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Written by Chris1776 on 2025-01-19 at 14:24

I am just perplexed right now how many games actually work quite well with just wine-staging 9.22 compiled with wow64 (thus no 32bit libraries needed) and dxvk through winetricks. No pipewire, no lutris, no flatpak, no nothing.

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Written by Chris1776 on 2025-01-19 at 09:57

All that's needed now is for bhyve gpu passthrough becoming more mature and viable. On linux/kvm you still need two dedicated GPUs for that.

I rather bite the bullet and boot into an actual Windows 10 than installing flatpak, pipewire and all that containerised stuff to play some games.

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Written by Chris1776 on 2025-01-19 at 09:41

Two essential pieces of software are available recently in ports/pkgs that make FreeBSD more close to a daily desktop driver:

https://www.freshports.org/textproc/quarto/

Scientific and technical publishing system. Kinda essential tool for my Markdown > PDF/epub workflow.

https://www.freshports.org/games/prismlauncher/

Minecraft launcher with ability to manage multiple instances. This one's longer in ports but works flawlessly out of the box now, without compiling LWJGL3 and other shenanigans.

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Written by Chris1776 on 2025-01-16 at 05:22

In case Trinity Desktop (KDE3) isn't nostalgic enough, someone is reviving KDE1: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1htnhwq/software_left_in_nostalgialand_dead_software/

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Written by Chris1776 on 2025-01-04 at 06:31

Mhhh. The scent of coffee and fried CPU in the morning after Gentoo update.

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Written by Chris1776 on 2024-12-28 at 14:19

My favorite desktop, Trinity Desktop Environment, supports tiling since 14.1.3. While its not a full tiling WM and lacks shortcuts for it, its a very nice addition.

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Written by Chris1776 on 2024-12-26 at 15:49

I am eyeing migrating my Linux desktops to some BSD in the future for various reasons, especially since some really needed software is in ports now. So far I am still happy with Gentoo but I want to keep options open.

A question for those brave souls using FreeBSD as daily driver on the desktop: Gentoo portage was inspired by BSD ports afaik, can something like Gentoo portage be done with FrerBSD ports and poudriere? Last time I cheked customising build options in ports with make.conf was a bit cumbersome.

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Written by Chris1776 on 2024-12-19 at 12:22

So, who also lives on the edge running ZFS on non-ECC RAM at home? Who's afraid of the rotten bit? Muahaha.

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Written by Chris1776 on 2024-12-13 at 15:01

My SSD with windows 10 on it died, but before chatgpt pronounced it dead and entered the light, it renounced its sins to receive absolution. It remembered it was born as zfs pool. Amen.

Subtitle: if you reformat a disk for windows, clear the zfs label.

What happened? Windows does not boot, bios cant find efi entry. I want to check with cfdisk and gparted and it cant open the ssd because it suddenly is a zfs pool.

root /home/chris: fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 223.57 GiB, 240057409536 bytes, 468862128 sectors

Disk model: SanDisk SSD PLUS

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disklabel type: gpt

Disk identifier: -----

Device Start End Sectors Size Type

/dev/sdb1 2048 206847 204800 100M EFI System

/dev/sdb2 206848 239615 32768 16M Microsoft reserved

/dev/sdb3 239616 467756586 467516971 222.9G Microsoft basic data

/dev/sdb4 467757056 468858879 1101824 538M Windows recovery environment

root /mnt: zdb -l /dev/sdb

failed to unpack label 0

failed to unpack label 1

LABEL 2 (Bad label cksum)

version: 5000

name: 'rpool'  

dmesg:

[ 45.428705] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb4, logical block 15, async page read

[ 45.428815] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb1, logical block 2, async page read

Now this disk is like 10 years old and was fine for 5 years after I reformatted it for windows. Maybe having NTFS partitions and a zpool label gave it split personality.

Lesson learned, back then I didnt know much how zfs works.

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Written by Chris1776 on 2024-12-09 at 11:57

If you game, what's your approach? (and I have been through a couple of them)

• Compile Gentoo twice with x32 and pray no package fails

• Compile Wine with wow64 and suffer 20 frames per hour

• use Steam/Wine in Flatpak, use a suckless tiling WM and laugh at others because of bloat

• Install x32 .debs on Debian, mix ONE package with testing, cry because of dependency purgatory and reinstall Debian

• KVM with GPU passthrough (if you're a spoiled brat with two GPUs)

• Who needs more than ScummVM, dosbox and GoG?

• I only play in console

• Scourge the Internet for open source remakes of game engines

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Written by Chris1776 on 2024-12-09 at 11:36

Is there any software on *nix where I can simply select a bunch of images and print them in a layout of my choosing, like this: http://powerupfinders.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/3/9/123904936/741277151.png

?

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Written by Chris1776 on 2024-12-06 at 11:23

Do developers really need telemetry to know where users put their icons on their desktop? And why?

https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kuserfeedback/-/issues/4

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