General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Year of the Linux Desktop! - Hardware & Software

CS:GO runs terribly slow for me as well on Linux, and I have an AMD card as well. I have a Radeon HD5670 card. I use the catalyst-test package from the AUR. No matter what settings I choose, the FPS stays, seemingly, the same. I'm sad :(

from my experience no game will work well at all on proprietary amd drivers

[QUOTE=supervoltage;46972743]CS:GO runs terribly slow for me as well on Linux, and I have an AMD card as well. I have a Radeon HD5670 card. I use the catalyst-test package from the AUR. No matter what settings I choose, the FPS stays, seemingly, the same. I'm sad :([/QUOTE] CS:GO seems to have issues, make sure to have shadows on high, multicore rendering is on and vsync is off and then remember to restart the game everytime you change settings otherwise your fps will drop through the floor. Other than that, it's still going to feel unsmooth and frame drops will be everywhere. [editline]20th January 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Bumrang;46974766]from my experience no game will work well at all on proprietary amd drivers[/QUOTE] I've been getting 90-200fps playing TTT on Gmod of all games, I tried joining a terrible DarkRP server and performance was unplayable but on a quality server without garbage workshop addons it works amazingly.

[QUOTE=DerpishCat;46971868]When I was running Ubuntu with Unity, the compositing was on with no issues, but maybe it depends on the graphics card etc.[/QUOTE] I think Unity automatically turns off compositing when an application takes up the entire screen. I know KDE does when you have that box checked, so I know such a thing is possible. And Unity is a Canonical product, which means if they think it will make things easier without the user doing much of anything they'll implement it.

Could someone recommend me distros for this: 1st one for someone who's old and computer illiterate 2nd one needs to be tiny but have GUI. Is puppy best one for this?

[QUOTE=itisjuly;46978582]Could someone recommend me distros for this: 1st one for someone who's old and computer illiterate 2nd one needs to be tiny but have GUI. Is puppy best one for this?[/QUOTE] #1: Xubuntu since chances are they're used to Windows XP, and it's a pretty XP-like environment #2: How tiny? You might be able to get away with Crunchbang.

Easiest way to set my default audio device to my USB DAC in Arch?

[QUOTE=Ca5bah;46980476]Easiest way to set my default audio device to my USB DAC in Arch?[/QUOTE] If you're using Pulseaudio, pavucontrol.

[QUOTE=Ca5bah;46980476]Easiest way to set my default audio device to my USB DAC in Arch?[/QUOTE] If you're using pure ALSA, setting pcm.!default to a dmix that uses that card. I haven't touched asound.conf in a while so I can't give you an example to copy/paste but it's not that complex.

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;46985350]Currently using Crunchbang Debian Wheezy with compositing off at the moment. Can't tell what desktop environment I'm running at the moment.[/QUOTE] It's not a desktop envrionment as in traditional means. It uses a [url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Window_manager]window manager[/url] known as [url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Openbox]Openbox[/url]. Can't tell what compositor it uses, but I'd almost wager it being [url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Compton]Compton[/url]. From past experiences using Compton, there's a very neglible difference in performance with it with games. [editline]/usr/bin/post < this_post[/editline] [QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;46985350]...so I was wondering what's lightweight but still a good desktop environment and simple to use.[/QUOTE] Most of those I linked in the Window Manager article on the Arch wiki are going to be light since they only provide window management. It's up to you to experiment and get the workflow going and whether or not you prefer your windows tiled or stacked/floating. Most people are used to floating windows, so you could stick with Openbox. There's also rio, swm, monsterwm, and some other ones you might want to experiment with, but note that these likely won't provide window controls (close button, title bar, etc.) and will rely on either their own keyboard configurations or something like bspwm and require a keyboard hotkey daemon.

I feel like streaming software is finally at the point that I can make the switch to linux, I've always wanted to but I'm bound to Windows software and games. So I installed Arch on my laptop. Along with cinnamon, nothing flashy. Here's a picture of my desktop and me losing Go to a bot. [t]http://i.imgur.com/Yg1eXG3.jpg[/t]

Anyone here use a tiled WM? Trying out i3 and I like it, I'm just not sure how to configure/theme it, or if there's some "easy" way to do it. There's a bunch of plugins and I don't know what to use, or if i3 is even the "best" tiled WM. I just want something fast that's easy to configure and use

i dont think i would ever be able to use a tiled wm

[QUOTE=Bumrang;46991913]i dont think i would ever be able to use a tiled wm[/QUOTE] It's something I had to sit down and install on my main machine. I thought it was weird using it in VBox or on a Live CD. I've been using it for a few days and it feels very natural. The performance is also very good Now I just want to figure out how to extend it, and which plugins are worth using [editline]22nd January 2015[/editline] Also, i3 is not strictly tiled. Certain windows will run as floating windows. [editline]22nd January 2015[/editline] Basically, is there anything like this for i3? [url]https://github.com/copycat-killer/awesome-copycats[/url] OR should I just be using Awesome

I'm personally using i3 for my laptops with a low resolution to make the best use of the space. Don't know shit about other tiling WMs though, they seem difficult to config in comparison to i3.

I use AwesomeWM and I'm happy with it. Partially that's because I'm well familiar with Lua.

Is there any reason to upgrade an Ubuntu Server LTS that is still supported to the newest version? [editline]23rd January 2015[/editline] Also I set up a command line Linux yesterday and it wasn't anywhere near as scary as I was expecting

What's the deal with linux permissions? It is so unintuitive to give two users proper read/write access to one folder, and have this permission also apply to new files. What's the easy way to get behaviour that isn't hair-pulling?

[QUOTE=bitches;46993817]What's the deal with linux permissions? It is so unintuitive to give two users proper read/write access to one folder, and have this permission also apply to new files. What's the easy way to get behaviour that isn't hair-pulling?[/QUOTE] ACL. [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Access_Control_Lists[/url]

[QUOTE=bitches;46993817]What's the deal with linux permissions? It is so unintuitive to give two users proper read/write access to one folder, and have this permission also apply to new files. What's the easy way to get behaviour that isn't hair-pulling?[/QUOTE] What's hair pulling about assigning an user group to two users and setting the folder and files in it to belong to that group with 770 rights? [editline]24th January 2015[/editline] groupadd pootang usermod -a -G pootang bill usermod -a -G pootang ben chgrp pootang /some/directory chmod -R [I]2[/I]770 /some/directory took like 3 minutes of googling just to be sure

Got efibootmgr working today, with some custom flags. No more bootloaders or debug messages for me, just boot straight from UEFI [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkXcW0O5jSE[/media]

[QUOTE=kaukassus;46994585]ACL. [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Access_Control_Lists[/url][/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Awesomecaek;46997877]What's hair pulling about assigning an user group to two users and setting the folder and files in it to belong to that group with 770 rights? [editline]24th January 2015[/editline] groupadd pootang usermod -a -G pootang bill usermod -a -G pootang ben chgrp pootang /some/directory chmod -R 770 /some/directory took like 3 minutes of googling just to be sure[/QUOTE] this is exactly the problem everyone disagrees on what the solution is I'll try one and then something will tell me that it doesn't have permission, or I'll create a new file and one or the other user won't have access to it.

[QUOTE=bitches;46998594]this is exactly the problem everyone disagrees on what the solution is I'll try one and then something will tell me that it doesn't have permission, or I'll create a new file and one or the other user won't have access to it.[/QUOTE] Well surprise, there's multiple different solutions, but all should work.

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;46997877]What's hair pulling about assigning an user group to two users and setting the folder and files in it to belong to that group with 770 rights? [editline]24th January 2015[/editline] groupadd pootang usermod -a -G pootang bill usermod -a -G pootang ben chgrp pootang /some/directory chmod -R 770 /some/directory took like 3 minutes of googling just to be sure[/QUOTE] the problem with this solution is that it won't work for new files. a user may create new directories and files that have THEIR permissions (say rwxrw---- where ownership is [user]:[user]). This makes the file unable to be read by anyone but that user, despite the directory permissions.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;47000227]the problem with this solution is that it won't work for new files. a user may create new directories and files that have THEIR permissions (say rwxrw---- where ownership is [user]:[user]). This makes the file unable to be read by anyone but that user, despite the directory permissions.[/QUOTE] Right, sorry, you need to add sgid bit to the directory's permissions. So you go chmod -R [B]2[/B]770 /some/directory and it should behave as you pointed out [editline]24th January 2015[/editline] Again, not something I carry in my head, but googled in 30 seconds.

[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;46979935] #2: How tiny? You might be able to get away with Crunchbang.[/QUOTE] Puppy iso is less than 200MB but this one is more than 700. That's far too much.

[QUOTE=itisjuly;46978582]Could someone recommend me distros for this: 1st one for someone who's old and computer illiterate 2nd one needs to be tiny but have GUI. Is puppy best one for this?[/QUOTE] [url]http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/[/url] Dunno how small you're talking, but this is literally as small as it gets with a GUI

Well, I'm deaf now... KDE notification volume bug is back. Sometimes the notification sound plays at 100% ignoring the master volume level. With my sound card/headphones combo this results in pain. 20%: Good volume for a quiet environment 30%: Good for movies or louder environment 40%: Very loud. Uncomfortable for anything longer than 30 minutes 100%: HOLY FUCK MY EARS ARE BLEEDING

Have you checked the mixer settings? Seems like KDEs master device is set as something other than your headphones, while your applications are still bundled to the headphones device. Why it is at 100% suddenly is quite strange though. Does this happen out of thin air, or only after reboot/wakeup or unlock? [QUOTE=IpHa;47004738]Well, I'm deaf now... KDE notification volume bug is back. Sometimes the notification sound plays at 100% ignoring the master volume level. With my sound card/headphones combo this results in pain. 20%: Good volume for a quiet environment 30%: Good for movies or louder environment 40%: Very loud. Uncomfortable for anything longer than 30 minutes 100%: HOLY FUCK MY EARS ARE BLEEDING[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=rilez;47002018][url]http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/[/url] Dunno how small you're talking, but this is literally as small as it gets with a GUI[/QUOTE] That's perfect. Thanks a lot.