Very positively surprised by how seamless the switch from Windows was

[vraylle@lemmy.sdf.org]

I switched to Mint in January and it's been great. Most games just work straight out of Steam. I have Skyrim modded to an insane level and it can be a little finicky but works.

What really cemented it for me was when I wanted to run an old 32-bit weather software package. I decided to try adding it to Steam, and it...just worked. Like native.

[swelter_spark@reddthat.com]

They're still used by businesses a lot.

[squaresinger@lemmy.world]

import sys
import random

inFilePath = sys.argv[1]
outFilePath = sys.argv[2]
damagePercentage = float(sys.argv[3])

with open(inFilePath, "rb") as f:
    d = f.read()

damageTotalCount = int(len(d) * damagePercentage / 100)

print("Damaging "+str(damageTotalCount)+" bytes.")

dList = [ x.to_bytes(1) for x in d ]

for i in range(damageTotalCount):
    pos = random.randint(2000,len(d)-2)
    dList[pos] = random.randint(0,255).to_bytes(1)
    if (i%1000 == 0):
        print(str(i)+"/"+str(damageTotalCount))

d = b"".join(dList)

with open(outFilePath, "wb") as f:
    f.write(d)

If you run it, the first argument is the input file, the second one is the output file and the third is the percentage of corrupted bytes to inject.

I did spare the first 2000 bytes in the file to get clear of the file header (corruption on a BMP file header can still cause the whole image to be illegible, and this demonstration was about uncompressed vs compressed data, not about resilience of file headers).

I also just noticed when pasting the script that I don't check for double-corrupting the same bytes. At lower damage rates that's not an issue, but for the 95% example, it's actually 61.3% actual corruption.

[daggermoon@lemmy.world]

Thanks, I'll make good use of it. I gotta to learn to write scripts like this.

[randelung@lemmy.world]

I mean, Xbox is MS. I wouldn't expect them to help dig their own grave.

[omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I remember thinking this same thing until my first fstab issue lol. Joking aside the switch itself is relatively painless, you do sort of have to switch your mind to the Linux way of thinking though. And the Linux way of thinking has to include "something is going to break eventually and I'm going to have to figure out how to fix it"

[obnomus@lemmy.ml]

LACT my beloved

[lightnsfw@reddthat.com]

So oddly enough when I went to get the specs on the laptop I had it on and installed it just for funsies while I was at it and it seems to be working better now... At least in the 10 minutes or so I played around with it. Not sure what the problem was before, maybe some update was made since then or something. Gonna mess with it more this weekend.

[eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Yeah, I'm not surprised by it, but it's still a bummer/roadblock.

[squaresinger@lemmy.world]

It does take practice, but once you know how to do it it becomes easy. That was like 5 minutes of work.