The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

Has this ever been true? I have tried Linux on a bunch of slow computers and it is always less responsive than Windows. Gaming is exceptionally awful because native Linux games never work right and Wine rapes your CPU
My 10 year old laptop seriously struggles with win 10. Linux gave it a new lease of life.
 
Has this ever been true? I have tried Linux on a bunch of slow computers and it is always less responsive than Windows. Gaming is exceptionally awful because native Linux games never work right and Wine rapes your CPU
Just put a swap partition on the drive you wee using for ReadyBoost
 
Even then, there's .NET Core which also runs on Linux and MacOS. It's really just a bunch of older stuff like WinForms/WPF that's still Windows-only, even though it's usable with the same .NET that's now crossplatform otherwise.
WinForms is the best GUI toolkit ever invented though, and (real) Visual Studio is the only convenient way to develop WinForms apps.
 
What do you use Linux for not dev related?
I trust LVM's RAID implementation more than I trust hardware vendors. Most of my media sits on RAID6. If a drive dies, I replace it. No big deal. One of my new 8TBs is dying right now. Only noticed it by making LRZIP packs of N64 ROMs. Across the 4GB final compressed package (down from 19!), there was a flipped bit somewhere and it wouldn't decompress. This is totally un-dev-related. This is about dependable storage.

One thing that will probably make nerds here cringe is that my default network filesystem is sshfs. Saturates all the pipes I connect it to tho!

I want to turn on my laptop and do things
Yeah, buddy, me too. Gentoo lets me do things by just grabbing whatever, building a copy for myself, and running that software. You only run software you have binaries for. Sometimes I like to screw around. But the dev stuff I do is quite rare. Most of what I do is what anyone does. Most software has a web UI today, and Linux runs the same Firefox/Chrome options you have anywhere.


I don't have opinion towards Windows 11/10 because simply I use it for gaming/office work and it runs flawlesly for the tasks it has to accomplish.
Try disable Microsoft Defender.

once I update Linux kernel or the faggots behind Gnome/KDE break something
DWM has looked the same since I started using it. I was a GNOME 3 guy back in the day. 3.40 broke UI I liked. Nothing has changed UI on me since... except fags are trying to force Slick Greeter in my LightDM experience, which I use exclusively for autologin. Gotta rig Gentoo to make that easy. Linux has changed less than Windows by a large margin.

When I was considering installing Linux on my laptop and play games on my console then it struck me how pointless it is if I would like to play something available only on Windows and had to wrestle with Wine
Shit like Lutris exists to make this painless. in all these Prime Gaming freebies, I'm just so astounded at the games I'm getting free I give them a quick few-minute whirl. Epic launcher. GoG games. Amazon games. Amazon Luna. Games that don't work are weird and rare. More streamlined than Windows, you can run a search within Lutris for automated install scripts for all kinds of games.
 
Has this ever been true? I have tried Linux on a bunch of slow computers and it is always less responsive than Windows. Gaming is exceptionally awful because native Linux games never work right and Wine rapes your CPU
Yes, lightweight Linux distros easily breathe new life into older computers. I've never gamed on them, though.
 
Yes, lightweight Linux distros easily breathe new life into older computers. I've never gamed on them, though.
Because gaming performance doesn't have much to do with the OS, i mean, it does, just, if you are using a 10 year old shitbox to game on, it's gonna be shit wether on windows 10 or linux. Now, if you don't game and try and use it for more general computing tasks, then sure, linux will perform much better, because it's not bloated and ridden with ads.
 
Just want to report that MX is still doing fine. I thought I had a sound problem the other day, but it turned out my ancient USB DAC had died. C'est la vie.

Now I'm off to try and make a k3s cluster, using Alpine on some second-hand mini thinkcentres I snagged at an auction.

Stop lecturing me on why Linux is bettah to Windows. It is not! Fucking preachers...
1735393832545.png
 
Has this ever been true? I have tried Linux on a bunch of slow computers and it is always less responsive than Windows. Gaming is exceptionally awful because native Linux games never work right and Wine rapes your CPU
Yes. I use it on an older laptop that Windows was just painfully slow on. But I'm talking about general usage, not gaming

If you want to run games on an old laptop, run old games. I bet there's plenty of amazing games you've never played
 
It's amazing how many people use CAD software nowadays as a reason for not switching. Then don't switch, who cares? I personally doubt most people who say this even use AutoCAD on their personal device, it's just one of those programs they know doesn't run on Linux so they bring it up. Used to be games were the reason "dude you cant even play games on linux why would u use it." It's in bad faith, basically.
Excuse you sweaty, I'm a professional engineer who needs AutoCAD, and I'm also a music producer so I need Pro Tools, and I run my own design agency so I have to have all of Adobe CC, and I'm a lawyer so the courts require me to run antiquated versions of MS Word to submit my briefs to their system. GOD!!
 
If there's a better place for this, please forgive me. Can't seem to troubleshoot my way out this problem.

Accidentally wiped out my system Python install on a Debian machine a long time ago (I forget exactly what I did, but I remember it was painful to get things working again). Everything pretty much works fine now except one video editing application which gets stuck with this error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pitivi", line 18, in <module> import cProfile ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'cProfile'

From what I can tell, cProfile is part of the base installation. Not sure if there's some dependency that didn't get fixed or if this is a pathing issue.
 
Add the game to the HGL library and point the program to launch the Steam executable.
Well to update. Even in Heroic, GTA Online will kick you out 10 mins max because retard devs forgot to check the compatibility box on BattleEye.

Alright, between QEMU and VMWare, what is the best VM to use for gaming and only gaming [only GTA Online for friends] (maybe for some utility in case my job begs me to use a Windows-only program like Teams)?
 
If there's a better place for this, please forgive me. Can't seem to troubleshoot my way out this problem.

Accidentally wiped out my system Python install on a Debian machine a long time ago (I forget exactly what I did, but I remember it was painful to get things working again). Everything pretty much works fine now except one video editing application which gets stuck with this error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pitivi", line 18, in <module> import cProfile ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'cProfile'

From what I can tell, cProfile is part of the base installation. Not sure if there's some dependency that didn't get fixed or if this is a pathing issue.
Did you verify that cprofile is installed? If you use pip then try pip list | grep -i cprofile and see if it's there and if not install it using pip. If you don't use pip normally to install python modules then you'll need to figure out how to check using that.
 
From what I can tell, cProfile is part of the base installation. Not sure if there's some dependency that didn't get fixed or if this is a pathing issue.
I presume you've reinstalled all the python packages? "I forget what I did" is doing a lot of lifting here. It's as easy as pressing 'L' on the Python category in Aptitude. Shouldn't make anything worse, may make things better.
 
If there's a better place for this, please forgive me. Can't seem to troubleshoot my way out this problem.

Accidentally wiped out my system Python install on a Debian machine a long time ago (I forget exactly what I did, but I remember it was painful to get things working again). Everything pretty much works fine now except one video editing application which gets stuck with this error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pitivi", line 18, in <module> import cProfile ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'cProfile'

From what I can tell, cProfile is part of the base installation. Not sure if there's some dependency that didn't get fixed or if this is a pathing issue.
Debian splits Python into a bunch of separate packages, notably python3-minimal which is a stripped down version of the interpreter. You could just check what Python stuff you have installed system-wide with the "python3-*" mask.
 
Back