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Re: A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

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Post by lacksconfidence »

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS wrote: post #70
dm319 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My kids use the Linux bedrock launcher (unofficial). It's often a bit behind the latest release, but it runs much smoother than on Windows IMO. https://github.com/minecraft-linux/appimage-builder/releases...

The only thing I don't like is your render distance is drastically limited. Under Linux I can only set it to 12 (I believe), whereas in Windows I can go all the way out to 51 if I so choose (which is useful when looking for end cities).

Minecraft has made this a bit confusing, but there are two completely independent implementations of minecraft, the java edition and the bedrock edition. The poster above you was referring to the bedrock edition for linux.

* The java edition has always had a fairly limited render distance, although recently they split render distance and simulation distance into separate options which allows for higher render distance than in the past. (There are also mods like bobby, but it wouldn't help you find end cities: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/bobby)

* Bedrock edition, designed to be capable to run on mobiles, has the ability to run very high render distances on pc.

Re: A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

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Post by mucle6 »

_aaed wrote: post #41
mucle6 wrote: post #28

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As someone unfamiliar with grub, the screenshot leaves me with more questions than answers

GRUB is a bootloader. A bootloader takes care of getting the operating system started up. It is also responsible for allowing the user to select between multiple operating systems at boot.

Ohh I thought this was a minecraft mod

Re: A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

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Post by bravetraveler »

PlutoIsAPlanet wrote: post #42
cyber_kinetist wrote: post #16

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It would be a pretty fun project to write a CPU software rasterizer that works in UEFI… (Obviously GPUs are out of the question, but it might be possible to use multiple CPU cores)

systemd-ueficpuzd

.bootasset, can't forget the unit type :)

I kid, I'm generally fond of systemd - but there's so much

Re: A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

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Post by DropInIn »

mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote: post #65
costco wrote: post #54

Friendly reminder that grub-mkconfig generates unnecessarily complicated grub.cfg files and that they can be as simple as this (which allows me to boot custom kernel, default kernel with initrd, and Windows): default=0 timeout=3 menuentry 'Custom Kernel' { insmod gzio if [ x$grub_platform = xxen ]; then insmod xzio; insmod lzopio; fi insmod part_gpt insmod ext2 set root='hd0,gpt6' echo 'Loading Linux 5.10.172zeus ...…

Man I miss good old GRUB, which I guess is called GRUB legacy now? Most entries only required 4-5 lines of config and there was no ugly shell syntax, a million options, conditionals etc. Probably just because I grew up with it, but MBR and disk/boot management on Linux was so much simpler back then. 512 bytes of partition table + bootloader(well, the bootstrapping part anyway). Partitions had one simple, 3 character…

At the risk of sounding silly, the move to systemd and the headaches encountered, such as you describe, are the very reason I left my brand new system which could work well for Linux, including the graphics card, as a single boot windows machine.

It just wasn't worth the headache on top of having to keep windows for work (many programs don't have a Linux option nor do they work properly in wine etc, and vm isn't reasonable for gpu intensive operations like video editing).

IMHO, systemd really messed up the ecosystem and the "Trust" value that Linux in general had built with me.

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