loved the 90’s slackware era “oops i forgot to burn this with network drivers… and it was my only machine.”
do u remember when they warned you if you got the dot pitch setting wrong for your CRT it could destroy it? I was like wtf?
That was a plot point in Cryptonomicon. And yeah the XFree86 docs mentioned it too…
I had to hoof it to a friends house with floppies a few times after breaking my system. Good times.
Services.steam.enable = true;
Works easily on Nixos. It’s true that I haven’t yet gotten a game to PLAY on Nixos other than Minecraft, but that’s beside the point.
You forgot
nixpkgs.config.allowUnfreePredicate = pkg: builtins.elem (lib.getName pkg) [ "steam" "steam-original" "steam-unwrapped" "steam-run" ];and here I thought running Slackware was a waste of time…
I’m not using unfreePredicate so I didn’t think that was necessary.
Maybe I should try it anyway. Games start but even the menus are so slow that I never get to actual play.
You can also use this lil guy, but by default you can’t install unfree software (not sure if that is different if you use flakes):
nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;
Average Linux user: “we could just use the Windows totally-not-an-emulator!”.
(They’re this close to getting the point while saying it.)
I’m far away. What is the point?
Wine or proton
The point is: If “just simulate a Windows environment” is the best thing you could come up with, chances are that Windows is what you should use anyway.
I’d rather simulate some Windows function calls on a system I control than install Windows and give up all control over my system to a foreign corporation.
You give up all control over your system to other US corporations though, like Red Hat (who are - and should be held, IMO - responsible for systemd) and Microsoft (who contribute quite some code to the kernel). The only system you control is a system you write, I’m afraid.
I don’t use systemd, and Linus Torwalds controls what’s actually allowed into the kernel.
Setting aside the fact that that is not even remotely true, do you think Linux = Red Hat? What about almost every other distro being run by volunteeers?
I’ve only ever seen redhat used by government and some corporations. As far as the broader community goes (especially the foss community), they are a pretty minor player.
It’s honestly insane that you can sit there and shill for Microsoft these days. They’ve always been pretty evil, but now they’ve gone so far off the deep end they’re even driving away people who have been all-in on Microsoft their whole lives. Even non-tech people are getting simply fed up with all of the spying and intrusive, AI-infested bullshit. Linux marketshare has been steadily increasing over the last couple of years, and it doesn’t look like it’s slowing down anytime soon. And all of it is, ultimately, because Windows is forcing people away.
Please stop feeding the troll, for crying out loud.
What about almost every other distro being run by volunteeers?
You misunderstood: Red Hat The Linux Distribution (not quite relevant for Linux development) is not Red Hat The Commercial Entity (quite relevant for Linux development). However, volunteers repackaging (“distributing”) Red Hat software still don’t change the nature of the software, but that’s a different discussion.
It’s honestly insane that you can sit there and shill for Microsoft these days.
I do not do that. What I actually wrote is: By moving from Windows to Linux (assuming you use Linux-libre), you gain a certain level of freedom, but that freedom still relies on commercial entities and their own ideas that are contributed to the kernel. Just because you can see the code, you still can’t decide about the code.
Note that I do not use Windows. You make it sound like I would.
Let’s leave it at that. We probably won’t solve this debate over Christmas, and life is too short to argue about software. :-) Have a good one.
Maaaaaybe when Windows wasn’t actually disrespectful to its user base but now that they’ve gone full “we know what’s best for you” and are actively ruining their OS and fucking with their users to push garbage tier AI shit no one wants… Yeah, miss me with this shit man.
Linux respects the autonomy of its users and for that reason alone it has gained me as a user.
On some machines PC games actually run better under SteamOS than Windows but sure, use the inferior OS if you insist.
I use neither. Just wondering.
Eh, I’m not gonna switch whole OSes to the most invasive spyware I can readily find just for the once every 3y I need to spin up PKhex, wine will do.
Install slackpkg+, install multilib, enable alienbobs repos, install steam. Like, yes its not holding your hand but it also gets out of the way for everything.
Here is how I install Steam on Debian:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 sudo apt update sudo apt install curl curl -s http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/archive/stable/steam.gpg | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg > /dev/null echo 'deb [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam.list sudo apt update sudo apt install steam -yEdit: Added a fancy block.
Plesse, no flatpak TwT
I tried the Slackbuilds version of Steam first, but it didn’t launch Skyrim, so my PC was completely useless.
Is Steam off Flathub that complicated on Slackware?
- Download Slackbuild helper (similar to yay for the Arch User Repository)
- Install it
- Read dependency info for Flatpak Slackbuild (you can also do
sqg -afor the entire repository) - Install it
- Add Flathub repo
- Install Steam Flatpak
It’s not that complicated.
