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I suppose an upgrade process might struggle with certain customizations made by the user, but I honestly don't have a lot of experience upgrading Mint versions. My wife's been on Mint since 2017 now, that's about it. Whether or not we can get a third dose depends on what our government decides...

My wife's computer has been running Mint 20.2 since it released. We also just performed an update, not a clean install. Everything has been working fine on her computer ever since the upgrade. Firefox did change the graphical interface, but I have not been following along with FF myself so I...

If you want to figure out why, just launch them from a terminal. Post the output here if you'd like some help. Some tips: Always keep Arch updated, older package versions are not kept in Arch repos so trying to install a package when it's a long time since last update will most likely result in...

I do remember trying out this, I just don't remember if it worked specifically for Blood Dragon. Most likely it did, since I seem to recall setting the Steam launch option for the game.

I've had a Ryzen Threadripper for well over a year now, no issues at all with the CPU. The only problem I encountered was with Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon, which simply can't run when you have too many CPU Threads (I have 32), so I just disable half of my threads when I play that game. I do...

Since this is cloud storage, essentially putting my private files on another computer somewhere else in the world, and I have no idea who has access to it, I ensure to use strong encryption. My program use the gpgme library, which use GPG directly. GPG is well known for high quality encryption...

There is already a Python package for interfacing with Google Drive, so it would be possible to implement that without too much trouble, if you'd actually be interested in that feature. The Google drive price is comparable to AWS Glacier storage, if you were to actually have 2TB stored. AWS...

I've had a little pet project I've been mostly thinking about, and then lately actually working on. I'm a little obsessed with backups. I do frequently backup all my stuff onto an external hard drive. But my inherent paranoia has caused me to push for off-site backups. I could always just put...

I've also always been a PC gamer, ever since I was a kid. But I do have a great fondness for the Legend of Zelda series, which are the only games I use the emulators for. I use emulators for N64 and GC primarily. I even played the Zelda Wii game (Skywards Sword), even got myself a Wii controller...

Recently I've been playing The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker emulated with Dolphin-emu. It's not the first time I've done it, but this time I decided to check if it was possible to experience the full game. On the Nintendo GameCube, you could actually connect a GameBoy Advance into a...

Yeah you are right. I had forgotten about that, must have been a few years ago.

I love these games so much! Have you tried the actual co-op mode in Portal 2?

I read a bit more about the graphics on the Deck, it's apparently the same type used on PS5 and XBOX Series X, just scaled down. The lower resolution probably helps to get games running smoothly, and I can't speak for the other games, but you could probably run Doom Eternal smoothly on a...

From what I could read, it's using a c ustom AMD APU, I assume that is with integrated graphics. All newer AMD graphics (roughly 2016 and newer if I remember correctly) use the open source amdgpu driver, which is working perfectly. The monitor on the deck is 1280 x 800, this is not a demanding...

I was not aware that SteamOS 3.0 is Arch-based. The previous versions were based on Debian. I would not say that it "runs" Arch, since it's just a derivative. I am assuming they run their own software repos with well tested software versions. But if it uses pacman as the package manager, well...

Older AMD/ATI GPU's are not exactly great on Linux. The newer AMDGPU driver does not support that old cards, so you are essentially stuck with the older open source radeon driver, which is STILL lacking in features for many old GPUs. To put it blunt, you don't stand a chance to have comparable...

I just replayed Doom Eternal, with the Ancien Gods DLC, and there is one particular level that I just love. The intro to the level is some of the most awesome moments in the game. I highly suggest watching it with either good headphones or proper speakers.

That is the official way to do it. Although you don't HAVE to use git, you can also just browse aur.archlinux.org, find what you are looking for, "Download snapshot". Unpack it it with tar, cd into the dir and run makepkg. If you are going to install other packages from the AUR, ensure you have...

Chrome or Chromium? Chromium is in the official repos and installable with a simple pacman command. Chrome can be found in the AUR, which it a bit more involved to install. I don't remember if I mentioned this, but stay away from "AUR Helpers", most of them are poorly written, while also doing...

I have a normal EFI partition that I boot from, so that's no problem. I actually use self-signed kernel+initrd images that I boot directly with no bootloader. This way I can have secure boot enabled with no hassle. Not that secure boot actually provide much in terms of security, I just did it...