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If your PC has multiple ssd slots, then you can consider dual boot so that you can just keep the windows install there for using such programs.
If you do not have that option, then connecting to your printer should work without the proprietary program, you just need the correct drivers. Then linux programs will be able to print directly to the priner.
Scanning is a different issue, this depends on your printer, the distro you use, and the available programs. You will have to do some research here.
The PC settings can sometimes be accessed in bios, and sometimes there are open-source versions of such control apps on github or similar sites. Again, here you will have to do some research.
Yeah, DCSS will do that sort of stuff from time to time. But you were smart, and you avoided it! Good for you.
Impressive! Do you use it for travelling?
4·8 months agoNice!
I just took a look at the history, the first version I played was 0.4 or 0.5. They didn’t have the tiles version back then, and still to this day I prefer the ASCII version. I. Am. Old.
18 years! I’d like to see another game that can be entertaining for so long.
Nice. I’ve been playing DCSS longer than anything else, and it still entertains me endlessly. I mostly play a F-Droid port on my phone that is still on 0.29, but whatever, every version is fun.
2·8 months agoFascinating. Thanks for posting!
3·8 months agoI have been using bazzite for over a year, and I am very happy with it. It works very well for gaming, and I have had zero troublehooting outside of getting some mod managers to work.
But immutable distros are different, in general you can’t just install GUI programs if it has no flatpak option. (for CLI stuff there are distroboxes). There are ways, but depending on what you want to do other than gaming, I would check first. Also there have been some episodes of drama among the maintainers, which makes me worry a bit about the future of the distro.
Mint is a great distro too, and from what I hear it for sure it will work well for gaming. I’d say the main differences are:
Bazzite:
- immutable, so you never have a broken setup
- lots of gaming setup done out-of-the-box
- some package installation restrictions
- some maintainer drama
Mint:
- flexible to use various methods of package installation
- No drama (?)
- Not immutable, so it can break if you fiddle with stuff and are careless
- no out-of-the-box gaming setup (but it is not a giant project to setup)
3·8 months agoThanks. That’s so cool.
I’m a little confused, can this thing run standard linux cli packages?
It’s not crappy, it’s appropriate for the use case. This is not some flagship android phone, it’s meant for tinkering, for texting, maybe some mariocart on the metro. Also the thing doesn’t cost $1000+, which is a good thing.
I have been using bazzite for over a year after starting with ubuntu, and then doing a “I’m doing everything myself” arch install (I learned SO MUCH).
I love it. I got a little frustrated about some of the package installation restrictions, but then I read about distrobox, and now I have an arch box, a ubuntu box, and an ollama box running a local LLM. No more problems with finding CLI programs. I even used the arch box to run adb and fastboot to flash android stuff, it worked flawlessly.
And of course gaming and standard desktop tasks work with zero problems. Next I’m going to convert my wife’s Windows 10 PC to bazzite, and setup excel and some proprietary software for her.
22·9 months agoThis is the best sort of rpg story, in my humble opinion.
I can’t put much time into this, but I speak German and I can assure you that this is at least a serious article about the options out there:
Either translate the page, or just follow the links and inform yourself. I hope it helps.
Edit: here’s another one about open-source CAD options (not necessarily for architecture). I just noticed that the other list isn’t a list of open-source, so many of those are probably proprietary.
Looks cool!
Just a suggestion: If you do want to find people to play with, you should try meetup.com, I met my RPG group there, and we’ve been playing weekly for almost 20 years now.
10·10 months agoWow, that’s quite a lot of content to go through. Thanks!
I agree, but I also wonder if the Democratic party can be converted from the inside to change it’s focus.
Probably not. I just winder what the best way forward is. It’s not really clear.
2·10 months agoThanks!
Pwech. I don’t play D&D!
I play Pathfinder…
Ok, I have to try lancer now.