Pop will make sure you’re nice and comfortable. Its in the top two for great starter distros alongside Mint. Both will take care of you and your driver/dependency needs, regardless of GPU.

Honestly, unless you have any real problems running Nvidia, I’d say upgrading now would be a waste. Unless you need more vram for something like localhosting large AI LLMs. Nvidia is getting better at just being supported and stable out of the box, even on Wayland.

Definitely something to keep in mind when you actually need an upgrade, though. AMD and Linux just pair well without any extra steps, like coffee and cream.

But Nvidia is as easy as selecting proprietary drivers on install these days and has very little issues. At least not enough issues to warrant upgrading such a newer card. I’d just save the cash up for the next big AMD release.

As someone who started his tabletop experience with Star Wars 3.5 and moved to D&D 3.5, I agree. Its hard to find a group in my area, though.

I should try to get something going. I have the complete 3.5 D&D collection as well as a complete GURPS set.

It has been one of the best choices I’ve made. The itch to play does go away after a while once you break the routine.

I started out customizing my Neovim shortcuts, too, since my keyboard layout is set to Dvorak, but after realizing that I’d have to do that for everything that used Vim shortcuts I forced myself to get used to the defaults. I used to use Vimium, a browser extension/addon that incorporated Vim shortcuts into your browsing. You don’t even need to touch the mouse. You just hit “f” and bring up letters by links and type the letters to go to them. “Shift-f” would bring up link letters that open in a new tab. j and k scroll up and down. Things like that.

Eventually, I moved to Qutebrowser instead; a browser that comes built in with vim-like commands. O will bring up “:open -t” for new tab. Lowercase will bring up :open which would open in the same tab. You can make quickmarks, too, which allow for custom site abbrevations. So I hit “o” and type lmy to go to Lemmy now. It’s quite a nice browser. Open source and runs on QT-Webengine. You can use Vim commands, too. :q will quit, of course, but :wq will quit while saving your open tabs. It’s actually really smooth and has built in dark mode for websites. :Ss will take you to the huge settings list, but you can opt for python config (or hybrid config) as well. You can use brave-adblock, python-adblock or both and add your own adblock lists in.

There’s a cheatsheet for it here.

I’m going off topic now (I love Qutebrowser), but I decided not to change the shortcuts because there are so many applications that use Vim commands that it would take forever to change them all. I recently went back to my old custom shortcuts and found that I hated them.

Yet: A yeti youth, not quite of age to be a full yeti.

Its good to have multiple confirmations anyway. I only know from what I’ve heard and seen that it works, you actually know it works from experience.

Ahh, I’ll have to give it another try. My first attempt was years and years back. I was trying out different MOBAs at the time, like Heroes of the Storm and Heroes of Newerth.

Yeah, the Steam Deck launched at a loss to the company, with the business model that the income would come from the influx of Steam users buying games. It was a very well executed business plan that was fair to all involved. I just don’t want to see what happens when Gabe is no longer president of the company…

I have insomnia. I sleep 4 hours at a time most days. Every tiny noise wakes me. Every bump my apartment neighbors make gives me heart palpitations. I can’t even sleep with my partner’s light snoring some nights. I can’t keep a normal sleep schedule. I know what I’m talking about.

There are nights and days I can’t sleep at all. The anxiety then builds and I can’t sleep because now I’m way too past tired to be tired. Everything trembles in my vision and I see weird diagonal static everywhere I look. Light becomes too much for me to even bear and the migraines become intense.

And you know? I don’t take it out on my partner. I worked with my doctor to fix it. Was the answer prescription drugs? Yes. It had to be. Nothing else would work. Dyphenhydramine sets off my RLS and SSRIs set off RLS in my arms for some reason.

I wouldn’t have fucking weighed in if I didn’t know what I was talking about. Step off with your assumption crap.

Edit: I’ll keep the original message, but after reading it I realized I got way too heated and I want to apologize. As someone with severe anxiety, ADHD, and insomnia I just felt slighted. You didn’t realize that I could have insomnia. I’m sorry for lashing out at you.

I just know the hell of insomnia all too well. I go down rabbit holes of anxiety and feel the pain of material existence on a daily basis. In order to sleep, I need to armor up, grab a sword, and prepare to fight a goddamn dragon some days, but I’ll be damned if I let it control my life and my relationship.

https://lutris.net/games/world-of-warcraft/

Wow is one of the more community-supported games. I had battlenet and D3 working just fine. Grab Lutris and follow these instructions, you should be good. There are a lot of guides that show you how to get addons working, as well.

It runs just as fine as on Windows. Last I heard, the only thing that doesn’t work is raytracing. So unless that’s a deal-breaker for you, you should have no trouble running it.

Sigma… ligma…

…but no sugma yet.

That’s another hard one to kick. I never played, myself, but I remember Counter-Strike was huge when I was in school. The after school CS LAN parties in the computer lab were huge. A lost era now. But before that was CoD LAN parties.

I went to them, but usually just to get the massive music libraries people had up for share. I think a friend of mine had almost 60gb in music and that was back when ~100gb HDDs were some of the largest you could get… Luckily I had frankenstein’d the first 100gb drive from my mom’s old PC and put it in mine, so I managed to get it all. I think I still have the music on my old E-Machines. I should probably get it.

Whoa, I went off track down memory lane. Sorry about that, lol.

I did. I checked out a lot of MD note takers, including Si Yuan, Logseq, and Joplin. But I always miss my plugins and CSS snippets. I think I’d have to take a look at Neovim for notes, honestly. It’s insanely malleable and probably has even more plugins than Obsidian.

I haven’t tried in a long time, tbh. And I think I tried DotA 2, so that may have been the problem…

I did try to get into DotA once, but trying to queue in for a game at early levels is a hell of a long wait. I might pick up Smite again. Though I think Smite 2 is out or coming out soon?

It used to be. Riot added a kernel-level anti cheat called Vanguard. Almost a year ago now I think? But yeah, that shut down League of Linux and it will remain that way unless Microsoft stops allowing kernel access, which they hinted at but I’m not holding my breath for it.

Thank you. It only took 18 years to come back to it, lol. But Linux fascinates me, tbh. It felt really strange at first, but after about a year it feels like home.

I have a friend who does dev work and swears by Apple, but he does use Linux on the side as his main machine. Ever thought of diving into NixOS? I’ve used it for a few months and really enjoyed it once I could read and write nixlang.

I don’t dev that much, but apparently it can run reproducible environments for nearly every OS and you can have multiple environments via flakes. Need one for Golang? Need one for React? It can do it. You can even access it from your mac. I don’t know much about that side of it, though, just that it can.

Neovim is my poison of choice, as well. I never thought to use it like that, though! Even though its not open source, I can’t stop using Obsidian for notes and prose, unfortunately. I just like it too much. But my novels are all written through novelWriter, which is an amazing application and has a package for every distro, afaik (Fedora was the last, but it was just added 3 weeks ago).

Yeah, I hear you there. I have pretty much every Brand and Vlad skin and a skin or two for almost all champs. I have so much blue dust that I’ll never need to buy a champ again even if I never broke down anything from now on.

The itch to play hits hard every now and then, but its getting less and less. Especially now that every new champ is just 2-3 different champs sewn together.

Its a disease and I’m glad I’m out of it. Now if I could stop blowing cash on PoE MTX…