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jbloggs777 , in What do you use for key rebinding in games?

Look into xmodmap.

CarbonatedPastaSauce OP ,

xmodmap

I like this, it’s very easy to understand the config file. I would like application specific mappings so I’m going to try keyd first, but I’ll keep this in my back pocket. Thanks!

ProtoShark , in What do you use for key rebinding in games?

I’ve found an app called keyd to be super useful for remapping keys to other keys. it doesn’t map keys to scripts though.

CarbonatedPastaSauce OP ,

That looks perfect, thanks!

CarlosCheddar , in What do you use for key rebinding in games?

I mostly play with the Steam Controller so I rely on Steam Input which works quite well but only if you’re playing on Steam.

topinambour_rex ,
@topinambour_rex@lemmy.world avatar

Good thing we can add no steam games to steam. That’s how I could have played Control(GOG) with full support for my controler.

CarbonatedPastaSauce OP , in What do you use for key rebinding in games?

It never occurred to me to see if Steam could do this remapping without using a controller. I’ll have to investigate! Good tip, thanks.

simple , in What do you use for key rebinding in games?

I’ve never used it, but Espanso is a popular open-source alternative for AutoHotKey. Maybe that can work?

CarbonatedPastaSauce OP ,

That looks similar to the other one I tried, so I don’t think it will work. The problem comes into play when holding down a key - the text expanders generally won’t repeat the key properly to work in the game for continuous movement.

Looks like a cool tool though and I’m going to check it out for other uses! Thanks!

UNY0N , in Linux is officially at 99% for me.

Just FYI, bazzite is amazing. It’s made for gaming, and it. Just. Works.

bazzite.gg

lost_faith ,

Been trying to get my Vive working on ubuntu on a lenovo gaming laptop, saved this to try out next

spicystraw , in Linux is officially at 99% for me.

I am in a similar situation, I use quest 2 a lot to drive in assetto corsa. I have a Thrustmaster TS 300 PC, I don’t think there are any Linux drivers for that base.

bigmclargehuge OP , (edited )
@bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world avatar

Oversteer should be what you need. Just take note that you need an extra driver module for the T300RS.

Edit, if you meant the TS-PC you may be out of luck. It looks like support for the TS-PC has an open request in the T300RS driver but it isn’t implemented yet.

spicystraw ,

Ah! Thanks, I will check it out. TS-PC is indeed what I meant. Maybe this is a good reason to upgrade my sim setup to more open source friendly brand.

bigmclargehuge OP ,
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I’m in the same boat. I’m actually on the verge of going full open source and building my own direct drive with OpenFFBoard.

spicystraw ,

Nice! Is there a kit you’re buying or are you sourcing parts from Aliexpress or similar? If you’re interested there is a guy doing open source pedal sets and shifter which I’m thinking of building as next project. www.youtube.com/

bigmclargehuge OP ,
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I was considering sourcing my own parts as I haven’t come across a full kit that seemed to have everything I wanted.

Also thats super cool, although I’m currently pretty happy with the rest of my setup atm. May look into the shifter at some point tho

asexualchangeling , in Linux is officially at 99% for me.

I haven’t tried ALVR in over a year, but last time I tried it it had some major issues, good to see someone report that it’s working well for them, I look forward to trying it again when I can

bigmclargehuge OP ,
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Again I want to stres that it isn’t perfect. You’ll definitely have to play around with some settings but it is usable, at least in my case.

Vendul , in Stop Killing Games is a new campaign to stop developers making games unplayable

Developers? Publishers are the problem.

ampersandrew ,
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Plenty of games without publishers are designed to destroy themselves in this exact way, because there’s money in it.

laughterlaughter ,

In that case, the developers are the publishers.

ampersandrew ,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Then why make the distinction when A can often be B? People like to paint a picture of the little guy being bullied by the big guy into making a decision that players didn’t like, but we’ve seen plenty of times that developers will be the ones making the decisions we didn’t like. If there’s an incentive to do the bad thing, developers will do it without being told to.

laughterlaughter ,

That’s a strawman argument, sorry. You’re arguing as if all developers are publishers. You just said it “A can often be B,” but A is not always B.

Publishers do this bullshit. Period. And in small shops, developers are the publishers, sure. But when they make those decisions, they don’t make them in their roles of developers. They do so in their roles of publishers. And also, not all publishers and not all developers-turned-publishers are dicks.

But I understand what you’re saying. When they are dicks, they are dicks.

ampersandrew ,
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Developers can and have made this decision on their own even when they’ve got a publisher, because publishing deals come in all sizes, and online connection requirements that inevitably lead to a game’s death are pervasive in the industry right now.

laughterlaughter ,

No, not really. You just said it, man. “Publishing deals come in all sizes.” Publishing. Publishing. So, it’s the publishers who make those decisions. Not developers. That developers must accept them is one thing. But the publishers made the decision.

ampersandrew ,
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All sizes meaning that those deals also come with the absence of that decision, leaving it up to the developers.

laughterlaughter ,

If developers make those decisions, then they’re the publishers.

Are we going to continue going round this circle?

ampersandrew ,
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No, because your axiom is false, and I’m not going to argue with that.

laughterlaughter ,

It is not false, but if that’s what you want to believe, go ahead. Have a nice day.

tabular , (edited )
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*Publishers? Shareholders are the problem.*If any involved can make a change then we should do that. I can’t talk of publishers but I can speak dev.

If many of us refused towrite code unless it will be shared under an open source/free software license then publushers would have no choice but to let people self host. Sadly school doesn’t appear to teach programmers ethics of software, specifically flsoftware freedomn

BURN ,

Oh they teach it, most people (honestly including myself), just don’t care.

I really couldn’t give a shit what license code I write for work is under.

tabular ,
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Where do they teach it?

Para_lyzed ,

University. Cyberethics is a required course where I graduated from, and it goes deep into open source licensing and the free software movement. I can tell you from experience presenting on open source licensing and the free software movement during that class that almost no one in the class gave a shit about it. It was quite sad to see so many people uninterested in a topic I’m so passionate about, especially because these are the types of people who would go on to be my coworkers.

The fact of the matter is that most people (including programmers) will never care about it, simply because they refuse to understand how important it is or how they can make money from it. It seems to me that people just want to conform to the systems that already exist (copyright and proprietary software) instead of challenging and changing the way we view, write, and interact with software.

But of course, that only really applies to students who graduate with a Bachelor’s in CS, and likely doesn’t apply to every university. The layperson still has absolutely no idea what “open source” even means or why it is important. In fact, the layperson is often brainwashed into thinking that the best thing for enterprises is the best thing for them, so in all likelihood most people would rather fight for copyright than against it, even if they had been informed on open source licensing and the free software movement. US businesses do a damn good job of brainwashing their consumers into echoing their views.

Rose ,

The developers willingly entrust publishers to make those decisions.

Worx , in How are you all partitioning your setup?

I wouldn’t recommend it, but my current setup is I reach into the computer, unplug one SSD and plug in the other. Not the most high-tech dual boot but yeah

UnhappyCamper ,
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Why not switch between the drives in the bios when you want to use the other?

Worx ,

I can’t leave them both plugged in because Windows keeps complaining that my drive is damaged and it needs to run a disk check. The reason I don’t set up grub or something else properly is mainly laziness. I use one OS for a project that lasts several months at a time so I don’t switch between them that often. It’s just not worth the time or effort to save two minutes every few months

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Couldn’t you just configure your BIOS to boot from one or the other? I’ve never had Windows care about drives it’s not configured to use.

Worx ,

Probably could, but it’s not worth the time or effort. I switch so rarely that even if it only took five minutes to configure, that’s still more time than I spend switching in six months

sugar_in_your_tea ,

There shouldn’t be any configuration, you just push F11 or whatever and select the other boot drive. I still do that when I boot into Windows like once/year.

Worx ,

I’d assumed you’d read my other comment. When I do have both drives plugged in at once, Windows always does a disk check on every startup, which takes a long time and is completely unnecessary. Just switching which device I boot from isn’t a good solution for my computer

sugar_in_your_tea ,

As mentioned, I’ve never had that issue. I put the Windows disk in whichever slot it prefers and Linux in another, then configure the BIOS to prefer the Linux drive.

I think it’s doing the disk check because it’s in a different slot than it expects or something.

sugar_in_your_tea , in How are you all partitioning your setup?

I use BTRFS for everything, and openSUSE Tumbleweed set up some decent mount points and automatic snapshotting for me.

I have two drives:

  • NVMe drive - my BTRFS Linux partition and SWAP
  • SATA SSD - Windows partition - pretty much unused

That’s it. It’s simple and it works. I used to do funky things with mount points and whatnot, but it’s more annoying than anything imo.

My NAS (openSUSE Leap) is similarly simple:

  • SATA SSD boot drive - BTRFS with snapshotting
  • 2 HDDs in a BTRFS mirror
jimmy90 , in Linux is officially at 99% for me.

i only switched over quite recently (a few years ago)

i swear there has been significant improvements in wifi, bluetooth, gpu support, gaming over the last 10 years that made me think it was now good enough

also there was areas where linux was outdoing windows for quite some time; system wide audio equalizer, customization generally, home services and self hosting, development tools

bigmclargehuge OP ,
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Linux audio is really under appreciated. I’m one of the nutjobs that still uses a PCI sound card and I’ve never had to install a third party driver. I can manually adjust the output and EQ for every port, disable or enable them on the fly, etc. The only thing I’m missing is hardware EAX support for older games but I’ve kind of accepted that’s just a dragon I’ll always be chasing.

Urist ,
@Urist@lemmy.ml avatar

What EQ do you use? I’ve been using Easy Effects for a while, but have been plagued by crackling and stereo sound only playing on one ear lately.

bigmclargehuge OP ,
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Give alsaequal a try. I actually haven’t fiddled with it a whole lot so I can’t vouch too much but it seems worth a shot.

UckyBon ,

This somehow reminds me of my first Ubuntu installation (Dapper Drake). One of my friends gave me a PCI TV Tuner card. They couldn’t get it to work for some reason, drivers that wouldn’t install or something. I got the box and the CD 💿 (drivers for Windows) too. The card worked out-of-the-box after first boot. I only had to install some frontend from the default repo to use it for recording. Amazing times!

jimmy90 ,

so true and it’s not just equalizers, it’s compressors and all the other tools for solving audio problems

SkabySkalywag ,

Noice. Still to chicken too go full into the deep end of the pool. lemmy posts have been slowing talking me into it more and more!

electricprism , (edited ) in Minecraft will now require Java 21 and a 64Bit OS, as of 24w14a

Microsoft Minecraft

Edit: lmao, I see you guys hate facts and messengers. Best of luck with that, you’re going to need it.

naticus ,

And you take negative feedback poorly, just roll with the punches. It happens.

Also it’s not really a Microsoft thing as proven by the fact it’s requiring Java of all things, not .Net or any other Microsoft-proprietary runtimes.

wonderfulvoltaire , in How are you all partitioning your setup?
@wonderfulvoltaire@lemmy.world avatar

I install nobara

cholesterol , in Linux is officially at 99% for me.

If AMD wasn’t already cheering to Valve, they have to be at this point

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