Watch Dogs: Legion doesn't have the main protagonist, instead we have a city full of oppressed and tired people with their own stories. Other than that this is the usual Watch Dogs game and fans of the first two should be pleased with what it can offer.
In the end, the London of Watch Dogs: Legion feels a mile wide but only a few feet deep. What promises to be endless variety in character choice and hack-driven gameplay options quickly boils down to the repetition of the same old gameplay and plot tropes.
Watch Dogs: Legion is incredibly ambitious, but the play as anyone system needs a little more work. The story suffers from the lack of a central protagonist, and it's hard to get attached to any of your characters when the character models and animations are stiff and robotic. Still, there's a lot of fun to be had in futuristic London.
After so much anticipation, Watch Dogs: Legion is finally here, failing to impress. Almost every single problem that prevented the 2 previous version to reach their full potential is still there, and the ability to play as all NPCs added even more issues to the game. Yes, the world is beautiful and you have all the freedom that you want, but as a game, Watch Dogs Legion is shallow and suffers from poor level and character design. A strong contender for the most disappointing game of the year.
Watch Dogs Legion is yet another open-world game like other Ubisoft's games, full of great ideas, but in action, they don't have enough depth and don't perform well in general. A soulless world with poor level designs and exhausting missions make a graveyard for the series's real potential.
Until now the story of Watch Dogs was an up and down, which doesn't change that much in Watch Dogs: Legion. The energy that went into the unique recruiting mechanic leaves a lot missing in the actual game world and the story, which makes the trip to london a bit cloudy, classic british.
Even though Watch Dogs Legion already gives you an impressive amount to do as well as a lot of options on how to do it, it’s still going to be growing. I can’t wait to see what’s coming next and how It is going to affect what’s already in place. I’m also looking forward to the multiplayer component, which I’m more than willing to write about when it comes out. So, come on. Join the resistance.
Watch Dogs: Legion's Play as Anyone is an exciting mechanic and post-Brexit Britain is easily the best setting yet. However, Watch Dog: Legion's brilliance is hidden behind a fair amount of smog.
Watch Dogs: Legion is a fascinating game, massively ambitious and crawling with technology that isn't just on the bleeding edge of what's possible, it's pure magic to see unfold. All of that may sound impressive but slick software and a bustling metropolis of people power can't hide the dull gameplay and shallow approach to the sandbox shenanigans of Watch Dogs: Legion. It's still a fascinating game to experience in short bursts, and it's going to be fascinating to see how Ubisoft evolves London to make it vox pop as a next-gen headliner.
One that is very English, packed full of wild and interesting characters, each with their own story to tell. It’s a huge step forward in that regard and one that should be celebrated as it shows a way forward for video game development.
What players will find when picking up Watch Dogs: Legion is a game that is prepared for a long post-launch game-as-a-service experience. The additional DLC announced so far leans into the strengths of the game and established ideas that the series does well. The beekeepers, paintball guns and magician tricks all bring a sense of playful humour to the series, but it is worth noting that anyone who is (rightfully) tired of Ubisoft's content approach to games is going to find this one a very content-driven game.
Watch Dogs: Legion offers an incredibly vast recruitment system that wonderfully complements its hacking mechanics while boasting the darkest story in the series.
Watch Dogs: Legion pushes through Ubisoft's generally noncommittal attitude towards storytelling and exploiting current events to create something that feels like a genuine shift, or at least the prototype of that shift. It might be a sloppy game in many regards, but Legion offers a novel way to experience an open world, with its interconnected NPCs and the introduction of permadeath to the genre.
Ultimately, while perfectly able to offer players a good number of hours of fun, Watch Dogs Legion fails to fully realize the potential of its basic concept, yielding to the flattery of an open world model that, at the end of the console generation, loudly requires more innovation.
Watch Dogs Legion mostly benefits from its rich game world in futuristic London. It's also fun to build a whole army of DedSec agents, using their special abilities within fight and stealth sequences or utilizing them on solving puzzles. It's not all roses concerning story or performance on current-gen consoles. Nonetheless it's the best part of Ubisoft's open-world hacker series so far.
I had really low expectations and Watch Dogs: Legion turned out to be a pleasant surprise. It’s a decent action game with some cool ideas and mechanics that yield several dozens of hours of fun, prvided you like wandering around virtual cities doing the same thing over and over again.
Watch Dogs: Legion lacks a soul. It's also a passive game, since there's no active push-and-pull. Albion took over London, and now you push them out one borough at a time.
On the one hand Watch Dogs: Legion is a revolutionary game with ambitious open world and thousands upon thousands of characters, probably created by some kind of neural network. The gameplay is fine, and if you love original Watch Dogs, you will feel right at home with this new title. But on the other hand Legion clearly lacks a strong narrative lead.
There are some fantastic ideas in the game which mostly work, but also require an element of metaphorically ignoring the stagehands and the suspension of disbelief may simply be too much for many players.
Watch Dogs: Legion throws out a decade of Ubisoft's cluttered-map open worlds in favor of exciting systems that deliver unique emergent moments consistently.
Watch Dogs: Legion struggles with tone at times, but its empowering message about unity and justice still shines in a game that is as absurd as it is impactful.
While it has its moments, Watch Dogs Legion doesn't have enough to feel like a fun place to escape to. The gameplay is too repetitive and too restrictive to allow for anything tremendously exciting over a long period of time. It's a game that shows all of its tricks within the first few hours and leaves you with nothing but jank for the remainder of your playthrough.
Watch Dogs: Legion is great, it features an intricately detailed open world London to explore where you can recruit basically anyone though the story could have been more intriguing and the performance while driving could have been better.
Watch Dogs: Legion is the most ambitious and innovative one in the franchise. You can play as anyone and finish your job in any way. The open-world of future London is so beautiful and so well-crafted that I always can find something interesting to do.
Legion royally shakes up Watch Dogs' open-world template with a Play as Anyone mechanic that just about outweighs any headaches left by its rough edges.
Watch Dogs: Legion is definitely the best game in the series so far- and dare I say, one of the most engaging and inventive open world games I have played in years.
Overall I'm having enough fun that I want to stop writing and go back to playing it, which is always a good sign. The recruit anyone system is working incredibly well, and it's super addictive. The simulation is impressive, even if I haven't determined how much of that simulation affects the gameplay yet. And the few design flaws haven't been enough to hinder my enjoyment after 16 hours. Here's hoping it remains that way as I continue working on my full review.
Watch Dogs Legion is not a bad game I just believe it was too ambitious for its time. The recruiting system could have been something great but instead its shallow and delivered cliche characters with no real purpose. Unfortunately, this does not help the gameplay and story much. There’s a lot of fun to be had here but if you start expecting more from it, you are going to be let down.
Watch Dogs: Legion suffers from a little jank in the tank, but the recruitment system is fantastic and there's just so much to see and do. The open world is full of detail, and the whole experience is full of heart.
The post-Brexit dystopian London is exactly the right amount of craziness and fun I was expecting from a Watch Dogs game. Even though the original recipe hasn't changed a lot in the past few years, you can see the progress they made with Watch Dogs: Legion, polishing the game with every iteration.
Watch Dogs: Legion's bold use of roguelike mechanics in an open-world action game pay off in interesting ways, making this visit to near-future London feel more varied than the previous two games.
Without a doubt, “Watch Dogs: Legion” ticks all the boxes required to be a true Watch Dogs game, embracing elements from both previous games while brining its own flavour to the table.
Watch Dogs Legion ‘play as everyone’ mechanic works brilliantly, this is a genre-defying feature and something that sets the game apart from its competition.
Overall, I feel as if Ubisoft has dug back into what made Watch Dogs enjoyable to play. With some improvements to the overall gameplay and tweaks as time goes by, I can see others enjoying the game.
A disappointingly tame vision of a near future dystopia, that represents a perfectly competent use of the Ubisoft formula but falters in its attempts to add anything new to it.
Watch Dogs Legion keeps the series' base mechanics while enhancing the whole formula thanks to the higher gameplay and tactical variety provided by the huge choice of agents available. This has the downside of making every character pretty forgettable though, keeping us from establishing an emotional bond with any of them.
Being able to Play As Anyone in Watch Dogs: Legion is impressive at first, but it becomes a detriment to the core experience that's in need of revitalization. The hacking and stealth infiltrations haven't changed a bit, and with repetitive mission design and numerous technical issues, this latest chapter finds DedSec in an identity crisis.
Watch Dogs: Legion is more of the same Watch Dogs formula fans of the franchise have come to expect. There are additional gimmicks and features that round off the product and it’s a great game to spend time in. The mystery plot and the intrigue around finding out just who exactly Zero Day is and putting a stop to him is great and will easily keep you entertained for 50 hours or more as you explore London.
The connected, living world here is a genuine revelation, and it's well worth exploring if you're willing to mess around and make your own fun. It's just a shame that some of the vibrancy and depth of Watch Dogs 2 has been lost in the process.
Richly realised systems and empowering abilities create a tremendously fun sandbox to dig into, but another toothless story ensures these flashes of brilliance never cohere, leaving Legion feeling less than the sum of its parts.
Watch Dogs: Legion is a game that has been able to maintain diversity and difference among thousands of playable characters. However, along with the dynamic and detailed world, the game suffers from weakness in the design of the stages and unfortunately becomes repetitive and boring over time.
While Watch Dogs: Legion does the basics well and has a refreshing change of scenery, it moves backwards from Watch Dogs 2 in terms of characters and storytelling. It's still quite enjoyable to get up to tech-based naughtiness in London despite that, but the underlying open-world template Ubisoft keeps using ends up feeling overexposed here.
And that’s the real issue here: the previous game was a story and a damned good one. Watch Dogs Legion is a playground and a damned good one. All it took was a shift in priorities to make the open-world feel less like a world, and more like… well, a game.
Watch Dogs Legion builds upon the solid foundation established by Watch Dogs 2 while adding its own ambitious twist with mixed results. Having literally every character playable is a gargantuan task, and from a gameplay perspective it works to cement Legion as the best Watch Dogs game thus far. Narratively speaking, however, it collapses under its own aspiration to offer an intriguing concept with spotty execution. Regardless, Legion is a triumph for making good on most of its lofty promise and a triumph for the series.
While I may not identify with any of my guerrillas and their grab-bag backstories, nor feel any sense of real investment in the fate of DedSec as a whole, I’m still attached to this strange band of possessed berserkers. We’ve had a good time together, in this nonsense dystopian playground.
The takeaway is this: Watch Dogs: Legion is an ambitious simulation which reliably fails whenever players push against its boundaries. Like the cargo drones which grant them the ability to freely fly, it hits an invisible ceiling that prevents players from soaring above London’s skyscrapers.
Watch Dogs Legion tries so hard to innovate the franchise, but in doing so, it feels like a product that was either rushed or there was no love for it. Ubisoft Toronto did their best to give us a whole new Watch Dogs experience, but when the second installment of the franchise is the benchmark, it’s hard for me not to nitpick on these issues I find in the game. I love the franchise, but this isn’t the kind of innovation I’ve expected Watch Dogs to have.
Watch Dogs: Legion is an ambitious title. Perhaps a little too ambitious. As much as certain parts of the game shine, you can't help but feel that the game is too clever by half.
There’s some fun to be had in Watch Dogs Legion, but it becomes so repetitive that by the end of the game everything feels like a chore — one I was desperately wanting to be over hours before its credits rolled.
The best Watch Dogs game yet. While it's dragged down by long load times and some repetition, Legion is a hugely enjoyable game that offers players a level of freedom that is rarely seen in this genre.
Overall, Watch Dogs Legion is a ton of fun. There is so much to do and experience in this game and so many different ways to do it. The hacking puzzles are familiar but still fun and sometimes challenging. The real star of this game is the variety of characters you can recruit and the backstories that come with them.
Watch Dogs: Legion starts with some really intriguing background ideas, ideas that try to dig deep and to leave us with many more questions about the near future. The overwhelming control of a state willing to know everything about its citizens, however, does not prevent a few uncertainties about the gameplay, a sore note that prevents the game from shining as hoped. However, it remains an enjoyable offer, ready to satisfy the taste of lovers of the genre.
Watch Dogs Legion is a different type of sequel to Watch Dogs 2, contrasting in its approach to creating a hackable open world playground, but with no less impressive results. Playing as any citizen in London leads to some less-than-engaging story moments, but the web of relationships and activities that crop up as a result of the systemic design is mind-blowing. I rarely did the same thing twice in Watch Dogs Legion, and if I did, I wasn't doing it the same way twice. Watch Dogs Legion truly feels like a living, breathing world, and it's a world that I plan to revisit often, even though I've seen the credits on the main story roll.
Watch Dogs: Legion is a massive game with perhaps the biggest recruitable main cast of characters we’ve ever seen. With its varied gameplay and its tried-and-true Ubisoft open-world experience, it offers dozens of hours of entertainment and isn’t to be missed.
Watch dogs legion gives you freedom and it's accentuated in the new recruiting system which makes this title worth playing even before the release of next gen version.
The new "Play As Anyone" system is as impressive as it sounds on paper, creating a host of intriguing characters if you choose to dive into their backgrounds. Crafting your own version of DedSec is a ton of fun, especially early on. The problem is the gameplay of Watch Dogs Legion is mostly the same as its predecessors and the missions are quite repetitive overall. It's not a step back for the series, but the hacking and stealth core of the series does need an overhaul.
Watch Dogs fans and more die-hard anarchists among you might enjoy it more, but between the short storylines, underwhelming tech and mission types and the general “everything is on fire” vibe, it just doesn’t rate highly for me.
The ‘Play as Anyone’ feature is the game's biggest fault. There’s no way to really work as a team. Instead each individual is one part of a fully fleshed out protagonist that has now been cut into 20 different pieces and called upon to work without the other. A severed hand doesn’t make a hero.
Where the action comes alive is in the leaving behind of bodies altogether. Most missions involve breaking and entering, and the thrill lies in the absence of any breaking.
Watch Dogs Legion is a great step forward for the series, with enough experimental new gameplay features to complement the familiar mechanics. London is incredible, and exploring it is an almost visceral experience. It's just a shame that the story doesn't hold the same familiarity that the map does.
Although the recruitment system provides a few hours of entertainment, Watch Dogs: Legion feels like a series of systems masquerading as an open-world adventure game. Compared to the first two entries, Legion is a massive step backward, both in terms of story and execution. This is paint-by-numbers Ubisoft on autopilot.
With a surprisingly good narrative that excels thanks to the unique ability to turn anyone into a DedSec hacker, Watch Dogs: Legion is a damn good time
Watch Dogs: Legion is a departure from the typical Ubisoft brand, and it's better for it. The play as anybody system just works, there's a lot to do, and it's unabashedly political in a way that feels important in 2020.
Stupidly long and detailed XPS 17 9700 post (lemon checklist, 1h/1d/1w/1m reviews, full teardown w/thoughts, benchmarks, battery life tests, clean W10 install driver ‘kit’, AMA).
Part 1 of 6
Hi everyone, This is my first post so bear with me. I’ve been stalking this sub since the release of the 9x00 series and it has helped me so I figured I’d return the favour. As the title says, this will be a pretty in-depth post of my experience with my XPS 17 9700 (hopefully it doesn’t get detected as spam or something). I’ll try to condense my findings as best I can. If anyone wants the full-fat version, check out the thread I have on my site. I’m happy to try and answer any questions. https://robert-m-personal-projects.shivtr.com/forum_threads/3269521?post=14450772#forum_post_14450772 I came from an XPS 15 9560 (i5 7300HQ / 1050 / 32GB RAM / 2x 960GB SSDs / Intel AC 9260/ FHD / 56Wh), so I will be drawing comparisons to it throughout the post. ____________________
Post contents:
Specs
Lemon Checklist
1 hour, 1 day, 1 week and 1 month reviews
Benchmarking, gaming, battery testing and repate results [In parts 2, 3 and 4]
Teardown with thoughts and trackpad rant [In part 5]
Driver ‘kit’ for doing a clean W10 install [In part 5]
Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2TB (x2) [Originally Kioxia KXG60ZNV1T02 1TB]
Sharp SHP14D6 3840 x 2400, 60Hz, 35ms, UHD+ touchscreen
Killer AX500 DBS
97Wh battery
130W charger
Windows 10 Pro
I went for the cheapest config I could with an i9 and 2060. Got in touch with Dell to see if they can sell me one without SSDs, RAM or an OS, they said no. Ordered it from their enterprise site when they had it on discount. The stock setup with 3 years of premium support (they had it on discount and it was only about £50 more than 1 year) cost me about £2954. A stupid amount, I know, but compared to other machines close to this (of which there are maybe 3), this looks like a bargain. I’d also like to say that I don’t know why reviewers keep saying that the WiFi card is Intel-based. The AX500 is a Qualcomm heap of junk, device manager detects it as Qualcomm, command prompt detects it as Qualcomm, all the drivers are Qualcomm and it even has Qualcomm LASER ETCHED into the physical component! Yes, the Precision 5750 (which is nearly identical to the XPS 17 9700) uses an Intel AX201 and is branded as such, but the XPS doesn’t. Unfortunately, I didn’t think to take a pic of it without the antenna bracket, so you’ll have to take my word for it. ____________________
Lemon checklist:
I’ve compiled this from my stalking of the internet and reading about the blood bath of XPS issues. The bits in the square brackets are how mine fared with each issue.
Trackpad wobble / pre-click - [Semi-Pass]
Can't click trackpad while holding laptop in the air by its corner / Trackpad clicks itself when held in the same way - [Pass]
Weird dead zone on edges of trackpad (not palm rejection), that Dell claim is normal - [Pass]
Early units would not draw the full 130W from their chargers under full load - [Pass]
Backlight bleed - [Pass]
Dead pixels - [Pass]
Lid not closing properly and opening slightly when laptop is being carried sideways - [Pass]
Bent screen / not flush with the body when closed (along the short side) - [Pass]
Inductor / coil whine - [Semi-Pass]
Missing or stripped external screws - [Pass]
Missing or stripped internal screws - [Pass]
Scratches and dents on the panels, especially the bottom - [Pass]
Speaker / TRRS crackle - [Pass]
Dead ports - [Pass]
Overheating - [Pass]
DPC latency - [Pass]
Hot while sleeping / draining battery while sleeping - [Fail]
The trackpad came fine but it developed the issue after some time. See my teardown and subsequent rant further down. The trackpad design is utterly abysmal, and it is only a matter of time before it develops a wobble. The laptop came with a little bit of coil whine that would be drowned out in a room with normal ambient noise, but weirdly, swapping the RAM seemed to eliminate it completely. I don’t know if the sleep heat is a Dell or Windows issue, but it is unacceptable. My 9560 suffered from battery drain during sleep, but not heat. I use hibernate on the 17 to get around this. ____________________
Reviews:
This section might read a little weirdly compared to the rest of the post because I’ve lifted most of it straight from my site.
1-hour review:
The moment I took it out of the box I was surprised at the size of it, it's not much bigger than my XPS 15 9560. All the reviewers keep saying it's super heavy and it puts them off from using it. It's only about 500g heavier than any of the XPS 15s since the 9550 from 2015, that's a small bottle of water. Picking it up for the first time, it was definitely heavier than I thought it'd be, but it's also nowhere near as bad as the reviewers made it out to be. You feel the weight difference in your hand, but when it's in your bag, you really won't feel the difference, especially if you have a good bag or are used to having a reasonably heavy one any way. On the topic of bags, my Wenger easily swallowed this thing. While I was looking it over for any defects, I couldn't help but notice just how well it's built. This thing is like a brick, you could probably kill someone with it. I mean, I'm used to the top notch build of my 9560, but this seems even more sturdy. Opening the lid of my 9560 required the jaws of life, which I loved, because it meant that the screen would not wobble about when it's open. The 17 is really perplexing in that respect. You still need to be the Hulk to open it, but you can now open it with 1 hand as well. I think that's some pretty clever hinge design. The screen is still very sturdy when open. Not quite as good as my 9560, but that's because that has a much smaller and lighter screen. A quick word on the I/O: it's atrocious, completely unacceptable. Dell have followed Apple's nonsense and turned this into another dongle-book. Considering this laptop is a couple of mm thicker than the 9560 (not counting the rubber feet on both), Dell have no excuse to not put in a couple of USB-As and an HDMI. At least the SD reader is still there. You do get given a small USB-C to A and HDMI adapter, but it shouldn't be necessary. RIP I/O, you will be dearly missed. Now, upon powering up my old 9560, the first thing to greet me was a BSOD, not even a POST screen, just a straight blue screen error. Luckily this wasn't the case this time. As an XPS owner of 3 years, I wasn't really as blown away by the crazy bezels on the display as others (I was still impressed), but I am very happy to see that they ditched the chin and moved the camera up top. What did blow me away was the tiny (regardless of how mediocre it actually is) web cam they managed to cram in the top bezel. I also didn't realise just how bright 500 Nits is on a display like this, it's eye searing. I'm used to the supposedly-400 nits of my 9560 and the 250 nits of my external displays (they seem a lot brighter). In terms of colour accuracy, I'm yet to test it with real photos from my dad's DSLR, but I did change the profile from Dell's 'full vivid' one to Adobe RGB. Also, the W10 HDR feature appears to be partially bricked and drops the panel brightness significantly while also enabling adaptive brightness which I can't find a way to turn off, so I'm running it in non-HDR mode, which isn't really a problem for me. While I was doing the initial Windows setup, I noticed the fans spiking to quite a high RPM for a couple of mins and then they died down and turned off altogether. While they were blasting, they weren't that annoying. The fans didn't scrape anything, the bearings sounded fine (no whining or squeaking) and the overall rush of air was very low frequency so it wasn't as disturbing as a high pitch fan system. Compared to the 9560 (which wasn't that disturbing either), the overall frequency is lower and slightly less disturbing. The amplitude is actually lower from what I can make out unless the fans really spin up. The last things I want to touch on in this section are the trackpad and keyboard. The trackpad is massive, and on my unit, all good. No wobble or pre-click or air click. Compared to my 9560, the click is more subtle and muted. It's not as harsh or loud a click noise. I think they've done something to damp the sound or used a better-quality button, but I like it a lot. The keyboard is excellent. I really liked the 9560, this is even better. The keys are slightly bigger, so that's something to get used to, but I got used to it very quickly. The caps also have a satin or matte finish to them which makes them feel better to the skin in my opinion, but I don't see that having a performance impact. As for the switches, they still have 1.3mm travel. Compared to the 9560, they have a lower actuation force (which I really like) and appear to be snappier in their response. Like the 9560, this is also a very quiet keyboard. The only thing I don't like is that Dell removed the Next and Previous media keys, there's only a Play button now. Not too big an issue for me as I have those functions mapped to mouse macros.
1-day review:
About a day later and everything is still good, apart from the wretched audio drivers that Dell keeps using. Realtek audio drivers and Waves audio are a steaming heap of garbage. I spent a large majority of my day trying to get around Waves with EqualiserAPO like I did on the 9560, but I had no luck, the current audio quality is awful. I'm hoping things will be better when I do a clean install of W10 after the SSD swap in the next couple of days. Another thing I noticed was with my multi-display setup. The BIOS on this has the option to bypass the integrated graphics and run all the displays straight off the 2060 which is great. The problem is, that although my 2060 clearly shows the ability to support 4 displays in the Nvidia control panel (and Nvidia told me as much when I contracted them a few months ago), it will only detect 2 of my 3 external displays. The spec sheet of my thunderbolt dock clearly states that it can support 3 displays (top of P22 https://downloads.dell.com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_electronics/esuprt_docking_stations/dell-thunderbolt-dock-tb16_concept_guide_en-us.pdf ). I suspect that my HDMI to mini DP cable is dead though. I tried plugging one of the displays in over Thunderbolt instead, but it doesn't get detected unless I unplug one of the other ones. Though with that being said the TB16 spec sheet says nothing about running a display off the TB3 port. [Retroactive insert for Reddit: It ended up being a dead cable, all is good.] Other than the above, the laptop has been great so far. I'm really loving the keyboard, I've typed this entire post on it. Temps have really been behaving themselves, idle and light use temps are sitting in the 39-42 range for both the CPU and GPU on max power settings both in in Dell's software and in W10. I've also told it to only use the 2060 as opposed to switching between the iGPU and dGPU. The fans barely run at these temps. I'm also really not used to seeing 2% CPU utilisation. I'm used to seeing my old i5 7300HQ constantly sweating at 20% and over for even the most menial tasks. Opening a single new Chrome tab would spike it to 100% for a few seconds, now it reaches 20% for less than a second on the i9. The only odd thing I'm noticing is that in task manager, the boost clock is all over the place, the i5 would hold a steady 3.2 GHz, this is going anywhere from 2.8 to 4.5 GHz in a matter of a few readout refreshes, despite temps being fine and no load being applied. I'll keep an eye on this, but it doesn't seem to be impacting performance...for now.
Developments between 1d and 1w reviews:
I noticed some odd banding of colours in a couple of youtube videos. Did some digging and found that you have to uninstall Dell's colour software and restore the original colours in Intel's software. I did that and my screen turned black. My external screens were working and showed that the content was still there on the laptop screen, but it was stuck on black. So I updated the graphics drivers and nothing happened. Tried disabling and then enabling the screen in device manager, nothing. Uninstalling and reinstalling it in device manager, nothing. The screen itself is perfectly fine because I can see the POST screen just fine and fiddle around in the BIOS all on the native screen, so it's not a dead panel. I ended up having to reinstall W10 and then nuke all the Dell and Intel display nonsense until I was running the stock W10 profile. It was just fine after that. I also ran DPC latency tests and they all came back good, it was in the low end of the green on LatencyMon apart from one very short and high spike I saw (but didn’t hear as a distortion). I ran the test twice for about 3 mins (one song) both on the Thunderbolt channel and on the native speakers. There was also no speaker crackling or TRRS crackling. I managed to get the audio to work, but I could not circumvent the Waves Maxxaudio spam. I managed to get a flat response, but EqualiserAPO does not work. In my case, a flat response is what I was looking for, because I have a real external EQ as part of my Hi-Fi, but for normal people, they have no choice but to stick to the Waves nonsense. I’ll keep trying to chip away at the issue when I move to the Samsung SSDs, but for now I’ve got it useable on the Thunderbolt channel which is what I need. While upgrading the SSDs I managed to somehow bring out the trackpad wobble. See the teardown lower down for an explanation. At this point I botched it with 4 layers of Kapton tape beneath the ‘hooks’ at the front of the trackpad. I ended up losing the war with Waves. I turned it off as much as I could, but it is leeched into everything. I noticed is that the battery drained with the sustained load despite drawing the full 130W from the charger (one of the big issues with some 17s was that they didn't draw full power from the charger). This is a deliberate design choice. I blame Apple for it. I blame Apple, because they went all TB3 / USB-C and everyone started to follow. That means that the 17 can only have a USB-C charger. The official USB-C spec says that the max power delivery it supports is 100W. Dell have managed to push it to 130W. 130 is still not enough to feed all the components when they are on full blast, so it has to tap into the battery to make up for it. If they had a traditional barrel jack charger, they could have spec'd any wattage they wanted. They could have gone for 180 or even 240. An observation my friends made was that the mics are trash. It was to be expected, but they said they were much worse than the 9560. I don't use a dedicated mic, because I don't really need one, nor do I own one. The mics on the 9560 are on the leading edge of the laptop, under the trackpad. On the 9700 they are on the top of the screen pointing up (so the same leading edge, but when the laptop is closed). The added distance between the mics and my head apparently makes a huge difference. Windows adaptive brightness is a plague. My old HP suffered from it, my 9560 suffered from it and now so does the 9700. I never managed to solve it on the HP, I solved it on the 9560, but can’t remember how. I think I solved it on the 9700, but I’ll see if it stays that way over the next couple of days. I used the below Github page and files to work around it. Apparently all the fixes online are for older version of W10 that don’t apply to the new one on the 9700...oh, joy. I suspect it was one of those that allowed me to fix it on the 9560. https://github.com/orev/dpst-control Other than that, the only thing I wanted to mention was the for some reason when Geekbench finishes a test run and auto-opens Chrome, 3 and 4 finger touchpad gestures get disabled for some reason. Closing and opening Chrome fixes it. I thought it might be a trackpad driver issue, but the 9560 does the same. I don’t know if it’s a Windows, Chrome or Geekbench issue (or a bit of all), but I can’t seem to replicate it with anything else.
1-week review:
I know I’ve had the laptop for way more than a week, but I’ve been able to properly use it for a week at this point. This review won’t be a traditional review as I got through most of that sort of content in the first-look and in subsequent update posts. This will instead be looking at how the laptop is in general, if any of the initial issues I had are still there or have gotten worse and if anything else has come up. I’m still very happy with it. I don’t think I gave a full update on the multi-screen setup. I said that the new cable worked but didn’t say if all was well past that. All is indeed well, all three external displays are now comfortably running off the 2060. On the topic of the display, the native one has broken me. The quality is miles beyond that of the external ones and the one on the 9560, every time I look away from it and at the external ones, I feel like they’re either broken or something has gone wrong with their settings. Going from the 9560 to the 9700 doesn’t seem like that big a change. But after having spent a week on the 9700 and then having to go back to the 9560 last night, the difference is definitely noticeable. I’m now used to seeing the taskbar looking like it’s sitting on the keyboard deck. On the 9560 I look down and where I expect to see the taskbar, I see the chin bezel. I know it’s a first world problem, but I’m just bringing it up to make a point. Swapping between the machines in one direction is definitely more apparent than in the other. Quickly going back to the GPU, now that the 2060 is being used at all times, the laptop does idle a little warmer than it did initially. Temps have gone from the low to mid 40s to the mid 40s to low 50s. I suspect the undoubtedly terrible thermal paste Dell use is also partly to blame. I’ve also started to notice the fans spooling up more often, especially during YouTube videos. Temps don’t actually rise that much, but the fans come on. That might be a side effect of me running it on the maximum power profile that Dell have in the BIOS. I’m yet to experiment with other profiles like the optimised and quiet ones. I mentioned that during gaming, surface temps got warm, but not uncomfortable. I found that during really long sessions (3h+) with intensive games like Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the area around the exhaust reached the high 50s at points. The very centre of the keyboard got into the high 40s which is where it starts to get uncomfortable. The area around WASD where your hand usually stays was mostly fine though. To be honest, I expected it to get much hotter and much sooner too. So I’m not disappointed in it, it’s just a point I felt needed bringing up. And of course, the laptop still taps into the battery despite drawing full power from the charger. Again, this is a stupid design choice by Dell and not a defect. One thing that kept bothering me consistently that I didn’t think would was the lack of next and previous media keys. I have macros bound to my mouse, but I found myself going for the keyboard buttons more often. I eventually got fed up and remapped F8 and F9 as the next and prev keys. F8 comes natively mapped as Windows + P (Project screen), so I just remapped Win + P to be previous. F9 was a blank key and didn’t have anything assigned to it. It also meant that when I went to remap it as a shortcut, it remapped F9 both with and without Fn Lock. I did a bit of digging and couldn’t find F9 serving any major purpose in W10 or commonly used software, so I don’t think it’ll impact my usage. The latest build of W10 seems to have copied MacOS in that now Alt + Space brings up a search bar (no idea what was wrong with Win + S, which still works). This can be very annoying in games where I have to use Alt + Space only to have it kick me and bring up the search. So I remapped that shortcut such that left Alt + Space = right Alt + Space. Directly disabling left Alt + Space disables all functionality of the press combination, not just the search shortcut, but right Alt doesn’t seem to trigger the shortcut. I used Microsoft PowerToys to remap the keys. It has a bunch of other features as well and is free. For some reason the 0.27.0 release kept crashing when I tried to remap shortcuts, so I installed the 0.25.0 release and it worked. It ended up asking to be updated to 0.27.0 a couple of days after, but it still works just fine. https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases/tag/v0.25.0 I managed to get some very basic video editing done, I can’t fully speak to the laptop’s performance in editing as I want to give it a real load, but from what I’ve seen so far, it’s much better than the 9560. What I will say though, is that I’m currently limited by RAM. Adobe Premiere Pro was easily eating through 13-16GB RAM on the 9560. I’ve still only got 16GB on this and I saw it limiting itself to no more than 9GB. So I want to see how it’ll perform when it has more RAM. I wanted to pick up some RAM, but for some reason, the kit I wanted went from about £230 to £490 overnight and it’s suddenly out of stock everywhere. My hope is that the price drops as more stock eventually comes in. I’ll wait as long as it takes, because I’m not paying that stupid amount for it. It’s the only CL17 kit I could find, all the other kits are CL22 hence why I don’t just buy something else. I haven’t done any CAD work on it yet, but I have high hopes for it. I did however run some MATLAB simulations earlier today. I won’t get into the details of the sim because they’re long and boring, but it’s a model of a fibre-optic transmitter and receiver system. It was part of an assignment I did for comms in my MSc. I distinctly remember the PC in uni taking 10-15 mins to complete the stock sim before any parameter changes. If I remember off the top of my head, the PCs had 4th gen i7s, 16GB DDR3 RAM if you were lucky (8GB if you weren’t), some old dinky AMD GPU and HDDs. I remember my 9560 getting through the same simulations in a fraction of the time. Of course, anecdotal evidence is useless, so I re-ran the sim on the 9560, unfortunately I didn’t time the uni PCs at the time because I was busy doing my assignment and I’m not about to travel back to campus to run an experiment, so you’ll have take my word on the uni PCs. Anyway, I’m going off on a tangent. Below are the results for the 9560 and 9700. The 9700 was significantly faster than the 9560, especially in the latter tests. Something to note in the results is the ‘run time’ value and the ‘run’ value. The run time is how long the test would last for if there was a physical system to be tested. The times for runs 1, 2 and 3 are how long the laptop took to complete the simulation. The 50μs run is stock. https://preview.redd.it/9es710xaxoe61.png?width=517&format=png&auto=webp&s=cf76a81972da405a7303121397a7fff9144a6ac2 https://preview.redd.it/dgs6dkjfxoe61.png?width=443&format=png&auto=webp&s=ae592a46c0cc3094c8c30a0f5d4fef5c55d511fc
1-month review:
Here it is, the 1-month review, I don’t expect this one to be that long as not much has changed. In the 1 week-review, I said that I hadn’t given it a proper video editing load. Well, if you’ve followed the thread, you’d know that I gave it one the other day. In case you missed it, it’s good news. The 9700 shreds the 9560. The 9560 was heavily CPU bottlenecked. The RAM upgrade also made a difference during editing. During rendering, the larger amount of RAM made a difference at higher render resolution (and more complicated projects I’m guessing). I’m still yet to give it a CAD load, but given that it was fine with video editing, I’m expecting it to go through CAD like it’s nothing. The RAM swap also somehow managed to eliminate the coil whine, so that’s also a plus. I’m still loving typing on this keyboard. I’ve been setting up the 9560 as the new family computer and I’ve had to use the keyboard, going between the 9700 and the 9560 is very noticeable. I loved the 9560 keyboard but compared to the 9700 it feels totally mushy. The keyboard deck also doesn’t pick up skin oil and other junk as easily as it did on the 9560. Otherwise, in general, nothing has really changed, and no significant problems have arisen. Now, the bad stuff. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been getting weird Bluetooth freezes. I’d be using my mouse and then the cursor would freeze for 3-5 secs. This happens randomly and I can’t predict it. It’s kind of annoying, but it’s not frequent enough (maybe a couple of times a day every other day or so) to make me want to smash the laptop to pieces. I suspect it’s the infamously terrible Killer WiFi card. I’ve tried fiddling with the settings and drivers, but nothing has changed. It’s not the mouse because it works just fine on the 9560. The other thing I can’t get over is the apocalyptically abysmal trackpad design. I’ve botched it on mine, but I can’t help but feel that over time it’ll start again as the pads start to get compressed. I’m seriously considering locking the cantilever completely with a pair of thermal pads and eliminating the physical button click. ____________________
Sleep is Paramount for achieving anything in life [Advice]
One thing that’s taken me nearly 32 years to figure out is that sleep matters above just about everything else. Nothing else has had as positive an effect on my life and overall happiness as fixing my sleep. If you want to get disciplined with anything in life, fix your sleep first. Not sleeping well makes reaching all other goals 10x harder. A couple years ago, there was a 1.5 year period where I was getting up at 4am every day and working for 6 hours. After each shift, I’d be so wrecked I’d have to take a nap to get anything done. I’d wake up feeling groggy as hell for the entire day, and have zero inclination to go to the gym, or work on my goals, or even have fun with my hobbies. I literally just wanted to doze on the couch some more, and the entire day would basically be ruined. The next morning I’d get up and repeat it all again. My “sleep debt” built up so much I became a complete zombie. I couldn’t think, I was perpetually stuck in a “brain fog”. My vocabulary took a hit -words would always be “right on the tip of my tongue” but never quite there. Like a disorganised filing cabinet, I could never lookup the words when I needed them. My thoughts were scattered. My brain was mush. Physically I was weaker, with less energy. Coffee didn’t help. I played less sports, I went on less walks, I spent more time on the couch or in my bed. In the gym, all my lifts went down massively – I’m talking 20-30% from my max strength levels. I also feel more shakey, less stable, less “strong” and just shit overall. And I did this to myself for 1.5 years. Insane. Other people aren’t much better. More than 33% of American adults don’t get 7 or more hours sleep each day. People love to be martyrs and brag about how little sleep they’ve had, like some sort of weird badge of honour. I used to be one of them; now I brag about how much sleep I’ve had. When I’m consistent with my 8hrs sleep, everything is a million times easier. I have motivation that just isn’t there when I’m sleep-deprived. Writing is a joy instead of a grind; words flow effortlessly from my mind to the page. The gym is fun, instead of absolute hell. Talking to girls is easy, instead of a god damn chore. Everyone who’s been chronically sleep-deprived and then made an effort to fix it can attest to how much more alive you feel on adequate sleep. So how do we actually get that sleep?
Blue-Light-Blocking Glasses
(I have photos and examples for everything here) There’s a reason these are on the top of my list – they’re the single-biggest contributor to me getting great sleep. There’s not a single night – ever – that I don’t use them. We feel sleepy when our bodies produce a hormone called melatonin – known as the sleep hormone. It’s responsible for sending us to sleep, and a lack of it means we’ll stay up much later and have trouble falling asleep. We require melatonin for a healthy sleep schedule. Melatonin production is severely reduced when we’re in the presence of blue light (such as midday sunlight, which is actually blueish in colour – our eyes just compensate so it appears white). Other things give off blue light as well – phone screens, computer screens, TV screens, many light bulbs, etc. All of these are massively-detrimental to getting a good night’s sleep, as without melatonin, you just don’t get that “I’m sleepy” feeling. Luckily you can fix this with a super affordable pair of blue-light-blocking glasses from Amazon (affiliate link). These are the exact pair I have. If you try nothing else from this list, try these – it’ll blow your mind how much more sleepy you’ll feel when staring at a phone/computer screen at night. Put them on a couple hours before you’re ready to go to bed, and don’t take them off. Even in a brightly-lit room, or while staring at a phone screen, you’ll find you naturally start getting sleepy over the course of a few hours. They’ve been an absolute game-changer for me, and for all the friends and family I’ve bought a pair for. Mine have lasted me about 1.5 years – they’re pretty sturdy. They also reduce eye-strain, particularly when using a computephone at night. If I don’t use these, my eyes tend to get tired when I’m trying to work, or watching Youtube, etc. I put the orange glasses on and the eye strain goes away. I sometimes wear my glasses them on the entire night from the moment I get home after work, until the moment I go to bed. If you find your eyes getting sore/strained from staring at the screen too much (even during the day) – try the glasses and see if they help. They’ve been a lifesaver for me. These glasses are also fashionable as hell and wearable outside during the day – you’ll only get a handful of weird looks from strangers! The orange glasses also change the colour of everything you look at, and completely blocks all blue light, which is cool. Anything that normally looks blue will look black/invisible. Stare at a blue light and you’ll see what I mean. It’s pretty trippy. You can also download apps for your phone/PC that reduce the amount of blue-light emitted (eg Flux). However, the glasses work better and affect everything that emits blue light (light bulbs, light from outside your window, etc); not just your screen.
Turn Down Your Lights Before Bed
A couple hours before you want to fall asleep, start turning down the lights in your home (turning them off is even better). You can also replace any bright/harsh light bulbs with softer (warmer), less bright bulbs – or use a softer room lamp. The first time you try turning all your lights down (or even better – off), you’ll find you start naturally getting more and more sleepy as the night goes on. It’s extremely hard to stay awake in a dark environment. You can even try this as well: once you start feeling yourself getting tired, turn all the lights in your house back ON. You’ll find within 5 minutes you’ll be wide-awake again.
Clear Your Mind
It’s really damn hard to sleep when you have a lot on your mind; a million thoughts racing around your head. I tend to have a lot going on in my head at any one time, and have in the past found it very hard to fall asleep. The last few years, I’ve given myself a chance to “wind down” for bed by thinking through everything I need to think through for 2 hours before I got to bed. I just sit/lie somewhere quiet (usually my couch), with all the lights in the house off, and just have a think. Other times I’ll just watch some quiet YouTube videos or a movie – letting my mind slow down before bed. You can also do what I do and write down any ideas/thoughts that come up during this time – especially if it’s stuff you “need to do tomorrow”. Write it down on a piece of paper or use an online notebook app like Evernote. Write down anything and everything – stuff you “need to remember”, ideas you have, chores you need to do; anything you don’t want to forget. When you write it down, you’re telling yourself, “I won’t forget this, so it’s ok for me to stop thinking about it now and just go to sleep.” Write it down and then let it go – you’ll be able to tackle it tomorrow. But for now, you need to wind down for sleep.
Wakelights
Wakelights are the coolest thing since sliced bread. They’re an alarm/lamp that works by slowly getting brighter and brighter over a period of time (usually 20-30 minutes) until eventually your room is as bright as the midday sun. It sounds cute and gimmicky but you’ll find you wake up MUCH more gently than that horrible jarring alarm sound we’re all used to. Not to mention, once you’re awake, you’re properly awake. Because you’ve woken up gently over 20-30 minutes, your body’s had time to flush away that “groggy” feeling you often feel every morning. You’ll want to jump straight out of bed and get on with your day. Any of the Philips wakelights are great; I use this one from Amazon (affiliate link). I bought it 3 years ago and it’s still working perfectly – I use it every morning to wake up pleasantly, feeling way more alert than before I started using it.
Bedroom as Dark as Possible
Your bedroom should always be as dark as possible – aim to eliminate all the light you possibly can. The darker your bedroom, the quicker you’ll start feeling sleepy, and the better your REM sleep will be.
Blackout Blinds:
Blackout blinds go over your windows and completely eliminate all light – they’re bloody brilliant. The ones I use are the “Gro Anywhere Blackout Blind” – I have 2 of them across my windows. Amazon have an even more affordable version here (affiliate link). They have suction caps so you can easily take them down if needed.
Eye Mask:
You can also grab an eye mask from Amazon to cut down on light – I use this one (affiliate link). Mine’s lasted me about a year so far. Bare in mind it won’t work as well as blackout blinds – even the best eye masks let a little light in around the edges/underneath. My girlfriend also can’t get hers to stay on because she tosses & turns a lot, and you may find it annoying to sleep with one pressing onto your face. I personally have no issues with any of that (mine never comes off), so your mileage may vary.
Bedroom as Quiet as Possible
A quiet bedroom is also mandatory for getting a good night’s sleep. If you’re like me and live in the middle of a busy city, ear plugs are a life-saver. The only ones worth using are wax earplugs – particularly beeswax ones. They’re much more effective than regular foam earplugs, and because they’re mouldable and sit over your ear canal (rather than inside it), you don’t feel them as much when you wear them. These are the ones I use from Amazon (affiliate link). The earplugs are good for about two months. After that they start to become a bit dry – they’ll still work, they’re just harder to mould into the right shape. I usually replace mine about every 1-2 months. So that kit of 12 ear plugs should last you roughly 6 months to a year.
No Caffeine/Alcohol Before Bed
Caffeine affects your ability to fall asleep, obviously. Cut out all caffeine 5-6 hours before bedtime. Remember, this includes things like tea, soft-drink (including diet), energy drinks – all of which contain caffeine. Alcohol should also be avoided before bed. It’ll appear like it’s helping you fall asleep faster (by sedating you), but your REM sleep will be messed up and you’ll wake up feeling groggier than had you gone without.
Go to Bed at the Same Time Each Night
Having a set time you go to bed and a set time you get up each day means your body’s circadian rhythm isn’t thrown out of whack. (You should also aim to keep up the same set schedule on weekends.) You’ll find it much easier to fall asleep, and getting up won’t be so much of a chore – it’ll be an easy habit.
Colder is Better
It’s always easier to fall asleep in a cold room, and you’ll get deeper sleep too. Just keep it comfortably cold – don’t freeze your tits off.
Melatonin Supplements
You can take melatonin as a supplement to help you fall asleep faster, and it definitely works – half a pill and I’m out 30 minutes later. They’re super affordable on Amazon (affiliate link), and you only need half a pill (I don’t notice any difference between half a pill and a whole pill). I prefer to use mine in “emergencies” – eg if I’m way too energetic and don’t think I’ll be able to fall asleep for a while (especially if I have to get up early the next day). Rather than wait an hour or two for myself to naturally start feeling tired, I take half a pill and 30 minutes later I’m falling asleep. I only take half a pill – taking more doesn’t give me more of an effect. I’ve experimented with huge doses (I once worked my way (slowly) up to 10 pills over the course of a week. Taking 10 had exactly the same effect as taking half a pill). So experiment with a dose that works for you, but you might find that like me you only need half a pill. Which means the bottle will last you a really long time. These days I probably only take one half-pill every few weeks or months, because my sleep habits are really good. If you use it, try not to take it every night – you don’t want to use it as a band-aid to cover up shitty sleep habits. It’s always better to fix the sleep habits themselves.
Phone on “Dark Mode”
Many phones come with a “dark mode” which reverses the colours (white becomes black, black becomes white). This means your phone will be emit much less light, making it much easier to fall asleep. It’s usually found in your phones accessibility settings – for me on Android, that’s Settings > Additional Settings > Accessibility > Colour Inversion. You should also turn your phone’s brightness to the absolute minimum it can go if you plan on reading in bed. There are apps which can make your phone even darker than the default settings – I use Darker on Android.
HumidifieVaporizer During Winter
During winter, I’ve always struggled with cracked lips, a dry throat and even a bloody nose during the night. It took me a year or two to figure out the problem – the air is drier (less humid) during winter, and it was fucking up my skin/body. I looked into humidifiers, and found the Vicks Warm Steam Vaporizer from Amazon. It’s extremely affordable, and mine’s lasted about 2 years at this point. No more dry/cracked skin, no more bloody noses – it’s a lifesaver. I’ve also found my sleep has naturally improved (probably because I’m breathing easier). It also naturally heats the room up a bit, which is awesome during winter. You just fill it with water, turn it on, and let it go. Caveat: It’s a bit noisy, so definitely wear earplugs if you’re not a heavy sleepy. If you struggle with dry skin/cracked lips/dry nose during the winter months, try this. If you don’t have issues with dry skin/throat/nose, skip it. - Andy
We bet almost everyone thought about creating their YouTube channel at least once in a lifetime. Especially entrepreneurs, businesses and aspiring bloggers are concerned about it quite a lot. How to launch a YouTube channel right and avoid common pitfalls we’ll reveal in this peace. Naturally, launching a YouTube channel is just a starting point. To make your channel thrive, you need to optimise it, track the performance, promote it and make it grow. https://preview.redd.it/ilm7r6f8j6061.jpg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=56f437c1dfbb3a52d9fd890fdccef64f5afbc3b3
Launching a YouTube channel: perks
Marketers and businesses use videos and YouTube as a way to reach their audiences and increase brand awareness. Bloggers entertain, sometimes educate their followers and make a living out of it. All in all, launching a YouTube channel has quite a lot of advantages, here are some to name:
Quick start. Creating a YouTube channel won’t take longer than 10 minutes of your time.
It’s free. But you will need some equipment to shoot and edit videos.
Videos are easy to digest. People are subject to consuming video content a lot easier than reading.
Many niches aren’t taken. Yes, YouTube has a rather high competition level, but there are definitely niches that you still can take. And quality content is at even lesser supply.
Choose your own name if you want the channel to be your blog or diary. You can also use your nickname from any of your social media or pick a name your friends or family call you. Just keep in mind that the name of the channel should be clear and easy to remember.
If you’re starting a brand or a company channel, name it as your brand.
Use keywords related to your niche—for example, makeup, science, history, tutorials, hacks, and so on. Thus you will help other users discover you.
Channel is nothing without content, so you will have to create videos and regularly upload them to your channel. Here’s how to add your first one. You can do so right from the main page of the channel by pressing on the ‘Upload video’ in the middle of the page. https://preview.redd.it/bixtdobvj6061.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=6b045a449f0d395260983b8af7f98e358c0e3d32 Then choose a file from your computer and add information about it - title, description, thumbnail, click if the video can be watched by kids, add tags, set up automatic subtitles, recording date and video location, choose category, manage comments and choose who can find your videos (all users, nobody or people you give the link to). https://preview.redd.it/66p4nmewj6061.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=ee0a2d6285f9c289628898c0b5145f5385d9d6dc You can also schedule the video to go live when you want or set it as an Instant Premier so that all your viewers can watch it all together at the same time and communicate with each other in the chat. Once you’ve set up all the necessary settings, press ‘Save’. Congrats! Your first video is now uploaded to the channel.
How to make a Youtube channel private
If you want to limit the access to your videos, you can make your channel private or available to only those who have the special link. This will be useful for entrepreneurs who want to open videos to only those clients who paid for this, bought an online class and so on. So, you can restrict the access to some videos the following way:
Open the main page of your channel and press ‘Manage videos’.
Find the ‘Upload’ tab and pick the videos you want to make private. Find the ‘Edit’ button, choose the ‘Visibility’ tab and tap on it. There you can choose to make the video private, public (visible to everyone) or unlisted (available to those with the link).
As you grow your YouTube channel and fill it with videos, you will be able to track your channel’s performance. These insights will help you understand which videos work and which don’t and create better content. To find your channel stats, you need to go to the Studio and find the tab ‘Analytics’. This tab will provide you with the following information:
Channel performance within a certain window of time (day, month, week or any custom period).
Total and average watch time
Reach
Engagement
Traffic sources
Impressions
Top videos
Top playlists
Audience insights: when they’re active on YouTube, watch time from subscribers, top geography, other videos your viewers watch, top subtitle language, age and gender and more.
You want to differentiate your channels and decided to create another channel for vlogs, streams or tutorials? You can easily create the second channel. And no, you won’t need to create another YouTube account for that. To start another channel, take these steps:
Open Settings on the left menu on the main YouTube page or main page of your current channel.
Press ‘Create a new channel’ and repeat all the actions from the beginning of this post. That’s it!
Now you know how to create a YouTube channel, upload videos and customise it! Support us and subscribe to our 4K Download YT channel where you’ll find plenty of useful guides on how to use our fantastic apps!
Little Hope manages to fix a lot of Man of Medans problems and delivers a great story with surprisingly good Twists. Some areas could use a lot more challenge, variety and creativity but overall the game offers enough for a great halloween/horror evening alone or with friends.
Though it has some problems with pacing and minor bugs, Little Hope is a brilliant Halloween pick thanks to its over the top narrative and gruesome deaths, making it hard to say no to another visit.
Little Hope proves that the Dark Pictures format isn't a fluke and I'm excited for Supermassive to continue honing its craft. On that note, I love how these games tease forthcoming installments with collectible in-game premonitions. Next up, the seemingly Descent-inspired House of Ashes.
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope isn't a long game by any measure, but what it delivers in its time is used effectively enough to purvey a sense of dread. While not necessarily a traditional horror game full of jump scares or horrific machinations, Little Hope attempts to deliver nuance in the style of an arthouse horror film. It mostly gets there depending on a player's choice, but overall it doesn't completely stick the landing. Little Hope's themes put in a 2020-context make it stand out as a horror title but otherwise, it offers very little in terms of true horror.
The Dark Pictures so far has been all about popcorn-horror, the kind where the viewer screams and jumps before remembering that everything’s all right after. They’re not elegant, but they’re not trying to be - and that’s perfectly acceptable, especially if it’s what the player knows what they’re getting into.
With anthology series, you’re always going to have some things work better than others and although the tighter gameplay elements mean Litle Hope plays better, it isn’t as scary and the cast pales in comparison to Man of Medan’s.
Little Hope tells a hell of a story punctuated by a great twist. Too bad the overall gameplay and exploration don't hold the same allure, bringing down the experience
Little Hope’s namesake has somewhat of a dual meaning. It is the name of the town in the game and it’s also representative of the little bit of hope that Supermassive would learn from its mistakes and get back to making classic horror adventures. But its multiple thematic troubles, pathetic cavalcade of jump scares, and abysmal twist ending paint a dark future for The Dark Pictures Anthology, leaving little hope that it’ll ever recover from two disappointing adventures in a row.
The second entry into The Dark Pictures Anthology is an improvement over the first. As much as we enjoyed Man of Medan, Little Hope ups the ante in just about every way.
It may be a familiar cocktail, but the game remixes things well enough that it ends up with a distinctive taste, though your appreciation of the experience will largely depend on what you think of the finale.
The Dark Pictures : Little Hope is the most sucessfull Supermassive studio's Game. The themes and the cast are more interesting than usual, and the moment with Little Hope is pretty pelasant.
While Little Hope may not be the fright fest some wanted, it's still a fascinating game that's well worth playing once or twice, if you can get over the nonsensical ending.
In terms of plot, it's clearly superior to Man of Medan. Little Hope keeps the Supermassive style, but adds a risky twist that you may love... Or hate.
Little Hope brings a fun story with nice twists and some fun quick action events alongside great voice acting, however, there are many things that weighing it down like bad writing and slow pacing that’s also mixed with bad character design and some other issues coming back from Man of Medan.
The Dark Pictures Little Hope is a solid continuation of Supermassive Games' horror series, and a step above the previous entry, Man of Medan. With a gripping story, heaps of collectibles, and a solid cast of characters, Little Hope is a fine addition to PS4's already-stacked horror library.
The Dark Pictures: Little Hope makes an earnest attempt to build upon the formula established by Man of Medan in many ways. It offers an engaging and well-paced story, great characters, and an intriguing yet typical twist that genre fans will no doubt appreciate. Despite numerous improvements to the underlying gameplay and excellent production values, incessant jump scares prevent Little Hope from standing on the shoulders of Man of Medan, instead merely beside it.
While there are some problems with the design, narrative, and dialogue, overall, the story and experience offered in Little Hope left me rather impressed.
While still creating horror games with fairly visible flaws, Little Hope is a vast improvement of Man of Medan. With another — and perhaps the last — in The Dark Pictures anthology seemingly teased by the mysterious Curator in this one, I’m rather excited to see what Supermassive learns for next time around.
Little Hope is, both from a technical and gameplay point of view, a step forward compared to Man of Medan. The changes do not impact the gameplay greatly, but still make the experience more pleasant overall. The storyline is well thought out with numerous branches leading to an interesting plot twist at the end.
If there was ever a time to sit down with some friends and play a scary game, it's Halloween 2020. Little Hope fits the bill perfectly. The annoyances found in Man of Medan have been almost completely removed leaving a spooky tale with jump scares to giggle about, heart racing action, and tonnes of atmosphere. For £25 Little Hope is an absolute steal and highly recommended.
As a short, enjoyable romp that can be shared with friends either locally or online, Little Hope is worth the price of admission. The title's move to more accessible gameplay ensures that it can be enjoyed by a wider audience without issue, and the visual prowess of its characters is second to none. In both scares and narrative however, Little Hope doesn't come close to matching the same heights reached by Until Dawn, meaning that true horror lovers should probably look elsewhere.
In other words, if you have some people to play The Dark Pictures: Little Hope with, it’s definitely a fun way to past the time, especially around Halloween. If you’re planning on going at it alone, though, it’s not a bad experience but you may be left feeling a bit unfulfilled.
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope takes the Supermassive Games formula and improves on the previous outing, Man of Medan, in so many ways. With a more interesting story, a strong set of characters, the masterful building of atmosphere and more, you're going to be left on the edge of your seat while playing through this story. The excellent branching narrative, as well as multiplayer options also increase the gameplay value exponentially. This still isn't perfect, the sloth-like movements of characters can be annoying later on and some QTE's are annoyingly cheap, but this is still a brilliant game, one I would recommend to anybody.
(THIS IS A PCVR AND QUEST PIRACY GUIDE) So you wanna sail the seven seas of virtual reality? Last Edited: 15/01/2021 In my continued attempts to quiet the spam of people begging for the quest game links, I've written up a guide towards obtaining it yourself instead of spamming threads asking for it on this subreddit. ^ I think i've accomplished this mission now :] This guide shows you how to download and sideload pirated games on the Oculus Quest 1/Q2 as well as the best place to find pirated games for PCVR headsets or Quests connected through Oculus Link or any other wireless streaming solution. Just to reiterate and stress this, DONOTPUBLICLY POST LINKS TO PIRACY DOWNLOADS. BY DOING THIS YOU ARE RISKING THE SUBREDDIT AND ENTIRE PIRACY MIRRORS TO BE DELETED. I'm thankfully able to circumvent these rules by not providing *direct* links to downloads, but just pointing people to where they can access these downloads by themselves :) I am not affiliated with any of the hosts of these links. Just someone in the community who knows the ins and outs trying to point noobies in the right direction and to (hopefully) slow down the subreddit becoming nothing but a cesspit of people asking the same question over and over. This also means don't come to me for help, I don't run any of this stuff. Either leave your problem in the comments for help or ask the Discord. AND I DO NOT ANSWER DIRECT MESSAGES QUEST 2 USERS: Not all Quest 1 games currently work with the Quest 2, please take a look at this spreadsheet before installing any games. if you're here looking for a cracked version of Virtual Desktop, there isn't one. VD is uncrackable as far as I know. If you want a PCVR streamer for Quest, here is a free alternative. WILL I BE BANNED FOR PIRATING GAMES? As it stands right now, you won't be banned for pirating games. As of right now, Facebook has never issued any form of punishment to anyone for piracy. If you feel weary when it comes to pirating games, you can take some precautions just to be safe. "LVL 0: Do nothing, play cracked games online and offline LVL 1: Play cracked games only when your wifi is turned off (still not safer since oculus sends logs) LVL 2: Spoof games as random packagenames and only play with wifi off (safer, but still not 100% safe) LVL 3: Play with wifi on but block all oculus and facebook domains through pihole or your router (even safer, still SOME game developers will see your ip trying to connect to their servers, using a fake dns does work) LVL 4: Block quest external access to internet from your routepihole (only allowing stuff vd and file transfer between devices on LAN)" - Zale Anderson, VRP Discord PLEASE READ THIS GUIDE CAREFULLY TO NOT MAKE ANY MISTAKES Also, if you're manually sideloading, DON'T USE SIDEQUEST. THEY HAVE AN APK BLACKLIST AND WILL NOT LET YOU SIDELOAD PIRATED GAMES. YOU CAN USE AN OLDER VERSION OF SIDEQUEST TO SIDELOAD BLACKLISTED APKS THAT CAN BE OBTAINED THROUGH RCLONE BROWSER, WHICH IS MENTIONED LATER IN THIS GUIDE YOU WILL NEED: Oculus ADB Drivers An Oculus developer account with the Quest in developer mode (Tutorial) EDIT: I've heard about recently that you now need a Credit Card to get a developer account for verification purposes. I don't know any way around this so I apologise if you can't make a developer account for this. A Telegram Account (requires phone number, if you don't have one that's on you) EDIT: you can use various websites that provide free phone numbers online, namelyTextNow(US only but VPNs work) andFreePhoneNum. thanks tou/FlowV4onthis postfor reminding me that these apps existed lol Any device capable of sideloading to an Oculus Quest/Quest 2 (this guide will be directed to Windows 10 users as that's the main use case here, if you use something else then I think there are downloads on the Telegram for other operating systems. Keep reading to know how to get to the Telegram) A USB Type C cable routing from your PC to the quest (to sideload games to the headset) A Discord Account (NOT A BRAND NEW ACCOUNT: using a new account will get you instantly banned from the VRP Discord. This is a measure to prevent raiding/bots. I do not know how old your account has to be to join and I apologise for being unable to figure it out. I'd give it 14-30 days maybe.) Step 1: Join the VRP Discord server. The invite link is a PINNED POST on this subreddit. When in the Discord server, head over to the #rules channel, read the rules and react to the bottom message to gain access to the rest of the server you may use the #vrp-updates channel in the server to be notified when new games are added or games are updated on the download mirrors. Step 2: Go to the #faq channel, scroll to the top and JOIN THE TELEGRAM (Telegram link is underneath " How to sideload with AndroidSideloader: " section. You'll have to download the Telegram application on your PC and make an account to get into the VRP Telegram. Step 3: If you needed to download Telegram, revisit the Telegram link in the VRP Discord and using your account you just made/logged into, join the VRP Telegram chat. At the top of the Telegram interface you should be able to access the pinned message. So at this point there are multiple methods here for quest piracy. I'm going to go through them here. ROOKIE'S SIDELOADER VRP EDITION (AUTOMATIC SIDELOADING, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR NOOBIES) On the Telegram's pinned message is an exe file for the Rookie's Sideloader VRP Edition installer. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND USING THIS TO PIRATE GAMES. It's a simple application that when downloaded and installed (IF WINDOWS/YOUR BROWSER SAYS IT'S A VIRUS, THIS IS A FALSE POSITIVE AND MEANS YOU NEED TO UPDATE YOUR VIRUS DATABASES TO STOP IT FROM APPEARING OR JUST ADD IT TO YOUR EXCEPTIONS.) and when launched, you can connect your quest to your PC, Select from a huge drop down menu of games and easily, with a couple of clicks, automagically download and sideload games to your quest. If you get Rookie's Sideloader VRP and are prompted with an update on launch, accept the update and it'll be downloaded and launched on your PC. Games on the list are automatically added and updated at the rate they're cracked by the pirates. RCLONE BROWSER (MANUAL SIDELOADING, RECOMMENDED IF USING ANY OTHER SIDELOADING METHOD, ALSO FOR PCVGEARVR GAMES) On the pinned messages list, find the rclone browser part and click the link corresponding to the operating system you're on and (for Windows) you'll be redirected to a message containing a RAR file. Download that file, extract it and run RcloneBrowser.exe. You'll then be presented with 2 or 3 VRP mirrors, double click one of them and you'll be able to access and download APKs and OBBs under the Quest Games folder for manual sideloading, if thats your thing. If the UI for rclone browser is confusing to you, refer to this short tutorial video. (when the game you chose is showing as running, wait until it says finished before sideloading) WHITE WHIDOW SIDELOADER - NEWER, PRE-ALPHA ALTERNATIVE TO ROOKIE'S FOR MAC, LINUX AND WINDOWS all info regarding WWS can be found here. includes download and installation guide EXTRA, LIKELY NECESSARY INFORMATION To manually sideload, use sidequest or rookies sideloader to access the quests file system and drag the "com.xxx.xxx" folder to the directory Android/obb then sideload the apk using the sideloading method of your choice. Not all games need obb files so they won't come with them. To access sideloaded applications, go to your Quest's library screen, on the top right select the drop down menu that says "All", scroll down and select Unknown Sources. From there you can access your sideloaded games and apps UPDATING QUEST GAMES To update your pirated Quest games, while keeping the current version of the game installed, download and sideload the new version of the game using your preferred method and your save data should stay intact with the new update installed OTHER rclone browser also provides downloads for other tools and options regarding your Quest and games. This includes: App launchers spoofed as legit apps that can be launched from your regular library screen, eliminating the need to go to unknown sources Method(s) to disable Telemetry tracking Alternate sideloading methods such as older versions of sidequest that allow blacklisted apks, total commander for local sideloading and rookies sideloader vrp edition. All the old Quest firmware versions and methods to downgrade Previous versions of games DLC for games Modded/maxed out save files for games GEARVR AND PC TETHERED VR Rclone browser also provides downloads for GearVR and PCVR games. The GearVR games should sideload fine onto a Quest but there is no guarantee that they will fully function. However I don't know how to play GearVR games on a PC using a PCVR headset THE PCVR GAMES ARE TO BE DOWNLOADED AND PLAYED ON A PC WITH A PCVR TETHERED HEADSET OR A QUEST CONNECTED TO A PC WITH OCULUS LINK/VIRTUAL DESKTOP/ALVR. YOU CANNOT SIDELOAD PCVR GAMES ONTO A QUEST 1 OR 2 AND PLAY THEM STANDALONE. To play pirated PCVR games, download one using any of the rclone mirrors. Some may be packaged into repacked installers to make downloads smaller, so follow any instructions that are (hopefully) provided alongside the repack files. PLAYING WITH STEAMVR In my experience, the easiest way to run these games is through SteamVR, being only a Quest owner i've found running games through the Oculus PC app with Link very unreliable due to their software just being a MASSIVE processing power hog so only use Oculus Link if you have no other way or you think your PC is beefy enough for it. More on this a little bit down the line. So, if you're on an Oculus headset (Quest with Link^, Rift) enable unknown sources in the settings for the Oculus PC software so you can run SteamVR. Find the executable (.exe) for the game you've just downloaded and installed/extracted (you may have to look around in the game directory depending on what game) and add it as a Non-Steam game shortcut within Steam. Then go to properties for the shortcut you have just created within Steam and enable "Include in VR Library" Then when running SteamVR on launch you'll be presented with your VR library where your shortcuts should appear and you can just launch the games from there and enjoy. ^If you do Quest PCVR exclusively on Virtual Desktop, you do not need the Oculus software at all (correct me if i'm wrong) POSSIBLE SETUP IMPROVEMENTS (IN MY EXPERIENCE) Here i'm just gonna dump a few things that have enhanced my PCVR experience on a Quest over time in hopes that it'll help out others. I play games on a budget ass rig (i5-4590s, 8gb ram, gtx 1650) so running the Oculus app and playing with Oculus Link is a MASSIVE MASSIVE hit on performance in games. So if you're able to, use Virtual Desktop instead of Oculus Link as long as you've got a nice connection (preferrably ethernet) and at the cost of a bit of pixelation in display or some higher latency, you will run games WAAAY smoother. I am incredibly below spec for Half-Life: Alyx but by running it with Virtual Desktop and not the Oculus app bloating up my CPU power it sat at more than playable fps (50-72fps) for me at all times on low fidelity. Along with that, close anything else you have running in the background like any web browser or Discord. Sure VD is $25/£20, but its worth it not only for the experience improvements but for supporting the developer because this guy is doing a better job than Facebook when it comes to this stuff. This post will be updated for general improvements (i suck at writing guides) and if any changes come along to the process. I hope this helps those who want to try before they buy or the many clueless people who just want free games on their shiny new VR headsets. But remember, please support developers and their work by buying their games on legit marketplaces, maybe wait for a sale or something and buy their games if you enjoy them. They absolutely slave away to bring us these incredible experiences and we are responsible for making sure they can afford a tin of sardines to ration for the week and maybe buy more models off the asset store for their next game I know this is coming from the redditor who just taught you how to pirate every single VR game but i still like to support developers by buying their games if i enjoy them and it goes way further than you think when you buy a game. Except for Bethesda and Rockstar, please pirate their games to your hearts content as they are shitty companies releasing low effort VR ports for a quick buck from the small but growing amount of VR enthusiasts and gamers. Thanks for reading and enjoy!
Tarkov Stutter Removal and Optimization Guide 12.8!
So Tarkov is not the most properly optimized game... this we all know. I have looked all over for a proper guide to help remove stutters but nothing so far seemed either helpful or up to date. Recently I had a bad case of stutters and literally rebuilt my entire pc to find the problem (insane I know). On my journey to become stutter free I figured I would make a log/guide with everything I did to help rid myself of this disease. I will post my PC specs at the bottom for others to have a baseline of where my system is. The process takes some time but for me was well worth it and I have basically removed my stutters altogether. I hope this can help out a few people at least. So here we go.
First of all for optimum performance Tarkov must be installed on an SSD.
In Nvidia control panel go to manage 3D settings and under “global settings” turn power management mode to “Prefer Maximum Performance” this will ensure your clocks are running at their highest speeds (this can help you with ALL your games not just Tarkov)
In Windows make sure your PC power setting is set to “High Performance” for Intel users, and for RYZEN users set to "Ryzen Balanced Power Plan" or the equivalent but make sure it’s NOT on power saver.
For Tarkov settings in game I followed ALL of the settings outlined by Chippawubba in this video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aesLY4Z_R8 Its about 16 minutes and absolutely important. (I don't feel I need to include those in this post as my post contains other important fixes, but I can summarize if requested.) *My current settings https://imgur.com/a/DHa78gh
Make sure the new 'High quality color' option is UNCHECKED. (Note: Some users have reported INCREASED performance with this setting enabled so try messing around and see how this affects you, personally I saw no performance difference with it on or off.)
If you are having trouble clearing your caches open the Tarkov launcher and click the dropdown under your username and click "Clear Cache" also wouldn't hurt to do an integrity check.
Also while I understand monitoring FPS is necessary for this guide keep the in game FPS monitor off while actually playing, as I've had heard it can affect performance.
Make sure you do a CLEAN driver install for your GPU, which means running *DDU (display driver uninstaller) and reinstalling your driver. For optimum performance the NVidia driver I found that ran best for me was *456.55 your experience may vary but I highly recommend this version.
Also make sure your GPU is running in PCIe x 16 mode, open GPUZ and look for "Bus Interface" if it says anything less than x 16 or less than 3.0 after it, you will have to either reseat your card or move to a different PCIe slot.
Make sure your computer has no corrupt files as well. Run your command prompt as administrator and execute these two commands separately to scan and FIX any errors with your OS. "DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth" "sfc/scannow" (Make sure to leave out quotation marks and run each command separate. Wait for the first to finish before running the second.)
Download and install Memory cleaner, once installed go to options and check "Trim process working set when usage exceeds 80%" and also check "Trim processes working set every 5 minutes."
For POTENTIAL additional performance open task manager when Tarkov is running, go to the details tab and scroll down to escapefromtarkov.exe and right click set priority to "High"
Make sure your computer is not thermal throttling, Download GPUZ and CPUZ and Coretemp to monitor your computers temperature, Search for your components optimal operating temperature, most should be under or around 80c max, otherwise you might have a cooling problem.
Check background programs as well, make sure other programs such as chrome are not eating up all your ram. 16gb is the necessary minimum for Tarkov, I have heard success with 8gb, but your safest bet is 16gb or a PREFERRED 32gb which has solved many stutters from what I've read. If your ram has an XMP option make sure it is enabled in the bios as not all ram comes pre-enabled. Tarkov seems to love fast ram. I didn't realize I had XMP turned off for a couple weeks after getting new ram so this was a huge boost to my performance.
Disable unnecessary game overlays such as "Windows Game Bar" "Discord" "Nvidia Overlay" etc...
If all else fails reinstalling windows can be a last resort, but this DOESNT guarantee you will have better performance it will just remove many potential problems that would otherwise hinder good performance if you didn't have a clean system to work off of.
Also make sure not only your GPU drivers are up to date but update ALL your drivers. This wont only potentially help Tarkov but in general its a good habit to practice to ensure your computer is most up to date.
Find your escapefromtarkov.exe and right click properties (open launcher go to settings tab then click on the game directory line), go to the compatibility tab and make sure to "Disable Fullscreen optimizations" then click on Change high dpi settings below and check "Override high dpi scaling behavior"
UNTESTED - I've heard turning off "game mode" in windows 10 has potentially helped some players, I have yet to test this myself and have game mode set to ON. I will try it with game mode off when I have a chance and update this post.
Building a PC for a friend whose a Teacher & a Gamer 1k budget
What will you be doing with this PC? Be as specific as possible, and include specific games or programs you will be using.**
* Good friend of mine is a College Teacher in Nicaragua. I am wanting to build a small Desktop PC that can be put into a luggage bag, or just leaving all the hardware in its original packaging to give to him to take back to Nicaragua to Build. He doesn't have that much building experience but I'm sure he could follow a Verge YouTube video. He'll probably use it to teach his 20+ students on zoom while having a lot of unnecessary google tabs open in the backgroud, then later playing games like DarkSiders, Nier:Automata, Warzone, old PS1, 2, 3, 4 & Xbox games, New Vegas, GTA, Persona, Far Cry, Outer Worlds & multiplayer games like ColdWar, The Forest, Astroneer, Satisfactory, and those types. I hope he doesn't decide to game and teach at the same time..
What is your maximum budget before rebates/shipping/taxes?**
* $1k if possible, but could maybe push to $1.5k since I'll the have time to save up s'more...
When do you plan on building/buying the PC? Note: beyond a week or two from today means any build you receive will be out of date when you want to buy.**
* I think I have until July or August ~ summer break or whenever its safe to fly back to the states. so ill have time to collect & slowly look for the cheapest parts
What, exactly, do you need included in the budget? (ToweOS/monitokeyboard/mouse/etc\)**
* just the PC tower innards, & Windows. he could take care of the monitor and peripheral's I hope, that being said he might go 1080p but 1440 capabilities would be good to have, just incase...
Which country (and state/province) will you be purchasing the parts in? If you're in US, do you have access to a Microcenter location?**
* I'm in California & would most likely buy parts online, but we do have a Frys wayys away.
If reusing any parts (including monitor(s)/keyboard/mouse/etc), what parts will you be reusing? Brands and models are appreciated.**
* I don't have any, hoping to use all new stuff
Will you be overclocking? If yes, are you interested in overclocking right away, or down the line? CPU and/or GPU?**
* probably not.
Are there any specific features or items you want/need in the build? (ex: SSD, large amount of storage or a RAID setup, CUDA or OpenCL support, etc)**
* well his internet is really slow. it takes 15 hours for him to download Warzone so I don't think he would want to redownload huge games, fortunately his Wi-Fi is still fast enough to game online, he might need extra storage for teacher work, Im thinking a good cheap high endurance m.2 for boot ssd, 1TB ssd for games & a huge HDD for work and some games. I also think a MoBo with DeBug LED's and the small debug led code screen would come in handy if he has a problem back abroad, and something that he wouldn't need to upgrade for at least 3 to 5 years, maybe...
Do you have any specific case preferences (Size like ITX/microATX/mid-towefull-tower, styles, colors, window or not, LED lighting, etc), or a particular color theme preference for the components?**
* small compact case thats easily packable in a luggage bag & under 50 pounds.? Wont need a glass panel because I'm not really looking for RGB, so maybe a tough case that can take a one-way trip underneath a plane, or if its easier to have no case and giving him all the parts to take back instead...
Do you need a copy of Windows included in the budget? If you do need one included, do you have a preference?**
* Ill have to purchase Windows OS
Extra info or particulars:
A Solid power supply because apparently he gets almost daily brown outs especially in high windy rainy days... Thank you for you peoples time... Edit: added some extra detail, also would like a Nice PSU...
Edit: "Misleading title" - Yeah you got me. Should be "No IT Job experience". I'm family IT guy and have built 2 computers in the past. But besides knowing a bit of hardware and basic software troubleshooting, can't say there was much else. Passed Core 1 in September, passed Core 2 this month. No IT job before this. Working 12 hour shifts at my job. Used Sybex Deluxe A+ study guide textbook ($40 off Amazon, my best resource check it out), Messer's videos, Dion's test courses (Got it when it was ~$20). I don't have much time so I will be concise. Don't worry. You got this. I also see on these posts that not many go into their study habits/techniques and a lot of people ask how to study. I'd like to share to help. First, be disciplined and passionate. You need to want it and put the effort/time to learn. Being "lazy" will not help. With the discipline to do what you need to do, you will gain the freedom to succeed and to be free of it. DISCIPLINE EQUALS FREEDOM. Good luck. Resources: These two links will sum it all up. Highly recommend. USE AS MANY RESOURCES AS POSSIBLE TO GIVE YOU AN EDGE. https://www.reddit.com/CompTIA/comments/i7hx4t/master_list_i_compiled_and_ranked_every_majo?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share https://www.reddit.com/ITCareerQuestions/comments/bs5map/it_certification_roadmap/ Study Techniques/Habits:
Put in time. Depending on the day, I put in 2-8 hours a day. I'd study for 50 minutes straight - all distractions shut off. 10 minutes as a break to relax or handle another obligation. Social life, hobbies, games, and sleep sacrificed. Though always put health first.
Flashcards. Do them. Don't take someone else's notes/cards. Check out Quizlet / other flashcards online, but make sure to make your own batch. Most of the learning is done by YOU making YOUR OWN. As you review material, think to yourself "what is important? What should be memorized? What am I struggling to retain?" Practice. Practice. Practice. Those port numbers aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Tip: Make a list of all the port numbers (find them from resources or just google), then turn each into flash cards. That's a good 2 hours of studying right there.
Who/what/when/where/how. If you can answer all of these for any given topic/specific point, you will do well. When you encounter "RAID" or "Net Use" command line, know: "Who is using this/is involved? What is going on here? When would this be used? Where would I find this being used? How does it work?"
Test/challenge yourself. Come up with your own 'test questions' based from what you see/have been tested on. Professor Messer's study group videos are a GREAT example. Maybe make self-tests flash cards. Make your own test. Write down every question - put it in a word document in random order (organize by domains) and test yourself with visible timer (1 min per question).
Hands on. You're watching Messer do a -ls/grep command in Linux? Using Diskpart in CMD? FOLLOW ALONG. Either follow on your computer or get Virtual Box VM - it's free and not too hard to setup. If you don't have a good computer for VM, still practice. Write the command, then write the expected result. Literally write the whole console. Same with hardware - look at your computer ports. Draw diagrams. Get personal with the material.
Write it. When watching Messer's videos or reading from my Sybex textbook, I wrote it down. For Messer, it was word for word. For Sybex, I re-worded the sentences in my own word. I re-wrote the whole 1500+ page document on google docs. Make it simple and straight forward. If a sentence is long and using a lot of technical terms, do your best to make it a 1-2 sentence summary, make sure to include the keyterms. If you can do this, it's great learning. If you can explain the same thing in 3 different ways in a simple, straightforward way - you know it.
Re. Yes, Re. Re-read, Re-write, re-do. Do it so often that you can do it without looking or following along.
When you finish a domain, review the CompTIA A+ objectives. Download the document and hold it close to you. Use it often as reference. Core 2 1.0 Operating systems - make sure you know Boot methods in 1.3, msconfig in 1.5, robocopy in 1.4, etc. Do this for all domains. Look at it and think: "Do I know this? Can I do/use/explain it right now accurately/correctly?" If you have any doubt - either study it more now or make a note/mark for you to review later.
Resource connection. I would watch Messer's video on a topic, then read it in the textbook. Messer explained it basically in a nice introduction way, then I used the textbook to expand/deepen my knowledge. Do this.
Make it fun. How? Study hard during the week. During your 5-10 minute study breaks, pet your cat or find a funny cat video to watch and make you laugh (or dog videos if you are a dog person) - catch a good breath. Mental reset. When the weekend comes, apply the knowledge. Boot up Virtual box and search "best hacker music" on youtube. Then challenge yourself to apply knowledge - even something like make a text file in command line, move it around directories, dupe it, remove it, kill the notepad task, netstat -a -b -n your computer to see what's running, etc. Have fun with it but stay focused.
Ask friends/families/neighbors to help them with an IT/Tech/Computer problem where you can apply the knowledge. Even if it's 'basic'. I helped a friend build his new PC recently ( core 1 domain 1hardware knowledge, core 2 domain 4), set up/boot windows (Core 2 domain 1), use disk management/msconfig, harden the computer for security (Core 2 domain 2), document the changes/settings made (core 2 domain 4), etc. Do this. That will count as studying / reinforcing what you learn. Heck, you can join random discord servers and be IT tech support. Something as simple/random as telling someone to "ipconfig /flushdns" so their WoW ping improves counts.
When testing, READ THE QUESTIONS EXTREMELY CAREFULLY. Cannot stress this enough. CompTIA questions can be tricky, so make sure you read it 3 times over. Identify keywords. The important sentence is always the last one. Make sure you have your info and properly think through the solution.
Each question should take 30 seconds to 1 minute. If you find yourself having trouble picking an answer or you're unsure of your answer, mark it for review and come back later. Don't waste too much time on one question when you could be answering 5 others.
That's all I can think of for now. I'm starting on Net+ now. Best of luck to everyone. I will update/respond when I can. Edit 2: Polskiemafia brought up a noteworthy point regarding testing:
I'd also suggest seeking out some practice exams (Meyers, Messer, or Dion) to drill on. Those practice exams (in particular Dion) always seem to structure questions the same as CompTIA, and that's a big help. CompTIA likes to throw curve balls in the way they ask questions, so seeing those a few times before you sit for the actual exam can be helpful. Main thing with CompTIA is to read the question, read it again, and read it again before answering.
This is a follow up to my comment on this thread from a few days ago. If you're not familiar with using spectrograms in your training, I recommend reading the Scinguistics article linked in that post first. Since writing that comment I figured it might be worth it to give a more detailed guide to setting up Friture for both your audio and a teacher's audio. This guide is specifically targeted at Windows 10 users, but if anyone wants to write their own instructions for Linux or OS X, that would be great! Off the top of my head it should be easy enough in Linux by using a loopback device.
What's the point of this?
Just as it's useful to see what your voice is doing visually, it can also be helpful to be able to compare your voice to that of your instructor, whether you're doing live sessions online or following a video. Mimicry is often an important part of training, and being able to see visually how well you're mimicking your trainer or someone you're trying to imitate is, at least in my opinion, a very useful tool.
Instructions
Step 1: Installing software
Download Friture if you haven't already, as well as VoiceMeeter. Any version of VoiceMeeter will work, but for the sake of simplicity we'll be using the basic version here.
Step 2: Routing audio through VoiceMeeter
Open VoiceMeeter.
Mute any hardware inputs. We only want to use the virtual input.
Ensure that one of the hardware outputs is the device you'll be using to listen to the audio (e.g. your headphones)
Your VoiceMeeter setup should look something like this.
To redirect a single program's audio to Voicemeeter:
Right click on the volume icon in the taskbar, and click Open Sound settings (never realized how awkward the capitalization in this menu is until now).
Set the output device of the program you want to capture (in this case, Chrome), to VoiceMeeter Input, like so.
Just like with the system-wide method, audio should both show up in VoiceMeeter and be audible through your output device.
Step 3: Setting up Friture
Open up Friture and set it up how you like it with your microphone.
Open a second Friture window.
In Friture's settings, set the input device to VoiceMeeter Output.
If everything is working, you should see your microphone on one window and whatever you're listening to on the other. For example, here is me following an exercise from this video, where we go from a breathy voice to a tighter voice in a single breath. (Sidenote, Bria's training videos are super aproachable and helpful, and I highly recommend them if you're looking for good mimicry-based training material.) My audio is on the left, Bria's is on the right. Just be sure to put all your sound settings back to normal when you're done, because VoiceMeeter only works while it's open. If you leave everything going through VoiceMeeter, and then close it, you might end up wondering why none of your audio is working next time you try to listen to something.
"Open Source ist Kommunismus" hat ein Freund mal gesagt, ich weiß leider nicht, wer. Genau so gehe ich mit Informationen um, daher teile ich sie hier. Wenn schon gratis erhalten, dann auch gratis verteilen. Ich habe div. Probleme mit Microsoft und Windows, daher wollte ich eine Alternative. Apple ist, naja, teuer, bleibt Linux. Die Schule war jedoch ein Teil, der mich davon abgehalten hat. Zumindest zur Sicherheit die Windows Partition behalten war mein Gedanke. Meine Einstellung war bisher diese. Wie man sieht, wurde bereits eine Lösung vorgeschlagen. Nachdem mein Onkel auf "Gibt's nur unter Windows" mit "Dann verwend ich eine VM" geantwortet hat, hat mich das wahrscheinlich auch dazu gebracht, das hier zu schreiben. Dieser Guide ist für diejenigen, die Windows möglichst nicht verwenden wollen, aber die Spengergasse besuchen. Da die End-User Welt leider hauptsächlich auf Windows läuft, ist die Schule natürlich mit Windows leichter (abgesehen von den spontanen Updates, Bugs, Technische Probleme, die einen daran hindern, überhaupt eine Abgabe zu erstellen), das möchte ich nur erwähnt haben. Ein weiteres Problem ist, dass Lehrer euch wahrscheinlich nicht helfen können, wenn ein Problem Linux-spezifisch ist. Diesen Guide werde ich ev. im Nachhinein verändern, weil ich oft im Nachhinein auf div. Sachen draufkomme.
Meine Probleme mit Windows
Ich hab einmal geschrieben "Zuerst einmal das positive über Windows: ...Ja, das war's so ziemlich". Mittlerweile fallen mir drei Sachen ein: Verfügbare Software, Datei Explorer ist gut designt, (Office). Das war's so ziemlich. Vielleicht liegt ein guter Teil meines Hasses an meinem alten Laptop, der schlecht unterstützt wurde. Die einmal aufgeschriebenen Probleme hatte ich nicht mehr mit meinem jetzigen. Dennoch:
Telemetrie: Privatsphäre kann man ziemlich vergessen. Ich werde hier im OP nicht auf Privacy Debatte eingehen. Man kann sie unter Windows 10 Home nicht ganz ausschalten. Die Einstellungen, die man bei der Installation setzen kann, sind eher Homöopathisch. Auf AME gehe ich noch ein.
Bugs: Linux ist nicht Bugfrei. Im gegensatz zu Windows kann man sie aber meistens beheben. Dazu komme ich später.
Bluescreens: Die einzige Kernel panic, die ich bekommen hab, war aufgrund eines Spiels.
Windows Fehlerbehebung: Muss ich nicht kommentieren.
Geld: Das ist bei Laptops relativ egal, aber Windows kostet ansich Geld, sofern man es nicht einfach mit generischen Keys aktiviert. Linux ist FOSS (Free Open Source Software).
svchost.exe: Sofern man mal in den Taskmanager geschaut hat, kennt man das Programm. Frisst Ressourcen.
Self-destruction as a Feature: Klingt zynisch, ist aber so. Windows zerstört sich gern, auch ohne der Beihilfe des Users. Sofern man nicht ein vollkommen "braver" User ist (Leute, die nicht viel von Computern verstehen und sie verwenden, weil sie sie verwenden müssen), passiert das von selbst.
Malware: Duh. Meistbenutzte Plattform, am meisten Viren. Ich hab auf Linux eine totale Zeit von 5 Sekunden damit verbracht, über einen Virenscanner nachzudenken und habe keinen.
Updates: Während Windows das ganz gern spontan macht, meistens, wenn's wichtig ist, kann man auf Linux alles updaten, während es läuft, ohne dass man dann beim nächsten Shutdown/Boot auch nur eine Sekunde länger warten muss. Die alte Version eines Programms läuft so lang weiter, bis es gestoppt wird. Beim erneuten Starten wird das neuere Programm, welches ich gerade installiert habe, geladen.
Customization: Dazu komme ich später noch.
Support: Microsoft stellt Leute ein, die in deren Online Foren bei Fehlern helfen. Mehr, als arschfreundliche Texte zu schreiben, können die aber nicht. Wenn jemand dir ernsthaft helfen kann, ist es meist ein User mit Ahnung. Von diesen existieren nur wenige, während es auf Linux tausende davon gibt. Der Grund ist, dass das System Open Source ist und man jedes Element dadurch einfach erlernen/verstehen kann, wenn man will.
Bonus: "Windows ist bei jedem anders"- Resch
Windows 10 Ameliorated
AME ist ein Projekt, welches versucht, sämtliche Telemetrie aus Windows zu entfernen. Es ist der Kompromiss aus "Windows verwenden" und bissl Privacy. Ich habe es einige Zeit genutzt, bevor ich voll auf Linux umgestiegen bin. Empfehle ich, wenn man Windows doch braucht.
Dual Boot
Für den Fall, dass irgendwas doch nur auf Windows funktioniert (wahrscheinlich Word, oder bestimmte (wahrscheinlich online)Spiele), kann man sich zwei Systeme gleichzeitig installieren. Mein Partitionssetup (ohne größen) sah so aus:
Windows (NTFS)
DATA (NTFS)
Linux (ext4)
Ich empfehle eine DATA Partition. Diese ist NTFS, weil Linux NTFS lesen kann, aber Windows nicht ex4, Zum partitionieren empfehle ich GParted, anstatt dem Tool im Windows-Installer, weil GParted erst arbeitet, sobald man "Apply" drückt. Ich hab nicht nur einmal versehentlich meine Daten gelöscht. Man muss Windows zuerst installieren, dann Linux. Irgendeine Bootloader Geschichte.
Für Anfänger (wirklich basic)
Wenn ihr Linux bereits bissl kennt springt zum eigentlichen Teil
Welche Distro?
Es gibt viele Varianten (Distributionen) von Linux. Ich möchte mal ein paar, die sich für Anfänger eignen, aufzählen:
Ubuntu: Hat das Windows-Phänomen unter den Linux Distros: Sofern nicht weiter spezifiziert, nimmt das Internet an, dass man dieses verwendet. Viel Support, viel Software in .deb Packages, oder über apt verfügbar. Basiert auf Debian. Privacy-mäßig nicht das beste weil Canonical, aber immer noch besser, als Windows.
Linux Mint: Basiert auf Ubuntu, ich glaube, Versionsnummern sind dementsprechend identisch.
Manjaro: "Arch für faule" (also mich). Mein aktueller Liebling. Arch-Basis. Installationszeit von wörtlich 2 min.
Pop! OS: Viel empfohlen, hab's leider nie probiert. Ubuntu basis. Nvidia und AMD Treiber werden mitgeliefert.
OpenSUSE: Von RedHat. Ich hab leider keine genaueren Infos dazu, da ich's noch nie probiert hab, es steht für die Vollständigkeit drauf.
Kleine Notiz zu Nvidia
Es gibt div. Probleme mit der Installation von Nvidia Treibern (u/AusbildungmitZukunft hat ein Tutorial für Debian-basierte Systeme geschrieben) und der Benutzung von Nvidia Karten (siehe Wayland). Bitte selbst einlesen, ich habe kein Nvidia System (und mein neuer PC (Stand Weihnachten) ist gezielt Full AMD™). Ich wollte euch nur warnen. Sollte auf Pop! Os und Ubuntu bei der Installation installiert werden. Sollte bei Manjaro über mhwd gehen (proprietär, kann man aber forcieren, falls man bei der Installation "free" ausgewählt hat).
Welches Desktop Environment
Ein Windows User, der sich nie mit der Frage "welches OS" befasst hat, wird die Frage vielleicht nicht verstehen. Es gibt unterschiedliche Interfaces, die man auf Linux verwenden kann. Wer so wahnsinnig ist, wie ich, kann auch einen Tiling Window Manager verwenden, davon rate ich Anfängern aber definitiv ab. Für Anfänger kann ich empfehlen
Gnome
KDE
Ein fertiges XFCE, wie es das z.B. bei Manjaro gibt.
Cinnamon auf Linux Mint
Das ist geschmackssache. Sucht euch am besten eine Distro oder Varianten aus, die damit kommen. Z.B. Ubuntu + KDE = Kubuntu. Da gibt es meistens was fertiges. Ich persönlich mag Gnome ganz gerne - ist fertig, ich muss wenig einstellen, rennt.
"Hilfe, ich habe ein Problem"
Suchmaschinen sind eure Freunde. Wenn eine Lösung vorgeschlagen wird und sie nicht funktioniert, schaut, wo das Problem ist und sucht danach. Irgendwie kommt man nicht selbst auf das Prinzip, ich glaube, ich habe es übernommen, wie ich einem (tatsächlichen) Programmierer beim debuggen (meines Codes) zugeschaut habe.
Bsp: Auf Debian darf man Standardmäßig nicht sudo ausführen. Internetsuche gibt folgenden Befehl: sudo usermod -aG sudo . sudo kann man weglassen, weil man's als root ausführt Diesen muss man als Admin ausführen. Angenommen, man kann das alles, bekomme ich den Fehler, dass usermod nicht gefunden werden kann. Suchmaschine. Ich soll stattdessen den Pfad angeben, in dem sich usermod befindet. Es geht, ich kann sudo verwenden.
Fazit: Bei Folgeproblemen weitersuchen, es geht nach meiner Erfahrung immer irgendwann. Das weitersuchen hat sich bisher auf max. 3x beschränkt. Es geht einfach in die Richtung "Ok, hier sollte folgendes rauskommen, aber was anderes kommt raus. Das hier gibt mir den Wert aus. Wo macht es etwas falsch? Ah, ab hier ist es falsch, was stimmt an dieser Zeile nicht? ..." Wenn man sich allerdings das System zerschießt (was, im Gegensatz zu Windows, nur durch den User geschieht), dann ist es meist zerschossen. Neu installieren. Ich möchte noch ein paar YouTuber empfehlen:
Ihr werdet das Terminal verwenden müssen. Es gibt wahrscheinlich div. Guides dafür, ich überfliege schnell, was ich meistens brauch:
sudo: führe folgendes als Administrator aus
cd: change directory. Mit .. kommt man zurück. Sollte ich eig. nicht erklären müssen
ls: Alles in diesem Ordner an.
ls -al: A - Zeige auch versteckte elemente an; L - zeige permissions an.
touch : Erstelle eine Datei mit folgendem Namen.
nano : text editor im Terminal. Existiert die Datei nicht, wird sie als neue Datei behandelt.
cat : gib den Inhalt folgender Datei aus.
mv : Verschieben
cp : Kopieren. Bei Ordnern braucht man -r (recursive)
rm : Lösche folgendes Element. -rf bei Ordnern verwenden.
*: alles im Ordner. Es geht auch *.txt, was alle .txt Dateien wären.
.: Dieses Directory
~: Home Directory
Package Manager: Schaut euch bitte selbst an, welchen eure Distro verwendet und lernt die paar Befehle auswendig. Alternativ ist aber meist eine GUI zum Installieren von Programmen installiert.
Ihr dürftet nun folgenden Befehl verstehen: sudo cp ~/*.txt . spoiler Admin Modus: Kopiere alle .txt Dateien in meinem Home in diesen Ordner (für den ich in dem Fall wahrscheinlich keine Rechte habe).
Der eigentliche Teil
Schulnetzwerk
Ich dachte, es gibt einen Space auf dem Spengerhub mit Guides, aber den konnte ich so schnell nicht finden. Unter "IT-FAQ" scheint's auch dokumentiert zu sein. Dennoch gebe ich euch das mit, was ich auswendig weiß.
WLAN
Wer Android hat, sollte das bereits können. PEAP, MSCHAPv2, User, Passwort, verbinden.
Enterprise
smb://enterprise. Geht z.B. im nautilus unter Other Locations -> Connect to Server (unterer Fensterrand) -> Text eingeben; unter Thunar sollte es die obere Leiste sein. Dolphin hab ich noch nicht verwendet.
Unterricht
Ich überfliege mal alles, was ich machen musste. Das ist vielleicht in ein paar Jahren nicht ganz brauchbar, weil sich der Stoff verändert. Ich orientiere mich an der Software und schließe daraus, ob es mit Linux möglich ist.
Allgemein
VirtualBox
Nativ
Text Processor
Hier muss ich Microsoft loben, denn Microsoft Office ist ziemlich gut. u/Schtefanz hat angesprochen, dass man Google Docs oder Office365 (online) verwenden kann, wenn man mit anderen arbeitet. Ich bevorzuge letzteres, weil Google eine Datenkrake ist. LibreOffice mit Ribbons ist ganz gut. Soweit ich weiß, kann man auch ein Wörterbuch für einen Spell-Checker installieren. Ansonsten Empfehle ich WPS-Office. Dazu gibt's ein deutsches Wörterbuch, was ich mal verwendet habe. Wer möchte, kann sich noch FreeOffice anschauen. Problematisch wird das ganze beim Schreiben eurer Diplomarbeit. Da würde ich tatsächlich eine Windows-VM mit Word empfehlen, weil die Kompatibilität zwischen den Programmen meist Problematisch ist. Da sollte man auch bei Powerpoint aufpassen.
Text Editor
Mit Linux musste ich leider von NotePad++ Abschied nehmen. GEdit mag ich nicht, weil der Indentations schlecht anzeigt. Kate hat mir ganz gut gefallen und es ist der, den ich bis heute verwende. Das einzige, was ich nicht kann, ist Multi-Caret. Viele sollte Vs-Code freuen, mich leider nicht
Aber... Aber meine Adobe Programme
Das ist leider schwierig. Photoshop CS6 läuft auf Wine, der Rest der CS6 Collection nicht. Auf CC möcht ich nicht eingehen, weil man da wohl kaum eine Konstante hat. Bitte korrigiert mich, wenn ich da falsch liege. Ich bin immer noch dabei, mir Gimp anzugewöhnen. Die restlichen genannten Programme kenne ich leider nicht, aber ich möchte sie aufzählen
Alles Java-Mäßige läuft auch auf Linux. BlueJ, eclipse, alles von Jetbrains, Android-Studio JavaFX ist ein bissl eine Spielerei. Ich hab's grad mit openjdk und Diesem Guide hinbekommen. Dort ist ein Download link. Die openjfx Packages sollten auch gehen, ich war nur grad zu faul, mir den Pfad rauszusuchen, sorry. Unter "JavaFX and IntelliJ" dann die Schritte befolgen, dann sollte es rennen. .NET Framework geht generell mit mono und Jetbrains Rider. Konsolenprogramme und ASP.NET geht, WPF finde ich aktuell nicht im Menü . Dafür muss ich leider eine VM empfehlen. Ein Freund hat in der 4. .net Core gemacht. Ich habe es mir nicht genau angeschaut, aber gebe seinen Kommentar dazu hier her:
Es ist plattformübergreifend. Du kannst somit Binaries für Win,Mac,Unix kompilieren
.net Core kann man also auf Linux schreiben.
DBI
Bis Auf Access und erwin läuft alles nativ auf Linux, was man braucht. Ich möchte jedoch anmerken, dass die OTN_Developer.ova Probleme beim Importieren auf Linux gemacht hat, aber auf Windows ging. Ev. braucht man da Hilfe von einem Windows-User, der so nett ist und es importiert, um es rüberzuspielen (denn das geht, das weiß ich).
NVS
Packet Tracer und WireShark gibt's nativ. Die Packet Tracer versionen für Linux haben die Lehrer sogar auf ihren Sticks, andernfalls kann man's von Netacad runterladen. Das ist es so ziemlich.
Spiele
(Man beachte die Position unter "Unterricht") An die Leute, die sich vornehmen, im niemals im Unterricht zu spielen: Ihr werdet im Unterricht spielen. Daher will ich euch noch kurz erklären, wie das unter Linux geht, damit euch nicht fad wird... In der Freistunde natürlich. Oder zu Hause. Ich verweise am besten mal auf linux_gaming
Nativ
Da muss ich nicht viel erklären.
Steam Proton
Valve entwickelt seit einiger Zeit an Proton, was auf Wine basiert. Somit profitieren alle von der Arbeit. In den letzten 3-5 Jahren hat sich viel getan. Es gibt die ProtonDB, auf der man nachschauen kann, was alles läuft. Das meiste lädt man runter und startet es, zu anderen haben User Anleitungen geschrieben, falls das Spiel nicht zu unbekannt ist. Universell aktivieren: Steam -> Settings -> Steam Play -> Enable Steam Play for all other titles Pro Spiel aktivieren: Spiel auswählen -> Rechtsklick -> Properties -> Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool; Proton Version auswählen Das größte Problem sehe ich bei Anti-Cheat Programmen, also Online spielen, wobei manche Spiele dennoch gehen (siehe Lutris). Performance-mäßig ist es echt super. Manche Leute behaupten, ein paar Spiele laufen sogar besser auf Linux mit Proton, als auf Windows, was sie sich durch den Overhead erklären, demonstration bei 0:55 (Wine -> Cemu -> BOTW; es gibt keinen nativen Wii U Emulator). Ist allerdings unwahrscheinlich. Manchmal ist die Performance gleich, für gewöhnlich gibt es einen Unterschied von bis zu 15FPS. Während der Unterschied zwischen 140 und 125 Frames ziemlich egal ist, ist der Unterschied zwischen 40 und 25 doch gravierend. Klingt, glaube ich, schlimmer, als es ist.
Lutris
Lutris schaut mir nach "PlayOnLinux, aber besser" aus. Man bekommt damit fast alle anderen Spiele zum laufen. Es gibt fertige Scripts, mit denen man Spiele installieren kann. WOW mit wine-staging und dem fertigen Skript, sowie das gleiche Prozedere mit Steep sind zwei Online Spiele, die ohne Probleme laufen.
Alles andere mit Wine
Ich empfehle, wine-staging zu verwenden. Hier werd ich jetzt Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) bissl erläutern. Wine kann man sich als KompatibilitätslayeBibliotheken vorstellen, dedie es erlaubt/erlauben, Windows Programme unter Linux laufen zu lassen. Ein Wine-Prefix besteht meist aus einem Ordner, in dem ein minimalistisches Windows-System dargestellt wird. Man kann mehrere Prefixes erstellen, um Programme, die vielleicht inkompatibel zueinander sind, dennoch zu verwenden. Ich kann mir z.B. von einem Programm mehrere Versionen installieren, wenn das auf Windows eig. nicht möglich ist. Man kann sie ohne Probleme klonen. Auf WineHQ kann man nachschauen, ob und wie gut eine Software rennt. Ich erreiche die Seiten meist über eine Suchmaschine.
Wenn alles nichts hilft (KVM/QEMU)
Leider läuft nicht alles auf Linux. Um das zu umgehen, können wir, gemäß des Zitats meines Onkels, eine virtuelle Maschine verwenden. Ich empfehle KVM/QEMU, da es das Hardwarenaheste ist. Ich empfehle zudem virt-manager, eine grafische Oberfläche. Um das ganze aufzusetzen: Ich hätte einen kurzen Guide geschrieben, aber dieses Video erklärt so ziemlich alles, was man wissen muss. Für mich war es im Endeffekt (pacman ist der Package Manager unter Arch, -S bedeutet installieren)
QEMU sicherheitshalber zuerst installieren, damit der virt-manager das auch findet. Sofern ihr bereits VMs aufsetzen könnt (was man in der 1. lernt), sollte es ab diesem Punkt keine Herausforderung sein. GPU Passthrough erkläre ich jetzt nicht, weil Laptops keine zwei gscheiten Grafikkarten haben, sondern nur eine. Für die Windows installation könnt ihr einen generischen Key verwenden. Ich habe es nicht mit UEFI (ovmf installieren) hinbekommen, das wollte nicht booten, also hab ich's bei BIOS belassen. Video auf QXL, CPU auf "host-passthrough" (per hand eingeben) und Topologie der eures PCs anpassen. Bsp (erster Prozessor auf Geizhals):
Sockets: 1 (Ich nehme an, dass ihr nicht mehr als eine CPU verbaut habt)
Cores: 8
Threads: 2 (2 Threads pro Core = 16 Threads)
Nach der Installation die spice-guest-tools installieren und Auflösung umstellen. Dürfte jetzt ganz gut laufen.
Jetzt ist jemand anderes dran
Ich habe maturiert, ich weiß nicht, wie sich der Stoff oder die Software verändert. Falls es große Unterschiede gibt, bitte ich darum, dass jemand anderes einen weiteren Guide schreibt.
Um euch den Einstieg zu erleichtern beantworte ich noch gerne Fragen zu alternativen für Software, sofern ich da was weiß.
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