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RealZero

Guess who started a game of Skyrim for the 30th or so time! 😁😅

But this time I'm playing on console and without any mods, for real this time!

Maybe I can finish it like that. 😅

The most important things are already done:

Giving money to the homeless and adopting a child.

If your game allows me to donate money to poor people and give children a better life, it'll immediately raise the chance of me buying it. 😁

#Skyrim#Gaming
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BadgerScot 🦡🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

It's been a Linux week. 😊

🐧 It started when I noticed Garuda Linux had updated to a new version, Broadwing, but had also released a new overall theme for the distro, called Mokka based on a theme called Catppuccin. Here on Sharkey I use a theme called Rosé Pine which is very similar, the same pastel lilac highlights, so it was a no-brainer to add the theme over my very pedestrian set-up!

🐧 I've done some defence of Linux Gaming this week, too, after a semi-interesting video led to some interesting conversation. The outdated myths and negativity around Linux are seemingly etched in stone at this point, I'm not sure what if anything will ever break through. I've been called a Liar simply for telling people I've been Gaming happily on the platform for two years, one guy even telling me he "still had to enter commands into Mint" to do so, whatever that meant. I installed two games yesterday through Steam. One 15 years old, the other from just 2023. Both were two clicks, one to install, another to play. Some people just can't accept it's that simple for any game on Linux. Wild.

🐧 Talking of Gaming, I've had an interesting catch-up with a piece of tech landing soon on Linux that might even improve the situation for many games still toiling with sub-par performance: NTSYNC, something thatwill help Linux more closely emulate some of the Windows APIs that games rely on. I came across this yesterday and it sounds amazing. It's not going to help every game but there are some extremely impressive numbers for a dozen of them doing the rounds. Everyone got excited about this back in January. Apparently it's being baked into Kernal 6.14 which is due in...oh, it released YESTERDAY. 😁 So now I'm waiting for that to percolate through my distro's repositories which should be in the next 24 hours or so. Once Proton updates I should, theoretically, start seeing some improvement in frame-rates. I'm excited to see this, much like I was waiting for Explicit Sync last year for Wayland.

#Linux #Garuda #Gaming

A screenshot of my Garuda Linux desktop with the Mokka theme applied. It restored the Apple MACbook style top-bar and bottom-middle Dock-bar (here seen replicated by KDE Plasma 6). The colouring is dark, velvety, with violet highlighting including a thick violet border around the active app window. The background is blurred (a new KDE blur app comes with the theme theme) but you can see an abstract swirl from top left to bottom middle, a swirling ribbon of colour from purple to blue to yellow and green.
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