Bottles imo
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For me Wine / Proton works brilliantly for gaming. I havenāt tried Wine on very many non-gaming applications though.
oh wow. Iām shocked it works in gaming. last time I tried it, it was hot garbage, but itās been many many years and I just run a VM anyway. interesting.
Proton works on most games for me. I go to protondb to check before buying to make sure
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So, with my wifeās disability, when she is preparing to go out, for safety reasons (fall risk) I need to stay in earshot, rather than work upstairs, in my office.
Thatās part of the reason I have an old laptop, connected to keyboard and monitor set up in our living room.
Weāre going to a minor league baseball game tonight, and she wanted to start getting ready. I came downstairs, and powered on the PC, intending to have the Canada-Switzerland match streaming while she gets ready.
Green screen of death. Error message: āUNRECOVERABLE ERRORā. 
Well. It had a good run. I didnāt particularly want a weekend project of setting up a replacement computer, butā¦
Got the new laptop, and it started some kind of ārestore.ā Cool, maybe all my files will transfer. Then I though, "Why would microsoft know about any of my backups? I do them in Norton. I do them on a home backup unit.
There was one file in the Microsoft backup. Whee.
So, I can probably restore my last backup. Probably need to install Norton on this laptop (I prefer it to MacAfee).
Unless anyone has better ideas.
OK, new laptop now wonāt let me sign in. Trying to send code to work e-mail (not a great idea), and it never gets sent. Need a āpinā but cannot set up pin. Has my home phone as a ātext the codeā contact.
Unless someone here knows, Iāll have to ask Dell.
It worked last night. Then, I think I ālockedā it.
OK, so I went to the BIOS. Followed a youtube video until the point where it said to āclick on the local C Drive,ā and no files came up. None, zero. I mean if someone asked if I could have less files, and I can say, ānone; none lesser.ā"
Ok, i figured it out.
Canāt get PokerStars loaded, though.
Will buy a one-wire plug-in station for bedroom, so I can watch soccer while working or playing PS. Yeah, i should just install the TV onto the wall of my office.
Iām headed on a short vacation, needed to dust off my laptop. While taking some inventory, I found my laptop, and my spouse had a laptop sitting on my shelf that was set up for her doing some work for a friend of ours. I mentioned that Iād rebuild it for our workplace (file server, etc). Then I asked her for a laptop bag. She pulls one out of her office closet andā¦thereās another laptop in there thatās already set up for her to work. So we have three Lenovo T540Pās, all identical hardware, one thatās a clone of my desktop, one thatās a clone of my spouseās desktop, and one spare that I guess is going to the gym to watch yoga.
Iāve no idea how long Iāve had these laptops, but itās been many years, I bought them used, cheap, and theyāre still going nonstop.
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OK, I have taken out the old hard drive of my tower, plugged it in to my laptop with the intention of copying files from old to new.
Now, Iām getting a āYou donāt currently have permission to access this folderā notification. āClick āContinueā to permanently get access to this folder.ā
So, I click ācontinueā and the circle just rolls and rolls.
Any ideas?
Do I go in āuser properties?ā
OK, NM. I just copied the folder over. Then Iāll see if I can access anything.