ipacialsection

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[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

Damn Small Linux is a recently resurrected distro made specifically to run on old 32-bit PCs. You probably won't be doing much web browsing or gaming on this device, but you should at least be able to get it to function

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 9 points 10 months ago

Debian! It's stable, elegant, and doesn't impede customization. I distro-hopped a lot over the years - some that I ended up disliking included KaOS (severely limited software repository), Clear Linux (only way to get ffmpeg was to compile it from source) and Fedora (very slow); most I liked, and just decided to move on at some point. But I kept coming back to Debian, and eventually got to a point where instead of trying a different distro when Debian broke, I would just reinstall Debian.

I'd be interested to try VanillaOS or another "immutable" distro at some point in the future. See if they've matured enough for my day-to-day use.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

First, go to [three dots] -> Preferences -> Runners -> Proton, click the button next to the newest available version of Proton GE (currently ge-proton-9-7), and wait for it to download.

Then, go to your bottle -> Settings -> Runner, set the runner to ge-proton-[version], and wait for Bottles to configure the new runner.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 9 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Have you tried using different runners? According to ProtonDB Ape Out is completely supported by Proton, so maybe try a Proton runner instead of Wine.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Now I'm (tentatively) excited to see how they'll outdo a season with a novel gimmick in each and every episode, including a musical and a crossover with a parody show, in terms of gimmicky weirdness.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

Could you describe the issue in more detail, then? What happens when you try to play a video? If you get any error messages, please copy them.

It might not be Wayland-related at all.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I just tried installing Parole on my own KDE Plasma+Wayland system and it just works, aside from opening an external playback window, which feels a bit weird, but I'm assuming it's normal. The only display drivers available are X, but the "Automatic" pick works.

If it doesn't work for you, make sure xwayland is installed.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

My second distro was Debian 8, initially with LXDE (which has barely changed at all since then, so it's still nostalgic) then later switching to KDE Plasma 4. I probably hold the most nostalgia for it, even more than I do for my first distro (Linux Mint 17). For a while I was into Plasma Netbook, which I find to be an especially weird, nostalgic product of its time, and the Oxygen theme in general is probably my favorite default look for any DE.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I was quite satisfied with Debian Stable for a few years on at least two different laptops, and felt I had found my "forever distro", until I got a Framework laptop whose AMD graphics were quite buggy on it. In order to get rid of all the issues, I had to upgrade to Testing and install a mainline Liquorix kernel (and along the way, I briefly made a Frankendebian and fiddled with kernel parameters). While my years of experience with Debian and derivatives has prevented me from breaking anything, I do wish I didn't have to use all of this beta-quality software just to prevent games from freezing and crashing constantly, just because I bought "new" (about a year old) hardware.

I still want to keep Debian, because I've found nothing else that works quite as elegantly or stably, but I'm hoping to find ways to get the performance I need without Liquorix, and if something forces me to reinstall between now and the time Debian Trixie becomes stable, I'll probably give Fedora or KDE Neon another try.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 18 points 10 months ago (4 children)

"Klingon ambient" would be a good concept for an album.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I proposed that resolution because it's the closest to 1920x1200, but keeping a 3:2 aspect ratio.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Glad we have a release date now. Although, I hope they go for weekly releases, because I don't want to feel obligated to binge watch it.

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