Linux OS stuff Thread

You can understand your problems better and more quickly with the use of AI. Do you prefer spending hours Googling around?

I found something that linux can't do well and that is flightsim controls. Sticks really need a custom curve program like joystick gremlin and there just isn't anything on linux. I've been booting windows to fly fighters in SWG.

Game actually runs worse in windows but gotta have that fine control.

Borzak said:

I'm considering starting to reserarch a move or dual boot for linux since I'm sure the next windows version will be heav AI and copilot crap. I used linux decades ago for a short time to see what it was all about. At least now I have multiple computers so I can put it on one will I mess with it to figure it out. We will see.

The major problem I had back then was I couldn't get drivers for some equipment I had that was very rare. I no longer use that stuff so that is no longer an issue. The guy that wrote the drivers for the compnay quit and he claimed ownership of the drivers so that was the end of that.

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What kind of equipment is this?

Also, at this point, if you're somewhat technically skilled, AI (ChatGPT, whatever) can be incredibly useful in resolving any Linux install issues. No longer will you need to Google around trying to find some random website that has some random post from some random dude. Unless your issue is super obscure.

nvidia 580 142 version seems to fix the flicker finally. That only took 2.5 months haha.

Borzak said:

I'm considering starting to reserarch a move or dual boot for linux since I'm sure the next windows version will be heav AI and copilot crap. I used linux decades ago for a short time to see what it was all about. At least now I have multiple computers so I can put it on one will I mess with it to figure it out. We will see.

The major problem I had back then was I couldn't get drivers for some equipment I had that was very rare. I no longer use that stuff so that is no longer an issue. The guy that wrote the drivers for the compnay quit and he claimed ownership of the drivers so that was the end of that.

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Do it. Windows is dramatically worse than Linux is most ways. You can customize Linux to feel nearly identical without too much issue but there will be problems. You'll likely see more stability issues than you do with Windows, especially when cowboying drivers for weird stuff, just how it is. Mind you I actually need less custom software for things like hardware peripherals because I can often do whatever I need in Linux directly or with an in open source alternative that actually works better. (Razer software, crap like that)

Linux is primary for my work so I'm comfortable with fixing issues so I'm never down for long but it is a consistent annoyance. If you're smarter than I am you stick to stable versions of everything and it helps, but I'm often trying to fix things I have no business fixing and I break other stuff lol.

Software compatibility is almost a non-issue at this point. Almost everything I use or want to use either has a native Linux version now or is trivial to use via proton, lutris, etc.

I'd start on Ubuntu stable release if I were you, learn to fix the stuff that annoys you config wise. (I recommend x11 over wayland personally). Once your familiar with that you'll know enough to know if you want to switch footsteps and why

My 2c

Borzak said:

Summagraphics graphics tablets with a windows/autocad driver from 1990 last produced about that time. I no longer use them but that was the reason I moved on from Linux back then.

A lot of the stuff I support was made as far back as WWII and had multiple companies add CNC controls over the decades and it is a huge nightmare (now all you get is "buy a new one, that thye don't make anymore), but the US doesn't make heavy equipment to do that kind of stuff anymore. Or anywhere else in the world for that matter except South Korea and they don't export in order to protect their shipbuilding and stuff that uses that equipment. One company has a beamline that is still programmed with punchcards and another a vertical lathe built in WWII. If it works it is kept on life suport forever.

Our type of stuff is not large enough money wise to drive enough demand world wide for someone to build.

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I imagine you could simply run Windows in a VM on a Linux host system when you need access to this stuff.

I live in a really shitty rent house, and my main office / VR room is very "leaky" and has no heating and gets super cold in the winter, so I abandon it and seal it up like the tomb of an accursed mummy.

I leave most of my computers behind in there and just take my main pc to the warm room. When I get back in spring, it is always an adventure to get them running and updated again.

This time something changed in X. I'm not sure what it was but it really didn't like my dvi->vga cable on the nvidia machine, and my tater with the mali 450 gpu also couldn't get x to do anything thru my hdmi switchbox.

I tried wayland for laughs and on both machines it would fire right up. For the tater everything was good and I ended up using sway with waynergy to drive it. Waynergy was barely functional and buggy last time I tried it but it seems pretty good now.

The server with the nvidia still has mode problems. I just couldn't get any mode higher than 1024x768 out of the dvi->vga. So I ended up going hdmi to my main monitor and just switch it via the nubbins on the back of the monitor.

So now my left monitor is solely from the hdmi switcher which has main machine, tater, and xbox, then the main monitor has main machine on displayport, then server and winxp on hdmi. (winxp is for the xbox devkit).