this steam machine will probably outperform them.

My point being these were valid systems for gaming by a gamer. Not everyone needs an F1 car to enjoy the ride to work😀

I have had issues when it was copied from an old hard drive where the files were downloaded by another account name. Windows knows the account IDs don’t match so your permissions are limited. If you don’t like command line you can often go into properties , security, advanced, then use take ownership option, or select user name and check the full control option

Was it copied from an old hard drive?

I assume they mean private equity vs privately owned. Private equity would mean you have to bow to your investor since they are paying you. Privately owners make their own decisions without needing to answer to an investor

Chrome/google is a monopoly because they actually pay to keep Firefox and apple Browsers running. Firefoxes major funder is google. This is so Google can claim they aren’t a monopoly.

Gog is the games store most people use if they don’t want steam. https://www.gog.com/en/games

Steam isnt a single seller though. There is GOG, there is Microsoft store, and other wasys to purchase games.

Those are all terrible suggestions lol.

Yeah Linux users can be like overzealous sport parents.

Side note if you do run into hardware issues that is not as simple as installing a package, my suggestion is try another distro. And I have had zealous users get mad at this, but I went through the same situation. I have a 2010 laptop it would not run any Debian based distro or offshoots, and I tried 8-10. They all fail during install with error, or install then and fail to boot with bios/hardware bug. So I tried Fedora and OpenSuSE and those had no problems (rpm based). So whatever was in Debian mainline and trickle down could not deal with the bug. But Fedora and SUSE gave a warning of “BIOS bug, working around it” and boot fine. Oddly enough NixOS works also.

When I described this before, I did have a slew of people saying “you just don’t know what your doing”, or " Debian isn’t the issue here". Lol. Clearly I know enough to attempt 12 or more Linux installs, and having no Debian distros work does mean Debian is the issue.

People.

In Vanadium got to Settings, Privacy and Security, Accessibility, then turn on the Viewer notification.

I found the WebEx Team app was really good.