https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432909
--- Comment #8 from Lee the Geek <leewilkerso...@gmail.com> --- What I have exhibiting this symptom is one computer with 4 different Linux installation bootups. Two are on an HDD being Linux Mint 19.3, and the other two are on an SSD being another 19.3 and a 20.1 Mint. I have an older laptop with 19.3 and sometimes pieces on it won't move at all for up to two seconds with only 150 pieces so I don't play it on that one at all. I have completely done away with Winduhs, unless I install XP or 7 as a virtual machine. (There are only two old Winduhs programs I still like to use and one will work under WINE.) I leave files installed where Linux installs them except that I change the locations of the personal folders for Documents, Pictures, Downloads, Music, Videos, etc. The issue of which I speak, read/write drive cycles, ONLY occurs when I am MOVING pieces. For some reason, the software is ultimately buffering the location of each individual piece on the drive where it should be using RAM. PS. I have been playing at 200 pieces for awhile, and I do know, after many years of computers, how it feels to lose tons of work because I have put off backups. At any rate, I cannot imagine saving a game more often than about 2 minutes or so. At any rate, I am familiar enough with tweaking this and that from my days of hacking/tweaking back in the days of DOS and now back into Linux that if I only need to change a number or two in a .sh or a .conf file, I can do that! If you told me in a DOS .com or .exe what byte, word, doubleword to change, I could also do that and have done so even to the point of tweaking to match a checksum or two. I regularly tweak a few items in Linux with each new installation and one of the items I add is the graphical dconf editor. PS., In many instances, I actually prefer the CLI for tweaking since that is where I started computing. I have written my own script using sudo apt-get to install the 25 or so extra programs I always prefer. All I need is a pointer for where to look and what to change. Maybe? On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 7:07 PM Ian Wadham <bugzilla_nore...@kde.org> wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432909 > > --- Comment #7 from Ian Wadham <iandw...@gmail.com> --- > So you are a hardware geek. Fine. I respect that. > > C++ is only the first of several hurdles to conquer before you could make a > change to Palapeli. Software development has become a lot more formal and > controlled since the old days of PEEK and POKE and is based on vast > amounts of > shared software. > > It sounds as though you have an SSD and an external rotating hard drive > and you > have your personal (login) files on the external drive. KDE Games and other > apps (including Palapeli) save user files in a special directory in your > login > area. You might be able to work around your problem by moving that > directory to > your SSD and using a link or shortcut. Please email me privately if you > wish to > find out more, because Bugzilla is a bug-reporting database, not a forum. > > I am 82 years old and fading fast, so am no longer developing or > maintaining > software. I work on an Apple MacBook Pro, so no flashing lights. On my > previous > MacBook I did months of development work on Palapeli for handling large > puzzles > (300-10,000 pieces). The graphics processor died but not the rotating hard > drive... ;-) > > On my current machine I ran a check and O/S processes generate much more > disk > activity than Palapeli. Who knows why... but I don't really care any more. > > -- > You are receiving this mail because: > You reported the bug. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
