Linux Thread

Didn't see one in the catalog, had a few questions concerning specific games and such though, since I'm about to get rid of Windows 8.1 for good and install Mint 18.

1) Will AM2R run natively on Mint? Or can I just run it through Wine?

2) Do Dolphin, Desmume, Visual Boy, and PPSSPP run through Mint, or do I run them through Wine?

3) is Wine the answer to everything?

Also, general Linux gaming thread.

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reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/4ygvsq/am2r_unofficial_linux_port_v11/
mediafire.com/download/3oji5pty3yuix2i/AM2R_v1.1_linux_unofficial.tar.gz
grsecurity.net/announce.php
esr.ibiblio.org/?p=538
kernel.org/doc/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
fglt.nl/guides/playing-zun-touhou-games-on-gnu-linux-with-wine.html
aur.archlinux.org/packages/amdgpu-pro/
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMDGPU#AMDGPU_PRO
templeos.org/
debian.org/News/2016/20160105
youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYH8WvNV1YEm2EnMpNUYS3nxny7KBK5T-
steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198160712672/
twitter.com/NSFWRedditVideo

I don't know about the first 2, but for


No. There still lots of directx 11 library calls that are unimplemented.

It generally works with older Windows games, however, and there it works quite well.

It just werks in WINE, however the devs said they'd be doing a Lunix binary.

Almost all emulators will natively run in Lunix.

As a last resort, yes.

all I needed to know. Thanks anons. I'll see you guys on the other side. as i 'ASCEND

Mint is terrible though

i just wanted to make my cool video

I wan 2 fug linux chan

please elaborate as i use mint

oh yeah fuck boy, AM2R already has an unofficial linux port, even then it works under wine on the windows bianries
here's the reddit link: reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/4ygvsq/am2r_unofficial_linux_port_v11/

dolphin, ppsspp, visual boy and desmume work under linux

wine is not the answer to everything if you want actual framerates and actual support

Currently installing Gentoo on a VM. Wish me luck.

I've been on wangblows for the last 2 weeks because my new GPU (RX 480) has no driver support on manjaro.

I'm getting withdrawal symptoms

Didn't AMD released their open source drivers like a month ago?

>>>Holla Forums for assistance

There will be none there wil only be circlejerks

It's only for Ubuntu and derivatives

I have two books in each hand, the Gentoo handbook and the Bible. Currently compiling the kernel.

As someone who tried PC gaming exclusively through wine, my advice on that is: Don't.

Just dual-boot windows 8 and the linux OS of your choice. Make sure to take the spyware out though.

Incompetent maintainers that have no regard for security or package namespaces.

Anything after 7 is a no go. Dual boot 7 and your favorite flavor. Personally I'd rather go with entire separate drives as I don't trust windows with anything.

Also always install windows first before linux, as linux isn't invasive and windows likes to fuck your whole partition table up.

mediafire.com/download/3oji5pty3yuix2i/AM2R_v1.1_linux_unofficial.tar.gz

Gaming on Linux is pretty much an exercise in wasted time.
Linux is best used as a working environment.
Fucking around with all sorts of shit just to get a game to maybe work on your system is a big fucking waste of time. If the game isn't natively ported, don't fucking bother.
Now, if you don't mind playing indie games then you are in luck as many of them are ported to linux (and through steam which can also run on linux) so you can play those games just fine (in theory).

But honestly, don't fuck with it. Listen, fucking around with just trying to get something to work on your OS that isn't natively meant to is just an exercise in futility and is only worth it if your time is worthless.
Just like manually configuring your kernel. Just like compiling your entire system from scratch.
Beyond the educational value of it, and if you don't have any specific reason to do so other than just wanting to be a l33t h4x0r, there is no reason to do so and it is a waste.

was it because when their servers months ago got shut down for horrible security?

Do you even computers?

better alternatives?

We are talking about video games here.

7 is also acceptable, but remember that newer games might have issues with it.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD YOU USE 10

This is what I do, 'telemetry' can fuck right off.

Ubuntu 16.04 (and its derivatives)
OpenSUSE
Manjaro
Fedora
Debian

Haven't had any issues at all. Plus anything "newer" is broken by design to push hardware sales.

If I have the time to DL 7 I'll probably try it out again, it'll certainly be more cooperative than 8

THE KERNEL IS STILL COMPILING
IT'S BEEN AN HOUR

You're pretty lucky if you haven't had to spend time fucking with Windows to get shit to work.

Honestly, any Ubuntu variant other than the mainline or Debian. If you have time and/or patience then Arch can be quite the powerhouse as well, but it will be a hassle for the first month or so.

tinkering video games to make them work in linux is the same as messing around with linux has a hobby, like modifying packages amd64/x86

Don't worry, it will be over in like several hours if you had appended additional flags with it; otherwise, 2-3 hours approx.

Comptuer engineer. I did all my fucking around in college with that stuff. Now all that matters is having a working stable linux/unix environment for times when I need to work in those environments.


So would you rather spend hours of frustrated wasted time trying to just get your game to fucking start or would you rather have that same time wasted in an entertaining way with the video game?

Trust me fellas, the one lesson I learned is that if it isn't natively ported its likely not even worth the time spent fucking with it.
All that will really amount to is maybe you find a forum post that gets you to a start screen of your game and then watch it crash soon after. Even after doing everything by every detailed step and even having the same distro as the people giving the tutorial you'll likely end up with just a bunch of wasted time, an unplayable game, and an answer of "Works on my machine!".


barely ever. Usually this happens when you have a program you're trying to run that is older than dirt and usually meant to run natively in DOS. Luckily you have things like DOSBox.


I don't have the patience for that shit any longer. If i'm going to be tinkering around to just get something to work I'll just do that at work and get paid for it.

What do you expect, it's one of the most complex software projects ever created in a very literal sense.

Compiling kernel and modules needed for my hardware takes about eight minutes on my Phenom II. You must be doing something wrong.

Also, if you're a Linux babby just use Ubuntu, install the Mate or Cinnamon DE if you like and use PPAs to install bleeding edge mesa and wine-staging for gaming.

Not a Linux bab, though I am also not a sysadmin. Compiling on VirtualBox with 3065MB of ram.

Compiling 1st time != Compiling future times; 'make' reuses any unmodified object files.

Then again, maybe things have change since I last tried (2010) so maybe now you can use WINE and perhaps Cedega (I think that's what it was called) to pop in Starcraft & Brood War and get it to just install and run.
You know, that game from 1998.

Fucking lightweight is what you are.

are you fucked in the head?

Not unless i'm getting paid.
And since I went from hourly to salary there is even less incentive to do so in my free time.

nigger have you ever compiled something from source?

nigger what are you on about?


I asked that guy because I sure as shit won't try to use stale object files when compiling a new kernel version

Tweaking things to run in WINE is usually more fun than the games themselves.

Oh, sorry.

IT'S DONE COMPILING

I was going to call you a faggot, but then I realized you're right.

I'm sad now

It's really fun, kinda working things in the lab like masochist for leisure.

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This happened to me trying to get a game that had a *nix running on GNU/Linux, I could have spent hours trying to get it to work to no avail. The fix took less than a minute; download the .exe and double click on it to launch it in Wine.

If you're a moron you won't see obvious simple solutions and keep going at an issue in an unproductive manner until you give up in frustration. Some old Sega games like Panzer Dragoon I got it running on a tinyxp install inside virtual box when it didn't work right away in Wine. Same thing when DOSbox was giving me issues.

man this sure is nice. It gets a little fucktarded when I try to display it on my TV with an HDMI from the laptop though. It'll mirror the laptop display by default, but the mouse leaves trails and then everything will sort of freeze? I 'fixed' it by just restarting and unplugging the HDMI.

Oh well.

I just want the crackling when I talk into my mic to stop, this is my biggest issue and it is driving me nuts

IT WORKS

Hey that's pretty good


I wish there was something better than ALSA, pulseaudio, OSS and JACK

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now time to compile the "necessary software"

Just installed my R9 380 in my computer on Debian. I was surprised that I had to install firmware-amd-graphics to even get it to work in something else than simple/text-only mode. I thought amdgpu was supposed to make these cards run with only free software?

Anyway, there is something I am more worried about, and it is that the card's fans haven't spun once. Sensors report 60ºC (also reports 15ºC for the CPU, which is probably wrong since the BIOS reports around 30ºC, but I guess being wrong in one of the sensors doesn't mean it is wrong in all of them) on idle on average, and 65ºC during light stress (full screen Minetest on maximum settings and glxgears). Some of these cards are said to stop fans altogether until the moment they reach a set temp (which I don't know), and then start spinning at supersonic jet noise speeds, but I am not sure if this is the case or the card may be damaged. Has anyone else had this problem?

genkernel or manual kernel config?

No, that's why ReactOS is being made.

And that's when I installed Arch instead.

Even with amdgpu the none free blob is still needed. It just makes the userspace libre.
The drivers are very likely out of date, as Debian isn't really known for being even remotely current.

Using Sid right now. It's not Arch tier, but it's pretty up to date. For example, Arch is using kernel 4.7.2-1 (around 5 days old, I think) and I am using 4.7.0-1 (less than two weeks old)

How's ReactOS so far? Does it come with an updater program?

Any Holla Forums recommended Linux packages?

It's still a bit buggy, but it's slowly getting there. The updater is still missing, though.

Oh. I'll be happy to support it when it gets that updater.

Noice. I still don't get why Micro$ hasn't bothered with switching to ext.

I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project,

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

I've switched to W7 with telemetry updates removed for my vidya and botnet needs since configuring PoL every time I want to play a new game was too much overhead for my lazy ass.
Hilariously enough, the kernel had an API for workspaces ever since 2000. There's a patch on msdn that enables it and runs the respective client, so it's not that bad.

bumparoo

Mednafen.

install gentoo

No. Lately for Windows I've just been treating my desktop Slackware install like a hypervisor. Install KVM/Qemu and setup PCIe passthrough to the VM. That will give your Windows VM full access to your 3D accelerator.

PS) this setup runs best with two video cards (my CPU is i5 6600k so I use the Intel HD for desktop, and the GTX960 gets passed to the Windows VM).

WINE is meh.

If a distro were created so that it would have the Linux kernel and the BSD userland, would that mean it's a BSD OS?

BROTHER

Why would you use such a shit-tier kernel? You know FreeBSD's kernel has a linux compatibility layer right?

also forgot Debian has kFreeBSD

It's clearly pasta.

hownew.ru

don't just retype my filename nigger, get your own stolen oc.

RRRREEEEEEEEEE

There is a native port of AM2R. You'll just need to sort the dependencies out yourself.

mediafire.com/download/3oji5pty3yuix2i/AM2R_v1.1_linux_unofficial.tar.gz

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I'm fine with having slack slapped on my laptop but playing actual vidya on linux, let alone using it in a home/work computer? That's fucking retarded.

Slack as in slackware?

Do you have a better idea on what should be put onto an EEE PC? Ubuntu cocks up even with all shit turned off and openbox replacing unity, arch is arch, debian doesn't want to make friends and i don't want to dick around with install since i bought the thing to use it and not to stick my dick into its vents just so it works, mint is just worse ubuntu.

Have you tried Lubuntu?
What?
True

I tried a lot of ubuntu forks, they all have problems in one way or another. Xubuntu gets a passing grade just because i like how xfce rat logo looks. I find it cute.
And debian seems to have some deep issue with my hardware because no matter how I try to install it, the fucking thing goes nuclear and almost cost me a hard drive as a result.

when i installed linux mint 18 from a usb onto my computer i had to disconnect the harddrive that i wasn't installing the linux on, kind of a pain in the ass, no? runs minecraft and terraria just fine though and that's all i need. 4/5 stars

good advice. also block windows telemetry sites at your router.

Linux is a decent server OS when properly configured and a very solid embedded device OS (again, properly configured). It's a shit desktop and gaming OS. Really, almost by design.

A decent Linux-based gaming OS could be created but it would require Vulcan and a firm bitch slapping to all network and sound chip manufacturers.

When are you mustard race faggots going to learn that that's just a big fucking waste of money? You'll never get the performance you paid for, and you'd be far better off spending the extra shekels on a better card for your next upgrade.

The OS does not matter nearly as much as people seem to think when it comes to games. How well a game performs mostly comes down to drivers and optimization.
On Linux the Nvidia blob is the gold standard in terms of performance (it's basically the same OGL driver for Windows with some glue code), but AMD is (finally) starting to catch up with their F/OSS drivers. As for optimization, that varies wildly from game to game.

Don't forget Gentoo. :^)

Won't you get frustrated after a while though?

On Linux the Nvidia blob is the gold standard in terms of performance
yes along with screen tearing and other handy bugs

I hardly ever get tearing using compton on LXQt. But if you're running X11, you're going to get at least some tearing.

BSD is better.
True, spying devices and smart bombs is where Linux shines. No wonder with so much military funding. Linux = WMD
That's completely intentional. You don't want to have your smart bomb hacked by the average 15yo Russian. So you deliberately make it as obscure as possible, while still skimming free code off STEM students.

has anyone tried those freetard MMOs like Ryzom or Planeshift? there's also Meridian 59 but I'd still like to see what else there is

>tfw no F/OSS porn vidya

Why?

You can just use PlayonLinux. It's a Wine fronted that automates the install process, and lets you manage Wine bottles.

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Better license allows for stuff like ZFS being avail out of the box.
Sony and Apple use it to actually get shit done.

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Why even bother with it when running Windows anyway? Just make Windows the host and run Linux on virtual hardware.

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If you like waiting for all your software through infinite testing like a wincuck…

On which product exactly? How is one license inferior to the other?
ZFS is a file system. How does it enable (or its lack, disable) Apple and Sony from releasing their products?
zfs-utils/zfslinux is readily available to be pulled in via apt, yum, and zypper. Arch has a maintained git snapshot in the AUR and and lts version available via pacman.

On the source code you dumbass.
Simple, BSD license is
which is better than 9000 pages of EULA-tier legal ramblings which get you fucked over in court.
It makes for good servers, Apple and Sony don't need that, but they do fine because of the license and don't touch Linux with a ten foot polel.
Nobody in the real world uses Arch git snapshots on production servers.
ZFS is part of the FreeBSD mainstream kernel/distribution, so it's ready to go for default install and you can even boot from it.

What do apt, yum and zypper have to do with Arch (try reading the post more carefully before you reply next time, bait fag)?

In case you missed the 35 Kilobytes of legal ramblings haunting over Linux, this is the entire BSD license:

Copyright (c) ,
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

As if anybody gives a fuck about your distro circlejerk?

I never understood this dual-boot meme.

Why the fuck should I boot into a separate OS to do new tasks? That's retarded.

You mean like nobody gives a shit about you're shit tier bait, user? Pretending to be a BSD's Witness is a weird way to spend an afternoon, but if you're going to do it, at least try being more convincing.

That was not the question. The source code is a subset of a product.
To my understanding, the main difference between GPLv2+ and BSDL is that the latter allows binary-only distribution of a derivative work.
I would like to know the source of your quote.
Could you please elaborate on that?
If anything, server drives.
You contradict yourself. Above, you stated that
A Sony product that is using module which are licensed under the BSDL, is the PS4, which uses the FBSD9 kernel.
Sony allowed the installation of a Linux distribution on the PS3 in its first few years.

By the way, I don't quite follow. Vanilla ZFS is actually proprietary/closed source, as Sun forked the project in 2010. Since then, the openZFS project has been formed, which is licensed under the CDDL, as was the original project. Hence the first question in my second post.

I got a new computer recently. It took me a solid week of tinkering to get passthrough working. Problems happened that couldn't possibly have happened, and were solved by actions that shouldn't have done anything. (e.g. editing the VM's xorg.conf file to make the dedicated card Screen 0 and the integrated card Screen 1 instead of the other way around.)
Basically, passthrough is more sorcery than science. The ArchWiki helps, but it's only a basic guideline.

This is you right now. Just ignore the bait, it's derailed the thread enough already.

It's from ancient times when a PC could run only one OS at once. Nowadays you simply put Linux into a VM and are done.
That's the Linux way to do things. You have hundreds of distributions with each one optimized for single task.
The main reason for this is, that Linux is not actually a real operating system.
A real operating system offers a stable interface for running third party applications and drivers on top of it.
Linux is just a kernel allowing for running something like Firefox on bare metal. Or XBMC. Or something else. So it's like the 2016 edition of Amiga self-booters.

As you might have been able to tell, I'm allergic to misinformation. I concede, however, since you didn't yell at me.
You can, by the way, filter posts recursively (as in, including replies).

Well, at least you're trying different bait…

That's kinda the point of bait, user. You can use facts and refute the bullshit all you want; but once you're on the hook, all you'll end up doing is running around in circles with that faggot for who knows how long.

There is no misinformation. This thread is facts mixed with opinion.

There is nothing I can say to my defense.

See, ? This is the very shit I'm talking about. He's just trying to reel you in.

Linux = Animu shit
BSD = picrel

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how's that Apple/Sony support going out you fucking cucks

Not sure what your experience is, but I've had relatively few problems with WINE, framerates never being one.


Wesnoth. Seriously, it's good fun. Also OpenRA, but only if you for some reason want random-ass rebalances to the original games. Minetest is also good fun if you need something to satisfy your autism.


Sounds like you configured your kernel wrong, seeing as *nix systems run on multi-cpu server farms.


ElementaryOS? Granted, it's a Ubuntu derivative but they rewrote a lot of software for it. It runs shockingly okay on a Dell Inspiron B130, which is pretty shitty.

They're all the same. you should be able to get the kernel and drivers in some way.

I know that feel.

you're really here forever.

Well considering they've both hired BSD developers by the thousands in the last decade and both have hundreds of millions of customers using a BSD derivative making it an important force in the technology industry I'd say it's pretty good.

Compare that to GPL violations, so numerous that people stopped documenting them. grsercurity stopped making their patches public because of this


grsecurity.net/announce.php

The GPL development methodology simply doesn't work in the real world.

If people made games FOR unix in every sense of the word it would be a golden age

fuck windows 10-years-behind

cross platform is a false god

unix is the perfect system for all mankind

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Don't do this. I'm running linux in a VM on my laptop since PC is riprip. Windows wont stop grabbing the super key/alt+tab and whatever even when the VM has control of the keyboard. It's a huge pain in the ass.

The rich get away with murder, news at 11. That doesn't mean the GPL is useless.


Must be similar to that rush you get from getting an old DOS game to work.


No that's pretty much THE reason to do open source and *nix.


esr.ibiblio.org/?p=538

even ubuntu with cinnamon is better than that shit if you're not smart enough to run Arch, Manjaro, Gentoo

That's a meme. It's actually Linux that is at least a decade behind everything else.

It works good enough to scare third party driver developers away.
Linux even employs some sort of bullshit GPL-enforcing "DRM".
It's bullshit, because the license itself allows you to remove it entirely and then redistribute the modified source. Someone has just to do it and make Linus butthurt.

Any tip on how to make the Dualshock 3 controller work on Linux? I would like to use it for PCSX2 and Retroarch.

What the fuck. Source? If you are talking about some sort of tivoization detector, keep in mind Linux is perfectly fine with this since it's employing GPLv2 and not GPLv3. You better not be talking about kernel drm because I swer on ur mum if you do

right when i installed loonix. Also use MGBA not visual boy. I just wish this had video games and more mature graphics drivers then it would easily be a windows replacement for vidya, the only things that i had a worse experience with than windows were playing
The openness of the whole thing is great for your gaming ricing too, for instance i upped my usb polling rate to 1000hz (by the way the default is 100 even if you have a wireless mouse with hardcoded refresh rate set it to 125hz since that's the default windows setting that most mouses are made around), played with my audio latency until it was really low and didn't crackle, disabled prequeue processing on the kernel's network stack for lower latencies in vidya and i also recompiled the kernel with the previous configuration but with -march=native for better performance

linux has drivers for it it should be plug and play

YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP

Yes, being a wizard is a bad thing, and besides, there's no such thing as wizards anyway! Wizard is just a term for male virgins, nothing but a joke. Magic isn't real!
One world, one truth, one reality, fellow sleeper!

Would it not be easier to admit that linux will never ever be a desktop system?

He's probably talking about how if you load a proprietary module into Linux then the kernel gets "tainted" and flagged as such with any debug output, basically it limits how much support you can get from the devs because, well, how can they support a proprietary blob? God only knows what it's doing to the rest of the system.

kernel.org/doc/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt

There's other things that can taint the kernel that's just the major one (thanks NVIDIA).


No it's an everything system. If anything is more tragic, it's that Windows wants to be a tablet system.

Windows wants to be an embedded system. They want lightbulbs to run windows 10

Use xboxdrv. It has support for HUEG, 360, and DS3 controllers.

Works.
Biggest problems at the moment are
The less dependencies a program has, the better the chance it'll run.

I told him about the wonders of loonix and he seemed genuinely interested. He doesn't have a computer of his own, but he does have a small tv, so I gave him a raspi to play around with.

>says she'll talk to her granddaughter who knows about computers she's really cool i know her since i was a child, probably one of the 3 women who actually play video games for the video games and didn't get in tech fields by sucking and fucking
And that's how i spread the word of our lord stallman and savior linus

is Mint really that bad for security, even if you use common sense [Current year edition] and a browser with noscript + ublock?

Abiword 4 lyfe

The maintainers have been dun goofing for a while now. At some point their website got hacked and the hosted images got replaced with others that had spyware in it for a couple hours (Doesn't surprise me, despite the popularity the website looks like from 2004).
The distro really doesn't do anything over Ubuntu, it just installs shit by default that Ubuntu doesn't, you can easily install all that shit by yourself, like replacing the Unity Desktop with whatever other you like, or removing it even. I believe you don't even need to touch a terminal if you do it from the software center.

And put on clown makeup, too.

Everybody converges to Gentoo in time. You'll come crawling back after you get sick of your bug chasing, pozload OS.

You're doing the Lord's work, user.

I installed Mint 18 during summer, (instead of ubuntu because I heard that one had an amazon botnet)

I'll still keep Mint unless something really bad happens.

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I've seen a number of bulges in my time and I can tell you that that is, in fact, not a bulge, but a puffy vulva.

Sorry to disappoint you, you faggot.

hopefully it's her puffy vulva

I've got some bad news for you user, Mint 18 has systemd, and amazon botnet.

How is systemd even gaining so much ground?

They disabled it by default in Ubuntu 16 I believe.
I use Debian Sid, I honestly don't give much of a shit.

Probably because of Debian.

sure

I admit I dont know what the fuck it is

well shit
anyway how to disable it?

Before they start with the autism, keep in mind systemd is actually not that bad for your average user (ie. you, and probably whoever is going to tell you systemd is the devil as well).

No, it's not. It hides a lot of shit that a user could configure and frequently breaks things. If you're an average user and you want systemd, just stick with Windows.

Head over to Holla Forums and watch NEETs who never used linux for anything productive throw massive spergfits over systemd.
It is hilarious to fan the flames by saying stuff like "but guys systemd does x".
These kids don't even know why they hate systemd so much bit it is hilarious to watch their autism.

I just installed 17.3, it's what I'm using right now. I'd say it'd be best to go ask Holla Forums but a lot of the good posters there left when they thought Holla Forums was compromised.
They're currently arguing about it in
>>>Holla Forums647292/ and a bunch of faggots like keep claiming that there isn't enough wrong with it to warrant making sure it's not installed, but it doesn't actually seem to fucking do anything that's not already done in 17.3 without it. That coupled with someone associated with Red Hat making it, means I'm going to avoid and suggest avoiding it until the day I die.

Your average user will only start and stop services. systemd is actually quite good at that.
I had systemd "break" on me one time. On Debian Sid, where these things are expected. Unless you are using a bleeding edge distro it's a non-issue.

eeeebiiinnnnn xDDDDDD


If it weren't because I know better, I would just dismiss you as a parody. Sadly, I know better

Wasn't Debian Man bullycided by police? Connection?

Before you start with the conspiracy theories, systemd had entered Debian long before Ian an heroed. But what else could I expect from an user who just installed Gentoo because of memes

HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO USE WINE AND MANAGE WINE PREFIXES

I DO EXACTLY WHAT THE FUCKING WEBSITE TELLS ME TO DO FOR SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS BUT IT DOESN'T WORK

Use Play on Linux to manage your wine prefixes.
This guide is a nice introduction to the general workflow:
fglt.nl/guides/playing-zun-touhou-games-on-gnu-linux-with-wine.html

It's set by the environment variable WINEPREFIX. In a terminal, you can set some folder path per execution like ”WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-gay wine trap.exe". or use export. In kde shortcuts I use ”env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-gay wine trap.exe”. You can also set WINEARCH=win32 when you winecfg.

Then why the fuck did you pick it up as a career?

Probably the same reason why everyone flooded into computers even though they don't like them.
Because it pays well and they don't give a shit about doing a half-assed job with a shit build that's got more security holes in it than anything owned by Hillary Clinton.

Do you even wasteful spending, nigger?

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You want me to tell you why you fail at baiting, user?

The bait is that it isn't a bait. And you've been hooked nerd. Show me that boypussy.

The Hybrid one?

If you are willing to jump into the cold water, then use:

aur.archlinux.org/packages/amdgpu-pro/

and refer to:

wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMDGPU#AMDGPU_PRO

(I couldn't test it yet, because I still need to wait for the driver to support my card, but yours is on the list of officially supported devices)

See, user, there are two problems with your bait: 1. It's too obvious 2. It's too obscure

Anyone with an IQ over 90 can tell your deliberately being obnoxious, and even most Linux uses give exactly zero shits about BSD (hell most BSD devs just run it in a VM on OSX).

You're all degenerate faggots.
templeos.org/
Bonglanders are looking to ban it because "hacking tools"

I’d just like to interject for moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

I like offending people because I think people who get offended should be offended.

— Linus Torvalds

but user-kun
TempleOS is not gahnoo plus loonix

Doesn't even matter. It's fucking tradition at this point.

Holla Forums is such a trash board holy shit

I used to think Holla Forums had too much shitposting, but then I went to Holla Forums. We're all small-time compared to them.

That's because some of us actually like video games. I'm convinced Holla Forums doesn't actually like technology.

wew lad

Speak for yourself, friend. I am just here out of habit.

Mark is a hypocritical fuck who buys the games he likes to criticise amongst his peers to appear cooler, just like half of Holla Forums. More news at 11.

There's a reason I said some. And you can always go back and play older games.

I agree that setting up audio for recording is a pain and a half.
I run arch and had to perform a lot of hackery to get two audio channels recorded into one, like mic and line-out. It was more effort than it was worth because I then realized how fucked the output is without being able to make adjustments to the line-out audio independent of the mic.

This applies to anything though, if you try combining two channels so you only have to put resources into recording once, it's hell. In pulseaudio you have to create numerous new channels and link them together and none of the process for it is well documented, jack is even more confusing to set up, and ALSA just fucking forget it.


I'm actually installing gentoo on a laptop right now. I've fucked up the bootloader install like 3 times because it's an EFI system and it's completely alien to me. Handbook says to make an EFI boot partition but then never has you mount it, then tells you to install grub to the /boot partition (not the EFI boot partition), but to change the efi directory setting to the root of the vfat partition, fuck this was easier before I had to worry about GPT/EFI shit
still doesn't fucking work, and because they told me to make it 2Mb there's no space to try and fucking set up efibootmgr, what the fuck handbook? I had no trouble with my old thinkpad or netbook

how come there is no tux r34?

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It's not his fault he's retarded.

To be fair, even in Windows combining two channels into one is a pain in the ass. Back when my friends recorded our retarded playthroughs, we had to use two different applications, such as FRAPS and TeamSpeak's built-in channel recording and then mix them by hand to achieve the same effect. Before we even got TeamSpeak, a friend of mine had to fucking put an external recorder next to him to record his voice.

I guess there are some third party tools to do it, but doesn't mean Windows isn't retarded in this regard.


You haven't searched hard enough. Even Japs have done it

Finally found a solution to the laptop not booting the efi file.
fuck that was a pain in my ass

don't buy HP user, ever. Even on the business side they're shit but they mainly get their way around the market by being everywhere and having great support for companies

Oh, sorry. I seem to have gotten my faggots mixed up. To be fair though, you morons who still browse 8/tech/ all sound alike.

I don't peruse Holla Forums. I do, however, enjoy exploring new reasons to break out my smug anime girl collection. It's not shocking that a Linux user would be too stupid to respond to the correct post.

I haven't posted there in probably six months or more. All the people who know what they're talking about left and the only ones left are memers and people shilling their knockoff imageboards.

I didn't even bother looking at your image all that closely. And you do know this image board is a knockoff too, right?

That's probably right. You sound more like a tourist from /g/.

I'm crying fam.

I didn't buy it, it was someone else's throw-away.
I figured the specs were decent so I'd take it and ended up dumping more money than I'd like to admit into fixing it.
Now this, HP is so shit at making laptops it's unreal, but UEFI is a fucking blight on computers.

Workspaces is the greatest feature, and you don't even have to go full minimalist to get them. They work a treat on Xfce too.


I doubt it. Man, that was not a cheerful day.
debian.org/News/2016/20160105


What hacking tools? That shit doesn't even do networking.

To make your screen easier on your eyes at night.
Security. Restrict your vidya according to the principle of least privilege.
Command line download managers so that you don't have to visit cancerous websites.
Easily torify your stuff.
Basic stresstesting tools.
NAS that doesn't suck.

mpv and youtube-dl are like a dream. It let's you open youtube and twitch streams like this:
mpv youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Playlists too:
mpv –no-video –shuffle youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYH8WvNV1YEm2EnMpNUYS3nxny7KBK5T-

I can't believe I haven't seen them shilled more often.

I thought I typed – (double dash) for the parameters…

I tried running a game on WINE and it failed to start, I stopped there half a year ago. I couldn't figure it out, and now that I think about it again, it was just as bad as troubleshooting problems running the game on its linux version. It had failed to play sounds from attacks, I downloaded 20+ missing libraries and nothing fixed it. Its too much for me to attempt such a thing again..

Unrelated question, can linux run pirated games? I'm trying to remember, did WINE use windows' .exe game versions for install/running the game?

Are double dashes filtered? For what purpose?


No, Linux has a strict policy against plundering the high seas and will refuse to run video games acquired in this manner.

Allows you to easily monitor your system.
Compression utility, however it doesn't work with all .rar versions like the Window port for some reason.
Text editor, like Notepad ++ on crack.
Torrent client with a built in search engine that is super easy to enable.
Allows you to use JDownloader, which I find is way easier to get working than megatools and supports way more websites. However link grabber can become a pain after a while, processing links when you don't want to.

I also can't recommend enough.
Youtube-dl -f webm $url works wonders and mpv is just great as with both installed you can bypass any content warning blocks on YouTube, while also super easily downloading videos in what ever format you want by just typing the short than version after the -f flag.

I also can't recommend enough.
Toutube-dl -f webm $url works wonders and mpv is just great as with both installed you can bypass any content warning blocks on YouTube, while also super easily downloading videos in what ever format you want by just typing the short the hand version after the -f flag.

Emacs

I fucking installed arch and I fucked up my video drivers.

Please help me.
steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198160712672/

well your first mistake was installing arch

don't tell me you actuallly use wayland

There is literally nothing wrong with using wayland.