"Thank GNU It's Friday" EditionMonday'd thread: >>576002746>Commercial games for GNU/Linuxhttps://store.steampowered.com/search?category1=998&os=linuxhttps://itch.io/games/platform-linuxhttps://gog.com/en/games?systems=linuxhttps://humblebundle.com/store/search?platform=linux&drm=downloadhttps://zoom-platform.com/search/any/any/any/any/any/linux/any/anyhttps://gamejolt.com/games?os=linuxhttps://fireflowergames.com/products?search[platform][]=92>Libre games, source portshttps://thegamingemporium.com/categories/decompilations-recompilations/https://libregamewiki.org/https://osgameclones.com/>Generic game launchershttps://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottleshttps://github.com/lutris/lutrishttps://github.com/Faugus/faugus-launcher>Unofficial platform-specific launchers (*=CLI only)GOG*: https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloaderGOG: https://github.com/sharkwouter/minigalaxyEGS*: https://github.com/legendary-gl/legendaryEGS: https://github.com/RareDevs/RareAmazon*: https://github.com/imLinguin/nileEGS/GOG/Amazon: https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher>Steam Play compatibility toolshttps://github.com/ValveSoftware/Protonhttps://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-customhttps://github.com/sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunchhttps://github.com/dreamer/boxtronhttps://github.com/dreamer/robertahttps://github.com/luxtorpeda-dev/luxtorpeda>Other thingshttps://github.com/DavidoTek/ProtonUp-Qthttps://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescopehttps://github.com/flightlessmango/MangoHudhttps://gitlab.com/Infernio/libstranglehttps://git.dec05eba.com/gpu-screen-recorder/about/https://gitlab.com/Sneed_Feeder/webm_scripthttps://github.com/Ishidawg/LeShadehttps://github.com/Kron4ek/Contyhttps://github.com/korcankaraokcu/PINCEhttps://github.com/mtkennerly/ludusavihttps://github.com/AntiMicroX/antimicroxhttps://github.com/SulfurNitride/Fluorine-Managerhttps://github.com/ChrisDKN/Amethyst-Mod-Managerhttps://github.com/ilya-zlobintsev/LACT
Sorry but I was busy working all week and I didn't want to make a new thread if I wouldn't have time to post in it.Anyway, now that there's some other thread calling itself /hlgg/ and polluting >>>/vg/lgg search results, should we replace /lgg/ with /glgg/ in future thread titles so that we can bookmark >>>/vg/glgg instead? I kinda hate it but whatever. We've already been including GNU in the long-form title of most threads. I put both abbreviations in this thread's subject line.
>>576758513I use filters to pin the thread instead.
Moonlighter is 100% off (to promote the sequel) until Sunday 1:00 pm Steam time.https://store.steampowered.com/app/606150/Moonlighter/I never played it before, so I don't know if it's good. Reviews are mostly positive.There's a native Linux build. Of course that means there are ProtonDB comments recommending Proton instead, but the only specific complaints about the Linux build I can see are related to launching the game and controller support, and I can't corroborate those claims. It launched for me, and my Xbox 360 controller seems to be working...
>>576761497>Sunday 1:00 pm Steam timeSorry, I think Steam is actually showing that deadline in my own local time (Eastern US). I'm pretty sure I've seen Steam display sale start/end times in the California timezone before, but there's no timezone on that giveaway end time. In any case it has just under 42 hours left.By the way, I do see one issue, which possibly has nothing to do with the version I'm running: it stretches to fullscreen without preserving aspect ratio. (The previous post had a window screenshot.) Ironically the current resolution option in the game settings claims to be "pixel perfect", but I guess that just refers to the scaling factor it applies to the raw graphics before it ruins everything by stretching vertically.Also the game's detection of analog trigger presses seems a bit fucky, and maybe that's an issue with the Linux version specifically. The controller input is detected in general though.
i thoughted linux gaming died
>https://youtube.com/shorts/U4Jih6iBdZISo I could have just used xxd through vim, instead of installing a graphical hex editor, to fix the JPEG error in Max Payne? Damn... uninstalling that bloat ASAP.
>>576768492That is not ded which can eternal lie, and with strange æons even windows may die.
I missed this thread so much I started looking on /v/ Linux threads...
Let's see if we can get this thread to 200 posts before dying this time
>>576776656I missed you, tuxfrens.
Maybe I should have used that quad damage...
>>576768492Proton made it less of a hassle, so there's less to talk about.Native builds are preferable of course. Recently I've been back to OpenMW and I am always amazed it exists. Absolutely elegant program.
>>576785482oh i was saying that because thread died for some time. But yeah all these new/updated open port of games are pretty nice.
Left this game unfinished last weekend.
>game with no combat has a boss fightbased
Cute game.There are also bonus levels.The first two are horror themed, the third gives hints to the locations of hidden items and contains an infinite-jumps upgrade unlocked by getting those items, and the last bonus level is Christmas-themed. I played the first three already, before going back and finishing the last non-bonus level again for these screenshots. I'll leave the Christmas level for Christmas.
Well anyway, is this game any good?>one download comes with files for Windows, Mac, and LinuxHoly bloat.
I don't know what I expected, but that was a weird game.... Is there more content here than it seems? Because the game has an obscene number of save slots.
pirated the korean genshin game, but an earlier build so it doesn't have the ice girls bikini, will re-download for that. on my first boot the game froze at the menu if i did any input on keyboard/controller so i waited for 5 minutes, the menus were laggy and i was eventually able to start a new game by mashing 'a' on my controller and the game ran perfectly fine. must've been compiling shaders in the background in the menu. after a reboot no more stutter so there couldve been another process that was fucking me over just lingering.
>https://github.com/themuffinator/openQ4/quake 4 source port, supports unlimited framerates too, the alpha for the unreleased expansion was leaked too but i don't know if it works with that>https://youtu.be/q9WzIxWlOxw
>>576796979Happened to me with Troubleshooter, if I hit shift+f12 to hide mankohud while the game was starting, it failed to load. Quality Korean coding makes japanese look competent in comparison.
ah shit
>>576796979Game is Dragon Sword: Awakening btw
how do i use optiscaler
to the anon who told me to just use proton-cachyos to fix my memory leak, I mean I knew that wouldn't fix Overwatch in Lutris but ProtonDB did help. People kept saying to use all sorts of launch commands but the one that stuck out the most wasDXVK_CONFIG="dxvk.trackPipelineLifetime = True"What they don't tell you is that on Lutris, you remove the " " from the value. Most of these people were using Steam. So yeah if you find a fix on ProtonDB similar to the above, remove the " " on Lutris. On a side note, I hate Overwatch. The fun part was fixing its memory leak, and definitely not the sweaty players
>>576801467read the manualhttps://github.com/optiscaler/OptiScaler/wiki/Installation
>lightly bumping a corner can disconnect trailersWow, that's annoying!
Very nice, friends.I think GNU should be included in the OP, but /glgg/ looks kinda ugly to be honest.I don't mind including both, since it doesn't really matter that much
BTW I had to run chkdsk on an old NTSC hard drive, so I went to my brother's and used his winslop 11 machine. Somehow the desktop and mouse felt so much more responsive than both on my KDE Wayland desktop and my X11 cinnamon session.I would never ever go back to winshit and this is in no way trying to start a Linux v wintrash flamewars, but what could possibly be the reason for the decrease in responsiveness? It might just be something wrong with my setup.The refresh rates were both 120 Hz so it wasn't that at least.
We're back, huh?Also when are plasma devs gonna fix the constant "the display has been connected" issue?It's annoying when my secondary monitor is turned off while gaming and this shit is happening all the time.
YayTHE thread
>>5768105461. Why are you turning off secondary monitor while gaming?2. This comes from GPU driver
>>576818625>1. Why are you turning off secondary monitor while gaming?lol. I'm not him and I don't even use Plasma, but why shouldn't he turn off something he isn't using?
For the anon(s) that asked about beast of reincarnation. Yes, you can set the Engine.ini file to read-only to prevent the game from overwriting your changes. That's the method mod sites say you should do it.The performance in the game is similar to black myth wukong. On my rx 7800 xt at 4k and everything maxed, including ray casting (and no upscaling) I get around 38 fps. Ray casting option doesn't really affect fps so thats nice. But the game looks like shit with everything maxed, to make it look better you have to set post processing to low and disable depth of field, which gives me 42 fps. With fsr 3 quality option I get around 60 fps. The game has no fsr 4 option, but I believe on linux it automatically upgrades to fsr 4 right? (wintoddlers BTFO!).
>>576819956To show how bad the bad looks like without setting post processing to low and disabling depth of field, look at this. This is with post processing set to very high and depth of field enabled
>>576820161and here is the same scene with post processing set to low and depth of field disabled (compare the images at full 4k resolution to view it properly)
>>576819723>but why shouldn't he turn off something he isn't using?Because it creates problems? Because it makes desktop environments to rearrange shit and might cause failures either in display server or video driver? There's a reason why Nvidia driver doesn't disable screen in driver even if it being physically disabled. This is especially problem for Windows and X11 applications because these love window positioning and video mode switching so unless developer explicitly handled it in code.
>>576818625>1. Why are you turning off secondary monitor while gaming?To play vidya of course, the fuck am I gonna do on the secondary monitor?>2. This comes from GPU driverFound the issue and it's not caused by the gpu driver but by kde's powerdevil, there's also a solution on the archwiki.
I wonder why Quakespasm kills my MangoHud overlay background color.
>>576826370>the fuck am I gonna do on the secondary monitor?You watch your favorite twitch streamer of course
>>576826370>To play vidya of course, the fuck am I gonna do on the secondary monitor?Unless you're using composited X11 (which you shouldn't do) second monitor shouldn't cause any issues.
>>576826525Yamagi Quake II does it as well.
>>576826525Mangohud opengl injection is hacky: some games may crash, some may break mangohud, in some games mangohud break in-game graphics. Question is: why do you use quakspasm in the year 2026?
>>576826717It's just weird that I've only seen this in Quake source ports.... Never mind, it also happens in Hammer of Thyrion, but that's still practically Quake engine.>why do you use quakspasmBecause it's the Quake source port available in Linux Mint's package repository :^)Also it just works except for the color on an overlay.But I guess I should try vkQuake someday...
>>576827424>available in Linux Mint's package repositoryThat doesn't sound very convincing...
>>576827541It wasn't meant to be, but also, the>old thing is bad, because... it just is!mentality just makes me want to use even more outdated software.
Anyway,>GOG version of Quake doesn't have the new expansion yetLame.>Epic version doesn't have it yet eitherWell at least there's a silver lining. Get fucked, Epicunts. lmao
>>576829962Is this expansion even compatible with open source Quake engines?
>>576830127I don't know. The previous one (Dimension of the Machine) worked, although I think Quakespasm had to be updated for it (so the new expansion might not be supported right away). With a sufficiently up-to-date Quakespasm build (which even Linux Mint had as of last year), it just required copying an extra file into he Quakespasm directory. I actually found my old posts about this with a filename search on the archive:https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/524917039/#525653463https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/524917039/#525655147The new expansion might just work if it's built using only the same tech as the previous one. But I haven't looked into it.
>wine 11.15 fixes misaligned 4:3 fullscreen contentNice, that was driving me crazy when I tried playing Claw months (or was it years at this point) a go
>>576819956>>576820161>>576820290Thanks, but from what I've seen, this is a game to get when it's patched and I hope they change the atrocious slow dialogue, maybe it's only the English dub affected, I hope that it is.
>>576826694>>576826525try zink?
>>576832071It wasn't a problem I really cared about solving, but yeah, that works.My main use case for Zink is just having it appear in the MangoHud overlay so that people ask why the fuck I'm using Zink.Anyway, thanks for reminding me that my newer PC didn't have a wrapper script for this.>#!/bin/sh>MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=zink LIBGL_KOPPER_DRI2=1 "$@"I had to grab those variables from the ~/.local/bin/zink on my old PC. Just the MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE variable doesn't work for me, and I couldn't remember what I was missing.
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>>576842956It seems everyone trying to win MVP of the debate club over in the /v/ thread.>OP asked "why don't you use Linux" and Windows users replied. How could this happen?! I must argue with them
I wonder when 4chin will increase file size limit
>>576847810Stop being antisemitic
>>576847810Yeah it doesn't make much sense because posts get archived relatively quickly. It's not like the files are permanently stored on some server.But wasn't file limit 2MB not too long ago? I swear only wsg and gif had 4 MB max file size
>want to play Max Payne>don't want to play the beginning>turns out I was already in the middle of a playthrough on this machineCool.I stopped at this part where everything's on fire though.
I don't remember what difficulty this is, but probably the easiest, because I think the others start out locked and I never have the patience for multiple consecutive runs through this game. It has no Steam Cloud support and I wasn't always smart enough to back up my saves.Is it true that the dynamic difficulty is broken? Or is that just because people quick-load every time they fuck up? There's some difficulty fix on PCGW and I wonder if it's worth doing.
Actually, I don't get it.>https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Max_Payne#Remove_broken_Adaptive_DifficultyPC Gaming Wiki says>Replace the difficulty.txt filebut there is no such file already there, so what the fuck am I replacing?Does this text file actually do anything?
Huh... okay. What PCGW provides is actually a difficulty.txt inside of a data/ folder, and apparently Max Payne loads shit from data/ automatically. If this is a documented feature of the game then I never heard of it, but I guess I never looked for it either. Is this how other mods work?
Just like that
>>576858618>>576859712Well, I can confirm that placing a "data/difficulty.txt" in the game's install directory works in general. I installed the one from PC Gaming Wiki, but then set PlayerHealthMultiplier to 100.0, and now I'm a tank. These guys are barely doing any damage.Now that I know it works, I'll set the values back to what PC Gaming Wiki provided.
>>576857915>>576858618>>576861361You didn't beat the game
>>576857915The dynamic difficulty doesn't reset on quickload and it's always on the highest level or something like that.
>>576826525>>576826717Take the zinkpill.
>>576870148Imagine using vkgears to test Vulkan when you can just use glxgears with Zink.
I use GNU/Linux btw
>>576872427There a Waylan version of the it but i alwaya forget the name and then need 20 minutes to find it.
>>576882083One of these perchance?
It's been a long time since I played Quake II for more than a minute. I don't remember these fish. They look pretty cool.
Pardon the crunch textures. I know Quake II was designed to look smudgy and awful; I just don't like it.
This game's explosions are adorable.
>>576890957this and railgun shots
>enemies get railguns before I dono fair
Oops.oh btw I'll be busy for most of tomorrow so RIP thread if no one else is GNU gaming and posting about it
able
>>576761497Thanks for the heads up, anon. I had my eye on digital sun as devs with their other games.
>>576803471>The fun part was fixing its memory leak, and definitely not the sweaty playersAnother day on linux I see.
>>576826370>the fuck am I gonna do on the secondary monitorHaving a breeding table open on a 2nd monitor comes in handy for Palworld. Also, btop to monitor temps, ram, and cpu usage. For JRPGs especially old ones I would open up a walkthrough just in case I run into something that gets me stuck. Yes, this is a form of cheating. No, I don't care.
>>576819956You expected GameFreak, the pokemon devs, to optimize their games? You're wishing for a bit too much anon.
>>576830731>Nice, that was driving me crazy when I tried playing ClawCaptain Claw runs without using dosbox?>>576847810When gookmoot decides to buy better servers.
>>576908582dis-ableGoing to ramble a bitI see the Steam Deck is using 6.x.x kernels, do the changes they do for improvements by valve devs/contractors get compiled into this for steam os or is it only upstream in newer ones?
>>576911214All Steam Deck users here are using CachyOS Handheld
>>576911034yep i ran it (version 1.3 and 1.4 unofficial fan patch) with wine, you'll want to cap the framerate to 60 or else the platforms won't move properly above that value.
https://github.com/sal063/AC6_recomp>The Linux preset uses clang-20 / clang++-20 directly.>yay -Q clang>clang 22.1.8-2Fuck. And yes, it doesn't compile if you change preset to just use system clang.
I wish we lived in a world where relying on system packages was the way for non-repo applications.
fortnite when
>>576921849never I hope
>>576921920I would play with my friends
>>576926979>friends
>>576915680cmake --preset win-amd64-relwithdebinfo -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++ -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang
>>576931116worked for me on cachy, oops
>>576931218Too bad what I ended up with doesn't work.
>>576931116Why clang?
>>5769337621. Developer said so2. Usually clang is less restrictive to shit code so it can compile programs where gcc fails.
sunday bu,p
>manually downloading GOG's 342x482 box art images from gogdb.org, cropping them to 320x480, and applying manually cropped images to games Cartridges imported from Heroic because it slightly stretched the 342x482 images to fit the 2:3 aspect ratioI might have autism.At least I did the cropping in bulk with ImageMagick.And to Cartridges' credit, it doesn't stretch images unless they are very close to 2:3 (and otherwise it pads them). But even if I can't see it, I still know.Heroic devs would have me just import all of my games into Heroic, instead of using Cartridges as my top-level "everything" launcher, but I do appreciate the simplicity of Cartridges so I don't think I'll stop until there's a Linux port of Playnite to tempt me away from the righteous path of minimalism back to the dark side of spending all day customizing/organizing shit.
>>576942659>using 10 layers of launcher>righteous path of minimalismlmao
>>576948581Right, the true linux user would've run nintendo roms on raw hardware through self-made abstraction layer, written in x86 asm.
>>576949018>he don't run his games from vt consolengmi
>>576949872fun fact: gpu screen recorder can actually record tty, if you start recording from x11/wayland and then switch tty
>>576953325Cool, I tried with ffmpeg -f x11grab out of curiosity, and it captures black screen with mouse cursor in the middle while you're swapped to another tty.
>add custom game to steam>play fine and all>beat game>remove game from steam>doesn't actually delete the folder>have no clue which compatdata folder is the one from the gameayyyyyyyyyy
>>576954478non-steam games have longer sequence of numbers in folder name, so unless you have multiple installed, it's easy to find one
>>576954478fd "gamename" ~/.steam/steam/steamapps
>>576954707yes but if the prefix was just executing the game in an outside folder and not installed on it you are completely fucked trying to find it if you have more than one as the prefix has nothing other than wine and steam>>576957031this doesn't work for custom games
>>576957721>this doesn't work for custom gamesWhy? I'm sure custom games created some shit in their prefix with game's name
>>576957031>>576957802Non-Steam games' compatdata folders will have random (or practically random) numerical names.>>576954478>>576957721If it was the last non-Steam game you played, you could try to find which of your ~/.steam/root/steamapps/compatdata/<long-number> directories has files modified most recently.
>>576960232>Non-Steam games' compatdata folders will have random (or practically random) numerical names.So what? I posted command that will do a recursive search under "steamapps" directory, if game created some shit in appdata or user folder fd will find it.
>>576960402because games totally create folders with their own names and not random bullshit
>>576960583They do. Sometimes they even use publisher name on top of game's name
>>576960642You must not have played many games
>>576960820Dude, you're telling me that there's a huge chance game didn't create folder for game saves in Documents with its name, or didn't create folder in AppData? Here's the question: now does it store data on user's PC then?If fd don't do the trick you can always use rg which will also scan text documents and wine registries.
>>576961072yeah anon the shitty h-game using RPGMaker totally made a folder with the name "that time I fucked a zombie and mother saw and joined as well as sister" and not just saved inside the game folder like they always do
>>576961104Shitty RPG maker would totally make generic rpg-maker related files in user folders which would make it easy to find using recursive search
>>576960402I'm not familiar with `fd` but yeah, I should have guessed it was a recursive search, and so yeah, it could work... if the game names its save files and other such things sanely. But if the game's developer was uncivilized enough to put configuration and save data in the registry, then a filename search will not help, assuming that's what your command is doing. And of course the developer could write to normal files on disk and still name things stupidly.(This isn't entirely related, but even Steam game's install folders under ~/.steam/root/steamapps/common/ sometimes have weird names. For example, Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered installs to ~/.steam/root/steamapps/common/Kelvin/.)If the other guy really cares, he could also look at PC Gaming Wiki to see where the game in question puts its save files, and then check each prefix for that exact file path.
>>576962687NTA but from my experience if the RPGmaker game has the RTP in it it really doesn't create nothing and run from the folder stand alone
IIRC I've read that some steam utility like steamtinkerlaunch can show you the correct non-steam game prefix folder based on game .exe, but I haven't used it personally.
reposting some gameplay webms that I posted yesterday on /v/
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>>576911214>I see the Steam Deck is using 6.x.x kernels, do the changes they do for improvements by valve devs/contractors get compiled into this for steam os or is it only upstream in newer ones?Yes, but it takes time for the kernel to be updated, especially if you're on the stable one.>>576954478I use protontricks to know the compatdata folders of non-steam games.
>>576910748its definitely a game I would not play unless my friends played as well
>weekend overBarely had time for games. Oh well.Next weekend perhaps I will play RTCW.
Yup
>>576994898>Barely had time for gamesAgreeMy Baldur's Gate walkthrough goes very slow as well
Entirely
Zzz bump
Skyrim time
Would>>576969430>>576971530>>576972653>>576975392>>576976723What game is it? I don't recognize it. Does it have Linux build?
>install kernel 7.1.6>kernel panic I had since 6.0 when using VRR is completely goneholy shit that took long enough god bless
>hidden kek>>577021412>kernel panic I had since 6.0 when using VRRNever had kernel panics from VRR. Let me guess: RDNA 3?
it never has
>>577020235>gameGrim Dawn and it has no native build.
Bullseye>>577026032>it has no native build.sad
Sorry, no gaming for now, I actually have to work at my job lol
>>576994898>RTCWRealRTCW is the definite way to play that game, they just added the console exclusive levels.But I would recommend to disable the hub area.It kinda messes up with the flow of the game, if you leave it on, you can choose your loadout before starting missions.
I've heard about toilet paper hoarder houses but goodness.
>>577041910Most likely Soviet migrant
still waiting on steam wayland support
>PC I built 8 years ago running on Windows 8.1>Windows 8.1 installed on 250GB SSD with 1TB HDD for memory>Steam no longer works, can't access my vidya>Don't want any of the newer Windows versions>Want to try Linux dual-boot but don't know dick about it>Bought and installed a new 1TB internal SSD thinking I could install Linux Mint dual-boot on it without partitioning, but apparently I still should partition?>Don't know if I should wait until I install Linux to format the new SSD>Chronic sleep deprivation, massive difficulty learning new things, none of the tutorials are 1-for-1 with my setup>Was pretty confident going in because I'm alright with hardware but realizing now that obviously hardware =/= software and I'm seemingly dogshit with the latterAdvice/recommendations please. I want to keep Windows 8.1 because I have a lot of Windows only programs and files, including standalone gog games launchers. I namely want Linux to play Steam and use a web browser, and switch between OS' for my needs.
>>577070893>I want to keep Windows 8.1 because I have a lot of Windows only programs and filesYou know we can run Windows shit with Wine/Proton right? And from the looks of it since you're running old as Windows shit it's unlikely you will encrouter some compatibility issues.For start if you don't want to read a lot of shit I recommend asking Deepseek your questions mentioning your hardware and goals.
>>577071146I mean I'd like to keep 8.1 even if it was just for sentimentality.>DeepseekI'm not using LLMs.
>>577071465>I don't want to rtfm!>I don't want to use LLMs!Well, what do you want they? To cry on anonymous anime forum>
>>577070893Burn Mint iso on a USB stick (there's guide on their site), it will offer to format the drive during installation - just don't accidentally format your windows drive. There should be an option to install alongside existing windows, so the dual-boot should be set up automatically.While you can access your windows files from linux, it's better to install games on linux partition.
>>5770714651. If you're somehow one of those twitter artists that think AI can still be stopped, Deepseek is the AI you have the least ability to stop, China does not care about your tears.2. Questions that have been asked to death but you're too special to RTFM are basically the ideal use case for LLMs and none of the boogeymen applied to AI applies. There's no art being "stolen", there's nobody being put out of business (you're not paying /vg/ to spoonfeed you lmao), you're not going to brick your computer following the advice of "yes, Linux mint is for noobs".Frankly I can't imagine someone having nostalgia for 8.1, and you already have worse compatibility with modern windows programs than Proton. You might just need to get your shit together.
>>577072287Alright, thank you.>>577071912>>I don't want to rtfm!If you could point me to where the manual answers any of my hyper specific questions then I would be glad to read it.>>577072962Not an artist but it is a repugnant technology and I wont contribute to it's rise by using it and providing direct data to it. It's also confidently wrong more often than not; Gemini at the top of Google searches spews absolutely horseshit about half the time.>RTFMSee above.
>>577074160>my hyper specific questionsIn your case, I would recommend unplugging the windows drive while installing mint. That's what I did when I was in a similar situation to yours
>>577074661>unplug windows drive>grub didn't see windows boot loader>grub didn't make windows boot entryWow, what a great fucking idea!
>>577074791Huh? Just select windows on your bios if grub doesn't detect it.Also, windows appeared after an update and it worked just fine.There is no need to be a cunt about it
>>577075415That's a different anon chiming in. I didn't even know what grub was until he mentioned it.
>>577074160>skynet fails because "how do I linux mint" was the critical data required to take over the world
>>577075731You don't seem to understand levels of responsibility. I will mitigate as much responsibility as I can, no matter how seemingly inconsequential.
>openAI shill is at it againwhy can't AI save your sinking ship of a company?https://pastebin.com/6EDwsxAB
>>577070893>Bought and installed a new 1TB internal SSD thinking I could install Linux Mint dual-boot on it without partitioning, but apparently I still should partition?No. Remove your windows drive, install Linux to your 1TB, put your windows drive back and use your BIOS's boot menu to choose between them.
>>577078327Yep
Boring
>>577069628Isn't the only thing holding it up a chromium patch that was submitted a while ago?
>>576948581I know it's hard to post on the internet without absurd hyperbole, but it's ACKCHYUALLY two layers, Cartridges being the minimalist top layer over a more complicated layer consisting of Steam, Heroic, and itch app (which aren't separate layers because they don't overlap). If I launch a Steam game through Cartridges, precisely two launchers are involved.And in contrast to Playnite in which every game has a text box for every kind of metadata you could possibly imagine using to categorize a game, Cartridges has>box art>title>developer (I don't know why they added this)hence the comment about minimalism. It's basically like launching games from the application menu but prettier.
>GOG announcing that games have now been preserved forever because they tested them for Windows 11 compatibilityIf they really want to make an impact on game preservation then they should find a way to promote development of source ports and decompilations or whatever we call the ports not based on official source.
>>577070893>but apparently I still should partition?Are you talking about the partition layout Linux tends to use? Such as parition for /, /home, the bootloader, etc?
>>577075415>Just select windows on your biosSo instead using single bootloader I now have to enter boot menu each time I want to dual boot? Perfect!
>>577121821Don't worry, there's ways to get grub to detect Windows after the installation if a Windows drive isn't installed at the time. Though I don't think I unplugged my drives when I installed Linux on a PC with Windows. Linux shouldn't nuke Windows bootloader like Windows will nuke the Linux bootloader even if it's on another drive. There you do need to unplug your Linux drives. But it's been a while since I done that.
>>577070893>partitioningYour SSD needs a partition table to hold partitions, then you format those partitions with filesystem's to hold your data. You just need a boot partition (/boot) and a root partition (/), the GUI installer of any distros will make it easy for you. What specs are on your old PC? Something Ivy Bridge or Haswell?>>577123589When you're installing Linux then Windows for the first time yes you need to do it in reverse (Windows first then Linux), and make sure you have legacy boot disabled too if you have Sandy Bridge/AMD FX or newer. Modern Windows monthly updates (every patch Tuesday) would overwrite Linux's bootloader on legacy boot/MBR installs, on UEFI after those updates Windows just moves itself to the top of the bootloader selection without destroying GRUB, rEFInd etc.
what happened to those hypervisor "cracks" for denuvo?do they work on linux now?
>>577131264Haven't tried it personally, but it supposedly released a month or so ago. Requires patched proton at the very least.
My bluetooth manager uninstalled itselfthanks!
>>577131264Yes they do and if you have Intel or AMD Zen4+ CPUs you don't even need to install hypervisor shit, just patched Proton.
>>577133150bullshit
>>577141831thats up to you to believe
>>577141968YES DO AS I SAY
GE 11-5 is out
>>577143568glorious viberoll...
>>577143681simply glorious
Use case for proton ge when cachyos-proton exists?
>>577149303Don't you want your shit to crash from vibeslop?
>>577150246works on my machine
I installed gnome because plasma was working like shit for some reason (it didn't feel smooth at all).I hope it gets fixed soon cuz gnome fucking sucks
>Nepos the Nose is behind the conspiracyWas Todd trying to tell us something
>>577150648amd or nvidia?i have seen other people complain about "floaty" mouse cursor
>>577151507Nvidia unfortunately.After installing extensions from arch repos now gnome seems bearable. I could live with this I guess
>>577149303only proton that can play maplestory out of the box lmao
>>>/v/745130179Hot take: ProtonDB is bad PR.Not only are the ratings often based on significantly outdated reports, but the rating system is also fundamentally broken, because the stated definitions of Bronze/Silver/Gold/Platinum are incompatible with the way they are computed, which appears to be "take the percentage of thumbs-up reports and pick a rating accordingly". Mouse over Gold and it says "runs perfectly after tweaks" but the rating regularly gets applied to games that require no tweaks because in practice it means "most reports are thumbs-up". And who knows that the fuck a good percentage of thumbs-up reports even means? It could been the game just works but was not working on a previous Proton version. It could mean some reports incorrectly identified an intrinsic quality of the game as a compatibility issue. Or it could be that the game has real issues but some users don't care. Last I checked, the thumbs-up was based on some question like>Was it an overall good experience?which is subjective but of course people will interpret thumbs-up as "works perfectly", hence the>Game crashes sometimes and performance is bad.>Platinum!memes on /v/ which are wrong only in that individual reports don't directly assign medal ratings anymore.People will say that ProtonDB is a necessity because fixes are documented there, but those fixes should have been documented on PCGW anyway.Didn't even read that whole post btw. But it has a ProtonDB main page screenshot so I already know what it says. The ProtonDB statistics make Linux look bad because outdated reports are not ignored early enough if at all.It's fine. I'm only slightly mad.
should I be using borderless, exclusive fullscreen or it doesn't matter?
>>577164797it doesn't matter on linux, its the same thing. On linux the only thing that matters is if the game covers the whole screen or not.
Valve solving the kernel level anti cheat problem.. Moving the anti cheat server side and using AI to figure out if somebody is cheating or not https://www.counter-strike.net/vacnet
>>577164797Doesn't matter, but I usually go with exclusive to prevent some weird ass jank and bugs I encountered on unreal games, no idea why some unreal games using borderless drop the FPS
>>577164797I go with borderless when I can because exclusive still hard minimizes when losing focus.
>>577166312This is great, I was wondering why they didn't implement similar thing in the past.FYI this is how regular cheater on a public CS2 server look like
>>577167628lmao
>>577167628GETDOWN
>>577143568I have skipped GE 11-x because it had performance issues. I think it's probably wise to use vanilla Proton at this point... Why did GE become so popular in the first place? Valve has done great job with vanilla Proton already.
>>577176798>Why did GE become so popular in the first place?Video codecs
>>577176798media codecs of course, same with enabling wine wayland and HDR even with shader caching enabled, lots of games miss video/cutscenes with base proton
>>577176798some anticheat games will not work on valve proton because they don't have a deal or whatever, but they work on GE and others
>>577164797On Cinnamon, there's a toggle that disables composition for fullscreen windows, and borderless doesn't count as one.
>>577176798He used to provide wine-GE builds for non-steam games, which were used by default in Lutris.
He didn't like the joke
lollmao
Still waiting for Dawn of the Machine to be playable with stable vkQuake
WineHQ makes me mine bitcoin at this point
>>577183634I hate this leaf cat so much, holy shit everyone use this faggotry now, at least jewflare was quick
>>577182210Yep, Imoen needs 100 in find traps for some mid-game locations or Durlag's.
>>577185682She actually had no problem detecting this trap, it just I didn't bring her close enough lol. This is the first time I'm encountering trap on a chest.
>>577189767Oh yeah the trap detection is a bit finicky, it could take a few seconds for a trap to be detected even if you stand right next to it. Enabling auto-pause on trap detection could save your life.>This is the first time I'm encountering trap on a chestAny container could be trapped, even a random hole in a wall.
>>577183753Erm, ackshually, Anubi are jackals.
Emergency bump
>>577176798>Why did GE become so popular in the first place?Enabled more gstreamer and ffmpeg codecs which fixed videos in some gamesEnabled wine staging patches (this is far less relevant now since most staging patches get upstreamed. wine staging is now part of wine)Had a handful of wine patches/hacks that fixed a few games (essentially no patches or useless patches now)
What's up with CachyOS's Proton? Last major release was over a month ago, last nightly build was over two weeks ago which means no activity. I'd understand if there weren't any reason to update but valve, dxvk, and vkd3d all fixed a few games. That AI written pipewire driver that they enabled by default also broke a bunch of games.
I accidentally changed the language in heroic launcher and even though I set it back it keeps starting up in fucking italian kek
do you use any frontend for all your emulators and roms?which one do you think its best?
>>577218584I only know of lutris, but I've never used it for emulators. I have seen some anons use it but i don't remember their opinions if they had given any
>>577207346>over a month agoHuh? Was July 24th that long ago?
>>577218584I just click on a shortcut icon of emulator and load the rom file, I ain't installing 10k roms only to play 1 at time like some fag
do you think gnome is fine for gaming these days?
>>577221503Yes. The only big thing missing is Wayland's tearing protocol not being implemented yet.
Our decision desk
>>577218132si
Bottles was the most useless Wine frontend. It was buggy bloated piece of shit and was eventually obsolete by Faugus.
>>577228225>bad program has a good name>good program has a bad nameLife is cruel.I don't actually know if Fungus is good. I'll take your word for it.
Calculus
>>577220838https://github.com/CachyOS/proton-cachyos/releases/tag/cachyos-11.0-20260702-slr>Jul 12https://github.com/CachyOS/proton-cachyos/actions>Jul 23
>>577228225Bottles supports umu now, there's no reason to use anything else.
>>577246728how vibeslopped is umu?
>>577121821Can you stop pretending to be me while being a sarcastic asshole?>>577117036I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm just going off what someone said.>>577127950>What specs are on your old PC? Something Ivy Bridge or Haswell?i3-7100 @3.90Ghz on an MSI B250M BAZOOKA. I was on a budget at the time.>Modern Windows monthly updatesThat anon isn't me but I don't get Windows updates given I'm on 8.1.
>>577221503As I said earlier in the thread, my plasma desktop started working like shit so I moved to GN*ME.I don't have too much time for gaming this week but I will report later. I expect it to be from tolerable to OK.
>>577252152>Can you stop pretending to be me while being a sarcastic asshole?
Maybe one day we'll get fortnite on proton
>>577265509It will kill Linux community
>>577221503why would a desktop environment be bad for gaming when everything run on xwayland anyway
>>577269634>when everything run on xwayland anywayUnc it's not 2023 anymore
>>577269634And xwayland is not a display server: it's a compatibility layer for a wayland compositor. Rendering and compositing are still performed by Wayland compositors, and those vary between desktop environments.
>>576942659That's OCD, not autism.
>>577270538>and those vary between desktop environments.What I don't understand is why this is seen as such an improvement that I get called retarded for still using X11 (which just works, except for some specific use cases that don't apply to me, and probably don't apply to most users but are suddenly the most important thing ever when Wayland users see an X11 user who hasn't been harassed today).
>>577110129They are already not veey profitable and you eant them to get sued.
>>577143681If his so retarded why does umu just werk?
>>577154917Gnome with extensions mogs kde easily, only issue is extensions breaking on updates.
>>577166084It matters in my experience. For example you can't alt-tab in NV without borderless.
>>577276471gnome hate come from script kiddies whose entire linux knowledge is "valve is number one valve knows best"
>>577275867>except for some specific use cases that don't apply to me, and probably don't apply to most usersYou mean when desktop start shitting itself under high load with compositing enabled (which is always enabled in multi monitor configurations) is a specific use case? Or when compositors drop frames on other screens because Xorg can't synchronize render on all screens?
>>577276471Is there extension for GNOME to support tearing? Is there extension for GNOME to support scRGB image description?
>>577276606This is retarded Bethesda engine shenanigans: game shit itself when it gets focus loss events. This has nothing to do with windowing system. This wasn't the case on Wine Wayland before they added minimize support.
>>577276471>extensions breaking on updatesDoes this happen on vanilla arch? Sounds like an annoying issue
>>577276471>>577276627And yeah, GNOME also stops sending frame callbacks to occluded clients which stops them from rendering, violates Vulkan specification and breaks some games. For example fromsoft games will disconnect you from online services because of that.
>>577277074Those are experimental. It's wayland's responsibility. Gnome isn't doing anything wrong.>>577277325It's not about arch, when a new gnome version releases extensions need to be updated by developers of those extensions.
gnome bad give me updoots fellow linux users
>>577277851>Those are experimental. It's wayland's responsibility.Those are not, they're in staging like most Wayland protocols
>>577277585last week I played all dark souls with no problems on a debian using gnome, I say skill issue on your part
>>577276765>multi monitorOh, I play games.Now you call me poor for using one monitor per gaming computer, which doesn't sting because I know I'm not poor.Although I recognize that two monitors is a common use case in general, so if that's inherently problematic on X11 then I concede. The usual answer I get, though, when I ask why I'm being called a retard for using X11, is that it's specifically bad for multiple monitors *with different refresh rates*, maybe also a common setup but not one that I've ever had, not even when I had that dual-monitor setup that I ditched because the second monitor was useless 99% of the time because I don't need to distract myself from the games I'm playing.
thats a lot of cope
>>577278893>is that it's specifically bad for multiple monitors *with different refresh rates*No. Problem is the same even on monitors with same refresh rate since it's originates from Xorg inability to synchronize render to all screens. That means if frame synchronized to one monitor it most likely will be skipped on the other since even if two monitors have same refresh rates it doesn't mean they will be synchronized at the exact same time.
>>577278685>last week I played all dark souls with no problems on a debian using gnomeThat because you were using xwayland and frame callbacks are Wayland thing. If you'll use Wine Wayland driver you'll experience this.
>>577279321the people having a melty replying to this post are wrong? >>577269634
>>577279414No, running games natively in Wayland is beneficial than running them in XWayland, especially on NVIDIA where is XWayland causes significant input lag. Throttled rendering for occluded apps is GNOME shit, no other Wayland compositor have this (well, except for Weston maybe)
>>577279763do you really think the avegare person cares or go out of their way to run games natively on wayland? do you know where we are?
>>577276471/g/ hates gnome because it isn't what valve is using, that's the whole reason for the hate.use whatever you want and what you find better, it is your Personal Computer, don't let jews dictate what you have to use, otherwise it would just be windows/mac lite
>>577280028Most sdl3 (and sdl2 games with sdl2-compat) are already Wayland native, and eventually Wine Wayland driver will be made default
not in the mood for gaming today :(
I don't know why but every ai vibesloped project ending up using X11. Does AI have some preference to X11 than Wayland?
>>577295843same but it's because of the heat and having a bad stomach ache
>>577279207Yep, it's because in the xorg server there is only one framebuffer that is shared across all monitors, for whatever reason. There is technically no reason why it cant just be split to one framebuffer per monitor, even on x11; since thats how it behaves with xwayland which is just another backend for xorg server.
>install field of mistria>see a random new folder on .local/share>confused>after half an hour wondering what the fuck is happening>game has a native linux portlmao, those are so rare nowadays I don't even expect it anymore
>>577301963>keep tracking folder under .local/share
>>577302175I ain't letting jews sneak in
>>577279207>if two monitors have same refresh rates it doesn't mean they will be synchronized at the exact same time.Damn what a garbage display server
Today I will remind them.
>>577311719I don't see HDR support on the X11 side, where is it.
>>577312341you can test it right nowgithub.com/cepelinas9000/xserver/tree/wip/x11hdrV2
>it's the gnome vs kde or xorg vs wayland bait for the hundredth time
>>577311719works on my machine not reading all that crap
>>577313348the most tech literate wayland enjoyer
>compares a protocol to a full fledged display serverutterly mindbroken
>ummm actually it's broken by design, mkay chuddie?
If it's broken why does it just werk?
>>577317368you sound like someone defending windows 11
Anti-Wayland schizos still going on 2026? You lost, get over it
>plasma
>>577325745>KDE limited who can comment on this postwill never not be funny
>>577325745Based.Love is love and trans rights are human rights.
>>577325745>newly hatched baby>non-binarywhat did KDE mean by this?
>>577070893What I did was shrink Windows (the C: drive) to the smallest possible size and the rest I gave to Linux. I don't know how many partitions Windows created for 8.1 but it should be 4 partitions.>EFI System>Microsoft reserved>Microsoft Basic Data (C: drive)>Windows Recovery EnvironmentShrink the Microsoft Basic Data partition. Don't format it, and just install whatever Linux you want to that new partition. You can manually partition that new space to include /boot, swap, and /, or you can let the installer do it for you. Just don't touch the Windows system partitions. Good luck.
>>577343485>erode all public trust by breaking shit with slop code>have a melty any time someone calls AI when something breaks againlmao
>>577344172half of the linux kernel is claude now, there is no escape frens
>>577343485kek he literally posted that exact comment in the r*ddit thread, yep he got assblasted
>>577343485Holy vibechad victory
>>577252152>I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm just going off what someone said.Ah. But yeah you'll need partitions. If you let the installer do it for you you don't really need to worry. It might put everything under / (known as root) anyway. Then probably a swap and a boot partition.
>ac6 recomp removed linux instructions from the master branch>windows version doesn't work through proton even though mangohud says it's using vkd3dsad
>>577328937It's such a good punchline.
