I probably liked the book a little bit more, but the movie was very decent. I can see why some people might prefer it. It made the entire thing a bit more wholesome and kid friendly (for example the scene in the book where >!one of the Japanese guys gets thrown out of the window !
The Expanse saga, at least in the scifi circles. It’s just a really good scifi/space opera and the TV series will boost its popularity even further.
Are they? Most of his books seem to sit around 4/5 and Remains of the Day even has over 4. Those are pretty decent scores on Goodreads. For comparison, Great Gatsby has 3.9, 1984 has 4.2, Animal Farm has 4 etc.
reddit hates popular
Perhaps, but this sub has a special kind of hate against RPO and The Alchemist. Every time there’s a discussion about books that people don’t like, one of these two (or both) immediately pop up with sometimes pretty wild takes. Last I saw, someone said that they considered Mein Kampf less insulting than The Alchemist…really, I’m not making that up.
Doubt it. Multiplayer Linux gaming isn’t big enough of an issue for politicians to care about, I’m afraid.
ROMs are (more or less) just bit copies of the original media (the cartridges, CDs etc. that the games came on) and they are completely independent on the OS. You don’t really install them, you just put them in a location the OS can access and you use emulation software (Dolphin, Yuzu, Duckstation etc.) to load them and run them. So all you really need in your situation is to install Linux and the emulators and it should be pretty straightforward.
Yeah this is a fair comment. I definitely agree that it’s not “Arch made easy”. More like Arch made convenient with special quirks that you may or may not like.
used to recommend Manjaro but I don’t trust that distro anymore
Hah i feel like an outcast with Manjaro. Everyone keeps saying how horrible it is and I’m very satisfied with it. I must be doing something wrong lol.
Mint is fine, but there are some things you need to keep in mind.
If you’re on AMD, then mesa matters and mesa from the repos will be outdated, which can cause problems with performance and compatibility (for example, many new games require recent mesa and sometimes even new GPUs need it to work). But this can be solved by having mesa from a PPA.
On Nvidia, you just need the driver package to be up to date.
Then there’s the kernel. Being LTS based, Mint doesn’t have a bleeding edge kernel by default and new kernels sometimes do introduce performance benefits (not always, though, but that’s a deeper topic for another discussion). Also recent hardware (new GPUs for example) might not work without a recent kernel. I’m not sure what the possibilities are here. I’ve seen people recommend the mainline utility for managing kernels on Mint, but I can’t comment on that personally because I’ve never used it. I use Mint on my laptop, but it’s not a gaming machine so I’m fine with the stock kernel there.
If you take care of these things, Mint can be a really solid “gaming distro”. (+ you obviously want to have Proton, Wine etc. up to date but that’s true for all distros)
I wish I was this patient…
6800/6900 XT
Yeah I was thinking about 6800 too. But where I live, it’s getting quite hard to get them. So 7800 might be the more realistic option (especially since I’ll probably be doing this upgrade in a couple of months from now).
I have just 8GB of RAM which is kinda sad.
Pop the “hood” and see if there’s an expansion slot for another RAM module. Laptops often have that. If there is, you can buy a RAM module for quite cheap these days. Even just adding another 8 GB will be a really inexpensive upgrade and it makes a ton of difference.
Edit: Obviously always research that you’re buying the right module. The manufacturer usually has this info on their website.
especially multiplayer games with anti-privacy
That’s the best typo in the history of typos lol.
Yes, but especially when this is advice for beginners, one should never copy-paste commands of any kind (which includes launch options) without first understanding what they do. I’ve seen it many times that some people on protondb include these wild long strings of arguments, some of which do nothing or can be even detrimental (for example adding DXVK specific arguments to a game that only runs on VKD3D etc.).
I’m just saying for all the new people who might be tempted by just copy pasting something and it might work. It’s really worth the five minutes to learn what you’re actually doing.