Wow, nothing is sacred anymore. Luckily the only people I ever play with these days are my nephew, his girlfriend and my girlfriend.
We're all local so we just play modded java on LAN and I host the server straight from PC. His girlfriend's family lives downstairs from us so they can jump on even if we're not home.
I do have a friend a couple hundred miles away who wants to play, so I might have to look into just getting a secured Bisect server running instead of hosting.
Yup. It was THE app to use way back in the day. Before that was Ventrilo, but setting up a Vent server was a pain in the ass. I got it working once, but it was a lot of port tinkering and giving out my IP to trusted friends.
Skype made it so easy to just click and call or else make rooms for your guild in whatever game you played at the time (my poison of choice was Ragnarok Online).
Then Skype changed hands, started monetizing, pushing Windows pre-installs, and would even watch conversations to make sure no one was using the app for sexual purposes.
See, that'd make more sense to me. In my mind I was seeing someone just installing Linux and poof, that's it, you're on your own.
I should change my statement then; just installing Linux for someone is a bad idea. Stepping them through the small basics as you go is a good idea.
Plus, the first step to learning Linux is figuring out how to install Linux.
If you can't do the easiest part of Linux you're going to have a bad time with the rest of Linux.
Edit: Well, wait up. Doing it for someone is one thing, teaching them enough to get by is another.
The way the post is stated, my brain went, "here's your PC with Linux on it, bye."
I think any active community would be more than happy to help, tbh. The thing about the Linux community is that we love troubleshooting. That's half the fun of Linux, honestly. I would pick something more active over something more specific. Some of the communities here have latest posts dated weeks ago.
Ahhh, I see. There should be others that have run into the same issues you have. Don't give up! I'm sure you'll run across something that works.
Linux is a great community to be in. I will say that before it rose in gaming popularity, there was a lot of gatekeeping, though. But in the end, 99% of Linux users are just people that go, "I KNOW this can work, and I won't stop until either I break my system or I figure out how it works."
This is very true, but iirc Obsidian has a community plugin that solves this. Just checked and its called Relay and even has offline editing. Not sure how its set up, because I know that Obsidian sync is a paid service.
I'd love to move off of Obsidian to a MD editor that's completely open source, but I've tried them all and nothing tickles my fancy. I just love the plugin community for Obsidian. But that's why I'm working on Neovim, because the plugin community there is HUGE.
Curious, I checked for Neovim collaboration solutions and found this.
Its a shame, I used to love OpenOffice and used it a lot. That was years ago. Now I use LibreOffice solely for Excel or else my resumes. Book writing I use novelWriter; notes I use Obsidian. What can I say, I love my markdown editors. I'm currently setting up Neovim to handle all my MD writing needs, though. I'm happy with my MD editors, but it gives me something to do and I like the idea of having one application handle it all.
Hm, well it looks like others have been putting out some good troubleshooting tips for the controller. Linux should have kernel modules to deal with every controller and it's wireless. I know my Dualsense works wirelessly out of the box with everything because of the hid_playstation module
Sleep and hibernation is a well known common issue. I feel like its more hardware related than software, as some people have no issue and some need to do a little tinkering to get it to work. I know my PC will hibernate but not sleep. Or vice versa. I can never remember because I don't like my PC going to sleep on principle. I haven't done any troubleshooting because I don't use it anyway. I just know there are a ton of fixes floating around on the web for you to try.
Flickering and visual glitches is something I used to have. I used to get weird diagonal lines across my screen when certain colors would be in a certain position. There's a few things that could do this. First, if you're using an Nvidia card, be sure to use proprietary drivers on Linux install rather than Nouveau. Nouveau is getting better, but still isn't quite ready for gaming imo.
Second, you could try another video output. I fixed my diagonal lines by switching from Display Port to HDMI. My friend suggested it and I was sure it wouldn't work, but to my surprise it did. Third, if you're using Wayland you could try to switch to X11 (or vice versa if you're using X11).
Hmmm... that's strange. Afaik, Xbox controllers should be very well supported out of the box in most distros.
Ahhhh, I see. I did a bit of reading out of curiousity. You're looking to have it work wirelessly. Hmm. I see a forum post troubleshooting the same thing recommending a package called xpadneo. There's a github page for it here and it seems to have some package maintainers in a handful of distros (you can use the manual method if your distro isn't listed).
I checked it on the AUR, the most up to date maintained package was from last December, so the app seems fairly up to date(ish). If you want to see the forum post I was talking about its this one.
Good luck, hope you get it working.
This sounds great and I'll have to look into it. I have nice glassware pieces for home, I rarely like to take glass out in my pocket. I remember this gaming convention I went out to, there was a field in the back. We went back there to smoke and there was already circle.
In this circle, they were passing around chocolate Godiva vodka and this really REALLY cool piece. It was a large bowl, fat and completely see through. Inside was this massive plastic replica of a HUGE joint, rolling around free. On the side of it, it said "The Labrador". It was an old first production Tommy Chong piece. Felt honored to smoke from it.
My step-dad is a straight laced guy; ex-manager higher up in the mill business. He bought a lathe. For Christmas he gave my gf a really nice pipe from a kit he bought, which surprised us all, lol. The kit comes with a cone pieces, metal tubing, a mouthpiece, and even a screw on cap with a small hole in it, too keep your herb inside when it's tumbling around in your pocket. He buys acrylic blocks and lathes them to make different colors.
He's been making a decent side business selling them to local headshops for $25 apiece and buys the kits for $15. I've told him he could charge more, but its just a hobby and he doesn't want to get greedy with it. He can make tiny short ones, or double pipe long ones. The cones even have a shelf to set screens on. I've always just flattened a piece of sticky bud to make a screen and keep the ground material out of the works, but the little screen shelf is great for that. I bought one and that's what I use to carry around. Its an all metal-acrylic construction.
Here's a pic of one (not the best quality camera, lol):
He gets all kinds of cool acrylics and the metal can be silver, gold, or black. My gf loves halloween, so she has a black one with a bright orange mica design acrylic. It completely screws down to the base components, so it's super easy to clean.
Yeah, I'll pass. If I want a GameOS I'll just go SteamOS, Arch, or Nobara. I donate to things I like and leave if they start grabbing at my wallet. I know donations are slim in most projects and its a major problem, but cryptocurrency is not the answer.
Lutris, Steam, and Retroarch will cover everything I need. No need to reinvent the wheel.