Guake. Has been for years. I am in and out the terminal all the time, so F12 works well for me. Plus I used to play Quake and used the in game terminal to do all kinds of things. Plus I’m an old RISC OS kid and F12 was the key to get the “star line”.
Jetbrains toolbox is proprietary and I can still run it. You do have to explicitly state that you want proprietary software. You can even run random binaries if you setup nix-ld.
The preferred way to do this is by creating a shell.nix for each of your projects with the dependencies defined within.
Not sure about passthroughs, but qemu worked fine for me.
As for nix Vs arch, I still prefer arch. This is not because nix is bad, but because I have used arch for a long time. I use nix on my laptop because I want that reliability, but I will probably never switch to nix on my desktop. I still find that I can debug my mistakes easier on arch, but with nix I can just git checkout oldcommit. With that being said, I do have a distrobox container with arch in my nix machine, if I really wanna install something quickly.
NixOS can run binaries well using nix-ld or nix-alien, those will work for the large majority of software. If you run into any trouble, you could always use distrobox as well. Some of this software will also likely be packaged in nixpkgs or other repos.
You should be able to build binaries the same way you can on other distros
GPU pass through works the same on NixOS as other distros, but parts of it will need to be configured in your systems configuration, which may be a bit complex, especially if you’re new to the Nix language. Here’s a good article on setting it up.
I’ve been trying to create an AUR package for this, but can’t figure out how to build more than just the server backend (based off of the Dockerfile). Is there a way to build it without wails? I can’t get that to work in the PKGBUILD.
Hi @ad_on_is ! Thanks for resticity and your PKGBUILD. However, I have to modify it and replace “packaging/resticity.desktop” with “$startdir/resticity.png” and “packaging/resticity.desktop” with “$startdir/resticity.desktop”
Anyway, seems to works, I can push a backup, but when I go to repositories, resticity try to get snapshots (LOADING Snapshots) and failed with this error : “json: slice unexpected end of JSON input” Thanks for your help.
I might try this as a last resort, but why would I use some emulation shenanigans for running something that is native to my platform? It would be easier to just reboot into windows and run dota 2 there instead.
I think Dota doesn’t run on proton, i had no problems running the native linux version with my laptop intel i7 + nvidia 1050ti, but it was on X11, u can probably choose that on login screen.
What i think you need from a fresh install (i don’t remember exactly what i did at the time):
enable multilib
install nvidia package or nvidia-lts depending on which kernel you’re using, or nvidia-dkms plus headers of your kernel
install nvidia-settings nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils nvidia-prime (never used bumblebee i just use prime-run)
install steam or steam-native-runtime
install game on steam, change launch command to prime-run %command%
I have all of this (nvidia, steam, nvidia-settings nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils nvidia-prime) and nothing works yet. I’m still trying to figure out what I can do.
I have read on more than one occasion that Wine is becoming the “Linux Gaming ABI.” It’s no longer just about Windows. With the huge variety presented by distros, Wine is simply a nice stable target that never moves.
They are awesome but personally I don’t use them. I have an obsession with memory management. Flatpak apps don’t share libraries so they get chunky at times. This shouldn’t be a problem for most people. It’s a personal problem.
Man this Missinformationen is hard to squash. Yes Flatpaks absolutely share libraries. These are called runtimes and are shared between all the Flatpak apps that use the same version of it. You will only get more than one version of a given runtime if some apps need this other version. For most runtimes that I know of, most only have 2 currently maintained versions, so I almost never get more than that on my system (and when I do, app devs tend to update their apps shortly after so that they’re using a maintained runtime). For example on my system where I mostly use GTK apps, I only have two versions of the Gnome runtime (44 and 45). And even when you have more than one version of a runtime, they get deduplicated, so even runtimes share parts between them.
Very nice looking, but judging from the screenshot, the app window seems to be massive? It doesn’t fit on my Macbook Air, and I’m sure won’t fit on my various 1366x768 Linux laptops. Or maybe the app creates scrollbars automatically? Also, does it have a light theme, or is it only dark? (I have a lot of astigmatism, so dark themes aren’t readable to my eyes). Other than that, it looks great!
Do these private computers run a properly licensed version of Windows? What’s the cost for a license? Same as in other countries?
And another thing I wodered: Is there more Linux expertise available than in other countries? I guess the average person from India isn’t in IT. But there’s lots of IT, lots of companies from my country have outsourced parts of their IT. I occasionally watch tutorial videos or university lectures on Youtube either in english with a heavy accent or for domestic use and not in english. Some of them discuss some crazy niche Linux topics or software development, which is also oftentimes deployed on Linux infrastructure. Or is it just because India is a big country and it’s just a matter of scale that I get to see some videos from over there?
Do these private computers run a properly licensed version of Windows? What’s the cost for a license? Same as in other countries?
Only the big ones. Pirated Windows is extremely cheap, and Microsoft doesn’t care too much as they want people using Windows. A new proper licence would be Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000. This is a considerable sum for the average Indian.
Is there more Linux expertise available than in other countries?
I don’t know that much about other countries. I do know that we are probably the most Linux-friendly country in the world. But most of the senior people in the FOSS community are from Europe / US / East Asia.
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