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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • Okay, your post is a bit weird, so I’ll just tell you about my setup:

    I have a custom built PC for like 4 or 5 years and have Linux on there permanently for at least 2.

    It has an AMD Ryzen 7 (AM4) CPU and a Nvidia 2060 Super.

    I often tried new distros before the final switch. In the end I chose PopOS. For me it mostly just works.

    All the core features are effectively bugless.

    Games sometimes don’t work or need a little tweak in steam, but that is like one game out of 20.

    BUT:
    I don’t play AAA games. Like ever. I played Darktide for a month maybe and “Witcher 3” butthis is the closest I got to “real” AAA games in the last 5 years.
    Indie Games nearly always “just work”.

    Few examples from the last months:

    • Deep Rock Galactic
    • Satisfactory
    • Witch It
    • Factorio Space Age
    • Cogmind
    • Dwarf Fortress
    • Ultimate Chicken Horse
    • Disco Elysium
    • The Last Journey
    • Core Keeper
    • Celeste
    • Stardew Valley

    They all ran fine. The one Issue I had was that steam didn’t show this DirectX-Popup and I thought the games didn’t start. But after that it all just worked.
    Also sometimes mods are hard. This is mostly for games I didn’t buy on steam and that have weird community-built mod managers.



  • I habe another “magically solved itself” story with solution.

    When I leave my PC on for a long time without needing to access it, e.g. to make a backup or some long updates, I always lock it. This ensures that the monitor turns itself off.

    Or so I thought. Mostly I would only look at it, when accessing it again, since it faces away from the door. Then the screen was off.

    But sometimes when I didn’t want to use it, the screen was on. This really bothered me for a long time. When I wanted to use it, the screen was off and when I didn’t, the screen was on.

    Some day it just stopped happening. The screen was always off.

    Just last week I found out why this all happened.
    It was my phone. I have my mouse on the left side and always place my phone to the right. Except when not sitting at the desk. Then I put the phone on the left side which faces away from the wall. There it slightly shook the mouse thus activating the screen and gaslighting me. Last month I thoroughly cleaned my desk and now I don’t have to place the phone on my mousepad anymore.