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Camelot unchained system requirements5/17/2023 ![]() I am still a bit “up in my feels” about what I really think about that game. I popped in for a little bit yesterday before Diablo IV Beta came to a close and finished leveling to 25, the level cap for that test. In the short term, I will probably use VNC, which I have never loved… but it is functional and easy enough to set up. Previously I had used Parsec as my remote tool of choice, but there is no Linux hosting option for that sadly. I mean I will still likely run Plex on it, but I am also really interested in trying to figure out the best use of it as a remote machine given that I never actually use my second machine with a proper monitor/keyboard/mouse. The fediverse however has immersed me more into open source culture… and I am thinking it might be time to test drive actually running one of my primary machines as Linux. For decades I’ve had a Linux box as a “toy” machine, that I fiddle with for a few days and then forget about it… and by the time I need it again, I often burn it down and start from scratch. This is going to mean that I will be using Linux a heck of a lot more than I normally do. I’ve always built my second machine as a Windows machine, so this is going to be a bit of a first for me. In theory, I could just run a more server-ly distribution on it, but I often like to use this machine as a secondary desktop. I’ve built up a few past laptops using it and felt good about it. Why that distro? Largely it is a case of comfort and familiarity. The plan is to build this into a Linux Mint based system. Merigold was my old AMD FX-6300-based system and when I upgraded to my current i7-10700K-based system a few years ago, I left my previous x99-based i7-5820k system largely sitting there dormant. Another proud tradition of mine is to turn my previous gaming desktop into my new “fuck around and find out” system. Over the weekend that machine gave up the ghost, and while I could potentially resurrect it with a new system build… I’ve decided to move on. My gaming desktop before that was named Serenity, and when I rebuilt the gaming desktop before that into a Plex Server I named it Merigold as I was playing through Witcher 2 and 3 at the time and Triss is legitimately the correct choice. My current gaming desktop is named NormandySR2 and my laptop is named NightCity. Generally speaking, the machine gets named after something that I am engaged with at the time. It is almost as though each machine that gets a fresh install is its own “being”, because yes I suffer from the personification of machinery. ![]() I will never name the same build the same thing twice.
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