HouseWolf

@HouseWolf@lemm.ee

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HouseWolf,

I know there’s abit of a war going on about the technical merits of flatpaks which I don’t know enough about the Unix world to fully understand.

As a newer user flatpaks have been pretty great, I like having the Android like permissions system through flatseal especially for my proprietary apps like Discord.

I dunno if I’d go all in on using only flatpaks but for what it is, consider me a fan.

HouseWolf,

Might depend on what DAW you use but I found it abit tedious to setup with Ardour, but after that it worked perfectly with the VSTs I was running on Windows, mainly Amplitube 5.

can nix for gaming pirates lead to easy piracy

nix allows for flakes which are 100% reproducible (ie. you copy paste a flake it would do the intended stuff only) , this make me realize that now we can have flakes for games like do you want inscryption , sure add this flake and this would install all dependencies and lutris etc. and you just have to link us to the...

HouseWolf, (edited )

As a newer Linux user Nix both fascinates and terrifies me.

I’ve been running EndeavourOS for a few months and haven’t had much trouble getting cracked games running through Lutris. Most of my cracked games are older 2000s/early 2010s titles, and at most they need a community patch similar to running the game on Windows 10 and changing a setting in Winetricks.

HouseWolf,

I haven’t booted into my windows 10 drive in months, I fear the amount of updates it will force apon me if I accidentally do.

HouseWolf,

Gotta keep the party going!

Gentoo goes Binary (packages) (www.gentoo.org)

To speed up working with slow hardware and for overall convenience, we’re now also offering binary packages for download and direct installation! For most architectures, this is limited to the core system and weekly updates - not so for amd64 and arm64 however. There we’ve got a stunning >20 GByte of packages on our mirrors,...

HouseWolf,

Outside of the whole compiling from source thing, What are selling points of Gentoo over Arch?

Seems most Gentoo users I’ve ran into are either diehards about compiling their own packages or they’ve simply used it for over a decade and are super familiar with it.

HouseWolf,

I have pirated stuff I know I own because the pirated copy was better quality than what I actually paid for.

I’ve own GTA 4 on Steam for years but recently sort out a cracked copy because I keep having issues with Rockstars shitty DRM and them removing songs from the radio in updates.

HouseWolf,

Honestly the AUR is the main thing stopping me from distro hopping…that and laziness

HouseWolf, (edited )

If I’m not mistaken it’s not that Steam will just completely cease to function on that date, Just they won’t be fixing any bugs related to Windows7/8 from that point on.

HouseWolf, (edited )

You should be able to get the old logo back in neofetch atleast by editing

ascii_distro=“openSUSE_old”

You can actually set it to any logo regardless of what distro you’re on

HouseWolf,

I’m still pretty new to Linux so I’m finding new stuff all the time, I’ve been very happy with EndeavourOS but I am planning to switch to vanilla Arch when Plasma 6 fully drops. There are other distros that have caught my attention, they’re just abit beyond my skill level currently.

Only thing I’m really hoping for is improvements to Nvidia (Yes I will buy AMD next time I get the chance, I built this PC before I had any intention of using Linux)

Alright, I'm gonna "take one for the team" -- what is with the "downvote-happy" users lately?

Title. “lmao internet points” and all, but what is the point of participating in a community that sees assumptions and other commonly non-harmful commentaries/posts as “bad” this easily? Do folks in here are really that needy of self-validation, even if it means seeking such from something completely insignificant like...

HouseWolf,

Gonna guess it’s just a carry over from Reddit, Even if it doesn’t contribute anything to your account people will still do it because the option is there and it’s a habit they built.

Honestly not fully sure how the points system worked on Reddit either.

HouseWolf,

Piracy is your friend

HouseWolf,

I haven’t personally used Manjaro but I’ve been daily driving EndeavourOS with KDE for a few months and it’s been rock solid.

Like Manjaro it’s also Arch based but still uses the vanilla Arch repos, Basically it’s just Arch for lazy people (like me).

Best Linux Distro for a tablet?

Been wanting to put Linux on my Surface Pro 7, but when i tried it with Ubuntu, it didn’t work as well as I’d like. I used the Surface driver kernel, but Ubuntu wasn’t really good with touch. It couldn’t give a pop up keyboard (only showed up when logging into my account, but never beyond that). Sometimes it wouldn’t...

HouseWolf,

As a KDE fanboy I will agree, I installed regular Ubuntu on an old Surface tablet and the touch interface is better than most Android tablets I’ve used

HouseWolf,

Old Thinkpads running Arch are basically the new Blåhaj

And I’m all for it!

HouseWolf,

I’ve been made aware, Guess I’m still to Windows brained I still automatically assume I need a completely new program to get features I wanted >.>

HouseWolf, (edited )

As a Linux newcomer the Wayland/X11 thing has been the most confusing thing I’ve witnessed.

Surely the average person will just use what works best on their system at that time? I don’t get people wishing to throw Wayland in the trash or the people who take issue with people still using X11.

Kinda just seems like arguing because you have nothing better to do.

HouseWolf,

So basically ever since I first tried Windows 7 I held it as the “Gold standard” for desktop OS’s. Half my tweaks to Windows 10 were trying to get it as close to Win7 as I possibly could.

When I finally start experimenting with Linux early this year KDE quickly got me to reconsider my “Gold standard” and finally switch my main machine fully to Linux.

No regrets and certainly ain’t switching back even if Microsoft gave me updated Windows 7 with every extra feature I wanted back then.

HouseWolf, (edited )

This ^ some people are weirdly hellbent against using Firefox for basically no reason.

Had a someone I know recently which between 3 different chromium browsers to find one where the adBlock still worked on Youtube, But would refuse Firefox for the pettiest of reasons from ‘I can’t sync logins with my google account’ to ‘That browsers for NERDS’

How do y'all deal with programs not supported on Linux?

I’ve been seeing all these posts about Linux lately, and looking at them, I can honestly see the appeal. I’d love having so much autonomy over the OS I use, and customize it however I like, even having so many options to choose from when it comes to distros. The only thing holding me back, however, is incompatibility issues....

HouseWolf,

I’d say make a wholehearted attempt to try open alternatives even if you stay on Windows for the time being. I had been doing so for a few years before I even considered Linux and by the time I finally did switch the transition was a lot smoother.

That being said I’ve been surprised by how much stuff actually does run under WINE!

HouseWolf,

I’ve only broken one install which was my first time trying to use Linux (Pop!_OS) on my main PC.

No idea how I even did it. From what I remember I used my PC for like an hour to watch Youtube then turned off my PC and went to work, When I returned the bootloader was gone and I couldn’t recover my home directory through the live image like Pops website suggested.

Thought it might have been a faulty SSD so been using it as a games drive since but not had any issues again so far. Lucky I gave Linux another try a few months later on Endeavour and haven’t been back on Windows since.

HouseWolf,

Just when I thought I had escaped it for good…

HouseWolf,

I haven’t tested it myself personally but this menu for KDE seems to be what you’re looking for?

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