I am quite happy to report that - potato skin temporary case with HORRIBLE cooling and only the NVMe drive installed aside - Velocirapture is up and running, mostly with a standard "you snap everything together, it works" assembly experience. The one exception so far is that Manjaro didn't install a Date & Time settings control panel, and somehow got the date wrong in the initial clock synch from the internet so ant HTTP operation failed due to it breaking the security certificate checks.
Watching the twelve CPU load graph bars playing in the dock widget at the bottom of the screen is quite satisfying, even if I don't dare try anything too stressful for the system until the new case arrives next week - idle temps are high 30s C with the side off but quickly shoot up to around 50 if I put it on, still at idle. I'm really annoyed about not being able to get good a cooling solution with this Gateway 310X chassis, it's got such a nice build quality otherwise, and I count the lack of luser window or fairy lights as decidedly positive features. It'll probably take me a week to get everything set up the way I want it for software now, but that's part of the fun too - and since it's Linux, that part doesn't call for any more financial outlay. Only tonight did I remember that an Nvidia gpu would have allowed for CUDA accelerated rendering in Blender, but I'm not going to quibble over that at this point.
Watching the twelve CPU load graph bars playing in the dock widget at the bottom of the screen is quite satisfying, even if I don't dare try anything too stressful for the system until the new case arrives next week - idle temps are high 30s C with the side off but quickly shoot up to around 50 if I put it on, still at idle. I'm really annoyed about not being able to get good a cooling solution with this Gateway 310X chassis, it's got such a nice build quality otherwise, and I count the lack of luser window or fairy lights as decidedly positive features. It'll probably take me a week to get everything set up the way I want it for software now, but that's part of the fun too - and since it's Linux, that part doesn't call for any more financial outlay. Only tonight did I remember that an Nvidia gpu would have allowed for CUDA accelerated rendering in Blender, but I'm not going to quibble over that at this point.
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‎noli esse culus
‎noli esse culus