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The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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Wine is already emulating the Windows environment to an extent, otherwise it wouldn't be able to work properly. WoW64 is basically an entire 32-bit Windows instance nested within the 64-bit Windows OS. Wine is very similar, it also has to have an entire Windows environment with DLL's and whatnot for the software to work, but then the Wine team decides that doing things differently than Windows is better because it's more secure, ignoring the fact that Windows software is designed to be broken, to run on a broken OS. Torvalds also talked about how there are bugs in Linux that can't be fixed or they'll break the userspace and that he'll strangle anyone wanting to do so. Sometimes when shit's broken, you don't fix it, or else you break more of it.
If anything, Wine devs should figure out how to keep Wine isolated from the rest of the OS and then go all out on replicating how Windows does shit. If they're gonna keep changing how Windows works for the sake of Linux safety, they'll only break Wine more and more. Set up your security at a lower level that the executables don't see, and then let the executables wreck havoc. Windows already has Sandboxie so per-process isolation is very much doable.
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One substitute may be the shader wallpaper plugin for KDE. You can use it for lock screens also, and adding shaders from shader toy is easy.
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Are these pirated? Did you try running them using Steam Proton tools? You're trying to run software compiled for one OS on another OS and avoiding official game support channels as much as possible, including community support for some reason.
Both games seem to work fine with Proton overall.
I doubt you're in a hurry to go back but you made it way harder on yourself and are mad at Linux for that.
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Comparing Wine to WoW is rather unfair as Microsoft both possesses the original source code to Windows and has the right to use it. Microsoft can just take their existing code and tweak it to instead run on an abstraction layer, while Wine has to reverse engineer the APIs in a way that doesn't violate Microsoft licensing.
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Except behavior like .exe's hooking .dll's with specific filenames has been perfectly documented for decades, Wine team could've implemented it, but they refused and instead decided to use a more complicated way of accomplishing the same goal for no good reason. Security doesn't mean shit if the .dll you're hooking is malicious, and if something was able to put a malicious .dll in there without your consent, it sure as hell was able to set it up in a Wine prefix.
Again, the Wine team has all the knowledge and resources for replicating how Windows works. Mark Russinovich serves everything on a silver platter. Windows Internals, a book that explains how Windows works. Sysinternals, a software suite that will let you tell exactly what each Windows executable is doing down to a T. At this point it wouldn't be hard for the Wine team to make handling of repack installers just work seamlessly, as it's just an installer with heavier compression. Then after the game is installed, it should be trivial to set up compatibility tweaks for it. Select your game so that whichever frontend knows what tweaks to apply, point to the executable of the game, and then the rest can be figured out automatically.
I really hope Windows executable compatibility on Linux isn't this bad because Linux devs also treat Windows as an impenetrable black box.
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Isolation with Wine is finicky, and I remember doing all sorts of convoluted 32-bit WINEPREFIX setups through chroots back in high school and college to make shit like Photoshop run, but that doesn't change the fact that you are able to isolate Wine on some measure (not the whole nine yards, I will concede that). What I personally detest is how the Wine Project, to this day, did not create an official version of something like PlayOnLinux, Bottles, or whatever else. It's not like they lack the expertise or the know-how; CodeWeavers, the corporate sponsor of the Wine Project, already provides something similar via their Crossover suite. Of course, CodeWeavers wants there to be an incentive to pay for Crossover so the community must make a million friggin projects that attempt to do the same thing but in slightly different ways that somehow manage to fuck up in novel ways every single time.
Back to what I wanted to whinge about, I've been seeing this kitsune neko loli DDOS mitigation attack thing on all things remotely Linux-related from the official Fedora bookmarks on Firefox to the WineHQ's AppDB. I don't like this at all, I hate weebshit when I don't consent to it, and may Allah bring dark hours and disaster upon whoever conceived this and proliferated it throughout vaguely Linux-related websites.
(Screenshot not mine; I just Googled it to make sure I'm not hallucinating)
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IIRC Arch Wiki also uses it but at least removed that weeb bullshit and I hope they all do it because when that was brought up the author didn't sound too pleased. It should also be no surprise to anyone that the author is a fucking tranny...
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God, I fucking hate this tranny infestation bullshit proliferating throughout muh open source software. Seriously, not even 10 years ago we would've rightly mocked all this anime avatar bullshit out of existence. But noooooo, the troon menace exists at the intersection of long-term, unsupervised internet access, poor social skills (especially with women), extreme porn addiction, exposure to anime at a young age, impotent rage, and the ability to play up the histrionics when no one's able to take a good look at your ugly mug.
If I'm setting up a WINEPREFIX and I need to check the WineHQ AppDB, the last thing I wanna see is some fucking loli anime avatar kitsune/neko thingamabob giving me a mild panic attack thinking I got MITM'd. Cloudflare's own DDOS mitigation where I need to click on the checkbox is vastly preferable because I know Cloudflare, I distrust them because Matthew Prince is a spineless cuckold who caves into deplatforming despite Cloudflare's stated mission of neutrality, but hey: Cloudflare still exists and they're still DDOS mitigating for other websites I visit half the time. Totally kosher, though distasteful in my book.
This Anubis bullshit is so blatantly attention-grabbing. "Look at me! I'm a tranny anime avatar! I managed to make a ton of Linux/FOSS pages ditch Cloudflare for my own POW DDOS mitigation software! Notice me! NOTICE ME GOD DAMN IT!!!!" It's not enough to have a simple, kawaii, actual fox or cat like Pusheen or one of the many fan arts of Juniper Fox from Instagram, no, it has to be a fucking anime avatar. May Allah bring dark hours and disaster upon you, Anubis.
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The worst is that troons complained because it was AI generated and now they replaced it with an uglier, less cute, soulless troonmade version of the same girl
Isnt Crossover open source? Why doesnt someone just publish a gratis version of it?
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I don't know anything about Crossover but something can be open source without being free and it can be illegal to fork and re-license it just because you feel like it.
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Crossover itself is proprietary software. The underlying bits and bobs that they took from Wine are 100% free software, but there's additional patches, configuration tools, and UX stuff that Codewavers adds on top that isn't free software in the slightest. They are, however, legally obligated to credit and share the source code for all the free software bits and bobs they did use (click me.
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Better than c*oudflare. Would be better if they accepted real and true Kiwi DDOS Retarding© instead, but baby steps, and all that.
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Isn' t that the one you can just change your user agent to bypass?
Hahahah, yes it is, I hit it with wget and got the front page. Going via a browser got the anime.
They really are retarded, aren't they.
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If anything would lead me back to Windows or at least send me to FreeBSD it's the insane infestation of these creeps in Linux. Honestly if we just had something to mitigate the negative effects of autism most of these troons would probably not exist. It's that feeling of detachment that leads them to troon out, they didn't in the past because troonery wasn't mainstream or accepted. Instead of thinking they could become anime girls they used to just dress unconventionally. I always found their fashion to be fucking garbage personally, but it's not something you want to wretch at. At worst it was just cringe.
Take Jamie who I talked about that made xscreensaver. In the 90s Netscape documentary I linked earlier (he's the guy on the computer from this timestamp) you can tell he would have been a troon had he been young today, but back then he was just a twink tech geek in an ill fitting trenchcoat & boots with long blue hair. You also have Tara (the lady behind Jamie in that clip) in the same documentary. She has short hair, dresses in a very butch style, and is somewhat heavyset, i.e. your classic friendly female dev at the office. She would have trooned out today as well but in the other direction. - So in other words the people who talk about the death of the twink and the butch woman are very correct, it's a social contagion that is fueled by autism. To finally kill it we need to target the negative effects of autism, but there is currently a massive activist industry into opposing ANY research into that. So for now all you can do is deliberately not help any tranny who asks online for support on anything Linux related that you know the answer to and instead RP as the most Loonix cunt as possible to get them to leave completely. - I am doing my part!
Yeah I just checked with ChatGPT as well and it scrapes the Arch Wiki just fine. Troonware is often on the same level as Jeetware, see: GNOME.
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Nvidia drivers are a pain in the ass in Linux. Not only do you need to go through the effort of installing them when you don't have to for almost anything else, but Nvidia doesn't care about Linux and they don't always want to work properly. Sonic Frontiers was broken with Nvidia cards on Linux for like the first year of being out because some type of process for lighting wasn't programmed right on the Linux drivers. And I still have some issue that I'm pretty sure is related to Nvidia drivers where the graphics won't come back on when I boot my computer back on from sleep and I have to go into terminal to either reboot the computer or reboot the DE to get it back on.
Well, I don't have much to do right now, so I found the fitgirl repack of Risk of Rain 2 and decided to see if I could get it working for funsies. Made a quick test prefix. Setup.exe immediately crashed in it. The crash window wasn't helpful, but I saw a message that stood out in terminal saying that there was an unimplemented call for ole32.dll. Set the wine prefix to not use the native dll for it. Setup worked this time, but it hung on the first step of actual install for 10 minutes so I decided to just force close it. Next I did what I probably would have done from the start if this was a game I actually wanted to play and ran the setup in Proton-GE. It ran just fine and installed into a proton prefix, but upon starting the game it almost immediately crashed.
So that was the big roadblock: In both proton and wine, the game would either crash or hang at 2% loaded. I couldn't find anything in terminal or proton logs that would suggest what the problem was, so I looked through random google results for anything that seemed like a lead. Something that stood out to me was someone on Reddit suggesting OP try the Goldberg cracked steam_api64.dll to get their pirated copy running. That didn't work for that OP, but it was a simple enough thing for me to try. I replaced the cracked dll the fitgirl repack came with with the Goldberg crack I already had lying around.
It actually worked. The game quickly went past the point it was crashing or stalling on before and fully loaded. The next roadblock was that when it fully loaded it was coming up with a message about Steamworks integration failing and forced me to quit out of the game. I couldn't find anything immediately helpful for this online, but after looking it over I think the issue is that I would need to set up Goldberg crack for the game to properly think it's connecting to the fake Steam account.
At that point I got bored and stopped, but I get the feeling that if you were to set up your own crack instead of relying on what the repack came with, you'd be able to get the fitgirl repack of the game running in Wine.
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May I suggest using pre-installed games like on steamrip? It's not really a fix but at least the games will run
Also i remember there was a setting in wine which you needed to change to make fitgirl repacks work properly, but i can't seem to find it
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They don't care about gaming on linux. They care about AI slop running on linux.
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It depends on what "improving" means to the Gnome soydevs. They seem to remove every option that would allow you to customize the experience. The Gnome Terminal for example has no settings menu anymore.
Remember that it took them ages to implement the accent colors because they refused to agree with KDE and the other DEs on what each color meant.
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My problem isn't necessarily just the attention thing or that it's anime, whatever; it's the distastefulness and getting me involved in your hobby that is so played out and has nothing to do with the thing that I want to use. The greatest pieces of software are built by people with no or default profile pictures with just their name or nothing at all, who built things for the love of it, not to get dopamine through attention. Artists and Engineers used to only have their signature or a plaque on their lifework and didn't expect a shit ton of recognition during their life or to propogate their fantasies while looking at their landscapes or walking on their bridge, they did everything to serve future generations and to have a tasteful legacy.