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inalone

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    Some Linux Distro

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  • CPU
    Xeon E3-1231 V3
  • Motherboard
    MSI Z97 PC Mate
  • RAM
    2x4GB HyperX Fury, 1x 8GB Samsung (16GB total)
  • GPU
    PowerColor R9 390
  • Case
    Corsair 200R
  • Storage
    1x Crucial BX500 250GB (Solus), 1x 120GB SanDisk SSD (spare, will be used as a Windows KVM boot drive at some point), 1x 1.5TB random laptop hard drive (movies etc.), 1x 1TB WD Blue (games and music)
  • PSU
    EVGA Supernova G2 750W
  • Display(s)
    HP Pavilion 22xi
  • Cooling
    Hyper 212 EVO
  • Keyboard
    DREVO Excalibur w/ MX Blues
  • Mouse
    Logitech G402
  • Sound
    Beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro + Focusrite Scarlett Solo (used to be Fiio E10k)
  • Operating System
    Solus

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  1. Hi, I've had my monitor which is a cheapo HP Pavillion 22xi for multiple years now and it's always done me well, but recently i upgraded my GPU and a couple of days after I did that I started to get some weird behaviour. Seemingly randomly, the whole screen goes a weird tinge of purple, with it alternating in lines between a lighter and darker purple - it's transluscent so i can still see but everything is a weird purple. I had it again this morning but this time a large section of the bottom of the screen was green too. What's weird is that a cable unplug and replug fixes it, and so does simply turning the monitor on and off, hence why I dont think it's a GPU issue as the behaviour would persist on monitor power cycles surely. I've changed cables a few times and it doesn't change behaviour. Thanks.
  2. What distro is this out of curiosity? Also, what type of partition is /dev/sda8? Is it FAT32? Also, what are on the other partitions - 8 partition is a hell of a lot for a single drive.
  3. Out of curiosity, what's user unfriendly about Debian? The only thing I can think of is the finding of the ISO, which is a complete pain I admit - the fact that they still refer to the net installer as "CD" and the more complete installer as "DVD" is completely stupid to me.
  4. Being the Linux shill I am, I'll always advocate for switching to Linux if you can, but yes moving to Windows 10 is certainly better than sticking to Windows 7. I recommend finding out how to disable as much telemetry as humanly possible on Windows 10, but if you've been keeping your Windows 7 up to date then the change in telemetry is fairly minimal.
  5. I don't see why a type C to type A adapter wouldn't work - it wouldn't destroy anything for sure as I'm fairly certain type C to type A converters are simply pin conversions rather than anything active.
  6. My biggest dislike about my PC is that it has an Nvidia GPU - it's genuinely such a pain when I distro hop and then have to think "alright what's the nvidia package called", or in the case of Fedora and such having to find external repos to fetch the driver package from. I would upgrade or change to an equivalent GPU of the same price (if I sold it) which I've been looking into but I'm not a fan of the idea of my PC being out of use for a week or two while i sort out a new GPU

  7. Essentially, your C:/ drive lives on a partition on your hard drive at the moment and if you want to transfer it to an SSD, you'd need to make it so that the partition is able to fit onto the SSD given the SSD's capacity (e.g. if you have a 1TB C:/ drive at the moment (which is where your windows install lives), and only a 250GB SSD, you'd need to make that 1TB partition into a 250GB one). When it comes to cloning software, someone else would have to chip in I'm afraid as I've never done that before, but for shrinking the partition I think Windows' built in Disk Management program is good. EDIT: Shrinking is just the first step though, as a Windows install is typically made up of 3 partitions I think, including the bootloader, so someone else would have to chip in for how to properly transfer the full Windows install across.
  8. The typical way of doing this would be to shrink your C:/ drive to the size of the SSD, then clone the partition - if the C:/ drive is too small you'd need to start uninstalling programs, deleting files etc. so that it fits. Time wise, shouldn't take too long but depends on the hard drive, SSD and how large the partition you're transferring across is but it shouldn't take that long.
  9. Windows Update in Windows 10 is probably the worst thing to happen to Windows. With Windows 10 taking a rolling release approach, you would have thought that they'd make updates more stable and user friendly, but they're genuinely a headache - they're obtrusive, anti-consumer and often break or slow down the OS requiring a user to do a rollback. It's painful.

    1. Donut417

      Donut417

      Your not the only one to feel that way brother. I myself have given up on Windows. Ended up switching to Linux. I was a Windows user since 3.11. 

    2. inalone

      inalone

      I've been tinkering with linux on my main PC since 2017 and properly switched early last year and have never looked back - i literally don't have a windows install atm cos i just don't like using windows at all

  10. I think a Surface Book would be perfectly fine for those tasks - I'm doing CompSci as well and I have a laptop with a dual core i5 which has hyperthreading and it serves me extremely well. I would probably recommend doing a fresh Windows install (or giving Linux a try) if you feel like your Surface Book's snappiness has gone, but I genuinely think it'll be fine. Do you know if the game dev courses will be mostly theoretical or practical, as I know game dev at my uni is mostly about algorithms and vectors and the like rather than Unity programming for example.
  11. I've never been good with naming, so I've never bothered to name my PC. Hell, I can never think of a good hostname whenever I install a Linux distro or Windows (I usually just go with the distro name or something boring like "<firstname>-laptop")
  12. I've always prefered VMWare for Windows-based VMs, but VirtualBox generally has a bit more documentation and such (although I've always found it to lack in performance)
  13. I'm not aware enough of Storemi to point any fingers at it so I'll let someone else answer that one, but for the scanning malware part I'd definitely recommend MalwareBytes Free.
  14. My university has stopped all face to face meetings, including lectures, tutorials, labs etc. which I agree with totally - someone in student accommodation here has been diagnosed with it so imo it's a perfectly reasonable response. I am pretty pissed off with Boris Johnson's "herd immunity" approach cos it's just playing with human lives, a lockdown + funding for a way to tackle it approach is the best option to me (see: Cuba and Canada) but I like how many places are taking their own initiatives to close or cease until it gets better (e.g. a lot of universities, EFL etc.)
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