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akop Dec 9

@rperezrosario Still windows for gaming.

But I can already hear the wind of change.
#linuxIsRising

zrb Dec 9

@akop @rperezrosario the valve is opening

🎆🎉 Masto New Year 🎊🎇Dec 10

@zrb @akop @rperezrosario The protons are activating.

MrGrumpyMonkey Dec 12

@mast0d0nphan @zrb @akop @rperezrosario Go home nerds.

zrb Dec 12

@mrgrumpymonkey @mast0d0nphan @akop @rperezrosario we are home, you're in our house

(could you take your shoes off please)

MrGrumpyMonkey Dec 12

@zrb @mast0d0nphan @akop @rperezrosario *takes shoes off*
*puts feet up*

King_DuckZ Dec 16

@mrgrumpymonkey @mast0d0nphan @zrb @akop @rperezrosario surely there must be some non-nerdy Microsoft microblogging out there

MrGrumpyMonkey Dec 16

@duckz @mast0d0nphan @zrb @akop @rperezrosario If you come across one, DM me.

King_DuckZ Dec 17

@mrgrumpymonkey @mast0d0nphan @zrb @akop @rperezrosario lol nope! Not going to look into any MS crap. Send them an email or something, I'm sure they're eager to meet your needs

tippfehlr Dec 9

@akop @rperezrosario what games do you play?

akop Dec 10

@tippfehlr @rperezrosario Kingdom Come (2) is my current favourite. And you? ^^

tippfehlr Dec 10

@akop @rperezrosario that would run with proton :)

For me, not much currently, only league needs a windows partition. And I'm quite happy that vanguard cannot access my Linux data.

Len Dec 10

@akop yeah, same. The weird old stuff I play, and its attendant weird little supporting programs won't play nice on Linux.

Although, I'm considering rewriting one of the weird little programs (which is actually a bunch of bat scripts) in Python, so that it's portable, if I can get the weird old game itself running (Falcon 4)...

C.H.Dec 10

@akop @rperezrosario

Linux is very well suited for gaming; it has worked for me for many years.

Andreas K Dec 10

@akop @rperezrosario Ah, I realized too late that my new PC's second M.2 slot is only x1, so instead of nuking the included Win11 Pro, I just moved the 2TB SSD to the slow slot, verified that the MiniPC iGPU is capable to play games locally, and well, it seems I'm not rebooting that much into Windows, 🤷

Andrew M Dec 10

@akop @rperezrosario Same for me. I'm genuinely astounded at how far Linux gaming has come, particularly in support for older titles (which has always been the thing holding me back). I do miss my Linux desktop...

𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉Dec 16

@akop @rperezrosario
Whaddaya mean, #linuxIsRising ? #Linux is already the most widely-used kernel in the world?

mcSlibinas Dec 9

@rperezrosario linux + android.

Roger Moore Dec 9

@rperezrosario
I would have to look carefully to see if I use GNU/Linux (my PC) or Android/Linux (my phone) more. Probably my phone.

McTwist Dec 9

@rperezrosario Windows for gaming; Linux for all else. I tend to homelab and programming a lot when I don't game.

Cameron Bosch Dec 9

@mctwist Have you tried Proton for gaming on Linux?

McTwist Dec 9

@cameron_bosch Yes, it works quite alright. It's kernel-level DRM that forces me to use Windows.

Qole Dec 11

@mctwist @cameron_bosch
We're looking at you, Rockstar GTA Online... 😡

Cameron Bosch Dec 11

@qole @mctwist The funny thing is that one uses Battle-Eye, which can work under Linux and Proton, but of course Rockstar disabled it and gaslit fans into thinking otherwise.

Qole Dec 11

@cameron_bosch @mctwist
I've heard different versions; some people say that the Linux version is the same as the Windows version, and some people say that the Linux BattlEye is different, and it's not sufficiently kernel-level for Rockstar.

Cameron Bosch Dec 11

@qole @mctwist The funny thing is that I've never heard of cheaters in GTA Online. I'll bet Microsoft said something like they did to Hitachi with BeOS.

And they never refunded users of GTA Online who were affected, which, well, isn't that illegal!?

Cameron Bosch Dec 12

@qole @mctwist It's not even a game that people cheat in like Fortnite and such. It's just an out of touch decision that reeks of Microsoft hush money.

Jeremy List Dec 17

@mctwist @cameron_bosch Among the few decisions I've agreed with Microsoft on recently is apparently they're planning to remove a lot of the stuff needed for most implementations of kernel-level DRM to exist.

McTwist Dec 17

@jeremy_list @cameron_bosch Completely agree. M$ sometimes realize their mistakes.

JBrickelt963 ✊(φ)🚩Dec 9

@rperezrosario actuellement en phase d’expérimentation sur un PC annexe avec Linux Mint.

Pour tester l’expérience et les logiciel accessibles (certains que sur Linux) avant une transition peut être en fin 2026 ^^

Certains logiciel (6 ou 7 sur les 20 principaux) n’ont pas encore d’équivalent pour moi sur Linux.

Adrien Plazas Dec 9

@JBrickelt963 @rperezrosario Par curiosité, c'est lesquels ? Je suis sous Linux depuis tellement longtemps que j'ai presque aucune idée de ce qui se fait ailleurs.

@KekunPlazas MyPhoneExplorer qui n'est pas open source mais ne semble pas commercial.

Il est tout en un pour la synchronisation des contacts, SMS (+programmable), bloc notes, todolist, calendrier et dossiers/fichier du téléphone. Et caster d'écran.

Ensuite ShareX que j'ai récemment découvert en remplacement d'une version cracké de FastStone. J'ai bidouiller avec Spectacle KDE et FlameShot sur Linux.

@KekunPlazas Pareil pour l'explorateur de fichier pour l'instant je jongle entre Nemo et Dolphin de KDE.

Le premier à la mémoire de chemin. Si A contenant le dossier B et dans B le dossier C. En passant du dossier C au B ou A
On voit encore A>B>C. Bon c'est un détail.

Le seconde offre l'aperçu visuel. Et sur W* Files est un remplaçant open source qu'on aimerait aussi sur Linux.

Aussi Ant Renamer hyper puissant pour le renommage de masse. Plein l'option pour le renommage le masse.

@KekunPlazas Ça c'est pour les principaux. Utilisé couramment. Pour les usages spécifiques cela dépend.

Notamment PDF24 pareil free mais propriétaire. Ne semble pas collecter de datas.

Que ça soit compression, création de facture, fusion, séparation le PDF ou ajout de filigrane tout y passe ou presque.

Globalement c'est l'accommodation et du confort. Mais dans le taff ça peut être un +.

Captvty pour download les émissions TV seul moyen suggéré : Wine comme Docker pas encore réussi avec.

3/3

Anthony Rabine Dec 10

@JBrickelt963 @KekunPlazas des cas d'usages fort intéressants ! Je ne comprends pas ton besoin en synchronisation par logiciel par rapport à passer par Internet ? Et pourquoi synchro les SMS ?

@arabine le logiciel a l'avantage de pouvoir passer à la fois par wifi, câble USB et Bluetooth.

Je le trouve par exemple très pratique pour le transfert de fichier (mieux que W*) et le calendrier c'est celui de mon téléphone qui lui peut-être être connecté via internet ou non.

Pour les SMS, Ça peut être pratique dans le travail. Plutôt que de sans cesse prendre son téléphone, c'est comme si on passait par une messagerie instantanée.

On évident les distractions.
Que le nécessaire de travail.

Anthony Rabine Dec 10

@JBrickelt963 oui je réponds à mes SMS via kdeConnect pour ma part.

@arabine ah oui bien sûr KDE est très utile ^^ et c'est l'une des choses sympa de KDE.

Mais je crois pas avoir vu qu'on puisse le faire après que la notifications soit fermé.

Comme dit c'est le tout en un qui est pratique. Avec KDE parfois je me demande aussi si les fichiers que j'envois sont bien arrivés. Sur MyPhoneExplorer je n'ai jamais eu ce problème.

Donc quelques ajustement à avoir et le test d'autres outils en complément pourquoi pas ^^

Denise Dec 9

@rperezrosario
Since we did not have the time to change it, we still use Windows 10 (though not 11 as long as possible), but we want to change to a linux distribution in the future. Windows will only be on a VM or a second/third ssd, so we can use it if a program really only works on windows properly.

Garrett Latimer Dec 9

@rperezrosario MacOS, with a healthy side of Linux on the laptop.

If CELSYS would port CSP…

bebatjof 🇵🇸Dec 9

@rperezrosario android?

unawarewolf 🐺Dec 9

@rperezrosario
Careful, you might see a "65% of people use linux?!?!?!" youtube video soon with polls like this lol.

Owen Beresford Dec 9

@rperezrosario I hope not too pedantic, but are you including phones?
...mostly driod linux kernel, some people with iphone (derived from NextSTEP project) kernel .

If you search the whole of london, there may be one exec using a windows phone.

Dominik Dec 10

@channelOwen @rperezrosario What about us Linux Phone weirdos? I heard there's dozens of us!

Owen Beresford Dec 10

@chrastecky
I had one in the past, but i needed to update the battery and it broke.

There is vast friction on services like whatsapp. My network doesn't live in the this little slender ivory tower, even if I do,

@channelOwen @chrastecky

What's the skinny on Linux phones?

I am in the market for a phone, and ready to jump out of the walled gardens of corporations, into the world of #DigitalSovereignty and #Privacy

Also, I have always wanted to say, "I have a kill switch."

Is it too much to plug in display/storage/keyboard/mouse into the phone and use it as an IDE for development?

Any recommendations? Thanks in advance! 😃

@purrperl @chrastecky
The company I got mine from exported to the EU via Spain, used the mobile version of Ubuntu, and went bust/ stopped retailing.

I like the idea of same OS on phone, and ability to do `apt update` on it.

@channelOwen @chrastecky

I am eyeing the Jolla phone with interest. Looking for a phone with a Linux distro that is entirely free, and has no proprietary code.

Maybe the world goes to Linux in your Pocket, and largely bypasses the world of mobile apps, as native Linux apps are now first class apps on your phone.

One docking station with all peripherals, and one Linux phone/tablet.

@purrperl
If you get that rolled out, could you update about if the phone OS can drive a standard 1900x1280 screen ~ I think phone video RAM might not scale to that...

@channelOwen

Wireless screen-casting has been a thing for a while now.

@purrperl . . . . I was using a feature called that, mac -> a wall screen in a meeting room in 2014
Ja, "a while"

Dominik Dec 16

@purrperl @channelOwen Jolla does have some proprietary code, namely parts of the UI, their Android VM solution and some MS Exchange addon.

Lately they've been open sourcing more and more parts, so the UI might be fully open source one day.

@chrastecky @channelOwen

Hopefully, they won't go the way of many other projects with good intentions, which they abandoned on the way, taking without giving back, and effectively becoming yet another closed system, chasing money.

examples: macOS, Ubuntu, ChromeOS, Android etc.

ALMOST free. Free any day now. Free, except.

If you can't tweak any part of the OS, if you can't recompile your OS from scratch and run a custom copy, then it's not really free.

Hopefully, SailfishOS does better.

Dominik Dec 16

@purrperl @channelOwen I mean, given they started with all their apps closed source, they're going in the right direction.

@chrastecky @channelOwen

I suppose. Though it would be neat to have a Debian-based mobile distro that stays true to Debian-like principles of software freedom.

Just as all wizards are not good wizards, all Linux companies are not good companies. Some become surveillance companies like Google. 😜

King_DuckZ Dec 16

@purrperl @channelOwen @chrastecky last time I used Sailfish it was just a custom GNU distro, so Linux, gcc, bluez... Going by memory

@purrperl @chrastecky If i wanted another, I would look carefully a FairPhone ~ these will allow end-users access to parts.

You probably can plugin a kill-switch to a fairphone 😃

Dominik Dec 16

@purrperl @channelOwen SailfishOS is really a mobile OS, not a desktop reskinned as a phone. From what I've read it's also the only Linux phone OS that can be a daily driver unless your needs are very limited.

Getting your IDE to work is definitely possible, but there most likely aren't any ready made packages, you'd be on your own to compile it.

If you know Linux, you can do pretty much anything (I recently packaged Proton Bridge for SailfishOS, for example), it just might be a bit harder.

King_DuckZ Dec 16

@chrastecky @purrperl @channelOwen like, Linux kernel, X11 or maybe Weston these days, a custom DE designed for touch screens, your usual directory structure and there you go, non-desktop gnu for your phone. Really it's the DE that makes all the difference. The rest is drivers (that may dictate the kernel's version) and specific kernel build settings