Yeah, I transitioned completely a couple years ago. I really don't mind it at all, but I'm also a really cheap gamer. So you'll see me put down money for FTL and Shadowrun and such, not so much the big AAA titles.
And yeah, if I really need to play one, I have a PS4.
Speaking of Arch for stuff/development, would it be okay for use as a web development environment if the apps were being deployed to Debian? I currently have Manjaro installed (and love it), but would like to put Debian or Ubuntu on my Linode server
Speaking of Arch for stuff/development, would it be okay for use as a web development environment if the apps were being deployed to Debian? I currently have Manjaro installed (and love it), but would like to put Debian or Ubuntu on my Linode server
Speaking of Arch for stuff/development, would it be okay for use as a web development environment if the apps were being deployed to Debian? I currently have Manjaro installed (and love it), but would like to put Debian or Ubuntu on my Linode server
If you're deploying to Debian, just run Debian?
My PC is a bit of a mess. Couldn't get Xubuntu to install on it. Manjaro is already on it, and I don't feel like fucking with it further :shrug:
Yo. I have fully transitioned to Linux, but honestly, I also have a PS4, so if I can't get a game on Steam, it's likely there. WINE has historically had a pretty hit or miss success rate, but last I looked, it couldn't do anything DX11+ and had major trouble with 64bit games. For me, that notably meant Overwatch and Dark Souls 3 were both PS4 purchases, even though I'd have preferred KBAM for the former and 60FPS for the latter.
Dunno about VR on Linux. VR doesn't interest me at all.
Yeah, that's kinda where I'm stuck. Stuff like DS3 I'd really prefer to pick up for PC, but I do have a PS4 now and I suppose I can just buy the AAA games on that. It also means I can play multiplayer with a buddy of mine who lives a fair distance away. There's also PSVR coming, so that's always an option.
Hmm. What a quandary...
Apparently virtual machine GPU pass through is now a thing. I haven't played with it but some people on Reddit were talking it up.
Yo. I have fully transitioned to Linux, but honestly, I also have a PS4, so if I can't get a game on Steam, it's likely there. WINE has historically had a pretty hit or miss success rate, but last I looked, it couldn't do anything DX11+ and had major trouble with 64bit games. For me, that notably meant Overwatch and Dark Souls 3 were both PS4 purchases, even though I'd have preferred KBAM for the former and 60FPS for the latter.
Dunno about VR on Linux. VR doesn't interest me at all.
Yeah, that's kinda where I'm stuck. Stuff like DS3 I'd really prefer to pick up for PC, but I do have a PS4 now and I suppose I can just buy the AAA games on that. It also means I can play multiplayer with a buddy of mine who lives a fair distance away. There's also PSVR coming, so that's always an option.
Hmm. What a quandary...
Apparently virtual machine GPU pass through is now a thing. I haven't played with it but some people on Reddit were talking it up.
I asked a friend who is a die hard Linux gamer about this a while back. First, you need two graphics cards (one can be onboard) and two monitors, because pass through requires the whole card to itself. Then there's a ton of configuration. Then you pray that the VM doesn't blue screen while you're gaming, because if it does you have to hard reboot. Also I seem to remember something about a 10% performance penalty? I might be making that part up.
His description of the affair was sufficient to kill my enthusiasm before I got started.
Yo. I have fully transitioned to Linux, but honestly, I also have a PS4, so if I can't get a game on Steam, it's likely there. WINE has historically had a pretty hit or miss success rate, but last I looked, it couldn't do anything DX11+ and had major trouble with 64bit games. For me, that notably meant Overwatch and Dark Souls 3 were both PS4 purchases, even though I'd have preferred KBAM for the former and 60FPS for the latter.
Dunno about VR on Linux. VR doesn't interest me at all.
Yeah, that's kinda where I'm stuck. Stuff like DS3 I'd really prefer to pick up for PC, but I do have a PS4 now and I suppose I can just buy the AAA games on that. It also means I can play multiplayer with a buddy of mine who lives a fair distance away. There's also PSVR coming, so that's always an option.
Hmm. What a quandary...
Apparently virtual machine GPU pass through is now a thing. I haven't played with it but some people on Reddit were talking it up.
I asked a friend who is a die hard Linux gamer about this a while back. First, you need two graphics cards (one can be onboard) and two monitors, because pass through requires the whole card to itself. Then there's a ton of configuration. Then you pray that the VM doesn't blue screen while you're gaming, because if it does you have to hard reboot. Also I seem to remember something about a 10% performance penalty? I might be making that part up.
His description of the affair was sufficient to kill my enthusiasm before I got started.
That's good to know. I'm not even sure I'm interested in trying it anymore. I think I need to nuke my current Arch install on my laptop from orbit and start again, now that I know what I'm doing to a certain extent. I made some mistakes when I installed Steam and now I'd like to have another run at it with the knowledge of what I did wrong. Unfortunately, doing that means I might as well blow the entire install away because I installed so much cruft I have no idea what to get rid of and what to keep.
Garry: I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time I'd rather not spend the rest of the winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!
Yo. I have fully transitioned to Linux, but honestly, I also have a PS4, so if I can't get a game on Steam, it's likely there. WINE has historically had a pretty hit or miss success rate, but last I looked, it couldn't do anything DX11+ and had major trouble with 64bit games. For me, that notably meant Overwatch and Dark Souls 3 were both PS4 purchases, even though I'd have preferred KBAM for the former and 60FPS for the latter.
Dunno about VR on Linux. VR doesn't interest me at all.
Yeah, that's kinda where I'm stuck. Stuff like DS3 I'd really prefer to pick up for PC, but I do have a PS4 now and I suppose I can just buy the AAA games on that. It also means I can play multiplayer with a buddy of mine who lives a fair distance away. There's also PSVR coming, so that's always an option.
Hmm. What a quandary...
Apparently virtual machine GPU pass through is now a thing. I haven't played with it but some people on Reddit were talking it up.
I asked a friend who is a die hard Linux gamer about this a while back. First, you need two graphics cards (one can be onboard) and two monitors, because pass through requires the whole card to itself. Then there's a ton of configuration. Then you pray that the VM doesn't blue screen while you're gaming, because if it does you have to hard reboot. Also I seem to remember something about a 10% performance penalty? I might be making that part up.
His description of the affair was sufficient to kill my enthusiasm before I got started.
That's good to know. I'm not even sure I'm interested in trying it anymore. I think I need to nuke my current Arch install on my laptop from orbit and start again, now that I know what I'm doing to a certain extent. I made some mistakes when I installed Steam and now I'd like to have another run at it with the knowledge of what I did wrong. Unfortunately, doing that means I might as well blow the entire install away because I installed so much cruft I have no idea what to get rid of and what to keep.
Next time I use Steam on Linux, I'm probably gonna use Docker. It completely side steps all the issues with games requiring specific versions of libraries that may not be installed out-of-the-box on not-Ubuntu.
Yo. I have fully transitioned to Linux, but honestly, I also have a PS4, so if I can't get a game on Steam, it's likely there. WINE has historically had a pretty hit or miss success rate, but last I looked, it couldn't do anything DX11+ and had major trouble with 64bit games. For me, that notably meant Overwatch and Dark Souls 3 were both PS4 purchases, even though I'd have preferred KBAM for the former and 60FPS for the latter.
Dunno about VR on Linux. VR doesn't interest me at all.
Yeah, that's kinda where I'm stuck. Stuff like DS3 I'd really prefer to pick up for PC, but I do have a PS4 now and I suppose I can just buy the AAA games on that. It also means I can play multiplayer with a buddy of mine who lives a fair distance away. There's also PSVR coming, so that's always an option.
Hmm. What a quandary...
Apparently virtual machine GPU pass through is now a thing. I haven't played with it but some people on Reddit were talking it up.
I asked a friend who is a die hard Linux gamer about this a while back. First, you need two graphics cards (one can be onboard) and two monitors, because pass through requires the whole card to itself. Then there's a ton of configuration. Then you pray that the VM doesn't blue screen while you're gaming, because if it does you have to hard reboot. Also I seem to remember something about a 10% performance penalty? I might be making that part up.
His description of the affair was sufficient to kill my enthusiasm before I got started.
That's good to know. I'm not even sure I'm interested in trying it anymore. I think I need to nuke my current Arch install on my laptop from orbit and start again, now that I know what I'm doing to a certain extent. I made some mistakes when I installed Steam and now I'd like to have another run at it with the knowledge of what I did wrong. Unfortunately, doing that means I might as well blow the entire install away because I installed so much cruft I have no idea what to get rid of and what to keep.
Next time I use Steam on Linux, I'm probably gonna use Docker. It completely side steps all the issues with games requiring specific versions of libraries that may not be installed out-of-the-box on not-Ubuntu.
Looks interesting. I'll have to give it a little more of a look before I nuke from orbit.
EDIT: Is there a WM available yet that only uses Wayland?
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Garry: I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time I'd rather not spend the rest of the winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!
Yo. I have fully transitioned to Linux, but honestly, I also have a PS4, so if I can't get a game on Steam, it's likely there. WINE has historically had a pretty hit or miss success rate, but last I looked, it couldn't do anything DX11+ and had major trouble with 64bit games. For me, that notably meant Overwatch and Dark Souls 3 were both PS4 purchases, even though I'd have preferred KBAM for the former and 60FPS for the latter.
Dunno about VR on Linux. VR doesn't interest me at all.
Yeah, that's kinda where I'm stuck. Stuff like DS3 I'd really prefer to pick up for PC, but I do have a PS4 now and I suppose I can just buy the AAA games on that. It also means I can play multiplayer with a buddy of mine who lives a fair distance away. There's also PSVR coming, so that's always an option.
Hmm. What a quandary...
Apparently virtual machine GPU pass through is now a thing. I haven't played with it but some people on Reddit were talking it up.
I asked a friend who is a die hard Linux gamer about this a while back. First, you need two graphics cards (one can be onboard) and two monitors, because pass through requires the whole card to itself. Then there's a ton of configuration. Then you pray that the VM doesn't blue screen while you're gaming, because if it does you have to hard reboot. Also I seem to remember something about a 10% performance penalty? I might be making that part up.
His description of the affair was sufficient to kill my enthusiasm before I got started.
That's good to know. I'm not even sure I'm interested in trying it anymore. I think I need to nuke my current Arch install on my laptop from orbit and start again, now that I know what I'm doing to a certain extent. I made some mistakes when I installed Steam and now I'd like to have another run at it with the knowledge of what I did wrong. Unfortunately, doing that means I might as well blow the entire install away because I installed so much cruft I have no idea what to get rid of and what to keep.
Next time I use Steam on Linux, I'm probably gonna use Docker. It completely side steps all the issues with games requiring specific versions of libraries that may not be installed out-of-the-box on not-Ubuntu.
I gotta start using docker for environment setup, it sounds really cool.
Anyone have any good resources (preferably online but nooks are OK too) for Linux security?
I've got a lot of the basics down, but lack experience and want to be as prepared as possible.
I'm looking for anything that could be helpful from checklists of things to do when you get access to a system for the first time or know you need to fix/secure/defend, examples of common vulnerabilities, suspicious process or file examples, possible backdoors. Stuff like that.
Like if they're super paranoid, the answer is "format the disk and install OpenBSD". For most systems it will be "sudo apt-get/yum/etc upgrade" to get the latest packages and pray that nothing breaks too terribly.
Most semi-modern distros have all the really bad stuff (unsecured telnet, etc) turned off out of the box, so all there really is to do on the admin end is make sure the stuff you do have turned on is up to date and using a secure configuration (authentication on, good encryption, etc) if it is facing the network.
The problem with the question is "security" isn't an end-point. One does not achieve "security". True security is a set of human policies and processes for constantly monitoring for potential threats, schedules for updates to mitigate new and yet unknown exploits, controlling access to resources, and recovery plans and strategies for when you get targeted despite all your security.
So, uh, I dunno. Maybe start with PCI guidelines and work from there?
What is so great about it? It's been on radar but I've never tried it.
The design somehow feels minimal, consistent, fast ans modern at the same time. I find it difficult to find all of those things in a DE. It's ubuntu based which is what I'm comfortable with, but seems to have smoothed out some of the issues I'm having with Ubuntu GNOME (or hides them better).
I threw it up on a Virtualbox, but will probably put it on my Thinkpad.
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Tried eos and it seems like gnome-shell without the stuff I don't like but it's just to framey on my low-spec laptop.
Anyone here running Ubuntu and regularly doing distro upgrades?
I remember that was super broken about 5 years ago and I would routinely just do a clean install when I wanted to upgrade my distro. Has that gotten better?
I'm been in Mac land too long, I now expect OS updates to be painless. The concept of having to backup all my data, do a fresh install to upgrade the distro and then restore has exactly zero appeal to me.
I'm been in Mac land too long, I know expect OS updates to be painless. The concept of having to backup all my data, do a fresh install to upgrade the distro and then restore has exactly zero appeal to me.
Fedora has been a pretty seamless upgrade for me. The package manager can even roll back to previous versions of the distro; I was once on the beta channel and accidentally missed the release window. Getting to the release version was a surprisingly non-terrible experience. I hardly use my dedicated Linux partition though, so take that with a grain of salt.
Other than that, putting /home on it's own partition makes upgrading and distro switching way less of a pain.
As long as you use the exact same user name when switching distros, that is.
Yeah, but I wanted to dip my toe into the QT side of things, since GTK is pretty much Gnome-centric these days and I don't like the way they keep breaking themes.
What are people using for Linux laptops these days?
I'm using an ASUS N550J, pretty happy with it, been dual-booting, using the touch screen, all of it. Fantastic field laptop for me.
My boss has been ordering System76 laptops for people. They specifically make their laptops for Linux, they even pre-load Ubuntu on there for you, and add their driver repo. They're pretty nice laptops, though I like mine slightly more.
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Because you do have to give up something no matter the choice you make. You can always just Dual Boot.
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And yeah, if I really need to play one, I have a PS4.
Keepin' my fingers crossed that the Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Linux rumors are true.
Yay, stability!
If you're deploying to Debian, just run Debian?
My PC is a bit of a mess. Couldn't get Xubuntu to install on it. Manjaro is already on it, and I don't feel like fucking with it further :shrug:
Apparently virtual machine GPU pass through is now a thing. I haven't played with it but some people on Reddit were talking it up.
I asked a friend who is a die hard Linux gamer about this a while back. First, you need two graphics cards (one can be onboard) and two monitors, because pass through requires the whole card to itself. Then there's a ton of configuration. Then you pray that the VM doesn't blue screen while you're gaming, because if it does you have to hard reboot. Also I seem to remember something about a 10% performance penalty? I might be making that part up.
His description of the affair was sufficient to kill my enthusiasm before I got started.
That's good to know. I'm not even sure I'm interested in trying it anymore. I think I need to nuke my current Arch install on my laptop from orbit and start again, now that I know what I'm doing to a certain extent. I made some mistakes when I installed Steam and now I'd like to have another run at it with the knowledge of what I did wrong. Unfortunately, doing that means I might as well blow the entire install away because I installed so much cruft I have no idea what to get rid of and what to keep.
Next time I use Steam on Linux, I'm probably gonna use Docker. It completely side steps all the issues with games requiring specific versions of libraries that may not be installed out-of-the-box on not-Ubuntu.
Looks interesting. I'll have to give it a little more of a look before I nuke from orbit.
EDIT: Is there a WM available yet that only uses Wayland?
I gotta start using docker for environment setup, it sounds really cool.
I've got a lot of the basics down, but lack experience and want to be as prepared as possible.
I'm looking for anything that could be helpful from checklists of things to do when you get access to a system for the first time or know you need to fix/secure/defend, examples of common vulnerabilities, suspicious process or file examples, possible backdoors. Stuff like that.
Like if they're super paranoid, the answer is "format the disk and install OpenBSD". For most systems it will be "sudo apt-get/yum/etc upgrade" to get the latest packages and pray that nothing breaks too terribly.
Most semi-modern distros have all the really bad stuff (unsecured telnet, etc) turned off out of the box, so all there really is to do on the admin end is make sure the stuff you do have turned on is up to date and using a secure configuration (authentication on, good encryption, etc) if it is facing the network.
So, uh, I dunno. Maybe start with PCI guidelines and work from there?
You might want to look at the RHCSA/RHCE material and focus on the Security stuff. That might be helpful.
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Yeah that's most likely the case. It will probably have known vulns and possibly already be compromised.
Thanks for the replies
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What is so great about it? It's been on radar but I've never tried it.
The design somehow feels minimal, consistent, fast ans modern at the same time. I find it difficult to find all of those things in a DE. It's ubuntu based which is what I'm comfortable with, but seems to have smoothed out some of the issues I'm having with Ubuntu GNOME (or hides them better).
I threw it up on a Virtualbox, but will probably put it on my Thinkpad.
I remember that was super broken about 5 years ago and I would routinely just do a clean install when I wanted to upgrade my distro. Has that gotten better?
still takes a piss all over your boot stuff, hope you gave your boot partition like 20 gigs
I'm been in Mac land too long, I now expect OS updates to be painless. The concept of having to backup all my data, do a fresh install to upgrade the distro and then restore has exactly zero appeal to me.
Fedora has been a pretty seamless upgrade for me. The package manager can even roll back to previous versions of the distro; I was once on the beta channel and accidentally missed the release window. Getting to the release version was a surprisingly non-terrible experience. I hardly use my dedicated Linux partition though, so take that with a grain of salt.
Other than that, putting /home on it's own partition makes upgrading and distro switching way less of a pain.
I'm now on lxqt again, and just wondering what the point is when I could be running Openbox on it's own.
I'm using an ASUS N550J, pretty happy with it, been dual-booting, using the touch screen, all of it. Fantastic field laptop for me.
My boss has been ordering System76 laptops for people. They specifically make their laptops for Linux, they even pre-load Ubuntu on there for you, and add their driver repo. They're pretty nice laptops, though I like mine slightly more.
Any opinions?
I use GalliumOS on my Acer C720.