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What FOSS Games have you been playing?
  • Oh, thanks I didn't know.

    I imagine that developing a opensource game is a very tedious task for the main devs. After all, games are not just code but also textures, 3d models, animations etc. Difficult to keep a vision when 100 people all over the internet are committing to it.

    Maybe that's why.

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  • I read that being an Android user is a "red flag" nowadays. Did they specify which major versions are affected by that? And does the "red flag" taint LineageOS, /e/ and GrapheneOS as well?

    Jesus... I hope I'll never have to deal with them.

  • What FOSS Games have you been playing?
  • Played 0AD recently, which is a RTS like Age of Empires. You can play it multiplayer on LAN too. It's quite fun, though my base constantly gets burned to the ground by at least three different armys simultaneously

    For shooters: Red Eclipse which is also available on Steam. If you go there, choose the beta Version, since the initial release on Steam from 2019 isn't really good. I guess you can play the beta too, if you clone the github repo and build it yourself.

    Both are available in your linux distributions repositories. Red Eclipse is quite old there though (version 1.6, Steam: 2.0)

    There are also a slightly old OSS Counterstrike-like tactical shooters like Urban Terror and Assault Cube Reloaded I enjoyed in the past.

    Most of the FOSS shooters I know are based on the Cube-Engine. I'm looking forward on something based on the Godot Engine. Maybe there are some more games to be released as FOSS in the future

  • What’s a game you can 100% without hating by the end?
  • Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Elden Ring and most other soulslikes.

    Other games are unbearable to try 100%, for example: Cities Skylines where you have to wait for a generated special natural disaster that may or may not appear after X hours in your current savegame.

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    Oreon: A Fresh AlmaLinux-Based Distro Designed for Desktop Users
  • Oddly enough: SELinux and file ownership for bind mounts were pretty hellish for me, even with :z. Granted, that's definitely on me (skill issue) for having misconfigured SELinux policies, but docker got out of my way.

    Yes, SELinux can be painful to troubleshoot. I assume the bind mount path may not have been labeled containerfile_t

    That last one is a major thorn in my side because the podman CLI used to have a simple command to generate the systemd file for you, but they're getting rid of it.

    That command was indeed helpful. They replaced it with quadlets. Systemd quadlets were not that hard to configure as I initially thought though. I migrated my 10 services with their dependent containers, volumes and networks within a few hours or so. The manpage is well written and shows examples https://docs.podman.io/en/v4.6.1/markdown/podman-systemd.unit.5.html

    Of course there's nothing wrong with using docker if it fits better

  • Oreon: A Fresh AlmaLinux-Based Distro Designed for Desktop Users
  • The reason I use Fedora and not EL like Almalinux are the newer kernels and graphics drivers.

    They are often crucial for playing relatively new games. When I used Debian before, I was blocked from playing several games that used a newer Version of DLSS or FSR before because my outdated drivers wouldn't work for them.

    So I don't understand how Oreon was "designed with gaming in mind" by shipping old software and lts kernels + drivers.

    Just because Steam, Lutris and Bottles are preinstalled (or available as Flatpaks)?

    Edit: I see it comes with RPM Fusion repos out of the box. Good decision.

  • (SOLVED) Games flickering despite running fine on Windows
  • If it's that kind of flickering on KDE 6.X on Wayland that forced me to temporarily move back to Cinnamon on X to play Elden Ring again, it could be related to KDE enabling Explicit Sync by default and the NVidia drivers < 555 that don't support it.

    It was only flickering, the framerate was fine.

    After I installed the 555 driver from the repository, the flickering in KDE on Wayland was gone.

    There's a manual for Ultramarine Linux on how to install the nvidia-driver

    According to another comment, your notebook model likely has a integrated Nvidia GPU.

    Hope this helps

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  • Wenn man das Wort "Auto" zB durch "Fahrrad" ersetzt und "FDP" durch "Die Grünen" würde die FDP sehr poltern über den absoluten Herrschaftsanspruch des Fahrrads, die Unterdrückung des Autos und dass Autobahnen nur noch auf ausdrücklichen Wunsch der Bürger gebaut und Fahrräder auch noch auf Flatrate überall rumstehen dürfen.

    Dabei ginge es in dem Fall doch nur darum, eine Gleichberechtigung der Verkehrsmittel dadurch sicherzustellen, dass eins fast alles bekommt und die anderen sich mal verdrücken sollen.

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  • To Linux admins: What certifications/degrees do you guys have?
  • No university degree, did an apprenticeship 14 years ago in germany. It was three days a week of learning sysadmin things within a company (Windows, Linux, network devices) and two days a week of school, where the theoretical stuff was taught.

    After 3 years, I was a newbie sysadmin and capable of managing Windows and Linux environments. I did no further certifications back then.

    Over time, especially since I wanted to move more towards Linux, automation, containers and cloud native things from 2022 on, I did some certifications (LFCS, RHCSA, RHCE) which helped me to land a job where I now work 100% with Linux and containers and kubernetes.

    I did it to:

    • learn the things I had experience on from the ground up and fix the all the "holes" I never had to work with before in the day to day job and get a verification of my skills.
    • learn additional things that were not part of the apprenticeship but are useful as a sysadmin today (automation, containers, git, etc)

    I'm still learning to build up knowledge of kubernetes and will eventually take exams on that topic as well.

    However, there are certifications with questionable value to them (in my opinion), like multiple choice tests for single tools or the like.

    I'm a fan of performance based lab exams, where you get 20 tasks from all the scopes of the product to solve and have to actually apply the knowledge you gained to pass the exam by solving real world problems.

    By learning for those kinds of exams, you cover a product or technology - almost - 100%. Unlike learning by experience only, which can be very individual. You can for example totally manage 10 linux hosts with ansible for 10 years without ever having to use facts, roles, etc. Just by writing very big playbooks.

    Does that qualify for 10 years of ansible experience?

    In reality, companies have a certain size and use-cases, so you'll do the absolute minimum to get something running/implemented securely (most of the time, I know there are exceptions). So imho certifications provide a birds eye view and force you to learn different areas of the product, which may be very useful, out of scope, etc.

    But just passing a certification exam once doesn't equal years of real experience either. It's a mixed topic. For a point in time, you knew enough to pass the exam, so if your certification is still valid, it would be reasonable to assume you still know what you're doing, that's all.

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