I use MPV as movie and general media player with my custom config as well as auto-crop and URI copy/paste scripts. It works better than any other media player I tried in the last 10 years. I only use VLC for DVD menus, but it sucks even at that task, because the cursor gets stuck and the menus lag even when playing from SSD folder.

I use Tauon Music Box as music player because of its design, easy playlist/library customizability and Jellyfin integration. I also pay for spotify and use spicetify with custom skins if the songs are available there.

Kröhnkite as real auto-tiling solution with KDE Plasma.

But I’m on Arch btw., so there is not much default software apart from what the KDE meta packages contain.

It uses amazingly low resources while gaming. Never had such a thing on Windows back then.

Yeah, me too.

I implemented Duplicati as a fast, easy and adaptable backup solution at my workplace. It’s itself running as a docker stack on every node in the swarm. Even migration to new servers is possible, because it can restore file permissions and ownership too. Just give it access to either the volumes path of the host or just the whole host file system.

Can be accessed via web interface, password protected. I actually recommend the image by the linuxserver community instead of the “official” for a simple, no-config deployment that starts up in seconds. Just add a data volume and your host bind in your compose file and that’s pretty much it.

A good power supply by a well-known brand instead of the cheapest. Because if it blows up, all other PC components are in danger of breaking and this can result in data loss.

Pirating of otherwise unavailable media.

It is still my favorite game ever, regarding story, world-building, characters, music, graphics, quests and overall gameplay.

But it’s a bit weak on combat mechanics, there I prefer Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3.

Well, probably depends on the tools used to uncompress and compress the files. Some old releases just unpack hundreds of GB without stopping.

Use Bottles with the Sandbox option enabled (and sound enabled). So, native performance but without access to files outside the Wine prefix (virtual Windows folder where the game is installed) and without network access. This way, you don’t have to worry about games phoning home, containing a crypto miner or ransomware.

Also, forget about FitGirl repacks on Linux, most don’t unpack correctly.

I’m using both Boost apps, Boost for Reddit and Boost for Lemmy. This way, I can only differentiate the networks by their post quality.

Reddit is bad to mediocre, full of memes and karma farming

Lemmy has few posts, but feels closer to the user

https://open.spotify.com/album/5ICMbdehxjmtr9BDWkVtys

Change is always hard, be it Windows 7 to Windows 10 or 11. The German company Tuxedo Computers has pretty nice Linux laptops for beginners and professionals, this is what made the change easier for my parents: http://tuxedocomputers.com/ They even offer RTX 4090 custom laptop builds, but for the screens they still have no OLED option when I looked the last time.

Bibata Modern: https://github.com/ful1e5/Bibata_Cursor

I’m so hyped!

This would be terrible, because any website could potentially make you a seeder for „illegal“ content while normally browsing the web without a VPN. Meaning, your real IP address may accidentally be recorded by some lawerers and you’ll get a fine for whatever you accidentally shared (very dangerous, depending on country).

There are already solutions for webtorrents, but at least these scripts can be blocked.

Thanks, it worked! I enabled HDR before and never had any problems with it on NVIDIA with the latest 560 driver.

Easily the scariest was „Amnesia: The Dark Descen“ (2010).

Beborn Beton – Truth (Album)

All seems well after a reboot. I was asleep the last few hours. ;)

It does, but since I used Plasma 5 before, there are some old files scattered around in my home folder.