The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Sprocket said:
Just to share another win for Linux, old abandonware games. There's a few old games I never managed to get to work in Windows 10/11 and yesterday it occurred to me I might actually get to play them again since switching to Linux, mainly Rise of Legends. I spent weeks trying to get that one running on Windows and failed. An hour of tinkering with wine and I got it working.
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I have a CD copy of GTA:SA for PC. I installed it via Wine, put it onto Proton, and it just works without the No-CD crack. It was able to just detect the CD and play.
 
Ahriman said:
While on the topic of fancy, GPU-powered DEs.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Jgw_q0gWE
Hyprlandbros, your response?
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From the readme:
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Fucking discarded. With prejudice.

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eta: Also extra wtf at the dependency list itself. Double trash. Stick to X11 and ratpoison.
 
Sprocket said:
Just to share another win for Linux, old abandonware games. There's a few old games I never managed to get to work in Windows 10/11 and yesterday it occurred to me I might actually get to play them again since switching to Linux, mainly Rise of Legends. I spent weeks trying to get that one running on Windows and failed. An hour of tinkering with wine and I got it working.
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Not just Abandonware for me, even games like RollerCoaster Tycoon 1 which I wouldn't call the usual type of abandonware per say failed on my Windows 11 partition recently. Zuma which is another puzzle game I love runs poorly on Windows as well. Basically anything depending on DirectDraw or older DirectX versions are going to run poorly on modern Windows unless you do a lot of tweaking or run some patches.
 
Akerman said:
Not just Abandonware for me, even games like RollerCoaster Tycoon 1 which I wouldn't call the usual type of abandonware per say failed on my Windows 11 partition recently. Zuma which is another puzzle game I love runs poorly on Windows as well. Basically anything depending on DirectDraw or older DirectX versions are going to run poorly on modern Windows unless you do a lot of tweaking or run some patches.
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The easiest way to install cracks and repacks is Bottles or Winebar btw

I run fitgirl repacks and isos in bottles

Some games run half decent under wine as well without Proton which is proof Wine is getting better and better
 
Hakase Shinonome said:
I have fucking had it, I have had it up to fucking here with fucking Windows.
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Update: It was fucking Asus and their retarded drivers. They EXCLUSIVELY work on Windows 11 and you have to install it via their fucking service. You either install Win11 with their gigantic amounts of bloatware or you don't get a touchpad. Because fuck you. EVERYTHING WORKED FINE IN BIOS, BY THE WAY.
 
Hakase Shinonome said:
Update: It was fucking Asus and their retarded drivers. They EXCLUSIVELY work on Windows 11 and you have to install it via their fucking service. You either install Win11 with their gigantic amounts of bloatware or you don't get a touchpad. Because fuck you. EVERYTHING WORKED FINE IN BIOS, BY THE WAY.
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I had the same issue with my touchpad that isn't Asus, works fine on Linux out of the box but on my Windows partition its slow and sluggish. I just gave up on it. Driver management is one of the major reasons I dont deal with Windows anymore.

EDIT: All of this reminded me of this classic:
 
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Hakase Shinonome said:
Update: It was fucking Asus and their retarded drivers. They EXCLUSIVELY work on Windows 11 and you have to install it via their fucking service. You either install Win11 with their gigantic amounts of bloatware or you don't get a touchpad. Because fuck you. EVERYTHING WORKED FINE IN BIOS, BY THE WAY.
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If you wanna stick with Windows,use Tiny11builder and debloat the ISO and get the IOT Enterprise LTSC from Massgrave
 
United Abominations said:
If you wanna stick with Windows,use Tiny11builder and debloat the ISO and get the IOT Enterprise LTSC from Massgrave
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Maybe that I didn't specify clearly in my post; you have to install the entirety of Windows 11's ISO via ASUS' service. You can't build your own ISO, because I already did beforehand. Doesn't this sound GREAT? Linux is basically entirely unusable by this. Maybe if you'd download specific ASUS packages from apt or the Arch repo, put them onto a USB and then install them via apt/pacman, then maybe? Because this piece of shit doesn't have an ethernet port, so I can't try out ethernet at all without getting an adapter. Another fucking adapter because this amazing machine only has USB-C ports. BOY, do I LOVE the adaption of USB-C, it's so AMAZING, I LOVE it SO MUCH. - Can we go back to where laptops not only had ethernet, USB-A, SD-card reader, HDMI, DVI, VGA, headphone jack, firewire (if you're Mac) but a goddamn DVD-tray? I'm kind of sick and tired of needing 25 different fucking adapters for everything or needing to install goddamn fucking drivers to have things fucking work. Needing a specific driver for a specific OS for a specific device is basically my breaking point, this is too fucking retarded for me.
 
Hakase Shinonome said:
Maybe that I didn't specify clearly in my post; you have to install the entirety of Windows 11's ISO via ASUS' service. You can't build your own ISO, because I already did beforehand. Doesn't this sound GREAT? Linux is basically entirely unusable by this. Maybe if you'd download specific ASUS packages from apt or the Arch repo, put them onto a USB and then install them via apt/pacman, then maybe? Because this piece of shit doesn't have an ethernet port, so I can't try out ethernet at all without getting an adapter. Another fucking adapter because this amazing machine only has USB-C ports. BOY, do I LOVE the adaption of USB-C, it's so AMAZING, I LOVE it SO MUCH. - Can we go back to where laptops not only had ethernet, USB-A, SD-card reader, HDMI, DVI, VGA, headphone jack, firewire (if you're Mac) and a goddamn DVD-tray? I'm kind of sick and tired of needing 25 different fucking adapters for everything or needing to install goddamn fucking drivers to have things fucking work. Needing a specific driver for a specific OS for a specific device is basically my breaking point, this is too fucking retarded for me.
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I am getting a Pixel phone for GrapheneOS soon because modern Android sucks in the same way Windian 11 does and the enshittification of tech is in everything from luxury cars to refrigerators to laptops

Old Android was user friendly and had character, now its flat and soul crushing corpo slop

I checked the $1600 Asus gaming Laptop and it has all of those basic features so it sounds like they want you to pay the goy tax

Framework may be the only laptop brand worth using at this point tbh but a Framework is still extremely expensive
 

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@Ferryman so I enabled tor router in the guix installer but I'm not sure what it actually does. I don't think it's routing all my traffic through tor though that would be really cool if it did
Edit: oh yeah it actually did do that but only during install lol
 
United Abominations said:
I am getting a Pixel phone for GrapheneOS soon because modern Android sucks in the same way Windian 11 does and the enshittification of tech is in everything from luxury cars to refrigerators to laptops

Old Android was user friendly and had character, now its flat and soul crushing corpo slop
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I have been using GrapheneOS and it's been great so far. Just being able to do shit without restriction is breath of fresh air.

The only problem so far is finding a map app that dosen't suck. It's one of those cases where Google Maps, as annoying it can be just gives me no hassle in comparison.
 
Ly Erg said:
I have been using GrapheneOS and it's been great so far. Just being able to do shit without restriction is breath of fresh air.

The only problem so far is finding a map app that dosen't suck. It's one of those cases where Google Maps, as annoying it can be just gives me no hassle in comparison.
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You're giving me flashbacks to getting lost trying to follow screenshots of Google Maps on my Jolla.

Google Maps moat and all that, but these days the mobile web version should work okay for most stuff I think?
 
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