CeeBee_Eh
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- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
looking at things i think i meamt Only Office. Any opinions there?
If I remember correctly, Only Office uses LibreOffice as its core and then adds or changes default stuff. I might be wrong about that. But ultimately I hear positive things about Only Office.
The hosting is on my old desktop which is running server 2016. I’d like to replace the OS on it too. I don’t keep the box online so I’m not keen on using it for anything other than game servers.
Sounds like a perfect situation for loading something like Proxmox and then visualizing the Windows Server 2016 instance. You would basically have the exact same functionality but with way more options like cloning and backing up the server.
Appreciate you not going aggro on me over it.
No worries at all. I think the automatic defensiveness from Linux people comes from old misconceptions being repeated often. Or sometimes it comes from how something is read and interpreted. Someone might say “I can’t switch because I need XYZ”, to which a very literal response is “you can use ABC which does the same thing, so you can switch”. When what the first person meant is “I can’t switch because I prefer XYZ”, which is a completely valid reason.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
I wasn’t going to berate you or anything. I was genuinely curious.
I am going to be trying out libreoffice and OpenOffice
LibreOffice is great. I use it on my work system at a medium to larger sized company (every single other person uses o365). I haven’t heard anyone complain yet about doc comparability and I haven’t had any issues myself.
Stay away from OpenOffice. It’s practically a dead product. When Oracle bought OpenOffice, the community forked the project which became LibreOffice. LibreOffice is where all the development and community focus and effort has gone since.
OneNote is my second most vital
I don’t have any recommendations here. I’ve never really found a “perfect” solution for this. Currently I use a few different solutions, but it’s all centred around markdown, so they’re all interchangeable.
OneDrive is probably my most vital.
I personally wouldn’t touch OneDrive with a hundred meter pole. MS does so much screwing around with your data that you can never be sure if the data stored is what you uploaded. They’ve been known to just up and delete files they scan and think is malicious, even if it’s a false positive. Then they’re known to scan all your documents for everything, including potential passwords, then use those passwords to open password-protected files and then scan them also.
Then there’s the situation from a year or so ago where they automatically switched everyone’s documents folder to a “cloud first” folder, where they just auto-uploaded everyone’s local files, deleted the local copies, and did it all without user consent or even informing users. And this resulted in all kinds of wild crap like people not having access to their documents because they were offline and were expecting local files. Then some people had their metered data connection getting maxed out. While others couldn’t even modify their files or even save a file to their “My Documents” folder because the default storage allocation was far less than the total data of their local files. So effectively the data was held for ransom.
it’s mostly running dedicated game servers that have no Linux option.
Most newer games that you can run your own dedicated server will almost certainly have a Linux option, which suggests you might taking about older games, in which case something like Lutris (Wine) might be an option.
But are you hosting these game servers on your desktop?
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
I have an Mvidia card (drivers are notoriously troublesome on Linux).
They haven’t been for a while now. On some newer distros they’ll install the Nvidia drivers at the same time as the OS itself.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
Nvidia GPUs are not good in Linux at the moment
They’ve been perfectly fine for years. And now they’ve never been better for desktop DEs.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
What kind of things are holding you back?
- Comment on Why Chrome only? 2 weeks ago:
If I can’t control something 100% local, I don’t buy it. If it requires an online account in any way, it’s trash.
- Comment on Why Chrome only? 2 weeks ago:
Oh man, that’s bogus. That’s for sharing that.
- Comment on Why Chrome only? 2 weeks ago:
Wait, what exactly does Ecobee require chrome for? I was looking to replace my Nest thermostat with an Ecobee.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 4 weeks ago:
It was a sarcastic jab. I don’t agree with software piracy in general, that’s all.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 4 weeks ago:
You can run into some issues with missing features, for which you’ll have to manually hunt down what’s missing and manually install it.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 4 weeks ago:
isthereanydeal com
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 4 weeks ago:
Oh no! Your pirated game isn’t working properly! Let’s blame the OS!
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 4 weeks ago:
As much as I dislike Windows, it’s incredibly uncommon for it to blue screen unless there’s some kind of hardware fault. And if it’s happening in Linux too, you’ve got bad/dying hardware.
In Linux, if your system is hanging for a bit then coming back, then it’s probably a drying hard drive.
One thing you can check with is Burn In Test on Windows. It will stress all the individual components and tell you what’s failing.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 4 weeks ago:
I’ll use the crappy Win11 lappy just for MS office
LibreOffice works very well. I use it often in a company that uses Office exclusively, and I’ve never had a compatibility issue.
- Comment on Gemini wont talk about Bernie Sanders 2 months ago:
While I mostly agree, I have used LLMs to help me find some truly obscure stuff or things a normal web search would take a long time to sift through a lot of sources that are too generalized. An LLM can give you the exact thing from a more generic search, then I can take that specific output to find the detailed source.
- Comment on Gemini wont talk about Bernie Sanders 2 months ago:
Now ask DeepSeek about Tiananmen Square
- Comment on Exogate Initiative, a "Stargate Command" basebuilder and management game, released on Steam 2 months ago:
Before you ask, the creators were threatened into oblivion. You MIGHT be able to find an installer out there somewhere.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 2 months ago:
Yuzutu?
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 3 months ago:
While this seems like a trivial issue (Just buy a third SSD for Windows and dual boot)
That’s not trivial at all. Don’t let anyone let you think otherwise.
- Comment on I can't imagine being paid to act like I enjoy working in the office 4 months ago:
Ya, I got all 12 of them.
- Comment on I can't imagine being paid to act like I enjoy working in the office 4 months ago:
Sounds like a bad case of the Mondays
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Update Kills Star Wars Outlaws, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and Other Ubisoft Games 4 months ago:
Consoles don’t use antichrist
- Comment on So begins the great smart bulb saga! 5 months ago:
Home assistant is the only/best option
- Comment on Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey 5 months ago:
Dunno. I don’t live there.
- Comment on Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey 5 months ago:
Over 15% marketshare in India
- Comment on Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey 5 months ago:
~35 million concurrent active users.
- Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” 7 months ago:
Bad argument.
It would hold water if their solution was proprietary and closed source. But it isn’t, and anyone else, literally anyone, can take Proton and use it in their project for profit.
Even if they closed shop tomorrow, or even just gave up work on Proton itself, we’d all still reap the benefits at no cost to us.
- Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” 7 months ago:
Epic has exclusivity on release
Wait, really? It’s officially off my list now. Screw those guys.
- Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” 7 months ago:
Find me another company that supports open source and Linux the way Valve does… I’ll wait
- Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” 7 months ago:
No digital game store is worth your loyalty.
When that store is run by a company that contributes massively to open source and works harder and puts more money into enabling alternate platforms for gaming than all other companies combined; ya, they have my loyalty.