Brazilian 🇧🇷 he/him

FOSS and art enthusiast, chilling in the fediverse.

Also me in the fediverse 😌 @gustavomercier@pixelfed.social @merci3@mastodon.social

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • To answer questions 1, 2, and 3:

    1. Yes you can 👍

    2. yep, do your rice. Maybe visit the Unixporn community.

    3. For the most part (in MY experience) changing DEs only involves installing the desktop package, choosing your login manager, and then removing the old DE and its native apps (unless you want to keep them)


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    6 months ago

    The fdroid repos can get kinda outdated. But in my personal experience, the app has shown no issues. I guess being compliant with the tirrent protocols is all that matters for it to work.

    There isnt much to say about how to use it. Just install the app, search for a torrent you want to download (be it via a magnet link, or a .torrent file) and thats it.







  • I use Linux for about 2 years

    Up until February this year, I was still using a 14 year old DDR2 desktop. Windows 10 started to get quite slow and had some annoying crashes (mainly the fault of my goofy old hardware, of course)

    I learned about Linux as an alternative through a Linux Tech Tips video about gaming on Linux, and Valve’s announcement of the Steam Deck, I was also interested in FOSS apps as alternative to proprietary ones.

    Decided to try Linux Mint. With no prior experience with Linux, lack of luck finding good tutorials, and some weird thing happening with my games not launching, I had a very rough start.

    But thanks to Mint, suddenly my DDR2 desktop got a lot smoother :D also, all of my drivers worked out of the box, and I got very surprised with Linux’s plug-and-play hardware capabilities.

    So I decided to learn how to use it, tinkered alot with my system, and broken it alot! It was kind of frustrating, but fun at same time.

    And without noticing, I had already learned lots about Linux from a more technical, and then, philosophical point of view.

    Now I’m a great fan of Linux and FOSS, and have been helping friends to move to it by giving support with issues I had in the past.





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    10 months ago

    A good portion of the “drama” comes from drivers issues, which are hit or miss within Linux distros. Your hardware can only work on boot or make you cry in pain while trying to compile them 😅 But when the hardware works, all you need to do is get used to the open source ecosystem! Wish you the best in your desktop Linux journey 🙂




  • merci3@lemmy.worldtoSteam@lemmy.mloverwatch 2 a few hours after launch
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    11 months ago

    The game has currently over 70000 players online (source: Steam Charts)

    I know its not THAT big of a number for such a well known brand, but its still a big number. When will Blizzard fans learn that review bombing ain’t gonna do anything if they still play the game and pay for their stuff? We’ve been doing that for years now…