Also: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-plugin-opensubtitles

1. Years.

2. IDK

3. No.

Cinnamon development is glacial. It works, but the project simply does not have the resources to properly keep up or even triage important fixes.

It’s one of the reasons I didn’t stick with mint, and tend not recommend it if someone can use something else. When I stopped using it, the setting that was supposed to allow games in fullscreen to display without compositing was borked, costing you frames and latency. It had been that way for years.

It’s a mastodon post that mentions the community, therefore it’s showing up here.

I’m a KDE user, but I’m also going to add a vote for gnome.

It’s just going to be more “familiar” to tablet logic.

Fedora Silverblue would be my distro pick. For the immutability.

I’m not sure.

AFAIK dd will create an IDENTICAL environment. This is actually not desirable as it will cause UUID conflicts where multiple partitions in a system have the same UUID.

Unless you’re restoring something you imaged, dding one disk onto another requires fiddling with the UUIDs and fstab, to make the partitions unique again, so the kernel can tell them apart.

Yes.

But moving a partition can’t be done online. And often enough it’s mecessary before growing one, that I generally just tell people to do partition changes offline.

Not if you need to move it first.

Yes. You can just straight up delete the windows partition. Windows just won’t boot anymore, even though doing only this won’t remove it from the boot menu.

You can do this from your running linux install, but if you want to grow the linux partition to take up the free space, you’ll need to do that from a live usb.

No changes should be necessary. Just delete the windows partition, and grow the linux partition.

Make sure you keep the efi partition, and swap partition, if there is one.

From what you’ve said, probably multiple ways.

It sounds as though they’ve deliberately implemented some kinds of checks to lock the feature down and get people to pay up.

To be clear, they created new packages with these names. Anyone can make anything available on the AUR, but you cannot issue updates under someone elses existing package name.

To be clear, when projects distribute their software via the aur, someone else can’t just issue an update using their package name.

This person appended “fix” and “patched” to appear in searches next to legitimate packages, and seem worth installing instead.

Absolutely.

The Arch User Repository is a way for anyone to easily distribite software.

Hence it has never been secure, and rather than claim it is, you mostly see people and documentation warn you about this, and to be careful if using it.

Any schmuck can make whatever they want available via the AUR. That’s how even the tiniest niche project can often be installed via the AUR. But you trade in some security for that convenience.

Disabling Turbo Boost falls under limiting power/clock speed.

Turbo Boost is just a dynamic overclock, as such, disabling it is essentially an underclock. It can indeed result in a smoother experience by virtue of reducing thermal throttling. Thermal limits can reduce clocks much more drastically while waiting for the CPU to cool, than running it at lower but not-as-hot clockrate to begin with.

This is especially true for for weaker cooling systems that take longer to get the temps back down when the CPU hits max, meaning it can take a second before the CPU is back to normal speed. An underclock in such a case is beneficial.

Certain workloads can’t just magically cause your CPU to get “unusually” hot. It’s true that some instruction sets can cause greater thermal loads than others, but disabling the relevant instruction sets is only likely to make it worse, as the CPU will then complete the work using other less efficient instructions.

A CPU will run as hot as it needs to to do whatever it is doing, up to whatever its safe temperature is, at which point it will slow down to protect itself. Running at this “max” temp is not a problem. CPUs will run as fast and hot as they safely can, and no hotter.

Presumably the emulated games are simply framerate and resolution limited, where the normal PC games may not be.

That said, there are some things you can do, assuming the CPU doesn’t actually need to work as hard as it is to run the games you are playing.

• Limit framerate. The game may be running uncapped, in which case it will be using 100% GPU (and therefore more CPU as well) to create as many frames as possible. The ones in excess of your display refresh rate will simply not be shown. You can usually limit framerate in game settings (often called vsync). If this isn’t available, it can be done using mangohud.
• Limit power and/or clock speed. This will lower power consumption and temperatures, at the cost of performance. Which is not a problem if the game doesn’t actually need to run that fast.
• Lower the “max” allowed temperature. This will cause the CPU to throttle sooner, keeping it cooler. This usually has a severely negative impact on performance.

You might also look into undervolting the system. This involves lowering the voltage used by the CPU. This can allow it to run cooler without sacrificing performance, but can cause system instability.

What the other guy said, the task scheduler already assigns processes to cores depending on what is suitable.

What you might look into, if you want to reduce thermal throttling, is undervolting. By reducing the voltage being used by your CPU, it’ll run cooler.

I almost always give undervolting a go on laptops. Saves battery, reduces temps, potentially even improves performance.

Obviously. It too does wine environment management. But it’s meant for games, and for wine specifically, Bottles is just nicer.

Lutris is massive overkill if you just want run the windows version of python in order to compile python code to windows binaries. Not to mention it just isn’t as slick in terms of UX as a wine manager.

It’s not a catch-all game launcher.

It’s a wine environment manager. And it is becoming increasingly good at simplying the complexity of setting up wine bottles for different things.

It’s basically winetricks on steroids, with a really nice GUI to boot.

Running windows games is just one use-case.

I can’t knock you for spreading the word. You gave me an excuse to mention the lemmy community, too.

Yes, I’m a mod over on !titanfall@lemmy.world.

It’s pretty quiet, but I’m also one of the people committed to hosting northstar servers until the heat-death of the universe. Ever played on a MENTAL server?

Sees titanfall reference.

Cries.