My SSD arrived as scheduled, and it’s even the correct one this time! I’ve been experimenting with a few things, even tried a newer version of Mint. I think I’ll stick with 18.3, and I’ll see if I can make some time to do another reinstall tomorrow… the hours really flew by. It was a good thing to focus on today though, it was too warm to really do much gaming. I’d continue but I have to do that work thing in the morning…
Linux Mint
Sunday Evening Open Thread: I’m still a nerd edition
I worked on and rendered another video using the Linux version of Shotcut today. I don’t know what it is, but to me the Linux version performs better for me than the Windows version, which itself isn’t bad by any means, but to me it seemed even snappier under Linux. I won’t uninstall it from Windows just in case I need it under there (you never know), but I have a feeling I’ll be using it under Linux more. Hooray for progress! :meeseeks:
Other than that there wasn’t much else to my day. It was a nice warm morning, followed by large gusts of wind that brought fog and cold weather by the late afternoon. I sat inside drinking tea, getting my computer work done and trying to feel better. I reinstalled DOOM 2016 on my desktop to test it with the newest version of Proton, and I can say that I now have mouse movement, but it feels a bit janky… I know I could do some tricks to get it to work, and I probably will in the future. But for now I think I’ll hold off and see if newer versions of Proton will remedy the issue. I’ve already beat the game once, and I’m already replaying it under Mint on my laptop with flying colors. I have plenty of other games that need testing. :v:
xfce doesn’t like forced shutdowns
Ran into a problem earlier under Mint; when I turned my monitors off and turned them back on I found the system didn’t really like that. I’m not sure if this is related to the mesa drivers or if it just doesn’t like monitors on Displayport being turned off, but this left me no choice but to do a forced shutdown, and when I returned to my xfce desktop environment I found that my panels were not wanting to show up unless I went under the xfce panel settings. I did a quick search for the problem and found someone had a similar issue under Xubuntu. So I’m going to post the command I used just in case someone else has this issue in the future (or if I forget and want a quick reference).
Right click on your desktop and open up a terminal, then type or paste the following command:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xfce4-panel
Log off and log back in, if your panels are still acting up you can try the other commands they suggest in the link I provided. This is kind of a weird bug, don’t remember this under CentOS 7 or any of the Fedora distros I’ve used in the past. Then again I’ve had quite a dramatic change in hardware as well as graphics drivers since then (Open Source vs Proprietary), hence why I’ve had to go with Mint 18.3 instead of CentOS… I’m not going back to Fedora unless some serious changes are made.
You can expect to see more Linux related postings again, in fact it’s been about three days since I last went into Windows 10. I’ve been having fun. :v: I might even make some Linux related videos. I’m not abandoning Windows 10 completely, but if I can get by on Linux with most of the programs I use under Windows everyday I figure why not? Even when I had other distros on my machines I always considered it a fun challenge to see how long I could go before booting back into Windows. My current game count under Linux at the moment is 162, and I haven’t even gotten started on DOSBox games and sourceports yet. :v: