zixi

So, Skyrim belongs to Microsoft...

I'd say it is more likely that if he could not find anything, we would see a new search system implemented in no time. :wink: rofl! @Striker879 - no! I can see that something like that would make me design half a dozen user studies before breakfast!

No, of course it didn't! :laugh: I've just been looking at how I've set up search and I realise that part of the issue really is that it's using tags... And if different people are adding them they won't always mean the same thing... I seem to be filtering put a lot by adding a block on 'unrealistic'... I see what you mean about 'hovering' over names... It reminds me of a formicarium...

Sounds good! Had a quick look. I'll put it on the list!

The things is with search - it's a bit like help. To use help you need to know what help you need and the terms that will be used. But in fact the people who need help don't know what the things are called. The heaviest users of help turn out to be experts using help on the behalf of everyone else. So maybe search is the same. The people who need to search can't find what they're looking for because they don't know how to look for it and the people who are looking know where it is anyway... I suspect that you and I have now backed ourselves into a philosophical corner... :laugh: Anyway, Nexus won't be the only site whose internal search isn't as reliable as the-one-I-will-not-name... And just think how much fun we'll have when/if they make changes to it. There will be zillions of users who can't find anything, zillions who liked it better the way it was, zillions who don't like anything anyway, half a zillion who could build a better one, several zillion who say: What search? And the handful of Linux users who say: No worries, I built my own script... :devil: Re: constantly using search - perhaps he uses it a lot because *he* can't find anything either... :whistling:

I think your analysis that it is no longer a priority is correct! It explains a lot! And it isn't the easiest OS in the world to install. Re 'stability' agreed but as I no longer use a computer for anything other than fun and if I'm using the 'spare' to experiment in any case, I don't think that's a concern. You're right - it isn't as if there's a problem over finding alternatives! :laugh: Thanks for the insights! @shumkar - Agreed! There is always generous help!

Search is hard to do... at least Nexus doesn't sell its soul to the devil and all of my data as well... :laugh: Sorry - the G word always sets me off along with the MS word and the two A words... :ohmy: But I have noticed recently that when I set up my global preferences I must have done something a lot odder than I was trying to do because several obviously incredibly innocuous mods have now been filtered out by my search criteria! :laugh: I think I've done the equivalent to setting my PEGI to about 4 years old...All I was trying to avoid was seeing too many people fighting dragons in what looks to be underwear... I just worry for them... and would rather not know what other people are subjecting their hero/heroine or their followers to :laugh:

Yeah, in recent years the number of bells and whistles in Linux has increased. Where is the good old black terminal? I have to configure it myself :laugh: @shumkar - 'the resident Linux expert' has just said the same thing! I forgot to add how helpful the Linux community is and how kind with newbies. Some have gone off and written scripts for people who were struggling with old printers etc etc. The more awkward something is - the better they seem to like it. :laugh:

I like your list. :happy: There's some I must try. I'd add The Dark which is kind of well dark! And very lonely. It's more of a puzzle quest. But some of that made me jump out of my seat... fiskin1 ported Jokerine's The Mystery of Icebound Crypt to SSE. It's a small quest but quite harrowing and surprising.

Hi shumkar - Thanks for that reminder! Yes, my husband has explained about how easy it is to take my desktop and profile with me. But the spare PC has nothing on it except the OS so it doesn't matter on one level though perhaps I should do it to see how the process works! I have spent my entire life backing up carefully but the one time I really needed backups I hadn't been careful at all (as I explained somewhere else) and I lost the lot! So even on my main machine there's not much to backup. It'd fit on an old fashioned floppy disk! :laugh: What impresses me most about Linux - apart from how fast it is - is how stable it is. It's very very very difficult to break. I haven't actually ever achieved a crash even with a game though I did resort to a reboot before my husband explained how to bring up a terminal and 'kill' a process. Even that is rare now. I did find the paths very complex to start with but now I mostly open a terminal in the appropriate folder so I don't have to worry about paths so much! I was also puzzled by the lack of drives as I've spent so much time putting things on C: or D: drive and as you know Linux doesn't 'see' things like that. I have a suspicion that people think that Linux is a black background terminal with green text! My desktop is extremely elegant and uncluttered but everything I need is very easy to reach. Even the terminal windows harmonise with the rest and are semi transparent so I can read text below while typing into a window... It's so impressive!

Thanks everyone. That was very very useful! As the spare PC is sitting here not earning its keep I think what I'll do is try a different distro every month! That way, I'll see different ones and hopefully I'll learn stuff along the way. We've decided that rather than buying the Linux mag when we see it, we'll take out a subscription so I can use whatever new flavours come along! My husband has seconded Fedora - it's what he used for years but for some reason he shifted to Ubuntu... At the moment the spare is running Mint and Cinnamon - I really like it though it isn't as elegant as Ubuntu and Gnome. I do like Gnome - it's very attractive. I have run puppy Linux on an extremely old lap top and that was great fun and extremely fast! But I think trying some others on the spare is a good idea. And I don't have to worry about backing stuff up because there's nothing to backup! Win! Win! Win! Thanks again!!! :cool:

Not quite! I do have two PCs side by side (I'd actually forgotten about the other one until recently even though it is on my desk! :ohmy:) It uses a half size keyboard and a very small monitor. The other is larger and I use it for gaming and heating my study. I do get out and do things BTW... I play a musical instrument, weave, braid, grow tomatoes, make paper etc etc and I'm a pretty good cook ; so don't go thinking I'm here with cold pizza and a can of beer... :laugh: But the reality is, having given up Windows I'm really interested in the different distros. My husband buys a Linux magazine which comes with loads and loads of distros and I feel that we ought to try out as many as we can! :geek:

Thanks! That's useful. I have a spare machine currently running Mint and Cinnamon and I have toyed with trying Steam on that. But the reality is I quite like Mint and Cinnamon - sufficiently different from Ubuntu and Gnome so as to be interesting but not so different that I can't find anything! Thank you for the insights!

A long shot and I know I'm being obvious but... you have gone to the data files on the Morrowind start up menu and made sure things are properly selected there? I've made that mistake!!! Spent ages trying to find a watchman who wasn't actually installed... :wallbash:

I remember those icons... :laugh: On Steam there's a Linux user group (I think I found it thanks to you). Anyway, one of the tabs is 'Artwork'... I wondered what Linux users would consider artwork... They have a picture of Darth Vader and: 'Come over to the dark side...' :laugh:

MrRectangle - I'm on the same journey. Played Morrowind when it first came out and decided to have another go but this time via Steam on a Linux box. I've used Vortex to install some carefully chosen mods but I've come to the conclusion that either I manually install (I remember that!) or I play it as it was!!! I have also added a mod at a time, sometimes simply playing the game for a mod which I then remove and return to an earlier save... It's kind of 'pretend' gaming... :laugh: For Linux there's Open Morrowind but it requires the data files (in other words you have to own the game). I can run that without issue using Steam's version of the game but again - unmodded. I haven't tried messing about with the actual disks - I have no idea what the Linux box will say to that one! I truly admire what HadtoRegister has done but I couldn't do that now... I'm scared about how much life I have left! So I tend to muddle through and hope for the best! :whistling:

That'll teach me to be more careful over topic titles... :laugh:

In case you've missed it... Might be worth checking patches are up-to-date... Although this is being described as a 'serious flaw' according to PC Magazine: "The good news is that Microsoft has uncovered no one abusing the vulnerability yet. Older operating systems, such as Windows 7, also remained unaffected. Nevertheless, the NSA predicts hackers will both quickly create and distribute tools to remotely exploit the flaw." https://sea.pcmag.com/microsoft-windows-10/35829/windows-10-flaw-lets-malware-disguise-itself-as-legit-software Sorry - I know this is serious which is why I've bothered to post but I have to be amused by the: "How to upgrade to Windows 10" link on the above page given that they say that Windows 7 is 'unaffected'... I would have thought that now wasn't a particular auspicious time to suggest an 'upgrade'... :whistling:

I'm glad the speeds are improving! :happy: Slightly aside, I agree with shumkar over using 'adversity' as a reason for something new. When I shifted to Linux, Windows 10 hadn't saved the backups properly (I should have checked!) so very little was left... I mean a lifetime of photos and poetry and all sorts - let alone my game saves! After a moment of shock, I thought: What does it matter? Some precious photos were backed up elsewhere and I'd start new games with a new set of mods... It was strangely liberating. Now I don't care if I lose anything because basically there *is* nothing to lose!!!! :laugh:

Hi - yes, I wondered if anyone has tried SteamOS and if they liked it. :happy:

That's it really... anyone tried it?

Paratrooper508 - I sympathise. I'd be swinging from the lampshades after 15 minutes. If that was my set up I'd be wanting to rule out an issue with the machine as opposed to an issue with the game or Steam... 1. Do you have the same issue with other games? If not then 2. Validate the files on Steam then if that makes no difference 3. Disable mods - or at least some of them - and see if the game runs ok. As the others have said, it might be one or two mods have taken a dislike to each other... If you've tried a fresh game then it isn't a problem with an old save...

I have never installed Windows 10 so I didn't know you can tell Cortana to get lost! I did the switching stuff off and hacking registry thing so my 10 looked pretty much like 7. But when the update to 10 came it was difficult to get rid of Cortana. I couldn't replace 10 with 7 because 10 wouldn't let me roll back and I couldn't wipe the hard drive with 10 because Windows wouldn't let me do that either. At that point I decided that as Bill Gates doesn't give me any money towards my PCs then he wasn't telling me what I could and couldn't do... I'm 100% MS-free. :laugh: But to return to the sheep - I agree with you it's possible to stick with 7. Not everyone is enamoured with 10. :devil:

shumkar - Agreed. I can't see a reason for worrying about where mods are switched on and off if the game and Vortex are accessing a single record. And I agree, Vortex is incredibly stable. I'm very impressed with it. I really don't enjoy manual modding in any case! I've done enough of that! I think the issue is between SKSE and SkyUI and I'm trying to run the game with just SKSE to see what happens. This is on an old level 53 save so I dread to think how many mods have been installed and uninstalled in that save so in some ways it really isn't a fair test. But hey ho, I'm a user and users aren't meant to be fair! :laugh: The last time I ran both SKSE and SkyUI was a year or so ago on Windows 7 or 10 and I seem to remember some issues even then. But it could be that both are stable and it's just my mixture of mods and my set up... edited to add - anjenthedog just seen your post! Yes, added to the game inside the game with Vortex already installed. I chose that because it was definitely not one of the mods I'd installed.

Sort of ditto but I came to a different conclusion. My Windows 7 machine got ill and I didn't fancy fixing it myself - it returned from base with Windows 10. We got along uneasily for a while but then Windows 10 did a huge update which made it extremely difficult to disable Cortana. Oh Cortana - let me count the ways I despised you! Whatever you do don't move to Windows 10 unless you're sure that's what you want because rolling back is difficult (or it was for me). I found the easiest way was to use Linux to reformat the disk in order to reinstall Windows 7. But then I decided to stick with Linux in any case... I expect even now MS is weeping profusely at the loss of me as a user... :laugh: