Magnum, P.I.

Thomas Sullivan Magnum IV is a private investigator. He lives in the guesthouse of a 200-acre (81 ha) beachfront estate called Robin’s Nest, in Hawaii, at the invitation of its owner, Robin Masters. Ostensibly this is quid pro quo for Magnum’s services based upon his expertise

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Joined 6 months ago
Cake day: December 31st, 2025
  • Magnum, P.I.@infosec.pubtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.world•My gf doesn't really notice she plays on Linux or she just does not care.English
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    4 days ago

    No what I’m saying is that I literally help a couple people in my area jump to Linux and none of them have any trouble they didn’t already have before and in general they have less trouble. Everything works, there is literally nothing someone wants to get done what he or she can’t. We even got Cheat Engine up and running for this one guy because he really really wanted to use cheat tables instead of GameConquerer. And we have done it, it works and he can bow do it himself. But those are rare edge cases, most of the people and systems I kinda look over are happy and work fine.

    I mean to be fair, there was one attempt which failed because he was using some high end audio hardware which indeed just wasn’t supported for Linux, there were alternatives, but he already had his equipment so he went into the path of Win11 and debloating & running all those famous removal scripts but again, its an edge case and the only failed attempt

  • Magnum, P.I.@infosec.pubtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.world•My gf doesn't really notice she plays on Linux or she just does not care.English
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    4 days ago

    Unsupported LEGO mindstorm stuff seems to be a problem of the past https://www.ev3dev.org/ but even in the past, it was probably more a config problem.

    Never the less, you don’t lower your overall efficiency because one out of a hundred apps do not work correctly. You don’t even need to dual boot. You can just fire up QEMU with a Windows VM and use this app and shut it off afterwards. That also makes snapshot handling way easier.

    What I admit is, if you want to play a game, you can only use virtualization if you have a spare GPU you can pass through for hardware acceleration. Otherwise playing in a VM doesn’t make any sense. But on the same time I also have to say, WINE improved so so god damn much over the last 5 years. I am trying to get games to run with WINE since like 2005 or something and it was always painful and nothing from this side of the century worked…

    But now, even with the proton wrapper, everything just works tbh. I have a lot of games, different games, new games, old games, multiplayer games with anti cheat etc…

    Everything works on my machine. Now even my non-tech-friends are jumping this wagon, I now a handful of those people running Linux only for at least a year now and all of them are happy with it. I’m not saying that they couldn’t be happier, but they also sometimes overesitmate their Windows know-how, because in the end, most of their frustration comes from the fact, that they don’t know how to do certain things, but they actually didn’t know before either.

    They would fake read some stuff, download 3 things, randomly click on a lot of stuff, change some settings they don’t remember and when they fucked the poor rectangular prism enough, they called me to unfuck it and get done whatever they wanted in the first place. It wasn’t too different from what they are able to achieve now on their Linux machine. But I have one or two people, that gaslight themselves into believing that they knew more about the Windows Machine, didn’t fuck it up on a regular basis and did not need to call me in to fix it.

    I don’t know why they talk themselves into this fictional scenario, I don’t care, they are still on Linux, everything they want works and they already started customizing KDE to their liking.