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I had one of the Macintosh iBook G4s with the notoriously shitty graphics card soldering. Early days of lead-free soldering. Mine started to fail just outside of warranty. The 'fix' was to put a lot of pressure on the chip so that all the connections were held in place, but that was quite difficult to do while it was still a laptop.
Dismantled the damn thing, yeeted the plastic shell, and screwed the remains onto a sheet of plywood. Looked a lot like pizza-box PC in the corner there. Got another couple of years out of it. Made it a lot more convenient for watching videos, since you could just prop the whole thing against a wall or whatever. Couple of USB extension leads meant that you could still use a mouse and keyboard in comfort.
Now genuinely curious, as an ex-Windows-refugee, how did the non-Windows-refugees, the "native" GNU/Linux users, find out about it?
Edit: BTW, started a journey with a laptop in a place with no internet. Luckily I had the foresight to install GNU/Linux on it before I started my journey. I was constantly reminded that I were in the same situation with Windows, the computer would stop working because it had no internet. You need internet for Microshit office, Adobe software, etc. That was the time I said: there has to be a better way. That's when I started using free software. I'll take the occasional, inadvertent usability annoyance with free software over the megacorporations trying to constantly gang rape me into submission any day.
I did come from Windows but the story wouldnβt change from anywhere else. The install CD was on a store shelf and I bought it.
I recently built a PC and installed Windows 10 on it because I primarily built it to play League of Legends (don't judge me). Aside from that, I've also found a couple ways to get my hands on other games as well. My other daily driver already Kubuntu installed onto it and I'd really like to use some distro on this desktop PC, but it's just not really practicable since all the games would be running from exe files or have anti-cheat (screw you League). I don't really see a way around this apart from using virtual Windows for the games within Linux, right?
Not all anticheat-games won't run on Linux. For example, I got Wuthering Waves running on Bazzite, although it uses kernel level anticheat. If a game does not have any anticheat software, it will probably run fine via Proton.
League of Legends used to run on Linux in the past, but I haven't checked how the situation nowadays is.
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Weird, my gaming rig that I built before COVID runs 11 like a champ. Didn't buy good parts by the sound of it.
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I have a win10 PC with an extra hard drive on which I've installed Arch on. I'm thinking of deleting the Windows partition for extra storage on my Arch side because my CPU doesn't support Win11, apparently. Is there anything I should be careful of before I go forward with my plan other than backing up data and the usual hardware compatibility issues when only using Linux?
Since you are already using arch I guess you kinda know what youre doing so you should be fine.
Haha, damn. Sorry.
I dunno why, but when I decided to try Linux six months ago, I just went with Arch and every other day I regret my choice. I'm too invested now and I do like tinkering.
Damn, that's one hell of a learning curve. I struggled with doing the most basic stuff on Linux Mint. Theres no way I would have been able to handle arch as my first install.
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