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  • Linux users: Are we over-reliant on Steam?

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  • If Heroic doesn't work, Bottles is usually my go-to for GOG games.

  • Okay why is your distro the best?

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  • Arch users here, just touched grass for the first time. Felt like bloat, had my lawn paved.

  • Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"

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  • Honestly, you've kinda already found one of the best, here on Lemmy! Other than that, depending on which distro you choose, the Arch community can be a little terse, but definitely the most knowledgeable and more than willing to help if you do your research first. The Mint community is pretty nice, and patient since the distro is aimed at newbies. LinuxMusicians is a nice forum, and not so distro-specific, but I've noticed that they tend to get bogged down in the "why" and not the "how" on occasion. Really, other than Phoronix and the LKML, the Linux community in general is pretty cool, just a few loud voices give us a bad rap for being too insular, but that's changing pretty quickly.

  • Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"

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  • Anytime! One of the best things about Linux is that if you're having trouble, you can ask the community for help and more than likely, someone's gonna know something about it, so help is just a post away! Have fun, and good luck!

  • Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"

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  • Yeah, I'm pretty sure the sound driver thing has been sorted since pipewire came out, it acts as a sort of bridge between the different sound servers. As far as your plugins, I found two posts from the old place about it: here and here, I wouldn't know specifically on those since I mostly use the open-source ones in the Arch repos. If neither of those help, you could try yabridge, which would be available from your distro's package manager.

    As far as DAWs, I'm using Ardour, which is completely free, but there's also a couple of paid ones, REAPER, at $60 for individuals or $225 for a commercial license, and Bitwig, which costs between $100 and $400 depending on which license you buy. Personally, Ardour's been fine for me.

    Low-latency can be achieved a few different ways, Ubuntu has a distro called Ubuntu Studio that uses their own tricks to make it happen, it also comes with a bunch of extra stuff for graphic design and video editing. Personally, I went with Arch, and followed the instructions on the Arch wiki, and I see latencies in the low single digits of milliseconds. There's also AV Linux and KX Studio , but I haven't used those, so I couldn't tell you much about them, other than that I hear good things about them.

    That was a longer reply than I had intended, but if you make the switch, good luck and rock on!

  • Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"

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  • I've been making an album on Linux, anything I can help with?

  • Michigan Democrat files articles of impeachment against Trump

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  • That'd be one hell of a punk rock album cover

  • Injectable Male Birth Control Effective for at Least 2 Years, Says Biotech Startup

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  • It works until it doesn't

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  • The ultimate goat

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  • We might need a simulator for this

  • Trump denies aid for Arkansas after storms that killed more than 40 people

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  • No war but class war, stay strong friend ✊

  • "Tasks"

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  • Alt text: "to answer your question: he's now an expert in folding fitted sheets so they lie flat. please hold your applause"

  • Mozilla Introduces Firefox’s First-Ever Terms of Use

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  • I'm on Ironwolf now

    Edit: It's Ironfox, I got that and Librewolf confused in my brain thingy

  • What host names do you use?

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  • You're naming them out of the stuff that specifically isn't space!

  • I freed 30GB using Filelight

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  • Separate partitions for / and /home, save all your data, configs, etc. but you can still distrohop!

  • AMD Radeon RX 9070 / 9070 XT review: back to winning ways

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  • Bazzite being atomic and hard to fix is actually what pushed me to try Arch. I'd been a Debian guy for ~15 years, but I just built my first new desktop in just about the same amount of time, and I certainly didn't want it to feel old! So I tried Bazzite, which worked until some update broke some driver, and like you, rolling back didn't work, and I couldn't find anything online that would help me fix it, so I just said "Fuck it" and went straight to Arch. It's been pretty good so far!

  • Which browser do you use and why?

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  • You are absolutely correct, I apologize.

  • Which browser do you use and why?

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  • I use DarkReader on Librewolf, works just fine. In fact, all of my extensions work.

  • Which browser do you use and why?

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  • Mull browser is deprecated, Ironfox is the community fork

  • Buildapc @lemmy.world
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    First build in a hot minute, any suggestions?

  • Gaming @beehaw.org
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    What's a good co-op RTS for the Switch?

  • Boost for Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    How to find saved comments

  • Boost for Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    How to search within a specific community?

  • Boost for Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    HELP

    How to change default home