woelkchen

woelkchen, 1 year ago

Shoutout to screenshot tools

woelkchen, 1 year ago (edited 10 months ago)

The absolute biggest hurdles is my Nvidia problem. I have always had issues with Nvidia on Arch. I would gladly take an suggestion.

Ouch. Buy Radeon.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

Why dual boot with Fedora when you can just use it exclusively?

woelkchen, 1 year ago (edited 10 months ago)

You spelled openSuse wrong.

openSUSE

FTFY

woelkchen, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

I never understood why AMD themselves don’t work in integration in Debian and Fedora. That way Ubuntu and RHEL would automatically inherit it. At worst it would be in Universe/EPEL.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

Any sort of computing done on the GPU. Not sure what they mean by “end-to-end”. Perhaps that users don’t have to mess with installers.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

Wayland is not killing smaller distributions. Who even came up with that batshit crazy idea?

woelkchen, 1 year ago

My comment was about distributions specifically and those package Wayland since ages.

woelkchen, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Edit. By software I’m talking about in game features.

Like FSR and such? That’s available on Linux (FSR 1.x is integrated into SteamOS for compositor-level upscaling). AFAIK AMD does not officially support FSR on Linux but it’s written in a way that it should work with minor integration work. It’s written with cross-platform support in mind, given that it’s targeting PlayStation etc. als well.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

openSUSE Tumbleweed still supports 32bit x86.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

Last time I tried I couldn’t get my Bluetooth headphones to work and I had to buy a new webcam because I didn’t know how to compile drivers.

When was that? 2002?

woelkchen, 1 year ago

BlissOS blissos.org

woelkchen, 1 year ago

It’s literally a distribution of an operating system that uses the Linux kernel, therefore a Linux distribution.

It’s, for example, not a Berkeley Software Distribution, BSD.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

I don’t need to find people in agreement, just as I don’t need to find out whether people agree with the Earth being round or flat. Sometimes a fact is just a fact.

If you want to argue whether something like Alpine Linux that builds upon musl instead of GNU’s libc is a Linux distribution or not, please take that discussion there. I merely wanted to give OP a suggestion what should work best with his laptops.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

Quote: “I’d still like them to behave somewhat similar to Android tablets for less techie users.”

Also OP gave a positive reply.

Can you leave me alone now with your wrong notions of “there is no Linux if it’s not GNU/Linux”? I’m not interested in discussing that.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

Visit the website and you no longer have to guess.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

Yast on openSUSE does this and is maintained.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

Many, perhaps even most, installation guides for software use commands because the graphical alternatives can vary wildly between desktops and distributions. So using commands in guides is usually the more likely to work.

That said, what Mullvad does is stupid. The downloadable deb and rpm files should just initialize the update repository. That is what Google does with their Chrome download. Basically download the file, double click on it, confirm installation. That’s it. Users don’t need to do that manually for Chrome.

Luckily, there are only a few cases remain for this type of installation. Most regular things should be either in your distribution’s regular repository or on Flathub.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

My experience with Fedora KDE has been very positive with the caveat that the default package selection has been a bit bloated and it’s not just my impression. github.com/edythawne/KDE-Minimal-Install exists for a reason. Stability-wise the experience is good, the liberal update cycle is nice.

Personally, I did not find Kinoite so appealing but maybe things changed since then (I think I tried it out a year or so ago).

woelkchen, 1 year ago

TIL not liking something is a hissy fit.

While I don’t know the term hissy fit, switching distributions just because the default of a user-changeable setting is different is definitively a bit over the top.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

Cool, I’ve wanted to give this a go for a while but never really gelled with Gnome.

Even before the switch of the default was Plasma already an option. It just wasn’t the default.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

As I understand it, that’s not even needed because the current DE choice is being preserved at an upgrade. The only thing that needs manual tweaking is reinstalling the extensions from the Gnome website which isn’t really an issue at all.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

Well, Nobara is a gaming-oriented distribution and as the changelog outlines, does Plasma currently offer technological benefits. As is the case with everything, this isn’t set in stone and might change at some point but right now the main target audience for paid development work for Gnome are corporate users where for Plasma it’s being Desktop Mode for Steam Deck.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

if you don’t keep a rolling release up-to-date regularly (like once a week), packages start to break.

Those are packaging bugs then. With proper packaging everything updates seamslessly. Outside of SteamOS I’m not a user of Arch-derived distributions but I am a user of openSUSE TW which is a rolling release and I have one old notebook for a specific task I need to do maybe twice a year and updating was never a problem and installing a package triggers updating all affected dependencies.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

you have to spend an insane amount of time updating

How slow is your internet connection?

or it will reach EOL in no time

Sure you don’t confuse Fedora with non-LTS Ubuntu releases? According to docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/lifecycle/ each release is supported for 13 months which isn’t 10 years of LTS but hardly “in no time” either.