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TheAnonymouseJoker, in What happens when Linus dies/retires?
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The role of Linus being a stubborn decision maker will be handed over to a competent close one to Linus. He is not letting any of the “sociopolitical” experts take over the tech role that Linux plays critical to servers, security users, militaries, governments and activists.

IAm_A_Complete_Idiot, (edited )

Linus has stepped away from kernel development before, and probably will again. Life continues on.

wetferret, (edited ) in Copy this code and paste it in the CLI. And no, it's not a forkbomb.
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If you want to run some less low-level code to explore the kinds of sounds that code like this can create, I wrote a python applet that lets you explore random and custom functions interactively. It comes with several presets for interesting functions I’ve discovered on various websites.

YouTube video

source code

Frederic, in cheapest new computer running linux <$500

less than $500? There’s literally tons of them

For instance www.amazon.com/…/B0B82N3WM5

owen,

In addition to Beelink I’ve heard good things about Minisforum’s mini PCs, they might run a little more expensive overall though

Frederic,

Yes, both are well known and (even if sometimes some people says they have lemons, for both bands) pretty solid, mine is 14 months old and runs 8h/day as my work PC

sxan,
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I think a lot of these must share a bunch of components. I really like my TRIGKEY, especially the Ryzen 5 ($270). Everything worked OOTB with Linux (I didn’t even boot into Windows before wiping it), the fan never ran unless under load, and it was super easy to open and upgrade. I also got the Ryzen 7; the wifi module doesn’t have a supported driver (under Linux), the hardware is harder to access, and it runs significantly hotter - so I recommend the Ryzen 5.

GustavoM, in Yes, Ubuntu Is Withholding Security Patches for Some Software
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You guys 'member when security patches were (freely) given away, for free, without asking nothing back?

I 'member.

Looks like the “Windowsfied Linux” era is upon us.

Dirk,
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That’s the problem with “corporate Linux”[^1]. They see their users as customers only.

[^1]: Directly or indirectly owned by a for-profit organization of any type or directly or indirectly dependent on such an organization.

Guenther_Amanita, (edited ) in Help. Various games stopped working and i have no idea how to diagnose the issues

Thanks for the great and detailled report. Here’s an upvote for you :)

Maybe you can try another prefix, like using Wine/ Proton 7.x instead of the current 8.x. Or try the GE-versions.

That’s what helped me the most so far, but I didn’t have many issues by now.

Also, those glitches sound like a faulty GPU or driver. Maybe try a live USB and launch a game from that with another distro like Fedora?

Have you checked out ProtonDB if the games work OOTB or require some tweaks?

dynamo,

Thx.

Changing prefixes either does nothing, or makes it worse which would be the case for the ones that do start.

Probably not a GPU issue, as these glitches only occurvin the listed games.

Regarding protondb (an winedb too i guess) the games are, at worst, silver rated.

theshatterstone54, (edited ) in wayland, not even once

This OUTDATED article gets posted all the time. The full story is the guy is a massive FreeBSD fan so he is trying to convince more people to keep on using Xorg because he wants to make sure it isn’t abandoned. Reason for that being that Wayland is built with Linux in mind and would not work under FreeBSD without a lot of effort bwing put in as it uses some Linux-specific components or libraries.

Edit: Decided to write a response because I’m tired of this ancient and incorrect article being reposted. Please read it, correct any mistakes in the comments, etc. Thank you.

backhdlp, in 10 YouTube Channels Linux Users Should Explore
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TL;DR:

  1. The Linux Cast
  2. The Linux Experiment
  3. Veronica Explains
  4. DistroTube
  5. TechHut
  6. Chris Titus Tech
  7. Nicco Loves Linux
  8. Gardiner Bryant
  9. Learn Linux TV
  10. InfinitelyGalactic
OsrsNeedsF2P, (edited ) in Can someone ELI5 why some apps need to support X11/wayland?

In the case of Waydroid, it depends on features only available in Wayland; simple as that.

There are some applications (like autoclickers) that depend on features only available in X, as well (mainly because they directly ask X to do something)

Grass, in Why does the new version of Kubuntu take longer to start the wifi connection?

You could probably fix this with some troubleshooting. That’s all I ever did on Ubuntu and it’s derivatives.

hunger, in wayland, not even once
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Yes, wayland by design does not let random applications grab events intended for other applications nor does it let random applications take screenshots at any point in time showing other applications screens. This requires applications to do screen sharing differently, and it indeed breaks random applications sending events to random other applications. That is basically all you wail about and an absolutely necessary property of any sensible system and it is very embarrassing that it took so long to get this.

akash_rawal, in Copy this code and paste it in the CLI. And no, it's not a forkbomb.

imgur.com/8p7oPbp

spoilerIt’s fine guys, I ran it in a VM with no networking.

Hairyblue, in Firefox (finally) enables Wayland by default on their builds
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I want everyone to move over to Wayland too.

I use my Linux PC for gaming. Last time I tried Steam/Nvidia with Wayland I could only get one game to launch. So hopefully those 2 will work on making Wayland happen for us.

thequickben,

I upgraded my graphics card to an AMD one because of this. It’s been two weeks for me using Linux for gaming and I love it.

Hairyblue, (edited )
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I have always liked Nvidia for years. When I moved to Linux, the Nvidia drivers have been working great on X11. I am currently playing Baldur's Gate 3 and I have DLSS 2 turned on and get frame rates at 100. Looks great and awesome game. But I know Wayland is the future and want Nvidia to work well with it and Steam. I will get an AMD if I have to but my card is still great and I am not looking for a new one yet.

Flaky,
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NVIDIA has been notoriously problematic with Wayland from what I heard. When I bought my current rig I made sure AMD was powering the graphics.

MentalEdge,
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When I first attempted to give Wayland a try, it just wouldn’t work. Did some troubleshooting but stuck with X11 for the time being.

About a month ago I gave logging into a Wayland session a try on a whim, and it just worked. Everything was fine, only difference was a change is mouse sensitivity.

joyjoy, (edited )

When you have a HiDPI screen, wayland is a must. X11 just doesn’t have good support for it in my experience.

aard,
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There’s a lot of other stuff where Wayland improves the experience. Pretty much everything hotplug works to some extend on X, but it’s all stuff that got bolted on later. Hotplugging an input device with a custom keymap? You probably can get it working somewhat reliably by having udev triggers call your xmodmap scripts - or just use a Wayland compositor handling that.

Similar with xrandr - works a lot of the time nowadays, but still a compositor just dealing with that provides a nicer experience.

Plus it stops clients from doing stupid things - changing resolutions, moving windows around or messing up what is focused is also a thing of the past.

WeLoveCastingSpellz, (edited )

I have had the same problem for a long time but I tried it again last friday, on an nvidia card still, games worked after an update or two

Hairyblue,
@Hairyblue@kbin.social avatar

I was waiting for Nvidia drivers 545 to try again, but I checked last weekend and Ubuntu still had 535 drivers. I hear Nvidia did a lot of fixes for wayland on the new drivers.

WeLoveCastingSpellz,

I am on nobara for all that matters

nobloat, (edited ) in wayland, not even once

Had me at “References >> 5 years old Chris Titus Tech YouTube video”

_cnt0, in wayland, not even once

Doesn’t it get tiring to create new accounts only to post the same stuff time and time again, only to get it downvoted, removed, and banned time and time again? What do you get out of it? Do you masturbate to the comment sections?

KISSmyOS, (edited ) in wayland, not even once

Isn’t it weird what people get worked up about?
Just keep using X11 with twm, SysV init, LILO and Alsa on your 32bit BIOS IBM Thinkpad.
It all still works, and YOU can keep it maintained yourself, that’s the beauty of FOSS.

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