7 minutes ago, jarmstro said:

There seems to be two names for the Windows disk. Disk1 and /dev/sda2. Am I right to use Disk1?

ubuntu looks to do its mounting slightly differently than rhel.

on fedora you generally steer clear of /dev files unless you are configuring the system, they are the physical devices that can (should) only actually be accessible by the superuser.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_file

Edited March 1, 20215 yr by mSparks

10 minutes ago, jarmstro said:

There seems to be two names for the Windows disk. Disk1 and /dev/sda2. Am I right to use Disk1?

I can't tell you that.  what is in the "media" folder ?   you need that drive / partition where your windows XP is installed.  

So if your XP is installed on /dev/sda2 then that it the drive you need to mount and link from. 

just "cd /media" and see which one is listed and do "ls sda1 or sda2" this should show you the contents . my drives are labeled in windows hence i know which is mounted 

1 hour ago, akita said:

"linux"=1000000 different distros

Q.E.D.

Maybe you didn´t suffer through this thread between Jarmstro and mSparks (which should LONG AGO have gone to private messaging) like the rest of us have, but so far we are not even yet at the "simply install from Steam" level - we are still at the "install a working OS" level 😂

Edited March 1, 20215 yr by Janov

1 minute ago, Janov said:

Q.E.D.

Maybe you didn´t suffer through this thread between Jarmstro and mSparks (which should LONG AGO have gone to private messaging), but so far we are not even yet at the "simply install from Steam" level - we are still at the "install a working OS" level 😂

LOL 

27 minutes ago, Janov said:

Q.E.D.

Maybe you didn´t suffer through this thread between Jarmstro and mSparks (which should LONG AGO have gone to private messaging) like the rest of us have, but so far we are not even yet at the "simply install from Steam" level - we are still at the "install a working OS" level 😂

No no. The OS is installed and XP is running fine.🤞 The last bit is to stop it looking like something from the 1990s by linking it to my Windows Custom Scenery folder.

48 minutes ago, Janov said:

so far we are not even yet at the "simply install from Steam

it was just so quick you missed it.

like ortho4xp installs linux vs windows

copy paste

git clone https://github.com/mSparks43/Ortho4XP.git

dnf or apt-get install python3 python3-pip python3-requests python3-numpy python3-pyproj python3-gdal python3-shapely python3-rtree python3-pil python3-pil.imagetk p7zip-full libnvtt-bin freeglut3

in linux

24 hours, 30 sketchy websites and 4 virus's on windows

Edited March 1, 20215 yr by mSparks

59 minutes ago, Janov said:

Q.E.D.

Maybe you didn´t suffer through this thread between Jarmstro and mSparks (which should LONG AGO have gone to private messaging) like the rest of us have, but so far we are not even yet at the "simply install from Steam" level - we are still at the "install a working OS" level 😂

so pretty much complaining about the fact that, as a user, you have to choose what linux distro *you* want to use based on your needs...just like anything else in life? 

14 hours ago, Bjoern said:

A really, really high horse. And loss of respect for the inner workings of a computer operating system.

I have mint installed on lappy, is that like apony...

I am running il2 under Linux  lol , it didn't require anything except proton, just going to test the performance 

3 hours ago, jarmstro said:

No no. The OS is installed and XP is running fine.

Oh, I stand corrected, then. I must admit that I didn´t read every post word for word...🙄

11 minutes ago, Janov said:

Oh, I stand corrected, then. I must admit that I didn´t read every post word for word...🙄

....,but I have a nasty feeling that it is isn't going to be running fine for very long. And my worry is that neither will Windows if I don't stop fiddling with it!😂.

So - what is your framerate like compared to Windows? Wasn´t this the whole purpose of this exercise?

10 minutes ago, Janov said:

So - what is your framerate like compared to Windows? Wasn´t this the whole pur33pose of this exercise?

Rather not say at the moment in case I start another war! 😀 And I still need help to link my Custom Scenery folders! 😂 After which I will have a much better idea.

29 minutes ago, jarmstro said:

....,but I have a nasty feeling that it is isn't going to be running fine for very long. And my worry is that neither will Windows if I don't stop fiddling with it!😂.

One of the best things I've found for improving looks and performance over default is lvl16 ortho (installation instructions above)

you have two places perf/fps gets stuck, the GPU which, (aside from insanely high AA and volumetric cloud plugins) shouldn't be an issue for an RTX2070, very little of XP runs on the GPU (boo hiss)

The other is the CPU, this is where Vulkan comes in (stops doing GPU stuff on the CPU) - doesn't really help NVidia cards that much, because they invested a lot in their drivers already, and never did much GPU stuff on the CPU, and Linux (designed from day 1 for multiple CPU core hardware).

 Look back on

Once the sim gets going.

How many times have you heard "xplane needs multithreading", and "xplane only uses one core".

The machine that ran on was 4 cores, so 8 Threads at 50% usage is 4 cores at 100% usage of all 4 cores.... (HT lets you use >100% by using parts of the chip that would otherwise be idle)

The problem (IMHO) isn't that  "xplane needs multithreading", and "xplane only uses one core" - its that windows internals are from 1993, when "more than one core" was magic only MIT students had access to (although there is some work for Laminar still to do there, only mac and linux will likely see the benefit of it, windows probably perf is unlikely to ever get any better unless/until Microsoft throw out the entire operating system and start from scratch - rumoured to maybe using Linux).

This is where LVL16 ortho comes in. shuffling scenery into GPU as you move around is the CPUs job, most of XPs CPU time is spent doing this. lvl16 has less data than default (because lots of different textures are all folded into one), and lvl16 is small enough to not require terramegabazzilions of disk space.

The link to my fork (a pending pull request to the one by oscarpilote) also adds some decals by default so they still look good up close and personal (add support adding snow onto them with sam).

 

Edited March 1, 20215 yr by mSparks

DCS 2.5.6 Proton no go :(