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I might be wrong, but wasn’t Movit just for timeline preview, and hadn’t worked properly for quite a few versions and now you just use the NVENC/VAAPI etc export profiles to export with GPU?
I might be wrong, but wasn’t Movit just for timeline preview, and hadn’t worked properly for quite a few versions and now you just use the NVENC/VAAPI etc export profiles to export with GPU?
I’m sure it’s not possible for everyone - but I essentially did this some years back - though more with Premiere than Photoshop - and therefore more Cinelerra/Kdenlive than Gimp/Krita.
I ran a dual boot system from about 2008 until about 2015. If it could be done in Linux/FOSS, it was. If it couldn’t, it was done in Windows/Adobe software.
I was self-employed, though I often did subcontracting work for a handful of media/umbrella organisations - so sometimes I had to use Premiere or Sony Vegas to carry on half-done projects I was handed.
Bear in mind this was when you bought Adobe software and didn’t rent it - and you could also keep running an older version for years.
Anyway, over time I used the Windows partition less and less, until I got rid of it entirely when I got a new computer.
I had to work a bit harder one year, and I did miss out on a few projects - but mostly, I could do everything I could do previously, but it took a bit longer for a while until I adjusted to a different workflow.
After that, you’re just saying “That’s a £2000 job”, “That’s a £200 job”, and meeting a deadline. Nobody really cares if it took 7 minutes longer to do, and I saved a lot of time not using Windows any more.
Editing (and other design stuff) is a far smaller part of my overall work these days, but I still do a good chunk of projects over the year, and I’ve been 100% Linux for almost 10 years. No regrets.
Fingers crossed for a touchpad with physical buttons.
To a degree, yes, but don’t expect magic. Some laptops have a waterproof membrane under the keyboard, so if you’re lucky, and it does, you may be able to just pop the keys off and dry the membrane out, and make sure no liquid creeps round the side into the electronics.
Otherwise you may have better odds if you open up the case and mop up any/all loose liquid you can get to with a microfibre cloth, as soon as possible, then try and let it air dry for a while.
A sealed bag with dried rice and your electronic object may absorb a bit of leftover moisture, but only to the extent that it will equal the moisture level in the sealed bag - the dried rice will gain a little extra moisture, the object will lose that bit of extra moisture.
Try to resist the urge to turn it on to check if it’s working until you’ve got all the moisture out.
It’s a good plan for a more professional setup, but in this distinctly unprofessional setup, if I did it remotely, I wouldn’t get my chat and a cup of tea and biscuit :)
I can’t personally, but I’ve installed/set up Linux systems for quite a lot of older people, and I think only one of them ever uses the terminal for anything. The rest just… use the computer.
On the whole, they’re pretty much just using Libreoffice, Firefox and a few other bits these days. If something needs the terminal to fix, we’re already past the point where they’ve phoned me to pop round and fix it.
These used to be Ubuntu systems, but I switched them all to Mint after having endless Snap permission problems with printers, USB sticks and other peripherals. Once up and running, it’s pretty low maintenance.
I guess they don’t need to use the terminal, because I’ll go and do it if it’s necessary - but we are looking at once every few years. Not a lot of tech support needed.
On my own machine, I probably use the terminal every day.
That’s okay, you can still install Linux on Apple computers 👍
Looking at some of these… I’d never even considered sectioning them by genre - mine’s mostly by physical location - if I want to play that game, where’s it already installed?
So there’s :
Desktop, Laptop, Deck Internal, Deck SD1 (and SD2, 3 & 4 for removable SD cards)
Then like most people, I’ve got a “Complete” and a “Maybe [person’s name]” for ones the missus might enjoy.
The only sort of grouping is “Wheel Games”, which is basically driving games, but the type you want to play with wheel & pedals, not just a controller. My wheel and pedals aren’t set up permanently, so when they are set up, I pretty much only play all the Euro Truck/Bus Sims, Dirt Rally, F1, Revhead, BeamNG sort of games etc.
Yes, but only for the specific game ID folder. Do not delete the whole compatdata folder!
I know you wrote “game id” at the end, but it was written inside “<” these, and for some reason that didn’t display on Jerboa. I had a horrible vision of someone else having the same issue and following along without seeing that bit.
In response to your update, the individual setting with the program is a sort of “override” to the defaults.
If you go into:
Steam menu at top > settings > compatibility
You should see options for:
To the best of my knowledge, any title which is pre-checked by Steam (and has a green tick or whatever) is covered by the first option - this will automatically install and run using the version of Proton it was first confirmed to run with. If it ran fine with Proton 3.0-0 or whatever when it was first tested, it possibly still uses that version. Some certainly get rechecked with newer versions. It’s worth noting this is confirmed to work on Steam Deck (with its AMD graphics) - sometimes the default checked version will not work so well when you play on the desktop.
The second option allows you to set a default Proton version for all other titles - if you’ve not adjusted this, it’s possibly set on an older version.
You can override this on a game by game basis (as you have been doing already) - for example, on some games, steering wheel controllers work on 6.3-8, but not the newer version 7/8 etc. So my default is everything runs on the newest Proton, except I override some driving games to run on an older version.
[Edit]The point of this being, Cyberpunk, as a confirmed working game, will have defaulted to the version which works with the Steam Deck, without you doing anything (Leaving the “run with steam play” unticked) - that version may not be best suited to a desktop/laptop running Nvidia graphics. Changing the version manually overrides the default version… and I hope it’s all working well for you :) [End edit]
There’s a brilliant and in depth guide on the gamingonlinux website, which is definitely worth a read if you’ve got time: Gamingonlinux Steamplay guide
For trying to get back into your computer, as squid_slime mentioned, check the CTRL+ALT+F1, CTRL+ALT +F234567 etc first, and see if you’ve still got any control over the computer.
If you get a terminal, you may be able to run “top” to show you the top processes currently running, then CTRL+C to close top, look at the ID of Cyberpunk (if it’s still running) i.e. 12345, then run “kill 12345”.
After that you may be able to get back to your desktop - may be CTRL+ALT+F7, but could be any of the F keys really. You may have to go back and kill some other wine/steam processes. If the system is fully frozen, this won’t work.
The other thing to look at is to see what the logs say - I can’t remember if Ubuntu includes a log viewer by default these days, but you can easily get one from your Software Centre (or you can rummage around in var/log if you’re into that kind of thing).
Anyway, in a GUI log viewer, you should be able to see some system logs from when the program was shut down (a drop down menu at the top normally lets you select a time period) - these may help for searching i.e. “why has my Nvidia driver fallen off a bus?” rather than “Cyberpunk crashes my computer when it closes” - because the same error will have probably happened with other programs you’re not familiar with.
Also, when I’ve had these crash-on-close in the past, it was quite often an NVidia thing, and it sorted itself out a few updates later.
Your can conjure them up quite easily.
If you include remasters, I’ve been playing Shenmue I, which I think I originally played on my friend’s Dreamcast in about 2001. Think it was one of the most expensive games ever made when it first came out, so I guess that’d make it pretty AAA?
There’s a lot that feels a bit dated in it, like slightly clunky controls, annoyingly long sequences for tiny things (i.e. taking your shoes off every time you go in/out the house), emotionally stunted voiceovers etc - but it also holds up as a good mystery, and such a beautifully realised game world that the clunkiness just becomes sort of joyously nostalgic. I think it’s great.
Also, the creepy little kids that shout “HEY MISTER! DO YOU WANT TO PLAY… soooocccerrrr?” are still hilarious.
You can use the box to collect cats in.
I had a quick play of this - I lost after about 25 minutes - my fortress was overrun by Serpentmen. Anyway, just wanted to say it’s really well written and nicely illustrated, and I enjoyed the gameplay loop. It’s a really interesting game. I’m not sure on my free time/availability for testing, but if it is literally “do a playthrough and let me know if anything was broken”, I could fit that in somewhere :)
There’s a gamingonlinux article which might explain a bit.
Very roughly, a few alterations to the anticheat to make it work on Wine made some of the anticheat’s workings apparent, which in turn allowed people to work out new exploits.
Wine is an excellent tool for reverse engineering. Additionally, we had to disable many antitamper checks to make Hyperion run on Wine. This has allowed interested parties to learn a lot about the internal workings of Hyperion, relevant to both Win32 and UWP. As the initial shock of Hyperion’s release started wearing off, many people have begun discovering the various angles through which one can learn more about the inner workings of Hyperion.
As to why all the anticheat stuff matters so much, I’m not quite sure.
Maybe “Smart people use garbage”?
You’re totally right for brand new kit, but for older kit I’ve found that’s swung hard in the opposite direction.
For example, I was trying to help someone at the weekend setting up some old audio kit, a few printers and a slide scanner on their mac system, and it was a nightmare, and half of it’s still not working.
You’re constantly getting stuck with "this device only works with these 3 versions of this software and those versions of software only works on these versions of MacOS and these versions of MacOS only work with these models of Mac.
When I tested the devices on my laptop (Linux Mint), everything was detected instantly and worked with several different pieces of software (at least as far as you can test in a few minutes).
As said, I get that’s not the case with newest kit, or kit that requires special proprietary software, but for a lot of older equipment, I absolutely can’t fault it.
Do you know any of the following:
For an easy GUI way to find these, you can go to the
bottom-left menu > administration > system reports
Then go to the System Information tab.
You should have the kernel i.e. 6.3.0-39-generic at the top
Scroll down, and under network you should have something like Device-1 Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 - that’ll be the WiFi card.
In case you didn’t know, the Kernel contains drivers for things like WiFi and other devices.
An older kernel tends to be more stable (the bugs have been fixed) - but it cannot contain the drivers for devices that didn’t exist at the time.
By default, Mint is likely using the kernel 5.15, from 2022. If your WiFi device is newer than 2022, it won’t work yet. However, you can install a newer kernel (mine, above is 6.3.0). I had to do this to get the WiFi working on my Thinkpad p14s. This is quite simple and safe to do, and completely reversible if there are problems.
There’s a chance if the WiFi card is particularly new or obscure, that it won’t work at all currently. We’re waiting on the company, or more likely a talented volunteer, to write the drivers.
In this case, you may need to buy a USB WiFi adapter, for example TP-Link USB Wifi. I had to do this with my Dad’s laptop recently. Within the next year, he probably won’t need it anymore, as the drivers for the internal one will likely exist.
I miss lovely, earthy, warm, friendly chocolatey Brownbuntu.
I always felt purplebuntu was a bit vile.