Here was my second week of Debian and it was incredible. Debian 10 Buster is proving to be my best spin of Linux I have ever done. I go over my custom Kernel, performance tweaks, and a virus!
Custom Kernel
https://liquorix.net/
Making Games on Linux run buttery smooth
https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode
install with gamemoderun %command%
system.d cache tweaks
vm.swappiness = 10
vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 50
vm.watermark_scale_factor = 200
vm.dirty_ratio = 3
dxvk and esync
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Virus: I live!
Chris: Not for long….
Can I Use Debian 10 Buster for gaming and daily work?
Linus user: Literally laughing at getting a virus. 😀
this one was the last push for me to go with Linux – happy now for 2 weeks – greetings from germany.
You do know its "Devil May Cry 5" Not "Devil Man Cry 5" !!
Glad you are enjoying Debian – You should try Debian on a laptop, I usually just run Windows 7 in virtual box if I ever need to run a windows program rather than farcing about with wine but I don't really play games so don't need the performance. I noticed on your installation you said that Debian wasn't user friendly on first impressions. However I'd argue the simplicity of Debian makes it a lot easier to use than win10 or macOs. Can you imagine if you only used Debian trying out windows or osx for the first time? Would they be user friendly, finder, apple spotlight, iTunes, the app store, apple ID, cortana, windows defender, windows firewall, user account control…. Think of those then think of Debian.
In my experience, the clam antivirus is quite good at spotting windows viruses. It certainly found one in a game I downloaded from a less than reputable source
i respect everyone who really goes through and installs and uses debian
You should post a link to where to get info on the sysctl.conf file stuff, so people can easily find that information.
My system has seemed a bit sluggish to me lately so I should start working on configuring and building a custom kernel for it. Installing a binary isn't really ideal.
Thanks for your feed back! The beginning with Debian seem a nightmare but it it not anymore. BTW which resource monitor you use on your screen?
Nano? You never used VIM?
"Going from a Porche to a beaten up old Gio". Chris, I know all about that, I have an i5-750, slow DDR3 RAM (1333 MT/s), SATA-300. When I go from an out of the box Manjaro to Windows7 to play a game (like Starcraft 2) I have the same feeling. Windows is horribly slow. Hell, the last time that I used my laptop I let it suspend instead of turning off, I grab the laptop out of my backpack to turn it off and I have to stand there for a minute because Windows insists on running its updates before shutting down. That wouldn't be as annoying as it was for me if it wouldn't have kept me waiting by updating directly after booting 2 times before that. Please Microsoft, learn how to do that update process in one run and as much as possible while people use their software. Linux can do it, how hard can it be?
When this challenge finished try Gentoo Linux. 🙂
Hey Titus, in the first part, you didn't tweak systemd. You tweaked your kernel behaviour by changing some kernel parameters. You probably confused sysctl with systemctl and thought it was systemd.
Do an application navigation menu.
you know I did the same thing on what your doing with Debian with arch, I used it for a year and got it going really well and everything working the way I wanted it but then I built a new computer and said, "duck that" I don't want to do that again I'm just going to go back to Ubuntu based distros and have 99% of everything working out of the box lol
This is kind of an old benchmark so I don't know if it holds true for the 18.04.2 Kernel and newer Liquorix kernel but it looks like for gaming anyways the stock Ubuntu kernel performs better at least in July of 2018. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Liquorix-Linux-4.17-Kernel I don't know how it compares to the Debian kernel but like you said after some research I dont think I will apply this suggestion at least not without a more recent benchmark comparison. I did apply some of your other suggestions and they worked great for my machine. Thanks.
I tinker with rpm-based distros. But it is my opinion that proprietary drivers for hardware work better in Debian. Feel free to correct me.
SparklyLinux offers a developmental iso. It not only has Buster, but offers lots of the latest kernel and software.
I felt I needed some pain in my life so I installed debian on my old laptop. Spent a couple hours trying to get wifi working, gave up, installed mint
My next major project is going to be getting wine games run in docker containers.
I already did some testing and was able to run glxgears and speaker-test in a container.
I will let you know if I get things working well or at all.
Sorry for a second comment, but the first one was a little too long and I might as well explain this:
8:20 Boy you're wrong if you think Windows Viruses in Wine cannot attack the system itself (in most cases)…
Alright, it can't necessarily attack / itself (permission denied galore, you're right there), but your Home Folder is a different story altogether.
– Wine has symlinks to Home Folder areas in the Virtual Drive by default in most cases, meaning that the C: Drive being targeted can mean damage will come to parts of your Home Folder
– Wine also can have some Virtual Drives added by default to some places of the home directory or otherwise a Virtual Drive that literally links to / by default, potentially… with that in mind all it'd take is a virus that targets other drives if they exist too in the Wine environment and some real damage can take place there.
– Wine also has the / mount in File Browsers. Alright there's very little chance that this will ever be made use of given it doesn't exist on Windows, and isn't necessarily a 'drive' as such either, but that's still something to note with Wine.
Alright, it can't destroy your system unless you're a foolish person and run Wine with Superuser Privileges, but it can definitely do a lot of damage to your Home Folder, and let's be real here: A home folder is way harder to get back to how it was before a Windows Virus Attack than a root partition.
I've seen it happen myself, I stuck Feren OS in a VM, tightened it so it had no network access or anything, and then stuck a copy of a WannaCry sample (I completely erased the sample a long time ago) inside of it. It encrypted the user's home folder Documents, Pictures, Videos, Desktop and more all in seconds. To make matters worse it seems Wine can also translate autostarting to Linux in some cases to so for that time it persisted with logins to that user. It is possible for a Wine-powered virus to do real damage.
…a lot happened following that with Feren OS (from the Wine prompt dialog to blacklisting wine from Startup, etc), but it's still a lesson that should be told regarding Wine.
PS: Just tell me if you want video evidence of it happening, I still have an unlisted video on my channel showing it happen in the tightened VM.
Ouch, you found out about the Wine thing the hard way, huh? Yeah, that is enough of a 'problem' (it can even run viruses on the level of WannaCry absolutely fine for goodness sakes) that I ended up putting a dialog in place before running EXEs by default in Feren OS just because of the risk involved with Wine's capability to run viruses… that's how ironically bad Wine being able to run applications so well is.
Too bad that such a dialog has not really become a standard for distributions offering Wine as a default (I'm looking at you Zorin OS, assuming you change the default file association for EXEs back to Wine by default) (Feren OS doesn't anymore though the dialog remains so that users get told about Wine if they try to run an EXE and don't have Wine installed yet). Sorry if I seem to be self-plugging a bit but I thought you'd like the thought that someone out there at least considered that factor in some way…
PS: Consistency too, that's another reason for me putting a dialog in there, as it's a little bit one-sided if Linux Executables get prompt dialogs but Windows Executables don't… but yeah the capability for Wine to run viruses was the main reason.
Pro Tip: You can restrict Wine into its own folders for the most part if you disable all the external mounts in Wine Settings and then leave the rest of the mounts as folders you want Wine to be able to store stuff inside of, as well as removing all the symlinks from the Wine Virtual Drive to your Home Folder Directories.
Other than that, nice.
For NVIDIA users Debian is a hassle e.e
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hey Chris. i found your videos very recently and i got to say you always deliver content. i really appreciate sharing your experience and the fruit out of it. Im not the type of guy who hit like on anything unless it is really really peeling for me. with all my 10 years on YouTube i only liked two videos this one is the second and 4 comments. i just subscribed which makes it the one and only subscription. i will definitely install this Debian on a dual boot system and try to alternate as much programs as possible from Windows. looking to hear for new experiences soon. ðŸ‘