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.