Man, you had it harder than me with the realtek drivers. PikaOS is pretty cool overall, as it does streamline some things that Debian makes annoying (graphics drivers, for example). I do hope you enjoy PikaOS, after troubleshooting that annoying issue! The good thing about anything Debian based is that .debs are probably the most prevalent installer out there (cries in Arch).
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it does streamline some things that Debian makes annoying (graphics drivers, for example).
Do you by any chance mean Nvidia drivers?
Yeah, but ultimately, it was even easier with Garuda Linux which was built to be used. As my drivers were correctly selected when the installation began. It was a good surprise.
There is a command line workflow for installing NVIDIA drivers, but, the provided drivers (which Trixie was built against) were pretty moldy at that point. For just a simple productivity machine, Debian would've been my go to.
For one that is a gaming/entertainment/productivity machine...It wasn't for me, personally. As Debian is pretty stable and mostly easy to use.
Really enjoying it so far. Been playing D4 and The Alters today. I'm still surprised at how smooth the experience is!
Glad you've had a good time post install, I've experienced a similar thing on Garuda Linux...It's pretty smooth with the latest graphics drivers!
Not accusing anyone here of white supremacy but "master race" is a term we really need to stop using/normalizing.
It's a reference to an old Zero Punctuation video. Plus, the community here put it to a vote about a year ago and decided to keep it
The majority can still be wrong
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Competitive PC running then?
I'm glad we seem to be past "ricing"
I feel like I still see that one and awful lot, too.
Aw. Maybe I've just blocked those communities.
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Just a fair warning, PikaOS is a hobby project. The authors of this distribution make it very clear with a warning message when you install it. They'll try to maintain it as best they can, but provide no guarantee.
It's nice for messing around or if it's for a dedicated gaming PC or device, but it's a terrible idea as a daily driver.
Either way, I hope you enjour it!
Thanks. This pc is just games. It's only turned on when I want to game. It gets used twice a week, if I'm lucky. If I were to put Linux on my main machine it would be direct Debian.
Oh wow I never heard of PikaOS but of seems great, even though you had some difficulties. I love Debian and have it on my Server, Laptop and now also on my older Gaming (Nvidia) PC.
I feel like Debian really only needs a couple of (hardware specific) tweaks to be a great out of the box experience and it seems PikaOS tries to do that. I don't like that most other desktop first distros opt into using Ubuntu as their bases. But that is only because I'm willing to invest some time to fix stuff and understand how my PC works.
Yeah I'm enjoying pikaos. I use chrony for time-sync and their "pika-base" package absolutely required systemd-timesync and I wanted to remove it. I asked in their discord and they changed the package for me right there and then so that it was "systemd-timesyncd" OR "chrony". I did "apt update" 10 minutes later and it was resolved.
Its not 100% ready if you had to find drivers for your Ethernet and mess around with settings to get a game to launch. Most people aren't savvy and expect their programs to just launch.
Then neither is Windows. The amount of time I've spent troubleshooting Windows crap.....
They buy pre-installed then.
Tbh I've never had to find ethernet drivers on Linux and the games that don't work out of the box (at most forcing a proton version) are the ones that aren't on steam
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In a time where Nazis have made a comeback and racism is rampant world wide, maybe it's time we dropped the whole "master race" joke
You do know that the PC Master Race was originally intended to make fun of the pseudoscientific Nazi ideology "master race"?
It feels like we need this joke more than ever before.
It's originally for lame PC gamers to feel superior. It's always sucked
No. It was a joke that made fun of the PC users as well.
You do know know that "Trump for president" was originally intended as an ironic joke?
It feels like we need to stop making jokes that normalize nazi shit.
Edit: also your statement isn't even true. First time I ever saw "pc master race" was on 4chan /pol
I don't know anything about what happened in the US in regards to Trump. However. I find it unlikely that any meme has ever had any play in him being a president, but I said, I don't know anything about the US history, so I don't have much to say about it.
Regarding the PC Master Race joke, you should read this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Master_Race#History
PS. Joking about things doesn't make them true. We have made fun about various serious topics over multiple centuries now, none of them have come true so far.
Seems like 4chan edgelording regardless. That's kinda the point. Hide facism in plain sight
I find it unlikely that any meme has ever had any play in him being a president
Oh boy could you not be more wrong
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That is taking what is said so far out of context that I'm more concerned for your comment than the title.
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Nah, let's keep associating that concept with a joke, because that's just what it is
Remember when a Trump presidency was just a joke? I do.
Jokes get taken over by people who are too dumb to understand satire and irony. They don't see a joke, they see an appealing idea being normalised.
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Realtek stuff is a major pain it seems. I'm guessing that is why FreeBSD is will known for being fine with nearly anything but realtek.
Not that I really use it by my AMD MoBo runs an Intel NIC for a reason. I started 10G networking a while back. Was a pain to get my Mellanox ConnectX3 working on windows. Linux didn't even blink.
I tried switching a long time ago. And every 3 or 4 years since. I'm happy I have. Things got a lot better in the last few years.
Had a Realtek network card in my gaming pc. Had nothing but problems with it under windows AND Linux. Finally ripped it out a month ago and replaced it with an intel. It’s so nice to have finally a stable connection.
Bottles is an emulator?
No, it just makes containers like distrobox but for each application IIRC.
OP lied to us????
He doesn't know what WINE stands for lol
Oh so its not even about bottles 😭
Bottles uses WINE/Proton
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as WINE, is in fact, WINE/Proton, or as I've recently taken to calling it, WINE plus Proton.
Listen here you little shit...
How people feel about this distro in general? Would one consider using it in a server? Auto updates with a Debian based distro that is using newer kernel and applications sounds promising.
Maybe consider Spiral linux, it's just Debian with better defaults and backport repo probably without the bloat that comes with "Gaming" distros.
Pika OS is gaming centered and is based on Debian sid. For a server just stick with normal Debian. If you want latest and greatest use Debian sid
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