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Does anyone actually use start menu shortcuts for steam games? I've got too many installed to count, and most titles have to go through steam regardless for extended boot stuff.
Laurie Anderson's Mind-Blowing Performance of 'Waiting for the Barbarians'
Laurie Anderson and more come together in a concert of new works inspired by poet C. P. Cavafy. Filmed at the Saint Thomas Church in New York City, the performance is commissioned by the Onassis Foundation.
A narcissistic US President thinking he runs the world while Iran and the Resistance Axis are proving him wrong time and time again. Points about the alleged US-Iran-Israel ceasefire that Trump is …
Any computer-touchers looking for a job? The Cambridge Computer Lab is looking for a mostly Linux sysadmin. Great place to work, I still pop in sometimes, but don’t let that put you off!
EDIT: I believe this requires the ability to be physically in Cambridge (UK) at least some of the time. I am not sure if they can sponsor visas for this job, but they often can.
Second edit: Apparently I was tired when I posted this and completely failed to include the link to the job. Ooops!
Third edit: I am not involved in hiring for this job. My current affiliation with the institution in question is 'Visiting Researcher'. This means that they keep a desk that I can use (when no one else is using it) and I periodically turn up and hang out with people there. I cannot answer questions related to the job other than to say that it's working with a group of people I choose to visit when I can. There is an email address in the job ad for questions.
Marcos de Oliveira, the editor of the leading Brazilian financial daily Monitor Mercantil, published a story on June 23 citing the Schiller Institute’s statement “Will There Be Thermonuclear Fireworks by the Fourth of July?” at some length, with a li…
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Pam Blondie Must Be Having the Time of Her Life. PRANCING AROUND DC LIKE A PRINCESS TAKING MEETING And SOCIALIZING INSTEAD Of DOING HER JOB, PROSECUTING CRIMINALS.😒
Hear me out here: it could be that men date to find a mate, and dating a wombless gender goblin takes time away from achieving the ultimate goal of procreation.
This is why people dislike trannies. They're allowed to call themselves women all they want. The problem is they want men to ignore that schlong or think it's a "feminine penis." They do NOT get to force their delusion on others.
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A group of researchers has uncovered a system that Instagram and Facebook have been using since September 2024 to collect users’ web browsing history on Android devices
I always love when Californians go abroad and come back with ‘omg in Malaysia / Indonesia people don’t recycle!!’ And I love telling them ‘well it’s because you keep sending us all your shit that actually can’t be recycled?’
I mean yes those countries have poor infra and facilities for ‘environmental best practices’. That’s also true. But it is also true that a single person from the global north consumes and wastes far more than people not in the global north, so any type of moral posturing around this really irritates me.
Especially if you’re not aware that the crisis in plastics recycling is just ‘Asia won’t take our shit anymore’. They’ll just find another place to dump it in. So on and on it goes.
Less than a year ago, the Union Jack bunting fluttered in Downing Street, and Keir Starmer strode triumphantly into No 10 to the rapturous applause of a nation desperate for change.
They save money on planes by omitting sensor systems. GPS consensus data comes from the handful of passengers who did not turn off their phones. Without your help, they will be unable to find the destination airport.
The Organise Editorial Collective would like to make it clear, We Support #PalestineAction and reject this ridiculous reaction from the #state and this latest increase in #authoritarian control in the #UK.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper have announced they will proscribe Palestine Action as a 'terrorist group'. We at Organise Magazine would like to express our support of Palestine Action.
Actually, I have been a parliamentarian in my past. Serving as "Advocate" in a Knights of Columbus Council, part of my duty was to be familiar with Roberts Rules of Order, and to advise the Grand Knight on how best to conduct a business meeting, how to deal with disputes should they arise, etc. kofc.org/en/get-involved/colle…
An approach for new councils in appointing the first set of officers or for existing councils looking to expand the responsibilities of their existing officers.
The staffers ignored a summons to attend and explain what Labor knew about the hoax the party used to justify antisemitism-specific offences.
https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.
I've seen the uber-famous opening of "Gilligan's Island" innumerable times over the years. And until a few minutes ago, I never noticed that the sign Skipper is standing next to during the opening song, promoting his tours, also says, "Free Lunches" on it.
Considering switching to Linux, but I have many questions.
Gaming - I enjoy gaming and want a Distro that will let me play most games. I have read that keeping nVidia drivers up to date can be (was?) a problem. I currently use steam for 99% of my gaming, I’m aware steam is porting a lot for SteamOS, but what are the limitations of this? Will I have to wait for a port before I can play a new game? Are there stability issues?
I’ve developed a lot of pretty basic macros for excel in Visual Basic, I’m not a programmer by any means, but I can write some algorithms to do QoL coding. Is making the switch to open office seamless? Will my .xlsx docs incur formatting issues? Will my macros translate to whatever editor is used in open office? Does open office use the same codes for cell functions? Are there statistic package add-ons like with excel? Essentially, I’m asking how much work is ahead of me if I make this switch?
I do enjoy the old version of outlook and work with many people who use outlook calendars for scheduling. Is there a similar program that will work with the same functionality on their end? (E.g. a mail client that will allow me to accept calendar invites from others and confirm it on both ends?).
I am familiar with Visual Studio and use it as my IDE for very basic programming (I like to tinker with automating certain tasks in games, again by no means a programmer). Is there an equivalent FOSS version that would have a low learning curve coming from Microsoft’s IDE?
Steam has a compatibility layer called Proton, when enabled you can play games designed to run on Windows. You can check ProtonDB to see if a game runs or you can just check by yourself.
Games that use anticheat are the most prone to not work on Linux.
Also, you don't have to move to Linux cold turkey. You can try dual boot and adapt your workflow at your own pace. GL 🙂
I can tell you macros in Excel will more than likely not transfer. As for formatting, 50/50 depending on how in-depth it is. I would advise dual booting/vm for Excel. There just is no other program as powerful. I'm not saying Libre or others can't do what your looking to do, but more than likely would need a rebuild to get there.
Agree for Excel. An alternative can be to use winapps which allow to run excel via docker (or podman) and open windows app same as if there were natively installed.
Gaming on Linux is great, steam isn't porting games for SteamOS, instead they released Proton which allows you to play just about every Windows game without issue.
I don't know about LibreOffice supporting Excel Macros, I'd assume not.
There are many good mail programs, but I think only one that properly integrates with Microsoft's cloud stuff.
Visual Studio straight up runs on Linux, it should be familiar.
Try it out and see if you get your system how you want it 😀
Gaming - I enjoy gaming and want a Distro that will let me play most games. I have read that keeping nVidia drivers up to date can be (was?) a problem. I currently use steam for 99% of my gaming, I’m aware steam is porting a lot for SteamOS, but what are the limitations of this? Will I have to wait for a port before I can play a new game? Are there stability issues?
For gaming you should keep in mind that you want a distro with decently new packages to avoid issues with Nvidia & also to have the correct drivers for some titles: fedora is good for a strong base, although I heard they are doing away with there x86 libraries... I prefer endeavor os, but you will at very least need to learn to use pacman and yay, but they aren't hard to understand if you have basic programming experience. You should also know that almost all games that are not supported on Linux nowadays are either really new, like launch day new, or they rely on an invasive anti cheat: are we anti cheat yet & proton db should give you a decent idea if your library is compatible.
I’ve developed a lot of pretty basic macros for excel in Visual Basic, I’m not a programmer by any means, but I can write some algorithms to do QoL coding. Is making the switch to open office seamless? Will my .xlsx docs incur formatting issues? Will my macros translate to whatever editor is used in open office? Does open office use the same codes for cell functions? Are there statistic package add-ons like with excel? Essentially, I’m asking how much work is ahead of me if I make this switch?
I don't have nearly enough experience with your second point, my only thoughts are that you should be looking into libre office - it's the most mature in my eyes, and open office has made a lot of questionable decisions recently. Also as a general rule, I would say there is about an equivalent amount of compatibility between the oss alternatives and the different versions of the Ms office suite, it will be noticeable, but so long as you don't live and die by formatting, it will just be mildly inconvenient.
I do enjoy the old version of outlook and work with many people who use outlook calendars for scheduling. Is there a similar program that will work with the same functionality on their end? (E.g. a mail client that will allow me to accept calendar invites from others and confirm it on both ends?).
I believe you are looking for proton, they are the oss answer to the Ms and Google suites, I don't know if you will have quite the amount of compatibility you want between people, but if that's important just use the web versions of your preferred suite.
I am familiar with Visual Studio and use it as my IDE for very basic programming (I like to tinker with automating certain tasks in games, again by no means a programmer). Is there an equivalent FOSS version that would have a low learning curve coming from Microsoft’s IDE?
Vs code is almost entirely open source, as such, there is a project called vs codium which takes the publicly available vs code source code and keeps it fully open source, if you like the visual studio program you will hardly notice a difference.
The thing with Office is Microsoft has worked hard to keep it's monopoly. Office is it's cash cow and so they avoid standards deliberately to make it harder to move off. There are plenty of alternatives, lots of email software, etc. It's just about taking your time and moving bit by bit. You can install LibreOffice and Mozilla Thunderbird on Windows to try them out. LibreOffice being what replaced open office.
Protondb - info about current state and playability of almost any game on Steam driven by community.
AFAIK many calendar apps use CalDAV protocol which is quite universal. So basically any compatible with CavDAV protocol app (Thunderbird, Evolution) will work just fine.
VS Code + some extensions - yes, I know that it is not an IDE. I use it for game development on Unity (C#) and it makes job done.
I would say, instead of trying to 100% switch over, instead dip a toe in. Dual boot, or run a seperate system as linux first. Slowly grow into it, and then if in a few years, it feels feasible, put it on as your main and have your windows system as the back up. Then maybe eventually you won't need/want a back up at some point.
I can speak to a few of your questions. I've been fully on Linux, both my laptop and gaming PC for two years now.
Gaming - I use Steam for all of my games, and have had few issues. Steam uses Proton to allow non-native games to run, and it happens all within the Steam client. New Proton versions update within Steam just like your games. I've run across a few games that wouldn't launch or would CTD, but those are few and far between and similar to my experience in Windows.
Sample of games I've played without issue: * Star Wars Jedi: Survivor * Horizon: Forbidden West * Helldivers 2 * Red Dead Redemption 2 * Dwarf Fortress * Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 * Fallout: New Vegas * Deep Rock Galactic * Sea of Stars * Factorio
I have an Nvidia 3080Ti and use the proprietary Nvidia drivers. From what I recall, the install was painless and I haven't had driver issues.
OpenOffice - I use LibreOffice, because to my understanding it is actively maintained unlike OpenOffice, and I haven't had any issues casually using it to view documents.
I use Thunderbird for my mail client and haven't had any issues setting it up or using basic functionality. It works just as well as it did under Windows.
I installed VS Code or one of the foss alternatives, can't remember which, and haven't had issues with it.
TL;DR that's really my experience with everything in Linux. Some things are a learning curve, but most stuff just works. I'm also not a tinkerer. I just wanted an OS that works and stays out of my way and Linux has been great for that.
Gaming on Linux is nearly effortless within the Steam ecosystem. Outside if that, it requires a little more technical proficiency and a willingness or excitement for learning. Lutris, Heroic, and Bottles are all tools that can help you run non-Steam Windows software on Linux. Your mileage WILL vary depending on what you want to run. Non-games are very hit-and-miss.
Use LibreOffice, not OpenOffice. Formulas should work natively, but macros may need to be reimplemented since LibreOffice Calc uses a different “Basic” than Excel.
That depends on what you mean by “Outlook”. I’d wager most Linux users automatically pick Thunderbird, which is a fairly basic mail client compared to the MS Office version of Outlook. It is comparable to the lightweight built-in Windows Outlook, though. I prefer Evolution as my mail client, which is closer to Apple Mail or Windows Outlook. Try some things out and see what you like.
VSCode and VSCodium are readily available FOSS editors. There is also Kate, which comes with many KDE-based distros. Jetbrains IDEs work very well on Linux, whether you use free community, free non-commercial, or paid versions.
Gaming - go to protondb.com and look for the games you at regularly. If something g you at isn't supported (mostly specific online multiplayer games) then you're out of luck. Most games work seamlessly.
Watch some YouTube videos about people showing how to install Nvidia drivers to get an idea of how complicated it is.
I do enjoy the old version of outlook and work with many people who use outlook calendars for scheduling. Is there a similar program that will work with the same functionality on their end? (E.g. a mail client that will allow me to accept calendar invites from others and confirm it on both ends?).
I believe Thunderbird is still the most widely supported local mail client. (Corrections welcome, but last time I used a non-webmail email client, it seemed the most popular.) I have found Thunderbird is more stable and reliable on Linux than on Windows or Mac. And thunderbird seems to intentionally mimic older versions of outlook.
For any non-mircrosoft email provider, Thunderbird seems to usually be what the mail provider tests with, if they support non-web email access.
If using Microsoft as your email provider, I think Microsoft occasionally sabotages Thunderbird intentionally. I have not had a good experience, with this combination.
But Outlook(.com) works fine and is fully featured, in a browser on any version of Linux.
I am familiar with Visual Studio and use it as my IDE for very basic programming (I like to tinker with automating certain tasks in games, again by no means a programmer). Is there an equivalent FOSS version that would have a low learning curve coming from Microsoft’s IDE?
VSCode is the heir-apparent to Visual Studio.
It is FOSS (mostly). To get the pure FOSS version, look for VSCodium, instead. Both run natively on Linux, were destined to mimic Visual Studio, but applying some usability lessons learned.
In my opinion, the feature set is equivalent, except some cases VSCode/VSCodium is dramatically better.
I used to run Visual Studio and VSCodium side by side, but I haven't been tempted to open Visual Studio in several years.
Lots of folks mentioning VSCode as the alternate to VS, but it is very much not that. VS is an IDE, VSCode is a text editor that just has a big plugin community. Do not expect a low learning curve. The VS alternative that's an actual IDE, and does have a low learning curve, is JetBrains Rider. Unfortunately it is neither F nor OSS.
On the machine I used Nvidia on, I ran Linux Mint and used that distro's driver manager. It was fairly straightforward. I found an appropriate time to build a new machine and I'm now a Ryzen/Radeon kind of guy.
In broad strokes, what Valve has done for Linux gaming is build a compatibility layer that translates the game's calls for Windows systems into those that Linux can understand, especially translating DirectX API calls to Vulkan. So, for the most part, Windows games now "just run." You do not need to wait for a game to be ported to Linux, and in fact many just simply aren't anymore; Valve's instructions are to target Windows and let Proton handle Linux gamers. The one place you'll find issues are some games that use kernel level anti-cheat, a technology that can work on Linux, but many studios choose not to let it.
I don't know if a conversion to a FOSS office suite (I would recommend LibreOffice or possibly OnlyOffice) will be 100% seamless, the most trouble I had with LibreOffice was collaborating with others. An MLA formatted essay made in LOWriter may translate fine, powerpoint presentations and spreadsheets might be a little wonky.
The cool thing about FOSS apps is you don't have to have Linux to give them a try. You can install LibreOffice in Windows and try it out yourself.
I don't think VisualStudio is available for Linux; their text editor VSCode and a "we built the parts they opened" called VSCodium are.
Linux is an extremely programmer friendly environment; you'll find a lot of IDEs available. Your typical Linux distro ships with Python and Perl interpreters among others just built right in, along with GCC of course. I've messed around with the Godot game engine, along with Arduino, though these days if I'm going to do much programming I'm going to do it in Python, including for microcontrollers. These days I've somewhat standardized on ESP32s running MicroPython.
OpenOffice has seen essentially no development since 2011, when the trademark got transferred to Oracle after they bought Sun Microsystems.
The project got forked into LibreOffice to dodge the trademark issue, but it's the same devs, practically the same project, but now under a non-profit organization. Well, and with 14 more years of development.
So, use LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice. It will most likely come pre-installed on whichever Linux distro you go with. But you can also try it out on Windows beforehand, if you have concerns.
Just a headsup incase you try it on windows 11 before you do on linux:
LibreOffice, out of the box, is slow and buggy sometimes on windows 11 and the user interface doesn't look as smooth as on linux. You might have to tweak some graphics settings to bearable.
LibreOffice looks and works significantly better on Linux.
Ive personally not encountered any of the issues listed above for Libreoffice on Windows, it runs just as well on my win10 system as it does my Linux system (dual boot). That said, I have yet to try it out on Win11 amd if I do, it will be virtualized vs running on bare metal.
To me it looks you are pretty deep in MS ecosystem. The easiest to switch to Linux are developers because development on Windows sucks and casual users because they depend only on their web browser. Since you are both a gamer and deep in MS office suite it will be very hard because its completley different ecosystem.
My proposal: recreate your environment in VM and switch on linux host with that same setup. And then try get step by step over a year outside of that VM.
No nos faltan aviones, precisamente. La ampliación del aeropuerto de Barcelona trae más turismo a una ciudad saturada y se lleva por delante espacios protegidos. Parémoslo: venid el 28/06 a las 11:30 a la concentración en la Pl. Sant Jaume convocada por @zeroportbcn #MenysAvionsMésVida
En una época en la que la realidad se nos viene encima constantemente, este es un tema en el que se puede ejercer presión y conseguir resultados. Si no podéis venir, haced difusión, explicádselo a gente, dad la turra.
El president de la Generalitat, Salvador Illa, acaba d’anunciar l’ampliació de l’aeroport del Prat, pactada amb el govern de l’Estat. Per a Zeroport, aquest anunci no és cap sorpresa: Illa ja ho ha…
@Max_Imum if they leaked something to the enemy, absolutely. But what the heck was leaked, exactly? I mean, if it was a perfect mission and all..... 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Well, maybe it was a "perfect" mission in that they perfectly hit the spots that used to have fissile material but don't anymore because there be a snitch
On a morning that should have echoed with the calls of Takbeer, filled with children’s laughter ringing through the alleyways, Gaza awoke to yet another round of bombardment. In every alley, tents…
TEHRAN, Jun. 26 (MNA) – The Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has asked his Azeri counterpart Ilham Aliyev to investigate the possibility of using Azerbaijani soil by Israeli drones during recent aggression on Iran.
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Billionaire Bill Ackman and his rich friends want someone, anyone, to bring down Zohran Mamdani. Their pitch: take our money, it won’t be much time and energy, and maybe you’ll get famous enough to use the campaign as a stepping stone to higher offic…
US President Donald Trump called for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial to be cancelled, calling it a “ridiculous Witch Hunt”, in an unprecedented intervention into Israel’s domestic affairs.
Climate campaigners turned out on Wednesday in London to occupy the lobby of UK-based communications giant WPP, demanding that the company stop working for the fossil fuel industry.
Gaza's Health Ministry said Thursday that Israeli attacks killed 103 Palestinians and wounded 219 over the previous 24-hour period as US-backed Israeli strikes ramped up across the Strip over the past day.
@aral Yes, if you're ok working within the constraints. Some features are just missing like suspend, and you've got the very small screen and ortholinear keyboard. I think it's a great niche device, very capable for a certain type of person
Una razón más para NO comprar en #Amazon. Apoya a tu librería de barrio. El Ministerio de Cultura y Correos firman un convenio para favorecer el comercio de las librerías de proximidad
28/05/2025 El acuerdo incluye grandes descuentos en el coste de los envíos, que habitualmente Correos reserva a grandes clientes y ahora ofrecerá también a librerías El objetivo del convenio es mejorar la competitividad de las pequeñas librerías, impulsando sus ventas online y ampliando su red de distribución
That randomly reminds me of a random post I saw on that other site years ago, goes something like this...
'Get 4 pigs, and paint them with numbers 1, 2, 3, and 5. Then let them loose in Walmart, and after they catch those 4, sit back and watch them look for #4...'
I miss working the pit. No customer interaction, I knew what filter and where as the car rolled in, and it was smooth. I do not miss the little burns, and being covered in oil and sweat, and the occasional smashed hand from the diff plate bolt suddenly coming loose.
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