I had been thinking about it for a while. I had played with linux before on an old laptop, but not seriously, though I had been getting more frustrated with windows every time it updated it seemed. I then got the urged to play an old game of mine that i had picked up on a steam sale recently that i hadn’t played in years. It took hours of tinkering and web sleuthing to get it to run, then i played 20 min had to run to town, so I shut down my PC and bam. Windows update. Game no longer worked again. The next weekend I installed Linux mint, then Fedora, then the weekend Bazzite the weekend after that. The game I wanted to play on windows worked right out of the box on Proton. I’ve had less problems overall with Linux than Windows too. Most of the problems I did have early on were also self inflicted. Pro-tip don’t try to remove then re-install the lastest python manually in mint. It breaks everything apparently, luckily (unlike Windows) its very easy to re-install. It’s been about 7 months now.
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thetrekkersparky@startrek.websiteto Canada@lemmy.ca•The Definitive History of Canada’s Residential School Shame.2·10 days agoThe first time I heard about Residential schools was about 2 years after I graduated high school. This was also one of the first times (definitely not the last time) I was truly ashamed of my country.
thetrekkersparky@startrek.websiteto Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada Post’s Moment Of Reckoning May Finally Be Here5·14 days agoI think most of the problems with Canada Post is the commercialisation of it. 95% of my personal mail delivered to my community mailbox is flyers and scam inivitations to MLM’s. I’ve stopped regularly checking it every day because its always all garbage that I imeadiatly throw out. I usually check it every other week now. Plus if I get a parcel its almost always just a slip that I have to take to shoppers drug mart (not the more easily accessible post office). Its literally more convenient to get packages delivered by anyone else, because they will actually bring them to my door instead of waiting an hour in line at Shoppers so that an underpaid Shoppers drug mart employee can get me my package that any other service would have put directly into my hands.
thetrekkersparky@startrek.websiteto Canada@lemmy.ca•Poilievre claims Christians 'may be the number 1' victims of hate-based violence5·14 days agoI’m a contractor that goes to tons of houses every week. The Maple MAGA crowd hasn’t gone away, they’re just quieter now with all this 51st state BS. I used to have to deflect a ton of MAGA propaganda when i went to customers houses, now people seem to just turn off FOX news when i walk through the living room, or test the waters with vague comments about Carney. I try to steer the conversation away from politics and towards literally anything else. Pro tip, people love talking about their pets.
thetrekkersparky@startrek.websiteto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x07 "What Is Starfleet?"English8·2 months agoI feel like this could have been a great episode, if it wasn’t a documentary and was just written as a normal episode. Most of the quirks of the documentary really distracted me and I felt like they got in the way a bit.
thetrekkersparky@startrek.websiteto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x01 "Hegemony, Part II" & 3x02 "Wedding Bell Blues"English3·3 months agoI really like this slightly more chill La’an. John de Lancie was not expected. So If Trelane is now implied to be Q jr, is this episode supposed to take place before we see him in Voyagers Q2? He does come off as more of an immature teen in voyager, whereas in this and in TOS he’s quite more childish, especially when he’s challenged in both Trelane episodes.
thetrekkersparky@startrek.websiteto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x01 "Hegemony, Part II" & 3x02 "Wedding Bell Blues"English5·3 months agoI do look forward to seeing Erika do more than just “Fly the ship,” but I really wish it was literally anything other than the exact same thin La’an has been dealing with. She’s talked about being on the Klingon front a lot, why not tie it into that. I do like seeing a slightly more chill La’an and really think her and Spock pair together well as friends, but I do hope they don’t throw in more romance at spock with her.
thetrekkersparky@startrek.websiteto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Rebecca Romijn On The ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Cast Learning Show Will End With Season 5English5·3 months agoMaybe we could get Captain Una? New ship and she could take the crew that we don’t see in TOS with her. Possibly have Kirk and crew crossovers.
I didn’t realize how truely frustrated I was with windows until I switched a few months ago. I realize now that most of my recent windows troubleshooting was trying to make windows stop doing things I didn’t want it to. Now most of my Linux troubleshooting is just learning how to get Linux to do things I actually want it to do, which is actually quite satisfying.
thetrekkersparky@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•Has anyone had success putting ProtonVPN or any other VPN aside from MullvadVPN on Bazzite?1·4 months agoSame. Haven’t had any problems.
thetrekkersparky@startrek.websiteto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What did Musk and Trump fall out over?71·4 months agoAlso I think Tesla stock went up a bit since this whole thing started. Muskrat might just be trying to distance himself from Trump to save Tesla’s sales numbers.
thetrekkersparky@startrek.websiteto PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Linux user share hits a multi-year high on Steam for May 2025English6·4 months agoI switched over about 2 months ago after I couldn’t get an older game to play after a windows update and kinda just rage quit Windows. It was building for a while, but in the end it was just a little thing that brought it tumbling down. Game worked perfectly fine with proton without any problems or tinkering. I’ve only had trouble getting a couple games working, and neither are big deal breakers.
thetrekkersparky@startrek.websiteto Games@lemmy.world•Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day"English30·5 months agoI haven’t bought full price games in ages. Games are always released half finished now. Wait six months to a year until it goes on sale and they actually finish the game.
thetrekkersparky@startrek.websiteto Technology@beehaw.org•VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them8·5 months agoYeah. I bought it at least 5 years ago as well for fairly cheap. I ended switching a few years ago because I had problems with my IP leaking, customer service wouldn’t back to me, and I noticed the canary page went blank, so I assumed that something happened to them.
thetrekkersparky@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English61·6 months agoHaha. I too switched to Linux Mint last week. So far no regrets. I’ve actually enjoyed making everything I need to work. Especially because it seems to work better that on the operating system it was designed for. Strange.
I honestly assumed that she’d be one of the main instructors. Especially with Micheal saying something about Tilly being the Acadamy’s longest serving instructor (or something like that) in the Disco epilogue.