I’m taking a break from Elden Ring and other soulslikes to play Anno 1404 in all aspects for the first time. Previously, I only played enough of it to build up armys and armadas to wipe out the other players.

Now I want to build large warships, have nobles, build the emperors dome and the sultan mosque, buy council seats, sabotage other cities and challenge or at least survive the really difficult AI players (two star and three star).

Yes, it’s not 1800. I don’t like 1800.

It’s a interesting trip through Windows history everytime I need to change an admin setting:

• You need to modify an admin setting (like…setting a MTU for example or changing an IP address (now possible in Settings, but wasn’t for a long time))

• You click through Settings -> Setting not available, but a Link to Control Panel -> click on the Control Panel Link (XP-Era) -> Advanced Settings on the Top-Window (Windows 2000) -> Finally, right click on the Network Adapter and select Properties and you are all the way back to Windows 95/98.

• Same with Powershell: A function or Cmdlet isn’t available? Let’s try this .Net thingy first, before we head to VBS

• Need to manage Sound Devices? Better do that in Control Panel, since most of the useful settings are still missing

• Need to remove a Outlook profile? Control Panel.

Windows is a prime example of inconsistent design, that’s why Device Manager still asks for drivers on a A:\ 3,5" floppy drive.

As an Administrator, I’m curious to see, what will become of Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and their Snap-Ins, which are still required to have by many still supported MS Products and third party tools. The last time I had to edit something in “Component Services” (Windows NT-Era Tool) was 2023.

Oh, sorry…

Were you able to fix it?

If it’s that kind of flickering on KDE 6.X on Wayland that forced me to temporarily move back to Cinnamon on X to play Elden Ring again, it could be related to KDE enabling Explicit Sync by default and the NVidia drivers < 555 that don’t support it.

It was only flickering, the framerate was fine.

After I installed the 555 driver from the repository, the flickering in KDE on Wayland was gone.

There’s a manual for Ultramarine Linux on how to install the nvidia-driver

According to another comment, your notebook model likely has a integrated Nvidia GPU.

Hope this helps

No university degree, did an apprenticeship 14 years ago in germany. It was three days a week of learning sysadmin things within a company (Windows, Linux, network devices) and two days a week of school, where the theoretical stuff was taught.

After 3 years, I was a newbie sysadmin and capable of managing Windows and Linux environments. I did no further certifications back then.

Over time, especially since I wanted to move more towards Linux, automation, containers and cloud native things from 2022 on, I did some certifications (LFCS, RHCSA, RHCE) which helped me to land a job where I now work 100% with Linux and containers and kubernetes.

I did it to:

• learn the things I had experience on from the ground up and fix the all the “holes” I never had to work with before in the day to day job and get a verification of my skills.
• learn additional things that were not part of the apprenticeship but are useful as a sysadmin today (automation, containers, git, etc)

I’m still learning to build up knowledge of kubernetes and will eventually take exams on that topic as well.

However, there are certifications with questionable value to them (in my opinion), like multiple choice tests for single tools or the like.

I’m a fan of performance based lab exams, where you get 20 tasks from all the scopes of the product to solve and have to actually apply the knowledge you gained to pass the exam by solving real world problems.

By learning for those kinds of exams, you cover a product or technology - almost - 100%. Unlike learning by experience only, which can be very individual. You can for example totally manage 10 linux hosts with ansible for 10 years without ever having to use facts, roles, etc. Just by writing very big playbooks.

Does that qualify for 10 years of ansible experience?

In reality, companies have a certain size and use-cases, so you’ll do the absolute minimum to get something running/implemented securely (most of the time, I know there are exceptions). So imho certifications provide a birds eye view and force you to learn different areas of the product, which may be very useful, out of scope, etc.

But just passing a certification exam once doesn’t equal years of real experience either. It’s a mixed topic. For a point in time, you knew enough to pass the exam, so if your certification is still valid, it would be reasonable to assume you still know what you’re doing, that’s all.