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On 2/25/2020 at 7:36 AM, WereCatf said:

Wake me up when HW-accelerated video-decoding is working in Firefox...

It just wont, they are not even interested, probably they are unaware the fact va-api actually works and it's not the garbage it was in 2010

But I also think they prefer developing the OpenGL video decoding backend called glxsomething 

Some chromium beta builds actually have hardware decoding with va-api, I don't know if there are still PPA's around there with it

On 2/25/2020 at 4:42 PM, xnamkcor said:

 

PS: A little bird told me linux has the best hardware support. Considering all the driver issues i keep hearing about, that must be some really fun wordplay.

It actually is, but not for GPU's or anything media related that is supposed to work with Windows software (few exceptions with the playstation 4 controller driver for example)

On 2/25/2020 at 6:29 PM, kelvinhall05 said:

The only things I had to do to get my Linux distro working as well as Windows was to enable the correct GPU driver in the kernel. All it took was a single command, and now my system is faster and way, way more stable than it ever was on Windows.

Are you referring to the AMD Southern Island amdgpu driver?
That's because it's still an experimental support, using the terminal is mandatory as it's basically an hack, but not for installing classic proprietary nvidia drivers, you have the GUI for that

The only big issues I had about Windows 10 were related to UWP apps not starting, and more recently issues about windows search.

I hope this doesn’t happen at work because it will be definitely annoying

Cups is for printing, not for scanning

You need the HPLIP drivers probably

Seriously no one checked the event logs?

11 hours ago, handofreason said:

 

Guys this was it. I had to go into the registry and change it from another port; The person who set this up probably changed this as a way to prevent any tampering. Well played other guy... well played. 

 

What threw me off is that all the inbound rules for the firewall were set to 3389. Everything was default except for this one thing. Thanks everyone!

 

(The registry edit was HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TerminalServer\WinStations\RDP-Tcp\ and then PortNumber subkey. Double click that and chang HEX to Decimal and there's your port. Mine was set to some random number that had no inbound rules for it anyway)

Well I imagined it...
Sometimes you are supposed to change the RDP port for various reasons (security, multi servers, etc)...
But usually (at least me) you do that via a firewall rule and never locally, but it happened in the past it was necessary because of some odd windows bug where the 3389 port never worked 

Budget: Around 2000€, from Europe

Specs: Minimum an i5 9/10th gen, 8GB of RAM, GPU powerful like a GTX 1660 

Main usage: Primary gaming at home, then for work (outside), occasional gaming outside home (or when I got nothing to do at work)

I'm thinking to buy a new laptop this year but I still can't decide what model starting to look for

I previously had an XPS but I find the medium-range graphics card not enough for the games I play, but I needed at least the same mobility and battery life (or at least close, maybe at least 5h battery life with soft-medium workload) 

It shouldn't thermal throttle like hell or reach ridiculous temperatures. Consider I will probably buy some sort of dock at home with fans on it

I was thinking about the Razer Blade 15, 144Hz model + i7 and 1660 Ti, but I can't really understand how the hell I am supposed to buy it from Italy (razer doesn't sold the Blade here) for the best price and with an English keyboard, maybe someone can help me there?
Is it worth buying from the US then paying taxes the customs? (it costs around 300€ less here)

Honestly except the Razer Blade 15 model I couldn't think very much of anything else, the Alienware or the usual gaming-laptop greedy-looking models look really ugly to me, I'd be ashamed to take something like that outside. The Razer Blade just looks almost perfect to me for the size/performance battery life and thermals from what I could see

I also took a look at the X1 carbon, but still weaky GPU and not really meant for gaming (or at least not like an XPS)

Obviously I'm waiting till this summer for the new razer model, also especially for the new XPS15, maybe a decent GPU will come out this time on it?

Check if the remote desktop service is running first

Also use TCPview from Sysinternals 

Are you sure in the registry the RDP port is set 3389? 

Anyway that port forwarding rule seems a bit strange to me, what is TCP Any -> 3389 supposed to mean? From any IP? And from the same port? 

On 1/28/2020 at 7:30 PM, Mira Yurizaki said:

If the system supports virtual hard drive booting, you could install the OS in a VM and use the virtual hard drive image from that.

 

Otherwise PXE is the only other option I'm aware of.

PXE boot barely works with a modern Linux desktop distro and requires a specific PXE setup (using ipxe, putting up a config) that includes decompressing the disk image and booting specifying the initramfs and the rootfs separately, with Windows there Is something similar but still an hack since modern operating systems will complain booting from PXE for obvious reasons 

But there are some other useful ways to use PXE like setting up a FOG imaging server, which deploys Windows 10 images from a full supported PXE boot'd OS, but nowhere here you will have something simple as "boot the installer ISO through PXE" except for very small OS that are set up to run from RAM

Check your user portal for any sort of quota limit

I don't know why every linux thread goes wrong every time

9 minutes ago, Curious Pineapple said:

jagdtigger said "Why would we want to use an inferior OS" when it was mentioned that the alternative is to use Windows for the game.

 

I said that it doesnt matter how superior Linux is, if no-one plays it then it isn't worth supporting.

 

By the way, Linux is a better OS is many respects, but is of no use to me so I use Windows.

I use Windows too at my home just because I just want to play games when I'm not at work. (At work I'm full Linux)

I will consider switching at home until Proton becomes able to support EAC, and I think this is the case

Isn't this game EAC? Then it doesn't have support with wine, but only with native Linux and MacOS versions

Anyway considering a translation layer from DX11 to Vulkan or OGL isn't a big deal in 2020, they don't have to rewrite code that much

I think there are still valve toolkits around here to make the transition relatively painless.

It's even possible to embeed DXVK without using wine for native steam games, so they would only need to add the native Linux EAC 

5 minutes ago, Curious Pineapple said:

I think you missed the point a bit....

Mind to show it? 

10 minutes ago, Curious Pineapple said:

When it comes to software support and development, if most of your users are running DOS on a toaster then that's what you support.

 

Doesn't matter how "superior" another OS is, if your users don't use it then supporting it is costly and possibly making a loss.

Yeah but how is software compatibility related to the quality of the kernel or the architecture?

That was the point there, even if it could run better on older hardware if the game was running on Vulkan than DX11 or anything else that doesn't matter if it doesn't give money return in this case

It just perfectly makes sense even if it's sad that's how it is 

7 minutes ago, IdlePX said:

Update on refunds for macOS and Linux through Steam: 

 

Tl;Dr they were using a dx9 to opengl translation layer

18 minutes ago, Curious Pineapple said:

Because your "superior" OS is used by such a tiny percentage of the players that supporting it isn't worth the trouble

Quantity =\= quality

Mac OS users can use Boot Camp

Linux users can use Windows? 

KVM performance loss is about 2-3% 

Debug stunnel and then post the output

debug = 7 

In the configuration file

Use Ubuntu LTS, if you got new hardware, use a more recent version of Ubuntu or even the development one

Mind if you want to use FreeNAS you have to be careful about hardware compatibility

I'll buy a refurbished one the next month, guess if that still counts to statistics

Initially I thought it was about the Hypervisor and I was happy since we moved to KVM since 10 years

Then I realized it was about ADC which we never used, our infrastructure is small and we got nothing except small nginx/apache balancers 

As the others are saying you are missing hardware acceleration on Linux, I once made a repository if you are on Ubuntu I'll try to update it, it only works with chromium since Firefox has no intention to enable it.

If you are on an arch-based distro you can install it from the AUR

15 hours ago, vorticalbox said:

This is incorrect, over half of the laptops in my office run Ubuntu lts with zero problems for the 2 years I've worked their.

10 hours ago, mr moose said:

In specific situations there is nothing wrong with Linux (in fact I would argue in those situations it is clearly better),  but on the whole for the average desktop user it just doesn't cut the mustard.  The evidence of this is in it's small user base which is highly limited to specialty use and dedicated design use, like yours and like government departments in china and russia etc.   

1 hour ago, vorticalbox said:

We are a software engineers which might account for there being no problems

 

I won't argue it could work with no problems but...
The main issue I see here is in big environments, not using a centralized LDAP just gives me headache, and just thinking at using Linux desktop + LDAP authentication, messing up with PAM gives me another headache
On Windows is just 2 clicks after creating a local administrator user account

The only suggestion I can tell is to use Ubuntu instead of EOS, EOS has disabled ppa's by default, no snap support out the box as the Ubuntu app store, and generally if you are a newbie and don't want to dig with the CLI, just use Ubuntu LTS