Lot of people hating on Garuda here, but I have loved it. Hopefully it goes as smoothly for you as it has for me - it's been an absolute breath of fresh air. :)
Crozekiel
joined 1 year ago
What falls into "unknown"??
My biggest recommendation would be to stay away from Manjaro - they are trying to split the difference between a "long term stable" and a "rolling release" and it just doesn't seem to work out well long term. Your mileage may vary on that, but I found it to work well and liked it for a few months and then it would just become fubar after an update and I'd end up trying a re-install - rinse and repeat. It steered me away from Linux for a while.
Really, you can be happy on any distribution. Best advice I can give is try several of them. Look into "Ventoy", which lets you setup a single USB stick (probably want a big one) that you can drag and drop the iso files onto at will and then boot to live environments to try out several different distributions without constantly re-doing the USB stick. Then from there, pick the one you like the look and feel of the most.
I personally have had great luck on Garuda Linux, lots of gaming oriented stuff installed out of the box, and you have access to AUR (which is one of the best parts of Arch based linux), and there are GUI interfaces to manage most of the settings that work well. It has a comfortable level of "hand holding" without trying to restrict you a lot, imo.
I don't know how common it is anymore, but it definitely was a few years back. You knew a computer was infected with everything when you saw a stupid cartoon dinosaur or something as the mouse cursor as soon as the pc booted to windows... I think it was more about what was bundled in the download from scummy websites doing the damage though, not the actual cursor files. I still cringe though if I see a non-standard cursor in windows, like PTSD-esque flashbacks...
I'd bet it is a typo stating ddr5, not on the CPU model. 8GB sticks of ddr5 are rare enough to find as singles, and 4gb sticks basically don't exist - makes more sense if it is a DDR3 system. Plus, the GT 730 is basically only barely a graphics card, a lot of them are Fermi based chips (like gt 400 series from 2010)... They are dirt cheap video output for a machine that otherwise wouldn't have any video out, but they get packaged by less than honest companies/people with other old hardware and marketed as "gaming computers" all the time unfortunately.
Ubuntu is not the limiting factor to this machine gaming, unfortunately. It is going to be choking itself on basically any games from the last 10 years :(
paypal's business model is basically theft. They regularly "freeze" accounts of people that have money to be taken, refuse to unfreeze them, and then when it eventually turns into a class-action lawsuit they settle for pennies on the dollar (that mostly goes to attorneys anyway). When it happened to me over 10 years ago, I was doing remote tech support and getting paid via paypal. Had a business account that was like 10 years of use. Then one day they froze the account and told me there was "suspicious activity".
When I appealed and asked what suspicious activity they found, they simply said that there was money in the account and there wasn't before... Then they asked for, specifically, ebay transaction IDs and UPS or Fedex tracking numbers for the products sold on ebay. I explained to them again that I was not selling on ebay and was doing remote tech support. The person on the other end of the phone just said "ok, well, then your appeal is denied. Your account is staying frozen" and hung up.
I ended up just refunding all the transactions that were recent enough I could (because that was the only thing I could do with the account) and sent those customers a note explaining briefly what happened and that I would rather have done the work for free than have done it so paypal can steal the money...
Eventually got tacked onto a class action and got a low double digit payout almost a decade after losing a few thousand...
Does it scare anyone else that our society seems to completely rely on there always being more people tomorrow than yesterday? It just isn't sustainable. There are too many people on this planet already, and we are seeing the effects of it worse every day...
I'd be interested to hear that. It seems significantly more likely that fan noise you are hearing under load is coming from the CPU and/or GPU fans, and will still be there after swapping the PSU.
That might make sense if they were posting pictures of PS1 era Lara Croft, but they aren't, they always use the newest examples... They would show a bigger gap in time passed if they used the dragonborn from the initial release of skyrim vs the newest remastered version.
I have a hard time believing that the PSU fan is the one you hear the most when pushing the system. They usually have pretty big fans in them so they can move a lot of air without crazy high RPM, similar to case fans. But your CPU and GPU on the other hand... usually smaller fans which means a lot more RPM to get the CFM needed to cool. Especially if you are using an Intel stock cooler... Stock CPU coolers SUCK.
That said, to answer your PSU question... You generally want to live around or under 80% of the rating of the PSU, as it is most efficient. Which typically is easy to do: based on quick calculations and making generous assumptions for your system, the PSU you have is likely enough (estimated true power draw of all your components mentioned is around 500w, likely just under. And that is assuming you are pegging every single component all at once, which is unlikely to happen through normal use. 500 / 0.8 = 625 or 620*0.8=496W).
My advice is filter down to brands you trust, and then look at modular units, and then buy the most wattage with a good 80+ rating that you can afford within the budget of the system you are trying to build.
"now now, calm down everyone. Let's see what the Orphan-Crushing Machine really does before we start getting upset. Just because it is fully capable of (and seems exclusively designed to) crush all orphans doesn't mean it is actually going to crush ALL the orphans. Probably just a few orphans really."
There is a reason Microsoft stopped caring a long time ago that it is so easy to install and use Windows without paying for a key. You can STILL use any old windows 7 key you have to active windows 10 and 11. You can use the OS nearly in it's entirety (as far as home users are concerned) without even doing that. It is because Windows is no longer Microsoft's biggest product, the user is.
I don't think that is accurate, as my companions OFTEN say they are "just so tired" when I still have BOTH short rests available... I swear sometimes they say it when everyone is full health, plenty of spells and barely have started the day. I also don't remember them basically ever saying it during act 1 and most of act 2, but that was around the time Patch 1 came out... I'm wondering if they added triggers for those lines to subtly convince people to spend more time in camp to progress some of the story - something to combat the fact that a lot of people seem to be missing lots of story by resting infrequently.