Google Stadia, the cloud gaming service operated by Google, has finally arrived. We have tested it on a ridiculous cheap PC with a 30$/€ AMD Athlon 200GE CPU with integrated graphics. We played the first game (out of Destiny 2) on the list: Samurai Shodown. The game is playable and fun, the audio was perfect, the graphics at FullHD 1920×1080[…]
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How to move ‘snap’ folder away from home location in Linux
In the past, I had a lot of troubles with the snap ecosystem and I suggested to not use it for the production systems. All my first attempts to use snap failed, all my PCs became unresponsive, all the applications in snap version proved to be much slower than others. But I want to give snap another chance, so I’m[…]
Read moreA faster desktop environment. Ubuntu 19.10 and the renaissance of GNOME
GNOME is one of the most loved/hated desktop environment. Its history starts a long time ago and its community is incredibly big: GNOME is one of the most modern DE but due to features and poor optimization, it has often given the fast experience of lighter DEs like LXDE, Mate, or XFCE. Those DEs made the system much more responsive[…]
Read moreAMD-nix desktop and wallpaper
As readers of this site/blog know well, I am passionate about everything related to the customization of operating systems and, in particular, of desktop and Linux environments. So as a great user of the related groups on Reddit, r/unixporn on all, sometimes, I also enjoy posting some shots of my experiments. The latest is AMD-nix on r/desktops, in clear response[…]
Read moreHow to fix the “token” parameter not in video info for unknown reason error
If the ‘token parameter’ issue has occurred using youtube-dl on Linux, you’re probably using an outdated version of the command. Here how to fix it under Fedora and Ubuntu. You have tried to download video or audio from Youtube through the youtube-dl command and you got the following result: [youtube] 1234567890A: Downloading webpage [youtube] 1234567890A: Downloading video info webpage ERROR:[…]
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