I’m a millennial with a weird sense of humour lol. I try to diversify what I can, so I love classic old timey movies. Gone with the wind is great, and this meme just popped in my head so I whipped it up. Side note - I like old Chaplin movies, even some silent films too! One thing I’m gonna try to do is watch the “top movie of every year” for every year that movies were made. Seems like a fun challenge and a way to explore stuff I’ve never seen. My spouse won’t participate because she’s not really a movie person, so it’ll be something I’ll have to tackle solo! Could be fun.

You can tell I’m a millennial because a lot of my sentences around here end with lol, lol.

Darn, maybe it’s too new then, or maybe locked down drivers? Hopefully a solution opens up for Linux compatibility. Else, perhaps you can buy one of those miniature usb wi-fi dongles - a compromise for sure, but something to potentially consider.

Dead ass, bro?! Ong I swear I thought this was Linux fr. At least I got my bonzi buddy on my desktop, I swear on me mum

Edit: I have no idea how the kids talk these days.

Ooh that’s a good point. I’ll install Steam and see what this computer can handle! I’ll probably use it more for idle/cosy games, but I’m sure there’s some 3-D ones that could play well on here. My current gaming setups are Steam Deck when I want to be away from desk, and if I’m serious for gaming time it’s on my desk PC.

When I first installed it, it was running 22 (whatever version before Xia). Then, the embedded driver utility detected new drivers and I saw that there was a Broadcom driver available. The 2012 MacBook Pro had Broadcom, so I was lucky and knew this would be compatible. After updating drivers and the OS to Xia, wi-fi was working perfect!

I’m not sure for other MacBooks which may have different network cards.

Bonzi Buddy was the real OG. Some persons love Clippy, but Bonzi was always there for me.

I have no idea what Wayland is but I will do some research on that tomorrow. Thanks for the feedback as that will help me do further investigation and exploration in the Linux world. Eager to learn!

Thanks for your input.

I won’t give 11 a chance due to the privacy and security concerns.

I’m also not the target customer for HDR. I’m photosensitive and bright lights are a migraine trigger. To put it in perspective, I can’t drive at night anymore due to modern headlights - I’ll end up vomiting and then possibly bedridden for a couple days. I generally have my monitors, depending on model of course, no higher than 30% brightness at all times.

Heard about Bazzite basically being like Steam Deck. I think it’s great for a handheld, or for some one who wants a specific use case such as a PC hooked up to a TV that primarily is only for gaming.

With the way I use a computer, first and foremost as a computer, Bazzite does not work for me. I want to boot directly into desktop and do desktop things. If that ever changes for me, I will definitely consider Bazzite and Steam OS as options.

Thanks for the suggestion on tiling, I will look into that as well. I remember one thing I heard about Pop_OS was it’s excellent implementation of tiling, so this sounds interesting to me.

Curiously I forgot to try EndeavourOS. I’ll roll Linux Mint for now and then if my use case changes, I’ll explore it. So far I’ve only recently tried Pop_OS!, Zorin, and Ubuntu. Linux Mint felt best for how I currently use computers. I’m interested in the idea of whatever an “AUR”, so I’ll do some research on that too and log that away for some ideas.

Thank you, that’s an important distinction. I figured it was just for settings and not my data, naturally just to reduce the size of snapshots. I’ll look into separate backup solutions, especially as this year I’m going to be looking into either a NAS type of solution, or if I want to try to learn how to roll my own on-prem Nextcloud and begin educating myself in basic networking and things like that.

Thank you very much, this is helpful. I’ve jotted these things down so I can look into a good solution.

Yep, I definitely chose hard mode. I wanted to minimise the chance of me giving up and reverting to Windows. By eliminating it entirely, I’ve made it much more difficult for myself as I’m forcing myself to manage, learn, and try to get things working in Linux.

At some point, perhaps months down the road, where I find that I’m fully comfortable, then I’ll most likely add a secondary drive with Windows on it for those edge-cases that I can’t get working on Linux.

Ha ha! Fair point. I’ll be mindful of that the next time I can’t find support for an edge-case issue.

Thanks bud, saving some links for reference. I’ve heard about proton-ge, and from some quick high-level reading, it appears to be some kind of fork of steam’s proton, but has some other fixes that I believe are community oriented or address things that Steam cannot. I’m gonna doing some reading into that to understand more about it and see how it can help me in other games.

The others are helpful! I remember MangoHud from Steam Deck, but only at a surface level. Didn’t even think about putting that onto my new system as I’ve just been using System Profiler to see some metrics when I play! I come from the MSI Afterburner crowd, so I’m hoping MangoHud will meet my performance monitoring needs!

Thank you for this! I jotted down your launch options along with what some of the other persons here were posting. Hoping of course NetEase can get this addressed in a coming update so we don’t have to use this workaround.

Congrats on the cutover! I don’t play Fortnite any more but my spouse wants to give it a go some time. If I play with them, I may have to install a Windows drive as a secondary device after all. Totally forgot about this game because I don’t think I currently play any games that can’t work on Linux.

Now that is really cool! I’ll check that out, too! And now we’re both down rabbit holes ha ha

New build looks great and that’s gonna last you a long time!

I have a Jellyfin server on-prem only, and currently I remote into it via Remmina. I tried setting up Samba between the two PCs but I couldn’t get it to work as expected due to some permissions issues. I’ll do further troubleshooting later on. But for now what worked with me was setting up Warpinator, and then I could send files easily that way. Ideally, as others have been mentioning, standing up either a NAS or some other local server to facilitate file transfer will be ideal because I pop USB drives to move media for now. Back then on Remote Desktop, Windows file share worked great but it’s no longer in the cards for me.

Glad you’re having fun with it all!