GNU / Linux August 2015 Desktops

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[simplezz]

Still rocking the LCARS.

[Ravensky]

Still rocking the LCARS.

That's one awesome setup you have there =)

[simplezz]

That's one awesome setup you have there =)

Thanks

[f0rk_b0mb]

My setup. It does everything I want it to. Nice, clean, and clutter free. The reason for two Steam icons: One is native, one is running in crossover for Windows emulation. All Windows games I have tried so far have worked flawlessly!

 

[simplezz]

Made a quick video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozm_crcmR6E

Watch in HD.

 

[Farchord]

Made a quick video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozm_crcmR6E

Watch in HD.

 

While watching that video, my inner geek was having a raging b......... pleasure!

[simplezz]

While watching that video, my inner geek was having a raging b......... pleasure!

[Farchord]

I just installed arch this morning. After butting my head against the walls at alot of configuration I wasn't used to (*cough* dhcpcd.... networking), I'm finally in xfce with full network. Got alot of side configs to do but I'm feeling like this is much more stable than all those 'pre-chewed' distros out there. I kinda like it!

[simplezz]

Got alot of side configs to do but I'm feeling like this is much more stable than all those 'pre-chewed' distros out there. I kinda like it!

It is. Arch is rock solid once you get the hang of it. Install yaourt and you're set. Rolling release is so nice as well.

[Farchord]

I find that ArchLinux's approach to custom building packages is pretty nice. Only pain is switching between root and user for building packages and adding them through pacman. But solved that by opening 2 consoles, one elevated and one not. 

[simplezz]

I find that ArchLinux's approach to custom building packages is pretty nice. Only pain is switching between root and user for building packages and adding them through pacman. But solved that by opening 2 consoles, one elevated and one not. 

Yes, PKGBUILD is very powerful. As for building/installing packages, you can either elevate pacman:

$ sudo pacman -S elinks

Or install something like Yaourt which also gives you access to the AUR:

$ yaourt -S elinks

I much prefer yaourt.

[simonlang]

i would like to suggest octopi.

[simplezz]

i would like to suggest octopi.

Nice find Jack. I always thought pacman lacked a decent front-end for people who prefer GUI's.

[Anibal P]

That's one awesome setup you have there =)

If by awesome you meant "completely unusable" then I agree 

[simplezz]

 

If by awesome you meant "completely unusable" then I agree 

huh?

[Farchord]

I find that a computer's usability is relative to it's user. If the user likes it, then usability is irrelevant.

[Pong]

Ubuntu Gnome 15.10. System specs are in the terminal window.

 

[SJA]

My Fedora Laptop..Always like clean and simple.

[Gerowen]

Still rocking Unity, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.  Have gotten quite used to it.  The wallpaper came in an e-mail courtesy of Nintendo.  I forgot I even had a Nintendo Power account, but since August 2nd was my birthday they e-mailed me a free wallpaper.  I downloaded the 1920x1080 version as well as the version that fits this laptop's native resolution.

[Ravensky]

My setup. It does everything I want it to. Nice, clean, and clutter free. The reason for two Steam icons: One is native, one is running in crossover for Windows emulation. All Windows games I have tried so far have worked flawlessly!

 

Which Windows games have you tried?

[f0rk_b0mb]

Which Windows games have you tried?

Emulated Games:

Payday 2

Rage

Bioshock 1 & 2

Cryostasis

Crysis 1 & 2 (C3 is DX11, won't work.)

Dishonored

Skyrim + DLC

Oblivion + DLC

...many more I can't think of because it's 1 AM here.

 

Native Games I run:

Bioshock Infinite

CS:GO

Half Life 2

Portal 1 & 2

DOTA

Serious Sam

 

All run with a very high, playable framerate on par or better than Windows. I use Crossover and Ubuntu 15.04 with the latest AMD drivers.

 

 

[4CxbqFxVnstmA Veteran]

This is standard Ubuntu Mate 15.04 and the background is a Turner painting from here.

[xxxxxx.xxxxxx]

Fedora 22

 

[simonlang]

lubuntu on notebook 1