Linux ZeroHora • 3w ago • 93%

I freed another one from the iron grip of the bloated legacy of Billy G

My sister had a weird problem with Win 10 and needed me to format her notebook, a perfect opportunity to convert another soul. So I suggested installing Linux so she could try it out, she was hesitant but when I showed her some prints of Zorin OS and told her about KDE Connect she was much more inclined. After the installation I showed her the Gnome tour so she could learn the basics, connected her things, taught her how to install what she needed and let her do her own thing. One thing that is quite not normal for the average Windows user is that she learned to use the LibreOffice suite and other open source programs at school (cool as fuck), so she was quite comfortable with the new environment. She's quite pleased and I don't think she'll miss Windows, but that only time will tell.

Linux Gaming ZeroHora • 5mo ago • 100%

The Finals crashing Fedora 40

Since the lastest update on The finals we need to use Proton Experimental to avoid the anticheat randomly kicking Linux users, but since yesterday the game is crashing, sometimes in the menu. Sometimes the games launches and close automatically, with the lastest proton GE instead of Proton-experimental I had the following error: LowLevelFatalError [File:.\Runtime/RenderCore/Private/RenderingThread.cpp] [Line: 938] Rendering thread exception: Fatal error! Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION writing address 0x00007f0ab4997000 0x00006fffffb455ba msvcrt.dll!UnknownFunction [] 0x00006ffffdafc903 d3d11.dll!UnknownFunction [] 0x00006ffffd9baf3e d3d11.dll!UnknownFunction [] 0x00006ffffdaaf74b d3d11.dll!UnknownFunction [] 0x00006ffffdaae28f d3d11.dll!UnknownFunction [] 0x00000001441ee70c Discovery.exe!UnknownFunction [] With Proton Experimental the games crashs with a Wine error: `"!status && vkCreateComputePipelines"` My command args on steam: ` PROTON_USE_EAC_LINUX=1 PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 mangohud gamemoderun %COMMAND%` My PC are: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X (12) @ 3.700GHz GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX 6600 16GB RAM, Kernel: 6.8.9-300.fc40.x86_64 Anyone with a similar problem?

Linux Gaming ZeroHora • 12mo ago • 96%

Steam default save folder on wine prefix

I'm pretty much gaming on linux the entire year and most of the time using lutris or steam. Some days ago I used [Heroic Games Launcher](https://heroicgameslauncher.com/) and notice that the Documents folder from my linux machine was linked to the wine prefix heroic created for my game and my save/configs was nicely stored on my PC. I know that on steam the prefix is stored in .../steamapps/compatdata/, is that any option on steam or lutris to automatic set theses symlinks? Steam have the steam cloud to backup saves but is always nice to have alternatives. More details: My steam games is on a different disk of my linux so I don't know if the behaviour that I'm asking is the default and my disk configuration is messing something up.

Privacy ZeroHora • 1y ago • 98%

Cautionary tale about how the average person values private information

I don't know if this scenario is the norm or is related to most people but I was so baffled when I found that I have to post it. Here(Brazil) the most used app for communication is Whatsapp(first warning about low privacy concern) and a lot of people are members of cities/neighborhood/church groups, sometimes with hundreds of members. A coworker whose is part of said groups describe a common practice within the less tech savvy people: When finding a personal document(ID, credit card etc) they take photos of the document both sides without any censoring and spread to many groups as possible trying to find the owner... Some of this documents have all relevant information to open a bank account or access banking apps and I don't even thinking about what a more tech/professional person could do with some of these information. If they just ripped and thrown in the garbage was less harmful in any sense to the owner.