Amateur Linux Hour

  • 🔧 At about Midnight EST I am going to completely fuck up the site trying to fix something.
ToroidalBoat said:
It sucks how it seems Linux software is almost always distributed as this pile of "useless system files" that one has to know how to somehow compile into working software.
Click to expand...
?
Most software is available though the distro's package manager, and the ones that don't usually offer a .deb or .rpm package or a install.sh script
 
  • Informative
Reactions: ToroidalBoat
snov said:
Maybe you'd prefer Windows or MacOS.
Click to expand...
DOS and Amiga operating systems have simple executable files, you know the ancient operating systems? If Linux lacks a feature that the Amiga OS does then its a failing on Linuxs part not mine.
 
Chaos Theorist said:
DOS and Amiga operating systems have simple executable files, you know the ancient operating systems? If Linux lacks a feature that the Amiga OS does then its a failing on Linuxs part not mine.
Click to expand...
I get the impression that you lack sufficient context for making your arguments.
 
  • Agree
Reactions: Heliantheae
Betonhaus said:
I get the impression that you lack sufficient context for making your arguments.
Click to expand...
I'm at work, but let me try to explain his point a bit better:

When I first tried Linux, I downloaded a few Linux games from my humble bundle library, since I knew I had Linux native games there. I downloaded 3 games and all 3 had different methods of installation, with Bastion giving me a single file and a note saying 'compile it yourself, bro'.

It's getting better, but I still find the number of installation methods people use on Linux mind boggling.
 
jeff7989 said:
Oh no, you were given source code. The horror.
Linux is NOT Windows or OSX, git gud or fuck off. You can always stick with stuff like Steam or Lutris if you want to learn nothing about Linux.
You can also ask for help if you are having some actual trouble running make.
Click to expand...
No one uses make anymore... well, not alone
(mkdir build; cd build ; cmake .. ; make )
Of course at least when autoconf went wrong you could find where it went wrong.
 
jeff7989 said:
Oh no, you were given source code. The horror.
Linux is NOT Windows or OSX, git gud or fuck off. You can always stick with stuff like Steam or Lutris if you want to learn nothing about Linux.
You can also ask for help if you are having some actual trouble running make.
Click to expand...
If you don't calm down I'm only going to talk about linux using food analogies.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Wright
i should not have tried to update the firmware on my new server as now it wont boot anything.
i finally got a ms-dos bios recovery tool running so i have a screen that says "BIOS is Recoverying..." so here's hoping
 
That's why you never update the firmware on something that's out of warranty.
Dead BIOS=Dead server. You could try asking for help on level1techs forum, but I wouldn't get my hopes up. Failed firmware updates often aren't recoverable short of digging out a pogo pin flasher, which isn't even an option without an OEM tech sending you the factory binaries.
 
snov said:
That's why you never update the firmware on something that's out of warranty.
Dead BIOS=Dead server. You could try asking for help on level1techs forum, but I wouldn't get my hopes up. Failed firmware updates often aren't recoverable short of digging out a pogo pin flasher, which isn't even an option without an OEM tech sending you the factory binaries.
Click to expand...
I have a thread on there bookmarked about using a phonic recovery tool that il will try tomorrow
I'm just kicking myself for trying to update because I know that updating bios is a very bad idea unless it's one of those new mobos that dont need ram or a cpu to do the flash
 
Chaos Theorist said:
I should not have to open the equivalent of the command prompt to install a GOG game.
Click to expand...
Use Lutris. It's very helpful with GOG,Epic and a few other launchers.

Lutris - Open Gaming Platform

Play all your games on Linux. Lutris is an Open Source gaming platform for Linux. It installs and launches games so you can start playing without the hassle of setting up your game. Get your games from GOG, Steam, Battle.net, Origin, Uplay and many other sources running on any Linux powered...
lutris.net lutris.net
1701322145939.png

Bear in mind there are a few games that have trouble working. I couldn't get simcity3000 to do more than give me a menu screen then glitch out to either a static image of the game or a black screen when I tried to play.
 
Nope, the server is toast. I contacted the seller for a refund, they sell a lot of hardware so they aren't likely to give me a hassle. I did ask if I could forgo the refund and pull the second drive module (for drives 5-8 ) to stick in my existing server, but no idea if they will accept that
 
Linux can run standalone executables just perfectly, it's just better to use system package managers and dynamic linking for many, many, reasons. You ever wondered why the average Linux install takes up so little disk space? That's because there's gnerally only one copy of all the QT libraries instead of a copy for each software that uses it. There are a couple of drawbacks, of course, but I have a few pieces of non-managed software in folders of their own, not even technically installed, and they work well.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back