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Unyieldingly, in Switching to Debian on my gaming pc

I been running Debian with a few Backports like Pipewire, Kernel, and Flatpak it has been good so far.

BCsven, (edited ) in Dual Boot Best Practices?

Many people do dual drives, but if you install linux second and it is a distro thay uses grub with probe foreign OS them you don’t really need two drives. make space on windows drive, in the linux installer create another boot partition, root and home. You set bios to boot Linux grub. Grub will launch and give you linux or choice to chainload to Windows. Windows is unaware it is getting kicked off by grub so the Windows and Lunux boot partitions leave each other alone. i can’t vouch for every distro letting you setup like this but this is how my OoenSUSE has been since 2017

CrabAndBroom, in Dual Boot Best Practices?

Also, I’d say install Windows first, then Linux. Windows assumes it’s the only OS in the universe and tends to steamroll over the whole boot setup, so I’ve found it much easier to just let Windows do whatever it wants first, then fix it with Linux afterwards.

mvirts, (edited ) in can you chkdsk from a windows vm?

Yes. But since we’re in Linux land, you may be able to replay the journal and un-dirty your disk by mounting with the ntfs3 driver listed here docs.kernel.org/filesystems/ntfs3.html, or you could try using ‘ntfsfix -d [your device]’ from the ntfs-3g package to clear the journal and the dirty bit, although whatever the last operation was on the filesystem may be left in an incomplete state since the journal is not replayed.

I haven’t done it in a while, but with virtualbox I have used direct disk access by creating a special vmdk with vboxmanage to give a VM access to real partitions.

mvirts, in Can one recover from an accidental rm -rf of system directories by copying those files back in from a backup?

Give it a try! System is broken anyway. Also fix your backup to include file metadata, maybe disk images?

Heck I would try using testdisk to undelete the files onto another filesystem then copy them back if the permissions look okay.

loopgru, in Can one recover from an accidental rm -rf of system directories by copying those files back in from a backup?

I did this way back in the day on my Mandrake installation with a 1.44" floppy. Only tricky part was that I had to run cp from the floppy instead of from normal $PATH as I’d wiped out /bin.

rotopenguin, in Switching to Debian on my gaming pc
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Nobara, which is by GloriousEggroll of ProtonGE fame, is the first thing to think of when looking for a gaming distro.

Veraxus, in Switching to Debian on my gaming pc
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Debian is my go-to. So long as you’re already comfortable with Linux, you can get gaming working with a tiny bit of elbow grease… and unlike some other distros, Debian is rock-solid.

Lemmchen, (edited ) in Can one recover from an accidental rm -rf of system directories by copying those files back in from a backup?

What system are we talking about here? The –no-preserve-root option is part of every modern release of rm.

Edit: Never mind, I didn’t read the post properly.

INeedMana, in Why I need extra kernel modules to be able to run Wayland on nvidia?
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0_o but you do need to configure a bunch of stuff in the kernel for X.org to work

I’m guessing that you’ve been using kernels from packages provided by your distribution and its maintainers simply haven’t decided yet that Wayland is used wide enough to put things it needs into default kernel. But that’s just a matter of time.
On distribution I use, for example, I did not have to compile my own kernel when I decided to check Wayland out. But that’s only because kernel package maintainers of my distribution have decided to enable it earlier

Pantherina, in "We are looking for Text-To-Speak (TTS) expertise to help or advise us on improving the default voice of the Linux desktop."

This! Good tts (piper for example) is key.

  • apps supporting modern screen reader stack, including wayland
  • good stable screenreaders
  • the entire OS supporting the screenreader not only as a GUI-level service
  • very good voices especially when set very fast
AngryCommieKender, (edited ) in "We are looking for Text-To-Speak (TTS) expertise to help or advise us on improving the default voice of the Linux desktop."

I understand that The Emperor has some Martian Tech-Priests that will help in exchange for toasters…

ikidd, in "We are looking for Text-To-Speak (TTS) expertise to help or advise us on improving the default voice of the Linux desktop."
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Follow the blogs for Year of the Voice initiative from Home Assistant. There will be lots of pointers for the journey they’ve taken this year getting TTS and STT working for HA.

uis, in Why I need extra kernel modules to be able to run Wayland on nvidia?
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Depending on model, you don’t need to.

Short version: Nvidia is terrible company

Astaroth, (edited ) in Switching to Debian on my gaming pc

All I know is wine-mono and wine-gecko doesn’t come in any default package lists on apt that you get on Linux Mint (which should include Debian and Ubuntu packages), not sure if they exist on some other mirror list somewhere but it didn’t seem like it, while on Arch I got them directly from Extra (not even AUR).

Well you technically don’t need mono or gecko, especially not if you’re just going to use Steam Proton to play, but I use pure WINE a lot and it was a pain having to install them manually. Eventually I gave up on using mono and just downloaded the .net runtimes I needed through winetricks.

There were also some lib32 package I got from AUR on Arch that didn’t exist on apt. One of those gst plugins (ugly/good/bad/nice/whatever)

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