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s20, to linux in Systemd-Free Immutable Distro Nitrux 2.9.1 Is Out Powered by Linux Kernel 6.4

I went to DL it and try it out, and… dude, I hate Sourceforge. I know how privileged this sounds, but I’m not spending a half hour DLing something that I can DL in a minute and a half somewhere else.

Anybody got a line on a torrent?

cryptix, to linux in Mozilla Firefox 119 Is Now Available for Download, Here's What's New

Waiting for vertical tabs…

iusearchbtw,
@iusearchbtw@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Tree Style Tabs forever, baby! Simple vertical tab bars can’t even hope to compete.

Sentau, to linux in Linux Kernel 6.6 Officially Released

The gap between 6.5 launching and 6.6 launching seems smaller than normal.

Edit : looking back this is not the case. It is the same 2 months between releases. Man time flies

heyoni,

“No entry found for ‘time flies’”

MalReynolds, to linux in Linux Kernel 6.6 Officially Released
@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net avatar

The Devil’s share on Halloween, praise Torvalds ;)

russjr08, to linux in NVIDIA 545.29.02 Linux Graphics Driver Is Out with Wayland Improvements, More
@russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net avatar

I tried out the beta version of 545 last week, I swear it made the render issue with XWayland apps worse. Even if it’s back to the 535 state, it still makes using Wayland on Nvidia very difficult unless every application you plan to use is Wayland native. It’ll be a while before that’s the case for me.

I plan to just pick up a 6700 XT next week. I’m tired of being a second class citizen in Nvidia’s eyes.

That being said, I appreciate the devs themselves who’ve been working on improving what they can (there’s a couple that I’ve even seen participating in the Freedesktop GitLab). I assume the lackluster Linux support comes from the management side of things. I may not like the company, but I obviously don’t have disdain for every single person there.

Swiggles,

Same. A 7800 XT is on its way as we speak replacing my 2080 Super. I am just sick of Nvidia even though performance wise it wouldn’t be necessary.

randompepsi,

Same feelings. I will even downgrade from a RTX 3070ti to a 6700xt because I am tired of Nvidia.

milkjug,

I replaced my 3080 Ti with a 7900 XTX, reinstalled Tumbleweed to start fresh, and KDE on Wayland has been running great so far. Before, visual glitches galore, GPU refusing to output a signal if iGPU is not blacklisted, hardware video decoding outright does not work, etc.

Now, with AMD, I have not yet experienced graphics-related issues in weeks, fingers crossed.

russjr08,
@russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net avatar

Yeah it’s absolutely ridiculous. The “stable” release is out in the extra-testing repo for Arch, and I just had an absolute nightmare trying to get it to work. Installed it, added the suggested nvidia-drm.modeset=1 nvidia-drm.fbdev=1 kernel parameters to systemd-boot, ensured all of the Nvidia kernel modules were present in initrd to do early KMS loading - tried to start a KDE Wayland session and the desktop ran no more than maybe 5 FPS and I wish I were exaggerating that. A very similar issue was reported on their forums but the error I’m getting from kwin_wayland_drm is slightly different.

Tried install GNOME, but its Wayland session wouldn’t even launch at all. Loaded into its X11 session and it seemed to not be using accelerated graphics whatsoever.

Now of course, part of the blame goes to me for opting into the testing repo… but at the same time, I shouldn’t have to go through those hoops just to potentially get a working Wayland desktop (and I suspect even if I had succeeded, the same issues will have still been present). As far as I understand, AMD/Intel’s drivers are just part of mesa and are included in the kernel - no modifying your initrd, no worrying about DKMS, no trying to mess with .run files…

I have a Windows partition on one of my SSDs for the few occasions that I need to do something that can only be done from Windows, and I think I’m just going to use that till my GPU comes in. Funnily enough, Nvidia’s drivers aren’t even that great on Windows either - I still get a screen flicker issue whenever (I believe) the power state of the GPU changes, so for example playing a YouTube video, or even Steam popping a toast notification saying that a friend has launched some game. And plenty of my friends have tales of nightmares with trying to install and manage the Nvidia driver on Windows.

I would’ve never bought an Nvidia GPU in the first place if I had known how bad it was on Linux, and my current Nvidia GPU (a 2080) wasn’t actually purchased by me, but handed down by a very gracious friend at the beginning of the year since times have been really tough for me. Thankfully this last month I was able to put in some extra hours to be able to set aside some money for a used 6700xt because if I have to deal with this any longer I’m going to lose my sanity.

broface, to linux in NVIDIA 545.29.02 Linux Graphics Driver Is Out with Wayland Improvements, More

Glad Nvidia has seen the writing on the walls and isn’t treating desktop Linux like a second-class citizen.

worsedoughnut, to linux in NVIDIA 545.29.02 Linux Graphics Driver Is Out with Wayland Improvements, More
@worsedoughnut@lemdro.id avatar

Any clue if this one addresses the impending 6.6 Kernel changes in response to how Nvidia was breaking the license?

Toes,

What’s that about?

worsedoughnut,
@worsedoughnut@lemdro.id avatar
Yerbouti, to linux in Fwupd 1.9.7 Adds Support for More Synaptics Prometheus Fingerprint Readers

Personnally, I will never enter my fingerprints on any device. Call me paranoid, I dont trust that system.

merthyr1831, to linux in NVIDIA 545.29.02 Linux Graphics Driver Is Out with Wayland Improvements, More

Good that nVidia is being forced to improve wayland support. Bad that it appears that nVidia’s code appear to be as spaghetti and broken as X11’s

kakes, to linux in Audacity 3.4 Released with Music Workflows, New Exporter, and More

Did they ever fix that issue from a while back where they started collecting personal data on users?

engadget.com/audacity-privacy-policy-spyware-accu…

Raffster,

That is the real question. Would like to recommend the program to people again.

aBundleOfFerrets,

Tenacity is a fork designed to address those concerns, and it is mostly beyond fork growing pains at this point

Raffster,

Oh very cool. Thanks a lot.

pastermil,

Growing pains?

aBundleOfFerrets,

Tearing branding and telemetry and build deployment stuff and crap out of forked software is a lot of work that takes some time

pastermil,

I see. Makes sense now.

otter,

There was a Lemmy post with a video about how things have changed, which I even commented on, but I can’t find anymore.

What I remember was that yes they did address most of the concerns. There were some issues still (unrelated to data collection iirc), and there’s one other fork that’s being maintained if you don’t want that

Edit: I think the was the video, I don’t want to watch it again but I’ll link my TLDW if I find it: m.youtube.com/watch?v=QfmDn1IaDmY

authed, to linux in Audacity 3.4 Released with Music Workflows, New Exporter, and More

just use OcenAudio

levir77987, to linux in Audacity 3.4 Released with Music Workflows, New Exporter, and More

Spyware

konsumate, to linux in Audacity 3.4 Released with Music Workflows, New Exporter, and More

The oss community forked it into ’ tenacity’ after audacity went into spyware mode

makingStuffForFun,
@makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml avatar

IKR. Why are we even covering news about audacity releases anymore?

taanegl,

Dunno, but I kind of feel this is an opener to promote commercial software on Linux, since the Muse team can suck it.

You’ve got:

All of them have premium prices, but not a single one of them freemium, or always-online, meaning you get what you pay for and what you pay for is high quality software.

Presonus if you need a pro tracker, or even the chance at mixing Atmos on Linux (though the hardware needs to be supported OS-side of things).

Mixbus 32C is cool, because it’s EQ’s and compressors are analogue modelled after their classic console. They got that real nice vintage sound.

Bitwig is basically a mixer/sequencer DAW, meant for electronic music and live performances.

Now if only Ableton Live could be ported to Linux :( pretty please?

dylanTheDeveloper,
@dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world avatar

Wait what information does audacity collect when your using it?

Ascend-910, to linux in Audacity 3.4 Released with Music Workflows, New Exporter, and More
@Ascend-910@kbin.social avatar

please use Tenacity

Ascend-910, to linux in Audacity 3.4 Released with Music Workflows, New Exporter, and More
@Ascend-910@kbin.social avatar

please use Tenacity

3arn0wl,

Is there a fork of MuseScore too (the same devs, I think)?

Ascend-910,
@Ascend-910@kbin.social avatar

I am not sure, would you post the repo for me, please?

3arn0wl,
Ascend-910,
@Ascend-910@kbin.social avatar

nice :)

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