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Damn lemmy really doesn’t like this lol

I want to sponsor an act called like MURDER DEFENSELESS CHILDREN AND BANISH THEIR SOULS TO HELL ACT, but it’s just a tax cut for rich people.

If you’re doing a new build and aren’t scared of following (very) complicated tutorials, you should look for a motherboard/CPU combo that supports something called “IOMMU”. Not all hardware supports it, and it isn’t really advertised.

Basically, that lets you run Windows in a VM with full GPU passthrough. Combined something like WinApps, and you have the ultimate PC that can run basically anything.

Depends on how you installed it, but most tutorials have you use the system package manager, so yes doing the typical pacman/apt/dnf/whatever update should do it.

You can check your current driver version by running ‘nvidia-smi’ in a terminal.

I think you misinterpreted my comment. Starfield is currently broken, and we need to wait for a fix from Nvidia.

Lutris is good for that. It can be confusing at first if you don’t know how Wine works, but it’s very easy to use and doesn’t require Steam.

Nvidia drivers work fine, they always have (I’m using a 4090 on my fedora workstation). This is a common misconception.

Nvidia’s drivers are a problem because they are not open source. This creates headaches for developers and the community at large. But for end users, they work just fine. Nvidia doesn’t just dump untested code on the internet and call it a day, they have full time staff dedicated to building and testing linux drivers.

One recent problem is that the current latest driver is not compatible with Starfield. This is a common occurrence even on windows, and is why Nvidia and AMD regularly release “game ready” drivers before a major game launch. On Windows, Starfield crashed with the latest AMD driver for the same reason.

Since it isn’t open source, our only option is to wait for Nvidia to release a new version. If it was open source, the community could fix the issue immediately without having to wait.

The problem with Linux as a desktop is that all the money and investment goes into server use cases. There really aren’t many companies investing into the desktop. I think Valve might he the only big company with a major interest in it, but they’re mostly focusing on their own closed ecosystem. It’s the classic chicken and egg problem.

So if magically we see desktop usage go up, investment will go up, and we’ll see much more momentum.

Regarding viability though, I think that’s not going to be solved with more investment. The problem is the millions of people making trillions of documents in MS Office. Microsoft goes out of their way to make it extremely difficult for competitors to achieve 100% compatibility. Unless that changes through regulation or something (since it’s clearly anticompetitive), I don’t think the hypothetical linux desktop wave will survive very long.

Adobe, Autodesk, and a few others are also at fault for not supporting linux, but that’s a different issue. They’ll go where the money is, and if Linux usage goes up, they’ll have to support it or risk losing their strong market positions.

It’s all an annoying chicken and egg problem.

Found it! It was by a dev named Zachary Simone, but it appears to have been taken down from the app store at some point. Interesting that it still works for you, as it seems to be using a blocklist, and I doubt that gets updated anymore.

Interesting, thanks for the suggestion. I found Hush but sure about Freedom. I found one with that name, but it’s a screen time app/site blocker. Is that it?

I suggested waking up earlier because I don’t know anything about your life/schedule. You’re the one who knows it best, and the one who knows where to find 15-30 minutes to do some exercises. Working two jobs is tough, but people do it all the time while still managing to fit exercise into their life.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to tell you what to do or shame you into working out. It’s your life and if you don’t want to work out, then that’s fine.

I just want to point out that when someone thinks they “dont have time” for working out, they’re wrong. It’s never about time. It’s like if someone told you they don’t have time to brush their teeth and shower every day because they work two jobs, need to walk their dog, and have a bad elbow. Would you take that justification seriously? Exercise is just another routine.