Sorry, I might have misremembered the exact process (this was probably three or four years ago), though no need for the nasty aggressive attitude (though my apologies if I offended you somehow).

Maybe it was version upgrades (e.g 18.04 to 20.04) instead of updates, or clean installs/new installs/reinstalls? I expect it was some of one and some of another.

At the time I used to (casually) maintain a bunch of Ubuntu computers for a few community projects, small organisations and older people who live nearby. I don’t remember the specifics, I just remember the phone calls of “the printer isn’t working” “Linux has broken my USB pen” etc, and the fix being “remove the snap version and install the deb version”. It caused a lot of problems.

If you were running a previous version of Ubuntu, where you had deb packages which worked, over the course of a few updates, they replaced half of your programs with snaps (without telling you), which were unable to see additional hard drives, USB pens, printers, scanners or cameras, couldn’t use plug-ins, couldn’t use 3rd party templates or presets, and didn’t respect any system settings for fonts/text size, icon placement and so on.

Snaps were fine for “aisleriot solitaire” or “calculator” (assuming you didn’t mind a 5 minute loading time) or other things which didn’t need to interact with any file or system or device, but for actual programs for people trying to do work? Bag of shite.

Now, I imagine some years later they must have fixed some of this rubbish, and I read recently they might have finally done something about permissions, but no, they didn’t ask anyone before they swapped working programs for completely broken snaps. They forced it on their existing users, and some of us bear grudges.

As I’ve reached middle age, and my sense of taste degrades, I’ve downgraded cucumber’s taste from “rancid farts” through “standard farts” to “mild farts”.

They still taste of farts, but eventually you just decide that life’s easier if you just accept that cucumbers and most cruciferous veg tastes of farts, but hardly anybody else can taste it and they don’t know what you’re on about, so you just eat them and say “yum yum, that was great” for the sake of a quiet life.

It had very poor viewing/listening figures for quite a long time, and was generally seen as a bit of a joke, but they’ve been growing alarmingly in the last year - though still comparatively low.

If you see a report saying “GB News hits 1 million viewers”, note that this was corrected a few days later to “actually it was only 33,000”.

So currently, it’s generally not trusted or respected, and is kind of seen as a joke, but like UKIP, Brexit, Boris Johnson as Prime Minister, Donald Trump as US President etc, it’s a dangerous joke that we should be taking more seriously.

To me, this looks more like a list of “At an event with catering, after everyone’s eaten all the cheese sandwiches and ham sandwiches, what’s left on the table, completely untouched because it’s vile?”

I’m not sure if it counts as a holiday in the traditional sense, but the plan is that me and the missus are going to both go away on one of those “intensive driving” courses - so I guess it’ll be something like a Premiere Inn in Scunthorpe or whatever. We’ll still be away together though, and hopefully one of us will have learnt to drive (or at least be halfway there) by the end of the “holiday” :)

Awesome. That’s definitely my kind of thing, and I maybe I can nudge a few folks to post some stuff :)

It seems mostly digital/programming/random based stuff from the examples - though by the description above (and wikipaedia’s definition) it sounds like you’d also take more traditional algorithmically generated geometric abstract paintings? i.e. a painting produced following a very strict algorithm/sequence/permutation?

That’s okay, you can still install Linux on Apple computers 👍

I had a small toy dinosaur, which was god. I don’t think the toy itself was god, but more likely it was a model/toy of god, who was a full-sized dinosaur.

Retrospectively, my best guess on the reasoning for this thought process was that one adult had told us that dinosaurs were really, really old, before there were any people, then a different adult had told us that god was really old and he created the people - and therefore I came to the conclusion that if god was really old and created people, he must have been there before people, and if everything before people was dinosaurs, god must be a dinosaur.

I picked my most “noble looking” dinosaur and decided “this one is god”.

Looking at some of these… I’d never even considered sectioning them by genre - mine’s mostly by physical location - if I want to play that game, where’s it already installed?

So there’s :
Desktop, Laptop, Deck Internal, Deck SD1 (and SD2, 3 & 4 for removable SD cards)

Then like most people, I’ve got a “Complete” and a “Maybe [person’s name]” for ones the missus might enjoy.

The only sort of grouping is “Wheel Games”, which is basically driving games, but the type you want to play with wheel & pedals, not just a controller. My wheel and pedals aren’t set up permanently, so when they are set up, I pretty much only play all the Euro Truck/Bus Sims, Dirt Rally, F1, Revhead, BeamNG sort of games etc.

Yes, but only for the specific game ID folder. Do not delete the whole compatdata folder!

I know you wrote “game id” at the end, but it was written inside “<” these, and for some reason that didn’t display on Jerboa. I had a horrible vision of someone else having the same issue and following along without seeing that bit.

In response to your update, the individual setting with the program is a sort of “override” to the defaults.

If you go into:

Steam menu at top > settings > compatibility

You should see options for:

• enable steam play for supported titles
• enable steam play for all other titles
• run other titles with [proton 8.0-5]

To the best of my knowledge, any title which is pre-checked by Steam (and has a green tick or whatever) is covered by the first option - this will automatically install and run using the version of Proton it was first confirmed to run with. If it ran fine with Proton 3.0-0 or whatever when it was first tested, it possibly still uses that version. Some certainly get rechecked with newer versions. It’s worth noting this is confirmed to work on Steam Deck (with its AMD graphics) - sometimes the default checked version will not work so well when you play on the desktop.

The second option allows you to set a default Proton version for all other titles - if you’ve not adjusted this, it’s possibly set on an older version.

You can override this on a game by game basis (as you have been doing already) - for example, on some games, steering wheel controllers work on 6.3-8, but not the newer version 7/8 etc. So my default is everything runs on the newest Proton, except I override some driving games to run on an older version.

[Edit]The point of this being, Cyberpunk, as a confirmed working game, will have defaulted to the version which works with the Steam Deck, without you doing anything (Leaving the “run with steam play” unticked) - that version may not be best suited to a desktop/laptop running Nvidia graphics. Changing the version manually overrides the default version… and I hope it’s all working well for you :) [End edit]

There’s a brilliant and in depth guide on the gamingonlinux website, which is definitely worth a read if you’ve got time: Gamingonlinux Steamplay guide

For trying to get back into your computer, as squid_slime mentioned, check the CTRL+ALT+F1, CTRL+ALT +F234567 etc first, and see if you’ve still got any control over the computer.

If you get a terminal, you may be able to run “top” to show you the top processes currently running, then CTRL+C to close top, look at the ID of Cyberpunk (if it’s still running) i.e. 12345, then run “kill 12345”.

After that you may be able to get back to your desktop - may be CTRL+ALT+F7, but could be any of the F keys really. You may have to go back and kill some other wine/steam processes. If the system is fully frozen, this won’t work.

The other thing to look at is to see what the logs say - I can’t remember if Ubuntu includes a log viewer by default these days, but you can easily get one from your Software Centre (or you can rummage around in var/log if you’re into that kind of thing).

Anyway, in a GUI log viewer, you should be able to see some system logs from when the program was shut down (a drop down menu at the top normally lets you select a time period) - these may help for searching i.e. “why has my Nvidia driver fallen off a bus?” rather than “Cyberpunk crashes my computer when it closes” - because the same error will have probably happened with other programs you’re not familiar with.

Also, when I’ve had these crash-on-close in the past, it was quite often an NVidia thing, and it sorted itself out a few updates later.

Your can conjure them up quite easily.

1. Go to Steam Forums for a game that doesn’t support Linux
2. Post a new thread, politely asking about the possibility of native Linux support
3. A Windows fanboy appears to tell you that you are wrong
4. Warning: Since the introduction of the Steam Deck, it’s a bit harder to conjure up a Windows fanboy on the Steam forums, so you might have to try on a couple of game forums to conjure up your Windows fanboy.

The Chicken Song by Spitting Image, about 1986 I think. I expect the finer points of the parody were likely lost on me, but I guess I enjoyed the silly words and puppets.

Maybe “Smart people use garbage”?

I didn’t even know there was a mobile phone app thing to be honest - but generally speaking, I like being in a survey.

Whenever I see a survey result I disagree with, I always think “grumble grumble, they didn’t ask me, did they?”, so it’s only fair that I at least attempt to be in some of them :)

• The visual design of cars - small, sleek and angular instead of giant, fat and round (however the engines were all leaded petrol etc)
• Nothing was tracking me or spying on me (perhaps except the PE Teacher)
• Fewer things were packed full of artificial sweeteners
• The music charts used to be a thing that mattered. We were entering the era of manufactured trash pop, but there were still some genuinely good songs released, which charted, such as this one (Youtube Link)
• The “Golden Age” of action films (all the Stallone/Schwarzenegger ones etc)
• Lots of small independent shops and manufacturers, rather than 10 mega-corporations

In short:

• You can vote
• You can be registered in one or both places
• You can vote in local elections in both places
• You can vote in national elections in one place only

Hopefully most of that is answered on this website:

Electoral Commission - Who Can Vote - Students

Hope that helps you - and if you can, do vote, and encourage others to do so too.

[Edit/rant] Also worth noting, as mentioned in the other reply - The Tories have brought in new rules to mean you must own and take photographic ID with you to be allowed to vote i.e. a passport or driving licence. If you’re not wealthy enough to drive or have international holidays, you’re no longer allowed to participate in democracy.

Electoral Commission - Voter ID