You can only teach someone Linux if they have a desire to learn it. If they don’t want to learn it, then they might learn that it’s “bad” or “weird” compared to mainstream OSes, which would be working backwards.
I got different colors for Kubernetes clusters. Like green for testing cluster, yellow for development and red for production. Always taking a Quick Look before I do something
I had a similar issue when I started with Hyprland to set up all the additional programs which usually come with a DE. But there are preconfigured setups which give you a “full DE” experience out of the box and you can customize from there.
I recommend SolDoesTech or My Linux for Work. Both have full guides on Youtube as well for “easy” Arch + Hyprland installs.
There’s probably a mixture of those that do and those that don’t, but I’d imagine statistically speaking there is a majority who play videogames, especially given the generation that is coding now has grown up with video games as a big part of their childhood.
The oldest crpg I ever played was called advent, because the Vax computers could only use 6 characters for file names and so the people who ported it couldn’t use the actual name “adventure.” It was basically the same as the game infocom shipped as Zork.
Apparently the original implementation was on the PDP-10 in 1976. There might have been a couple other games that predated it by a year or two, but adventure was the big one in my opinion because it led (eventually) to the creation of the infocom text based game engine and a whole line of games ranging from hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy to leather goddesses of Phobos.
Oh, damn. Thanks for finding that man. Now I’m not sure where I read his stance on closed-source art. I might be mixing that up with Torvalds stance in tivoization, but I’m not sure. It might’ve been the Lunduke interview Wzstolzing mentioned.
No he does actually mention in the middle of that that while code must be free, art is different because art is not software. I guess he’s imagining a situation where a game would have multiple licences (one licence for the code, a different one for the art assets).
Very few games would qualify for that, unfortunately. One of the few that comes to mind would be when iD released the source code to Doom 1, 2, and 3 under GPL, but with the assets still under copyright.
Somewhere im the bowels of youtube, there’s the footage of Stallman quarreling with B. Lunduke on this very question. It was a micro-scandal some 15 yrs. ago, I think.
I was afraid to say it in case you liked him but YES. When I first got into Linux I subscribed to his standalone show on youtube, but he was so god damned long winded, I can’t tolerate any of his content now, especially since he got ‘weird’
I have never owned a console, but have been playing games since I was 4 (that would be 1981). Also I can’t remember paying for anything in those days :-) Everything came on cassettes and floppies.
I made some very basic text based games back then. Nothing that anyone else would ever play :-)
(Also I am a developer, but not in the FOSS sphere)
I would be surprised if someone who games stuck entirely to open source options. Even so there are some pretty good entries out there like Shattered Pixel Dungeon. It’s pretty amazing and better than any top down SNES game I’ve ever seen.
“Due to the small number of lines of code of the Xmonad application, the use of the purely functional programming language Haskell, and recorded use of a rigorous testing procedure it is sometimes used as a baseline application in other research projects. This has included re-implementation of xmonad using the Coq proof assistant,[31] a determination xmonad is an imperative program,[32] and studies of package management relating to the NixOS linux distribution.[33]”
If your laptop periodically freezes, switching distros won’t fix it.
Identifying the underlying issue (which is most likely a hardware defect) would be a better use of your time.
Your first step would be to try and reproduce the issue. See under what circumstances it happens. See if it happens from a live USB or only from your installed system (If it does, this eliminates the SSD as most probable culprit). Do a RAM test. Then ask for help with further trouble-shooting.
I’ve spoken to another user who has the same issue as me and they made a couple suggestions including disabling certain options in BIOS or trying a distribution with a newer kernel.
At first I thought it was issues with iGPU and dGPU switching but I’m beginning to suspect that’s not the case.
Reproducing when it freezes is a challenge because it’s very inconsistent and does not leave and crash reports.
The only improvement I’ve seen yet is switching from Linux Mint 21.2 to LMDE 6 but the kernel is still older compared to the versions that I was suggested for my hardware.
I would like to try a newer kernel just for the sake of trying.
I feel you. The bugs that get the machine to crash and you have zero chance of getting any useful debug information, are by far the most annoying ones.
In my experience it’s most of the time some driver issues in the kernel or the (NVidia) proprietary drivers. Or an hardware issue. On Debian I can install several kernel versions alongside each other. So there would be no need for me to install more than one distribution. Most of the times a proper crash isn’t caused by the userspace anyways, so it boils down to the different kernel versions and configurations anyways. You could also try an older kernel.
On my debian machine something like journalctl -b 1 -k shows stuff. There’s also lots of debug files in /var/log/ like boot.logdebug, kern.log, messages, syslog.
But it somehow needs to be able to store the log on your disk. If the system craps out completely, it won’t get written to disk. The magic SysRequest keys might help if it only freezes. I learned “Raising elephants is so utterly boring.” You might wanna goggle that and learn how to do it.
Other than that, I mostly look at all logs (no ‘-b1’ and search for the place where it rebooted. Sometimes you find other related stuff while scrolling. But my own (old) thinkpad doesn’t ever crash.
I think there are other crash-dump tools available. It believe there’s something called ‘kdump-tools’ available on Debian. YMMV.
I have an AMD + AMD setup but apparently the Dell G5 series has issues with linux so it’s been an uphill challenge.
I did see that LMDE 6 makes it easy to boot different kernels at startup which is handy. I tried looking at Liquorix Kernel but I don’t think it’s ready for LMDE 6 just yet. I can’t recall exactly why but I got a big nope when trying to download it. I think I tried looking at the Zen Kernel as well but couldn’t figure out if it’s just for Arch or if it’s compatible with Debian.
Too much to learn and now enough hours or attention span. Slow progress but I guess it’s a thing to do besides watching my plants grow.
pages like this also suggest things like updating the BIOS and the graphics card firmware with some AMD tool. And I’ve read several times you should try the kernel parameter amdgpu.runpm=0
Make sure to do all of that first. And observe if the freezes happen in certain circumstances. Maybe you can deduct something from that. Maybe it happens while gaming (GPU). Or when under load. Or if you move it around (loose connection), or when hot or after a certain time even if idle. Disable power management and see if that helps. Should be less effort than installing 5 operating systems. (If the crash isn’t super rare) And try using the magic SysReq keys to force linux to sync and reboot to see if the kernel is still alive somehow.
Fortunately I updated my BIOS from windows before switching to Linux and as of recently, I still have the latest version.
I added amdgpu.runpm=0 and that did increase stability considerably. My system froze up way less often which was great.
I also found that adding processor.max_cstate=1 has made my system even more stable and I haven’t had a freeze up in days now. This page gives a nice run down of what it does.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a freeze up in the future but overall my system has been a lot more stable making everything far more enjoyable.
Maybe just start with the different versions available in your distro’s package manager. I’ve never downloaded a custom kernel from somewhere else. (Well, I have but that was embedded stuff and not a desktop computer.)
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