Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

Since the Kerbal franchise appears to have been murdered by corporate greed, I'm seriously considering trying to found an "Open Space Program" that would be designed to be open-source and moddable...

Okay, the one thing I really don't like about #Linux so far is that it absolutely refuses to save me from my own stupidity.

Write an infinite loop or stack overflow into your program by accident?

On Windows, the program hangs. You kill it with the task manager and fix the problem.

On Linux, you apparently have a very short window before the problem spreads and locks up the entire OS, requiring a reboot.

In general, the ability for individual apps to degrade the performance of the entire rest of the system unchecked is a real downer.

Damn. To make this work, I'll have to finally connect my Smart TV to the internet for the first time, almost 5 years after buying it.

Not sure I want to take that risk. I like my TV as it is, thoroughly disenshittified.

Ah, right, now I remember why I hooked up one of my monitors to my onboard graphics...

Because, despite the fact that my graphics card has 6 ports, it has a limit on 4 outputs for no apparent reason.

Linux doesn't seem to like outputting through both the onboard and PCI graphics simultaneously, but since the odd monitor out is a TV, I'm thinking maybe I can find a way to cast media to it without it counting as a proper monitor...

One of the saddest parts about trying to use #Linux is the number of replies to people seeking help for common problems that expressly say "Just rebuild everything".

Really conflicted on this Tesla bonus issue.

On the one hand, I don't want Musk to get $50B.

On the other hand, the company blowing $50B on something that only creates additional liabilities means I'm that much more likely to be able to exercise my put options.

Okay, now that I finally got it to install and I'm playing for some time, my assessment of #Fedora #Linux is, quite simply:
It's great, when it works.

Now, let's put Linux's famous configurability to the test by trying to get my unique weirdo keyboard layout to work properly (I use Programmer Dvorak, but I like it to revert to QWERTY when I hold the Ctrl key to make ergonomic choices for shortcuts (think, ctrl+z through ctrl+v) still work.)

Ouch... yeah, it's a problem when the error message can't even be rendered right... #Fedora

It's crazy that the entire drive to make "slimmer" rather than "sturdier" devices can probably be traced back to fashion designers refusing to give women reasonable pockets.

Posting this from #Fedora!!

Still a long way to go, but at least it should be good enough to test my game!

Okay, gonna give #Linux another shot today.

Last time I tried a couple weeks ago, it ended in unmitigated disaster after hours of trying. Let's hope this week goes better. I need to at least get a basic distro working so I can start testing Linux builds of game, even if I can't get it working well enough for day-to-day development.

I'm making a couple changes from last time I tried:

1) I'm simplifying my monitors. I normally have 5 monitors, operating from both the ports on the PCI GPU as well as the built-into-the-motherboard GPU ports. Windows was able to handle that with no problem, but I think it's an uncommon enough setup that it's making Linux choke. I think I can make it work with 4 monitors on just the dedicated GPU.

2) I'm trying more distros. Before I shut down Windows, I'll have 7 different labelled thumb drives: Linux #Mint, #ubuntu, #xubuntu, #PopOS, #Fedora, #EndeavorOS, and #OpenSUSE

Unfortunately, I can't currently switch from NVIDIA graphics cards because of a vendor requirement of one of my clients, so that's just a limitation I'll need to live with.

Here's hoping I can get it to work this time.