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Which is better: Gran Turismo or Ridge Racer? (PS1)
  • They're very different racers. One is arcade racing, drifting fun perfected, the other is an incredibly fun racing career and car collecting simulator (still not an actual simulator, but physics at least resemble the real world)

    I say play both GT2 and RR Type 4 and see which one you like better. Alongside Wip3out I'd say these are the absolute BEST racing games of the console.

  • Nintendo and Pokémon are suing Palworld maker Pocketpair
  • Yeah except Palworld has joined Sony for their multimedia franchise, so potentially they can get a lot of monetary and legal support from that. Nintendo took way too long to actually do this frivolous lawsuit.

    Let them fight.

  • Arch user trying out lightweight desktop environments
  • Update: I checked last night and I already had the plasma-integration package installed this whole time. I'm stumped.

  • Arch user trying out lightweight desktop environments
  • Alright, thanks for that. I'll take a closer look later today when I'm at the PC, but the plan today is to try out different minimal environments to see what I like. And this time I actually remembered to make a Timeshift snapshot ahead of time (my latest one was like a couple of weeks ago)

  • Arch user trying out lightweight desktop environments
  • I've been hearing good things about it, makes me wanna try it.

  • Arch user trying out lightweight desktop environments
  • This laptop does have a dedicated GPU and was quite decent for the time. It was my only gaming machine for quite some years. Now I want to keep it alive with Linux for other general uses or work. Said dedicated GPU has been the source of many issues even when it still was under issues. The setup of Intel i5 with integrated graphics + an AMD Radeon GPU is uh... shaky under most driver circumstances and applications never know which of the two to use (usually defaulting to the wrong one)

    I've been running Wayland to "get used to" the newer technology, and I don't think that in itself has much impact on performance... Even if I do turn off the effects on KDE, I still feel like it's doing way way more than I need or want it to do, and it does have a very noticeable impact on the speed things happen. Slightly slower than Cinnamon was, although both are also still way faster than it's last Windows install... lol

    Right now the main "problem" I have is that KDE is handling a few things I want it to handle, and that there's a lot of applications I installed alongside it that I'd have to remove to swap fully to another DE. Almost makes me think it'd be easier to do another clean Arch install, but that took me almost a week to fully set up. (as I'd start to find the things that I hadn't yet configured or installed gradually)

  • Arch user trying out lightweight desktop environments
  • Incredible. I have never even heard of a Kirigami, and here I only thought I had to worry about if applications were Qt (which version) or GTK (also which version) and running under Xorg or Wayland. What the hell is a Kirigami. Well, thanks for the heads up. Such are the joys of being a Linux user!

  • Arch user trying out lightweight desktop environments
  • I did like the Openbox part of LXQt. Might re-install that.

  • Arch user trying out lightweight desktop environments

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/28037255

    > Hey hey people. Relatively new Arch user here, but not new to Linux in general. I've been using Arch with KDE Plasma on this HP laptop from 2013, and I've been enjoying it a lot after spending a long time on Mint/Cinnamon. > > But, I've noted that KDE is a bit slow on this machine, and is probably a bit too much. Earlier today, I decided to try out something lighter, and installed LXQt on it as a second DE. The experience was okay, with much improved responsiveness, a nice customizable retro look, and overall simpleness that still did the job mostly. But I also ran into a few issues that probably had to do with having two different DEs on the same machine and user. One thing in particular ended up annoying me so much I went back to KDE: The Discover app would just refuse to play nice with setting a dark theme on the rest of the environment, even when I tried setting it up with qt6ct. > > So now I'm considering going to XFCE instead, as I probably should have done from the beginning. I just wish it had Wayland support already (I know it's being worked on). Do you have any suggestions or tips for me in regards to this? I'm sure a lot of people will recommend their favorite tiling WM which I'm not sure I want to get into. > > > Also, other than that, upon returning to KDE, I found that my Discover would crash when trying to update Flatpaks (the only thing I install through it) and started thinking this experiment somehow broke it.... but it's Flatpak itself that seems to have an issue today. Might have to do with the latest curl update? Dunno if I should make a separate thread for that. > https://discuss.kde.org/t/kde-discover-broken-with-latest-curl-update/21475

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    Arch user trying out lightweight desktop environments

    Hey hey people. Relatively new Arch user here, but not new to Linux in general. I've been using Arch with KDE Plasma on this HP laptop from 2013, and I've been enjoying it a lot after spending a long time on Mint/Cinnamon.

    But, I've noted that KDE is a bit slow on this machine, and is probably a bit too much. Earlier today, I decided to try out something lighter, and installed LXQt on it as a second DE. The experience was okay, with much improved responsiveness, a nice customizable retro look, and overall simpleness that still did the job mostly. But I also ran into a few issues that probably had to do with having two different DEs on the same machine and user. One thing in particular ended up annoying me so much I went back to KDE: The Discover app would just refuse to play nice with setting a dark theme on the rest of the environment, even when I tried setting it up with qt6ct.

    So now I'm considering going to XFCE instead, as I probably should have done from the beginning. I just wish it had Wayland support already (I know it's being worked on). Do you have any suggestions or tips for me in regards to this? I'm sure a lot of people will recommend their favorite tiling WM which I'm not sure I want to get into.

    Also, other than that, upon returning to KDE, I found that my Discover would crash when trying to update Flatpaks (the only thing I install through it) and started thinking this experiment somehow broke it.... but it's Flatpak itself that seems to have an issue today. Might have to do with the latest curl update? Dunno if I should make a separate thread for that. https://discuss.kde.org/t/kde-discover-broken-with-latest-curl-update/21475

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    Highly enjoyable things require concentration too
  • Fuck. This is me with music production about a month ago. I produced exactly 5 seconds of music trying to learn it after several days of endlessly learning about it.

  • Snap out of it
  • They've been doing snaps for a few years already so it already seems like they're keeping up with this bullshit (in fact they're putting more and more stuff there) It's already the reason people stopped recommending Ubuntu to new users and instead go for Mint or Pop!OS

  • What are your favorite racing games?
  • It's amazing that it's still the best rally sim to this day. This game is old enough to drink in the States.

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    you can't do me like this
  • welp, guess I'm keeping this thread open for tomorrow morning when I get to fixing this. Hopefully by then things will be more fixed upstream...

  • I have been getting into emulation (discussion)
  • Hm. Maybe I'll do it, then. Don't know if I got the patience to admin a community but I am an emulation enthusiast.

  • I have been getting into emulation (discussion)
  • Welcome! Emulation is probably my favorite method of gaming nowadays, giving me access to most of the classics of gaming from over 20 years of history all at once. If you have a decent computer you get get everything up to the PS3 generation easily, and a less powerful one or a phone can go up to the PS2 or PS1 gens, still giving you plenty of gaming options. I have found so many games and genres I would normally not get into, by trying them out via emulation. Arcade games, especially. I love arcade shmups of the 90's and early 2000s.

    there is an emulation community on lemmy.ml and another at lemmy.world but I would understand if you don't want to interact with those. I am kinda surprised dbzer0 doesn't have one.

  • The new Flappy Bird game has a hidden secret: crypto
  • Why am I not surprised.

  • Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown review - wasted potential [4/10]
  • Always online even in singleplayer is already a non-starter, but other than that (people literally not being able to play the game on release due to congested login servers) the driving is subpar, the city map looks nice but is empty like a ghost town, the driving is subpar, the soundtrack is terrible, the radio inserts sound AI generated, and progression seems bad too.

    Oh, and apparently this was the best they could do after several delays of over a year. I hear the entire dev team went on strike against their publisher immediately after release too. And to think they also trashed their last WRC title for this, too. Just an absolute drawn out shitshow.

  • Scrunkly Blorbo
  • Literally Talos from the Night Lords. He's my favorite war criminal and murderer. The books made him so likeable that the author had to make the character himself remind the others (and the reader) that he's evil, lol.

  • Unacceptable
  • You sure it isn't the finance and management guys leaving at 4pm and earlier while developers are expected to work past hours and even at home?

  • Games industry layoffs not the result of corporate greed and those affected should "drive an Uber", says ex-Sony president
  • And then when I say allbillionaires should be put into flaming woodchippers feet first I'm the one that's out of line.

  • Varyag Varyag @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Certified foxgirl enjoyer. Weeb, but hasn’t properly watched anime in ages. Gamer of incresingly niche subgenres. Aficionado of racecars, mechas, fighter jets, and any other vehicles you can think of. Lives in the wrong side of the planet compared to all my friends. Made way too many Fedi accounts

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