BeamNG on Linux - a dream come true

fivedollarlamp · Apr 20, 2022

IonicOwl said: ↑

Permissions or file/directory ownership?
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I know this is an old post, but there are some misconceptions here that need addressing. Not so much because they're false, but because in many cases, Windows behaves in a similar way.

Many Linux distros lack the polish of an OS I would actually want to use for hours per day. (Yes, I did try it.)
This is because many applications are written by software developers who lack visual design skills, or take a strict function-over-form approach to their application. GTK applications tend to mesh better with the Gnome desktop environment for example, but generally a lot of developers design UIs that make sense to them, without UI/UX designers available to make things make sense.
Counter point: There is plenty of Windows software that has this exact same problem. It's not a Linux-specific issue.

Many distros, including Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (the standard for Linux distros) would not work with my Nvidia GT 710, a 6 year old design, no matter what driver I tried. Boot times were comperable to Windows, which I was disappointed in, and I don't exactly have great hardware over here. So it performs worse as well.
Nvidia has a track record for making Linux adoption as difficult as possible. They won't release proper drivers for their cards, nor will they release open source versions so that the community can self-support, like they can with AMD cards. AMD and Intel (GPU) users have a much better experience with Linux generally.
Counter point: Not really a counter point, however...

Literally everything can be run at some level of Windows, and the Linux style of "let's make you do freaking everything from the freaking command line" really annoys me. It's 2021, not 1991!
Probably the biggest misconception here, and one I hear all the time. Linux doesn't force you to use the command line, but you can use the command line to do anything you want. If you use a server edition of your chosen distribution, chances are it doesn't come with a GUI, so yes you have to use the command line, usually over SSH, but you could install a desktop if you wanted. Desktop Linux operating systems include desktop environments and all of the mainstream distros can be completely operated using a GUI, unless you're using some obscure utility that only runs in a command line... such cases are limited to small applications written by some guy to solve a specific problem they were having at the time, and they couldn't be bothered to write GUI code. There are Windows applications that are like this too, by the way.

The reason a lot of guides tell you to do things in the command line is because it's easier to give instructions in a command line, even if there is a GUI method too (many guides will tell you both).

For example, a guide on giving execute permissions to a file can go from:

"right-click the file... no, right-click. Now go to Properties, then Permissions... it's a tab at the top, second one along. Ok, near the bottom, tick the box that says Allow executing file as program... it's near the bottom, underneath the access dropdowns for user/group/other, now click OK",

...to just:

"Run this: chmod +x /path/to/file.sh".
(By the way, it's much easier to do that action in Linux in both CLI or GUI than it is in Windows.)

Counter point: Windows also has a command line, and it too can be used to perform most actions, either in classic shell or Powershell. In some server editions of Wiindows, there is no desktop at all, it's all command line. Windows became known for the desktop and Linux became known for the command line, but they're not exclusive. Most Windows users will never see the command prompt. Those same users would likely never see the terminal on Linux either.
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Nerd

WhiteFusion · Apr 26, 2022

fivedollarlamp said: ↑

Nerd
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We *nix folks are inflicted with chronic nerd.

Also I've been tooling with running BeamNG in Linux for a bit, but it's good people are starting to warm up to it. I even made a patch for my wheel, but I think that may have been fixed.

NonagonInfinity · Dec 26, 2022

Hello all! First post here. I'm having trouble running the native Linux file for the game as my system cannot find the correct program to run it with. Wanted to see if anyone else had this issue and has a solution for it. Thanks in advance!

BombBoy4 · Dec 26, 2022

NonagonInfinity said: ↑

Hello all! First post here. I'm having trouble running the native Linux file for the game as my system cannot find the correct program to run it with. Wanted to see if anyone else had this issue and has a solution for it. Thanks in advance!
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Run it using the terminal:
Code:
$ ./BeamNG.drive.x64

IonicOwl · Dec 28, 2022

BombBoy4 said: ↑
Run it using the terminal:
Code:
$ ./BeamNG.drive.x64
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Just make sure you're in the same directory as the file when running it like that, or the system won't know what you're talking about.

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