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Broken Machine posted:i kind of want to set up a gpu passthrough on a linux so i can still play windows games without actually having windows as my main os. anyone here done gpu passthrough, and how did it work? this totally doesn't actually answer your question since i haven't screwed around with that methodology in a long while, but wine is surprisingly excellent at games these days valve's contributions to it via proton are even better. i wish there was an easy way to actually /install/ (non-steam) stuff through steam, but running windows games under linux via steam is a surprisingly pleasant experience. psiox fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Aug 30, 2019 |
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assuming you haven't used wine in a few years, you might really be surprised, but you're still correct that there's still plenty of reason to run windows one way or another still surprised at how much native lunix support games seem to have in this crazy future. i think i'm partially just impressed at how steam/valve have helped normalize the platform. welp proved the title of this thread 
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Aug 30, 2019 05:58
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Soricidus posted:if linux doesn’t have a stable abi then where are they keeping the horse?
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Aug 30, 2019 16:36
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:just install X11 and make sure the DPI is set correctly (monitors often report nonsense figures in their metadata, so sometimes you have to set it) correct, this works well. i run debian on a surface pro 3 and routinely switch between normal and high-dpi displays and things work great as long as you go into (in my case) xfce's appearance settings to specify dpi. but even then it barely matters because my old eyes don't care.
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Sep 4, 2019 18:15
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Whoah, nested hardware virtualization is no more? Like no apic-v? I used to have a good use case for it, but I guess it's not a huge dealbreaker. But I'd definitely like to migrate to this whole 'linux host, windows as a guest with GPU passthrough' if it's something folks are having success with.
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Sep 6, 2019 18:08
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Ah, so the hardware is still there? I've been on intel for too many years and anything I go to next will for sure be AMD. Though lol at all the incomprehensible product names these days.
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Sep 6, 2019 18:21
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I'm weirdly impressed at the state of AMD drivers on linux, so hey, unless there's a good reason I might be done with nvidia for awhile anyhow.
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Sep 6, 2019 19:00
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Perplx posted:Also the most important part is to get a motherboard with good iommu groupings, a bad motherboard will group both your video cards in a single iommu group forcing you to pass both. There is an ACS patch to fix this but it can be buggy so just get a good motherboard. This is totally bringing back why I haven't dealt with getting/building a new computer in years. Oof. Are there 'good' mobo manufacturers these days?
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Sep 6, 2019 22:28
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:it's 2019 and steam has built-in support for wine w/ full directX doom 2016 runs better on my hardware under windows than under linux with updated vulkan libs and all that goodness  same with prey, which is an amazing game that owns maybe even a little more than doom
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Sep 6, 2019 23:47
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i have not found a good solution for installing non-steam windows games /through/ proton, but i'm all ears if anyone's figured out a strategy that works
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Soricidus posted:me well look at the Tadpole owner over here
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Sep 11, 2019 18:34
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brew is fine, by which i mean better than the alternatives on that platform, which is the best option for platforms that also need 'enterprise' support and/or policy enforcement so like with all good computer things, it is the most palatable of all the trash you could be noshing on though asdf is very good software for what it does so
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Sep 14, 2019 01:20
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see, i'm thinking that it's a sign that it's finally time to learn emacs besides reiserfs was bad and for dingdongs from the get-go
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Sep 17, 2019 04:42
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i haven't used kde in so long that it surprises me to hear they still have releases is it Good Enough to Try? i ask as an XFCE dork, a child baby, a dingdong
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Sep 17, 2019 20:12
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i remember being younger and getting really into blackbox then shifted to a fork (?) called waimea then shifted to a fork of /that/ called kahakai man that was a lot of bullshit
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Sep 17, 2019 20:27
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The_Franz posted:I just got my remaining class action settlement funds for Sony removing Linux from the ps3 maybe you could buy a set of linux CDs from walnut creek
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Sep 20, 2019 01:38
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hell yeah legalize yosstep
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Sep 20, 2019 03:02
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yikes, yeah, that seems like it'd break POV somewhere deep in the occipital lobe love too stay on my old-rear end dell 3005FPW that somehow still runs
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Sep 23, 2019 22:03
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The_Franz posted:oh good, there seems to be no way of upgrading other than a fresh centos 7.x release just came out, too, so it's not like it's going away anytime soon
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Sep 24, 2019 17:55
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as a user of stable ubuntu desktop for years, it is kinda amazing that there are almost never real problems (except one more exotic computer but even that seems to have had its problems disappear in the last lts release.) oh yeah once i had to read and follow some trivial instructions to install video drivers that was 100x less painful than doing some dumb registry thing to fix the quarterly windows fuckup
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Sep 24, 2019 22:14
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the codeweavers people are good but also libreoffice works fine for lots of things
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Sep 26, 2019 22:46
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pram posted:lol i wrote many high school papers with that hunk of poo poo hey abiword was great if you had only used StarOffice before
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Sep 26, 2019 22:53
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Progressive JPEG posted:that said, anyone using alpine to run a couple million of anything deserves everything they get correct lmao at anyone running alpine. it fits too well that all of the (awful and not remotely correct) justifications for it come from node and php people.
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Sep 28, 2019 19:45
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i run unreal tournament 2004 through wine ... on osx! and it works perfectly, including multiplayer. so that's a little linuxy and my contribution for the hour.
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Oct 2, 2019 23:32
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Smythe posted:doing anything remotely complicated or tricky regarding audio on a computer quickly becomes insane, busted, and hosed up so imo you should farm as much of it off to small unknowable boxes that plug into the computer in a simple way. g-d i want a roland sc-55 so much
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Oct 3, 2019 17:36
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Celexi posted:posting on page 666 in the spirit of this, doom (1992) is exactly the reason i want a good midi synth
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Oct 4, 2019 02:07
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Sniep posted:hail satan
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Oct 4, 2019 02:53
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it's better after you learn to stop worrying and love systemd (or at least love that every vendor/distribution isn't trying to roll their own init system/service management stuff anymore)
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Oct 5, 2019 21:20
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Suspicious Dish posted:so it's woot but on a truck? Lmao uber, but for woot
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Oct 5, 2019 23:38
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pram posted:full disk encryption isnt good? thats linux users for you as a lumix user i am also a big fan of full-disk encryption with filevault2 i kinda like the user-specific ecryptfs stuff you get with e.g. ubuntu but it still isn't enough e: i know there are good solutions for full-disk encryption on debian but i regularly boot things remotely and have yet to figure out how to make that comport well with FDE (though some people certainly have that working well for them) psiox fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Oct 19, 2019 |
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Oct 19, 2019 21:28
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cyberpunk 2019: everyone is now a kubernetes VAR
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pram posted:mesosphere and dc/os are probably dead though if that’s what you mean. it was dumb to begin with d/c os
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Nov 6, 2019 00:16
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lmao if you don't fondly remember kernel 2.4 as being an incredible improvement over its predecessors
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mystes posted:If I remember correctly, the old versioning system completely sucked because 2.2 had gotten ridiculously out of date before 2.4 was released and so you had to use the unstable 2.3 kernel for tons of stuff. yeah :/ all rolling on the -mm tree i just discovered that software suspend now Just Works on the latest ubuntu on my surface pro 3 (which caused me to learn about how ACPI sleep states are barely a real thing anymore), so i am having a Happy With Linux kinda day
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Progressive JPEG posted:no YOUR computing wrong
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imo running on a non-LTS ubuntu is asking for trouble (which is the point, if you want to be on the bleeding edge and recapture your gentoo days then maybe you can help fix things for the LTS release)
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ubuntu is pretty good criticisms of packages notwithstanding (if they're really not available there may be ppas, but even then it's reasonable to want a semi-curated epel-like thing for more common stuff like that) my position on most of those is that you shouldn't be relying on distribution packages anyway i'd feel bad about this digression into linuxsplaining but it's the linux thread so psiox fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Nov 20, 2019 |
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Nov 20, 2019 21:59
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i'm not saying i'm not owned but there is apparmor also: real repos for those kinds of packages do make me feel better (less behind but still supported by someone) or locally-built packages where you can actually control things, but i'm nearly positive there're actual distribution packages for those (though lord knows it may be a pain to figure out what actually contains what, packages of packages for stuff like python/ruby wind up with mangled naming schemes) long story short, if i'm in a business setting, yes i am all about the rhel ecosystem and that is why i try to not drink too much debian-ecosystem flavoraid and stay aware that All Distributions Are Bastards
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i'm not sure if your anger is performative for the linux thread or genuine but i can assure you that my opinions on this are not that strong *EL is fine ubuntu is fine use EL for work because there are actual support contracts around use ubuntu if you don't care about apparmor for your unreal tournament 2004 appliance no need to be mad
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well if you're curious about my life choices (a) [x]ubuntu ships with better hardware enablement, in my opinion. i use debian plenty, just usually virtualized. plus the packages tend to be more updated and i like their LTS model. plus: binary packages from real vendors target that platform and seem to mostly do an okay job of supporting it. (b) i don't use fedora because i do not enjoy janiting redhat derivatives, but that's personal preference. i also do not do any financial transactions or host sensitive content on my linux installations, they largely exist as a cross between actual workstations and gaming appliances so anyway hopefully you can be less mad about a stranger on the internet's computing decisions with this valuable information
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