uwu owo etc., you know…
Alright, I have to admit that sometimes I do install some stuff not the debian way…
and I would lie if I’d said that I never compiled stuff against a newer version of glibc (and glibc itself…) that my distro had… so in these means, yeah, I kinda need to tinker sometimes and do super janky stuff.
I have to admint you’ve got a point there and made me kinda thinking…
I have a relatively new PC and eventually I decided at Debian Stable.
Granted, I was already somewhat familiar with APT and Debian based systems, but I also was thinking to choose something different or even a rolling release distribution…
…but at the end of the day, I wanted a stable, useable, tested and functional system that I can’t easily fuck up or can restore if needed, because, well, it won’t be a first time I bork a Linux system with misconfiguring stuff or doing something straight out stupid. But this is irrelevant this case.
I ain’t that super familiar with Linux world, so I deliberately chose the safe way. My hardwares are working fine, I have the drivers that work for everything, games running amazingly well… in the past 2 years I use Linux as main OS, I had no problems not being bleeding edge. I kinda had some minor FOMO when Plasma 6 came out and I was “stuck” on 5 with Debian 12, but didn’t had to wait too much for Debian 13 that has Plasma 6 by default. Though, I reinstalled everything when 13 came out - but only because I wanted some changes on my partition table, I added a new disk and… I wasn’t quite happy how I managed some things with it so I wanted a fresh start - so wasn’t upgrading to 13, but I assume it wouldn’t be a problem either, not too long ago I upgraded my server from Debian 10 to 12, without issues. (From 10 to 11 and to 12. First I tried from 10 to 12, that was a disaster though. However, the documentation explicitly said not to do such thing, so it was on me.)
I was tinkering with my tech stuff all my life, I now really just want a stable, working OS. But it’s just personal preference, I have nothing against rolling release and I can imagine that there are scenarios where rolling release is the better choice.
No, I haven’t, but will check it out, thanks!
I didn’t know InputLeap is also abandoned. Heck, I moved to it from Barrier for the same reason :P
InputLeap is the only thing that keeps me on X at the moment. Especially since I need it between a Linux host and a Windows client. It just doesn’t work if I use Plasma with Wayland unfortunately and honestly, the github page of InputLeap is everything but helpful.
I assumed it meant using a separate device or software on the side
That’s what it is. I remember actually sideloading apps to my BlackBerry 10 devices (Z10 and Z30) (though it really wasn’t that long ago not to remember it…) using a PC with a Chrome based browser (though it worked on Firefox too with some minor fiddling) to push and install .bar files to the phone. That is what sideloading to me.
Now this term changed, so everything you install from a different source than the built-in appstore is called sideloading, which is ridiculous IMO.
back in the XP days, I used a software called “Unlocker” just for this problem. It probably still exists, I don’t know, because since Windows 7, the easiest way to find out what process locks a file is to open Resource Monitor (Start search: resmon) and on the CPU tab, using the “Associated handles” list, you can search for the file name and see the process in question (and kill it).
So yeah, Resource Monitor is a useful tool on Windows.
I went to check it and… believe it or not, but it works now. With Joy Cons and with the 8bitdo controller as well. So I have no idea what did went wrong this morning. I was doing it multiple times, from world 3 and 4 and nothing. Weird!
Thanks!
save states
If it really doesn’t work here (which really would be strange), then yeah, that’s what I’m gonna use. Using it already.
It would be just nice, to have the “built-in” way of save states of some kind. It’s half-way cheating that way, since they put this feature inside the game and not the system you run on it.
And also, as you mentioned it too, using save states also saves the extra life counts. So soon enough, probably there will be a save where I don’t have any lifes and every death would mean game over.
Minor things. But yeah. Will try the A + START thing with Joy Cons, and if that won’t work either, I just use save states and maybe save at each world.
My smile would be more natural, if I could finish the game (for the first time, from the beginning to the end) the intended way, and I think using A + START is still fine.
I haven’t checked with the Joy Cons, but will do later the day, thanks for the input.
Even if that brings you back to the beginning of the world, it’s still a big help :)
unfortunately, radontop doesn’t support relatively old cards. I get this error. (And the github page states that >R600 will work)
Unknown Radeon card. <= R500 won't work, new cards might.
Also, my AMD CPU has a integrated GPU too, radeontop just doesn’t know about it.
The GPU works on my system tho, just radeontop doesn’t detect/support them. Oh well.
for newcomers, maybe this is the best combo. Debian stable with KDE Plasma.
that’s weird, too, but no
Ken (as the name) - ta (with a hard T and A as in catapult) - ur (with an u like in Vonnegut’s name)
tho I’m from europe speaking a weird ass language
and even then, for me at least, the dialog that pops up is broken and lot of times the “Allow” button literally does nothing
okay, you caught me, my .world profile was supposed to be my non-furry lemmy account.
I’m the other way around. I switched to Debian on my main around a year ago now and I’m like “oh, this game works, and this game works too, oh and that works as well, wow!”. Honestly, any game I threw at Debian, it just… worked. Granted, I don’t play very recent games and most of them either single player or does not have any serious anti cheat measures. Even VR works with ALVR and Steam VR, wirelessly on my (or rather my homie’s, just borrowed) Quest 2.
And not just games, a lot of Windows software just works with Wine.
So, before the change, I thought I need or use Windows exclusive software, and I did, but all of them are now have decent alternatives. Maybe except for Notepad++. (I use Kate and KWrite, but… I really don’t like those softwares, but they get the job done the same way np++ did)
So, I’m really surprised how well this past 1 year went without any issue.
But that’s kinda valid that if something doesn’t run, then people won’t change. You are talking about people who doesn’t care libre/FOSS software and all that jazz, they won’t change if it’s just simply worse.
In this case, this should be the only acceptable explanation.
I remember when carriers not just locked the phones, they also had custom firmwares filled with bloat and customized skins and even locking down features and all that shit. For example, I had a Sony Ericsson K700i and it had a disgustingly customized FW on it, and aside that it was ugly, I could only play MP3 files that I purchased through Vodafone. Sending them via bluetooth (or even with IR) didn’t work, the phone refused to play it back.
(Then of course I found out that Sony Ericssons were pretty moddable phones so I replaced the FW with an original one and that solved all my problems. For some reasons, the fact that I patched the FW with countless of VKP patches and even unlocking it with a patch, didn’t void my warranty so whenever I fucked up the FW beyond my abilities to repair it or simply bricked it, I just sent it to Vodafone and they fixed it.)
And they did this even when Android became a thing. (Though, it was a Vodafone branded phone so… it was sort of OK. (technically it was a Huawei though, also pretty moddable phone))