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Yeah, if it's 2D games, I just use cnc-ddraw. Just drop the dll into system32/syswow64 and set the override in winecfg. Wine's ddraw emulation is pretty bad. For early 3D games, I use dgVoodoo.
The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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Looks like Jersh is being filtered by Linux.
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I haven't run Linux on system with an nvidia card in ages, but shouldn't he just be using nouveau? I can't imagine him playing any games that need the performance boost that comes from the proprietary nvidia modules.
Klokateer636
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Nouveau is basically a dummy driver. Not actual performance from it. You can install official Linux drivers though
Just recently moved to Linux myself.
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Ah that's right, I forget that they had to do a bunch of reverse-engineering to even get moderate performance on old cards. Shame.
Personally I wouldn't touch a kernel module that isn't in the official Linux source tree with a ten-foot pole. The linkage is usually brittle af and in my experience those things will cause panics if you look at them wrong.
Klokateer636
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So, as someone pretty new to daily driving Linux (Mint), are there any programs or tools people would suggest as must haves?
In particular, something to undervolt my CPU? I gotta undervolt to keep my laptops temps under control, and in Windows I was using Throttlestop to step down 300 mv.
In particular, something to undervolt my CPU? I gotta undervolt to keep my laptops temps under control, and in Windows I was using Throttlestop to step down 300 mv.
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Which NVidia cards are people using that give them these problems? I'm genuinely asking because I may want to upgrade my (NVidia) card in future and I want to know which ones to avoid.
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Avoid all of them if you care about proper Linux support.
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My 1660 works fine. I assume all the tard cards that are popular like the 3070 also do.
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Don't listen to him, get a laptop with NVidia Optimus so you can switch on-the-fly between integrated graphics and GPU acceleration.
This works 100% of the time and could never have any problems.
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The only Nvidia card that I never had trouble getting to work in linux was a gt 730 and the card that has given me the more headaches is an rtx 2060 super.
That said, buy an AMD card if you're thinking into upgrading your card AND moving into Linux. Nvidia hates Linux users for some fucking reason and installing and mantaining their drivers (Because sometimes they do hillarious shit like hanging for no fucking reason) is legitimately some of the most tedious shit that you will ever encounter while using Linux, doubly so if you use Wayland instead of X11 because Nvidia hates wayland users even more than regular linux users.
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Baobab - A lot like WinDirStat, it provides pretty cool visuals of what takes up your disk space. You can choose between ring charts or treemap charts.
Psensor - Provides a graph of your temperatures. You can change which colors on the graph represent which sensor, and can enable/disable them from appearing on the chart whenever you like.
Bpytop - Command line resource monitor that shows usage and stats for the processor, memory, disks, network, and running processes. You can turn off view for each segment if you wish.
Radeontop - Resource monitor for AMD GPUs.
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cpupower-gui is what you want. It's available in the standard repositories (sudo apt install cpupower-gui). Depending on your processor, it'll allow you to manually adjust the frequency scaling of each CPU to a certain degree and you can also use preconfigured governor algorithms to dynamically adjust your CPU's frequency and power consumption.
James Edwin
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I wouldn't exactly complain if I was given a macbook, in fact I'd be blushing at the chance. Particularly since I'm never giving them money.
Linux on a Apple product is such an oxymoron but damn is it appealing to me. The best battery in town combined with an ultra-light OS.
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I'm going to start the transition to Linux. Never used it before so I thought I'd ask for some advice before I fuck something up spectacularly.
I was thinking of going with Kubuntu, which I hear is a good distro for beginners. Considering I'm not that well versed with the inner workings of a modern computing system, neither do I have the time to spend tinkering with settings and packages for days on end, is that the distro to go with? Or would you guys recommend something else?
Also, I absolutely need Windows for some things, mainly software that doesn't run on Wine. I've been reading warnings about Windows 10 updates fucking up the Linux part of dual boot. Is that a realistic scenario? If yes, is there some way to get around it? Or am I just in a situation where I'm forced to buy another computer for daily computing needs on Linux?
I was thinking of going with Kubuntu, which I hear is a good distro for beginners. Considering I'm not that well versed with the inner workings of a modern computing system, neither do I have the time to spend tinkering with settings and packages for days on end, is that the distro to go with? Or would you guys recommend something else?
Also, I absolutely need Windows for some things, mainly software that doesn't run on Wine. I've been reading warnings about Windows 10 updates fucking up the Linux part of dual boot. Is that a realistic scenario? If yes, is there some way to get around it? Or am I just in a situation where I'm forced to buy another computer for daily computing needs on Linux?
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Kubuntu LTS or Mint. Backup any important documents you have to an external HDD or something then it doesn't matter how many times you fuck up. And if you have to use Windows, run it in a VM or a completely different SSD (if you're working with a desktop)
Here's a nice list of useful "updated" linux tools. https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix I especially like TLDR and Cheat
James Edwin
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Switching to Linux at first was liberating as fuck. Like yeah its bumpy at first but once you realize the possibilities you'll likely love it. Run a few distros on a live CD or VM before you try them and see which look the most fitting. https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html Some work on ventoy and others don't as a warning.
Distro hopping aside getting a feel for desktops that isn't the shit Microsoft excuses as a 'Functional GUI' is fun. Working search menu's that don't give you obscure, random results. A file manager that isn't total garbage. Everything is swappable so if you don't like one terminal you can just use another. If you like a dock from one DE you can generally get it working on another DE and have a fancy mac style dock on something light.
It's such freedom. If you're insistant you can have anywhere from a w95 to modern mac look, or just go full linux fag and pull out the neon 3 color terminal aesthetic.
No more "HELLO, PLEASE LOG IN TO YOUR MICROSOFT ACCOUNT TO CONTINUE" and forced updates either.
Distro hopping aside getting a feel for desktops that isn't the shit Microsoft excuses as a 'Functional GUI' is fun. Working search menu's that don't give you obscure, random results. A file manager that isn't total garbage. Everything is swappable so if you don't like one terminal you can just use another. If you like a dock from one DE you can generally get it working on another DE and have a fancy mac style dock on something light.
It's such freedom. If you're insistant you can have anywhere from a w95 to modern mac look, or just go full linux fag and pull out the neon 3 color terminal aesthetic.
No more "HELLO, PLEASE LOG IN TO YOUR MICROSOFT ACCOUNT TO CONTINUE" and forced updates either.
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That's not how you spell 'zsh' fren
I would recommend Linux Mint (any flavor). It comes with Cinnamon by default but you can simply install another desktop environment and start it from your login screen (KDE is a good one if your machine isn't super underpowered). Try out a few of them (GNOME, KDE, xfce, lxde, maybe even some meme ricer WM that uses tiling) to get a feel for which one you want to use.
The update question depends on what kind of bootloader installation you're using. From what I understand, Windows 10 likes to overwrite the MBR during updates and so it can mess up a traditional BIOS installation of GRUB. The best way around this is to boot with UEFI (most distros will install this way by default if you boot their installation disk from UEFI mode). If Windows does mess up your bootloader, it's pretty easy to just boot into a Linux live CD and run a bootloader repair to fix the bootloader.
James Edwin
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Mint is OK but I hate recommending it because it uses Xorg which is its own can of worms and Cinnamon is unstable beyond fuck.
If you want to go Ubuntu just go Ubuntu, KDE (Kubuntu) being the most feature rich DE. Pop is also very nice, but it's still just another Ubuntu derivative.
If you want to go Ubuntu just go Ubuntu, KDE (Kubuntu) being the most feature rich DE. Pop is also very nice, but it's still just another Ubuntu derivative.