Do you use Linux?

[R-T-B]

Ubuntu is Epic's own recommendation, but there is no guarantee some tool/version would require a specific library version that Canonical doesn't provide. Was a known issue with Unity and some SSL library.

The ancient version of Unity I am forced to do my ksp work in does in fact work on my gentoo install (despite only supporting some ancient ubuntu version), but it hard links to so many truly ancient gnome libraries it almost has me yearning for a flatpak, and that is truly horrifying.

 

[Shihab]

The ancient version of Unity I am forced to do my ksp work in does in fact work on my gentoo install (despite only supporting some ancient ubuntu version), but it hard links to so many truly ancient gnome libraries it almost has me yearning for a flatpak, and that is truly horrifying.

Can't translate this, so: "إذا كان رب البيت للدف ضاربا..."

 

[Lost_Troll]

I have been playing around with Bazzite and really surprised at how well it runs. I am running it in the steam deck mode and also have some of my games from other places running in the Lutris and Heroic game apps pretty easily.

They also seem to update quite a lot as well and have good hand controller support for MS and PS types.

 

[Marcus L]

I have been playing around with Bazzite and really surprised at how well it runs. I am running it in the steam deck mode and also have some of my games from other places running in the Lutris and Heroic game apps pretty easily.

They also seem to update quite a lot as well and have good hand controller support for MS and PS types.

Might give this a go, been playing around with Pop! OS though like the look of this, and HDR/VRR support is appealing

 

[Lost_Troll]

Might give this a go, been playing around with Pop! OS though like the look of this, and HDR/VRR support is appealing

So far, I have had no issues using either settings with my one PC display, but with my TV, I am just using the HDR support. Now the one thing I have found using it in the Steam Deck OS load, is it seems to be frame locked at 60 on both of my screens (PC, TV). Which for me is not an issue since I am running it on my TV that is only 60 frames and has no game mode.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I have been playing around with Bazzite and really surprised at how well it runs.

It really is a good distro of Linux. To me, it's on the level of Mint but with a solid focus on gaming.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Current background and conky. Been searching for this background for years.

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I love this! Got a link?

 

[neurotix]

I love this! Got a link?

Link to the conky config, the wallpaper, or both?

 

[fevgatos]

It's wonderful that 2023 was the year of Linux and that we can finally have beautiful desktops on PC.

 

[neurotix]

It's wonderful that 2023 was the year of Linux and that we can finally have beautiful desktops on PC.

Nice setup!

 

[lexluthermiester]

Link to the conky config, the wallpaper, or both?

Wallpaper. If that isn't an easy thing you could just post it(attach) it here.

 

[igormp]

Current background and conky. Been searching for this background for years.

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I had totally forgotten conky is even a thing. I'll set it up in my desktop as well, thanks for the inspiration!

 

[AleXXX666]

Well, I did it!
Installed Ubuntu Mate 24.04.2 LTS on 2nd ssd of My ASUS TUF
Works PURRfectly so far (even "update-test" didn't broke it lmfao)
As I knew from here, I have installed Steam not all games could be installed, but I'll try HL2 later lol
Well impressed, wifi connection took exactly 1 sec opposed to all Win 10-11 which f**ks with it FEW secs (annoys me asf)

 

[ne6togadno]

Current background and conky. Been searching for this background for years.

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your public ip is visible

 

[Shihab]

your public ip is visible

Does any ISP assign static IPs by default these days?
Smartphones alone would exhaust the pool. Leave that every bloody appliance, gadget and vehicle they sell these days have a modem.

not all games could be installed,

Expand.

 

[MrBanana]

I have installed Steam not all games could be installed

Don't forget to enable proton/steam play in the steam settings.

 

[Kwadratowicz]

Hello there, yesterday I installed cachyos on my main rig, and it was beautiful, and today i will reinstal it, cause I destroyed it, and now gpu is not boosting properly , and after trying to help it, now games don't work anymore xD. (and i will set english language cause it's easier to troubleshoot )
But it was glorious, gpu did not even spin fans with team fortress 2 with max fps 400 with 3k and 75 hz

 

[Apocalypsee]

I haven't met my dad in quite some time, when I met him last week, he showed me his latest 'project' which is trying Linux distros on live USB. And he did it on old Lenovo Thinkpad T400 and the other is Aspire 1830T with single core Pentium, I think. I surprised it runs well even when loading through USB and could browse internet and watch YouTube. That got me thinking of trying one on few of my old laptops.

 

[kanamari]

I am using armbian as multimedia player, using it in android and was using it for my secondary (mint) and as dual boot (ubuntu). But I am going back to windows because driver issue in network dongle

 

[ne6togadno]

Does any ISP assign static IPs by default these days?

considering that with most of the ISPs you have box provided by them which normally is always running in practice dynamic ip becomes static.
then you are at the mercy of ISP what information about the IP would be public

 

[bug]

Hello there, yesterday I installed cachyos on my main rig, and it was beautiful, and today i will reinstal it, cause I destroyed it, and now gpu is not boosting properly , and after trying to help it, now games don't work anymore xD. (and i will set english language cause it's easier to troubleshoot )
But it was glorious, gpu did not even spin fans with team fortress 2 with max fps 400 with 3k and 75 hz

Pro-tip: create two partitions. A smaller ~100GB for the OS, mount it at /. And the other one with the rest of the space, mount it at /home. That way, you get to reinstall (and even change) the distro as many times as you want, while keeping all your personal data in place.
I am like you, no matter how well a distro runs, I will tinker with it until (admittedly rarely) it cannot be resurrected anymore.

 

[Kwadratowicz]

I am like you, no matter how well a distro runs, I will tinker with it until (admittedly rarely) it cannot be resurrected anymore.

After 11 main reinstalls of windows (10 and 11) (and a lot of smaller reinstalls, that where just to tweak main install, usually around 2-4 reinstalls per main installation of windows) finally I was so fed up with windows that I choose linux. And today is install 1.2 , I've got rule that in name of machine I write revision of my install . (it loose smaller revisions, but main is what's important )
Ps thanks for tips, cause on windows I was always formatting everything on drive, cause it was pain in the ass about partitioning, Windows is like malware it infects disks that are connected to computer with some files -.-.

 

[Shihab]

Pro-tip: create two partitions. A smaller ~100GB for the OS, mount it at /. And the other one with the rest of the space, mount it at /home. That way, you get to reinstall (and even change) the distro as many times as you want, while keeping all your personal data in place.

If it weren't for .local and the other garbage applications dump on ~/
I do manually copy config/user data files for one or two applications, but for the majority, I prefer to nuke those with the OS.

Considering of adding a step to the next OS reinstall to symlink directories of documents, picture, videos, etc, to a secondary drive. I already do keep those on a separate drive, but never went through the trouble of linking.

Ngl, I miss Windows' library system.

 

[DaemonForce]

Does any ISP assign static IPs by default these days?

Yes. Considering the idea that resetting the gateway with the first wired device that has a consistent MAC address nets the same IP assignment...
The only way to get a new one is to switch the MAC address of whatever is connected. Exploit or not, not the point.
Whatever is left of those precious IP assignments are few and far between. This has been reality for at least 15 years.

 

[bug]

After 11 main reinstalls of windows (10 and 11) (and a lot of smaller reinstalls, that where just to tweak main install, usually around 2-4 reinstalls per main installation of windows) finally I was so fed up with windows that I choose linux. And today is install 1.2 , I've got rule that in name of machine I write revision of my install . (it loose smaller revisions, but main is what's important )
Ps thanks for tips, cause on windows I was always formatting everything on drive, cause it was pain in the ass about partitioning, Windows is like malware it infects disks that are connected to computer with some files -.-.

Even on Windows, you can use a junction point for C:\Users and you can still keep your data after reinstalling.

If it weren't for .local and the other garbage applications dump on ~/
I do manually copy config/user data files for one or two applications, but for the majority, I prefer to nuke those with the OS.

Considering of adding a step to the next OS reinstall to symlink directories of documents, picture, videos, etc, to a secondary drive. I already do keep those on a separate drive, but never went through the trouble of linking.

Ngl, I miss Windows' library system.

I know there's junk that will accumulate, but you can sift through that later*. If you nuke your data, it's just gone.

* What I do is I rename folders first, see if anything breaks if the old folder is not there anymore. If it does, renaming it back, no harm, no foul. If it doesn't, I delete it.