The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[prollyanotherlurker]

I finally ended up just saying fuck it. And decided to use a window manager on my thinkpad. I at least want to make myself use it until i learn how to do everything on it.

I ended up picking sway on manjaro. Since its decently functional as is.

But I've spent all day trying to figure out a way to set the background without having to mess around in config files.

Though tbh learning to configure this stuff is why i installed it. I just wanted to try and figure out an easy way to set a wallpaper until. I got around to really learning it. I mean changing config stuff seems easy. But just seems like something you need to take time to learn the ins and outs of if you havent messed with it before. Like me.

Edit: i ran this command and it did help.

niggerfaggot -fUCk --you,

 

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I finally ended up just saying fuck it. And decided to use a window manager on my thinkpad. I at least want to make myself use it until i learn how to do everything on it.

I ended up picking sway on manjaro. Since its decently functional as is.

But I've spent all day trying to figure out a way to set the background without having to mess around in config files.

Though tbh learning to configure this stuff is why i installed it. I just wanted to try and figure out an easy way to set a wallpaper until. I got around to really learning it. I mean changing config stuff seems easy. But just seems like something you need to take time to learn the ins and outs of if you havent messed with it before. Like me.

Edit: i ran this command and it did help.

niggerfaggot -fUCk --you,

Isn't Sway some kind of perverted Wayland thing? I assume there's a special Sway only command for doing this.

Back in the good old days, we could just use a random proper program that just wrote some shit to the root window like xearth. You'd just put
xearth &
in your ~/.xinitrc before your window manager and everything would just work.

 

[DavidS877]

Isn't Sway some kind of perverted Wayland thing? I assume there's a special Sway only command for doing this.

Back in the good old days, we could just use a random proper program that just wrote some shit to the root window like xearth. You'd just put
xearth &
in your ~/.xinitrc before your window manager and everything would just work.

xsetroot -solid black should be enough for anyone.
xsetroot -solid darkslategray if you want to be fancy.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Sorry if this has been answered before but what's the best version of a stripped-down-to-fuck windows that i can dual boot with?
I've bought a new laptop which has no OS (makes it cheaper and raises the price:performance, yes I am a frugal fuck). I've installed Ubuntu (though may try Mint if that's 'better') and want to get my old arse pirated games working without too much faffing.

Is there a windows version that's not full of shite, ads or spyware?

 

[Yandex Captcha Solver]

Sorry if this has been answered before but what's the best version of a stripped-down-to-fuck windows that i can dual boot with?
I've bought a new laptop which has no OS (makes it cheaper and raises the price:performance, yes I am a frugal fuck). I've installed Ubuntu (though may try Mint if that's 'better') and want to get my old arse pirated games working without too much faffing.

Is there a windows version that's not full of shite, ads or spyware?

Windows LTSC if your really want a stripped down Windows. You can pick up the ISO and activator here. Not a fan of Ubuntu personally and would try out Mint if you get the chance.

I've had good luck with using Lutris with Wine/Proton and pirated games, even with Fitgirl and DODI repacks. Most games run very well and I'd recommend checking out https://www.protondb.com/ to check for compatibility beforehand to see if there is any dealbreakers.

 

[Betonhaus]

Sorry if this has been answered before but what's the best version of a stripped-down-to-fuck windows that i can dual boot with?
I've bought a new laptop which has no OS (makes it cheaper and raises the price:performance, yes I am a frugal fuck). I've installed Ubuntu (though may try Mint if that's 'better') and want to get my old arse pirated games working without too much faffing.

Is there a windows version that's not full of shite, ads or spyware?

1. this is the wrong thread for this and 2. there is no official or trusted version, but you can use Tiny11 or Atlas OS to butcher Windows to a smaller size.

but Mint works fine, and you can use Steam to run any non-steam Windows game pretty easily.

 

[Ayana Otonashi]

Which Linux distro is the gigachad of linux distros and not a femboy linux distro?

all of them are retarded

Spoiler

It's Slackware

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Windows LTSC if your really want a stripped down Windows. You can pick up the ISO and activator here. Not a fan of Ubuntu personally and would try out Mint if you get the chance.

I've had good luck with using Lutris with Wine/Proton and pirated games, even with Fitgirl and DODI repacks. Most games run very well and I'd recommend checking out https://www.protondb.com/ to check for compatibility beforehand to see if there is any dealbreakers.

Thanks, I'll try Mint and failing that I'll give Lutris a shot. I'm a linux noob.
What's mod support like on Linux? I'm trying to run CNCReloaded (mod for C&C Red alert 2: Yuri's revenge)

1. this is the wrong thread for this and 2. there is no official or trusted version, but you can use Tiny11 or Atlas OS to butcher Windows to a smaller size.

but Mint works fine, and you can use Steam to run any non-steam Windows game pretty easily.

I didn't realise this was the wrong thread? It was linux support I was looking for and if the solutions aren't available on Linux, a way to dual boot (or VM?) to be able to run the games in linux.
Steam works great for games I have on steam, but for the games that fell off of the back of a lorry and installed themselves on my PC, I was hoping for a good work-around.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

but for the games that fell off of the back of a lorry and installed themselves on my PC, I was hoping for a good work-around.

Before faffing around with Lutris, you might want to try bare WINE. Set up a single prefix and install DXVK on it using winetricks. Depending on what games you're talking about, you may be able to install them on that one prefix. Unless I'm mistaken, Lutris puts every game on its own prefix, which is wasteful when they might all go on one without conflicts.

It's something to try before anything else IMO.

 

[AmpleApricots]

I've never used lutris in my life and I'm barely aware of what differences it has. I haven't encountered a game that doesn't work with wine + dxvk. If you want to define a different wine prefix for a singular game, you can do this with the enviroment variable aptly names WINEPREFIX=<path>. While you are at it, if you tested it and everything runs add WINEDEBUG=-all, as it can slow down the program you run. If you need a script, you can use winetricks.sh to install dxvk. If you try to run a problematic program that is built closely to the windows GUI, also make sure to install corefonts and *maybe* gdiplus, also via winetricks. Make sure you have wine mono installed, different distros do very different things here sometimes. Things I didn't need in forever as last hail mary is installing a dotnetX version or d3dx9. A lot of games also have native Linux binaries now and checking if that is the case for the game in question always makes sense.

 

[Yandex Captcha Solver]

Thanks, I'll try Mint and failing that I'll give Lutris a shot. I'm a linux noob.
What's mod support like on Linux? I'm trying to run CNCReloaded (mod for C&C Red alert 2: Yuri's revenge)

Lutris is just an application so you can use it on any distro that has it in their repos or install it via Flatpak. Mod support generally just works for most games, have ran Skyrim with mods before without issues.

Before faffing around with Lutris, you might want to try bare WINE. Set up a single prefix and install DXVK on it using winetricks. Depending on what games you're talking about, you may be able to install them on that one prefix. Unless I'm mistaken, Lutris puts every game on its own prefix, which is wasteful when they might all go on one without conflicts.

It's something to try before anything else IMO.

It does use individual prefixes (unless you change the default options) which uses negligible amounts of space and makes management very easy. Each prefix uses an entire 380MBs of space (I just checked). Lutris is a fantastic launcher and give you the ability to change flags, wine runners, environmental variables, etc with ease. If you don't want a game anymore just delete the folder and it's done vs uninstalling via the Wine control panel if your using a single prefix. It also keeps logs for the games and installers which can help out to find out if your missing something. I can't remember the last time I've had to hit up winetricks to get a game up and running.

 

[GNU Abyss]

I finally ended up just saying fuck it. And decided to use a window manager on my thinkpad. I at least want to make myself use it until i learn how to do everything on it.

I ended up picking sway on manjaro. Since its decently functional as is.

But I've spent all day trying to figure out a way to set the background without having to mess around in config files.

Though tbh learning to configure this stuff is why i installed it. I just wanted to try and figure out an easy way to set a wallpaper until. I got around to really learning it. I mean changing config stuff seems easy. But just seems like something you need to take time to learn the ins and outs of if you havent messed with it before. Like me.

Edit: i ran this command and it did help.

niggerfaggot -fUCk --you,

As with any problem, good first sources are the Arch, Gentoo and Debian wikis. Relevant links, took me exactly one minute: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sway#Wallpaper https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Useful-add-ons-for-sway#wallpaper

 

[Prj4MW8iPT3vmFM2rzDc]

all of them are retarded

Spoiler

It's Slackware

I just put a black sun on the Application Launcher and made the user name "Nigger Slayer" and called it a day

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Just an update. I'm running Mint and using Wine to try and get CNCreloaded working but there's some issues with RA on linux. I solved it on another laptop running Ubuntu but Mint is a little different.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

Lutris is just an application so you can use it on any distro that has it in their repos or install it via Flatpak. Mod support generally just works for most games, have ran Skyrim with mods before without issues.

It does use individual prefixes (unless you change the default options) which uses negligible amounts of space and makes management very easy. Each prefix uses an entire 380MBs of space (I just checked). Lutris is a fantastic launcher and give you the ability to change flags, wine runners, environmental variables, etc with ease. If you don't want a game anymore just delete the folder and it's done vs uninstalling via the Wine control panel if your using a single prefix. It also keeps logs for the games and installers which can help out to find out if your missing something. I can't remember the last time I've had to hit up winetricks to get a game up and running.

If you have, say, 10 different games that could theoretically go on a single prefix, but instead are installed on individual ones, that's over 3GBs of space needlessly used. It just seems inefficient to me, especially on something like an NVME SSD where space is at a premium. YMMV, I suppose.

The point about uninstallation is a good one. Using the games installer usually works, but not always.

 

[Susanna]

ModOrganizer2 runs just fine in proton or lutris, so that’s like 90% of the popular games to mod covered.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

As with any problem, good first sources are the Arch, Gentoo and Debian wikis. Relevant links, took me exactly one minute: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sway#Wallpaper https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Useful-add-ons-for-sway#wallpaper

I gave up after i somehow ended up switching from manjaro .config file, to the sway one somehow, and i couldn't find the proper one. I had looked in the arch wiki already before posting that, and it gave me an error when i pointed swaybg towards the picture i wanted. Idk if it was because the file is a .jpg, and not a png.

So i just ended up just getting the i3 version instead. Because it seems easier to just use seperate programs like nitrogen to set wall paper.


Though for some reason I'm having an issue getting it to autostart. Now i just have a black screen. I have tried at least 3 or 4 ways of editing the config file to autostart. One was uncommenting the line that they already had for nitrogen. One was following what someone did in a video i watched. Then i edited that a few times trying different wording (idk maybe syntax is the correct word?)

I'm probably just retarded and its something obvious to people that are used to using window managers. But this stuff just isn't going well.

Then i need to get a compositor figured out.

After that i want to figure out how to get my brightness keys to change the screen brightness. Because now they just bring up a bar that shows screen brightness. But it doesnt actually change it at all.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

Isn't Sway some kind of perverted Wayland thing? I assume there's a special Sway only command for doing this.

Back in the good old days, we could just use a random proper program that just wrote some shit to the root window like xearth. You'd just put
xearth &
in your ~/.xinitrc before your window manager and everything would just work.

Yeah i gave up and switched to the i3 version.

Sway is supposed to be basically like i3wm but using wayland.

Tbh if i literally just could have changed the damn wallpaper i I would have been happy enough using it out of the box otherwise. Everything else actually worked really well how it came. But i didnt want a manjaro wallpaper. With all the keybindings in the background always.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

I wanted to edit my post above to avoid making another post. But i can't.

Anyway. Just an update. I did finally get nitrogen to work with it. It must have just been something as simple as not saving it with nitrogen using the wallpaper i picked. Or something like that. I thought i did. But idk.

Now i need to work out a compositor. This part i care less about. But it since I'm messing with a wm it feels like I should make myself learn how to get the fancy transparent windows with blur and radiused corners.

 

[Betonhaus]

So when will Linux start taking advantage of those NPU/AI chips that some of the latest laptops have?