The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Billy Herrington "Aniki"]

Install the GOG version of the original game.

just pirate it bro

 

[Grin Machine]

Start with Valve Proton Experimental

Worth mentioning that there is an open-source port of the X-Ray (S.T.A.L.K.E.R.) engine that compiles natively on Linux and works on x64 platforms without a 32-bit compatibility layer, OpenXRay. It currently supports Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat, and development to support Shadow of Chernobyl is ongoing. The repo claims performance is improved compared to the original binaries, but I have not tested this myself to confirm.

 

[Miller]

Steam no longer offers the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, instead offering "enhanced editions" that have many substantial changes to the original.

They don't give you the original if you buy the enhanced edition? I know some studios/publishers do that but I guess it's rare.

 

[Love Is Blue]

They don't give you the original if you buy the enhanced edition? I know some studios/publishers do that but I guess it's rare.

according to pcgamingwiki purchasing the enhanced edition gives you the original

 

[acid_ra1n]

Someone asked me to help work on a noob friendly distro
Closest guess to what that means wins a cookie

 

[Betonhaus]

Someone asked me to help work on a noob friendly distro
Closest guess to what that means wins a cookie

Bazzite or Nobara?

Somehow it sounds like Linux Mint is not the correct answer here.

 

[Nwah Slayer]

Someone asked me to help work on a noob friendly distro
Closest guess to what that means wins a cookie

You got 3 to choose from: You have Ubuntu, Mint, FedoraCore. Those are about the easiest you're going to get without paying for RHEL.

 

[acid_ra1n]

Bazzite or Nobara?

Somehow it sounds like Linux Mint is not the correct answer here.

Yeah basically reinventing bazzite heres ur cookie

 

[Betonhaus]

Yeah basically reinventing bazzite heres ur cookie

Oh I misunderstood (but got to the same answer anyways). I thought you meant that he installed what was referred to as a noob distro but is decidedly not and so asked for help for all sorts of complex problems that something like Linux Mint wouldn't have.

Any response I could make to that is moot.

 

[Buno]

Gentoo fails a lot less than any competing build system I've tried. But being light on USE flags goes a long way. People like to try and do too much with global USE. Been months since my last emerge fail.

mine emerge failed today because of this bullshit: https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/issues/2892 . and it's so not working i decided just mask 25.1.6 version of that

 

[Another Char Clone]

mine emerge failed today because of this bullshit: https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/issues/2892 . and it's so not working i decided just mask 25.1.6 version of that

I also encountered that problem. I looked at the x11libre git history and decided pci_device_is_boot_display is already present in my version of libpciaccess, so I commented out the version in /usr/include/xorg/xf86Pci.h and then went on my way.

Edit: The real retardation is checking for that function in xserver itself and then defining a stub in a public header that depends on a magic preprocessor cookie to be present, breaking all other 3rd party code. It really should have been a private linkage implementation if needed in xserver.

 

[Battlefield42]

just pirate it bro

i agree with this. game is so old now and stalker 2 is their new money maker. its not like stalker modding community isnt pirating constantly either (stalker anomaly)

 

[Dread First]

noob distros are just distros with a lot of QoL stuff and easy "plug and play" use. something like Mint for example has a lot of stuff already preinstalled and ready to use (ex. flatpaks can be installed by the user without any setup).

Homeboy, that shit's amateur hour. We all know that Linux Mint reigns supreme for Linux newcomers, and has held that title for basically 15-20 years at this point in time. The problem is that Linux Mint's formerly wide berth over other distros shrank considerably over the years. Not enough to dethrone it as #1, but enough to have contrarian retards scoff at Linux Mint and try the shiny new techy toy distro that's supposed to be better than Linux Mint but completely shits the bed in all the ways Mint doesn't.

Where Linux Mint honestly excels, and this is one of those deeply unsexy talking points that only turbospeds like me care about, is how it's simultaneously accommodating and empowering for Linux newcomers. Accommodating insofar as reducing the cognitive overhead that comes with the territory of jumping ship to Linux, but also empowering because it does not obfuscate the core fundamentals of a Linux system. In other words, Linux Mint doesn't treat its users like severely impaired morons who cower in fear of anything remotely resembling a command line.

All of the "new" Linux noob distros are fucking awful because they not only condescend to the user through deceptively simple on-boarding processes, but also because any ergonomic failures on the distro maintainers' part gets deflected back at the user for operating outside the established use case (FUCKING BAZZITE AND FEDORA ATOMIC). There's also something really fucking disgusting about how Linux distro maintainers just arbitrarily decide what are and aren't valid use cases, let alone what the core competencies of their users are. Like fuck you pretentious assholes for assuming that little of me, or anyone else I'd potentially recommend your shit to.

What the fuck ever happened to Freedom 0 - the freedom to run the software for any purpose? Does Freedom 0 really mean "the freedom to run the software and get support if you use the software exactly as I outline, and if you deviate from what I intend, you're on your own" nowadays?