Dettweiler42

joined 2 years ago
[–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 month ago

I was landing in Memphis a few weeks ago, and you can see the literal cloud of pollution surrounding this thing. There's a distinct haze you can see centered on the thing.

I haven't made any recent attempts to get FL Studio working again, but from what I understand, Bottles can set up an install pretty easily. Reinstalling your VSTs can be done through Bottles as well, so it's one folder containing everything.

[–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hear you on the unknowns. I just picked up a new direct drive racing wheel, and I spent half the night trying to get it to work. The manufacturer doesn't support Linux, so I have to use Boxflat. The wheel seems to work in there, but it doesn't show up in my device list under Game Controllers and Steam doesn't show it as a controller. However, after more research, it seems like that's all normal and it's probably the game itself not detecting the wheel due to it being plugged into a USB hub (which isn't a Linux issue). Sometimes ime learning the OS is fine, and it's the software that's the issue. With Windows, it was easy to assume things were fine on the OS side, and it just comes from that familiarity.

[–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

I have no intentions of going back to Ravenholm anytime soon.

I ran SteamOS for a while before they made the recent announcement. It works great. Previously, just had to tell it to always boot in Desktop mode.

[–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Honestly, a lot of desktop environments are designed to feel very similar to Windows. I tried Mint on a laptop and started liking it right away. The setup was put it on a flash drive, and run the installer. It took 20 minutes to nuke Windows.

My OS struggles come from trying to get windows-specific DAWs and CAD Software to work, which will hopefully come around as more people switch to Linux. I have some alternatives that I'm playing with right now.

[–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

In my cases, there was no crosswalk. Straight up reckless jaywalking.

[–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (13 children)

From personal experience, I have had to dodge people outright walking into traffic to cross a road, ignoring all the cars and staring at their phones. This has s happened serval times in the last year for me. The worst offender was someone walking across a 10-lane highway (5 lanes each side with a grass divider) during rush hour traffic.