Just reinstalled Windows. Time to have some fun.
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What a throwback.
My claim to fame age at the time was I beat the game on easy mode without ever using any gun.
That's pretty epic. Mine was beating Quake I and II and all the expansion packs on Nightmare Mode. Love TR's soundtrack on Quake I though.
Oh no! Why would you install windows to play games when they work fine on Linux? ðŸ˜
Started running Linux the late 90s. Haven't daily driven Windows in a few years. I got sick of Wayland completely breaking my dock functionality 3 times in 5 years, and X11 sucks. I'll come back around when the kernel gets it's shit together. For now, I need to stay productive.
What dock functionality has Wayland been breaking?
Picture this. One day you go to use your ThinkPad with the Lenovo dock you always use, and you find your screen blacked out. You panic for a moment because it seems like your computer is broken, then you unplug the dock, and the screen works again.
This happens after a kernel update. If the dock is plugged in, the screen goes black—meaning, you can't use your dock and all the peripherals and hardware you have plugged into it that you need to work.
Two kernel updates go by. It's still not fixed. It is a common issue. Wayland is the future, but its still buggy. Switching to X11 works fine, but I have a super high-res display (like most modern laptops), and X11 is legacy software, so it doesn't automatically scale the way it should, and it's frustrating to deal with inferior archaic interfaces when you know better solutions exist.
When I read "dock", I misunderstood it as something in the DE, not a physical laptop dock 😅. I guess I'm not too surprised it's giving you trouble. Laptop docking and multimonitor have always been a pain point for me on Linux, so I avoid both now.
Looks like an HP nx6310 from 2007
Classic choice — Windows + Quake = perfect combo 😎.
No Fedora anymore?
Been a Linux user since the late 90s. Just tired of Wayland completely breaking my dock functionality 3 times over the past 5 years... and X11 sucks. I'll circle back around when the kernel gets it's shit together. For now, I need to stay productive.
I like to keep up with Windows anyway to keep my chops fresh, and I'm about to get all freak nasty up in it with WSL ;)
Quake is great. Another recommendation I have for you is Doom 2 + QCDE + Lexicon. Gives you Doom 2 with quake weapons with a ton of levels and campaigns.
I've got the Xbox version, but I'll have to check that out. Thanks!
Get it for your PC. Its so old it will run on anything and it works with freedoom as well so you don't even need to pay. https://youtu.be/pRtBACEMMKE