STOP TRYING TO INSTALL COPILOT
Might I entice you to try maybe a Linuc or two?
Why I switched to Fedora earlier this year,
I still technically dual boot with Windows, but I didnt boot it for months now,
The biggest stumbling block I had was gaming, but frankly it kinda is smooth sailing on Linux nowadays, I even got Escape from Tarkov to run on my machine, which wasnt really guaranteed, and I don’t have any problem using Steam (or GOG through Lutris)
I will probably just completely get rid of Windows in the future
also this will be useful
“How to install FitGirl or DODI Windows repacks in Linux using Lutris.”
I indeed made good use of this thread
i have been wondering if running vortex, the nexus mods client through Lutris would make getting those 2500 mod collections feasible again
it would mean that you’d need the game in the Lutris system too, otherwise it wont find the game though.You probably would need to run it in the same prefix as the game you’re trying to mod
It’s worth a shot at least
I’ve had better luck with MO2, though the replacement for Vortex will be linux native
MO2
yeah, but you can’t get the collections that are hosted on nexus. Would need to use the wabbajack lists and I don’t know if that works with linux either
Linux native vortex
yeah i saw that, hopefully it’ll be better than the current program is tbh, everything has been made so safe that you can’t configure things in easy ways anymore. Skyrim load order changing is a pain with all the rules that you have to place, instead of MO2 with just “click and drag”
I had an easier time getting fonv to run smoothe on Linux than I did on windows 8.
And 11’s compatibility is even worse.
Linux is the only option.
Not because FOSS is glorious and the most communist your computer can be without violating the DMCA. Though it is also that, and you can seed generously from a machine running Linux.
Not because Linux is much better lately. It is BTW.
Not because using a system that is designed intelligently and respects you as a fucking adult and might not always be easy to use, but won’t generally fight you, so solving problems feels collaborative rather than like youre a persecuted victim about to have everything you just learned and built crushed with the next patch feels really good and generally is an improving cool experience. Though, I mean, that should be enough on its own, right?
But because capitalism is in late stage decline and everything it touches is going to turn to shit and exploit you and surveil you and coerce you and infantipize the fuck out of you and you’ll have to get on your knees and crush yourself in terrible ways to check your fucking email or you’ll have to fight it tooth and nail every god damn inch fighting a different system each time you want to check your fucking email or see a naked picture of a hot person-even one they took for and sent to you directly.
Last time I tried Linux there was no native Google Drive application and none of the third party ones worked properly to sync my files. Has that changed at all?? Don’t tell me to stop using Google Drive I’m locked in for work
I have no clue; I don’t touch that corpo garbage, but if there’s not and yyou can’t, and wine doesn’t work:
Run a windows (or android? Android seems lighter) VM, give it no permissions it doesn’t need, sandbox the fuck out of it, then sync from there.
Edit: quick search reveals likeliest solutions are tied into the ux… Thingies, forget what they’re called. Like KDE and gnome. Try the one for yours; gnome and KDE generally have their shit together.
The constant tension between “Try Linux! It’s so easy” and a reply like this
I know this is mostly Google’s fault, but I just can’t switch if doing this is required to run a program I need to use daily
Youre married to a specific corpo shit thing that is shit and specifically does not support Linux, on purpose. Google is fighting you, they are making this hard. And your ux (probably gnome or KDE) is what looks like it has the solution here. Try that instead of acting like a libchild. Dual boot or whatever til you find a thing that works (windows updates gave been known to kill dual boots partitioned on same physical drive)
And the reason to switch isn’t because it’s ‘so easy’. I made a kind of linger post somewhere in this thread on it.
Like I said, I’m well aware this is mostly because Google refuses to make a Linux client. Also the UX solutions you mentioned are ones I’ve already looked at and they don’t actually sync the files, which is what I need. The one program (Insync) that actually seems to do this is not FOSS and costs $40 per account
And it looks like there are Linux tools that do what6ou want, integrated into at least the two major UX’s.
The constant tension between “Try Linux! It’s so easy” and a reply like this
Sorry, this made me have to hold back my laughter so much on the train that I repeatedly snorted. EVERY LINUX SOLUTION REPLY IS LIKE THIS.
Linux Gang 
my partner @[email protected] was last on windows 10, we finally got them a new laptop and they were so against windows 11 we installed linux and they’re taking to it so so well
like usually when i help someone install linux i am literally running tech support for 6 months
The past <5 years gave been so good for Linux usability.
Fucking right? I need to get better at linux. My mint install keeps crashing in weird ways but i haven’t cared enough to fix it.
I’m lucky in that almost all software i use that isn’t games is foss already.
Fucking “ai”
Hey what if you had a personal assistant who couldn’t do anything right and was always slpurnned out of their mind on halucinogens?
Hey what if you had a personal assistant who couldn’t do anything right and was always slpurnned out of their mind on halucinogens?
i’d be okay with this if they were human tbh
Okay but they also inform on you to literally every fed agency billionaire and corporation, and everything they bring you that isn’t ‘put glue on pizza’ was an ad.
Ubuntu is nice. I had mint on my desktop, but I just like Ubuntu way better. I find Ubuntu to be the Windows of Linux, without all of the spyware/malware shit. It’s the most popular, it’s kept up to date, and it works out of the box.
I’m typing this on Ubuntu from a Windows Surface Laptop Go. This little ultrabook is hella cursed and it just… worked. Ironically, the 5 minutes I used windows 11 on this thing were chugging like hell. This is an Ubuntu only device now.
I havent had Mint, but can strongly recommend ZorinOS. It’s really polished and they have an Android App (works on GrapheneOS) which makes it an even nicer experience. I only dual boot into windows just for FLStudio. Everything else works pretty nicely and been using it now for 1-2 yrs
And also was snitching on you to literally every corporation and all your least favorite governments! Also maybe some of the ones you like, if you like any and have great access.
Hi :-)
We installed an update while you were asleep. Do you want to upgrade to Windows 11? How about sign in to your Microsoft account? Oh, I see, well we turned all of the ads and tracking back on so have fun finding the settings page to turn them off again!buried in a microsoft support forum post somewhere:
we also moved where that settings page is. enjoy
I haven’t even read the comments am I’m 100% sure it’s been flooded by the illinuxati being like “hah, you use a WINDOWS?”
I recently switched to linux mint and have had no serious issues at all. In fact I like it more than windows and it isn’t full of crap and spyware
Are the volume and screen brightness as good quality? And does the Bluetooth work? These are issues that I had with Mint.
That probably depends on your specific hardware. You could always download a VM and try running Mint on that to check.
I personally have had no issues whatsoever with hardware.
using windows is basically like having a fed standing behind you at all times but also the fed likes to gossip with anyone that asks
but the most annoying part is that the fed is also trying to gossip with you while you’re trying to do shit on your computer
And gets in the way and fucks everything up if you misclick and select the little unremovable fed button instead of tgd thing you wanted to do. Also replaces random shit like your file explorer with the fed button sometimes.
Please, for your own sake and sanity, try Fedora. You can test drive it on a live disc.
Can I honestly ask why you choose Fedora over other distros? I have no sway either way because I’ve simply heard nothing in particular about Fedora in years. So, I’m curious why a Fedora user is a Fedora user.
It’s probably the most polished non-enterprise distro. I avoid anything based on Ubuntu like the plague, though.
Thanks for that perspective.
I’ve never been able to prove anything and I think there are still good people doing good work in their employ but I can’t help but feel like modern Canonical is an op to make desktop Linux worse.
The update tiers of “Ubuntu Pro” are really gross and probably the final nail in the coffin for me.
I’m one of those strange people who compiles all their own software and trusts nothing, but I still need to know what to recommend, y’know, sane people. I tried the Ubuntu variants out recentlyish on an unused machine and found myself making so many changes and finding packages surprisingly stale, I just I couldn’t recommend people switch to this… I guess I’ll give Fedora a whirl.
The Ubuntu release philosophy just never worked for me as someone that’s used to using up-to-date software. I don’t mind the little (sometimes big) issues that crop up. Then there’s the snap debacle, especially how they surreptitiously install snap versions of apps even when you use apt-install. I can’t trust software that lies to me. I use Arch but always recommend Fedora as that seems to be the best balance of stability and keeping current on drivers and software.
trust nothing
Meditations on trusting trust. You trust your compiler, unless you programmed something in an electrical diagram on paper then went down to a hardware store, paid in cash, and built it
I’m curious why a Fedora user is a Fedora user.
They’re a Fedora user because they use Fedora
ora postingI’ll let them answer. There are reasons to pick one package management team over another.
The packages get updates fairly quickly for a non-rolling release distro, and the distro is more batteries-included and tends to adopt newer technologies like BTRFS faster than other distros. It also has the immutable Silverblue variant which looks neat although I’ve never used it myself.
I’ve got a really powerful machine and the Debian kernel wasn’t compatible with my graphics card. Mint kind of felt like Windows but a crappier, older version. Fedora felt like something that is actually making a break away from stale old things. And, everything was just plug and play for me.
M’lady
to be fair they named it way before those people made fedoras cringe
It’s named that because Fedora is the community spinoff of Red Hat, which has a fedora in its logo.
Fuckers installed co-pilot on mine when I was away and now my laptop has “no available device” for audio out. Like there’s no option in settings for the speakers. Can’t even plug in an audio cord. Nothing. They broke my shit and installed AI
This would genuinely disrupt my business to a wild degree . Like cost me thouuuusands
I’m so glad I switched to Linux full-time years ago when Proton dropped.
Comrade, Were preparing to deploy W11 at work and I’m not excited by the prospect of attempting to gut all the bullshit found inside that monstrous turd of an operating system.
