Post smarmy assholes you find when searching for tech questions

[Totally Awesome]

Me: How do I set Steam to actually shut down when I click the X button?

NPCS:

Why would you even need to do that? You can just right click the Steam icon and click Exit Steam, but it's better to just leave Steam running and let all the games update.

Fuck you man. I just wanted Steam to not pretend to exit when it's really running in the background. It's disingenuous.

 

[Stasi]

I had Manjaro on my laptop for a bit about a year ago until an update completely borked XFCE and it was only booting into the command line interface.

I was not the only one having this issue and one of the responses in a help thread I found was "Well everyone knows that you should only update through the terminal, really you broke the system through the update manager". Why the fuck does this thing have a GUI update manager then if you are not supposed to use it? I just gave up and reinstalled Mint.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

I had Manjaro on my laptop for a bit about a year ago until an update completely borked XFCE and it was only booting into the command line interface.

I was not the only one having this issue and one of the responses in a help thread I found was "Well everyone knows that you should only update through the terminal, really you broke the system through the update manager". Why the fuck does this thing have a GUI update manager then if you are not supposed to use it? I just gave up and reinstalled Mint.

Linux fags are the worst.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

The early Hitman games are notoriously difficult to run on modern hardware. The issue stems from the game running at way too high framerates which causes it to break. There are ways to fix this, such as NvidiaInspector for Nvidia users to limit the framerate to something that works, but even this isn't a foolproof solution.

Yet this doesn't stop assholes from bragging about how it's not a real issue at all and it's only the users who can't put the time in to figure out how it's supposed to work.

Thankfully this guy got his shit pushed in by another user.

 

[MAPK phosphatase]

Linux fags are the worst.

I'm a Linux fag and I can verify this is true.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

The early Hitman games are notoriously difficult to run on modern hardware. The issue stems from the game running at way too high framerates which causes it to break. There are ways to fix this, such as NvidiaInspector for Nvidia users to limit the framerate to something that works, but even this isn't a foolproof solution.

Yet this doesn't stop assholes from bragging about how it's not a real issue at all and it's only the users who can't put the time in to figure out how it's supposed to work.

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Thankfully this guy got his shit pushed in by another user.

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Me being a smarmy asshole online: restrict the game to one thread/core. Old games using RTDSC freak out, they're expecting a single core cycle count to keep time while being bounced around by the windows scheduler on many-core systems.

 

[instythot]

I had Manjaro on my laptop for a bit about a year ago until an update completely borked XFCE and it was only booting into the command line interface.

I was not the only one having this issue and one of the responses in a help thread I found was "Well everyone knows that you should only update through the terminal, really you broke the system through the update manager". Why the fuck does this thing have a GUI update manager then if you are not supposed to use it? I just gave up and reinstalled Mint.

Oh god. The mint forums/support are just awful. Well, Linux in general.

I have a netbook with Mint on it. Mint 18 booted just fine in a matter of seconds, Mint 19 took upwards of 5 minutes to get to desktop. The "support" is a bunch of people critiquing netbook hardware and saying "just be happy it runs, it would be worse with micro$oft". Fuck that, everything worked fine on version back, what did Mint change?

Turns out the problem is Mint 19 boots incredibly slowly on UEFI motherboards (at least mine) if you installed it under legacy mode. God forbid anyone actually gives you a useful suggestion or insight. The entire open source community approaches support with the assumption that the user or their hardware is the problem

 

[Stasi]

Oh god. The mint forums/support are just awful. Well, Linux in general.

I have a netbook with Mint on it. Mint 18 booted just fine in a matter of seconds, Mint 19 took upwards of 5 minutes to get to desktop. The "support" is a bunch of people critiquing netbook hardware and saying "just be happy it runs, it would be worse with micro$oft". Fuck that, everything worked fine on version back, what did Mint change?

Turns out the problem is Mint 19 boots incredibly slowly on UEFI motherboards (at least mine) if you installed it under legacy mode. God forbid anyone actually gives you a useful suggestion or insight. The entire open source community approaches support with the assumption that the user or their hardware is the problem

Yep, linux communities are a hotbed of smug self important assholes.

Saw this recently and might be of interest to you, British computer nerd man tests various distros on a netbook. Bionicpup seems to run well even on a potato (I've never tried it though)

 

[instythot]

Yep, linux communities are a hotbed of smug self important assholes.

Saw this recently and might be of interest to you, British computer nerd man tests various distros on a netbook. Bionicpup seems to run well even on a potato (I've never tried it though)

Honestly, Mint 19 and 20 installed with correct UEFI settings in the BIOS are really nice even with cinnamon and some desklets running as wm on my low end netbook. They just need to maybe include something in the installer along the lines of "we notice your motherboard supports UEFI, but you haven't enabled it. We recommend that you do, Mint fully supports UEFI" so you never have to look for forum support

I might try out BP just to see if it has a lighter resource footprint, but I found that most of those "ultra light" distributions omitted basic things like proper Wi-Fi detection and setup. Is BP a fork of puppylinux?

 

[byuu]

The early Hitman games are notoriously difficult to run on modern hardware. The issue stems from the game running at way too high framerates which causes it to break. There are ways to fix this, such as NvidiaInspector for Nvidia users to limit the framerate to something that works, but even this isn't a foolproof solution.

Yet this doesn't stop assholes from bragging about how it's not a real issue at all and it's only the users who can't put the time in to figure out how it's supposed to work.

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Thankfully this guy got his shit pushed in by another user.

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Have you tried the GOG version? They take a lot more care that the games run on modern Windows than the crapshoot that is Steam.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Have you tried the GOG version? They take a lot more care that the games run on modern Windows than the crapshoot that is Steam.

I have the GOG version. The Steam thread is what shows up when I try to look up how to get it running.

 

[Stasi]

Is BP a fork of puppylinux?

Its a version of puppylinux yeh (dont know if its technically a fork). I messed around with puppy briefly years ago on an eee pc, was fun but a bit rough around the edges, like you said the light distros do trim a lot, sometimes stuff you actually need. I imagine its probably improved over the years.

 

[ditto]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22385189/add-files-to-vfat-image-without-mounting

Q: I want to create a new VFAT image and add a few files to it without mounting the image.
A: Use mcopy provided by GNU mtools.

Asshole answer:

 

[Jean Lafitte 1812]

At least a net 9 people thought he was a retard. I find this kind of stuff so much worse when it people think it's the correct answer.

@Duncan Hills Coffee I assume you've tried PC Gaming Wiki. Site is a godsend for getting old games to run. According to it you have to lock your CPU at a stable usage rate via power profiles because it expects a single CPU speed instead of a variable speed.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

At least a net 9 people thought he was a retard. I find this kind of stuff so much worse when it people think it's the correct answer.

@Duncan Hills Coffee I assume you've tried PC Gaming Wiki. Site is a godsend for getting old games to run. According to it you have to lock your CPU at a stable usage rate via power profiles because it expects a single CPU speed instead of a variable speed.

What's weird is that I've got the game working before using the NvidiaInspector method without needing to cap my CPU. But I uninstalled the game like an idiot because I thought, well if I got it running before I can get it running again, so now I'm back at square one. I have used this site before but I haven't seen this particular solution.

I'm gonna try this though, so thanks.

 

[Dick Justice]

here is what happend

also just build your own biggot

 

[Totally Awesome]

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It's hilarious that this long, pseudo intellectual post was made by a guy named Jurassic Fart 2. This is clearly a troll.

He also has a Steam level of 0.

 

[mr.moon1488]

Me: How do I set Steam to actually shut down when I click the X button?

NPCS: View attachment 1812826 Why would you even need to do that? You can just right click the Steam icon and click Exit Steam, but it's better to just leave Steam running and let all the games update.

Fuck you man. I just wanted Steam to not pretend to exit when it's really running in the background. It's disingenuous.

I've had to shut steam down and restart it a few times because it's locked up on me. The way I've always done it is by shutting it down with the task manager.

 

[Toolbox]

I've had to shut steam down and restart it a few times because it's locked up on me. The way I've always done it is by shutting it down with the task manager.

Steam's steadily performed worse for me over the years. It feels like it's more and more bloated every update.

 

[Totally Awesome]

I've had to shut steam down and restart it a few times because it's locked up on me. The way I've always done it is by shutting it down with the task manager.

Steam's steadily performed worse for me over the years. It feels like it's more and more bloated every update.

That's weird. Steam loads and runs pretty fast for me, and never crashes.

Epic Games Store, however, takes forever to load and constantly chugs my computer. I have to reset it just to fix it.