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submitted 23 hours ago by HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I have a home built PC that I want to get off Windows 11.

Specs:

  • Ryzen 3700X, upgrading to a 5800X3D soon
  • RTX 2080 Super
  • 500GB NVME for OS, 2TB SATA SSD for files, programs, etc.
  • 1440p Ultrawide monitor
  • an 8bitdo Ultimate controller

Usage:

  • I usually play indie games, emulators, and occasional AAA games. Most of my library is on Steam, with some games on GOG, e.g. Cyberpunk.
  • I have an original Steam Link in my living room, and I use it to play games from my PC on the couch. Does Steam on Linux even support this?
  • I also write game mods, so I need a distro that is a good fit for software development (C++, Python, and Lisp).
  • Random miscellany: I use mullvad VPN, stream movies from a friend's plex server, and use an SFTP client to back up photos and videos from my phone.

I've been an on/off Linux user in the past, so I know my way around basic/intermediate terminal usage and configuration. Buuuut every previous attempt to move to Linux ended in disaster, so I have little patience for asterisks, strings attached, etc. If you're offering a distro I've never heard of before, you're probably gonna be hard pressed to convince me.

Thanks for the help!

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Secondly, I couldn’t even install qemu if I wanted to because it wasn’t in the apt repositories that shipped with Debian.

Debian has a non-free repo containing non-open-source software that it hasn't historically enabled by default, but I don't think that that'd apply to qemu. I'm pretty sure that's all open-source.

goes looking.

qemu's been in the Debian repos since...checks sarge, which was released as a stable release in 2005.

And it was in main, not non-free, so it should have been there as an out-of-the-box enabled repo:

https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20050312T000000Z/pool/main/q/qemu/

QEMU only came out in 2003.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU

QEMU is free software originally developed by Fabrice Bellard; the first preview release was in 2003.

It looks like it was packaged in Debian unstable since 2004, though I wouldn't recommend jumping right on unstable to a new user.

$ apt changelog qemu-system 2>/dev/null|tail -n 15

 -- Paul Russell <prussell@debian.org>  Mon, 15 Mar 2004 23:56:25 +0100

qemu (0.5.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix build problem so bios.bin etc. can be found. (Closes: #237553)

 -- Paul Russell <prussell@debian.org>  Fri, 12 Mar 2004 05:43:00 +0100

qemu (0.5.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Initial Release. (Closes: #187407)

 -- Paul Russell <prussell@debian.org>  Wed,  3 Mar 2004 02:18:54 +0100
Fetched 314 kB in 0s (1,431 kB/s)
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[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know, maybe I'm misremembering a detail, it was 10 years ago. I think I needed KVM as well, maybe that's what was missing. Either way, I had to add newer repos to an older version. I think the codenames were Jessie and Wheezy.

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm currently running qemu in trixie because one of my bosses demanded me to run office. It was pretty straight forward, but for some reason i had to create a group and do some permissions tinkering for it to work... nothing too complicated. I dont really remember what issues i had with it.

Currently i managed to set a share folder, keys to give orders to the host (mainly to switch back to civilization quickly) and also i convinced my boss that internet isnt working (it's working from day 0) so she cant force me to use one drive.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 1 points 21 hours ago

I will say it was a good decision to just separate my work PC from my home PC. I didn't want to end up like that guy who got his company hacked just because he was running a vulnerable version of Plex Media Server. So I have a Windows laptop just for remoting into work and nothing else.