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Maybe it's time for Penguin (i.ibb.co)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 53 points 2 months ago (5 children)

At least penguin won't stole your data.

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    • [–] 42 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Just wait till you click and drag everything out of the One Drive folder onto your desktop, only to realize that the fucking desktop is also One Drive

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    I work IT in an Apple-heavy environment, and this was the worst to find out. I can't recall if it's just OneDrive doing it or iCloud, but either way, makes it a bitch to backup resigned/terminated users' folders when I'm offline or whatever.

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    • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (28 children)

    Would you like any help picking a distro?

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  • [–] [S] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (16 children)

    Any criteria? If newbie, there is nothing wrong with Linux Mint. If experienced, still there is nothing wrong with Linux Mint.

    Edit: Oh dang, you were offering help. Thanks, I'm good. Could be useful for anyone who seeks help though.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    For gaming or regular use? I've tried both Bazzite and CachyOS on my gaming laptop. Even if I wasn't a tinkerer I would choose CachyOS any day for gaming. Mint over Ubuntu for regular use. My 2 cents

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    You can game just fine on any distribution.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    You certainly can and I have several distros, but Cachy seems to be well suited with gaming. I am very sure I could tweak Mint to be comparable, but out of the box Cachy is a better gamer. One or two clicks and it’s all set.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    One or two clicks and it’s all set.

    That's probably great, but I don't know what there is to set up. All I've ever had to do is install the packages for Steam and Heroic on OpenSuSE or Fedora. I suppose any other system is comparable.

    It seems some distributions have issues with nVidia hardware (I never had trouble, although I'm running AMD for the first time in decades at the moment), maybe that's one thing those "gaming" distributions address. I don't really know.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I’d have to go parse through the script, though I’m certain someone else here already knows, but amongst other packages, proton, wine, steam and video drivers seem to be what it installs. I had to do all that manually on Mint and since it was my first Linux system I set up as a gamer I am sure I have some package versions set differently/incorrectly. Cachy takes the guesswork out of it.

    I am olde and have been building gaming systems for many years. CachyOS is the easiest OS that I’ve ever set up. Am in a game playing within minutes. Even Windows was never so easy.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    One or two clicks and it’s all set.

    But it's the same on Mint. I don't get it, What are the particular advantages of Cachy?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Is it the same on Mint? It isn’t for me. On Cachy, the welcome screen has a pick for Apps/Tweaks, then “Install gaming packages”. That’s the difference.

    Mint has a welcome screen, but it is very generic. Driver manager, software manager, etc. Sure you can install everything to make it work fine, but Cachy leads you straight into it with that one click and you are gaming within two minutes of OS load. Mint will take a bit longer. And I think it removes some of the package guesswork as well, especially for new users.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Immediately after installing the OS, I installed the proprietary version of the video card driver (two clicks), and that's all.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    I am happy for you and don’t really care what OS you use as I’m not here to convince you. Sometimes the video driver is not all that is required to make games work. It is definitely not all that is required to further optimize a system for gaming. Especially on older hardware. How many clicks to do the stuff listed below? Still only two clicks on Cachy so I’m stating they make it easy.

    Copious amounts of other gaming/system config info on their wiki, but the gaming packages include:

    Proton-CachyOS - based on Proton’s bleeding-edge branch and applies a number of modifications on top of it. - Steam has it listed for use.

    Wine-staging patches/Wine Fullscreen FSR Includes video and audio codecs for game cutscenes Support for umu-launcher including UMU-Protonfixes Adds early hotfixes/workarounds for games Gaming related libraries

    Tools - Gamescope, GOverlay, MangoHud Launchers - Steam, Heroic Games Launcher, Lutris, Faugus Launcher

    Edit: BTW, I game on Mint too. But after sampling Cachy on a test box, I’ll be changing that on my main system.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Agree. Some are just better suited. I mean I use CachyOS for both gaming and regular use. I was thinking more "is this a workstation or gaming rig" sort of divide. CachyOS have kernel optimizations for gaming, but smarter men than me need to say if that actually has any major impact. And its bleeding edge so you're always 100% up to date, that can be both good and bad of course. For me it's good. The two-click setup to have everything installed and done for gaming doesn't hurt.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Arch, obviously. What else would you choose?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    I think OP would prefer Nix

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I'm kinda at the other side of the needle, I prefer Void myself.

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    • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    Worse is when they ask me for a file in a onedrive folder I don't have access to

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    [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Recently realized when I drag to one drive, it moves the file, but when dragging out it copies. Perfect blend of data loss and anti-customer practices.

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    [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    MS just pushed their stupid OneDrive Photos as an update. I decided that's my last straw. It was one thing when I could toggle AI off, but this trying to connect all my pics to contacts etc is too far. I'm done. I just wish Tuta Drive was ready for daylight. Probably going to ride Mega until it is.

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    [–] 6 points 2 months ago*

    More like me looking for my entire Desktop

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    [–] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Indon't understand why the mobile app is so terrible. It crashes all the time. The image thumbnails never load. Its like, this is your purpose for existing. Why are you so bad at it?

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    • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    If you only have the file in the cloud, it's your fault too.

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    [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    And then you cant access your files because onedrive decided to update.

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