The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Friendly Primarina said:
Does anyone know where Debian keeps info on hardware failures? When playing 3D games my system suddenly goes blank or hangs with the audio looping. /var/log/faillog is empty and messages and syslog don;t contain any information about the failure, either.
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It could be a segmentation fault or a kernel panic, it's happened to me before while playing native Linux games. Systemd has a place where it throws coredumps of segmentation faults, usually it's in /var/lib/systemd/coredump. You could also try switching to a different TTY with CTRL + ALT + F1/F9, to check whether the system is completely locked up. The longest I had to wait for a coredump to finish writing to disk was a solid 2 minutes.
 
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CryoRevival #SJ-112 said:
Vocally claim we are saving the environment by using hardware more efficiently but instead use 250% more energy than windows? That appears to be the lesson of this page of the thread, yes.
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I protect the environment by using a GUI only as needed. Suck it Micro$oft!!
 
I tried conky in multiple environments and it was the most fickle thing to set up. Don't get me started on having it get along with a compositor.
 
Friendly Primarina said:
Does anyone know where Debian keeps info on hardware failures? When playing 3D games my system suddenly goes blank or hangs with the audio looping. /var/log/faillog is empty and messages and syslog don;t contain any information about the failure, either.
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I had that exact issue when I was on Mint. Frantic pressing to escape an endlessly looping explosions.wav is how I learned about Alt+F#. It went away when I switched distros, thought that may just be because almost everything I play now is either a srcport or through wine.
 
CryoRevival #SJ-112 said:
Vocally claim we are saving the environment by using hardware more efficiently but instead use 250% more energy than windows? That appears to be the lesson of this page of the thread, yes.
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REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*

*Well, I mean, when you have a laptop with a properly integrated install with all the correct drivers and such, you can get the same energy performance with linux as with windows. My slimbook gets a decent few hours under a pretty heavy load.
 
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Is anyone here actually using a *BSD, in a non-server role that is? I always liked the coherence and sanity of the environment of major BSDs compared to what circus the linux tooling can be, but the hardware support is linux kernel ca. 2004 and that always turned me off. (not a critique, I know they don't have the manpower, but still)
 
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AmpleApricots said:
Is anyone here actually using a *BSD, in a non-server role that is? I always liked the coherence and sanity of the environment of major BSDs compared to what circus the linux tooling can be, but the hardware support is linux kernel ca. 2004 and that always turned me off. (not a critique, I know they don't have the manpower, but still)
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FreeBSD is the final mind for my old laptops. They first get a Linux distro, then as they age a better SSD and lighter Linux distro, and when they reach nearly retirement age, at that point BSD usually has the hardware support for it. I like UNIX in general, and FreeBSD is a solid OS.
 
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Ahriman said:
I remember messing around with the FM transmitter, it was pretty cool. I really miss phones having IR transmitters.
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Get a HackRF One, and use GNUradio. Mind you, you'll need a HAM license to broadcast, and using one to jam signals is illegal, so don't do it.
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byuu said:
No reason to use Windows anymore!

3d Pinball bundled in XP and later has been reverse engineered and can now run natively under Linux:
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GitHub - k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball: Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet

Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet - GitHub - k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball: Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet
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This some pretty good fucking news unironically. There's even a switch port too. Finally a game the hardware can actually handle at full speed.
 
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Dick Justice said:
ok but why
it's run perfectly in wine since like, forever
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I mean. Reverse engineering is always interesting to see. Plus reverse engineering means things can be changed around now, like making it dinosaur themed or some shit. Though to be fair outside of native platform ports I'm not exactly sure what you would even need to change for space pinball besides maybe making different themes but then that's a shot in the dark of themes being shit or not.
 
AmpleApricots said:
Is anyone here actually using a *BSD, in a non-server role that is? I always liked the coherence and sanity of the environment of major BSDs compared to what circus the linux tooling can be, but the hardware support is linux kernel ca. 2004 and that always turned me off. (not a critique, I know they don't have the manpower, but still)
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You're getting FreeBSD mixed up with OpenBSD, my dude. OpenBSD is the one that has absolutely ancient hardware support. Anything newer than an HD7970 is basically unsupported due to their design philosophy. FreeBSD is far more "liberal" with the hardware that the project chooses to support. Ryzen support's been around since roughly 2019/2020 at the earliest, though USB 3.0 support is a bit buggy if I'm not mistaken. I've toyed around with FreeBSD back in college as a daily driver OS and it's quite functional, if not more functional than Linux itself is. The only real problem I had was that everything is just ever so slightly off from the way that I'm accustomed to:

In Linux, your home directory is always /home. In FreeBSD, your home directory is /usr/local/home
In Linux, your default shell will always be either bash (most commonly), zsh (second most common), or /bin/sh (if you're running something lightweight like an RPi). In FreeBSD, your default shell will always be tcsh (idk how common tcsh is nowadays in BSD, but it was the default shell for me when I tried out FreeBSD 9 all those years ago).
In Linux, drivers and firmware are typically loaded upon boot or with minimal configuration. In FreeBSD, you have to manually enable each service, driver, and firmware via /etc/rc.conf.

FreeBSD's definitely come a long way since the 9.x days when I first toyed around with it, so I don't doubt that there've been some changes for the better that I'm unaware of. Even if those changes are minimal, FreeBSD as a daily driver system is absolutely 100% worth the effort. The documentation is impeccable, the package management is legitimately good and you have the flexibility to choose whether or not you want to compile via ports collection OR install binaries via pkgng, etc. Hell, pkgng is a lot more refined nowadays compared to a lot of Linux distros that come out nowadays. If you have an older PC tower that's just collecting dust, you might as well put it to use and make that into your personal testbed.
 
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