The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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King Vidiot said:
On average, Windows tends to have framerates 7% higher than Linux at 1080p, and 5% faster at 1440p.
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See, now that's impressive. It's almost as good as Windows, which is a massive achievement given how a few years ago gaming on Linux was just a pipe dream. That's what should be boasted about, not some unrealistic gains that aren't even there. If Linux is good enough for gaming then that's all that it has to be, yet people love to try and get ahead of themselves.

Obviously Nvidia is going to suffer on Linux due to them not giving a shit about the Linux drivers if it's not CUDA related, but if by some sheer miracle Nvidia drivers on Linux got as good as AMD one's that'd help a ton with Linux adoption since no one's gonna bother getting a new GPU in the current market just to change their OS.

But it is Nvidia that we're talking about.
Up yours Jensen
Well, a man can dream, right?

Also, this guy should do a distro comparison where he takes all those "gayming" distros, then takes Debian and Arch, shows how much work he had to put into installing all the prerequisites needed for gaming on them, then benchmark them to see if you could easily set up any Linux distro for gaming instead of having to rely on those specialized ones, or wait for the mythical SteamOS for desktops to release since you're too much of a nigger cattle to type away a few sudo apt get's to get your shit up and running.
 
King Vidiot said:
On average, Windows tends to have framerates 7% higher than Linux at 1080p, and 5% faster at 1440p.
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King Vidiot said:
On average, Linux is 14% slower than Windows at 1080p, and 16% slower at 1440p.
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That's more of what I would expect. And as @Slav Power said, it's an achievement how far gaming on Linux has gotten over the years. The whole "it's faster, it's as easy as Windows, it doesn't have issues" thing some inflooncers are trying to peddle just gives newcomers a bad impression. Also, I think "gayming" distros are a mistake. All of them make things harder when their so-called "quality of life tools" break or don't work.
 
King Vidiot said:
If gaming on Fedora 42 KDE is a priority, why not try running Nobara? It is made by the guy behind GE Proton so I would expect it to have better game compatibility.
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It's not a priority for me. I basically daily drive Linux Mint 22.1 and I have a portable hard drive I like to test distros on. I just prefer messing with Fedora over say... Arch and its derivatives because Fedora's basically as close to rolling release as you can feasibly get while still maintaining a fixed release cycle. I won't discount the Nobara project since I'm unfamiliar with it, but I've been intermittently fiddling with both Fedora and RHEL clones for years. A lot of Nobara's modifications (that aren't direct changes to Fedora's source code) basically amounts to adding RPM Fusion and pre-installing packages necessary for gaming to even be a possibility. I already do this every time I set up Fedora, either in QEMU or through installing on a portable drive. Besides, Steam and all my emulators work flawlessly once X11 was installed and I'm logged into a Xorg session instead of Wayland. I don't even play AAA games from $current_year since I spend most of my time on Azahar (formerly Lime3DS, formerly Citra), melonDS, and DuckStation. If I do play a Steam game, odds are it's something that's almost a decade old at this point like Hollow Knight (Linux native) or any Dark Souls game (flawless under Proton). Maybe I'll fiddle with Nobara later on, but I doubt I'll get much out of it considering how I'm already ~80% of the way there and I'm not sure how impactful the direct changes to Fedora source code would really be.
 
Unstable Diffusion said:
Changing to Linux has helped me avoid having to buy the latest AAA slop just because someone in the friend group had a crave for it that lasts a week or two.
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most of those games are competitive slop games and i quit playing those years ago cause i stopped having fun
and in that way switching to linux has drastically improved my mental health lol
 
wafflesies said:
most of those games are competitive slop games and i quit playing those years ago cause i stopped having fun
and in that way switching to linux has drastically improved my mental health lol
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Stardew Valley and user-generated content all run natively fine on Linux. Just sayin'
888Flux said:
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The Archtranny does not understand the concept of mirrors. Perhaps because when xhe looks in its own reflection it terrifies them.
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I'm now incapable of seeing the Arch logo any other way:
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Its weird how many ddos attacks all started in the same time period. It's been over the last week or two. Idk how many services I've been hearing about getting attacked.

I wonder what's actually going on here.
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
funny. You would think with how the game industry uses "cheating" as a reason they need to block linux support. You would think cracked games would be easier to use on linux. Not exactly the same as cheating, But still.
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The “Linux users will cheat” argument is incredibly retarded for a multitude of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that cheating is prolific on windows and you have spastics buying DMA hardware just to win in Fortnite
 
Ferryman said:
Not sure what happened but trying to install a Fitgirl repack of the latter went so poorly I had to reinstall the whole OS by the end of it. Could not get past TTY before it froze and died. Whatever black magic they're doing apparently doesn't play well with Linux.
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Fitgirl repacks use a custom unarc.dll for decompression which seems to give wine fits. Some things install, some don't. Sometimes it'll work on another version of wine or proton, sometimes it won't. Sometimes you can just try to reinstall it and it'll work.

I have no idea what's going on under the hood there.
 
Froggy Fresh Sextape said:
Fitgirl repacks use a custom unarc.dll for decompression which seems to give wine fits. Some things install, some don't. Sometimes it'll work on another version of wine or proton, sometimes it won't. Sometimes you can just try to reinstall it and it'll work.

I have no idea what's going on under the hood there.
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Probably malware

I pirate movies shows music and books, but I rarely pirate games as it's just too dodgy
 
Betonhaus said:
What were all the services?. Maybe there's a pattern?
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there isn't really one that I've noticed. Just a lot of them happening. Like the arch one, obviously the round of them on this site. There was someone ddosing that random linux wiki. People ddosing some runescape server or something PirateSoftware was playing. I feel like there have been more in the last two weeks than just those, but those are the ones I can immediately think of off the top of my head, that I've heard about.

I wonder if there has just been a huge wave of hacks, and there are a lot of people with bot farms right now, that are offering up services for cheap or something. I really don't know. But it's definitely been a trend the last few weeks.
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
there isn't really one that I've noticed. Just a lot of them happening. Like the arch one, obviously the round of them on this site. There was someone ddosing that random linux wiki. People ddosing some runescape server or something PirateSoftware was playing. I feel like there have been more in the last two weeks than just those, but those are the ones I can immediately think of off the top of my head, that I've heard about.

I wonder if there has just been a huge wave of hacks, and there are a lot of people with bot farms right now, that are offering up services for cheap or something. I really don't know. But it's definitely been a trend the last few weeks.
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You see stuff like this when new botnets come online
 
Froggy Fresh Sextape said:
Fitgirl repacks use a custom unarc.dll for decompression which seems to give wine fits. Some things install, some don't. Sometimes it'll work on another version of wine or proton, sometimes it won't. Sometimes you can just try to reinstall it and it'll work.

I have no idea what's going on under the hood there.
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I decided to install all my repacks via windows vm and then moved over to my Steamdeck. Works every time
 
Ferryman said:
Same here, my 6 year old Ryzen/Radeon rig could pretty smoothly handle Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldur's Gate 3, both from Dodi and both with a whole bunch of mods, easily through Lutris/Nobara. Not sure what happened but trying to install a Fitgirl repack of the latter went so poorly I had to reinstall the whole OS by the end of it. Could not get past TTY before it froze and died. Whatever black magic they're doing apparently doesn't play well with Linux.
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Install the MSVC runtime from Microsoft inside the wine prefix. It's called like "vc_redist..." At least that fixed it for me.
 
GeorgeFloydFentanylStash said:
I decided to install all my repacks via windows vm and then moved over to my Steamdeck. Works every time
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I like to use the VM install method with older games. Install them under a WinXP/Win7 VM, track down all the file and registry changes the installer did, copy them over to the host OS and apply any cracks and mods needed. Basically manual cleanroom installation.
 
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