SpaceNugget

Yea that's my point. It's the same way it works on gnome and on macos. My point was that when I turned the silly question back he thought the way someone who didn't know how to use windows would change the display resolution was by right clicking on the desktop rather than searching for it is wild to me. Clearly no one would try that way first randomly without knowing that it was an option. And anyway, I don't care how to set the resolution on windows. It was a rhetorical question to show how "How would someone who doesn't know X know X?" is a nonsense question. Hence why I also included the shoelace example to show that it wasn't a specific challenge on how to use windows. I try to frame things so that it's easy to see in another context why a line of reasoning is bad but that's asking a bit much from an asynchronous forum conversation maybe.

We are assuming that people know to right click on the desktop where there's a hidden menu but not how to type a simple question into google?!?!?! Sorry but you are completely blind to your windows experience on that one. Your hypothetical person who "doesn't know how to do it" knows a suspiciously similar set of things to you. That is not something anyone would intuitively think to do if they don't use windows already and know that that menu is hidden there. I would never right click on the desktop to try to change system settings. I would go to the settings panel, or maybe try searching "display" or "resolution" with the launcher if there is one. And if it wasn't immediately obvious after a minute I would just look it up on the internet like a normal person. I think figuring out what native means on protondb is much simpler. Hmmm, when I click a game the label switches from a ranking (bronze, silver, gold) to the word native on protondb. I wonder what that means. Let me google "What does native mean on protondb" and the very first thing you see on google in bold text is this four year old answer from reddit: If searching your exact question answers it directly, in one easy to understand paragraph that also gives you a helpful tip on how to not misunderstand it further in under two seconds I'm going to say that's a lot easier than randomly right clicking places and already knowing there will be a menu popping up but only if you click the right place.

You mostly can do whatever you want. But some things are just going to be a lot harder than others. That's exactly why I gave that advice. Trying to use the stuff that already exists and works well on linux just makes your life easier if you are trying to use linux seriously, because switching and sticking to it is already hard, and doing a bunch of tricky stuff to run exactly what you used to use on windows with winetricks/bottles, headless windows vms, etc is just going to make people give up. Also, I want to point out that I didn't suggest anyone needs to or even should use linux. I offered advice for anyone who is already curious to try it but is put off by these "tech people" floundering around in the shallow end. To someone who actually uses linux it's a lot like that video from the verge "how to build a gaming pc" that went viral for making something simple look way to hard and make a ton of easily preventable mistakes while doing it. When I said "linux native thing" that I wasn't using that word in the same way the label on protondb uses it. Native means whatever the person meant, it's unfortunately a word with a squishy definition. The very precise meaning about how a game was compile only applies to the way protondb uses it. I already said I don't think they should have that label there. Whenever you read stuff from a bunch of different people on the internet and smoosh them together into one single persona of "linux evangelist" of course you are going to have a bunch of contradictions in there because the ideas came from a bunch of different people. The same is true for literally any topic you can think of where there's passionate people. But anyway, that's a very unanswerable question at the end. See also: How would I know how to change the display settings on windows if I didn't know how to change the display settings on windows? How would I know how to tie my shoes if I don't know how to tie my shoes? How is that an argument for anything? And anyway, bumping into the wrong thing as you navigate to a comfortable setup that works for you isn't the end of the world. It's how you learn.

The advice was for daily use and much more general. If you really want to get away from windows, you will have more success if you change your workflow and get used to what works better on linux. When I said "the linux native thing" I meant try to learn to use what works better on linux rather than trying to shoehorn whatever you were doing on windows into your new setup. That goes for everything from what applications you use to what hotkeys you configure. I wasn't intending to say that you should use the native build of a game when the identical game with proton runs better. The native badge misunderstanding on proton DB is almost completely unrelated to that advice. I was pointing out how the native badge indicates whether a game needs to use use proton or not.

Because words have an established meaning in context and they are sitting at a computer with access to the internet. If they aren't familiar with the meaning of the native badge that's not a character flaw or a crime, I'm saying they should look it up before laughing and pointing . I don't want to come across that not knowing something is a bad thing, just that making very public bad takes based on a cursory skim of a platform does nothing helpful for anyone. Yea I totally agree that PDB has a bit of a wacky UI. But hopefully that amplifies my point that using a reasonably using a computer should mean reading the actual reviews rather than a summary sticker at the top of the page before putting your hard earned money into buying a game. Just like you shouldn't buy games on steam based entirely on the positive review percentage. You need to do a bit more digging to know if it's a good use of your time and money. I also want to clarify in my previous distro that "Just pick one of the bigger distros" means just a regular common linux distribution like fedora, arch, whatever. For the most part "gaming distros" are a waste of your time. There's nothing inherently better about them for gaming. Once you get comfortable really using linux you can use whatever desktop environment and personalized setup you want on any major distro.

I rewrote a rant about how misleading and unfair the wan show segment twice was but gave up. The actual video was better and more balanced. The one thing I will keep from the rant is that linux&luke don't know what "native" means on protondb and making fun of stuff you don't understand makes you look foolish. ProtonDB listing a game as native doesn't mean the game works well or even at all, just that it doesn't use the proton compatibility since it's natively compiled for linux. Which is pretty key part since the point of protondb is how well proton supports a game. Just like how running a windows game on windows (or a console game on a console) doesn't mean it has 0 bugs and works perfectly, native on protonDB makes no promises about how well it works. That's literally all it means. IMO native games shouldn't be on there in the first place, but you technically can use proton and install the windows version of a game on steam (which ironically sometimes works better than the native version, and sometimes also better than running the game on windows) so maybe there's a good justification for them on there. My advice to anyone looking to switch to linux, as a developer who has been using linux for around fifteen years. Just pick one of the bigger distros and stick with it for a year or so. Learning how to use a computer is not intuitive or easy and it wasn't when you started with macos or windows either. You just need to spend time puzzling through and getting familiar with how things work. Ideally set up a vm and mess with it, don't be afraid to break things and reinstall fresh just to break it again. Don't be intimidated by your package manager, you will come to wonder how you ever lived without one. And really just use the cli. Again, you might find it intimidating at first but it's so much easier than a GUI for system management. other hot tips: Use the linux native thing first. Don't reach for wine unless you have no alternative. If your work requires you NEED to use solidworks or some weird windows only MRI reading medical software, just don't use linux on that computer. Make backups of your actual data. Documents, pictures, videos, etc. The rest is ephemeral and you can re-download and install stuff at any time on a fresh install. Keep a journal. If you ever have to do something that you find a bit confusing or intimidating, the second time you are doing it write it down as you go.

Hey @ColinLTT did you work at OneUp components before LTT?

If you are planning on learning the concepts of deep learning and implementing the basics then sure. If you plan on using deep learning for anything or want to dabble more than puddle deep you will need a gpu. For the smooth and easy path you need an nvidia GPU for CUDA. The vast majority of deep learning toolkits are designed to run on gpgpu. CPU works but is dreadfully slow.

I currently use the first xps 13 generation with the super thin bezels. It has 8gb of ram. I have a 16gb xps15 on its way by the end of the week. I REALLY recommend not getting anything with less than 16gb ram for programming. My current workflow has me regularly using over 8gb ram and waiting while my computer is "frozen" for a minute while it swaps to disk. Obviously there are different types of programming with different requirements, but lots of ultrabooks still ship with 8gb which is kind of a stretch even for non-programmers.

It happens ~5 minutes after booting. I tried running a linux live install on a thumbstick and it works fine for 5 minutes then locks up. the image on screen freezes and the computer is totally unresponsive. Same thing happens 5 minutes into installing windows.

I have already updated the bios on the asrock AB350M Pro4 to the latest version and it hasn't helped. I cant really check temps as I cant get into an os, it crashes in the installer

Hi everyone, I built a new system with a ryzen 1600. I picked up the parts on newegg black friday. The system hangs after a few minutes. I figured that the general sentiment was that ryzen ram instability was mostly delt with so I just grabbed a 16 gig kit of 2133 ddr4 patriot memory but it is not on the patriot list of amd compatible memory. Strangely enough, the system seems to be able to sit in bios without hanging. Should I try to see if I can return the memory? Has anyone had a similar issue? Any guesses for troubleshooting bios settings etc? I have already updated the bios on the asrock AB350M Pro4 to the latest version and it hasn't helped. Thanks

So after three attempts at recovery (crashes kept interrupting the file discovery), I have finally started to get files off of the drive. As files are being recovered, I see that the folder structure is gone and all the files are being dumped into the same place. Some files seem to have lost their names as well, i.e. [0000000], [0000001]. I am super grateful that I can get anything back at all! But this is going to be a hairy process. Naming conflicts and just the act of sorting thousands upon thousands of files will keep my spare time pretty strapped for the next while. Thanks for the suggestion @Lurick and the people who echoed the recuva statement.

I formatted it with gparted+disks utility but it took no time so I'm sure it only overwrote the partition table. Unfortunately, I can't remember if it was ext4 formatted or not. I just started running recuva on it and at 1% it has found 66775 files so far with an estimated 8 hours remaining (The shallow scan found nothing). Fingers crossed! Edit: 77653 so far! I am trying not to get my hopes too high as I have no indication of what files it thinks it has found or if they are corrupted or anything, but it's looking up.

I thought I had the right one, I looked at the sizes and to figure out which name was which drive but when i went to format I guess a wire crossed in my brain or something.