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Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch (www.theregister.com)
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"On systems with Secure Launch enabled, attempts to shut down, restart, or hibernate after applying the January patches may fail to complete."

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[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is.

And honestly, remembering the stuff I had to do to play the original Doom at a LAN party back in the day.

  • Buy a sound card (some PCs came with, mine didn't)
  • Install the sound card drivers correctly
  • Edit the computer's config.sys file to assure the operating system drivers were loaded in such an order as to allow enough of Bill Gates' 640 kb RAM available to load a game
  • Borrow (!) a network card from my dad's computer, and open up the PC to jam it in there
  • Install network drivers
  • Path the physical coaxial network cables through all PCs and terminate them correctly
  • Configure the game to know which direct memory address (bank 1) and hardware interrupt request id (5) it needed to talk to the sound card
  • Yes hello also find a smaller mouse driver and load it correctly because by now all the networking and audio stuff is making those 640kb tight

We all did that back then!

If someone was a "gamer" they were not afraid to do this because they either knew how or knew a friend who was happy to help.

Compare that to what I do today that most gamers consider "mind-numbingly super nerd impossible bullshit lol linux sux", running GNU GUIX:

  • Find a channel for the nvidia drivers. Add it to my system config, 2 lines.
  • Find a channel for Steam. Add it to my system config, 2 lines.
  • Oh no I had to add 2 more lines for nvidia by following clear documentation.

O hey everything just works. Proton kicks in automatically.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Welcome to the convo, fellow old person.