flashgnash

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flashgnash,

Minecraft modding is a shining example of how to do it imo, install modloader > dump mods in mods folder

I suppose it has the advantage of being java though

flashgnash,

Mo2 is far from perfect but a hell of a lot easier to get working on Linux than vortex

flashgnash,

On windows it was pretty good if a little laggy (electron)

flashgnash,

I did the opposite, have always dual booted my laptops and had win on my PC until quite recently now that I’m comfortable enough not to need a safety net anymore

flashgnash,

See I’ve run into an issue now where I like and am used to GNOME, but I also want to try a tiling WM and doesn’t seem like there’s really a good way to do that in gnome

flashgnash,

Isn’t it? I’m fairly sure I’ve flashed a windows iso a couple times from Linux before

flashgnash,

Installed distrobox on NixOS because I was worried being limited to only nixpkgs and have not touched it once lol

Same goes for the windows VM except for the time I needed to run excel macros for work

flashgnash,

I’d never heard of nixpkgs before so thought it was some small niche thing

flashgnash,

Did you enable proton? I seem to remember sometimes having to enable it for all games manually

Minecraft runs because Minecraft is Java and runs natively

flashgnash,

You can actually play steam games through lutris I think, last I checked there was an option for connecting steam

That said I think most people save for the most diehard FOSS people would probably rather use steam for steam games

flashgnash,

Come join us on NixOS, we have declarative state management and also chocolate chip cookies

flashgnash,

That way you get the exact same cookie every time

flashgnash,

Try updating to the latest kernel, that worked for me getting my 8bitdo ultimate working

flashgnash,

I tried that once, technically possible but it wouldn’t let me login on the install I had been using long term previously (seemed fine on a completely fresh install)

Need windows little enough that I’ve just put my existing license in a fresh VM instead

flashgnash,

You can get the Isos from the installer page too installer is just there for people who don’t know how to/don’t want to flash it themselves

flashgnash,

It’s really good so long as you aren’t trying to use it with Nvidia especially for gaming in my experience

flashgnash,

ThinkPads are generally pretty good. Got mine for ~£450 on eBay and it’s got ridiculous specs for that price (4k display, discrete GPU, 2 nvme slots, 32gb of ram and an 8 core 3.6ghz i7)

I think it lasts about 5 hours of light use on Linux but like many ThinkPads you can swap out the battery so bringing a spare charged battery with you is an option if need be

flashgnash, (edited )

Very high spec for the money, old hardware but still far more powerful than many modern laptops that are more expensive

You’re not going to be running cyberpunk at 4k on it but for all of the things you mentioned it won’t even break a sweat

Just make sure you pay attention to the specs because there are different builds of them with different amounts of memory, GPU and screen resolution I believe

flashgnash,

Not sure there’s really much point in trying to push people to use Linux if they aren’t interested in computers.

Imagine if someone came up to you raving about switching to a new car brand that has a 5% higher top speed and 10% more fuel efficiency for your money but the handbrake is in on the roof, you change gears with buttons instead of a gear stick and you fill the tires with water instead of air

Most people don’t care about what software runs on their computer and just want the default because it works the same way everyone else’s does

Only way Linux gets into the mainstream is if consumer hardware with it preinstalled gets popular, the steam deck is a good start

flashgnash,

I’m probably going to be unpopular for saying this but I think at some point you just have to settle. What practical difference does it actually make to your life if someone else has windows on your network

flashgnash,

I always worry with those kinds of installations that I’m going to become permanent tech support because Linux problems are far less universal

Also if they need to run Photoshop or full fat Office they’re kinda screwed

flashgnash,

Photoshop runs in wine? Gave up on trying to run it on Linux long ago not that I have a license for it anymore anyway

There’s stuff like photopea but the web based ones kinda suck and are full of ads

flashgnash,

And it sucks that companies are allowed to do things like that with their software but I would imagine you wouldn’t be very popular if you try to tell them they can’t use Netflix anymore

Could always put your machines on a different subnet to the smart TV?

flashgnash,

What’s the advantage over running steamos? So far steamOS just works as intended for the most part and am hesitant to change it for minimal benefit

flashgnash,

To be honest I love tinkering but all my machines except my steam deck are tinker machines right now, it’s nice to have one thing that is just in the default state and reliably runs games

flashgnash,

I think you’re gonna have a pretty rough time trying to use a mouse as a joystick

You can get wireless receivers for 360 controllers, joy cons, switch controllers, PS4 and ps5 controllers all work with PC over bluetooth if you have any of those lying around, PS3 ones should work wired with some effort

flashgnash,

I daily drive NixOS on a gaming PC and work laptop, works great for both and haven’t encountered that password issue you mentioned

ElementaryOS, mint and pop are good starter ones and elementary looks a lot like Mac’s interface

For desktop environments the ones I know well that have the top bar, GNOME has one by default but don’t think it’s very configurable, Pantheon looks a lot like the Mac UI and I think you can technically edit the html behind it? KDE is definitely the one people use for maximum customisability and you can create a top bar with that pretty easily

As for capabilities, most distros will do most things, they’re all pretty much the same under the hood and all run the same software depending on package manager

Package managers generally come with the distro and I think that’s usually the thing that makes people’s minds. I’ve not used brew but most package managers will be something like

Snap (most distros): “snap install firefox” Apt (Ubuntu based distros): “apt-get install firefox” Pacman (arch based distros): “pacman -S firefox”

Apologies if I got any details/syntax for any of this wrong am doing this off the top of my head and am rather tired

flashgnash,

I’ve actually found the opposite, thanks to the lack of all the windows shit on my pc games seem to run smoother. I’ve had one game not run out of the box so far and I’ve played a fair few with either my PC or steam deck so far

That said I don’t play that many competitive games and I’ve heard their anticheats often prevent them from running on Linux

flashgnash,

Games with launchers do kinda suck yeah usually there’s a workaround though

flashgnash,

The game ready drivers I hadn’t considered, that said I’ve still not had an issue running newer games. Ran diablo 4 flawlessly on high settings on linux with an Nvidia card

Nvidia broadcast is good but Krisp and noisetorch are perfectly good too I think

You’re talking about emulation, I’m assuming you mean wine/proton and not just trying to game in a VM. LoL I can understand being a competitive game, I’m kinda confused by path of exile looks like an old single player game

I have exclusively played witcher 3 on my steam deck and it ran flawlessly, maybe it was something to do with your distro/setup?

As for the windows shit sure I could go through every process in task manager disabling things and fighting windows (you can’t get rid of cortana without digging deep into your system for example) but Linux comes free of all that crap out of the box and doesn’t make me run around removing stuff from my system

(Also, I am the worst for not uninstalling things ever but now I’m on NixOS I basically just remove everything I don’t need anymore from the config file and it’s gone)

Out of curiosity, when did you last try gaming on Linux and on what distro?

flashgnash, (edited )

It’s come a ridiculously long way for gaming in the last 3 years thanks to the steam deck’s popularity

Depending on your peripherals I believe there are open source alternatives for RGB, pretty sure someone’s made an icue one

Path of exile was released in 2013 (10 years ago, sorry to make you feel old lol

Pretty sure wine is more of a translation layer than an emulator hence the name

flashgnash,

Looks interesting, will give it a go if/when it shows up on nixpkgs

flashgnash,

Absolutely a person. Worst case scenario a human is far easier to remove than a thousand roaches and that’s assuming they can’t be reasoned with or even befriended

flashgnash,

That being the reason why valve are able to produce quality over quantity

Used to think the same about LTT though

flashgnash,

I’ve found NixOS to be one of the easiest distros to use because everything is reproducible, I’m not too sure why everyone who uses it says it’s a hard one to begin with

At the start you just go with the template the installer gives you, and add packages to the package list it generates, then as you want more advanced features options start to come in handy and they’re just as straightforward

No nasty hidden surprises, everything for the most part works exactly how you’d expect (with the exception of syntax with some of the more funky features but you don’t need those to manage a system at the bare minimum

Ubuntu on the other hand when I started using it I had to run a few random commands (disabling broken Nvidia services) after hours of digging just to get my mouse pointer to work after hibernation) and had to do that every single time I switched to a different distro, wasn’t even an issue out of the box on nixos

And if you’re stuck a fix that worked for someone else will almost always work for you unless it’s a hardware specific issue

flashgnash,

Prettt good actually as long as you install steam via programs.steam.enable = true rather than just adding it to packages

Also programs.steam.openFirewall = true if you want game streaming

I will stop using Linux / PC for 10 months. What do you think will happen in that period?

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flashgnash,

I really hope nvk gets performance parity I’d love to be able to ditch the proprietary drivers and be able to use Wayland on my PC

flashgnash,

Framework laptops aren’t actually designed with Linux in mind are they? Remember hearing they used some hardware that wasn’t well supported on linux

flashgnash,

Isn’t cosmic going to be its own DE separate from gnome?

flashgnash,

Gpt-cli replacing bash in the kernel when?

Can’t wait to have to ask my computer nicely to install firefox

Why should I primary Linux for Home Desktop and which one do you recommend?

I’ve always used Windows and am super comfortable with it. I have set up a dual boot with fedora but don’t use it because I have never identified a need to use it. I see a lot of windows hate, so what does Linux have that I need? What can motivate me to migrate? What is a good Linux to have for a desktop + steam?

flashgnash,

Valorant I’m not surprised isn’t that the one with the super invasive anticheat?

flashgnash,

Games manage to have good anti cheat that doesn’t do that though, I rarely encounter cheaters in overwatch for example and if I have they’ve been really subtle about it

flashgnash,

But how often realistically do you run into people who have spent money on clients like that? I’m going off perceived experience in the game and I have very noticed cheaters, and if they’re around they aren’t OP enough to ruin a game single handedly or it’d be obvious

flashgnash,

You say that but I’ve cheated, I haven’t cheated in any competitive games but I cheat in PVE stuff for shits and giggles all the time

Still salty about getting VAC banned dying light from for swimming at super speed in a co op lobby with vac explicitly disabled in everyone’s settings

Cheating doesn’t neccesarily mean ruining other people’s experience unless the survey is specifically about competitive games

flashgnash,

Nixos. Can’t even fathom going back to anything after getting to grips with it

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flashgnash,

I’m gonna run that command

flashgnash,

Terminal games… Suicide linux anyone?

Is anyone using NixOS as their daily driver?

I’m currently running Arch and it’s great, but I’m noticing I’m not staying on the ball in regards to updates. I’ve been reading a bit about Nix and NixOS and thinking of trying it as my daily driver. I’ve got a Lenovo x1 xtreme laptop, I don’t do much gaming (except OSRS), use firefox, jetbrains stuff, bitwarden,...

flashgnash,

Ahh I’m not sure how I’d do it without being able to use the nix config to be honest was kinda hoping to just use the normal settings for enabling DEs

Might still have a crack at it but NixOS might not be the right tool for the job

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