The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Kosher Dill said:
As I'm fond of pointing out, Git's usefulness is directly proportional to how similar your use case is to Linus Torvalds'. This is pretty far out there.
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it feels like it's an extension of git because the developer just thought git was cool. I guess probably also for its snapshot stability. Annex has basically one use case and that's "dropbox for the paranoid. Paranoid meaning several different things here.
(I'm paranoid)
 
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Us, Mercurialcels will keep seething...
(in all seriousness, if you think git doesn't fit your workflow, you should try Mercurial)
It does seem to get some more traction recently in big tech.
 
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Short Circuit said:
Us, Mercurialcels will keep seething...
(in all seriousness, if you think git doesn't fit your workflow, you should try Mercurial)
It does seem to get some more traction recently in big tech.
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I've given mercurial a try. It was okay but I don't really see the purpose if you already know git very well. Annex isn't used like either of these, though. It basically lets you have an infinitely sized directory where the actual information can be stored fuckwherever. It also allows making copies of information super friggin easy. Probably easier than any backup system I've seen. That's why I want to like it but it just feels very sketchy to me due to it being so unknown. I'm currently using it on my chromebook with (no shit) 8 total gigs of disk space and having it synced over SSH. The files on there are not terribly important and I have real backups elsewhere. I guess I'll see how it goes over time.

EDIT: I have gone through 5 different cycles of absolute nonsense trying to get annex to work on windows and I just can't. Even after solving the symlink permissions issue it still refused to enable that functionality. Half the time it just freezes up my terminal window until I kill it in task manager. Fuck it.
 
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Trigger Me Timbers said:
Manjaro or Arch. Never used arched, was a big Ubuntu user for a long time but I don’t wanna go back to ubuntu because I know how shitty it is with gnome.

is there any big time investment to get into arch vanilla? Does majaro really help or is it just a meme?
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The time investment is basically a long-weekend now if you're starting out using something like GNOME or KDE or another full-featured DE in arch. Literally boot from USB, bootstrap base system, chroot, edit some text files, reboot, make normal user, pacman -S somefuckingde somefuckingdisplaymanager, systemctl enable somefuckingdisplaymanager and you're good to go.

If you want to rice arch that can potentially take months to get just right but you might as well just guzzle some titty skittles at that point.
 
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Trigger Me Timbers said:
Manjaro or Arch. Never used arched, was a big Ubuntu user for a long time but I don’t wanna go back to ubuntu because I know how shitty it is with gnome.

is there any big time investment to get into arch vanilla? Does majaro really help or is it just a meme?
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Manjaro is good to introduce yourself into Arch and see the differences. I would recommend the XFCE edition. The real difference is how Arch/Manjaro vs Debian based distros like Ubuntu handle software sources. Raw Arch takes quite a bit of skill to get working which is why some geeks like it. Others want something that is more pre-configured like Endeavour or Garuda but sicks to the principles of Arch and much simplier to install. I personally like Debian/*buntu distros.

If you want an Ubuntu based distro, most people recommend Linux Mint but I also love using Ubuntu MATE edition.
 
To the dude that recommended Bottles as a way to run Windows software on Linux, God damn that was a good suggestion.

Got off my ass this weekend and put it on. I was gonna just tell it to pull the .exe of the game I wanted to run but since it was a steam game it didn't work. Instead I had the program install a 2nd steam and downloaded the game on this secondary installation.

There are some slight graphical glitches on the Steam overlay of the Bottles install that make it flick and are quite annoying. The game doesn't seem to ever actually be minimized and instead passing the mouse over the place the window was causes it to come back. However this issue is tolerable because of the upsides. I had a triple digit increase in FPS.

When playing Atomic Heart on my regular Endevour OS I had to run it mostly on low settings despite the hardware detection saying that my PC could handle Atomic settings. The game ran at about 40 FPS at most with dips to high 20s. However once the first part of the game was done and I left the underground facility the open world caused the game to dip into at most 25 fps, with noticeable dips going to almost single digits that made it unplayable.

With Bottles I had the game rise back to 60 fps with plenty of frames to spare going around. I was able to increase most configurations back to medium with a few on high and it still is running on 60 fps smooth as butter. Honestly quite impressive stuff.

It is also much more convenient to close native/runtime Steam and open the Bottles install when I want to play one of these games than a Virtual Machine or a reboot to go to Windows would be. The GUI is simple, the FAQ told me everything I need to know to get it running in seconds, the default out of the box configuration for the Gaming specialized bottle got it done no problem, the design was very human.

10/10
 
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General Emílio Médici said:
To the dude that recommended Bottles as a way to run Windows software on Linux, God damn that was a good suggestion.
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Did you have problems with Steam's Proton? Or do you just not use Steam on principle?

Because it's essentially a curated Wine instance. It has worked reasonably well for me although I mostly use it for things like pixel art games and games that would be old enough to drink if they were humans.
 
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AnOminous said:
Or do you just not use Steam on principle?
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Personally I just use bottles because I'm a dirty pirate, but it certaintly has its uses if you play games on 3rd party launcher (overwatch 2 mainly) or use bottles just for apps like ableton, which I found only really possible under bottles.
Not to mention its easier to compartmentalize your wine prefixes in bottles if you run many.
 
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AnOminous said:
Did you have problems with Steam's Proton? Or do you just not use Steam on principle?

Because it's essentially a curated Wine instance. It has worked reasonably well for me although I mostly use it for things like pixel art games and games that would be old enough to drink if they were humans.
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I use Steam pretty often, and Proton is absolutely great at getting most game to run perfectly fine out of the box by just forcing compatibility on the steam settings of them. But as good as it is Proton is still sadly not up to the level of making every single game run smoothly on every single possible distro and hardware combination. Which is why I believe it only just about got the game to run on my computer but with Bottles it had such a superior performance.
 
So far settled on kubuntu, was switching between mint and manjaro for awhile but there was always some kernel driver issues with my hardware. Everything seems to work the way I need it to work now. Plus kde plasma has soooooper customization. Combine that with wine, proton and lutris for gaming (& running win apps) then windoes telemetry edition can suck a dick.
 
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Not sure if mentioned, recent news has Vanilla OS switching their base from Ubuntu to Debian. Could be a trend or could be a one off. Either way interesting news.

Vanilla OS Vanilla OS 2.0 Orchid - Initial Work

We are happy to announce Vanilla OS 2.0 Orchid! With significant changes that we'd like to go over, like changing the base to Debian Sid, OCI support in ABRoot and more.
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Discover how to configure Yubico's YubiKey on Fedora Workstation for typical security use-cases.
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This is pretty cool, I might look into this.

Fedorabros, we keep winning!

Also,

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btop - the htop alternative

Have you ever experienced slow application performance on a server and wondered which process was causing the bottleneck? In a production server
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Anyone here tried installing clip-snap-paint, did it work for you? I tried first on Zorin (result: zilch), then on Manjaro (installer ran well and even downloaded materials, but trying to run CSP itself ended up just as zilch).
Currently trying to get CLIP Studio to run on latest Manjaro via Bottles. Running with its library (with pretty much all required libraries installed, mind ya) just gives 5-6 blank Wine windows on the panel and nothing else. What am I doing wrong? :/


/Inb4 Krita + GIMP. Know and like both (Krita more as per lately, can't get used to GIMP after a long break since 2.7), just don't wanna put CSP on the shelf completely.
 
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pylosurf said:
If you have the resources, another solution to the Windows gaming problem is to just dedicate a machine to that purpose. Don't bother with dual booting, just treat Windows as a malevolent black box dedicated to games, similar to Playstation, Xbox, etc, and use a separate Linux machine for everything else. It saves a lot of pain and keeps your personal data isolated from the intrusive bullshit that closed source gaming entails. If you only use Linux for non-gaming purposes, you may well find that an older machine with unacceptable specs for games is perfectly fine as a daily driver for web / email / etc.
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The funny thing is... this is actually what I do. I in fact have a Windows 98SE desktop and an XP desktop.

Reason I want Linux to run these old games is actually just for two reasons.

One, my laptop hooks up to a TV so I can sit back in a couch, my desktops are, of course, at a desk.

Two, whenever I visit my niece and nephew I take my laptop and I would love to be able to show them classic PC games. As it is they usually only get to see those at my own house.
 
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