Astaroth

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Are they really picking their OS then?

But yes I agree, most people will just use what they have and Windows is the standard because they made sure it would become the standard.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

just google chinese ev car graveyard https://i.imgur.com/vjtkj6J.png

not only are they selling at a loss, most of the sales aren't even real

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

TIL

I didn't have it set to true but I also never noticed any problem

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

you mean love it and never want to go back to a DE

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I have a GUI file manager that I never use but I got it because I know at some point I'm going to want to be able to see thumbnails of images.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I tried to get some JumpStart games to run with DOSBOX a few years ago on Windows 7. Iirc I managed to install but not run the game.

I recently tried a bit to try and get another 16bit game run on Arch Linux with WINE in win98 or 95 mode but that still didn't pan out.

 

Honestly it's probably doable in some way without one but next time I try I'll probably use a VM (Virtual Machine).

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Secondly, the purchase UI seems to have been designed to ensure that a new player can never understand it. I’m sure like all things it becomes clear over time but jeez, did a professional team really work on that thing?

Yes it's professionally designed, like all microtransaction games the shop is the most important feature and they're always designed to be confusing by forcing the user to jump through hoops and use multiple currencies to make it less obvious how much money you end up spending on the game if you're a "whale".

They don't want you to be able to have a direct association between how much money or time anything costs, that's why these games are so predatory and you should not be playing them, regardless of what you think of the actual game itself.

 

Well, I will say, for a "free" to play game League isn't that bad (especially not when compared to mobile games), or at least not last I played (3~4 years ago) but they still use the same methods.

 

Also as others have mentioned, the game's reputation in terms of it's community isn't exactly stellar. Being very "toxic".

But what I think is even worse than the language, which you at least can mute, is that the most popular streamer for the game "Tyler1" constantly rages, shouts, screams, destroys equipment and punches furniture etc.

Let's just say if your son starts doing those kinds of things then it's not (only) because they're going through a teenage phase it's probably also because of bad influences from the game and its community.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't know about the bug in particular but for the next time when/if your system hangs and seems completely unresponsive:

I recommend looking into the Magic SysRq Key, it shares the same button as print screen on the keyboard.

Depending on the keybinds enabled you can kill all processes and reboot the PC, among other things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Why are you using Chinese enumeration commas?

i.e. "、" instead of ","

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

All I know is wine-mono and wine-gecko doesn't come in any default package lists on apt that you get on Linux Mint (which should include Debian and Ubuntu packages), not sure if they exist on some other mirror list somewhere but it didn't seem like it, while on Arch I got them directly from Extra (not even AUR).

Well you technically don't need mono or gecko, especially not if you're just going to use Steam Proton to play, but I use pure WINE a lot and it was a pain having to install them manually. Eventually I gave up on using mono and just downloaded the .net runtimes I needed through winetricks.

 

There were also some lib32 package I got from AUR on Arch that didn't exist on apt. One of those gst plugins (ugly/good/bad/nice/whatever)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

yeah to exit without saving you do ZQ instead of ZZ

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