GustavoM

GustavoM , 10 months ago

Something something pot called the kettle black

GustavoM , 10 months ago

1- Switch to Arch Linux (no, really.)

2- Do a minimal installation

3- Search for “arch linux improving performance”. There should be a guide in the arch linux wiki regarding some system-wide tweaks via sysctl.conf – follow it.

4- Also search for “how to enable zram arch linux”. Basically, it clogs your cpu a bit to squeeze a bit more of ram out of your system. Follow it as well.

Don’t expect any “miracles” out of this… but it should make things more doable/tolerable.

If everything goes wrong, then you can always resort to either geforcenow or xcloud. Or both.

GustavoM , 10 months ago

Why not both? If anything, what (truly) makes Chromium-based browsers stand out is cloud gaming (since it forces you to use em. While firefox is a no-go).

GustavoM , 10 months ago

Since you’ve been fiddling with Linux for a while… why not switch to Arch Linux instead? Even the official iso has an kISS installer that is really easy to get used to (archinstall).

GustavoM , 10 months ago

Man, Justin Bieber is such a fa-- wait. We aren’t in the 00’s anymore?

GustavoM , 10 months ago

Not exactly a “game”, but a collection of games – XCloud. And yes I know “Microsoft bad”, etc but its an awesome choice for extremely low powered devices like the Orange Pi zero 3. (its power consumption varies through 1W to 3W.)

t. Am typing this on mine (1 GiB) and it runs extremely well (60 fps, with almost unnoticeable hiccups.)

GustavoM , 10 months ago

I’m not a docker expect to be honest… but I’m pretty sure its because podman runs “rootless” while docker does not. Even if docker provides ways to mitigate that… its always great to have a “just werks” option without having to fiddle through system files, permissions and such.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

What do we learned today children?

“Empty words = empty head”. Or “There are no truth behind someone whom delivers nothing else than emotions and victimism.”

GustavoM , 11 months ago

You can’t be 100% anonymous and free of prying eyes – but you can (definitely) lessen its effect.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

I was about to make a joke related to ex’s… then I saw your post. Thank you for saving me a couple braincells from frying themselves out.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

Oddly enough, my experience has been completely the inverse – Debian breaks, but Arch does not.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

foot if on Wayland. st if on Xorg. But I’d love something like foot with tmux built-in.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

Package manager is your friend. Learn “whom is whom” in Linux (alsa = your sound “driver”, for instance) and how to fully customize your Linux installation are what I’d call as “The Holy Trinity” of Linux. Know those, and you can call yourself a penguin.

GustavoM OP , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

I’d always heard issues with them, something about drivers not being in the kernel or something?

And that is correct – Orange pi boards are (mostly) Android-based boards at heart. Anything beyond that, and youll have to deal with lots of tinkering.

Any more information youd want to share

Eh…on my first try, I went with debian and everything felt really half-baked. For example, docker is borked (And I think theres a way to fix it – havent really tried fiddling with it at all.). Sound is also borked (Tried both alsa and pulseaudio, aaand nada.). And I think I managed to “cheat” my way in the “GPU supported land” by installing mesa-utils with the --install-recommends flag (Cant really tell what happened, other than both cpu usage and temps dropped a whole lot after installing it.).

It might be possible installing pi-hole however (pretty sure it runs on any potato nowadays.) Network “just werks” out of the box (Ethernet). Average cpu temps were at 68 to 72 degrees, w/ cpu usage at 80’ish, all cores. (That is while running an youtube video, at 380p. No case, with two passive heatsinks on both the cpu and memory and a small fan blowing right on both of em.).

Those issues simply do not exist on Android. Aside from the lack of customization options and docker, that is.

GustavoM OP , 11 months ago

Im not an Android expert to be honest (Been fiddling with Linux for some time however, which made my “transition” from 0 to “less-terrible” a rather pleasing one) but I’d say… no. There might be some alternatives to certain Linux-restricted software that might work “out of the box” tho (Like AdGuard instead of pihole) and maybeeeeeee some “voodo magic” can be done with adb (Which is the closest you’ll get of a “Android package manager” of sorts since it allows you to install packages remotely and some tricky things I’m still not aware about.).

Unless you really, REALLY need to tweak the kernel with some turbonerd stuff which is completely off my line of knowledge or some other similar stuff… then I’d say that Android will give you an “acceptable” Linux experience.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

Ubuntu being Ubloatu.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

“Women will have the same privileges than men when society stops treating women as an excluded, incapacitated minority.” - a WOOOOOOOOOMAAANNN

GustavoM , 11 months ago

As someone who stood in front of some dude trying to force me to suck his dick (and I fucked off immediately) and getting back assaulted by randoms on the midschool (while dressed) yet I’m still an hetero, biological male…? What the heck is going on? Why on earth I’d start sucking dicks just because I saw some dude naked on screen? That’d be ridiculous, and a demonstration of a severe lack of wit and common sense. That is like, staring at my own cock would make me gay or something amongst those lines.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

Isn’t that… weird? Like someone would have reinvented the wheel (literally), to end up being much better than the “original” wheel… and pissing off mechanics worldwide because that’d make em lose their jobs because of some random, nonsensical reason. Idk, its like folks forgot that the AI can be EASILY manipulated. But nooooooooo “whining is easier, lads! Let’s whine instead of making things better!”… heh. Humanity is so fucked.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

I’m unironically considering ditching any online interaction(s) on the internet and use my PC solely for offline content (write documentaries, texts, play retro games). Because I really don’t want to use the internet with that level of intrusion in my pc.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

100 Gb? Eh…looks very standard.

GustavoM OP , 11 months ago

Ow. Now that is rude.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

Am I a complete dumbfuck idiot or Linus is trying to diverge/twist this whole shit flinging into a “We got bullied bois!” situation?

GustavoM , 11 months ago

Wha? Even a bleeping potato can run Linux nowadays, with zero issues at day 1.

t. Got a Orange pi zero 3, and the lil’ bastard is rocking solid – even with (near zero) support.

GustavoM OP , 11 months ago

Honestly… what I had in mind was a modern song (with vocals, etc) being converted in real-time through a “winamp-esque” music player (think: “Open file”, then after the song is chosen, “Converting to chiptune, please wait…” then the song is played.). But since this is a stupidly difficult task… then sure, I’m okay with a “standard” midi-to-chiptune converter.

GustavoM OP , 11 months ago

Now I can’t tell if I should feel stupid or like an asshole to request this. But eh… thanks for your highly-detailed (and professional) input.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

You know there is something wrong in an individual when said individual resorts to emotion/“imjusthumantism” and other type of fallacies to answer facts and logic.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

rtorrent > all

GustavoM , 11 months ago

need the Adobe suite as I am a graphic designer.

Then simply use Windows when you need to design something and Linux for everything else.

“But I don’t want to dual-boot!”

Then buy another PC and install Linux in it. A $10 single-board computer can run Linux just fine – even play 4k videos.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

Can you name that one?

Orange pi zero 3. Its super small, has the same/slightly better performance than a rpi 4 and the power draw caps at (worst case scenario) 3W. The only downside is that you MUST be a turbonerd in order to use it effectively.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

Docker, btop, grim, foot.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

I think the two “major tips” that I can give you are simply

1- Package manager is your best friend.

2- Figure out the “know-hows” of Linux (i.e who “is responsible” for the video card, who deals with the cpu, how do i configure my sound card, how do i configure my video card, etc.).

Master those two tips and you can call yourself an average linux user.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

All distros are capable of providing a decent gaming experience – no distro has a feature that makes it “stand out” compared to other distros. But if all you want is to “boot and game”, then Nobara, Garuda, ZorinOS or Linux Mint are your best bet.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

If you are not planning to update your distro for the next few months neither on using it for all the day long, visiting weird/suspicious sites and the like… then you can pick any “branch” you want, even unstable/sid.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

Here’s a tl;dr of my Linux learning curve – from 0 (Windows pleb) to hero:

Start with a “user-friendly” distro (Linux Mint, ZorinOS) and get used to its package manager (i.e How to install, uninstall and remove stuff. Also, your best friend.).

Then go for a more “serious” distro like Debian. And from Debian… Arch. Keep at it until you’ve got the most interesting commands (and “whom is whom” regarding video graphics, audio, etc… the “basic” stuff) written on your forehead.

After that, “duckduckgo” about “Minimal linux installation” or “Baremetal linux installation”. Follow the instructions closely and at heart. PS: You are gonna suffer a bit… but that is perfectly fine. Once again, you are gonna have to get used to it and to witness “your own distro” booting up for the first time. Yes, the nerdgasm feels quite great.

At this point, there is nothing “much” to learn other than to add more “depth” to the stuff you learned by “duckduckgo” about “Linux how do I improve my network”, “Linux how to improve performance”, etc until you are used to all that.

Now, you’ve reached the “average user” status and there is nothing “strictly necessary” to learn – so start your own github, send your .dotfiles/scripts in, and go take a break. Congrats, you are now a penguin.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

Now that you mention it…yep. That was horrible.

idk, how about “duck it”? Or “dduck it”.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

Yep, dd is way better.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

The doggo looks worried.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

It’s all about the flex.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

If all you want to do is to play retrogames and the occasional AAA+ single-player game? It’s perfect and there is no reason to use Windows ever again.

But if you want to play competitive games that require anticheating in order to work…? Then you will gonna have some problems.

Anyone able and knowledgeable to give me some advice?

Duckduckgo “lutris wine dependencies”, install lutris, download the latest lutris wine version via lutris launcher, use said wine ver. in any game you want or fallback to your system one. Thats it.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

Common Sense Antivirus™ is breddy gucci.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

Eh… just lower your expectations and dive in. Not like theres any “Wowzers AAA+” game to play nowadays. If anything, its a great way to exercise your braincells and “the future you” will definitely appreciate what you’ve done today.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

st if Xorg, foot if Wayland.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

You can’t tell a drug addict to start drinking coffee instead of using (add drug name here), you know.

In other words – those folk are so addicted to Reddit they won’t leave it even if reddit started charging a dollar for each time they post.

GustavoM , 11 months ago

More like

“Oh snaps! I haven’t updated my distro since 6 months ago!”

“…”

“anyway”