How do you guys have fun on Linux?

What have you found?

Games that old generally work well virtualized/emulated/on wine

You're right OP, linux is stale
Switch to illumos and learn all the cool innovative shit that is going on there.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

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i brogram, read books and manga, watch stuff, learn stuff, shitpost on Jow Forums and twitter and occasionally play bideo games and draw in my free time

lots of drugs, lots and lots of illegal porn, image boards that make /b/ look like facebook, lots of really interesting schizophrenic paranoid ramblings, and my personal favorite was a huge ass archive of paganism and witchcraft, rituals involving shit like human sacrifice, demon summonings, and a bunch of really old records, like medieval times, about people thought to be or proven to be involved with witchcraft.

Do you actually program as a hobby?
Wish I was like you.

I have fun on linux by using it to complete productive tasks with high effciency, which others pay me money to do. Since I complete these tasks quicker than most other people, I can collect more money than them. Then I use this money to purchase drugs, alcohol, and women.

Oh, and I rice.

Well, I have a desktop with Windows and a work laptop with Linux.

Desktop is always on, and laptop usually is too. I just plug the laptop when I get home on a monitor and use both.

installing gentoo is fun

Configuring a GNU/Linux system is an adventure game all in itself.

I found some random text chat thing where they set you up in a 1 on 1 chat with some other user on the site. I ended up meeting 2 russian guys, one of which was typing to me. We chatted about random stuff. World events, stuff on the internet, general interests, etc. He was high on hallucinogens apparently and said he found me to be "very interesting" Meanwhile he kept telling me his friend was yelling at him saying that he wants to find the weapon sites so he could buy some explosives. Eventually the high dude had to quit the chat so he could help his friend, but yeah.

I primarily try to figure out why fonts are so god damned blurry on Linux. The amount of Freetype bullshit I've learned is enough to make me want to kill myself. If I didn't have kids I'd have already blown my brains out with one of the many guns I own. Solely due to the horrendous font rendering in Linux.

There are no new games that interest me. I wind up playing C&C Red Alert 2 and h-games that can run on Wine perfectly fine.

2hu

movies look like shit on linux

Contrarian detected.

that's the dumbest shit i've ever read on Jow Forums and that's a big accomplishment

> weeb/gaymerfag
Kill yourself.

I use Linux on my laptop and my desktop is w7.
Turn it into a media center pc, emulators, NAS, utility pc, productivity.

go do a comparison with different renderers available on each platform and then get back to me.

Put a windows installation in a virtual machine and play retro games.

I google "why do fonts look like shit on Linux" and see articles from 2003. And it's 2018. *dies inside*

Wow private servers run very well through Wine, so mostly that. I had a couple rpg's (Phantom Brave and Disgaea) that I installed via flatpak too, but thats about it, Don't care for anything on Steam and I don't really play much video games anyway.

pornhub

Elaborate,

I was under the impression the actual renderer is implented in the screen hardware. Do you mean decoder?

I dual boot and videos look the same on Windows and Linux

a renderer is software, even if it's hardware accelerated.

I still don't understand then what makes linux so shitty then, the Wikipedia page on video renderer is lacking, I am trying to find out what the renderer does that the decoder and video display controller don't.

>thinking that Linux fonts look bad
Please die outside too

lmao

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a decoder is responsible for making buffers from a blob
a renderer is responsible for presenting pixels given buffers

Like in my back yard? Sure thing pops.

arch isnt hobbyist enough install something like gentoo(no meme) if you want a distro to be fun there are many things you can try doing with it like developing your own packages for it or compiling your own kernel

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then Is the video renderer for linux OpenGL?

>DirectShow (sometimes abbreviated as DS or DShow), codename Quartz, is a multimedia framework and API produced by Microsoft for software developers to perform various operations with media files or streams.

>Open Graphics Library (OpenGL)[3][4] is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics.

I google "Linux Renderer" and get a bunch of how to's on making render farms for video transcoding, so I am finding it difficult to find renderers to "compare"

>then Is the video renderer for linux OpenGL?
no, gl is the software api end of the the gpu pipeline

What is the name of the Linux renderer then? or the name of a Windows renderer that will stop making my videos look the same. You challenged that user to compare, I want to compare.

You could write your own game!

I am doing a pre-release on my game since last post because I feel like I could use some feedback, it's called 'Keep your pants on' and it's on itch.io.

I posted in a linux gaming thread like two weeks ago and said I'd come back - I might create a thread but I feel like Jow Forums is the wrong place.

It's somewhat of a cross between diablo-esque games and dungeon crawlers (much like dungeon crawl stone soup).

I've been working on it for roughly 4 months and it's free, I'd love your opinion!

I'd post a link but I'm not sure this is allowed, always been more of a lurker desu.

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You don't have fun fixing a broken OS?

>choose player with video settings
>play with settings
that's all there is to it. He's really talking about filters here. different players also will have different parameters to pass to e.g. libavfilter

xiph.org/dshow/

I am not even a good programmer and I know fucking nothing about design. So making a game would be a huge step for me. Also I have zero time considering I study and also have a job. Thanks a lot for the motivation though. Your game looks good.

no i'm really talking about fidelity

Jow Forums is entirely the right place, people have expressed support and interest and Linux software of notable quality is always accepted here, we love seeing passion projects! (Some people will be mean but they just wish they made the game first)

Anime
VNs in wine

All the games worth playing work brilliantly in wine.

so you don't mean filters or decoders but "fidelity" and "renderer"

well might I ask what video player you use? and which you used on linux to declare it shit?

if it helps in any way, I have little to zero experience designing things. I am a software engineer by trade, and I designed the layout of all this sheet. I even found myself drawing sprites and I hope to do it more and more. I basically asked myself "how can I get good at doing X if I always avoid doing X"

Now I'm less bad at drawing shit - but I'm happy about where I'm at

I've lurked Jow Forums for close to 6 years now and I always feel shy about posting shit here. If you are so inclined the game is available for free here: reightb.itch.io/kypo

I've always been pissed at people saying there are no good things on linux, I wrote this game using FLOSS tools (it was very painful at times) - I hope this inspires you to write something good too.

P.S. My goal is to release it under GPL most likely after I've had my share of fun with it.

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I use mpc-hc + madVR.

I see. I should have guessed. thank you very much

it always just works so theres nothing to do. i just use it.

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I don't. I use it to get work done and shitpost on Jow Forums. For fun I do woodworking, go small game hunting and fishing, and usually camping every other weekend. I cook delicious meals in a cast iron pan over an open fire. Stop playing games and take the outdoorspill.

I am you. We are one.

i saw a thread earlier where the op said "the absolute state of gaming on linux" and he posted a screenshot of tux racer and i installed it out of curiosity and i've been having quite a bit of fun with it

Get vmware workstation for linux and spin up a vm to play gaymes. Or do gpu passtrough with looking glass.

I mess around with VM's, ssh into my senses and watch Japanese idol variety shows

*Home servers

I use wine and its enough, I don't even play that much anymore, mostly erotic games

Install Android

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Same here.

Also if you're into /vr/ Linux works 100%. I do revisit Duke Nukem, NFS, Age of Empires and Doom every once in a while thanks to Wine. I have the Higan emulator to play NES and SNES games, Linapple to play Apple II roms. I don't get bored and I still have a shitload of stuff to discover and try out.

I played a bunch of Lucas Arts SCUMM games on sucm emulator, was quite fun - didn't really expect that

>I still have a shitload of stuff to discover and try out.
this, once you stop limiting yourself to whatever came out this month, you'll find there's a lifetime worth of great games already in existence

Looks pretty good user I'll give it a try later tonight

You don't. "Fun" is unproductive and a waste of time.

>fun

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Linux is a kernel.

Use mpc-qt not vlc.

vexpay.xyz/

Fun should be illegal anyway

tell me how to ssh into my senses, really need it these days you know

shitposting, anime, movies, youtube, games*, programming or just fucking with settings in KDE and trying different looks

*contrary to popular opinion, you can play games on linux. Obviously not your Witcher and GTA V, but there's a growing number of games on Steam (and not just indie thrash) that will run on Linux, there's also Wine for older games and a fuckton of VNs running on Ren'Py.

Some people as strange as you may find it enjoy programming and playing with servers and protocols. It is like sandbox text-based puzzle games.

Looks cool. What tools you used?

I used Godot, gimp, krita and audacity at times

thank you! Enjoy

Because there are numerous engines right now, was there any reason for choosing Godot?

I wrote the game on Linux; I knew unity was a thing but I had heard good things about godot. It also has no fees when it comes to publishing (vs unity with a % or a flat fee I think after a certain number of sales).

All and all I wanted to use/promote FOSS/FLOSS tools so hence my choice. I'd say it's perfectly usable, but more than once I've ran into weird issues and bugs that have been solved by tinkering and figuring out the engine limitations myself; documentation is still crude.

>i know how to mantain an arch install
>uses LARBS

It is also a colloquial term used to refer to a set of operating systems whose common thread is the use of the Linux kernel.