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Four days ago, I woke up, as I usually expect to after going to sleep and I turned on my really fucking awesome Archlinux gaming rig, hit the desktop and decide, hmmmm... I haven't updated in a while(a week), let's pacman -Syyuu and get up to speed. Well, I got up to speed and my favorite game, the best game of all time, Team Fortress 2

##FAILED TO LOAD! 🚒 🔥

In the imminent crisis-state that I had found myself in, I did what any filthy scout-main Archlinux user would do, I googled the problem and put the word arch in quotation marks.

The first five results yielded ancient bullshit useful to someone five years ago, probably. The next ten, redditors complaining about old tat. Then I did what any old wine veteran would do. I shut steam down and started it in the terminal so I could monitor its raging removed-fit in real time.

Team Fortress 2 failed to load because of lib32-libtcmalloc.so. Arch had updated it to a future version not yet even coded, and steam wasn't having it. The answer was on protondb all along! So, some fella says

The native version of tcmalloc introduced a bug on TF2 that it randomly crashes the game. You need to install lib32-gperftools (name of the Arch AUR package, other distros should have similar names) and add LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libtcmalloc.so %command% to your launch options to override the library.

et voila, I'm torturing 25/7 2fort.

Now, I know what you're thinking, who in their right mind would suggest Archlinux for a beginner? See, that's where I already caught you because this bug trickles all the way down to Garuda and Manjaro users too since they have the same libraries (and that fancy SteamOS that's floating around).

So while I love Linux and software freedom, I find suffering Linux on someone might be more suited to a person that actually wants it, and not to work through it to get to what they actually wanted to do.

I wanted to play Team Fortress 2, and I was rather irate about the last thing on my steam account that shouldn't work, not working all over me. This system has been a saint for six months, but when it's a devil, boy, is it.

Anyway, KDE is better than gnome! Thanks for reading!

LibreOffice 7.6 has reached 1.5 million downloads! in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I would've almost considered those downloads as reported in some way. Debain does queries into package use. Figured it might trickle down.

Can we please in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

If I don't eat beef, there's not much incentive to create better alternatives so that I don't.

LibreOffice 7.6 has reached 1.5 million downloads! in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 67 points 9 months ago

How much of that is just new users doing their 23rd Arch install?

FOSS version of google docs to run on a home server? in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Nextcloud needs a heaping helping of a disclaimer before anyone installs it.

Use the Docker or Podman images, they'll include most things a lot of first time users leave out that render Nextcloud buggy and inconsistent. It includes a cache, and about half of the security issues preconfigured out of the box.

Installing it native from a guide with zero explanation beyond "welp, there's the start page" as the final step really doesn't do much for people and there's a lot of guides out there like that for Nextcloud.

Nvidia will stop price gouging you for their cards and features when you stop buying them. in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I was hooked. It was the first time my PC felt as transparent and lie-free as notebook paper.

Like, there's nothing to hide because nothing is. It's pure, truthful freedom and that meant more to me than raw usability. I tried to do everything possible on Linux that i was told I couldn't do, hell, I ran Team Fortress 2 and Half Life in wine way pre-proton.

and it sucked, but it was cool tho!

Nvidia will stop price gouging you for their cards and features when you stop buying them. in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I used some Ubuntu derivative for recording shitty music me and my buddy made in a trailer. OSS off of a turtle beach soundcard with a hacked together driver, crammed into a shitty Windows Vista era desktop.

I felt like some sort of junk wizard.

I use arch these days, Garuda mainly. I've done the whole song and dance from Arch to Gentoo. I know the system, now I want to relax and let something I suck at, giving myself features be more in the hands of a catering staff of folks and the Garuda boys know how to pamper.

The dragons kinda... yeah, the art's kinda cringe but damn, this is the definition of fully featured.

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Nvidia will stop price gouging you for their cards and features when you stop buying them. (lemmy.one)

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Sorry if I'm not the first to bring this up. It seems like a simple enough solution.