Second Attempt: Arch Linux + Passthrough
Status:
Result: I'm sad i didn't get Qubes to work. Now it's time for good, old arch. I installed it (same old, same old) then i try for like the 20th time to follow nbhs' guide. I almost succeeded, but in the end i failed (long story short)
Third Attempt: Windows + Cygwin/x or Xming
Status: In Progress
Result: Let's see if i'll be satisfied with this...
Fourth Attempt: Windows + Virtualbox' Seamless Mode
Status: Not In Progress
Final Attempt: KVM or Streaming
Status: If all else is unsatisfactory i will try streaming or buy a KVM switch, i'm likely to buy the KVM switch and never try streaming.
I'm so sad linux, i am so sad... i really wanted you to defeat windows in this one battle, that's all i wanted :( But you have failed, and i have failed... Passthrough didn't work, and i'm nearly in tears since you have been deemed unfit to be my gaming computer's primary OS.
To fill up this hole where my heart used to be i've decided to set my two laptops up with linux instead. That way even if i probably won't play many games on it, i will always have a linux installation sitting on the table next to me. And the night is still young! perhaps i'll be able to reach some satisfactory result using virtualbox's seamless mode.
Now, it's 9 PM and i gotta play something i haven't before, that's the rules about sunday.
I should write a small program to use as a lottery for selecting a game (too many to choose from) but lets see today's choice is: Grotesque Tactics!
I should get it over with now...
Starting Time: 23:45
Pause Time: 00:25 (only 20 minutes to go)
Stop Time: ?
The tutorial for the game was lengthy (and therefore bad), the controls are sort of inelegant too, but i like the humor. I'll need to play this quite a bit more before i can decide if i like it or not though. Since i only just finished the tutorial.
Now then, since i took a break there are 2 things on my mind.
1: Finish setting up my windows primary PC
2: Finish setting up my laptop as a linux machine rather than the Windows it used to be
I'm gonna tackle these in the reverse order actually. The problem with my laptop is that it has some retarded APU with switchable graphics. I thought the whole point with APU was to not need that kind of bullshit? fucking AMD and their nonsense, grrrr.. fucking reta.. errhm *cough*
Anyways i've got what i've got, so i need to make the linux fglrx (catalyst for linux) driver work with it. I've done this at some point last year, however i need to do it again now.
Why am i prioritizing this craptop over my PC? well, i don't develop on it, but i use it just about as much as my PC which is why it sits on my desk next to it the entire time. It's my communication center, and i fittingly named it as "Communication_Center".
Now, the only thing that i'm confused about in setting it up is that i'll need to get a GUI running (which requires X which requires my GPU to have drivers) and the reason i don't use the open source radeon drivers is because disabling the switchable graphics on it won't work, and the switchable graphics eventually overheat my system if turned on for too long (fucking retared AMD and retarded HP i tell you... HP can't design for a dollar's worth and AMD can't build anything reliable even if it's budget depended on it, they were so bad at it that they found themselves another bad company (ATI) and bought it! imagine that? they thought having more losers would make them a better company.)
In the computer world there are only two companies i hate. AMD and Apple (thanks AMD for making it simple for me, otherwise it'd be 3 companies, that is ATI), then there's a bunch that i dislike (Western Digital, Microsoft) and some software i dislike too (Steam, Internet Explorer, OS X)
Anyways i think my dream machine right now would be to have a set up similar to Qubes OS's idea with a gpu passthrough system like i had originally planned (but failed :'( ) but with a BSD dom0 rather than a linux one, since i'm not going to be running any programs on Qubes OS except for what i got when i install it, and its there only to be used for security the only reason i could possibly want linux over BSD is if i can't get my hardware to work on BSD (which is actually a fairly good reason you know)
anyways... make it work, make it work... Last time i made it work i used catalyst-hook from AUR, this time i'm using catalyst-stable from the unofficial pacman compatible repo. hmm.
...I gave up on catalyst and just used the open source drivers. Don't need anything more on the laptop anyways.... But in case i ever will, i want to set up a dualboot/WM on it. This basically means that i'll have windows and linux installed in dualboot, but i can access windows via VM in linux (and probably vice versa too) it's doable. However to do that i had to set up my entire system again so that windows would be at the start of the drive, luckily i hadn't gotten very far in installing stuff on neither it's windows partition nor the linux one.
Anyways i only played that game for 40 minutes, i'll have to pick it up again.
I should get it over with now...
Starting Time: 23:45
Pause Time: 00:25 (only 20 minutes to go)
Stop Time: ?
The tutorial for the game was lengthy (and therefore bad), the controls are sort of inelegant too, but i like the humor. I'll need to play this quite a bit more before i can decide if i like it or not though. Since i only just finished the tutorial.
Now then, since i took a break there are 2 things on my mind.
1: Finish setting up my windows primary PC
2: Finish setting up my laptop as a linux machine rather than the Windows it used to be
I'm gonna tackle these in the reverse order actually. The problem with my laptop is that it has some retarded APU with switchable graphics. I thought the whole point with APU was to not need that kind of bullshit? fucking AMD and their nonsense, grrrr.. fucking reta.. errhm *cough*
Anyways i've got what i've got, so i need to make the linux fglrx (catalyst for linux) driver work with it. I've done this at some point last year, however i need to do it again now.
Why am i prioritizing this craptop over my PC? well, i don't develop on it, but i use it just about as much as my PC which is why it sits on my desk next to it the entire time. It's my communication center, and i fittingly named it as "Communication_Center".
Now, the only thing that i'm confused about in setting it up is that i'll need to get a GUI running (which requires X which requires my GPU to have drivers) and the reason i don't use the open source radeon drivers is because disabling the switchable graphics on it won't work, and the switchable graphics eventually overheat my system if turned on for too long (fucking retared AMD and retarded HP i tell you... HP can't design for a dollar's worth and AMD can't build anything reliable even if it's budget depended on it, they were so bad at it that they found themselves another bad company (ATI) and bought it! imagine that? they thought having more losers would make them a better company.)
In the computer world there are only two companies i hate. AMD and Apple (thanks AMD for making it simple for me, otherwise it'd be 3 companies, that is ATI), then there's a bunch that i dislike (Western Digital, Microsoft) and some software i dislike too (Steam, Internet Explorer, OS X)
Anyways i think my dream machine right now would be to have a set up similar to Qubes OS's idea with a gpu passthrough system like i had originally planned (but failed :'( ) but with a BSD dom0 rather than a linux one, since i'm not going to be running any programs on Qubes OS except for what i got when i install it, and its there only to be used for security the only reason i could possibly want linux over BSD is if i can't get my hardware to work on BSD (which is actually a fairly good reason you know)
anyways... make it work, make it work... Last time i made it work i used catalyst-hook from AUR, this time i'm using catalyst-stable from the unofficial pacman compatible repo. hmm.
...I gave up on catalyst and just used the open source drivers. Don't need anything more on the laptop anyways.... But in case i ever will, i want to set up a dualboot/WM on it. This basically means that i'll have windows and linux installed in dualboot, but i can access windows via VM in linux (and probably vice versa too) it's doable. However to do that i had to set up my entire system again so that windows would be at the start of the drive, luckily i hadn't gotten very far in installing stuff on neither it's windows partition nor the linux one.
Anyways i only played that game for 40 minutes, i'll have to pick it up again.
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