Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.

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  • Sturgist@lemmy.catolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldBtw
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    1 month ago

    I was trawling through Octopi and saw an update notifier. Thought it was neat. Now I won’t have to update if there’s no updates, I thought.

    I removed it after a day. I could have set it to only look once a day, but realised that if I just update as part of what I do before I shutdown then I basically got the same effect, without being actually notified of anything. I don’t think there’s ever been a time where I ran an update and it said “nah nothing to do 👍”


  • As a man in the trades, absolutely. I do my best to encourage women of any age to learn a skilled trade. There’s still a bit of a “boys club” sentiment, thankfully it’s starting to die out. There’s not enough people interested in doing the hard work involved in the trades to keep the skills going, even the sexists can’t afford to keep women out.
    I have absolutely no issues working next to anyone, regardless of where they are on the gender/sexuality spectrums, all I ask is that they do their share and not be a douche-cannoe.
    Maybe unsurprisingly the only 2 asks I have are too much for a lot of people.



  • I don’t sail the seas often. Sometimes for an AA OR AAA(never a AAAAAAAAAA) title I refuse to pay £100+ for. Usually to just uninstall it when it’s boring repetitive shit. I do have quite an extensive indie and A game collection. I do my best to get games with native builds whenever I can, if only to show that there’s a market for them. And for the most part, you can really tell which Devs have made Linux native builds a core part of the process and which had it as an afterthought.
    I’ve got a few games that just run better using the windows build through Proton. I still persist with aiming for 90%+ Linux native builds for new additions to the collection.


  • Most LTS builds are stable at the expense of potentially compatibility with things like gaming. If you’re aiming at gaming, avoid LTS and stear clear of Debian and it’s direct derivatives. If Debian is upstream from the distro you choose, then your updates will be significantly behind the curve. There’s a lot of gaming oriented distros floating about, and really the only way to find out which is best for you is to try a bunch. I landed on Garuda Arch, it works for me, and if people ask for recommendations it’s top of the list in my opinion.