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Linux users with uncommon or unusual setups: tell us about it (lemmy.ml)
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I'll start with mine. yes part of this was to brag about my somewhat but not too unusual setup. But I also wanna learn from your setups!

Anyways: I primarily use Gentoo Linux.

I have two headless servers: a Raspberry Pi 4B and a Oracle cloud VM (free tier). Both running OpenRC, and both were running mainline kernel with custom config (I recently switched the Pi to PiFoundation kernel due to some issues). The raspberry pi boots from SSD and has no sd card inserted.

Both servers were running musl libc instead of glibc for a while. This gave me a couple of random issues, but eventually I got tired and switched back to glibc.

I have a desktop running gentoo and a laptop running arch, but hoping to switch the laptop to gentoo soon.

Both are daily driving wayland (the desktop had nvidia card and used for gaming). The desktop is running a kernel with a minimal config that compiles in 2-3 minutes.

What's your unusual setup like?

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[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 8 months ago (12 children)

I have NixOS running on my main desktop with some unusual changes:

  • / is mounted as tmpfs, with /etc, /nix and /var being mounted from the actual system partition (this actually isn't too uncommon on NixOS)
  • For swap, zswap and dynamically allocated swapfiles using swapspace daemon (this is imo the best swap setup if you don't need hibernation)
  • Akonadi (KDE's PIM server) using PostgreSQL instead of MySQL
  • ISO8601 date format, for this I have glibc's en_DK locale which does this copied to en_SE because Qt has en_SE as the locale with ISO date
  • A couple changes to make the layout more like macOS because I can:
    • Partitions are either mounted or auto-symlinked (if they can't be mounted there, such as for the system partition) under /Volumes
    • I patched udisks to also mount devices under /Volumes
    • User home directories are under /Users and root's home is /var/root
    • Keyboard layout changed as far as I can to be mostly like Mac's so I don't have to rethink layouts as much when switching between this and my MacBook
  • Can't technically list this anymore since I've had to tear it down for unrelated reasons but NFS using Kerberos authentication for my NAS
  • This is apparently very unusual since a lot of games completely break with it but two monitors with the main monitor on the right
[–] starman@programming.dev 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is apparently very unusual since a lot of games completely break with it but two monitors with the main monitor on the right

This is unusual? I use the same monitor configuration, and I didn't notice any problems with it. Or at least I didn't figure out they could have been caused by monitor setup. Could you give me an example of what problems have you encountered?

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Either games spawning on the wrong monitor and not reacting well to you moving the fullscreen window to the other monitor, or mouse input issues. Latest I've had was L.A. Noire, which locks the mouse to a portion of the screen and doesn't allow you to freely turn the camera. (I just tested it again and now it seems to work fine though! I hope that persists.) Quake II doesn't allow you to move the mouse at all, or rather only in what seems in like a 2 pixel wide boundary in the middle of the screen. No such issues if the other monitor is turned off or configured to be on the right side. I've encountered more games that had issues with this in the past but these two are the recent ones I've had trouble with since setting it up like this again.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you're on Wayland, try gamescope. It's basically built to handle issue like this.

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 8 months ago

With L.A. Noire, that actually made it worse. It spawned on the wrong monitor, and every time I moved the mouse, the camera would spin to the right no matter what (even with only one monitor, I think). I need to get around to making bug reports for these.

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