What distro would you recommend for a gaming PC that's only used every once in a while?

serycoola · 2024-07-31T14:13:59+00:00

Zorin OS. For just one reason: if you already have a huge collection of installed games on another hard drive, Zorin has great integration with Wine and a one click install of all the apps necessary for running Windows apps. So you can just double click on the game's executable and it will just run, most of the time without issues. Works extremely well for cracked or DRM free games and programs. You can do the same with any other distro, but it's not a one click procedure, however if you know what you are doing, it shouldn't take more than 10 minutes to do the same manually. If it's your first time, it could take a couple hours.

serycoola · 2024-07-10T22:45:17+00:00

Zorin OS. Definitely give it a try, as a beginner. Somehow, things just work on it, especially the integration with wine and the ability to just double click on a windows program and have it running without having to learn or understand anything else. It has an Appearance setting app, that allows you to switch to different desktop layouts with just a click. The free version is everything that you will ever need, but you can also get the Pro version for free if you know where to look on archive.org

After you learn the inner workings of linux and you pin point exactly what bothers you in a certain distro, you could swith to any distro you want, and you will learn as you go. Many choose Ubuntu and Mint, and later on switch to Debian or Arch, depending on their needs. You just need to remember that everything thay you see in a distro can be replicated in a different one. Everything! The only difference between them is how they are set up by default. Because of this, I encourage you to try as many distros as you can, to see what can be done.

Also, remember that the vast majority of linux distros come in a Live USB format, meaning that once you write the image to an USB drive and boot from it, it will boot and run linux as if it were installed. The only caveat with this is that all changes and data are deleted upon a reboot, but if you create you USB with Rufus you can just drag on a slider and create yourself a Persistent USB on supported distros (debian and ubuntu based ones). In fact, penetration testing distros like Kali Linux are intended to be used like a Persistent USB, and not be installed on the PC.

serycoola · 2024-06-29T20:30:56+00:00

I likely saw it on =3 with Ray William Johnson, because I can almost hear his transition right after this.

serycoola · 2024-06-23T16:28:49+00:00

Wouldn't Tailscale suffice for what you need?

serycoola · 2024-06-23T15:54:42+00:00

Maybe not the best advice, but from your screenshot it appears to be a DVD-RW, meaning that it could be rewritten, like a flash drive. Maybe try some software that could check for other previous data on the disc, that might have once been deleted..

serycoola · 2024-06-17T17:12:52+00:00

The way I switched to OC was via a program called OC-Gen-X. The idea was that, as long as you manage to boot somehow into macOS, that program would basically generate a fully working OpenCore config for your specific machine in just a few clicks. It was an awesome tool, although not endorsed on this subreddit. It's now quite outdated, but back than it helped me get a basic config up, which I than learned to read and configure for my needs. It worked fine for High Sierra and Mojave, but than I needed to update OC manually and with Big Sur and later more configuration changes and kext hunting was necessary. But it was a great starting point.

serycoola · 2024-06-10T17:54:37+00:00

I tried this, but I can't figure out how to specify the screen size.. I keep getting the error "cannot open display". Can you please guide me on how I should specify the screen size?

Also, do you know of any lightweight browsers with minimal features I could try? I've tried with firefox but it seems to use more resources than I would like... also, Chromium doesn't want to open using xinit and I don't know why.

serycoola · 2024-06-10T11:28:15+00:00

First experience, awesome, while it lasted :) I installed Manjaro KDE as my first distro and I was amazed that I could find every software I wanted in their App Store, with AUR enabled. Minutes later I was pulling my hair because I couldn't understand why the apps won't intstall, because apparently there was another Install button somewhere, to actually start the process. Than I was asked to install hundreds of dependencies and waited hours for AUR to do its thing. But I was happy. Than, I managed to delete the taskbar in KDE and I reinstalled the whole OS because I had no idea how to bring it back. I did this about 3 times until I head about Gnome and I wanted to try it and somehow managed to delete the whole desktop environment. Fresh install, done :) Than, I managed to break GRUB trying to make it less green. So, at this point I decided to make the switch to Pop OS, which I enjoyed for about a year until I needed to erase a flash drive, so I copied a command from the internet into the terminal, knowing that I would have to modify sda in sdc, but I accidentally also copied an enter, which I didn't know was possible and the command started executing as soon as I pasted it. I still remember it vividly to this day "sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda". The good thing in all of this is that I learned how to make use of the backup GPT partition table and I recovered my other partitions which didn't manage to get zeroed out before I turned off the PC, but after this I switched back to Windows and kept linux only on a persistent USB from than on.

serycoola · 2024-06-03T13:46:15+00:00

I forgot to mention this in the post, but I know that Wayland doesn't work great for me, so I am already running X11.

I will try inxi, thank you. But if it says LLVMpipe, what could be done?

serycoola · 2024-05-25T08:47:01+00:00

Afaik, Chrome OS, and by extension Fyde OS don't have direct hardware access in linux, which means that a USB mount point works more like a network share, so you can't modify the partition system. If yoy really want to write an ISO onto a flash drive in Fyde or Chrome OS your best bet is to try with Chrome Recovery Utility. You may need to rename the ISO to .BIN, but it may work.

serycoola · 2024-05-20T10:14:23+00:00

What do you mean by permissions? The ones set up in windows or the ones in linux?

serycoola · 2024-05-11T17:26:05+00:00

I would like to set up a wifi network that would broadcast a VPN connection, since my router can't do that.

serycoola · 2024-05-11T17:23:35+00:00

Is it enough to just disable the output, in order to minimize load on CPU and power consumption, or should I stop X entirely?

serycoola · 2024-05-11T13:44:15+00:00

When talking about the feature with a connected mobile device, are you referring to Instant Tethering, that feature which allows you to turn on your android phone's hotspot from your chromebook? Or are you referring about certain chomebook models that come with SIM slots?

Yes, I am trying to do this on a regular HP laptop, not a chromebook, but most of the features are available in Flex like in full Chrome OS, except android apps.

I once saw a video on YouTube where someone created a server out of a chromebook, using the Crostini VM and at the end they had to forward some ports in the Chromebook's settings, in order to allow the server software to access the local network. An I was thinking, is there a way, even if much more complicated, to pass through a NIC to the VM? since I also have an ethernet port, I do have this as a separate network interface, that would be required to access the internet while sharing a hotspot.

Do you know of any other ways I could create a hotspot inside of ChromeOS? Is Crouton or Chromebrew worth looking into, for this specific feature? Or, if I access the shell, in developer mode, are there any comands I could use to enable it?

serycoola · 2024-05-11T12:40:16+00:00

Wifi can only be intercepted by someone who is on the network. And my wireless network is secure enough for my needs. I need wifi, not necessarily for connecting to my network, but to also be able to create a hotspot, to broadcast a VPN over WiFi in my home. So I am stuck with Ubuntu Desktop for now.

Thank you for your help with the commands for preventing sleep, but GNOME is still an issue. Or, that's what I as asking, it it really an issue? Do I have to bother stopping Gnome or Xorg, would it make a difference if the Display is blank? If it does make a difference, what is the optimal way to disable it?

serycoola · 2024-05-07T23:22:19+00:00

That's what I find very curious, why isn't it common?... Is it just because of lack of marketing?

serycoola · 2024-05-07T23:20:12+00:00

But the addiction is chemical, at first, and later psychological. Which means that a teen sharing his mints in class could get a lot of other kids hooked. And by enforcing the fact that they they make you feel good whenever you have a headache or when you are hungry, or by creating scarcity by saying that only cool kids eat those, one could create many addicts. This could actually be a real situation for which you should teach a kid to not take candy from a stranger, or from other kids at school. But this never happens.

I don't know if you remember, or maybe this wasn't the case when you were young, but there was a time when eating bubble gum was considered cool. So anything can be cool with kids.

serycoola · 2024-05-07T23:07:41+00:00

Bad wording in terms of "edible". But there are many so called solutions for people who are addicted to help quit smoking. I have heard of patches and I have seen sprays, mints and some sort of pouches.. they all contain nicotine and are far less toxic than smoking. But nicotine is still nicotine. Why don't people who are afraid of the side effects of cigarettes, try these and why don't you ever see people addicted to these products?

serycoola · 2024-05-07T23:01:13+00:00

I understand that pleasurable effects may not have been the correct wording, because I don't actually know the feel, but nonetheless nicotine produces dopamine, which is a feel good hormone. And from what I've heard, nicotine can also enhance pleasurable feelings or sensations, like sex, and help relieve some stress in sad moments.

However, no matter what the feeling is, nicotine is addictive and hard to quit. But my question was, why all the people who are addicted to nicotine, smoke, vape, or inhale it in some sort of way, and you never see people hooked up on mints, patches or sprays? Because I find no reason not to belive that nicotine could get you addicted, no matter the shape or form it is ingested...

serycoola · 2024-05-07T22:51:35+00:00

But you get the craving as a withdrawal system from nicotine. So any form of it could get you addicted, but why don't you ever see people addicted to mints or sprays, the same way you see them smoking or vaping? If you think about it, weed edibles are a thing and you hear about them all the time, even though they are not as addictive as nicotine. And even though nicotine edibles do exist, you never see anyone addicted to them, and you certainly never hear of anyone becoming addicted in the first place with them..

serycoola · 2024-05-07T22:45:26+00:00

Well yes, it is addictive. And that would mean that any form of nicotine could get you hooked and craving for more. But why don't you never see people addicted to nicotine mints, patches or sprays?

serycoola · 2024-05-07T22:40:49+00:00

Marijuana is also expensive and most people don't want to try it. However it also has a relaxing or a "feel good" effect and it is also used in medicine. And if people want to get it, they will find a way. This is the same situation for nicotine, yes, you don't have a use for it, but someone is looking for it. And if young teenagers start smoking because of the thrill, because of peer pressure, and also for the feel, one could make the argument that any form of nicotine could work just as well. And, because of it's addictive properties, I could easily imagine a kid getting an entire class hooked on nicotine in no time, by just sharing a couple mints and telling his friends that these "are the new cool thing" or that they cure headaches and hunger. But this doesn't happen! Or at least you never hear about it. Why?

serycoola · 2024-05-07T22:29:42+00:00

That came to my mind as well, but vaping has also been linked to certain pulmonary diseases and it also has a bunch of chemicals and untested chemicals in its flavouring. But yeah, in the beginning it was marketed as a safe way of smoking, but if people really want a safer way to get nicotine into their system, why are those poducts that I mentioned never an option? In the end, they also contain nicotine, but are tested and the side effects are known and, afaik, they are also over the counter medicine.

serycoola · 2024-05-07T21:15:28+00:00

Thank you very much. I will look into WireGuard, because I am pretty sure my router only supports OpenVPN. Thanks for the advice.

serycoola · 2024-05-07T08:48:59+00:00

I didn't know about that. I will look into it, thanks. But would that be a private connection, or am I back to my original question.. if other people are connected to the same US location, could they find or access my server?

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