Had a slow day yesterday so thought, why not wipe the gaming PC and put Linux on it.
I work with Linux every day for work so I wanted a debian-based distro as that’s what I’m most familiar with. After a short impulsive-driven search, I picked pika-os. Never heard of it but thought I’d give it a go.
Picked KDE, installed the OS, booted first time and immediately regretted it. No network. I have a 2.5G Realtek 8125 nic and whilst it was detected, it was showing RX packets as “dropped”. Couldn’t install firmware-realtek as it conflicted with linux-firmware. Tried the Realtek website, what a mess that is, compiled a driver, couldn’t get it to load. Ended up finding a git repo that created .deb packages for all realtek drivers.
Got network up and running and its all been great from there. Last time I tried this in 2021 I had loads of issues but so far, other than having to download a later version of Proton and select it in a game, or add some command-line arguments in Steam, its been great!
I’m so surprised that every app I normally use on Windows is either available as a Linux native app, works with emulation (bottles) or there is a decent alternative.
Definitely, 100%, the Linux desktop is ready.
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Its not 100% ready if you had to find drivers for your Ethernet and mess around with settings to get a game to launch. Most people aren’t savvy and expect their programs to just launch.
Then neither is Windows. The amount of time I’ve spent troubleshooting Windows crap…
They buy pre-installed then.
Nice. Stay in winblows and STFU
How people feel about this distro in general? Would one consider using it in a server? Auto updates with a Debian based distro that is using newer kernel and applications sounds promising.
Maybe consider Spiral linux, it’s just Debian with better defaults and backport repo probably without the bloat that comes with “Gaming” distros.
Pika OS is gaming centered and is based on Debian sid. For a server just stick with normal Debian. If you want latest and greatest use Debian sid
Not accusing anyone here of white supremacy but “master race” is a term we really need to stop using/normalizing.
I’m glad we seem to be past “ricing”
It’s a reference to an old Zero Punctuation video. Plus, the community here put it to a vote about a year ago and decided to keep it
The majority can still be wrong
Competitive PC running then?
Realtek stuff is a major pain it seems. I’m guessing that is why FreeBSD is will known for being fine with nearly anything but realtek.
Not that I really use it by my AMD MoBo runs an Intel NIC for a reason. I started 10G networking a while back. Was a pain to get my Mellanox ConnectX3 working on windows. Linux didn’t even blink.
I tried switching a long time ago. And every 3 or 4 years since. I’m happy I have. Things got a lot better in the last few years.
Bottles is an emulator?
No, it just makes containers like distrobox but for each application IIRC.
OP lied to us???
He doesn’t know what WINE stands for lol
Oh so its not even about bottles 😭
Man, you had it harder than me with the realtek drivers. PikaOS is pretty cool overall, as it does streamline some things that Debian makes annoying (graphics drivers, for example). I do hope you enjoy PikaOS, after troubleshooting that annoying issue! The good thing about anything Debian based is that .debs are probably the most prevalent installer out there (cries in Arch).
it does streamline some things that Debian makes annoying (graphics drivers, for example).
Do you by any chance mean Nvidia drivers?
Yeah, but ultimately, it was even easier with Garuda Linux which was built to be used. As my drivers were correctly selected when the installation began. It was a good surprise.
There is a command line workflow for installing NVIDIA drivers, but, the provided drivers (which Trixie was built against) were pretty moldy at that point. For just a simple productivity machine, Debian would’ve been my go to.
For one that is a gaming/entertainment/productivity machine…It wasn’t for me, personally. As Debian is pretty stable and mostly easy to use.
Really enjoying it so far. Been playing D4 and The Alters today. I’m still surprised at how smooth the experience is!
Glad you’ve had a good time post install, I’ve experienced a similar thing on Garuda Linux…It’s pretty smooth with the latest graphics drivers!
Oh wow I never heard of PikaOS but of seems great, even though you had some difficulties. I love Debian and have it on my Server, Laptop and now also on my older Gaming (Nvidia) PC.
I feel like Debian really only needs a couple of (hardware specific) tweaks to be a great out of the box experience and it seems PikaOS tries to do that. I don’t like that most other desktop first distros opt into using Ubuntu as their bases. But that is only because I’m willing to invest some time to fix stuff and understand how my PC works.
Yeah I’m enjoying pikaos. I use chrony for time-sync and their “pika-base” package absolutely required systemd-timesync and I wanted to remove it. I asked in their discord and they changed the package for me right there and then so that it was “systemd-timesyncd” OR “chrony”. I did “apt update” 10 minutes later and it was resolved.
Had a Realtek network card in my gaming pc. Had nothing but problems with it under windows AND Linux. Finally ripped it out a month ago and replaced it with an intel. It’s so nice to have finally a stable connection.
In a time where Nazis have made a comeback and racism is rampant world wide, maybe it’s time we dropped the whole “master race” joke
Nah, let’s keep associating that concept with a joke, because that’s just what it is
Remember when a Trump presidency was just a joke? I do.
Jokes get taken over by people who are too dumb to understand satire and irony. They don’t see a joke, they see an appealing idea being normalised.
How would a normalization of the “PC Master Race” joke look in practice, though? Death camps for console gamers? Venues where entry for mobile gamers is forbidden?
You do know that the PC Master Race was originally intended to make fun of the pseudoscientific Nazi ideology “master race”?
It feels like we need this joke more than ever before.
It’s originally for lame PC gamers to feel superior. It’s always sucked
No. It was a joke that made fun of the PC users as well.
You do know know that “Trump for president” was originally intended as an ironic joke?
It feels like we need to stop making jokes that normalize nazi shit.
Edit: also your statement isn’t even true. First time I ever saw “pc master race” was on 4chan /pol
I don’t know anything about what happened in the US in regards to Trump. However. I find it unlikely that any meme has ever had any play in him being a president, but I said, I don’t know anything about the US history, so I don’t have much to say about it.
Regarding the PC Master Race joke, you should read this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Master_Race#History
PS. Joking about things doesn’t make them true. We have made fun about various serious topics over multiple centuries now, none of them have come true so far.
That is taking what is said so far out of context that I’m more concerned for your comment than the title.
What does the term “master race” mean in your head?
I think they have a point.
Weird fucking flex
Sorry, where is the flex?
