Use livestreamer to watch twitch streams on linux - http://livestreamer.tanuki.se/en/latest/index.html

my screenshot was using livestreamer btw

Looks like a cool option. I tend to like chilling in stream chats though, so that wouldn't be as perfect a solution for me.

I have ubuntu solo booted onto my laptop. I absolutely love it, because it's super functional and appealing visually. +1 from me.

so connect to the twitch chat via an irc client

plus can't you still connect to twitch chat in browser with out flash?

Just saw this again. Why don't you pipe Conky to your i3bar so it's not useless? :P

After having some problems with Windows lately, I've decided to do a clean install of Fedora.
It isn't as broken as people tend to say and the GNOME isn't that bad when you actually customize it.

This is thread is rather dead, so tell us, what distro are you sticking up with?

I installed arch Linux in an emulator as a first time user. It was really fun and I felt like the shit I was doing was actually bare bones. Sadly I lost what I had after I reinstalled into an ssd I am looking to install again but I want to try making it work like bblean shell I for windows anyone have expirence with bblean and know a Linux version of it?

http://a.pomf.se/kxwgsd.png

Linux is the best. It can look really cool if you want it to. Only thing stopping me from using it on my desktop is support from amd.

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openbox possibly?

csgo is on linux now if you were not aware.
runs fine for me playing local against bots with 100+ fps using mesa 10.3, kernel 3.16.3 and an a10-6600k & 6870

I came back to Windows, since I couldn't get it to work smoothly. Also multiple monitor work was a pain in the ass and I couldn't game cause AMD :/

Overall, gaming on linux is pretty good overall. My biggest gripe was that I couldn't turn off mouse accel at an hardware level on my G400. Yes, you can turn accel off using xinput that is, IF you turn off m_rawinput. However, there was a noticeable latency input increase from turning off rawinput so being unable to match my sensitivity as close as I could to windows was a the second biggest deal breaker.

The biggest dealbreaker was that AMD proprietary GPU drivers sucks, especially the 2D performance. The open source AMD drivers should be generally OK for source games as the minimum fps won't be much lower but maximum FPS will be a lot higher with proprietary drivers.

edit: i5-2500k @4.5Ghz and AMD R270X for clarity.

I use linux in my day to day stuff, I just wish that ESEA and/or CEVO would make their clients cross compatible, all my other games work flawlessly. I wonder if it is possible to have esea client sit in wine and still have it hook into the tf2 stuff it needs to be in...

if you have an AMD card that isn't a bleeding edge model you'd be goofing around to use the closed source drivers

I have a 5770 and the open source linux driver actually performs better than the windows driver

http://i.imgur.com/dJ1remE.png

Trying them all out to find one that fits me to replace my windows

Try them all, but its not all about default settings thou. You might like a stable release cycle like ubuntu, but don't like the default Desktop Environment. Maybe you want to use a Window Manager instead.

Don't write off a distro based on the default DE

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/desktop_environment

I dont write any distro off, I am trying different DE's and WM's
I am just finding out how it all works qua updates (rolling release or stable releases?)

software in general is very dependency heavy. You build ontop of existing infrastructures. If you make a change in the infrastructure you may break anything you are building ontop.

When we talk about releases, we talk about how software is updated. In a stable release you might release a new update for a distro every 6 months. That is your baseline.

Some distro have longer cycles between updates. Maybe you have a server that needs to work on very old hardware/software. You would want something very stable so you don't break any backwards compatibility.

"rolling release or rolling update development model refers to a continually developing software system; this is instead of a standard release development model which uses software versions that must be reinstalled over the previous version"

In Rolling Release you have no baseline. Your package manager will update individual parts of software.

This causes you to have the most up to date software. However, as a result, you might run into bugs/dependency issues.

It comes down to what you want/need. Lastest and Greatest or Stable and secure.

I dont often use linux. but I do have ubuntu as a dual boot option in case something happens to my install of windows and I need to access files on my drive quickly.

If I could play esea on linux i'd probably consider switching over fully. If at some point down the road i'm no longer playing video games as often as I do, i'll switch as well as I think linux is a nice OS for a work machine.