The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[DavidS877]

Anyone coming from Windows is going to have just the bare minimum of knowledge

There's a Unix-style operating system for those people, it's called macOS.

 

[Betonhaus]

There's a Unix-style operating system for those people, it's called macOS.

So you're taking the tranny/DEI stance of "this is not meant for you"?

 

[DavidS877]

So you're taking the tranny/DEI stance of "this is not meant for you"?

In the sense that trannies have helped teach us that sometimes gatekeeping is necessary to keep the retards from shitting everything up. Yes.

 

[seri0us]

Vox Day uses Mint, so don't think all Mint users are like this autistic faggot

Vox Day also thinks Trump has secretly been U.S's president since 2021 (or whatever the latest qtard lore is)

 

[User names must be unique]

Since I inadvertently started this argument I feel I should weigh in. @davids877 is right, consider where we are for a moment i'm more surprised i didn't get called a faggot for such a question or told to download boku-no-picOS. Anyone that finds themselves in this thread probably has some basic familiarity of linux.

It's been about 4-5 years since i last tried to daily drive a linux system, dunno if manjaro is superior to ubuntu but aside from a few small issues it's going much better than I initially expected.

 

[Leaded Gasoline]

just bricked my windows install, any distros good for gayming I should try before inevitably re-installing windows 10?

nah just stick to Windows 10

 

[HahaYes]

dunno if manjaro is superior to ubuntu but aside from a few small issues it's going much better than I initially expected.

Ubuntu is super cucked thanks to canonical these days so manjaro wins over it for that alone

 

[Max Free]

Learning curve for what and who, exactly?
Unless you are mentally deficient, you can easily decide by yourself which distribution to use, no?

Just try every single of the 4 dozen distributions by yourself and re-learn their specific methodology to accomplishing the very same stuff you can do in windows in your sleep for decades.

 

[King Vidiot]

just bricked my windows install, any distros good for gayming I should try before inevitably re-installing windows 10?

I raped the boot partition, while trying to remove a different version of windows. It's not a big deal I didn't lose anything.

If your C: partition is still intact you should be able to rebuild the boot partition and BCD without needing to reinstall. I have done this before for Windows 10 and it is pretty straightforward. The only tricky part is making sure you identify whether your system does EFI or MBR booting, since the recovery procedure is different for each boot method.

If you re-install Windows 10, I would recommend the LTSC version. It is what I run on my main desktop system and I am really happy with it. If you are considering this, you should read through the Windows 10 LTSC for gaming thread.

I don't have a recommendation for a Linux distribution for gaming. The last time I ran a game in Linux was on a Slackware system over 20 years ago.

 

[Betonhaus]

Just try every single of the 4 dozen distributions by yourself and re-learn their specific methodology to accomplishing the very same stuff you can do in windows in your sleep for decades.

Like 80% of the stuff is going to be the same among each distro, and 15% of it will be only depending on if Cinnamon or KDE or Gnome is installed.

 

[User names must be unique]

If your C: partition is still intact you should be able to rebuild the boot partition and BCD without needing to reinstall. I have done this before for Windows 10 and it is pretty straightforward. The only tricky part is making sure you identify whether your system does EFI or MBR booting, since the recovery procedure is different for each boot method.

If you re-install Windows 10, I would recommend the LTSC version. It is what I run on my main desktop system and I am really happy with it. If you are considering this, you should read through the Windows 10 LTSC for gaming thread.

I don't have a recommendation for a Linux distribution for gaming. The last time I ran a game in Linux was on a Slackware system over 20 years ago.

I didn't lose anything (other than a few large games) really not worth the hassle to repair, may as well use it as a reason to try new things since windows 11 sounds like dogshit. I'm also starting to think my old windows 10 install was borked anyway, i'm getting much better load times in games now running through steams compatibility layer thingy.

 

[Black Willow Lurker]

Hot take: if you're autistic enough (which means you can RTFM and don't use software with DRM that requires selling your soul to the chinks), the best Linux distro for games is Windows in a VM with PCI passthrough. Depending on hardware/software, there's a few hoops you'd have to jump, but if you can get it to work, there's no need to fuck around with "launchers"/winetricks/different Wine versions.

 

[Sperg Coalition]

Depending on hardware/software, there's a few hoops you'd have to jump, but if you can get it to work, there's no need to fuck around with "launchers"/winetricks/different Wine versions.

Looking Glass is a very promising project designed for programs that require high performance graphics.

 

[Black Willow Lurker]

Looking Glass is a very promising project designed for programs that require high performance graphics.

That thing has been around for years now, and it's basically bumblebee/DRI_PRIME but for passthough'd GPUs (unless the author feature creep'ed it into a "virtual GPU" or something, which I doubt). Might be useful if you want to have VM output in a "window" for whatever reason. I've just plugged my GPU into a spare display input and use I2C to switch inputs with a hotkey. It's not instant, but there's no need for SPICE jank, and it actually works without an OS/display driver installed.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

there's no need to fuck around with "launchers"/winetricks/different Wine versions.

I use a single wine version for everything without any launchers, and I don't have any problems. A lot of people don't realize winetricks doesn't require a gui, and you can run it quietly through a terminal. Its super fast. 90% of the games you run will just work with just winetricks -q dxvk and vkd3d. You don't really need separate prefixes. The same prefix I use for STALKER 2 also plays my ancient 2006~ ish visual novels. A lot of it just boils down to just knowing what games need, and there's plenty of documentation you can find with just simple search skills.

 

[Meriasek]

Most will work well these days. I've had wild successes with both Debian and Arch. Gentoo's working great so far, but I haven't banged on it with games much yet. I presume Mint and Ubuntu work well if you're looking for a downstream distro.

>Noob asks about distros for maybe switching from Windows
> "I use Arch btw"
Every fucking time.

 

[analrapist]

> "I use Arch btw"

I quit Arch earlier this year because I got sick of having to wrangle two parallel package managers. Debian's less of a headache if I want to run binaries, and Gentoo's less of a headache if I want to build from source. The pacman/AUR combo tries to fit somewhere between them but just ended up being an irritation.

>I used Arch BTW.

 

[Kosher Dill]

>Noob asks about distros for maybe switching from Windows
> "I use Arch btw"

Arch works fine as long as you apply a good coating of prop wash to your left-handed bat stretcher. Keep your chin up, noobs!

 

[Meriasek]

As for Linux and gaming, I went OpenSUSE and only ever tried Kingdom Come: Deliverance so far and it works perfectly fine.

 

[jeff7989]

Is this Linux? For reference it's a video from T90 tank.