# Moving to Linux Thread
**URL:** https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/moving-to-linux-thread/6698
**Category:** Not Thrive
**Created:** [July 19, 2023, 12:04am UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/moving-to-linux-thread/6698 "2023-07-19T00:04:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2025, 6:47pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/moving-to-linux-thread/6698/41 "2025-03-10T18:47:41Z")
How much water do you think there’ll be in your future computer circulating the heat?
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### Author:  [@hhyyrylainen](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/hhyyrylainen)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/moving-to-linux-thread/6698/42 "2025-03-10T19:56:38Z")
> [@blackjacksike](#):
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> The RTX 5090 has Blackwell architecture and thus needs the open-source kernel module to function on Linux.
Right, but that is only the kernel module. So you still need the proprietary nvidia for it to be any useful (though I guess the new Nouveau open source nvidia driver replacement is progressing pretty fast).
Nvidia did a really good PR stunt by pretending they open sourced everything when in fact they just opened up a tiny kernel module that is the bridge between the hardware and the actual graphics driver that runs outside the kernel.
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### Author:  [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/moving-to-linux-thread/6698/43 "2025-03-10T20:00:53Z")
Guess just a bit opensource is still better than being not opensource at all… Especially as that’s apparently a “bridge” linking module of sorts.
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### Author:  [@blackjacksike](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/blackjacksike)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/moving-to-linux-thread/6698/44 "2025-03-11T18:36:40Z")
I just found out that `~/usr/share` contains a folder for most programs, but I can’t find flatpak programs there.
@Deathwake do you know where they are installed?
Also, I can’t see any settings to see file extensions on Dolphin. What’s up with that?
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### Author:  [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/moving-to-linux-thread/6698/45 "2025-03-11T19:02:50Z")
Dolphin is an yet another Linux distro of the not-so-popular kin, correct?
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### Author:  [@blackjacksike](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/blackjacksike)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/moving-to-linux-thread/6698/46 "2025-03-11T19:05:30Z")
No, Dolphin is the file manager.
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I just saw that flatpak programs have a folder inside `/var/lib/flatpak`. For the file extensions, it seems that some files have an extension and some others don’t? Like Python files don’t have any extension.
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### Author:  [@hhyyrylainen](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/hhyyrylainen)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/moving-to-linux-thread/6698/47 "2025-03-11T20:22:02Z")
Unix executables don’t have any extension, so a program may be called `script` without any extension. Linux has inherited that (as well as Mac). So Windows is the odd one for requiring programs to have `.exe` suffix to be recognized as programs.
> [@blackjacksike](#):
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> I just saw that flatpak programs have a folder inside `/var/lib/flatpak`.
> [@blackjacksike](#):
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> I just found out that `~/usr/share`
That’s probably a system data folder. Flatpak application state and config files etc. are stored in `~/.var/app` (at least on Fedora, probably on other distros as well).
> [@blackjacksike](#):
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> Also, I can’t see any settings to see file extensions on Dolphin. What’s up with that?
I don’t think there’s any Linux file manager that would hide the extensions. They are always visible, but like I said Linux executables _do not have an extension_. I just checked and the file browser for GNOME (Nautilus) doesn’t even have an option to hide file extensions.
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### Author:  [@Trappist-1e](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/Trappist-1e)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/moving-to-linux-thread/6698/48 "2025-03-11T23:29:26Z")
soo… some time ago i reluctantly installed an ubuntu virtual machine on my windows 11 laptop, to use it for a very specific and single thing (generating gas giant textures) and that thing stayed there, consuming precious GBs of my precious disk space.
should i keep the virtual box on my computer or it wouldn’t even compare with getting the actual linux?
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### Author:  [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2025, 5:50am UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/moving-to-linux-thread/6698/49 "2025-03-12T05:50:15Z")
Are you using some sort of a program that only works on Ubuntu for the textures?
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### Author:  [@hhyyrylainen](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/hhyyrylainen)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2025, 7:22am UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/moving-to-linux-thread/6698/50 "2025-03-12T07:22:27Z")
The performance in a VM is much lower than on real hardware. And unless you have a dedicated GPU to pass through, you probably don’t get graphics hardware acceleration so 3D program speed and compatibility is going to be much much worse.
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### Author:  [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2025, 8:35am UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/moving-to-linux-thread/6698/51 "2025-03-12T08:35:30Z")
I guess VMs can still have uses for some things, even if they aren’t really all that useful for regular stuff. Like testing suspicious files and stuff.
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### Author:  [@Deathwake](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/Deathwake)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2025, 9:17am UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/moving-to-linux-thread/6698/52 "2025-03-12T09:17:56Z")
If you just need to test suspicious files and will be keeping windows, linux VMs are overkill. You should instead go to my favorite (very legal™) website for when I have to use microsoft stuff, [https://massgrave.dev/](https://massgrave.dev/), follow the instructions there, and try out windows professional edition, which comes with a sandbox feature letting you generate an unused vm at runtime whenever you want. Addfitionally if you need to run linux programs, many are available on windows, and you can also run them through the WSL, though i don’t have all that much experience with it and have heard some weird things. Someone who’s used the WSL for serious stuff could pitch in and explain weather its the solution or not, I’m not that qualified.
> [@hhyyrylainen](#):
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> So Windows is the odd one for requiring programs to have `.exe` suffix to be recognized as programs.
While this is true, some services are a bit odd about it… My college uses canvas, which is I presume running on linux servers, however it uses file extensions to check type, which has in fact saved me on several occasions. Say I finish up an assignment in libreoffice, hit save as, type assignmentname.docx and the upload the file to the assignment on canvas. Well, libreoffice doesn’t care what I named that file, this is UNIX!! Who CARES! It’s not a docx (read: glorified zip file) it’s an odt, the libreoffice native format. Canvas accepts my assignment but (hopefully before the deadline) I can notice it isn’t showing a preview, and resubmit with the proper file type. If their server backend used a sensible linux library to open the file it would get a valid odt, or if I sent in a file extentionless docx, which has also happened, even if the code was document type dependent, it would open too. But whatever they have that parses docx into html on the backend refuses to know it’s on linux, it runs like a windows app.
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### Author:  [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2025, 10:28am UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/moving-to-linux-thread/6698/53 "2025-03-12T10:28:59Z")
> [@Deathwake](#):
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> If you just need to test suspicious files and will be keeping windows, linux VMs are overkill
I mean, it’s never bad to be 100% sure, right? As long as the extra space isn’t that much of a problem to a person.
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### Author:  [@Trappist-1e](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/Trappist-1e)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2025, 10:59am UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/moving-to-linux-thread/6698/54 "2025-03-12T10:59:35Z")
uhhhh…
i actually checked again what was the thing i installed and turns out it wasn’t a virtual machine at all, just a windows subsystem for linux.
You can see im very linux illiterated.
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### Author:  [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2025, 11:24am UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/moving-to-linux-thread/6698/55 "2025-03-12T11:24:08Z")
Don’t worry, everone starts off like that to my knowledge…
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### Author:  [@blackjacksike](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/blackjacksike)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/moving-to-linux-thread/6698/56 "2025-03-12T17:40:38Z")
> [@hhyyrylainen](#):
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> The performance in a VM is much lower than on real hardware. And unless you have a dedicated GPU to pass through, you probably don’t get graphics hardware acceleration so 3D program speed and compatibility is going to be much much worse.
Do you think a pass through would be possible (albeit complicated) with the multiple desktop sessions setup for my future double GPU build?
In fact, I might even want a triple GPU build! I’ll have AMD, Nvidia & Intel GPUs! HAHA! That way, I’ll be able to benchmark those three cards on both Linux and Windows VM (with pass through) and post my reports on Proton!
🤪
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### Author:  [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/moving-to-linux-thread/6698/57 "2025-03-12T17:43:42Z")
> [@blackjacksike](#):
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> I might even want a triple GPU build! I’ll have AMD, Nvidia & Intel GPUs! HAHA!
How much higher will that push the cost?
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### Author:  [@blackjacksike](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/blackjacksike)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/moving-to-linux-thread/6698/58 "2025-03-12T17:44:42Z")
A few hundred dollars. Not much compared to the other two. Intel is pretty cheap.
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### Author:  [@aah31415](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/aah31415)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/moving-to-linux-thread/6698/59 "2025-03-12T17:45:52Z")
Does this few hundred dollars increase include other modifications needed to accommodate the extra gpu?
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### Author:  [@blackjacksike](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/blackjacksike)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/moving-to-linux-thread/6698/60 "2025-03-12T17:58:12Z")
I might want to add a water block, just for good measure. However, there is no official waterblock for the Intel B580, so I’d have order a custom one and not every waterblock company does that.
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