General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Year of the Linux Desktop!
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[QUOTE=lavacano;49040403]I think the Linux port for CS GO supports raw mouse input[/quote]
Ye, it supposedly does, but even with it turned on, acceleration was still an issue before I fixed that, and now it's still as I said, sort of "floaty"
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and Google says the "technical" term for this double click timeout thing is "debounce", so look into that.[/QUOTE]
Alright, thanks, I'll check it out
Is there anything on Linux that can compete with OneNote? I would like to be able to run Linux but I use OneNote for pretty much all my notetaking on my Surface Pro 3... Xournal seems... okay but doesn't do audio capture which I use in OneNote, especially since it's synchronised with the notes. Currently my solution is to run some Linux distro in Hyper-V and SSH in, though I might try Hyper-V's framebuffer or perhaps Xpra or Xspice and run a light WM.
Have you tried OneNote Online?
[QUOTE=ben1066;49048424]Is there anything on Linux that can compete with OneNote? I would like to be able to run Linux but I use OneNote for pretty much all my notetaking on my Surface Pro 3... Xournal seems... okay but doesn't do audio capture which I use in OneNote, especially since it's synchronised with the notes. Currently my solution is to run some Linux distro in Hyper-V and SSH in, though I might try Hyper-V's framebuffer or perhaps Xpra or Xspice and run a light WM.[/QUOTE]
I haven't used OneNote before, but I assume it's just a note taking program? would Google Keep work? it's in the browser so it should work everywhere. Android and iPhone I believe has a dedicated app
[QUOTE=PredGD;49048440]I haven't used OneNote before, but I assume it's just a note taking program? would Google Keep work? it's in the browser so it should work everywhere. Android and iPhone I believe has a dedicated app[/QUOTE]
I'll give Microsoft this. With their Office suites, they've done a pretty good job with the UX, somehow. I mean a lot of it sucks, but take OneNote. It's fucking great with what you can do.
[QUOTE=PredGD;49048440]I haven't used OneNote before, but I assume it's just a note taking program? would Google Keep work? it's in the browser so it should work everywhere. Android and iPhone I believe has a dedicated app[/QUOTE]
Not quite, it has pretty advanced inking support, I don't think keep has that? I'd love to be wrong.
Possibly-complex question I'm asking on short notice: I'm thinking of dual booting Linux and W10. I'm getting a 250GB SSD to split between the OS' and a 2TB drive to split between installing stuff for either OS. I don't know what distro to use for the Linux install though. I have little to no experience with Linux.
Kubuntu, Xubuntu or Lubuntu would be good because they're not drastically different from Windows (interface wise)
[QUOTE=Banned?;49052565]Possibly-complex question I'm asking on short notice: I'm thinking of dual booting Linux and W10. I'm getting a 250GB SSD to split between the OS' and a 2TB drive to split between installing stuff for either OS. I don't know what distro to use for the Linux install though. I have little to no experience with Linux.[/QUOTE]
Distro choice honestly doesn't matter in the long run, and there's nothing stopping you from continually switching. If you make two partitions on your SSD, then you can just keep re-installing distros on the partition you've set for Linux pretty much hassle-free. A lot of distros these days have graphical installers and will set up the dual-boot for you.
Some easy distros that many recommend would be: Ubuntu (and its flavours, Kubuntu, Xubuntu etc), Fedora, Manjaro, Mint, openSUSE, elementary, Zorin. I would recommend Ubuntu (or its flavours) or Mint, as many beginner tutorials for Linux are written with those in mind, specifically for the aptitude package manager.
There are heaps though, check out [url=www.distrowatch.com]distrowatch[/url] for information. Remember that the distro choice doesn't matter as much as you would perhaps think. The biggest differences are the software repositories and how the distro maintainer has set things up. What is compatible with one distro of Linux will pretty much always be compatible with the rest. Remember that you want the 64-bit version of any distro you come across. If they're not called 64-bit, they'll usually be called x64 or AMD64.
[QUOTE=Banned?;49052565]Possibly-complex question I'm asking on short notice: I'm thinking of dual booting Linux and W10. I'm getting a 250GB SSD to split between the OS' and a 2TB drive to split between installing stuff for either OS. I don't know what distro to use for the Linux install though. I have little to no experience with Linux.[/QUOTE]
What's your purpose for wanting to learn? If for potential work uses, I'd suggest installing Fedora. (CentOS, Red Hat, Fedora is all the same shit just Fedora is more up to date and kinda testing) There are loads of guides out there for RHEL based distros.
Because Microsoft have decided to basically nuke OneDrive, I thought I'd set up my own weird system involving S3QL and SSH.
Basically I SSH into a VPS and save all my stuff on a folder, and that folder is mounted to an S3QL container. Seems to be working well so far. Just need to make it work nicer with Windows and have automatic camera upload for Android.
[QUOTE=Levelog;49056915]This is so much better than Symantec's Back that NAS up.[/QUOTE]
That actually could've been good.
If, as the title sounded to me, it had been based on [I]Splack Pack's[/I] 1992 hip-hop classic, [I]Shake That Ass Bitch[/I].
Anyone used any of the BSDs? I decided to give GhostBSD a go on my laptop (because my laptop basically serves as a test-site because I don't hold any important information on it), and it seems to be working alright. Boot times are quite long, though, and the little picture on the bottom left of my posts shows Tux and claims I'm on Linux. C'mon garry, each version of Windows has its own icon, as well as Windows phone which no one uses. Give us a BSD icon so I can properly claim hipster status.
Can you run Steam in the Linux emulator on BSD?
[QUOTE=Samiam22;49074917]Give us a BSD icon so I can properly claim hipster status.[/QUOTE]
It gets the Linux icon from the "X11" tidbit in your user agent. I found out the hard way after I posted in here on an OpenBSD machine.
[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;49075270]Can you run Steam in the Linux emulator on BSD?[/QUOTE]
I don't think so, but i'm pretty sure you can run wine under BSD, then use steam through wine. I believe the reason for steam not working in linux compatibility layer is dependencies, even after that I don't think it provides direct rendering so your games might not even run correctly.
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woah! wine-staging has an option for gtk3 theming and it looks hella sexy.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/OE9iH57.png[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/bR8zxFp.png[/t]
[URL="http://www.wine-staging.com/news/2015-08-09-release-1.7.49.html"]Apparently it was added around august, why wasn't I informed of this?![/URL]
Any gamers here using an AMD card? I was wondering about the current state of their Linux drivers. If I were using Windows I'd totally get a R9 380 for my upcoming build but now I'm just not sure.
[QUOTE=Darkwater124;49080317]Any gamers here using an AMD card? I was wondering about the current state of their Linux drivers. If I were using Windows I'd totally get a R9 380 for my upcoming build but now I'm just not sure.[/QUOTE]
They exist but the drivers for new cards suck.
[QUOTE=Samiam22;49080689]They exist but the drivers for new cards suck.[/QUOTE]
How new of a card is new? Because I have a couple of R9 270s coming in
also, popping the AMD cherry here, which drivers is which
[QUOTE=lavacano;49081272]How new of a card is new? Because I have a couple of R9 270s coming in
also, popping the AMD cherry here, which drivers is which[/QUOTE]
R9 270s are indeed affected. You can see benchmarks like [url=http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_gpus_high514&num=4]this one[/url]. They're usable but lose out to the nVidia ones.
Shouldn't be a big deal, though. And the FOSS AMD drivers are decent whereas nouveau is shite.
AMDs are a complete nightmare. try to stick with NVIDIA.
and open source AMD drivers tend to be better from my experience with HD5450. at least with 2D acceleration.
that still doesn't answer my question of which drivers are which
From a bit of research, it looks like the R9 270 uses the radeonsi driver
Nvidia has released a cool 256 cores PC.
[url]http://phoronix.com/vr.php?view=22387[/url]
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This is not what you want for general-purpose computing, but if you want low-power-consumption embedded GPGPU, Jetson is pretty amazing.
Looks yummy for folding.
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