I don’t think it’ll make much of a difference, but according to the git repo, you should be using wine-ge instead. Also Lutris is another option that does the same thing, but has easy install scripts for GOG, Epic Games, Ubisoft Connect, and EA App.
It’s a good reminder of how influenced we are by our surroundings, even when we try to be aware of the effect. Or maybe especially when we try to be aware.
I was staying strong until I saw they were already sundowning windows 10. 10! They just came out with that shit. I have no intention of upgrading to the latest advertising package.
….windows 10 came out in 2015. I wouldn’t say it just came out, 8 and a half years ago. Thats a pretty good run for a retail OS. There was only 5 between the release of 3.0 and 95.
My big gripe with 11 was that it seemed like MS was going to go away from major releases and go to something somewhat closer to a rolling release model. My big gripe with 10 was all the telemetry.
It’s actually pretty telling that from “insert installation media” to “working web browser”, just about any Linux distro is a faster, easier, and less demanding installation experience than 10 or 11.
It’s rather slow, for example the window decorations appear before the window content. I also like just some simple animatons to make the desktop feel more modern and fluid.
If you’re after fluid yet lightweight animations then you should definitely check out Wayfire. Yes it’s Wayland and a WM not a DE, but you can get a distro/spin with Wayfire and all the stuff you need for a DE all pre-installed and pre-configured. Wayblue (based on Fedora uBlue) is one such option you can try. And because Wayblue is immutable and has reliable atomic updates, it’d make a great option for you as a school-goer as stuff rarely breaks and you can always rollback to a previous image before the update.
My laptop is the same except, I keep a Windows partition because the RGB keyboard controller is only available in a Windows app. That Windows partition exists in a post apocalyptic dystopia where Windows belongs; it has never, nor will ever see the internet. It is blocked my my network firewall. Windows is like a less than useful bootloader options tab.
Don’t know, but I’d just try it out and see if it works. It detected my motherboard, mouse, keyboard, everything. It was just such a relief after trying and failing to get the stock (windows only) software on linux running
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll look into it. I’m a bit skeptical because the changes made in Windows are persistent, the secondary function keys give quick access to some of these features (but only 3 course brightness PWM settings for RGB), but mostly because there is a device on the USB device tree that is unknown to the Linux kernel on mainline-fedora.
Maybe there is some kind of kernel configuration option that just needs to be added, but the bootloader rejects custom keys generated for secure boot. Without my own keys I’m stuck with the shim and can’t run my own signed kernel. It might be possible to set the keys by booting into UEFI with Keytool, but my motivation hasn’t carried me that far into the problem yet. I could be wrong and the unknown USB device could be unrelated, and openrgb could work. Thanks again.
It will depend on the specific hardware, but I can vouche for openrgb. It works for me g502 hero mouse, and my asrok mobo/aio coolers fan RGB. Infact, I have more options than the motherboard gives me lol.
I tried Tumbleweed on my old main PC. When I finally got around to upgrade it, I immediately wiped it and got back to my beloved Gentoo (for which the old PC was getting a bit too slow)
Now I have Leaf on the family PC, because they pretty much only need Firefox and occasional LibreOffice and I’m lazy to try to find a different distro.
Some great newer tech distros would be Fedora Silverblue, or if you like Debian, there is VanillaOS. They are immutable distros, and they introduce a new way of using Linux. I like to pair it with distrobox, which lets you use regular Linux applications in a container.
it really is comforting to know you can do 99% of stuff you want with PCs without a license from Microsoft. FOSS has its own headaches but at least you don’t have to wade through a PR swamp to fix stupid bugs
Fedora rawhide’s an interesting bleeding edge experience. I’d recommend installing fedora minimal and setting up your system from there. The rpm system’s rather robust when it comes to installing the correct dependencies when done correctly so I personally haven’t had any issues with version conflicts.
I don’t have much VM experience and I didn’t think of them for this. I didn’t know you can do suspend to disk. Does it work reliably? Would I be correct in guessing each “saved session” would be no greater in size than your available RAM?
Interface-wise would it be similar to a remote session where you open a window and it has a full second desktop inside it?
Distrobox, by default, doesn’t provide much isolation/sandboxing - it’s main aim is desktop integration and filesystem transparency. So if you’re trying to use it for isolation, it’s a bad idea.
However, you can create a new container which will isolate your filesystem and prevent such conflicts, using the –unshare-devsys flag. (if you want FULL isolation though, use the –unshare-all flag).
Then enter the container and install the flatpak app as usual.
I just tested this on Fedora uBlue and an Arch container and it works fine, didn’t have to unmount anything.
I know that I’m not getting a full sandbox - that’s ok. Ultimately I’m trying to get bottles running in the hopes of getting a semi-contained environment for me to test out yabridge and getting reaper to load the vsts without crashing. (Reaper is the easy part, the plugins not so much…)
A modicum of isolation here (even if not complete) will help me figure things out. Obviously, if I need different kernel/flags the host will get it too.
If I unshare-devsys, will that disable audio? (I’m still trying to get a clear picture of what’s shared and what isn’t with distrobox/podman (with docker, it feels a bit more straightforward, but I’m not sure docker would be the right choice here…)
Audio works. Not sure how though, –unshare-devsys is supposed to not share the hosts devices, but I guess audio devices are an exception.
The full isolation flags are:
<span style="color:#323232;">--unshare-devsys: do not share host devices and sysfs dirs from host
</span><span style="color:#323232;">--unshare-ipc: do not share ipc namespace with host
</span><span style="color:#323232;">--unshare-netns: do not share the net namespace with host
</span><span style="color:#323232;">--unshare-process: do not share process namespace with host
</span><span style="color:#323232;">--unshare-all: activate all the unshare flags below
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