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richardisaguy, (edited ) in Best distro for Lenovo Carbon X1
@richardisaguy@lemmy.world avatar

You could try fedora KDE spin or opensuse… But not sure if changing will fix these issues

furycd001, in Just install EndeavorOS lol
@furycd001@lemmy.ml avatar

I’ve only ever had two problems with Arch based systems…

  1. Nvidia drivers…
  2. Installing poorly create aur packages…
Pantherina,

For nvidia I cant recommend anything but ubluw

bizdelnick, in Mullvad has Deb and RPM repositories now!

wget https://repository.mullvad.net/rpm/stable/mullvad.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/mullvad.repo

This command won’t work.

Pantherina,

Better? I was not sure did it with cd and forgot the parameters for wget XD isnt it -O /path/to/destination/ ?

BautAufWasEuchAufbaut, (edited )
@BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I think you can just replace wget with curl.
Alternatively -O - I think.
You can’t use the path directly because of permissions. And you shouldn’t run wget with root permissions.

Pantherina, (edited )

Yes thats why I did that and seperated it from the wget as I also think thats not the best idea

Okay fixed it. Damn thats weird, I think I just used sudo wget X -O /path/ but not a good idea I guess.

qaz, (edited )

Why won’t it work?

Kazumara, (edited )

Because wget doesn’t use standard output for the downloaded file by default, instead it creates a file with the name in the url in the workingdir. If you want it to use standard output you need -O -

Lodra, in kando: 🥧 The Cross-Platform Pie Menu.
@Lodra@programming.dev avatar

Has anyone here tried Kando yet? Looks like a very nice tool. How does it compare to typical keyboard shortcuts?

Chewy7324,

This project is currently in a very early stage of development. Kando is not yet a functional menu but rather a prototype which demonstrates the feasibility of the concept.

Since Kando is still in early development, it might be a good idea to look at the Gnome Extension Fly-Pie. It’s from the same developer and it looks like Kando will be similar.

nayminlwin, (edited ) in Is the Windows Subsystem for Linux worth it?

Been daily driving WSL Debian for about a year on my work laptop, without systemd and display server. At first, I was really only using it for application servers that just won’t run or too tedious to run on windows. But windows is just terrible for dev work that’s not part of windows eco system. So I found myself slowly moving most of my dev stuff to WSL. There are still some problems though.

Off the top of my head, first is neovim and the system clipboard. I can use clip.exe but there’s a problem with unicode characters. It’s expecting some UTF-16 encoding or something but my bash is in UTF-8. And somehow that messes up copying some unicode characters. I have to either use iconv to convert the encoding before copying or may be change my bash encoding.

Another recent problem I had is binding WSL ports to the window host’s network. WSL automatically binds the service ports to host window’s localhost with the same port number, which is pretty useful. But it only binds to localhost address. If you want it to bind to other addresses, you can’t configure it. You can to run some kind of a patch program someone wrote, that rebinds WSL ports the wildcard address. And it doesn’t work very well if the patch program’s version and your WSL’s versions are not compatible.

Another minor problem is that there’s some kind of a freeze that lasts for about a minute when I’m doing fzf in bash. It happens sporadically. I’m not entirely sure if the problem’s with Windows Terminal or WSL. It’s likely WSL. It seems to happen with other terminal emulators as well.

All in all, WSL makes having to be on windows a whole lot bearable. I’ll probably end up using only rudimentary UI apps on windows and move the rest to WSL.

albsen, in Best distro for Lenovo Carbon X1
  1. you’re likely describing hibernate not suspend suspend has different states and the most common one is suspend to ram which needs a low concurrent supply of power and that’s on all laptops the default - certainly on all thinkpads I own
  2. check the systemd configuration file for your close lid actions such as suspend
  3. hibernate means the machine is completely off and only works if you installed the OS in a specific way (please search how to install fedora to do this)
  4. fedora is not superbly newbie friendly, maybe try ubuntu, linux mint or popos which usually work out of the box
avidamoeba, (edited ) in The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers - Phoronix
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca avatar

So much for the legendary hardware support of Linux!

Edit: Forgot “/s”, but look at this lively discussion!

Lettuceeatlettuce,
@Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml avatar

Lol you haven’t upgraded your GPU since the late 90’s?

db2,

You know there’s a whole hobby of keeping older hardware running, right?

Lettuceeatlettuce, (edited )
@Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml avatar

You know that you can use older versions of the Linux kernel, right?

db2,

You know security vulnerabilities are a thing, right?

patatahooligan,
@patatahooligan@lemmy.world avatar

Linux 6.1 will be maintained for another 10 years by the CIP. The hardware in question will be almost 40 years old at that point. I don’t have a violin small enough for users losing free support after 40 years from maintainers who most likely don’t even own the same hardware to test on…

interdimensionalmeme,

On the other hand, they were probably unchanged for decades. Did anything really change, or is this just a case of we need to remove 500k lines of code, what is most useless ? Let’s cut that.

In other words, removed because it’s a KPI to remove lines, and this makes number go up.

saigot, (edited )

So if it’s been unchanged for decades then you can just add it yourself and recompile the kernel. Elsewhere you argue that you can’t just add old drivers to a newer kernel, which implies these drivers require some nontrivial amount of maintaince. Which is it.

patatahooligan,
@patatahooligan@lemmy.world avatar

Keeping code around isn’t free. Interfaces change, regressions pop up. You have to occasionally put in work just to keep it in a working state. Usually in cases like this there are discussions on the mailing list about who is going to maintain them and nobody volunteers. You can do that if you’re so passionate about keeping these drivers around.

interdimensionalmeme,

They were fine all this time, what changed suddenly ? I bet it’s the security nerds stirring shit, making it all a liability and easier deleted than fixed.

radioactiveradio, (edited )

You know there’s nothing to gain by hacking those old systems, right?

Lettuceeatlettuce,
@Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml avatar

I know what you mean, I’m so pissed that my 1978 Space Invaders arcade machine doesn’t even support WiFi-6.

BeardedGingerWonder,

Fuckin a

Bitrot,
@Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

If only they contributed to the kernel maintenance workload.

axum,
@axum@kbin.social avatar

You're free to use legacy kernels or run your own fork.

demonsword, (edited )
@demonsword@lemmy.world avatar

I doubt any hardware 25+ years can even run a modern vanilla linux kernel, you’d have to compile it yourself with some serious customization for it even work

bruhduh, in The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers - Phoronix
@bruhduh@lemmy.world avatar

For all worrying about it I’d like to say, you can re-add driver code and compile your own kernel, and everything will be working fine, and last time I’ve read wiki there’s SLTC support for Linux 6.1 means your GPUs will be officially supported until 2033

waigl,

AMD and nVidia on Windows: So your GPU is still very capable and useful for almost everything including most gaming tasks, but it’s a couple years old and not making us money any more? Sucks to be you, have fun hunting for unmaintained legacy drivers with likely security holes from questionable sources.

Linux: Your video card is from a long bygone era of computing, before the term “GPU” was a thing, and basically a museum piece by now? We’ll maintain a long-term support version for you for the next ten years.

bruhduh,
@bruhduh@lemmy.world avatar

True true)

BeardedGingerWonder,

Only 10 more years, it’s fucking ridiculous

fushuan, in Is the Windows Subsystem for Linux worth it?

It’s the best if you convince your boss that you need it for work in your non admin privilege system because you can sudo inside there so you can install whatever.

bizdelnick, in Using Linux for the first time

You can install any general purpose distro (debian, opensuse or one of that others suggested) with a lighwwight DE (LXQT, Xfce, MATE) and it will work well. However when you run a browser and open several tabs with heavy websites it will become very slow. It does not matter what distro you use. You need 8G+ of RAM for comfortable web serfing nowadays.

BetaDoggo_, in The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers - Phoronix

Dropping support after only 25 years? I can’t believe Linux is contributing to planned obsolescence.

teawrecks, in Noob question: what to arrange before switching to linux

If you don’t have a secondary windows device, I recommend dual booting, or immediately setting up a windows VM. Beyond that, you’re over thinking it, and by that I mean, you’ll never think of everything. There will always be some little thing that you’ll have a dependency on windows for, and that’s why you have a secondary windows install handy.

redcalcium, in The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers - Phoronix

ATI Rage 128, 3Dfx, S3 Savage, Intel 810, SiS, VIA and Matrox MGA DRM drivers

Those are some ancient cards! Can’t believe they’re supported this long.

KISSmyOS,

That brings me back to my first PC build, 20 years ago, using parts my friends had discarded cause they were too old.

addie,
@addie@feddit.uk avatar

I still have a Rage 128 hanging around as a ‘temporary head’ for installing headless servers. Many happy nights playing Thief: The Dark Project with it, and now it’s only good for rendering a TTY at a barely acceptable resolution. And soon, not even that. Goodbye, little e-waste :-(

grue,

Frame it and hang it on the wall.

ICastFist,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Surround it with the box art of the games it powered so many years ago for extra nostalgia power

gary_host_laptop, in kando: 🥧 The Cross-Platform Pie Menu.
@gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml avatar

I wonder what’s the difference between this and Fly Pie, like, why did he stop developing the first and started the latter.

min_fapper,

He says so in the readme

Chewy7324,

I have been working on Fly-Pie for more than 3 years now and I am very happy with the result. However, I have always wanted to create a similar application for the desktop in general. This is why I started this project.

christophski, in COSMIC Edit with project-wide search

Nice! I’m intrigued by pop os

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