V.T. Eric Layton 6,531 Posted February 29 Off topic, but speaking of Vikings... Erik, I just finished reading two books on our ancestors from the North. You might be interested in giving them a go. They were very enlightening; purged all the mythical BS and stuck mostly to the known facts. Northmen: The Viking Saga, 793-1241 AD by John Haywood and Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough Lots of looting, pillaging, bloody encounters with non-Northmen, sea adventures, COLD weather, HOT blood! Enjoy! 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
securitybreach 10,953 Posted February 29 1 hour ago, V.T. Eric Layton said: Off topic, but speaking of Vikings... Erik, I just finished reading two books on our ancestors from the North. You might be interested in giving them a go. They were very enlightening; purged all the mythical BS and stuck mostly to the known facts. Northmen: The Viking Saga, 793-1241 AD by John Haywood and Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough Lots of looting, pillaging, bloody encounters with non-Northmen, sea adventures, COLD weather, HOT blood! Enjoy! Very cool. I'll have to add it to my queue of audiobooks. I generally go throughout a book every two weeks. I listen on my commute to and from work, on my workouts and when I go out to the park on the weekends. We have a massive 1200 acre park in the city called City Park with tons of nature stuff. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
V.T. Eric Layton 6,531 Posted February 29 Not sure you'll find those in audio book versions. Ya' never know till you look, I guess. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
securitybreach 10,953 Posted February 29 Just now, V.T. Eric Layton said: Not sure you'll find those in audio book versions. Ya' never know till you look, I guess. It's very easy to find them. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
abarbarian 3,303 Posted March 1 17 hours ago, V.T. Eric Layton said: Off topic, but speaking of Vikings... Erik, I just finished reading two books on our ancestors from the North. You might be interested in giving them a go. They were very enlightening; purged all the mythical BS and stuck mostly to the known facts. Northmen: The Viking Saga, 793-1241 AD by John Haywood and Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough Lots of looting, pillaging, bloody encounters with non-Northmen, sea adventures, COLD weather, HOT blood! Enjoy! Thanks for the links they look like interesting reading. I once ran a one man tour operation and called it Bloodaxe Tours. I was based in York at the time and the Jorvik Center had recently been opened so I cashed in on all the Erik Bloodaxe promotions they were running. https://www.jorvikvikingcentre.co.uk/about/jorvik-story/ 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
securitybreach 10,953 Posted March 1 3 hours ago, abarbarian said: Thanks for the links they look like interesting reading. I once ran a one man tour operation and called it Bloodaxe Tours. I was based in York at the time and the Jorvik Center had recently been opened so I cashed in on all the Erik Bloodaxe promotions they were running. https://www.jorvikvikingcentre.co.uk/about/jorvik-story/ That's pretty cool, thanks for the post. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebrke 1,322 Posted March 5 Back to the first few posts: I'm level 9, simply because nothing I do requires anything but FOSS. When you get old, your needs simplify. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
securitybreach 10,953 Posted March 5 19 minutes ago, ebrke said: Back to the first few posts: I'm level 9, simply because nothing I do requires anything but FOSS. When you get old, your needs simplify. So no gaming (need nvidia or radeon). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
V.T. Eric Layton 6,531 Posted March 6 I don't actually game on Linux, yet I still run Nvidia because I find that the graphics performance of my Nvidia card is soooo much better in Linux using the proprietary drivers than the generics. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
securitybreach 10,953 Posted March 6 Well noveau is kind of garbage. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sunrat 2,227 Posted March 6 19 minutes ago, securitybreach said: Well noveau is kind of garbage. That depends what graphics card you have and what you do with it. Nouveau works fine for my older system with GTX 560 Ti, but I use Nvidia drivers for my other system with GTX 970. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
securitybreach 10,953 Posted March 6 1 minute ago, sunrat said: That depends what graphics card you have and what you do with it. Nouveau works fine for my older system with GTX 560 Ti, but I use Nvidia drivers for my other system with GTX 970. Well in their defense, they have to reverse engineer everything as nvidia doesn't contribute at all. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sunrat 2,227 Posted March 6 It all came crashing down for cards from 900 series on when they started requiring signed firmware. It may be slowly changing but not yet: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-TU117-TU116-Firmware 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
raymac46 2,660 Posted March 6 I have a GTX950 card in my oldest desktop but I haven't bothered to add the NVIDIA drivers at all. The machine is only used to play music, and I have MX-18 installed which doesn't put much of a graphics load on the system. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
abarbarian 3,303 Posted March 8 On 3/6/2020 at 12:36 AM, V.T. Eric Layton said: I don't actually game on Linux, yet I still run Nvidia because I find that the graphics performance of my Nvidia card is soooo much better in Linux using the proprietary drivers than the generics. I am surprised that you do not play your favourite game on linux as it gets a Platinum rating on the Proton database. https://www.protondb.com/app/4500 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
V.T. Eric Layton 6,531 Posted March 8 I don't game on Linux because I ONLY play my own installed games on my machines. And it would be a big PITA to run them in VB or some other virtual environment within Slackware... and performance would suffer. I play on my crippled MS Windows system with about 35,000fps frame rate, so NO STUTTER at all. I'm happy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
securitybreach 10,953 Posted March 8 20 minutes ago, V.T. Eric Layton said: I don't game on Linux because I ONLY play my own installed games on my machines. And it would be a big PITA to run them in VB or some other virtual environment within Slackware... and performance would suffer. I play on my crippled MS Windows system with about 35,000fps frame rate, so NO STUTTER at all. I'm happy. He is talking about playing the exact same game on linux natively using steam+proton. Plus, most window's games perform better on linux due to the lack of overhead. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
abarbarian 3,303 Posted March 8 2 hours ago, securitybreach said: He is talking about playing the exact same game on linux natively using steam+proton. Plus, most window's games perform better on linux due to the lack of overhead. Not only Steam. There is also GOG.com where all the games are DRM free and downloadable and playable off line. https://www.gog.com/games?page=1&sort=popularity 2 hours ago, V.T. Eric Layton said: I'm happy. Phew that's a relief. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bookmem 63 Posted March 8 On 2/28/2020 at 8:50 AM, securitybreach said: Check out Genymotion Or use scrcpy to display and control your Android device from your computer. Gennymotion might be great but it cost over $10/mo. No thanks. Not when Memu for Windows is free and works great. Still a level 6. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
V.T. Eric Layton 6,531 Posted March 9 I don't play standard (popular) games. I ONLY play the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series of games these days, and the one in particular that I play regularly is HEAVILY modded... can't do that on Steam. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
securitybreach 10,953 Posted March 9 57 minutes ago, V.T. Eric Layton said: I don't play standard (popular) games. I ONLY play the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series of games these days, and the one in particular that I play regularly is HEAVILY modded... can't do that on Steam. Yes, you can mod games on steam using their own app (steamlab) or you can edit them in the games configuration directory just like you do now. There is literally no difference in modding a game. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
V.T. Eric Layton 6,531 Posted March 9 Yup. Well, then... waaaaaay too much work involved for me to start gaming in Linux. It works fine for me in Windows. I don't care to take the time to fix what ain't broke. Thanks for the info, anyway. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
saturnian 615 Posted March 12 I run only Linux at home. I might use "non-free" software at times but I prefer not to. I'm happy that I've been able to go Linux-only at home, but I'd try running Windows in a VM in Linux, or else I'd run Windows on its own computer, if I really needed that OS, like for the job or something. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mauser 16 Posted March 12 I am a Level 8 Linux user. I use free software when I can, but when it doesn't work I will use non-free software as long as it works. I donate when I can. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
