Thereās probably some way to add it in bash, but if you install zsh and use the default options for everything, it just works! I especially love zsh for things ājust workā: not just tab completion for directories but also having completion for tools like git, docker, kubectl, etc is super easy, and you donāt need any weird magic like in Bash if you want to use an alias with the same completion
I tend to always install both of them together too! Which makes it a little hard to know where things are coming from. This time I decided to start from scratch, so certain aspects of the config are still salient in my mind
As an aside, I see weāre bringing the strangers thing over from Reddit. I hope more of the fun and funny stuff gets over, I miss some of the light shitposting.
Well completion-ignore-case is enough to solve this particular problem, the other options are just sugar on top :)
Iām going to add completion-prefix-display-length to these related bonus tips (I have it set to 9). This makes it a lot easier to compare files with long names in your tab completion.
For example if you have a folder with these files:
GNU Readline (which is what Bash uses for input) has a lot of options (e.g. making it behave like vim), and your settings are also used in any other programs that use it for their CLI which is a nice bonus. The config file is ~/.inputrc and youād enable the above mentioned options like this
<span style="color:#323232;">$include /etc/inputrc
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">set completion-ignore-case on
</span><span style="color:#323232;">set show-all-if-ambiguous on
</span><span style="color:#323232;">set completion-map-case on
</span><span style="color:#323232;">set completion-prefix-display-length 9
</span>
linux gaming is basically there at this point proton can run most games flawlessly unless you wanna play games with hyper aggressive drm or anticheat it mostly ājust worksā
ah havenāt tried vr too expensive for me and not enough space really wanna try it in future though alyx and beat saber look really cool hopefully thatāll improve soon with all the rumours of valves deckard headset and them dedicating so much to linux I mean deckard will probably still be tethered to a pc so itās not a guarantee since most people will be on windows then but maybe itāll come with improvements to vr on linux
As a linux noob, Iād say it 90% there. I got a new computer recently, decided to only install linux to see if I could dump windows entirely, expecting to dualboot eventually. The only problems Iāve had so far are Curseforge, MC realms, and One Shot. Iāve got Modded Skyrim and modded Hollow Knight working, Iām incredibly happy with linux gaming.
yeah Iām also quite a noob with linux Iāve only been using it for about a year and also dual boot my pc for the few games I have to for me itās actually bethesda games mostly due to no mod managers on linux and I know thereās the workaround for MO2 which is what I use anyway but fomods didnāt work :/ Iām also actually playing through hollow knight on my deck at the moment though vanilla and thatās been working flawlessly as for curseforge dunno what youāre modding but if itās mc I used prism launcher and that worked flawlessly way better than curseforge on even windows with that being full of bloat
Prism is life, I agree. My friends donāt, so I need a curseforge pack to distribute server updates with. The stupid part is curseforge has a working linux version, but it only does WoW.
The other one is playing on a realm. The desktop solution is supposed to be the Win10 version, but screw that. Iād love to see a mod that lets java join bedrock servers, but they all run the other way. The solution is running the android version with a third-party launcher.
As Phuntis said, curseforge is easily solved with prism launcher. They have a nice GUI to browse modpacks and set up everything automatically. For mods that donāt allow direct downloads over the API, they give you a browser link you can open and automatically pull the downloaded files from your download folder.
The launcher also has integration into modrinth and a bunch of other useful features. IMO the better launcher compared to the official one, even if you donāt play modded.
Love Prism, love Modrinth, still canāt make modpack updates curseforge clients can use. Since everyone else on the server uses CF, I need to build the modpack on CF then import to Prism for myself.
I did see that making a CF modpack file might be possible soon though.
Man, I just tried for a few weeks and just had no luck on the games I was trying. It maybe is there for most people, but I still ended up in the āgoogle for commands that might resolve these weird crashes / errorsā and building random packages from source. However, I tried on a gaming laptop, which have notoriously had worse support than standard discrete cards. I wonder if my experience would have been different with a standard PC. I also recognize that Steam is the answer for a lot of people, but I just donāt have that many Steam games.
I was on Mint and primarily using Lutris, but tried many different WINE runners. I would have tried Ubuntu, which I think is a little closer to upstream updates, but I only had a 4gb USB stick to install from. For games, I tried Horizon: Zero Dawn (which I finally got to open, but it was running 0-3 FPS), Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, and Baldurās Gate II (which seemed to work). Iām not giving up forever, my next gaming tower will likely run linux of some type. I do lots of self-hosting on a Ubuntu PC, so Iām pro-Linux. Just ran out of patience with the laptop!
Interesting. Got Horizon Zero Dawn to work out of the box myself but Iām using Garuda. Any chance youāre using an nVidia GPU? They tend to be a lot more fussy with Linux than AMD
Yep, sure enough nVidia 1650 laptop GPU. I tried the proprietary drivers, forced so many versions of VKD3D and DXVK to try for better performance. Oh well, my next box will have an AMD GPU.
In 2016 you had 2 or 3 AAA games releasing Linux native versions. Now you are lucky if you get a working proton version. Linux has moved backwards. Honestly I think people tried it and hit a lot of problems with it then left. 2016 was the year of the Linux desktop but it failed to capture the market.
One of the biggest problems with Linux is simply additional hard drives. If you fill up your / drive you are basically screwed of you donāt know how to use the command line. Even the easiest Linux distros suffer from this problem. With windows I just reinstall programs to a different drive. With Linux you have to learn about symlinks, create then in the right spot and even then it doesnāt help unless you have a bigger drive. Alternatively you can learn about lvm and combine your drives in to one large monolith but this is even far more work for whatās itās in Linux literally at worst a 10 minute fix and 0 second if you just install stuff to the right drives.
Honest question - what is the current problem(s) in Linux gaming? And I donāt mean that the way it sounds, I just havenāt done it in a long long time. I mean back then it had to have a linux specific version and you had to deal with X11 mouse input.
Now with Wayland and things like steamdeck existing Iām surprised itās not more viable.
Iām sure itās a long list but what are the main factors? Just a curiosity. Unfortunately I just donāt get to play games these days. Still GPU and sound driver issues? Publishers refusing to take the extra steps to make a multi platform engine work on it? Too many unknowns based on flavor of Linux installed?
Iām not the guy you asked but I can answer for myself - itās still not nearly as effortless to use for gaming as windows. I work with computers all day, so when I sit down to game at night I absolutely refuse to debug shit. For Starfield as an example, it works via proton, but the protondb page is full of āto get around X issue use the following workaroundā, and I just canāt be bothered.
I use Linux for work and hobby software development, but for me to switch my gaming pc over would require it to not just be āviableā, but effortless
Thank you, thatās the perspective I was looking for.
And while i understand, itās certainly not limited to games or Linux. I too just want things to work and itās become a struggle for one reason or another. I can find a common thread on that but probably not the place for that.
I am optimistic though that gaming will continue to get better and that will be helpful. Despite all the faults itās at least going in the right direction.
I will say this - nowadays I have to figure out maybe 5% of games I play on Linux, and often times those games have issues with certain windows setups too
Thatās actually pretty positive. Probably a multitude of reasons but in my very limited experience with recent games they are pushed out with tons of problems on any platform. Sometimes the game was just rushed out and this is what turned me off of games for the most part. āItās online, we can just patch it later!ā
Also not a fan of paying for the privilege of being a beta tester. Open betas used to be fun times.
That said, based on yours and others replies i think it seems worth it to dig up an old ssd and try some of my games out on Linux on my main. Honestly it seems way better than what it was years ago so I should go see for myself. Thanks!
Absolutely. Itās honestly the older titles that tend to work better as well, perfect for an older setup. A nice static target for the conversion layer. Proton was pretty good 3 years ago, now itās amazing.
Lots of Devs Iāve noticed tend to be happy to tweak things on their end to get something to work better with Proton as well, or if weāre lucky they just use Vulkan out of the gate and make it a very straightforward job.
A good benchmark is seeing how steam deck users get along with that game. If they donāt hit any snags itās a very good chance you wonāt either
Great info, thanks. Most of my hardware is old. But thatās actually a good thing I think. I have a Lenovo ideacentre i plucked back from a friend as it was gathering dust. I upgraded the ram and SSD and installed neon on a whim and itās amazing.
Thatās what sorta started tracking me backā¦ have continued using Linux for servers but i was impressed at that desktop. Now I know neon is a bit bleeding edge so any recommendations on a distro? I started with freebsd back in the day, then gentoo for desktop, then Ubuntu minimal for servers if that helps. Not afraid to get my hands dirty but prefer simplicity.
I found a 256GB SSD that should be enough for some testing. I need to grab some files off it but then itās ready to go. Distro advice appreciated. Remember i just want to test :) TIA
Definitely more work to set things up the first time, though
This is ultimately my point - looking through protondb, it looks like all the games I play today work, but a good few require some workarounds, hacks, or just have crashes reported while playing
Gaming is my escape from my day job of working on software, fiddling with configs and whatnot is really the last thing I want to do when I have free time to play.
Donāt get me wrong, Iām stoked that gaming on Linux is improving so much, and I deeply look forward to the day that I can ditch Windows for good on my gaming PC, but for now its just the best tool for my requirements
Only reason I donāt switch to linux is because of both riot games and easy anti cheat(you can kinda play league of legends most of the time)
but valorantās vanguard is just straight up built for windows so you canāt cheat in their game, so you canāt even open that game in linux
And 99% of games that use easy anti cheat are also unplayable (except elden ring somehow)
Tbh I havenāt really played their any games that fall into this category lately, but I donāt want to have to install windows every time I get a urge to play league and tilt myself
and I know that dual boot exists but I have a very limited storage right now (Iām only on a 480gb ssd since my hdd broke)
An interesting pointā¦ i didnāt even think about the anti-cheat engines nor considered theyād be bound to windows but yeah i get it, i deal with that on licensing services.
I feel your pain on storage. Itās cheaper now but itās all relative. Iāll save your UN and hit you up if i stumble into something that may help.
A lot of EAC games work just fine on proton now. For any game released and/or updated since September 2021 enabling EAC on proton for the devs is as easy as ticking a checkbox.
My main issue is a lack of support from games like DCS, which will never get Linux support, and not having trackIR support, but I suppose that just needs someone who is experienced.
Also I canāt play fortnite/cod and thatās what my friends play.
Hah I had to look some of that up. I bet I could guess your age within a couple years. :)
DCS seems like a cash grab and travkir thing seems quite the gimmick. But i understand you wanting to play with your friends and so do they and they arenāt going to bring Linux support despite itās likely built on it.
Windows is essentially free anyway these days so youāll just have to suck it up for now. You can disable things like realtime scanning for a performance boost. If you canāt make your own DNS try quadr9 to block a majority of the telemetry and shit.
Being able to play with your friends is more important really. Just dual boot or use a VM to get your nix skills. Iām sure many wonāt agree with me and thatās cool. There is nothing Linux canāt do, yet there are apps (or games) that will simply require windows to participate. Sucks, but thatās reality.
Sorry yo, wasnāt intended that way I promise! I donāt have great people skills text based or otherwise. And actually Iām the one that sounds like an idiot anyway haha In my defense Iām quite tired and seeking excuses to not be working so yeah, my bad, no offense intended
Appreciate that but now I donāt know how to reply without sounding condescendingā¦ dammit! :) but you know, if you go back to 1995 bad boys that was how i communicated. Years later i relocated and nearly got killed for pointing out a funny and quite justified slight at a certain NFL team.
Iām not sure I have a point beyond stay trigger happy and call fuckers like me out! We all make mistakes and I have no problem being called out.
Shit, i still sound condescending donāt I? Itās just hard not to after a while. I donāt know if itāll be Linux worthy but hit me up if you decide to try out borderlands 4. Weād be happy to have a new player in the group.
Genuinely no idea how Linux gaming could be better. Iāve been playing on desktop and Steam Deck for years, both āflatā games and VR games and it just works. Sure I donāt try literally everything but with ProtonDB Iām confident it will work, or not, and decide accordingly. Obviously not all games work on Linux but definitely more quality games that I have time for. For me it just works, I spend at least 99% of my time gaming on Linux actually gaming, in fact I canāt even remember when is the last time I tinkered. I donāt even have problems with GPU drivers despite tinkering with containers with machine learning. Iām not trying to say nobody has problems or dismiss problems people do have, just sharing my experience.
I think this is overselling it a little. I still run into issues with Proton from time to time that require sigkilling it and its children, and some games (especially EA titles) are finnicky and can take a few tries to launch properly.
As for VR, SteamVR on Linux outright sucks. It virtually never works the first time I launch it and requires some combination of reconnecting hardware and restarting software and the computer, and itās plagued with bugs (most recently the UI rendering upside down in the new beta).
Donāt get me wrong, Linux has been my primary platform for some 5 years and my only one for the last few and Iād never dream of going back to Windows, and gaming on Linux has progressed unbelievably in the time Iāve been daily-driving it. But it still isnāt totally painless and thereās definitely more room for improvement in the coming years.
Well, Elden Ring had a bug in it that killed performance, Proton was able to fix it without touching the game itself and resulted in Linux performance being markedly better.
Then with Starfield it performs about 30% faster than windows consistently.
I can force AMD FSR on any game (and I have an Nvidia card) to get a significant performance boost with no visually detectable loss in quality.
Itās 12,000 and those are rated as āplayableā. The majority of games on Steam would be playable out of the box, but Valve is being cautious with their verified program.
ProtonDB has over 18,000 user submissions for playable games.
There are many games in my library that arenāt listed as Steam Deck verified or even on ProtonDB and they just work.
I want more information on the ionosphere-storage calculations. 175kB bandwidth is hella illegal (in my jurisdiction at least) for an amateur station, but if youāre ignoring laws you could get way more. 1MB seems entirely reasonable if you can use anything open enough on the whole shortwave spectrum.
Yes, buddy, your ISP is totally throttling you. I think over a thousand individual recipients per second for hours is the definition of suspicious traffic. I guess it could be a hardware limitation too, either way they have no reason to let you do this as a member of the general public.
Ah, thereās a technical report!
āSo the first step is going to be to reverse the random number generator of the gameā¦ā Yep thatās harder lol. Aaand itās right around as hard as I would expect assuming a really shitty RNG. How much time did this guy spend on the video?
I guess the polymino-placement algorithm must be in the technical report? Oh wait, pre-computed brute force search for each byte.
Well, this next one sounds biohazerdous. Jesus Christ that test is far dumber than this harder drive could ever be. Oh man, heās designing and printing a circuit board? And building physical things? He really does go all-out.
Also, still gross. And yes, Bitcoin is also gross, especially because itās a persistent bad implementation of a non-terrible idea.
Itās a decent browser, but half the reason people hate it is because MS tries to force it on you. They should let it stand on its own merits then maybe it wouldnāt have such a negative reception.
I just opened my gmail in Firefox and I donāt see this Chrome notification right now. Maybe it pops up every now and then. I wouldnāt be bothered by it that much, since started using Thunderbird as mail client last month, and the interface is so much better and customizable than gmail ever was. I did use Thunderbird a long time ago, but stopped when I got gmail in 2004. And all this time I thought Thunderbird still had the old classic UI. Apparently it became a bit too messy with all different volunteer contributions and Mozilla didnāt have a project management to stay with a certain direction. In Feb 2023 they announced in this blog post to rebuild Thunderbird from the ground up and invest the resources to support the community again, although with more control. Then a few months ago this big update to 115 was released, which was featured in a computer tech website so I became curious again. One of the best decisions of this year (although Iām still using it to access gmail), together with joining Lemmy of course.
Itās better than chrome for sure. Depending on what your criteria for using a browser it, it might even be in the top 3 browser options.
But itās still a Microsoft product filled with the usual Microsoft shenanigans. If you donāt care about your browser keeping track of what you do and that sort of privacy concerns, absolutely give it a try. You can even use it on Linux and Android and it works fine on those too.
One other negative aspect I can think of is that Microsoft is quite open to adhering to Googleās own shenanigans like that recent proposal they got ridiculed for. For that reason Iād rather recommend Vivaldi instead - thereās very little that edge does better than Vivaldi and thereās plenty that Vivaldi does better than it.
But also, please, consider using Firefox if you donāt have any problems with it. Youāll literally be helping make the internet a better place just by using it. So many people use chromium based browsers today that Google literally owns the way the internet works.
Iāve never really liked Firefox and Iāve tried it multiple times. As for big companies tracking data, I think thatās pretty much unavoidable at this stage and I donāt really care.
My only criteria for browsers is just stuff loading when it should and fast. Corporations are welcome to my shit data, the only thing that annoys me about that is they profit from it and I donāt.
I wasnāt a fan of Firefox either and personally lived using edge. When the whole web integrity thing started happening, I felt like I should switch to Firefox and havenāt looked back.
I still have some complaints, like you canāt install sites native app which I used a lot. I donāt think tab groups have been implemented yet, which isnāt a huge deal but very useful. And there were a few others I canāt remember off the top of my head. In the end I value my privacy a bit more so Iāve decided Firefox is worth it.
Sure, and thereās also an extension to install a web page as an app similar to Chrome. The point is that, out of the box, it lacks some features that I enjoy. Extensions are great and I use plenty of them, but that doesnāt mean that Firefox has those features, it just has extensions that have them.
Firefox is great, donāt get me wrong, Iām definitely preferring it, but that doesnāt mean it doesnāt have all the features that I wanted up front.
The PWA app works decent, but, unless I did something wrong, it would open links in itself instead of my main Firefox window which wasnāt what Iād want normally.
I still use it, but itās definitely not as nice as Iād want it to be.
Definitely one of those things thatās minor and I can look past though.
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