especially since the gift card provided doesn’t work. “here’s a 10 dollar giftcard for our screw up…also it doesn’t work…go fuck yourself”

my go to was Fark. I know it still exits and maybe I’ll start using it again but man that site was great.

geocities.com/neighborhood/street/1234

I had this issue with Horizon 4. 1. are you using big picture mode? or 2. did you turn off steam overlay?

my issue was it stopped working for this specific game when I had the steam overlay turned off, I randomly turned it back on and the controller started working again. only affected Horizon 4.

but if you’re using BPM mode apparently there’s a fix here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1549#issuecomment-447654643

yup it’s a challenge so I had to compromise. you’re right though. here’s the result:

I’ll probably change it today to a different colorscheme.

meh, and this is just my honest opinion, but I don’t think any of the distros look good right out of the box so the way it looks isn’t a deal breaker as I just end up cutomizing them anyways.

lol I kinda wish I didn’t read your comment, been playing around with it all morning. it’s infuriating cause the CSS can change colors for everything else but that ONE thing is tied in with with the tabs at the bottom.

yeah that’s a bit more work I need to fix up that I got tired of working on. in the kitty.conf it’s color4 but while changing that to black does fix it at the bottom it makes the all the other text black. so I’m still going through all the colors to see how to just turn off those white backgrounds. lol there’s 255 color settings in the conf.

yeah, I know, I have the link go to a site that provides several fmovie links to the other versions.

I’m planning on moving away from Vivaldi. The friggin sync feature is absolutely busted as you’re constantly having to reset your password cause for whatever reason Vivaldi freaks out and thinks you’re using the wrong password and locks you out or it simply just doesn’t sync most of the time. you can tell it to remember the device, tell it to remember the password and it says “yeah…maybe.” The reason I’ve stuck with it is cause I like the customization and having everything right there in the browser.

All that being said if you know of an option that has just as much customization, a better sync, and isn’t proprietary I’m completely open to suggestions.

edit: decided to go with librewolf. I’d like it if I could get the CSS to put the address bar/navigation at the bottom like I had it in Vivaldi but right now I CSS’d it to be as minimal as possible.

if you’re referring to the thing above CMUS it’s not a picture browser, it’s Yazi a file manager. It’s fast and I love it. I’m gradually teaching myelf to move away from gui’s so I can better learn terminal command lines.

but with Yazi you can use it as a picture browser as not only does it show previews like in the image but you can also increase the size of the preview or fullscreen it. I also use osxiv if I want a picture to open on it’s own.

well that’s fine I’m just stating with my personal experience I had more issues using Mint than I have using CachyOS. If Cinnamon broke on Mint due to customizing or what have you it REALLY broke to the point I needed to reinstall the OS. there were other issues with Mint (the Nvidia stuff being huge) that would break and would result in a reinstall. that’s the reason I made the move to another distro.

With CachyOS and Nobara they both feel more focused due to having small or single team members. Mint really felt like it was all over the place and broken. I’d say Mint is great for a brand new user for a couple weeks but you’ll quickly find it’s limitations, it’s not a distro I would stick with.

but this is just personal preference, I did like your write up and it has motivated me to switch to just using straight up Arch or Fedora.

I started with Mint for like a week then switched to CachyOS and I just installed Nobara on a separate partion to play around with. I’d say they’re both fairly beginner friendly. I mean I’m a brand new linux user and setting up CachyOS and customizing it to how I like it was a breeze. and with Arch, again as a noob, it’s pretty straight forward using AUR. Honestly all I knew at the beginning was git clone and then makepkg -si or pacman. With Octopi it was even more brainless.

I also tried Bazzite and I just didn’t like it at all. I like trying out distros on a live usb and Bazzite doesn’t povide that option (at least from what I could find) but once I got it setup I just didn’t like it. I prefer CachyOS, at least as far as gaming goes, over Bazzite.

If anything I found using Arch/CachyOS more user friendly than Mint. I had massive issues with Mint and Nvidia stuff but with Cachy it just worked and worked better.

Keep in mind like I said I’m a huge Linux noob, I’m only about a month into this but I really like Arch and the ease of finding things.

other than games/steam pretty much everything else is FOSS.

also doesn’t help when CEO of said company isn’t a fan of testing or code reviews and IS a fan of crunch and speedy development. One of the reasons that whole mcafee snafu also happened. He believed development at Mcafee was too slow.

a couple years ago this happened in Canada. our banks use something called “interac” which is used on debit cards for payment. it went down. also a couple banks went down too. Happened on a Friday thus…payday. Many peoples direct deposits didn’t go through or failed to show up. you couldn’t buy anything at a store with your debit card regardless of who you banked with. couldn’t even draw out cash from an ATM.

“We can’t boot into safe mode because our BitLocker keys are stored inside of a service that we can’t login to because our AD is down.”

backup your backups. I mean, I don’t work the IT side and i’m a developer but…isn’t it common sense to like not 100% use something to store keys where you potentially can’t log into? For me if I have a key that I need to use to decrypt something, hell even to log into discord if my 2FAs fail, I store them on a USB drive. If i’m using something and it says “you’ll need a key for backups just in case” ok cool, key goes on the drive.

Also Microsoft should be getting just as much flak as Crowdstrike is right now. Bitlocker is god awful and the fact you need decryption keys for many devices to simply boot into safe is stupid. I remember when I still used win11 and I fucked something up and I discovered for the first time I needed a bitlocker code to simply get into safemode or recovery mode. I had no idea and thought it was so stupid. just to get into safe? really?

this is what I suspect also. I mean it’s easy to point fingers at George Kurtz as he was CTO at Mcafee when they had their “little” snafu but…well…yeah. I strongly suspect many of his “policies” he had while CTO at Mcafee carried over to Crowdstrike. dude isn’t exactly known for being a fan of testing or vetting processes. in fact he’s all about quick development/crunch.

oh no doubt, I was telling an old manager of mine today that this “fix” will likely take weeks as he thought it’d just be something they could update. yeah…no. it’s a manual fix for each individul machine. I do not envy anyone working in IT right now.

Because if you roll out something to production on a friday whose there to fix it on the Saturday and Sunday if it breaks? Friday is the WORST day of the week to roll anything out. you roll out on Tuesday or Wednesday that way if something breaks you got people around to jump in and fix it.