I don’t particularly like the layout of libreoffice, but I find that onlyoffice works for me. Not as feature rich, I suspect, but it doesn’t disrupt my workflow due to how similar it is to Microsoft Office

It doesn’t run well on the steam deck, but I generally am able to get 40-50 fps. I capped GPU clock to 1200 MHz, and that seems to help a bit

Linux is really a superfamily of loosely-related OS’s (called distributions). Arch and Debian are 2 of the more common ones. Arch in particular has a reputation of being really beginner un-friendly, particularly in that, to my understanding, you have to build the OS yourself.

There’s also the caveat that many Linux distributions end up sharing/copying code from each other, so you end up with a kind of “OS lineage.” The most common distribution, Ubuntu, is copied from Debian. And then the most beginner-friendly distribution, Linux Mint, is copied from Ubuntu. Arch, to my knowledge, doesn’t copy code from elsewhere, so much of the advice given from users of other distributions won’t apply to Arch (hence the meme, “I use Arch btw”)

Anyways, the real advice for a Linux beginner is to stick with a beginner-friendly distribution: either Ubuntu or Linux Mint or Pop!_OS. Most or all distributions have various “flavors,” which are basically like how the OS looks. I think the real difficulty is picking a flavor that you like. I personally like the look of KDE Plasma (IMO resembles Windows 10 the most), so my personal recommendation is Kubuntu, which is the KDE Plasma flavor of Ubuntu

I mainly use mine for emulation. So technically yes, but you’ll need to provide a way to download and install it easily

The screen size matters significantly. More specifically, what humans care about is pixel density. A 24 inch 1080p screen does not look the same as a 27 inch 1080p, which does not look the same as a 32 inch 1080p.

A 24 inch 1080p screen is perfectly fine. A 27 inch 1080p, you can start to see the pixels more clearly. A 32 inch 1080p IMO is unacceptably bad.

I would say the standard should be 1080p for 24 inch or under, 1440p for 24-27 inch, 4K for 27 inch or above

I personally run a 24 inch 1440p screen because I’m pretty picky with pixel density, and the monitor was relatively good deal.

Virgin embarrassed H-game enthusiast:

“Haha they’re just jokes bro”

Chad owns-up-to-it H-game enjoyer:

“Yes, I do have 137 hentai games, what about it?”

Same thoughts. Mainly because it’s such a pain to explain how the library access system works in the previous family share.

There is also the factor that the user appears unaware that the feature he is requesting is already present, because you can just cut/paste.

Not entirely true - OLED has a not-insignificant performance improvement, and has much better battery life

Yes, I’ve tried it and it works fine. I should point out though that if you plan to do that, you might as well buy a USB splitter and then use wired.

Asking ChatGPT for advice about anything is generally a bad idea, even though it might feel like a good idea at the time. ChatGPT responds with what it thinks you want to hear, just phrased in a way that sounds like actual advice. And especially since ChatGPT only knows as much information as you are willing to tell it, its input data is often biased. It’s like an r/relationshipadvice or r/AITA thread, but on steroids.

You think it’s good advice because it’s what you wanted to do to begin with, and it’s phrased in a way that makes your decision seem like the wise choice. Really, though, sometimes you just need to hear the ugly truth that you’re making a bad choice, and that’s not something that ChatGPT is able to do.

Anyways, I’m not saying that bosses are good at giving advice, but I think ChatGPT is definitely not better at giving advice than bosses are.

Superglue becomes brittle when frozen. Instead of sacrificing a screwdriver, you could try freezing the screwdriver and maybe you could snap the superglue off afterward

I get what you’re saying. I thought that myself, that it would be niche. Then I got it and now it’s part of my standard carry. I think the tricky thing about it is that it doesn’t do anything surprising, so you wouldn’t expect that it would be so successful. But once you try it yourself, you realize that the appeal is primarily in how balanced and versatile it is. In other words, it doesn’t do anything new, but it does everything that it tries to do very well

It’s not particularly heavy but I generally rest the Deck against something anyways (my pillow if I’m lying down, my lap if I’m sitting up)

An admin was caught editing pixels without cooldown to draw over several communities’ art. Iirc, it was mainly to overwrite NSFW art. When people noticed, the comments that mentioned it got deleted

Hard disagree. Steam Deck is good because it fills a niche that no other handheld PC fulfills. You can’t really nitpick when there isn’t really any competitors.

The Deck isn’t the most powerful, its display isn’t the best, it isn’t the cheapest. What people like the author seem to miss is that the Deck wasn’t marketed to be the most powerful, or the best display, or the cheapest. It was designed to balance all these design considerations, such that even though it’s not best at anything, it’s not bad at anything either. That’s really the allure of the Deck for me, that I don’t really need to work around any limitations

IMO the Steam Deck is one of those machines that takes the “sure, we don’t recommend it, but we’ll let you do it” approach. You can run AAA games, and some even run surprisingly well, but in general I find that I would really much rather play AAA games on my PC than on my Steam Deck. It’s really best for indies, AA, and emulation, where the convenience of the Deck over a PC significantly offsets the comparatively weaker performance

Oh, just because someone is abusive or unsupportive doesn’t mean that they don’t love you. It just means that their interactions aren’t healthy for you and you need to establish boundaries.

Regardless, I hope that you’re doing well. I don’t know what your project is, but I can certainly tell you that it’s much more impressive than anything I’ve made

I’ve had this issue (although it’s not wifi-related). I have really no idea what it is, but most of the time, just running it multiple times will get it to start up properly. (ie, just spam “launch game”) Sometimes a new update breaks something and it happens a lot more often. Try updating yuzu if it suddenly starts happening (it usually updates once a day, so there’s almost always a new update)

Another thing is that, if none of that works, it might be Steam Rom Manager. Sometimes it detects a DLC or update file rather than the actual game file, and so the shortcut that gets added into your game mode doesn’t actually link to the correct file. It can be helpful to go into properties (press the gear in the game page) and check to make sure the launch options is correct. You’ll have to tap the textbook labeled “launch options” and scroll all the way to the right. There, you’ll find a file address. Just make sure that the file address is the actual game file, rather than an update or DLC file

Honestly, not really sure what all the talk is about Windows on Steam Deck. I’ve never felt the need to consider booting Windows on it. All the games that I tried just work on SteamOS and they work flawlessly. Maybe there’s some games out there that don’t play nice with SteamOS, but I haven’t found it yet.