The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

Betonhaus said:
some games and programs now don't even run on hard drives and must be installed onto a ssd.
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Even the Xbox 360 can stream games directly from network drives using custom dashboards and the ConnectX plugin

Are you forgetting how fast and low latency Ethernet is? Of course you can just stream whatever you need off the network without the entire thing crashing (if supported by the program)
 
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Baraka Obama said:
Ubuntu is good, unironically. I wouldn't use the stock UI and would opt for XFCE personally but as a distro it's very straightforward, just works, and everything works with it.
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Caveat: Compared to other Linux distros. I've been using Ubuntu Studio for a year and it still annoys the shit out of me with random bugs and issues like the log in screen freezing randomly to the point where the only reason I haven't switched back to Windows is pure laziness. But compared to other Linux distros it's extremely stable and usable out of the box for noob users like me. Others are also stable, they just often take a lot more work and skill to get to that point...
Maybe I shouldn't have gone for Ubuntu Studio, but the focus on audio production made it appealing.
 
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I was playing some Atomic Heart, Robocop and the System Shock remake because I got a new graphics card and gaming in linux has never been better.. I actually can't really remember the last time some game I tried to play didn't run in linux. Throw in dxvk and/or vkd3d and you're golden. I used to have a quite elaborate Windows VM setup with PCI passthrough for gaming but I don't think there's a point in even bothering with that anymore. Less FPS? Who knows, all runs well. People who used wine about 15-20 years ago will remember the hopelessness. Wine was already a decade old at that point and it didn't feel like it'd ever be a real thing. We have come a long way. Many games even exist as linux binaries now, yet even then it's sometimes easier to just use the windows binary because of dependency hell. Who would have ever thought.
 
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PFM said:
Any suggestions for a good used ~$600 laptop? I'm on my third t480 and I think it may be time to move on. An iGPU would be nice for the occasional game.
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Third T480? I thought that generation was still modular enough to keep running.
 
seri0us said:
Third T480? I thought that generation was still modular enough to keep running.
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Motherboard took a shit on both of them. I didn't feel like swapping it out both times so I just replaced the whole thing. This may be a bug on Kubuntu, not sure, but occasionally my fan will lock up and read something like 65k RPM. I have to reboot the computer and upon reboot it says "NO FAN" and shuts off, but will be working fine next boot. So anyway, sometimes I'll get home from work and if the fan locked up and I don't notice, the CPU temp can get up to 90 degrees for however long until I notice. I think I'm just cooking motherboards tbh.

Whenever I notice the fan is locked up I just power down instead of reboot, and it boots fine.
 
Mikoyan said:
The guy who has to hire a dude to like, change his fucking spark plugs on his car channel can't do anything but MacOS?

God, I'm so shocked.
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considering he's not a technical guy (he's a musician for gods sake). I'm impressed he's making the jump and deciding to stick with it, dispite all the headaches daily driving linux and is even willing to learn the more complex stuff.

you should also be careful with your words, dude used to fix and flip motorbikes while he was using them for daily use. (he's talked about it on his car channel unfortunately for you.)
if he's hired an actual mechanic to do things, it means he's smart enough to know when he's out of his depth and doesn't want to risk fucking up his vehicles.

give me your hats, i don't care. wade is such an genuine honest guy compared to so many others on YouTube. I'm even happy to call myself a fan of his.
 
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TheDataHorder said:
considering he's not a technical guy (he's a musician for gods sake). I'm impressed he's making the jump and deciding to stick with it, dispite all the headaches daily driving linux and is even willing to learn the more complex stuff.

you should also be careful with your words, dude used to fix and flip motorbikes while he was using them for daily use. (he's talked about it on his car channel unfortunately for you.)
if he's hired an actual mechanic to do things, it means he's smart enough to know when he's out of his depth and doesn't want to risk fucking up his vehicles.

give me your hats, i don't care. wade is such an genuine honest guy compared to so many others on YouTube. I'm even happy to call myself a fan of his.
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lol calm down

I like Wade just fine, sorry if he gives a certain air of genuineness when he comes off as knowing fuck-all about cars.

Doesn't mean he's cut out for the Linux Lyfe. Especially since he's a musician and good lord will the workflow change there.
 
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is there like a docker image for some sort of cloud gaming server? Like I can install it on my server, add a bunch of roms for SNES games and such, then just open a browser on my computer or phone and play games that way?
 
AmpleApricots said:
I was playing some Atomic Heart, Robocop and the System Shock remake because I got a new graphics card and gaming in linux has never been better.. I actually can't really remember the last time some game I tried to play didn't run in linux. Throw in dxvk and/or vkd3d and you're golden. I used to have a quite elaborate Windows VM setup with PCI passthrough for gaming but I don't think there's a point in even bothering with that anymore. Less FPS? Who knows, all runs well. People who used wine about 15-20 years ago will remember the hopelessness. Wine was already a decade old at that point and it didn't feel like it'd ever be a real thing. We have come a long way. Many games even exist as linux binaries now, yet even then it's sometimes easier to just use the windows binary because of dependency hell. Who would have ever thought.
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I guess the newest shit I played was Fallout 4 or something. Wine is surprisingly smooth and stable these days. It has some issues with Guitar Pro 8, but otherwise I've had no issues with running windows software on Linux. I was mostly concerned about VSTs for audio production, but those all ran well so far.
 
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Ayana Otonashi said:
Arch distros are cool until you realize you fucked up your partitioning and have to reset the entire thing
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I just have everything on one drive. Which was annoying when I had to reinstall as I had to rsync /home to a different drive then move it back.

I wonder if I should change the partition layout of my home server, as I have a 256gb nvme SSD that is / and a 1tb SATA SSD that is /home, but with everything data heavy moved to docker I have them in /home/docker so I could almost move /home back onto the OS drive and move the data heavy docker folders to /srv or whatever else I make the 1tb drive
 
Ayana Otonashi said:
Arch distros are cool until you realize you fucked up your partitioning and have to reset the entire thing
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That’s why you install using a ZFS root system. Moving things around is trivial, and you can easily roll back any change that turns out badly.
 
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Miller said:
Wow, another content creator has switched to Linux:
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Hopefully be actually sticks with it a bit more, and actually starts understanding it a bit better.

To me he seems a bit mixed up with some stuff. Like what you actually need a terminal for, and what you don't.

And especially the part where he says you need to learn scripting. Most normal people. Even ones that aren't afraid of the terminal, and use it. Don't need to learn any kind of scripting to get a functioning system. You can even run a minimal window manager and not know a thing about scripting.

I would have been a bit happier personally if he had kept using it a bit longer to actually get a grasp on some of the stuff, before going on there and telling people. The learning curve is like a cliff if you want to do anything besides using a web browser. Because thats not even close to true.

Anyway. Still happy to see more people switching.


Then you have this cringe shit.
 
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Meriasek said:
Caveat: Compared to other Linux distros. I've been using Ubuntu Studio for a year and it still annoys the shit out of me with random bugs and issues like the log in screen freezing randomly to the point where the only reason I haven't switched back to Windows is pure laziness. But compared to other Linux distros it's extremely stable and usable out of the box for noob users like me. Others are also stable, they just often take a lot more work and skill to get to that point...
Maybe I shouldn't have gone for Ubuntu Studio, but the focus on audio production made it appealing.
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Sounds like its more your desktop environment, or your display manager. Than ubuntu.

That said. Ubuntu is the windows of the linux world. Theyve added advertisements to their stuff like windows has, and if any linux distro was going to collect user data to sell. It would be them (honorable mention for redhat).

If you end up really being bothered by whatever issues you are having, i really recommend at least trying a new desktop. But ideally. I think just going with a different distro is best.

Ubuntu is based off debian and they both keep way past date packages in their repos for "stability" so if you like that part about ubuntu. Debian would be just as good if not better for you. Plus, during the install you get the choice of 4 or 5 different desktops to try
 
Does the Ubuntu bloatpack still do telemetry that is totally in your own best interest?
Trans Fat 41g said:
Looks like Vaxry of Hyprland has some choice words about the Cosmic Desktop project.
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When I heard about cosmic I googled it and it just looked like another one of these "I wish I had a Mac" DEs with some rust cultism thrown in. I didn't quite get what's so special about it. Well my X installation still just works. I'm literally satan to these people anyways.
 
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