@@mindshelfpro It's got a double atm, but I'll look into a quad!. Thanks!!

@@aa898246 I started with a vm so I could familiarize myself with the system prior to committing to hardware. Never bothered doing gpu pass through as within a day of using it I wanted to try it on bare metal. That said, I've never had much luck with GPU pass through on proxmox. No doubt it can be done, but I never seem to be able to configure it properly lol.

@@alphaobeisance3594 ah thats unfortunate. i've had a good experience with gpu passthrough but nixos just refuses to not use the built in drivers for qemu which sucks. kinda apprehensive to try nixos on bare metal for my pc since i'll probably struggle a ton lol

@@aa898246 I get that lol. I have all my stuff on secondary drives so anytime I decide to really try something new I just bare metal it. But I'm an unorthodox odd duck haha

@@alphaobeisance3594 lol ya i getchu. ill get round to it eventually though, arch is great but the random updates slowly making things worse on my system is a big motivator for me to start looking at nixos

@@brantwinter good question. I'm unaware. I did this last fall and as of that time my rig was running the latest bios. If they've released an update they may have finally patched support.

Oh for sure. But I blame the clapped out Harley Davidson for all that.

@@alphaobeisance3594 I wanna see a video on that 🤣

@@itsrobelschwarz7248 I can do that 🤣

@@szaszm_ lol I see what you're doing, but it's an aimless effort as idgaf what display servers I use as long as it works. X11 does everything and "just works". In fact it works so well that I care very little about the Wayland project 🤣

oh, for context, i am the new linux user who is so happy to have started with nixos.

@@X0mbiRapt0r busy day today but give me a bit and I'll track it down for you!

@@alphaobeisance3594 Thanks, really appreciate it, no rush

@@X0mbiRapt0r My GitHub can be found here : github.com/Obe1sance/AlphaObeisance You should be able to find everything I use by checking out my Arch Scripts. Most everything covered in the video is also available in the video description =). Sorry for the wait!

@@alphaobeisance3594 Thanks, I had a look through there and don't see the software list you showed in your video around 2:09. I'm busy building my own similar list and found yours to be a good starting point. Actually manually retyped a lot of it from the vid before asking if you maybe had a copy somewhere... 😅 Buuuut, after several weeks of troubleshooting, first trying to get NixOS working like I wanted it to, then moving back to Arch for FHS compliance, I managed to get my Arch SteamBox running through gamescope up and running yesterday finally. Turns out the ONE game I kept using to test my setup (Binding of Isaac as it's quick to download post install and lightweight enough to run on all my testing systems) has a borked Linux port or something, it still does does not work under either Arch or NixOS on any of my test machines, but then after testing other games that worked fine, forcing Steam to use the Windows version of it via Proton works 100% and nearly everything else I've tried otherwise since downloaded also works perfectly out of the box... lesson learned, remember that sometimes your setup isn't necessarily the problem, applications/games, even with native Linux builds, can also be uncooperative. 🤣

@@X0mbiRapt0r #configurationlife 🤣

@@JohnTinic welcome to the cool kids club!

@@alphaobeisance3594 😎😅

@@BlackBagData I mean no offense by my skepticism but I think the real deal would understand. I'm just a man in his basement 🤣.

@@alphaobeisance3594 no offense taken! I’m just a dude in my garage. Instead of ewasting the 1U server, I thought I would offer it. It’s not new shiny stuff and I’m not trying to promote me or anything. I actually get a lot of free stuff from ewaste sources, so if I can share, I try. My neighbors love me because I supply them with free computers often. But a server isn’t something any of them could use because I’m the only one in my town with servers in the garage :)

You sound like my kind of people lol. I mean, I wouldn't be opposed to it brother man, as the more familiar I am with different hardware the better off I'll be. But long story short, we just took in my sister in law and her family, so we're supporting 5 more bodies, 2 more dogs, and 2 more cats (it's a freaking zoo in here), so finances are spread thinner than saran wrap on a busted water pipe lol. I couldn't even cover shipping man, but I do appreciate it! I've met a lot of cool folks since starting this journey. And I'm honored you'd consider helping me out like that. But I'm not one to take somethin for nothin, everything is earned, nothing is given =). Sorry it took me so long to get back to ya! And again, I hope I didn't come off as stand offish. But with AI and bots these days, it's hard telling who's who anymore lol

@@alphaobeisance3594 lol love the analogy of saran wrap! That made me laugh. You’re a good man to have everyone at the house. That just means you need to live with your equipment! I get it. I’ve been the same way. But I’ve also been given stuff and pay it forward where I can. You wouldn’t need to cover shipping. I donated 3 Raspberry Pis and one cost $40 to ship to Canada! That’s crazy for the small size and practically no weight. Anyway, I wouldn’t need the cost covered. I have been trying to sell it on CL for 2 months, but no bites. And no offense taken. You’re not being standoffish. You’re busy so there’s no expectations. Trust me, I’m no AI bot lol. Offer still stands, but no pressure. Let me know if you change your mind.

@@BlackBagData "Trust me, I'm no AI robot" - Totally Not an AI robot 🤣. Sorry but that cracked me up! At this point I'm prepared to lose touch with reality at this rate. AI is achieving the unimaginable. Anymore, it's more of a gamble on Faith and trust. I use protonmail. Same username. Feel free to reach out. It's nice to run into birds of a feather. Even if only for conversation.

@@Glxrys._dr4g0ns thank you! I can't wait to share more! I appreciate you saying hello!

@@LilithBrex thank you! It's been fun learning!

@@Bleakgardenrain much appreciated!!! It's a lot to take on, I feel overwhelmed but am confident I'll have it configured soon. Thanks for watching! Double thanks for dropping a comment!

Right! It's a solid system for sure. Glad you're enjoyin it!

@@The-Weekend-Warrior cuz you hadn't learnt meh yet 🤣

@@The-Weekend-Warrior I'll have to check! Good point!

@@alphaobeisance3594 I did check in the meantime. They are indeed separate NVMe blades. Which is supernice, HOWEVER, they use slot bifurcation to work so unless you enable PCIe slot bifurcation on the server (deep in the BIOS settings), you won't be able to use them both (or at all?)... I didn't know this existed, thanks for the info!!

@@The-Weekend-Warrior ditto! I'll look into this and do some tinkering. Think I got a spare NVMe to drop in.... for science! 🤣

@@nicoiguess9318 it is. It's now my dedicated boot loader as it boots clover for me so that I can boot into proxmox

@@alphaobeisance3594 so it's basically like grub, only that u can just choose proxmox and it will also find the pcie adapter and boot using the nvme ssd?

precisely! Sorry it took me so long to get back to you. Was on vacation =)

@@alphaobeisance3594 Already done it, now it's booting from my m.2 :)

@@bulcub sure does!!

@@bulcub my pleasure!

Gaming on linux has been possible for a long time now, but since Valves contributions over the past 5 years; it's made exponential leaps forward to the extent that I don't even hesitate to pre-order games anymore as I'm so confident the games will "just work" out the box. Good time to be gaming on Linux ^_^

The above video is regarding NixOS, not Ubuntu my friend. That said. Yes, good advice on the nomodeset for sure. You can install NVIDIA proprietary drivers on Debian based systems (like Ubuntu) with the 'nvidia-dkms-535 ' package. So whether you're adding it to the additional packages list during the installation from live USB, or if you simply install Ubuntu and run ' sudo apt install nvidia-dkms-535 ' via terminal after boot, proprietary drivers are easily installed. Never install from NVIDIA website. NixOS operates entirely differently, but installing the nvidia-proprietary drivers is done similarly through the nix configuration file instead of via terminal (unless using a terminal based text editor ofc). If I misunderstood your context I apologize.

@@prostagma6055 Blade approves!

I love a good romance 🤣

@@matthewbentley1442 sounds like your maybe trying to run Wayland. Switch to X and it should smooth out. Wayland makes my rigs go ape shit too lol.

I do recall reading that Wayland had some bugs to be sorted out, that probably is the issue

@@matthewbentley1442 yeah I haven't tried Wayland in a hot second as it never played nice. Heard there have been improvements, but until it's as rock solid as X I likely won't switch. P.s. I use archinstall these days as I can't be bothered with a manual install anymore. So I'd write that off as a potential issue. I'd bank on Wayland being the issue for sure. If not lmk, I like a good mystery haha

@@alphaobeisance3594 iirc I tried switching from Wayland to X and the issue was persistent. I'll do some tinkering

@@matthewbentley1442 sudo pacman -S amd-ucode nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils nvidia-settings vulkan-toolkit What DE are you using? If it's KDE try disabling the compositor. Just shooting in the dark here, I never had much issue with KDE until 6.0 released, it's been broken for me ever since lol using i3 now

Linux supports EAC, VAC, Battleye, FairFight, Punkbuster and so on. I've played Apex Legends, which uses EasyAntiCheat by EA. Battlefield uses punkbuster or battleye, I don't recall but I know both have support. If I recall, Valorant uses Vanguard and is not supported but it's been a good while since I've looked into that, so it may have changed. But last I knew Valorant is unplayable due to the anti-cheat deployed by RIOT. I looked up Fornites anti-cheat and apparently it uses EAC, so it's literally at the fault of Epic Games for not enabling the Linux support within Fortnite to make it playable on Linux. (This is something they CAN, and HAVE done in many games, but Fortnite is their cash cow, so it's unlikely they'll do so). I looked up COD's anti-cheat and they use their own propriety anti-cheat called "ACT" or "anti-cheat technology" and I've played several COD games, including Warzone. Check www.protondb.com for game compatibility. The database is rather dated, and I find the ratings don't properly reflect the play-ability of games today as it's improved so greatly over the past 3-4 years that it's just impossible to have a legitimate rating without wiping the old database and building a new one with new reviews.

@@alphaobeisance3594 Appreciate your work man.

Just tryin to help =). Gaming on Linux has reached a point where it's no longer about technical limitations, as the systems run games just fine. So good in fact that I pre-order games frequently (Baulders Gate 3, STALKER2 being most recent), and I don't do so lightly. Being willing to preorder major titles like that with such confidence that they will run speaks volumes as to how far Linux has come in terms of technical capabilities. And while last year was HUGE for Anti-Cheat support on Linux, there are still some big anti-cheat players out there that refuse to enable Linux support (the support generally exists, but devs don't always enable it). So the only people who really end up hurting on Linux are those that are wholly committed to playing games that either haven't had their linux anti-cheat support enabled, or in a few niche circumstances, don't have support at all (like Denuvo). It's really like any other gaming platform at this point. Can't play Playstation or Xbox exclusive titles on opposing consoles, and in the same way some games just wont play on Linux. Thankfully though, games playable on Linux far outnumber those unplayable. Thanks for commenting! I enjoy the conversations!

open your terminal and type "sudo pacman -S steam" without quotations.=) if you have an Nvidia card you can do sudo pacman -S steam nvidia-dkms nvidia-settings nvidia-utils vulkan-icd-loader this will install steam, nvidia drivers and the vulkan-icd-loader package will enable you to turn on ray tracing in compatible games.

@@alphaobeisance3594 Yeah I installed steam but when I tried to sign in it went to a black screen and I tried restarting the application but it still went to a black screen and I wasn't able to access the store or library.

I'm reasonably certain you will also have to uncomment the multilib repository in /etc/pacman.conf

@@connorjames1066 yes I did forget about that. I enable that by default during installation so I don't often think of it beyond that lol

Welcome to the fun stuff! You'll need to ensure you have virtualization enabled in the servers BIOS. If I recall that was all I had to do on the BIOS side (i'll update you if I recall differently) and then after that you could use GPU pass through (must be logged in as root it seems) but then you can add the GPU via PCIe device in the Proxmox VM hardware settings.

It is enabled on mine. Are you sure you don’t need the dell card? That’s the only think I can tell that may be different.

When I installed Proxmox the server itself recognized the NVMe via PCIe and I was able to install Promox, but upon installation of Proxmox and rebooting the server no longer recognized the drive. I had to resort to installing Clover EFI Boot loader onto a USB that I mounted internally and utilized that as the priority boot loader. After that I was able to power up, Clover recognized the Proxmox M.2 and booted up perfectly ever since. You can find clover here if you wanna give it a try. github.com/CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader?tab=readme-ov-file

Yes! All fantastic games!

you can =) just make sure you have the appropriate drivers installed per your hardware requirements.

@@twenty-fifth420 that sounds like a solid idea! I wish I had your skills!

@@Nebulorum you can manage version control through the nix configuration but you are correct in that I hear flakes helps with nix management for sure. But I'm not familiar

@@alphaobeisance3594I think flakes complete the picture for nix. It makes nix far easier to wrap your head around, I spent much less time asking “where did that bit come from” or “why/how does that work”

Using overrides seems to be the solution for what hes mentioning. It is fairly simple to override a package to a specific url of a deb or rpm package which I assume proton provides

@@EgoOdiosis correct. in the config you can just modify the URL to reflect the version of choice in the nix configuration and rebuild. EZPZ =)

Cmatrix-git is real nice too!

$ archinstall EZPZ

If you're a programmer and have a lot of time to spare you might enjoy something like Arch more than just plopping ubuntu on and then not being sure what the type is about.

It's definitely the forerunner in any considerations if I were to leave Arch for sure. I use Proxmox for the homelab's hypervisor and Arch on all the personal rigs. I plan to be diving into some NixOS VM's here soon so I can get better acquainted with it. I installed it on hardware to see how it would perform, and once I got the display situated it was really smooth, even with a novice configuration. Once I understood how that configuration worked, it was really nice to be able to go to one location to manage the system environment and rebuild in a matter of seconds (figuratively speaking). I'll definitely be bringing my NixOS experiences to the channel as I get into it. Just got my first rack so I'm in the middle of re-configuring everything to my liking 🤌

I would first try disabling hardware acceleration in krita by going to Settings -> Configure Krita -> Display -> uncheck Enable OpenGL or at least tinker with the OpenGL settings. Wish I had better advice atm but my kids are all over the place this AM lol

@@alphaobeisance3594 It *does* work to solve the flickering. Unfortunately, I'm quite picky about the experience of panning/rotating and it's awful without hardware acceleration (my processor is terrible, to be fair). I'm sure I'll figure something out with enough tinkering! Thanks for the tip, and if you think of anything else that might help, let me know. :)

@@MrAwesomeTheAwesome I can totally relate to that, I'd be lost on the Wacom if not for panning and rotation! Lemme know if you get it fingered out!

@@alphaobeisance3594 So you'll probably find this funny like I did. I've read every horrible thing about Wayland and Nvidia compatibility, but switching off from x11 to Wayland removed almost all the flickering. Now occasionally there's a little blip - mildly annoying and definitely worse than it was on my Windows install. But, it works, and is fairly performant! Seems like Wayland support is catching up rapidly on Nvidia (probably because of Steam and Proton, as I understand it?) So I'm hoping it'll get even better in the coming months.

@@MrAwesomeTheAwesome I should have thought of that out the gate tbh lol. I use x11 religiously because of nvidia. I don't even consider Wayland it goes so unused lol! Glad you got it mostly worked out!

I appreciate the support. I've always had a bit of a goofy personality. Beware of my rant videos, Mr.Hyde tends to jump out and scare people lol! Hoping to get a server update here soon.

I'm Purdy stoopid too my friend! You got this! I enjoy NixOS and look forward to the future using it. But until then ima stay an Arch Fanboy 🤣

@@alphaobeisance3594 I'll always be an arch fan, thanks for the words of encouragement!

@@SuperTort0ise No problem man! Check out my latest video for a link and explanation to my Nix config, as well as some other goodies. Might find something useful with any luck! Arch FTW!

I'm a big arch fanboy :P but I definitely see the potential in Nix come the day I ever get time to really fine tune it =D

that's good to hear!

Exactly Same,only that i use stable and was on tumbleweed as an in-between step. NixOS is Just awesome!

No problem!

I'll have to re-watch as I don't recall implying that kde plasma couldn't be configured. I meant to imply that most configurations could not be configured in .config but instead had to be configured from the nix directory and they're seemingly not labeled as would be expected on most any other districts. I recommend NixOS to anyone looking to learn that has the self drive required to do what reading is required to learn. As with anything. Gotta want it.

@@alphaobeisance3594 no, my point is that you CAN configure kde plasma and most other packages in ~/.config via their GUI and not via configuration.nix. Everything in your home directory can be configured the way you're used to. There are some plasma configuration options that you can access from configuration.nix, but you don't have to use that at all. All user configuration options are available with home-manager, but you definitely don't need that early on.

Anything is new users compatible if one is wiling to read. Unless of course one cannot read, at which point I feel they have bigger fish to fry lol

@@alphaobeisance3594 *Anything is new users compatible if one is wiling to read* The barrier for entry is steep, but the reward...

preach! lol

I hadn't used Nix long enough to get into home manager and flakes but id heard a lot about it :D

@@alphaobeisance3594 the problem is that those tools are really good in theory but they have a very steep learning curve and people will keep recommending them as something you actually need. you don't. you can run nixos perfectly fine without flakes or home-manager. they solve problems that you won't have for a long time.

When I got into linux, they said that very thing about getting into Arch; I lost a lot of time that could have been saved if I'd of just went for what I wanted out of my system (which I did eventually). I'll be looking forward to revisiting Nix and configuring for my host system. Likely wont happen until the server's all squared away though, and who knows when that'll be haha

You can add flakes later. It doesn't change your configuration.nix, it just changes the workflow. Mostly it means if you clone your config from a Git repo you get all the same versions of everything as well as the same config.

Would have come in handy 🤣

Yes! I'm not much of an advocate for dual booting 🤣. But I have no need for windows. I wish I had solid advice for successfully dual booting but unfortunately I'm unfamiliar with best practices in doing so.

@@alphaobeisance3594 So many issues can occur though. Especially when you use windows and update, if MBR is involved will ruin the grub aspect for Linux distros. Thats one thing right there for sure will happen. Its irritating. SO yea, Never dual boot on same hard drive or SSD.