Hello!

I work as a AAA game programmer. I previously worked on the Battlefield series.

Before I worked in the AAA space, I worked at Disneyland as a Jungle Cruise skipper!

As a hobby, I have an N-Scale (1:160) model train layout.

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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023
  • EnglishMobster@kbin.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•What is KDE Neon, in simpler or more practical terms? How's your experience with it?
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    1 year ago

    I daily drive KDE Neon.

    Sometimes install scripts don’t work as expected, since things check if you’re on Ubuntu or Mint or whatever specifically and “Neon” doesn’t match their regex. It’s usually not a big deal and fairly trivial to solve.

    Regardless, I’ve actually started to get away from the command line and have embraced the app store. Discover is actually pretty darn good and has lots of the things I want to install. I can choose if I want to install from Discover via Apt, Flatpak, or Snap.

    I usually install Flatpak stuff. The Steam Deck has taught me that Flatpak is generally as good or better than actually installing via apt - you don’t need to wait on your distro to update sources, and you aren’t adding random PPAs. Sometimes you need to fudge the permissions with Flatseal, but it’s a one-and-done thing.

    I use Microsoft Edge as my browser (yes, really - the Chromium version is just as good as Chrome, it has nifty vertical tabs, I get news on my “new tab” page, and all my settings are saved there). I use Thunderbird for mail, plus Steam, Zoom, Discord, etc. Surprisingly few KDE apps are preinstalled, to be honest - the only KDE apps installed are the ones I want anyway.

  • EnglishMobster@kbin.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•I Used LINUX For A Year And Never Looked Back [A Rabbithole That Is Worth Falling Into]
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    1 year ago

    I’m in the same boat. It was getting to the point where my whole computer would randomly lock up whenever I tried to share my screen on Zoom or when I opened the Windows settings menu. Opening the Start menu could take a solid 30 seconds sometimes.

    Then I got an OS notification that was actually an Xbox Game Pass ad and decided I had enough. I installed Linux, and after a few days of distro-hopping I settled on KDE Neon. I WFH from it every day, using Zoom for meetings and Parsec to connect to a Windows computer in the office for work. No issues, except that Proton isn’t quite as performant as native Windows.

  • EnglishMobster@kbin.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Which distro has the best GUI in your opinion?
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    1 year ago

    I dislike Cinnamon because it doesn’t “just work” if you have multiple monitors like I do.

    Apps don’t sync properly on the taskbar across both of them. The only way to get them to sync properly is to disable the grouped taskbar. People have mentioned this to the Cinnamon devs for years now, and they don’t appear to use multiple monitors so they don’t care.

    KDE Plasma works great with multiple monitors and has been 100% an upgrade over Cinnamon. Plus there’s more third-party support for Plasma than there is Cinnamon.