The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[ZMOT]

I've had Proton working fine launching games from NTFS formatted volumes but you have to be careful, some games (looking at you ARMA 3) are programmed assuming your operating system doesn't care about case in filenames, you can add the option ignore_case when mounting an NTFS volume and it usually makes it work. There's also a thing specifically with Steam where it tries creating a directory with a name that is illegal under NTFS, there's a workaround for this too but I forgot what it was.

did you try ntfs-3g with windows_names?

 

[Lone Wandering Courier]

Speaking of which, anyone have any opinions on pipewire?

Pipewire is pretty much objectively better than pulseaudio and is able to replace pulseaudio completely because pipewire is able to emulate it.

 

[WULULULULU]

Any decent android emulators for linux?

Also, anyone who has a config for mangohub? I can't find a way to create a file for mangohub configs, particularly for an AMD CPU + GPU.

 

[Ducks Sorted in a Row]

did you try ntfs-3g with windows_names?

No it's the other way around, windows_names disallows creation of files with illegal names under Windows, but the problem is, Steam is trying to create files that have illegal names under NTFS in general, hence it won't work at all, you have to symlink the compatdata folder to somewhere on an EXT-4 formatted drive. Source

 

[Sperg Coalition]

Speaking of which, anyone have any opinions on pipewire?

Works really well and you can route multiple audio sources more easily than pulseaudio, pavucontrol also works with pipewire due to the latter being able to emulate it.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

Brody seems like a pretty decent guy who just cares about the tech and doesn't want to deal with the bullshit drama. Unfortunately, the source of these issues is very one sided and intolerant, which means he will probably get caught in the crossfire. He can tell Drew Devault and Vaxry to talk things over all he wants, but Drew Devault started it and has no desire to smooth things over because he's a massive faggot. If you just care about the tech you will inevitably have to take a stand or suck off some troon, they don't allow you to have peace.

Yeah. And people on Drew Devaults side are extremely bitter over it, and throwing around bullshit about it. I can think of a perfect example of the irrational hatred they have for anything slightly "opposed" to them. Unfortunatly I can't post it here. It would tie different services I use together too much.

But what I can say is if you look around in linux stuff you can find pretty serious claims about him. That have no evidence behind them, and seem to be purely based on their spite. Because he had a community that was too "toxic". So they seem to just want to get people to not use his stuff no matter what.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

I think reading this wolf thing gave me brain cancer

Yeah that gave me cancer as well. I only keep up with Funtoo because Gentoo's the upstream and it was made by a Gentoo founder.

 

[Punished Derich]

I think the best Android emulation options are waydroid or just virtualizing an x86 version of Android.

 

[Another Char Clone]

Speaking of which, anyone have any opinions on pipewire? I'd rather not add more to my dependency hell.

It's not exactly heavy, just a dependency on dbus, a problem if you don't want it.
I've been on ALSA only for a very long time, pulseaudio never worked, just no sound at all. I now have pipewire working as the pulse backend, which just works without any further configuration.
The real reason I went with it was because Intel HDAudio famously lacked a hardware mixer, forcing you to set one up.

You can check out the dependencies yourself by looking at the gentoo ebuild:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/media-video/pipewire/pipewire-1.0.5-r1.ebuild

Lot's of completely optional stuff.

 

[AmpleApricots]

The real reason I went with it was because Intel HDAudio famously lacked a hardware mixer, forcing you to set one up.

ALSA has dmix as software mixer plugin, you can set it up in /etc/asound.conf. It's pretty much fire and forget.

 

[Another Char Clone]

ALSA has dmix as software mixer plugin, you can set it up in /etc/asound.conf. It's pretty much fire and forget.

That's what I was using all the while, but some apps don't have ALSA support at all. I tried routing pipewire into dmix as just another sound source, but apparently its not happy about it. It tries to get direct control over the sound device nodes, causing all sound to stop working completely.
Regardless, my mpv media player now uses pipewire, I never had a problem with it. It will fall back gracefully to ALSA if I did not start pipewire.

 

[Anti Lolicon Bomb]

what the go to for downloading goytube videos? my yt-dlp is giving me endless 403 for days now (installed via apt, lmde)

 

[DavidS877]

what the go to for downloading goytube videos? my yt-dlp is giving me endless 403 for days now (installed via apt, lmde)

Probably yt-dlp from pip or github.

$ sudo apt install python3-venv
.....
$ python3 -m venv ytdlp
$ . ./ytdlp/bin/activate
(ytdlp) $ pip install yt-dlp
...
(ytdlp) $ yt-dlp --version
2024.07.25

So, 3 days old, probably much more likely to work.

Have to activate the venv each time to get your new yt-dlp and not the system one as it only persists for the current shell session.

 

[Yandex Captcha Solver]

what the go to for downloading goytube videos? my yt-dlp is giving me endless 403 for days now (installed via apt, lmde)

Try to run the command below. May work even with APT managing it.
yt-dlp --update

Never mind, I just tried to run yt-dlp --update-to nightly. Caught an error due to my package manager managing it

With APT just follow the instructions for adding this PPA.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Installation#apt

 

[Ahriman]

Bro initially reviewed this netbook

And later installed a few distros on it.

 

[Kiwi & Cow]

Cmon guys we can do better. He isn't even crying.

Also on the drawing thing. There are screenshot tools like flameshot, and another i forget. That let you do that

Does anyone know what forum he's speaking of in the vid?

 

[Kiwi & Cow]

I don't see a "use case" for ever trusting something developed by such severely mentally ill people.

I'm asking this in earnest, no shitposting, no irony, which DE do I switch to to spite them? Not KDE because it's infested by trannies both in and out the core git maintainers for it. Never touching it in my whole life, I might start raising my levels of estrogen just by doing it. No amount of arguments will ever make me change my mind, so don't even try.
So Cinnamon? XFCE? Is there any other option no 1 mentioned?
Also how do I install a DE? Do I reinstall the whole OS?

 

[seri0us]

I can't find a way to create a file for mangohub configs, particularly for an AMD CPU + GPU.

What are you trying to do?
It should work regardless of CPU/GPU manufacturer both out of the box and with configs.

Spoiler

CONFIG
MangoHud comes with a config file which can be used to set configuration options globally or per application. The priorities of different config files are:

/path/to/application/MangoHud.conf
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/MangoHud/{application_name}.conf
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/MangoHud/MangoHud.conf

An example config file is located in /usr/share/doc/mangohud/MangoHud.conf, containing all available options.

A custom config file location can also be specified with the MANGOHUD_CONFIGFILE environment variable.
Config options can also be set with the MANGOHUD_CONFIG environment variable. This takes priority over any config file.

EXAMPLES
OpenGL: mangohud glxgears
Vulkan: MANGOHUD=1 vkcube
Steam: set your launch option to mangohud %command%
Lutris: add mangohud to the Command prefix setting
OpenGL with dlsym: mangohud --dlsym glxgears
Custom config options: MANGOHUD_CONFIG="gpu_stats=0,font_size=12" mangohud glxgears

 

[Betonhaus]

I'm asking this in earnest, no shitposting, no irony, which DE do I switch to to spite them? Not KDE because it's infested by trannies both in and out the core git maintainers for it. Never touching it in my whole life, I might start raising my levels of estrogen just by doing it. No amount of arguments will ever make me change my mind, so don't even try.
So Cinnamon? XFCE? Is there any other option no 1 mentioned?
Also how do I install a DE? Do I reinstall the whole OS?
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I've always picked a DE depending on how stable and easy it was to use, not how it annoys people who don't know I exist and wouldn't know what DE I use. but probably Cinnamon, maybe XFCE if you're a ricer.

for installing a DE you can usually follow a guide that depends on if you're system is arch based or debian/ubuntu based or redhat. you don't have to uninstall the old one first as you can choose your DE in the login screen.

 

[AnOminous]

I'm asking this in earnest, no shitposting, no irony, which DE do I switch to to spite them? Not KDE because it's infested by trannies both in and out the core git maintainers for it. Never touching it in my whole life, I might start raising my levels of estrogen just by doing it. No amount of arguments will ever make me change my mind, so don't even try.
So Cinnamon? XFCE? Is there any other option no 1 mentioned?
Also how do I install a DE? Do I reinstall the whole OS?
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From what little experience I have, I've had no problem with Xfce. I have no idea about its political situation at present, just that it's not GNOME, the only one I'd actively avoid. I just installed Mint with it as the default DE, although I believe it's pretty easy to install it after the fact as well.

but probably Cinnamon, maybe XFCE if you're a ricer.

I'm not really a ricer, but I also just barely care at all what it looks like. Does it have a dark theme? I'm happy.