At 10/18/24 07:51 AM, TheDeadlyMantis wrote:

At 10/17/24 12:24 PM, OnixDark wrote:

At 10/17/24 11:52 AM, TheDeadlyMantis wrote:

At 10/16/24 02:56 PM, OnixDark wrote:

At 10/16/24 02:29 PM, Scout-from-tfc wrote:

At 10/13/24 09:16 AM, TheDeadlyMantis wrote:

At 10/13/24 06:09 AM, Scout-from-tfc wrote:

At 10/11/24 11:40 PM, TheDeadlyMantis wrote:

At 10/11/24 05:14 PM, OnixDark wrote:

At 10/11/24 09:18 AM, TheDeadlyMantis wrote:

At 10/11/24 08:37 AM, Scout-from-tfc wrote:

At 10/10/24 02:15 PM, TheDeadlyMantis wrote:https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/the-arch-linux-team-is-now-working-directly-with-valve-steamos-and-arch-should-both-benefit-greatly

Not surprising, SteamOS is based on Arch. Valve's already done a lot for Linux Gaming with Proton. Love to see them working on support for multiple architectures.

Arch is the best Linux distro the, Especially Endeavour os, so it is nice that Valve decided to use Arch

Definitely the best for gaming. Valve made the right choice basing SteamOS 3 on Arch instead of Debian.

what are debian's downsides for gaming?

Debian ships with very outdated packages, it's meant to be as stable as possible. Arch is the opposite, it ships with the latest bleeding-edge software.

Basically what Twig said, Debian is best suited for servers.

I dont think anyone has ever used Debian for every day stuff, it's like gaming on openBSD

Debian is a solid choice for workstation computers, that's why so many distributions are based on it (Mint, Ubuntu).

Edit: Mint is based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian. There's also Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE).

yeah, but i was thinking like vanilla Debian

me who is on mint and wondering about openGL alternatives because krita issues (i tried disabling acceleration, but haven't tested since)

What kind of issues? Are you using an AMD or Nvidia GPU?

on-board AMD. at some point, no matter what tool/settings i use, nothing modifies the canvas. i can't create an ellipse, can't stroke with the brush, nothing. i looked it up and seems to be a common issue.

Did you disable OpenGL? If so, re-enable that. Try going to Select -> Select All then Select -> Deselect.

At 10/23/24 09:33 AM, xeiavica wrote:Any of you guys and gals tried LaTeX yet? Not the rubbery substance, but the markup language. LaTeX is an extended form of TeX that is used very often for research and scientific papers because of its excellent rendering of math equations.

And bam, it generates a postscript or dvi or PDF documented formatted and ready for sharing. It's most commonly installed as texlive on unix systems, but it's even available for microsoft windows as well. A gigantic collection of packages and classes is available at ctan. Just wanted to share you with this because it's cool as hell.

At 11/14/24 12:13 PM, OnixDark wrote:I RAN SOMETHING ON WINE!

i know it sounds silly, but i was having trouble figuring out how to make it work and get that game to run from the thumb drive felt like i got through some rite of passage of sorts.

in case anyone else is having the same issue, the command is:
with quote marks

At 11/14/24 12:24 PM, Twig6843 wrote:

At 11/14/24 12:13 PM, OnixDark wrote:I RAN SOMETHING ON WINE!

i know it sounds silly, but i was having trouble figuring out how to make it work and get that game to run from the thumb drive felt like i got through some rite of passage of sorts.

in case anyone else is having the same issue, the command is:
with quote marks

You can use bottles or heroic games launcher as your wine manager/GUI

At 11/14/24 12:24 PM, Twig6843 wrote:

At 11/14/24 12:13 PM, OnixDark wrote:I RAN SOMETHING ON WINE!

i know it sounds silly, but i was having trouble figuring out how to make it work and get that game to run from the thumb drive felt like i got through some rite of passage of sorts.

in case anyone else is having the same issue, the command is:
with quote marks

You can use bottles or heroic games launcher as your wine manager/GUI

At 11/14/24 02:30 PM, youtherthyf wrote:

At 11/14/24 12:24 PM, Twig6843 wrote:

At 11/14/24 12:13 PM, OnixDark wrote:I RAN SOMETHING ON WINE!

i know it sounds silly, but i was having trouble figuring out how to make it work and get that game to run from the thumb drive felt like i got through some rite of passage of sorts.

in case anyone else is having the same issue, the command is:
with quote marks

You can use bottles or heroic games launcher as your wine manager/GUI

if you are gonna use on of them for a game, you might also want to check out proton. it is a fork of wine that improves compatibility and performance in a lot of newer games. especially proton-GE(that is the version i use) if you don't want to download it from the steam client.

At 11/14/24 02:37 PM, OnixDark wrote:

At 11/14/24 02:30 PM, youtherthyf wrote:

At 11/14/24 12:24 PM, Twig6843 wrote:

At 11/14/24 12:13 PM, OnixDark wrote:I RAN SOMETHING ON WINE!

i know it sounds silly, but i was having trouble figuring out how to make it work and get that game to run from the thumb drive felt like i got through some rite of passage of sorts.

in case anyone else is having the same issue, the command is:
with quote marks

You can use bottles or heroic games launcher as your wine manager/GUI

if you are gonna use on of them for a game, you might also want to check out proton. it is a fork of wine that improves compatibility and performance in a lot of newer games. especially proton-GE(that is the version i use) if you don't want to download it from the steam client.

i didn't know we could use proton without steam. does it work well when you have both proton-GE and steam proton in the same machine?

At 10/9/24 03:36 PM, Twig6843 wrote:

At 8/6/24 08:47 AM, xeiavica wrote:

At 7/17/24 05:27 PM, silverchase wrote:

At 7/10/24 02:01 AM, Scout-from-tfc wrote:welp, time to bump this club, so now that i have this new gaming laptop (which i will have windows on) what fun linux distro should i install on my previous laptop?

If you have a lot of time to spend and no real use for the old laptop, follow the Linux From Scratch book. It's free online. You'll learn how an operating system is constructed from the inside. As a daily driver, it's very impractical, since the book stops at getting to a command line with a handful of the basic GNU programs. But you can treat it like a hobby car: you build it up bit by bit, and eventually, you'll have cool things you built yourself, like… graphics!

Or just wipe it when you're done and install something boring. You'll still get to claim the nerd cred for doing LFS.

At 7/17/24 04:21 AM, LoaExMachina wrote:
On another note, I'm making a comic about Systemd and alternative init systems for Linux and Unix.
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/loaexmachina/the-init-wars

There's also BLFS if you want to take it a step further setting up an X window system or anything else that's more advanced than what the intended scope of LFS was intended for.

Do yall not fw wayland

At 11/15/24 06:37 AM, Scout-from-tfc wrote:

At 11/14/24 02:22 PM, youtherthyf wrote:here is my "be happy" linux setup. music in mpv(or a radio). cava. and 4 dancing cat video i found on youtube

any ideas for additions or changes?

Damn, i'm guessing that it's arch?