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Rutibex posted:what is the best version of lunix to duel boot? i am reinstalling my OS anyway, may as well add in a lunix and see if i like it. i tried it back in like 2004 for a year and i felt really cool, but it was more frustrating than anything. i assume its has got better? speaking as someone who used linux 14 years ago, yes it is way way better. this will be your best bet: https://linuxmint.com/download.php I switched to windows 10 after using debian or ubuntu for over a decade because of some games. after a year of using it the fall creator's update came and broke a bunch of poo poo so I switched back to linux, and the vast majority of games I wanted to play work in wine anyway; in Civ 4's case even better than it did in windows
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Fanatic posted:I use a Mac and yesterday, despite being on OSX, Microsoft still managed to alt-tab me during a game of Rocket League to install an Office update! Because of that the other team scored a goal and I lost No sorry Microsoft knows what's best for you and are never wrong close thread
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mycophobia posted:speaking as someone who used linux 14 years ago, yes it is way way better. this will be your best bet: https://linuxmint.com/download.php to be honest most of the games i play are ancient and would likely run on Wine anyway. that wasn't my big problem with Linux, not the games (i mostly played emulators and they are great on linux) but all of the little random software tools i have collected from the internet. like this .exe that spits out randmized Super Metriod roms, or ultimate conways game of life, or my favorite procedural midi generator, or the diablo 2 patch editor, etc. all of that stuff is a one off, you can't find linux versions. but I assume it could work easily in wine? edit: ok there are 4 version of mint linux "Cinnamon" "MATE" "Xfce" and "KDE". which one is best? i am looking for an experience most like windows XP Rutibex fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Mar 15, 2018 |
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Mar 15, 2018 02:17
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Rutibex posted:what is the best version of lunix to duel boot? i am reinstalling my OS anyway, may as well add in a lunix and see if i like it. i tried it back in like 2004 for a year and i felt really cool, but it was more frustrating than anything. i assume its has got better? Debian, ubuntu, or mint imo
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Mar 15, 2018 02:20
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Nah that stuff probably won't work in Wine. Use virtualization if you want Windows things under Linux. If you have a modern CPU with VT-D you can pass-through your GPU to VM Windows too. I have an i5 2500K though which doesn't support that though so I don't have personal experience with it but I've hear it works pretty well.
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Rutibex posted:to be honest most of the games i play are ancient and would likely run on Wine anyway. that wasn't my big problem with Linux, not the games (i mostly played emulators and they are great on linux) but all of the little random software tools i have collected from the internet. like this .exe that spits out randmized Super Metriod roms, or ultimate conways game of life, or my favorite procedural midi generator, or the diablo 2 patch editor, etc. all of that stuff is a one off, you can't find linux versions. but I assume it could work easily in wine? I really like XFCE, it's what I'm using now. it's light and it provides most of the features of a modern DE. but ymmv obv. I think by default it gives you some weird taskbar settings but you can easily make it like Windows XP's taskbar by setting it to one panel, bottom of the screen, etc.
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um as far as wine stuff if there's not an entry on https://appdb.winehq.org/ for it it's pretty much trial and error.
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:Pressing the enter key on a file in OSX renames the file instead of opening it Hahaha HAHAHAHAHAHA
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:Pressing the enter key on a file in OSX renames the file instead of opening it That’s the correct way to do it 
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Rutibex posted:to be honest most of the games i play are ancient and would likely run on Wine anyway. that wasn't my big problem with Linux, not the games (i mostly played emulators and they are great on linux) but all of the little random software tools i have collected from the internet. like this .exe that spits out randmized Super Metriod roms, or ultimate conways game of life, or my favorite procedural midi generator, or the diablo 2 patch editor, etc. all of that stuff is a one off, you can't find linux versions. but I assume it could work easily in wine? Cinnamon. Xfce is the super lightweight version, KDE is the pretty effects version, idk what mate is. Those are all just frontends to the same poo poo, you can even have more than one installed at a time if you want. A lot of your little tools will probably work in wine but for obscure stuff like that you kinda have to just try and see, there's always virtualization or switching to your windows install if you're gonna dual boot anyways
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xfce sucks dog balls and is ugly and unusable as sin. dive deep into pure blue waters of GNOME and experience a truly blissful desktop environment. A JOY TO USE
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Alpha Mayo posted:Nah that stuff probably won't work in Wine. Use virtualization if you want Windows things under Linux. If you have a modern CPU with VT-D you can pass-through your GPU to VM Windows too. I have an i5 2500K though which doesn't support that though so I don't have personal experience with it but I've hear it works pretty well. oh i thought thats what WINE was, like a windows emulator mycophobia posted:I really like XFCE, it's what I'm using now. it's light and it provides most of the features of a modern DE. but ymmv obv. I think by default it gives you some weird taskbar settings but you can easily make it like Windows XP's taskbar by setting it to one panel, bottom of the screen, etc. i've been looking them over and KDE seems like the most flashy and cool desktop. i am leaning towards that. they have much slicker marketing than the other linuxs flavors. but they all have different advnatges. geez why do these nerds have to make this so difficult, its all open source they could all work on the one desktop instead of 4 different ones no on is stopping them
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I remember using KDE in the 3 series and really loved the sheer amount of customization. but speed and responsiveness and staying mostly the gently caress out of my face is most important to me these days
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mint is based on ubuntu and debian, and is basically ubuntu with way too much poo poo installed by default just use ubuntu or xubuntu or regular assed debian instead
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I "needed" to use linux for some projects I was doing for fun the last year or so. Been using ubuntu. If you can use Windows you can use ubuntu imo. I still use windows for pretty much every single thing in my computing life though. Linux is just good for some networking stuff  Theres no reason you couldn't use it on a day to day basis for browsing or office type stuff though its pretty full feature in that regard.
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:Other than the fact that retro pie can't connect to an arcade monitor and can't run 320x240 and can't emulate any arcade games made after 1993 you're 100% right I have one of mine connected to an RGB monitor [a broadcast monitor] outputting 240p, using the retrotink RGB board and there are cheaper options like the gert vga666 board for doing 240p over vga/RGBHV so lol also it emulates plenty of things but I recently changed my dedicated arcade setup to an i5 PC running Ubuntu + RetroPie for Ubuntu and it's much better scott zoloft posted:Give LTSB a shot. No windows store, no edge, no seasonal service pack updates. Just security updates. I cannot second this enough I really wish there was a commercially available "enthusiast" / "I know what the gently caress I'm doing" / "I don't give a hot gay gently caress about candy crush or other 'features'" build of windows 10 that you didn't have to have MSDN access to get
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Rutibex posted:oh i thought thats what WINE was, like a windows emulator lol, what do you think WINE stands for? please look it up
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Code Jockey posted:I have one of mine connected to an RGB monitor [a broadcast monitor] outputting 240p, using the retrotink RGB board Well it's running specialty hardware like the Ultimarc ultimate io which I believe only works in Windows, as well as the LED Wiz so only certain buttons light up depending on what game you are playing. Not to mention it's not really doing 320x240, it's doing some crazy poo poo via CRT Emudriver that makes every game, no matter the resolution, look perfect. Out of curiosity though, can the Retropie run things like Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Killer Instinct 2, and House of the Dead 2 (Sega arcade version) at 60fps? I would imagine not but I'm not really aware of this stuff since my friend's retropie stuttered on N64 games The computer I'm using is a 7 year old Core i7 (from before even Sandy Bridge came out) so it didn't exactly break the bank for me or anything
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I just got windowned. They killed spinny disk.
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scott zoloft posted:Give LTSB a shot. No windows store, no edge, no seasonal service pack updates. Just security updates. I learned about LTSB from a thread like this one. It's been pretty great.
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lmao windows 10 enthusiast edition yea im a loving malware enthusiast sign me up for computer aids and bi annual updates so i can play my video games better
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:Out of curiosity though, can the Retropie run things like Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Killer Instinct 2, and House of the Dead 2 (Sega arcade version) at 60fps? I would imagine not but I'm not really aware of this stuff since my friend's retropie stuttered on N64 games I haven't tired a ton of arcade games on mine, but UMK3 and stuff as recent at Capcom CPS-3 (SF3, Jojo, etc.) runs at full speed with plenty of CPU cycles to spare. N64 stuttering doesn't mean much because nobody has developed a good N64 emulator yet. CEN64 and MAME are the only emulators I know of that even attempt to emulate it properly and both need like 25 GHz CPUs to even come close to being playable.
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Code Jockey posted:I have one of mine connected to an RGB monitor [a broadcast monitor] outputting 240p, using the retrotink RGB board I'm pretty sure you were the one who told me about it. Now it's what I've been throwing on our machines for work. Thanks a bunch man! 
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:Well it's running specialty hardware like the Ultimarc ultimate io which I believe only works in Windows, as well as the LED Wiz so only certain buttons light up depending on what game you are playing. Not to mention it's not really doing 320x240, it's doing some crazy poo poo via CRT Emudriver that makes every game, no matter the resolution, look perfect. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 is not the game you want. you should be playing the best version around, Mortal Kombat Trilogy and/or Mortal Kombat Revelations hack: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1826/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYvUS6lDmeg
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Rutibex posted:edit: ok there are 4 version of mint linux "Cinnamon" "MATE" "Xfce" and "KDE". which one is best? i am looking for an experience most like windows XP Cinnamon works well.
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scott zoloft posted:I'm pretty sure you were the one who told me about it. Now it's what I've been throwing on our machines for work. Thanks a bunch man!  Statutory Ape posted:yea im a loving malware enthusiast sign me up for computer aids and bi annual updates so i can play my video games better same A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:I haven't tired a ton of arcade games on mine, but UMK3 and stuff as recent at Capcom CPS-3 (SF3, Jojo, etc.) runs at full speed with plenty of CPU cycles to spare. and same the game that made me really want to move to a PC based retropie platform was Tetris the Grand Master, it played horribly on the pi well that and wanting to do dreamcast emulation on it
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OP you should look into running RetroArch on DebianCode Jockey posted:
What I have started doing for friends is buying net tops off of eBay because they go for similar money as a pi once you get the pi/case/SD card. The major benefit being a full fledged x86 processor instead of an ARM and often times dedicated graphics. This plus RetroArch running on your choice of Linux gives you a much better experience than a "RetroPi" setup in terms of performance but also in terms of compatibility (Dreamcast is supported with several emulators, beta updates for "cores" are added frequently). Edit: AOpen Digital Engines have been my platform of choice, I can get them for $30-$50 on eBay.
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What is the actual reason that they just couldn't continue Windows XP forever? Like update it and stuff but let things run it? Why was it so awful that it had to be replaced? Technically, I mean.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:What is the actual reason that they just couldn't continue Windows XP forever? Like update it and stuff but let things run it? Why was it so awful that it had to be replaced? Technically, I mean. lol
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:What is the actual reason that they just couldn't continue Windows XP forever? Like update it and stuff but let things run it? Why was it so awful that it had to be replaced? Technically, I mean. If anyone actually tries to answer this you will not want to read it lol
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:What is the actual reason that they just couldn't continue Windows XP forever? Like update it and stuff but let things run it? Why was it so awful that it had to be replaced? Technically, I mean. several complicated technical reasons: 1) Capitalism. 2) Money. 3) The making and spending of money. 4) ??? 5) Profit.
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DamnCanadian posted:This. Long Term Service Branch is Windows 10 without all the bullshit nobody needs Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:What is the actual reason that they just couldn't continue Windows XP forever? Like update it and stuff but let things run it? Why was it so awful that it had to be replaced? Technically, I mean. You can do it. A registry key hack will trick it into thinking it's XP POSready, which is Windows for cash registers, which still gets security updates.
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Hey op this may have been mentioned but the closest I got to get w10 update to chill out was by turning on metered mode or w/e its called. Makes windows think that your connection is paid from mb to mb so it restricts updates because ms doesnt want to deal with you getting pissed because they accidentally spent some of your money. It still tells you there are updates and some updates are considered super important and it will still install those so yeah.
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:Pressing the enter key on a file in OSX renames the file instead of opening it That is the dumbest loving thing.
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limaCAT posted:Hey GBS what should I do to permanently disable Microsoft Windows Update? It took me forever to get an actual answer to this and every suggestion failed to work as Microsoft kept turning them back on. Then I found.. Shut Up, Computer https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 Seriously this will turn the poo poo off and keep it off. Mindblast posted:Hey op this may have been mentioned but the closest I got to get w10 update to chill out was by turning on metered mode or w/e its called. Makes windows think that your connection is paid from mb to mb so it restricts updates because ms doesnt want to deal with you getting pissed because they accidentally spent some of your money. It still tells you there are updates and some updates are considered super important and it will still install those so yeah. Seriously get that program and Windows will shut the gently caress up forever. I had my doubts after trying everything, and holy poo poo did it work. ED: Hell OP try it out and sticky it to the opening post, it does the job
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420 SWAGLORD posted:If anyone actually tries to answer this you will not want to read it lol I mean I don't gotta read it.
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Rutibex posted:Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 is not the game you want. you should be playing the best version around, Mortal Kombat Trilogy and/or Mortal Kombat Revelations hack: drat I would be all over that if it wasn't the Genesis version. Is there some version of MK Trilogy I should know about? The PS1 and Saturn ones have horrendous load times (Shang Tsung morphing locks the game up for 7 seconds  ) and the N64 one sounds like hot farts. Why hasn't anyone hacked MK Trilogy into the UMK3 arcade ROM? Why not done? What is the version of MKT you like?
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