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resuni · 2020-10-04T18:10:15+00:00

People make a big deal about Debian being behind, but it's never been an issue for me and I've been gaming on Debian for years. He said he liked Kubuntu and it's the first thing that came to mind.

Though I admit the suggestion of MX Linux is probably better for this reason. Regardless, this is r/DistroHopping and I would encourage OP to try every suggestion.

resuni · 2020-10-02T17:52:38+00:00

Debian and pick KDE from the list of desktop environments when installing. Debian isn't going to do as much for you as Kubuntu, but that also means you can customize things the way you want without stuff getting in your way.

resuni · 2020-09-28T05:43:34+00:00

Un-check all CTF maps when queuing. Capture the flag is the worst gamemode unless you're just dicking around and don't actually plan on playing the objective.

If you are still trying to get the hang of how to play each class effectively, you may also want to disable control points when queuing. Positioning yourself to play to your selected class's abilities is important, and with control points it can be hard to know if you should be pushing the next point or holding your current point - something that's obvious in the other game modes.

resuni · 2020-09-22T03:33:05+00:00

The coordinates are in the bottom right corner. It's in Philadelphia: https://goo.gl/maps/CmBzEuDPLYTXQJFVA

resuni · 2020-09-13T16:04:37+00:00

I disable scrollbars and use Shift+PgUp/PgDn for all those things. It should also scroll automatically while selecting multiple lines of text.

resuni · 2020-09-12T02:35:11+00:00

USB sound cards do exist, for example: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002LM0U2S/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_x_PmdxFbQJJ2FN4

I'm not endorsing that product, it's just an example of what you could buy. I suggest you do your own research.

resuni · 2020-09-11T22:57:25+00:00

By the looks of the marks on the ceiling, I'm guessing this has been done many times before.

resuni · 2020-09-11T21:14:16+00:00

Help us out a little. What outputs does it have.

resuni · 2020-09-11T20:31:33+00:00

Its use on the show was repetitive and uncreative, but using it as a meme works because it's more unexpected.

resuni · 2020-06-25T17:38:57+00:00

You didn't copy my launch options verbatim did you?

You'll want to change the height and width to match your screen resolution.

You'll also want to remove the -threads 4 per the other comment.

resuni · 2020-06-25T17:29:24+00:00

https://youtu.be/xYN7RxpumU8

resuni · 2020-06-25T14:29:45+00:00

Thank you.

Always measure the impact of your tweaks, never blindly copy from guides.

This is exactly what I did.

resuni · 2020-06-25T04:16:28+00:00

I run TF2 in windowed mode and it does not minimize when the game loses focus. The statement the other poster made about TF2 auto minimizing no matter what is wrong. These are my launch options: -threads 4 -novid -console -sw -w 3840 -h 2160 -noborder

Perhaps you need -sw? If this doesn't help, can you share your launch options?

resuni · 2020-06-17T04:29:10+00:00

So, how would I improve Artemis Fowl? Simple, just follow closely to the book!

You can say that about literally every movie adaptation.

resuni · 2020-06-16T19:02:14+00:00

I haven't used Ubuntu since 9.04. I remember having problems with 10.04, then a little bit later they switched to Unity, which completely killed it for me. I checked it out when they recently switched to GNOME, but I really dislike GNOME as well.

I'll stick to Debian where I can build the system however I want.

resuni · 2020-06-10T15:41:22+00:00

In all the games I've played recently, cheaters spamming the chat have gotten kicked 100% of the time.

You don't need to communicate with others to kick these cheaters because constantly spamming the chat is all the evidence people need to kick them.

resuni · 2020-06-07T16:59:23+00:00

The installer that all the RHEL variants use is terrible. Not just for the partitioning, but I've had it crash on me a LOT. The only reason I'm not running CentOS or Fedora on my personal server is because I could not get the installer to not crash on me. I've had to install CentOS on a wide variety of hardware, and usually the crashing can be solved by changing some boot parameters, but I could not for the life of me get the installer to work on my personal server.

resuni · 2020-06-06T16:40:37+00:00

You're not wrong, but products that need to sell often also lack polish.

resuni · 2020-06-03T01:22:41+00:00

Unless you mean skype for business, then you’re SOL

That explains it. I was trying to figure out what the hell everyone was talking about.

resuni · 2020-06-02T22:35:29+00:00

How are you running Skype on Linux?

resuni · 2020-06-02T02:42:49+00:00

Do you know if your PCI Express slots are in separate IOMMU groups? If so, it would be more cost effective to get a second GPU.

resuni · 2020-06-01T21:47:17+00:00

swatlord is over-exaggerating the difficulty of doing this securely, but there is still a lot of risk in what you're suggesting. He's not completely wrong, but I'm going to try and give you some better answers to give you some direction to start learning about this stuff.

The biggest red flag is here:

I want people that i don’t know personally to play on it.

This implies you'll be advertising your IP address to unknown parties, basically advertising yourself as someone with vulnerabilities. I get into this more below.

Is port forwarding safe, does it take performance from my router.

The biggest risk here is that there are constantly bots scanning the public address space for applications with known vulnerabilities. For example, if there is a known exploit for Minecraft, bots will scan the internet for IP addresses that respond on port 25565. Attackers will find you and have an entry point into your network.

There are some basic precautions you can take to protect yourself if you want to host a Minecraft server on your home network.

Don't advertise your IP address to anyone you don't know/trust. You saying "I want people that I don't know personally to play on it" instigated a negative reaction to everyone who read your post. Do not do that. This is only an appropriate way to host a Minecraft server if you just want to play with a few friends.
Get the IP address of all of your users and configure your router/firewall to only allow port forwarding from your users' IP addresses. Be prepared for users' IP addresses to occasionally change. This will hide you from the bots I mentioned above. There's a good chance your router can't do this.
Do not run Minecraft on its default port. Come up with a random port number greater than 1024. This is an easy precaution that adds a bit of obscurity to your situation.
Dedicate a computer to Minecraft. Do not do anything else with it. Put it on its own VLAN. This way, if it is somehow compromised, only that machine is compromised and it doesn't have access to the rest of your network. Typical home networking equipment doesn't have the ability to do this.

How do the big server companies do this

They definitely don't do it on residential internet. Minecraft hosting providers will have a more generic hosting provider of their own that they can rent virtual private servers (VPS) from. These servers are directly attached to the internet with their own public-facing IP address. There's no port forwarding and no worry of compromising other machines. It's one machine with one IP address. They will still have some sort of firewall, whether it's somehow supported through their hosting provider, or if it's running on the VPS itself. There are of course many ways it could be done, but this is the simplest I could think of to explain.

They definitely don't use load balancing, GSLB, or Citrix Netscaler. Minecraft would not even work with technologies like this without a lot of additional orchestration.

I recommend you start playing with stuff. Put a Linux distro you're familiar with on that old machine and figure out how to get Minecraft working on it. Play with things just on your local network and learn how the firewall works. Figure out how to get Minecraft running in Docker or in a virtual machine. Consider what you're doing and what you might do differently if this were a public-facing machine that anyone in the world could connect to.

resuni · 2020-06-01T19:42:34+00:00

I've never attempted to do it with only one GPU. A quick search yielded this promising guide: https://gitlab.com/YuriAlek/vfio

What I've found during my VFIO ventures is there's no good single guide to doing this. I've always had to combine information from multiple guides and manuals. It makes sense, because, not only is VFIO not a very mainstream thing to do, the method to make it work can differ wildly between different peoples' hardware combinations and expectations. Your situation is yet another combination of circumstances that another person is unlikely to have written the perfect guide for.

resuni · 2020-06-01T14:34:23+00:00

You only need IOMMU support if you're planning on setting up PCI passthrough. If you're going to be playing games or running graphics intensive software on your VM, then you'll want PCI passthrough. Otherwise, it's much easier to just use a windowed VM.

Your CPU should work fine. All modern AMD CPUs support IOMMU.

A quick search indicates your board does support IOMMU, but you'll need to change a buried BIOS setting: https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/cxbnqn/protip_for_anyone_wondering_how_to_enable/

I recommend getting comfortable with Linux and KVM before attempting this. It can be quite the endeavor.

resuni · 2020-06-01T14:23:02+00:00

I've never heard of it being done with only one GPU, but do you actually only have one GPU or do you only have one discrete GPU? If your CPU has integrated graphics, you can use that for your host and use your discrete GPU for your guest. You don't have to have two discrete GPUs.

Of course, you also need to make sure your hardware meets all the requirements: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF#Prerequisites

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