Hans van Zijst

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Professional nerd and grammar nazi, writes in Dutch and English. Can read some German, French and Spanish too. Learning русский.

Location:: Netherlands

Fri, 05 Aug 2022 23:06:49 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

"Thou shalt not download a Windows ISO over Tor!"

Screw you, Microsoft...

rant computers

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Fri, 05 Aug 2022 23:23:36 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Agree. But I do want to play a few games every now and then. And since I have a massive beast of a PC here, I want to run Windoze on it.

Previous attempts to install it failed, because Windoze didn't see either the NVMe nor the SSD. Linux did, of course, but I want to install Windoze first, so it can't screw up my bootloader.

Fri, 05 Aug 2022 23:29:44 +0200

Hans

hans@federate.hopto.org

To be honest, windows does see nvme.2 and ssd but I did need to help him out when he bought the official version. nvme.2 indeed is so much fun, about 6 times faster then ssd :-) I did see sticks that might be 10 times faster.... tempted....

Fri, 05 Aug 2022 23:35:56 +0200

randygalbraith@diasp.org

Hmm... maybe this is an update to the AARD code ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code

Sat, 06 Aug 2022 00:26:09 +0200

Hans

hans@federate.hopto.org

The one Randy mentioned is just funny. They tried and it does mean you can trick them. It is a bit like nmap not able to guess your kernel version. Change one char in the version and they are confused.

Sat, 06 Aug 2022 04:22:38 +0200

Nemethon

nemethon@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

If your games are on Steam, they will also run on Linux. Sometimes even better than on Windows. ^^

Sat, 06 Aug 2022 04:30:59 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Nemethon Most of my games are on Steam, actually, so that sounds reassuring :-)

I play World of Tanks every now and then, which is not on #Steam, but most of what I play are #Civilization 6 and Cities:Skylines. And Battle for #Wesnoth, but that's available for every platform.

Sat, 06 Aug 2022 04:35:31 +0200

Nemethon

nemethon@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

https://fossbytes.com/use-steam-proton-to-play-windows-games-on-linux/#:~:text=Can%20I%20Install%20Non%2DSteam,exe%20file%20%3E%20Add%20Selected%20Programs.

Sat, 06 Aug 2022 04:35:46 +0200

Nemethon

nemethon@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

for non-steam games

Sat, 06 Aug 2022 05:04:43 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Thanks, that looks promising! I'll try to install this machine tomorrow (ok: later today) and see how far I get.

Sat, 06 Aug 2022 05:34:03 +0200

𝔉𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔷-𝔉𝔢𝔯𝔡𝔦𝔫𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔳𝔬𝔫 𝔓𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔲𝔦𝔫 ☑️

quetzop1@diasp.org

If your games are on Steam, they will also run on Linux. Sometimes even better than on Windows. ^^

If my games are on steam, but I don't have steam, and bought the games offline, will I then be able to run them on Linux or are the adaptations made by steam only available to steam users?

Sat, 06 Aug 2022 14:25:57 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Don't know about WINE, I haven't run that in a very long time.

Sat, 06 Aug 2022 14:43:45 +0200

Nemethon

nemethon@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

You can check your game here:
https://www.protondb.com/

and for wine:

https://appdb.winehq.org/

Sat, 06 Aug 2022 14:45:58 +0200 last edited: Sat, 06 Aug 2022 14:46:50 +0200

Nemethon

nemethon@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

World of tanks

Wine - Gold/Platinum status
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=11544

Proton - Silver status
https://www.protondb.com/app/1407200

Sat, 06 Aug 2022 17:48:14 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Hans

they thought he was cheating

That's a recurring theme in World of Tanks, yes. One of the reasons why I hardly play it anymore.

Sat, 06 Aug 2022 17:51:51 +0200

Hans

hans@federate.hopto.org

I know he has had that problem with several games. Well, he's happy, so am I since I do not know anything about windows ;-) (kept telling everyone until they started to believe me :-). He knows I can work with it but I just do not feel like it.

Sun, 07 Aug 2022 03:43:43 +0200

randygalbraith@diasp.org

Always nice to hear stories of persistence @tom grzyb!

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 20:55:53 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Ah, wait. I was thinking like a Linux-user, but Windoze is more difficult than that. Apparently it's too easy to simply drop an ISO onto a disk with "dd": you have to create a partition table, a partition of the correct type, make it bootable, format it for NTFS and then copy the entire content of the ISO to that partition...

Let's hope this is the last time in my life that I installed Windoze.

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 23:00:05 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@R💿nald

Het is alleen bedoeld voor een ander publiek.

Ik denk dat dat idd mijn grote probleem is: ik ben dat andere publiek.

De eerste PC die ik kocht (zo'n 30 jaar geleden) had Windows 3.11 aan boord. Ik heb er een kwartiertje doorheen geklikt en heb er toen afgedonderd. Het is nooit meer goedgekomen tussen Windoze en mij.