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you'll be too busy compiling to let the existential dread set in
Grayson Gomez
Kind of hard to recommend Gentoo over Guix if you insist on making life hard for yourself.
Generally, it is - quite frankly - a lot simpler to just pop in a Ubuntu or Fedora USB stick and be done installing & ready to actually use your machine in 3 minutes.
I do have Gentoo in a VM, it's fun to play with. But I wouldn't want to use and maintain it for my actual system.
would use it had I not already installed parabola on my thinkpad.
Aaron Moore
Any of you fuckers stream on Linux? What's a goto capture card that just werks?
Camden Davis
Depends on your stream demands A 750ti will suffice and so will a 1060 6gb
Samuel Young
>750ti and 1060 >capture card I suspect you're confused
I'm also somewhat interested in this topic as I use OBS to stream all the time - but I only capture things running on the same computer; I haven't actually looked into capture cards.
When I did look into it I bookmarked github.com/tolga9009/elgato-gchd but it seems like it's .. a alpha quality duck-tape driver, not something that "just works".
Andrew Ramirez
Capture cards are antiqued bloated shit for consumers/enthusiasts in 2019. You dont need to buy a $5000 card to stream on twitch, a normal graphics card can handle both the rendering and the recording at once. You dont need a workstation card.
Tyler Russell
Good posts.
Easton Flores
I see you are still very confused as to what a Capture Card is and does.
You have a XBox or a Playstation. You'd like to Stream that gameplay along with a small video of yourself in the corner on Twitch. How exactly do you propose you do that with a normal graphics card? Plug one end of a HDMI cable into the XBox and the other into your GPU? I can assure you that isn't going to work.
If you have a high quality video recorder or a PS4 or an XBox or whatever then you need a capture card.
You are of course right about regular GPUs being able to handle recording and rendering of some game you're playing on your PC. That's not the use-case where you need a capture-card.
Kevin Robinson
>If you have a high quality video recorder or a PS4 or an XBox or whatever then you need a capture card. Xbox has a twitch streaming app that can use your kinect or other supported webcam to do exactly that Never used ps4 but a quick very lazy google search gave me this how too manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps4/share/broadcast.html
So you might want to take that stick out of your ass and change that smug face Bitch ass fuck
lol what's the distro that gives you the existential dread though?
Daniel Cox
kek please tell me this is real
Evan Torres
>pre CoC Linus did he even insult a single person since the CoC
Dylan Miller
Anyone got a good guide for setting up LUKS on LVM on a single disk used just for storage that includes unlocking and mounting at boot time?
John Hill
I don't think his point was that other distros give it to him. He was saying that he gets it anyway, but gentoo distracts him from it because it needs more attention than other distros.
Jacob Moore
do they have many different WM's in repositories or is it just xfwm and mutter?
Samuel Price
I understood this, that's why I asked, what distros don't distract you and just give you the existential dread
Xavier Russell
Nice friendly post jesus fucking christ. Admit your faults when they're shown.
Jacob Clark
They have others. I know they have most of the tiling wm's like i3, bspwn, awesomewm, rat poison, etc. I also hear about gnome on the mailing list sometimes (probably because it's a pain in the ass to maintain, given the development style of redshit devs).
Of course there's no default. The installation processes is literally just dropping in an operating-system scheme definition, in which you specify your DE or WM of choice, and then telling it to deploy.
do they even have browsers apart from firefox and minimalist garbage?
Jacob Phillips
Hurd kernel will take care of that bird
Aiden Hall
I have never seen it before but >"doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost hours of work, if it just results in what I consider to be a better system." Linus has had and demonstrated that attitude many times over the years: Good code matters, improving the kernel quality matters, your feelings do not.
I have no idea if it's real or not; just reading it makes me 99% sure it is.
Aaron Perry
Are you actually curious or are you just trying to imply something about the official repos not having non-free software? Because if so then just spit it out.
But if you are curious then yeah they have ungoogled-chromium, not sure what others you might be expecting. Just go to their home page and click on Packages, you can search the list yourself. They have Icecat of course, and no Firefox. But keep in mind things only get packaged when people have an interest and I guess almost every contributor finds icecat good enough. There's no reason they shouldn't have standard FF and they probably will at some point (I actually installed it a few months ago just by modifying a few lines in the icecat package, it was pretty easy).
Juan Edwards
I would actually miss him. Tux is probably the best open source mascot I've ever seen.
I put it on my gayming desktop dual boot and I like it
Juan Garcia
Hi guys I don't use Linux but I got a few questions. I saw Linus made a 7 gamers 1 CPU video and I'm sold on the idea of virtualization now. I want to run probably Linux, and virtualize Windows(botnet) to quarantine it. I need it to perform well though and I'm curious what kind of setup I need.
I'm not backed by big tech companies and I have pretty simple goals. I want a secure OS I can trust (aka, not win10) running off the hardware and 1-2 virtualized guests for gaming/general use/experimentation.
Do I need multiple GPUs? Can I make the host OS (linux I assume?) run off the iGPU (technically a second/spare GPU right?) and pass my NVIDIA GPU to the VMs as needed? (don't plan to run GPU accelerated VMs simulteanously so figure I only need one) Can I run a setup like this off 3 monitors, where all 3 are displaying either the host or the guest, controlled by "alt tabbing" between VM and Host with the same cables or will I need to play around switching monitor inputs as I switch between them?
I'm thinking about buying a Ryzen 3000 series Ryzen 7 for the build and 64GB of RAM and keeping my GTX 970 until I want to upgrade it. All I want to do is be able to play sketchy games with invasive shit like punkbuster/drm without risking my main OS's security. Performance and security are the goals.
I don't play counter strike shit so I'm ok with ~1ms extra latency. I know running native is better but if I can achieve just 90% of my performance in the guest VM (which Linus was able to in his video) that's good enough for me.
Xavier Lee
muh no gayoms by the way did I tell you how Win 10 can't run like 50% of my geyms?
Juan Rivera
>Linus why is Linus making dumb zoomer vids instead of working on the kernel?
Henry Wood
LinusTechTips, not Torvalds. Nice meme.
Ayden Parker
so he has 2 channels?
Connor Baker
Different guys. Torvalds is the handsome manly looking Linux guy. LinusTechTips is the nerdy tech youtuber.
Nice concept, good luck getting a novideo gpu to play nice.
Brandon Green
I'm switching ones I decide how and get used to using it in a vm. Thare not in the repo but I'm sure someone has made package definitions for Steam, Lutris and sc-controller by now.
How difficult is it to install guix and install proprietary packages on guix?
Jayden White
>install proprietary packages on guix Gay and non-gnupilled.
Angel Miller
Fairly straightforward to install. Guix can make self-contained builds that can run on any machine, and so they use Guix to package Guix itself in a self-contained download. So I'd recommend just using that (it's the "binary" option on the download page) instead of getting the source code. But whatever floats your boat.
>and install proprietary packages Depends. If you ask here in /fglt/ maybe someone (like myself) already has one and can share it, or can help you make it. And it really depends on the software. If it's a pre compiled binary then you probably just have to tell the package to run "patchelf" on it.
Ryder Hernandez
Oh, and I just realized in that link they have a shell script installer now. So I guess it's even easier. Just run the script (as root though, might be a good idea to skim through it first if you don't trust them).
Joshua Jackson
my graphix card is proprietary theres nothing i can do about it please help me
>please help me Well you're talking just plain "guix" right? If so then you don't need shit for your video card because it'll use the drivers you already have on your normal OS.
But if you're talking about the full GuixSD distro then it's still a piece of cake. All you have to do is drop the linux kernel + firmware "non-free" package in the right place, add it to your system config and install. Let me know if you want the package. You have to say that you want to touch my delicious package and then I'll let you have it.
Carson Myers
Is Ubuntu still considered spyware if I delete the Amazon shortcut and disable error reporting?
It's the only distro that I can get to work with my Chinktop out the box and it's ruining me. The touchscreen (which I wont even fucking use) refuses to work with any other distro and it's mind boggling, I'd rather just use Baby's first Leenix than try and debug this shit any longer.
Unironically thinking Ubuntu is spyware in the first place is lame and bluepilled.
Aaron Nguyen
The "bluepilled/redpilled meme is lame.
Grayson Scott
magewell and datapath pcie cards claim to support linux (and there's shit like magewell's usb ones that act like webcams)
haven't tried it out but i do own a magewell pro capture hdmi and they provide source code for linux use
Thomas Harris
Which should I choose between ubuntu, mint, and fedora just starting out?
Logan Scott
Ubuntu or Mint, depending on which DE you want. If you want Cinnamon or MATE, use Mint. Otherwise, use Ubuntu.
Sebastian Wright
linux neophyte looking for a light distro to basically convert an old laptop into a streaming/browsing machine for the living room. i desire:
> very fast to boot & low OS overhead > simple interface with light customizability that can look good on a big tv > basic enough that most people won't be able to tell the difference from windows > support for similar global kb shortcuts to windoze > support for usb pnp & external network card
i'm thinking lubuntu, else mint. am i on the right track?
Austin Ward
Is this the Linux kernel or the GNU kernel?
David Morris
Go with a different flavor like Lubuntu if you use it. Or try using Trisquel. Ubuntu is pretty pozzed and will pull shit like the Amazon scandal as well as their horrible DE Unity for years.
You can but install more than 1 DE will make your system becomes an ugly mess.
Dylan Collins
What do you mean drop the linux kernel + firmware "non-free" package in the right place?
Leo Collins
Cinnamon part of the Mint project, so I would expect it to work most smoothly on Mint, although I've never tried to use it on anything else.
You can install any DE on any distro an unlike the other user I don't really think it's a problem to have more than one, but using a DE that your distro supports out of the box is the most noob-friendly experience, hence my recommendation.
Nolan Lewis
I dunno, I just said that. You can throw it anywhere you want, it's just a text file with .scm extension. In guix it's all just scheme code, so you can extend it by just importing other files. Packages are just objects (I don't exactly how they're defined but they're really similar to just plain lists of attributes).
So you'd just save the file somewhere, then import it: >(add-to-load-path "/wherever/the/file/is") >(use-modules (linux-nonfree))
Then inside the operating-system definition you just change the kernel: >(kernel linux-nonfree) and add the additional firmware to the base-firmware: >(firmware (append (list linux-firmware-non-free) %base-firmware)) and that's it.
Joshua Carter
nice ear
Chase Johnson
Xubuntu, kubuntu, or lubuntu?
Leo Evans
Is /fglt/ friendly to posts about attempting to compile Android for an "ancient" phone from 2012?
Chase Howard
This place is mainly for the Unix-like userland. Try xda.
