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i just want to play vr games under wine with wifi streaming. why is this so hard

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if that's where you ended up on that task, i'll buy you a windows license

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that is in fact what happened the problem isn't a windows license (pirating LTSC is a moral imperative) but the fact that in everyday interactions windows these days got less usable than late 2000s linux desktop

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i've watched my roommate--a person whose technical skills i respect--spend several weeks trying to set up a dual booting nixos/win10 system with uefi i believe she's on the fifth reinstall from scratch, and having seen that breakage, i know i won't do much better, either

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Used to be in a tiny IRC channel with someone that used Xen to be able to run Windows for gaming with PCIe passthrough. 90% of their posts in that channel (not really a technical channel) was complaining about PCIe passthrough breaking and asking for help debugging it.

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yeah I've tried it, hit an issue with PAT/MTRR and write combining ranges in graphical memory, tried fixing it, decided KVM it is (I might actually set up KVM with PCIe passthrough if wine doesn't work out)

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I personally prefer having Windows on a totally different machine for gaming. For some reason I still have my better GPU in my workstation from back when I thought dual booting was a good idea but... that'll be fixed when I replace it with a new workstation.

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I have a spare TB nvme waiting for me to drop linux on it in my big workstation, and I've been looking at various distros update behavior in fear. I think systemd-boot is going to be ok, but half the distros hold it wrong

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I have quite literally been considering starting a distro just to get sane updates and reasonable systemd purity recently.

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Depends what you mean when you say sane updates. On my workstation, I want the current stable release of software and minimal hassle so I use Arch and make Debian stable containers with debootstrap and systemd-nspawn to deal with legacy things not fond of an up-to-date system.

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I'm not a systemd fan at all, but I prefer having the full adoption of systemd in Arch as opposed to a distribution with a mess of different approaches and all kinds of distribution-specific scripts and configurations. I really don't have the time and energy to deal with Debian.

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Right, exactly, the debian/ubuntu half and half mess is a real disaster. The more I use systemd the more I like it, and they fix issues on average in less than a week after I submit them, so +1

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Basically, what you get with Arch is the current stable releases of software, as released by upstream, with minimal package splitting, downstream changes, etc. It's as close to non-existent as a distribution gets, which for me results in the least possible pain and hassle.

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