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Modding a steam installed game is horrible. on Windows: point to the exe & done. Linux:
- Find compatibility and tool to run your modding programs
- Find your fucking install folder. (No steam a hidden folder is not where I want my stuff installed)
- Deal with symlinks in your install path
- Fuck you, you didn’t use the exact same compatibility setting when you ran your tool Vs. When you installed the game. Try again.
Don’t even talk about running cheat engine.
Asides from that Linux is … Fine.
- 6 days
Thanks for sharing this! This was new to me but makes modding Steam games so much easier.
A little more difficult for GOG games but not much; definitely much better than the manual approach.
6 daysSometimes steam tinker launch works, sometimes it doesn’t.
Sometimes bottles works, sometimes it doesn’t.
Sometimes lutris works, sometimes it doesn’t.
Sometimes extracting the mods directly into the game folder works sometimes it doesn’t.
and so on
- 6 days
I’d definitely agree here. In general, stuff where multiple processes need to talk to each other but are in separate containers is frustrating. So modding tools stumble a bit. Also, things that require login via a browser, which then redirects back to the application (for example, Unity opens a login page then goes back) - when it’s running through Proton or in a container, it’ll open in the browser on the host system, which then can’t get back to it.
That may just be a me being stupid issue, but it’s annoying.
Still keep using it because it’s great, and no ads or crap is lovely.
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Inkscape? Maybe.
Gimp is not a drawing software, so it makes sense it doesn’t have a dedicated “draw complex geometric figures” tool by default. It does have a shape selection tool. Anyways, it all depends on what you’re trying to achieve. Krita is for painting, gimp is for image manipulation, inkskape is for vector graphics. Paint.net is a weirdo that does everything but doesn’t do any of those things well enough.
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Wild concept here. Raster as background and marking up as vector graphics on an overlay. Or use gwenview which is designed exactly for that.
- 5 days
Gwenview is a new one on me. Thanks for the tip! Downloading it now.
Raster as background and marking up as vector graphics on an overlay.
There are lots of use cases for exactly that, like certain graphics tasks my partner does for her employer (flyers, t-shirt designs). with an existing raster image as background in Inkscape. For what I do, that workflow would be serious overkill.
Like others said, a lot is just nostalgia. I liked a lot of the aesthetics of the time, from 90’s to XP, to Vista/7.
Also like others said, a majority of actually-affordable peripherals use some sort of specific driver system that’s Windows only. Big example being my cool Mechland keyboard I really like, but it’s one of those where trying to give it cool effects in OpenRGB would brick it, and only their Windows software can access some of its main features.
Not the worst though, I just have a Win10 VM I fire up exclusively to update those peripherals.
WAIT, KNOW WHAT? WORKING VR. I MISS THAT. But M$ themselves killed that one so it’s kinda moot? My WMR Odyssey+ worked GREAT, and since M$ decided it’s a paperweight now, the awesome souls behind Monado are our only hope for decent VR before the Steam Frame. (Which now terrifies me thanks to RAM inflation…)
Not really. I’ve for several years removed any ties to windows and have been running linux for some time now!
I can’t think of anything I miss. Windows is so primitive compared to Linux.
- airikr@lemmy.mlEnglish6 days
I agree. Tried to think about anything that I miss from Windows, but no. Well, maybe Windows XP in all :) Before SP3 of course (when Microsoft started with telemetry in Windows).
- 5 days
More generally: driver support on par with Windows. To be fair, Linux has come a long way and driver support is pretty good most of the time. But if you happen upon a piece of hardware that does have driver issues, you’re still in a world of shit, with no or no easy fix.
Case in point, I have been battling with a weird S3 sleep bug on Lenovo Yoga L13 Gen 2 notebooks recently. I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not even a kernel error, but something in Lenovo’s mainboard/BIOS firmware. Fix: write Lenovo an email and hope they’ll fix the firmware of a 5-years-old just for desktop Linux use. (And, no, I’m not under the illusion that this is going to happen.)
- 6 days
I wonder how hard it might be to build something like AHK for Linux.
I’m a big fan of AHK myself, and my small scripts would be a real gap when I finally manage to kick Windows out.
Basically all linux distros have a keyboard shortcut menu where you can add scripts and programs that do whatever you need. I have only used AHK once long ago, so i dont remember all that it does, but isnt that just all it is basically. The thing that makes AHK easy for people is all the publicly available scripts people made and published, not the application itself.
Among my primary uses is completely remapping the keyboard layout, from scan codes to international Colemak (like Dvorak but different).
That means my script captures every alpha keystroke and sends something else instead.
AHK is marvelous to run on otherwise locked-down corporate computers.
While I’m at it, my AHK also tracks typing stats, just for fun.
- cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish6 days
If you have a keyboard that can run the QMK firmware, you can remap keys and run macros in the keyboard.
I use a variety of laptops with their built-in keyboards, and sometimes with a variety of plain usb keyboards.
It’s easy to run an AHK script on each machine, just for me. It’s not feasible to carry a special keyboard around.
The Wayland story for such tools was pretty bad for a while, but AFAIK the necessary protocols are now in place, so it should be possible to build this now (though probably not with all features due to security).
But I’d love something like AHK with a saner scripting language, maybe Lua or JS (through QuickJS)!
- 6 days
I like inkscape but snapping is terrible. In corel I just drag whatever I need with my mouse and it just snaps to where I need it to be. I always thought this is fairly simple and standard but when I tried snapping in Inkscape, it always tries to snap to something on the other half of the document.
I need to constantly change snapping options to make it work whereas in corel I enabled all the options, set and forget thing, it just does what I want every time, as if it’s reading my mind, without the need to toggle snapping options every time.
- 6 days
There are things I miss from Windows 95, 98, NT, and XP. There’s nothing I miss from Windows 7, 10, or 11. Everything I cared about had been deleted by the time of Windows 7.
I noticed you left Windows Vista and 8 off the list. :) That’s okay, most people want to forget they ever existed.
- 5 days
The other day i couldn’t play a multiplayer game with my friend. So i had to boot up windows and the xbox app to play a game on steam that “works” without the xbox app we swear. So after booting up windows after a few months now i can confidently say that i don’t miss a thing
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The one thing that bugs me is having to look up whether periferals work with Linux. Still have odd issues with ones that work like Logitech mmo mouse I have to start Piper every time I log in pretty much to set the DPI. If I ever get around to buying something like a stream deck I’ll have to tripple check it will play nice. Not the end of the world, just little annoyances.
The only other things I miss are COD and LoL, honestly though with how toxic the communities are or can be idk that I’m missing anything of value just haven’t found anything that scratches the same itch yet.
Wait I’m pretty sure there’s Linux screensavers for those and a bunch of others?
I do miss some of the classic Win95 screensavers though. :D
