Yeah, I found quite a few games that I had to go in and specify it re-download and use Proton because the Linux native build was borked.

Yeah, I tried audacious. But I use a lot of plugins to run weird formats, so it doesn’t cover my usage. Neither does VLC. I’m using Wine to listen to music for now… but not nearly as much as I used to on Windows.

I’ve got a bug in Wine that the entire desktop UI locks up on first launch. Not to mention opening a second song opens a second Wine. Not optimal.

I’ve searched through logs and journalctl to see if there is a reason for the lockup, but best I can find is that my Intel A580 GPU isn’t playing nice. I’m using Mint (not Manjaro) and nothing in my logs indicates that Intel is the issue, though.

Switched Jan of 2025. Already used 99% open source stuff on Windows, so the conversion was nearly painless.

I tried Debian at first, which didn’t support my bleeding edge new hardware. So I tried LMDE… which also (unsurprisingly) didn’t support new stuff either. It wasn’t until I landed on regular Linux Mint that things hit a good stride.

I still mourn the loss of Winamp though… :(

I describe adulthood as an ever-increasing amount of rituals to maintain normal.

I had a coworker preparing a customer database that arrived via sneakernet. He typo’d a variable during an rm -f step and ended up wiping the device because it was his working directory and the variable was undefined.

The heart skip when an rm command runs longer than expected.

You should have seen the panic back in 2017 when my team found a cluster of Server 2003 running at a hospital.

The client thought it was fine.

I didn’t look too far into it yet. I know that Bookworm is good until 2026, though there is a big TBD on whether i386 is part of the 2028 LTS. I guess I have a minimum of another year to figure it out. Not that I do much with 2008 hardware to begin with.

I JUST got done posting about LXQt rescuing old hardware earlier today, found out about this news, booted up my laptop to perform a Debian Trixie upgrade in preparation… only to find out that my Pentium M is too old to rescue. Debian dropped i386.

so instead of defaults I think you want noauto,nofail

Then it shouldn’t automatically mount, but at the same time won’t throw you into emergency mode if it fails to detect the drive.

Interesting. The Zero W is still in active production, with production promises all the way to 2030. I would not want to be in the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s shoes right now.

I had dabbled with Linux over the years, starting with Lubuntu reviving an old Dell 120L during college. When I moved to university they gave us all Macbooks to work with in the IT department. OS X never clicked with me, so I set up a VM with Linux to perform my day to day work. I instantly became the Linux guy because of that… so any tickets that came in for Linux troubleshooting got routed to me.

It just sort of made sense to try a Linux build after that, since I couldn’t afford a Windows license after I lost access to MSDN.

Oh! I know this one! ReactOS!

If using era-appropriate hardware, I wonder if you could use archived Kubuntu repos to upgrade one at a time until it’s a modern Linux kernel.

The first thing I did when I migrated was look for foobar2000, as I knew it rivaled Winamp in compatibility. Couldn’t find a Linux client. Only Windows/Mac. Unfortunately it looks like Audio Overload went Mac only, but the legacy 2.0 version is still available for Linux so I might give that a try.

A combination of PSF/NSF/2SF/USF, various PCM streams, along with stuff like VGM, GBS and SPC.

Winamp. It’s the only audio software that supports tons of game audio formats.

I got it running in WINE, but file association has been a pain and every single time WINE launches my system locks up for a good 30 seconds.

It’s not about people trashing/selling old ThinkPads because Win10 support ended?