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fuggadihere, in A bit off topic but Divested computing is in need of funding. They maintain divest os and Mull among other things.

Donated

dario,

Me too.

GravitySpoiled, in openSUSE Tumbleweed Monthly Update - January

Why is firefox one version behind?

MyNameIsRichard,
@MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml avatar

The latest version probably hasn’t passed qc yet

aniki, in AMD Publishes XDNA Linux Driver: Support For Ryzen AI On Linux

I would so much rather run AMD than Nvidia for AI.

possiblylinux127,

I’ll run which ever doesn’t require a bunch of proprietary software. Right now its neither.

domi,
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AMD’s ROCm stack is fully open source (except GPU firmware blobs). Not as good as Nvidia yet but decent.

Mesa also has its own OpenCL stack but I didn’t try it yet.

possiblylinux127,

AMD ROCm needs the AMD Pro drivers which are painful to install and are proprietary

domi,
@domi@lemmy.secnd.me avatar

It does not.

ROCm runs directly through the open source amdgpu kernel module, I use it every week.

possiblylinux127, (edited )

How and with what card? I have a XFX RX590 and I just gave up on acceleration as it was slow even after I initially set it up.

domi, (edited )
@domi@lemmy.secnd.me avatar

I use an 6900 XT and run llama.cpp and ComfyUI inside of Docker containers. I don’t think the RX590 is officially supported by ROCm, there’s an environment variable you can set to enable support for unsupported GPUs but I’m not sure how well it works.

AMD provides the handy rocm/dev-ubuntu-22.04:5.7-complete image which is absolutely massive in size but comes with everything needed to run ROCm without dependency hell on the host. I just build a llama.cpp and ComfyUI container on top of that and run it.

possiblylinux127,

That’s good to know

AnneBonny, in Switched from Ubuntu to Debian yesterday

KDE is the default DE for Debian these days?

haui_lemmy,

No, gnome is. But debian in opposition to ubuntu gives you a choice at install. You can use gnome, kde, cinnamon and a couple others which I forgot.

AnneBonny,

debian in opposition to ubuntu gives you a choice at install

That’s nice.

haui_lemmy, (edited )

Indeed. It feels very mature and no nonsense like, all over. The only thing that bothers me a bit are some „qol things“ like being able to switch mirrors if you made a bad choice or to easily choose german keyboard while leaving the OS in english for easier troubleshooting online.

So the pattern here seems to be „debian shows that it is community made and you can help make it better in opposition to ubuntu which is commercial and your participation helps both the community and the company“

worldsayshi, (edited )

Is it gnome 3 (shell)?

haui_lemmy,

I have no idea. Sorry.

worldsayshi,

After a bit of searching I think people generally mean gnome 3 when they say gnome and gnome 2 is now known as Mate.

haui_lemmy,

Ah! Got it! Thanks.

cybersandwich,

I get that you have the choice at install on debian which is nice, but the flavors and choices of Ubuntu (eg kubuntu ) are super readily available when making your install media. And I unless you are making it a game time decision as you go through the installer, which I doubt most people are, this seems like an incredibly trivial distinction.

haui_lemmy,

Thats viewing it only from one angle. People who are not totally familiar with what desktop environments are might not even consider kubuntu, lubuntu or xubuntu since they are viewed as seperate OSes by some.

Having this menu is very easy to implement but the possibilities are great.

cybersandwich,

Fair point

Aurenkin, in NVIDIA 550 Linux Beta Driver Released With Many Fixes, VR Displays & Better (X)Wayland

That sounds great. The last driver they released fixed Starfield but broke Cyberpunk for me, pretty bad trade. Hopefully this rolls around to my distro soon

KarnaSubarna,
@KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml avatar

It’s still in Beta stage.

Aurenkin,

All good, plenty of games to play. Definitely my last time buying NVIDIA though.

menemen,
@menemen@lemmy.world avatar

That is what I said last time and them I did it again, because the Black Friday deal was so sweat. Defintly regretting it already.

scytale, in openSUSE Tumbleweed Monthly Update - January

Haven’t tried openSUSE Tumbleweed yet but I heard it’s a great stable rolling release distro. I might give it a try. How’s the package manager?

GravitySpoiled,

It’s great, there’s a toolbx/distrobox image, check it out


<span style="color:#323232;">$ toolbox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/opensuse-toolbox:tumbleweed
</span><span style="color:#323232;">$ toolbox enter opensuse-toolbox-tumbleweed
</span>

I’d go for the atomic version nowadays

mholiv,

Good but slow. Zypper has nice features but for some reason it can only download one package at a time. There is a GitHub issue about this that has been around for years.

ashley, in Distro for 2013 iMac
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anything that isnt very hard to run should be fine. ive personally ran a distro on an early 2012/2013 mac and it worked just fine. forgot what one but i know it was a very common mainstream one. i also somehow got kali on it so that was interesting too. if you want something easy and simple you should probably use mint or debian if they support imacs, otherwise? its really down to personal pref

Loucypher,

Yeah, the idea is something simple and stable. Stable because I don’t want to babysit the OS (I already do that at work), and simple so my wife can also use it in case of need. She only know windows so anything the comes close in terms of UI is “ok” for her. The real choice was between KDE or cinnamon. Eventually opted for Mint/Debian

Poik, in (Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?
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Hannah Montana Linux. Do I have to explain?

Chadus_Maximus,

Yes.

mvirts,

You can’t have the best of both worlds

01189998819991197253,
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I hate that I understood this joke. Take my angry upvote.

01189998819991197253,
@01189998819991197253@infosec.pub avatar

Is it because it came in like a wrecking ball?

dingus,

Sorry, I think you meant to post this in the “best distro” thread

Corngood, (edited ) in Where can I ask questions about iproute2 tools?

I don’t have any previous knowledge of this at all, but from reading the docs, nothing you’re describing sounds wrong.

A u32 selector will match 4 bytes (u32 meaning unsigned 32bit presumably, which is 4 bytes).

It makes sense that you’d only be able to configure the matches on 4 byte intervals, because keeping them aligned may make the implementation simpler and more efficient. You can still match any set of bits this way.

Perhaps you could describe what you’re trying to match exactly and the selectors you tried.

Edit: also if you look at ‘raw payload expressions’ in nft: netfilter.org/projects/nftables/manpage.html

That seems like it would do what you want, and you can actually access the ethernet header in a documented way. You have to switch to nft though.

NotAnArdvark,

I really appreciate this, thank you. I think I had confused myself by playing with ‘u16’ and ‘u8’ and somehow coming to the conclusion that they were matching the right side of a 32-bit string. (Which may still be true, but, I’m just masking u32s now).

This is what I ended up with, which is working the way I’d expect:


<span style="color:#323232;">tc filter add dev wlan0 protocol ip parent 1: prio 1 u32 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	match u32 0x30d6 0x0000ffff at -16 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	match u32 0xc92d1905 0xffffffff at -12 flowid 1:20
</span>

This sends Ethernet frames destined for 30:d6:c9:2d:19:05 to flow 1:20, and it doesn’t seem to match a second device I tested. So, all good! Thank you again.

yo_scottie_oh, in Help with external 4TB drive

Have you tried any GUI tools, e.g. Gnome Disks?

i_am_hiding,

No - I’ve been working on a headless server, and ideally I need this thing to be written into /etc/fstab and work reliably from the command line. I could plug the drive into my laptop to have a look in some GUI tools if you think there’s one around that can circumvent the sector size mismatch, but in the end I’ll need a CLI method.

yo_scottie_oh,

Gotcha. Worst case, if you can mount it using any tool (GUI or CLI), then maybe you can copy its contents to another drive, reformat it, and copy the contents back.

Frederic, in Switched from Ubuntu to Debian yesterday

Ubuntu is Debian anyway. Why not installing MX (based on Debian too) with XFCE, it is the best experience I have had.

I come from good old LFS from the 90s and for me, a distro is just a kernel with some GNU utils, a window manager, and a way to get packages (which is about the only diff between “distro”)

haui_lemmy,

Makes sense. This is also what I deduced after installing arch in a vm. Its basically just a couple options. It would be awesome to have a distro where you can just mix and match all the things.

Celediel,

It would be awesome to have a distro where you can just mix and match all the things.

You may be interested in Bedrock Linux.

haui_lemmy,

Thanks for mentioning it! I‘ll check it out!

friend_of_satan, (edited ) in Thanks for my free therapist session

The whole WM landscape of Linux was a big turn off for me. I had used CDE on Solaris before and never really thought about choosing or customizing my DE. That was one of the big reasons I ended up loving OSX (no choice of WM and very few customization options, along with globally consistent hotkeys) and ended up using that as my primary GUI Unix environment, along with headless Linux for most of the last ~20 years.

wwwgem,
@wwwgem@lemmy.ml avatar

Right. Actually one of the things I love about Linux is that it offers so many options so you can make your own combination to create the perfect system for your specific needs.
You can get all the visual distractions out of your way and tweak litterally everything to an incredible granular level. No other OS can pretend to be so user focused while staying so simple in appearance. You’re not adapting to your system, it’s built for you.

friend_of_satan, (edited )

The problem I have with customization options is that I don’t want to customize it, and when I go looking for a setting to change, I don’t want to be drowning in options that I’ll never use. The way I always thought about it is when I buy a saw or a hammer, I go straight to using it. I don’t customize my saw or hammer. That’s not why I buy them. I buy them to build things with them. The tool is not the end goal. Similarly, the DE is not the end goal. I want to spend time getting work done, not spend time customizing my environment.

Recently though I’ve been looking around again a little bit, looking for a DE that has what I want out of the box. LXDE seems closest so far.

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

We’re exactly on the same page: “the tool is not the goal”. The only difference may be that I see chosing options for an app as options for a tool. If I want to cut wood or metal I need a different saw. Even though the tool is basically the same it doesn’t serve the same purpose. Hence I configure options once and for all, like I would consider which hardware I need exactly in terms of use, ergonomic, power… before buying it.
I don’t spend time tweaking the look of a tool because it’s doesn’t fit my approach of things anymore. As such I don’t even use a DE. But I feel the need to build the right tool (i.e. system app) I need to perform a job as efficiently as possible while keeping the tool itself minimalist and as invisible as possible. On my daily use I have tools that I couldn’t live without anymore but if you ask me a list I will either forgot them or put them at the bottom because I will not think about them right away since they became a second nature.

I certainly see the comfort of the out of the box approach and it can serve a lot of people. In my use case I just realize that - using the example above - it could be like using a wood saw on metal in some cases. It may work but not as good as you would expect to have the job done properly. Also, the fit them all approach means building an app with tons of options activated and I prefer to have available to me only the options I really need. The philosophy feels less bloated to me and I’m not overloading my system with stuff I’ll never use. It’s more time consuming at first to chose the right app but with time it became quick enough and it definitely save me way more time in the long run when I use my system.

rutrum, in Thanks for my free therapist session
@rutrum@lm.paradisus.day avatar

Do you use a dock or bar? I find it hard to justify it these days. It tells me the time, thats about it.

wwwgem,
@wwwgem@lemmy.ml avatar

That’s another thing I’ve changed as well. No bar or dock anymore. I use rofi and some home made scripts to:

  • show the date/time, disk space, free ram, bluetooth devices battery level, volume, and search bar (to launch a command or a search on internet)
  • manage the volume sinks and sources
  • manage the wifi and vpn
  • manage my passwords and automatically fill forms if I ask for it
  • manage my internet bookmarks
  • search my email contacts
  • manage the clipboard
taladar, in Can I run a different GPU driver in distrobox ?

The driver runs in the kernel, distrobox still uses the host kernel as it is container based so no, you can not run two different drivers on host and in distrobox. That wouldn’t even work in a VM though unless you have a second GPU you pass through to the VM. How do you imagine one piece of hardware to be simultaneously controlled by two different drivers?

drwankingstein,

It seems highly likely they are actually talking about userland driver, not kernel driver

jerrythegenius, (edited ) in Distro for 2013 iMac
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I’m not really sure (I’ve never tried to run linux on a mac except once on a 2013 (or 2012 or 2011) 13" macbook pro (I tried ubuntu and debian stable) but the keyboard was playing up and the trackpad didn’t work while it was charging (all hardware problems, they happened in macos as well)(this was in 2021 or 2022)), but given the age of your device any modern distros should be fine.

Unforeseen,

Installed Mint on a 2013 Macbook pro retina a few months ago, only thing not working for me was screen brightness with the proprietary Nvidia driver but was able to correct it.

Otherwise it’s great

jerrythegenius,
@jerrythegenius@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah just had a look, mine’s an early 2011 13" macbook pro with 4GB ram, i5 or i7 cpu, a broken 500GB HDD, a trackpad that doesn’t work if it’s charging, and also the keyboard will randomly spam “m” (or maybe it’s “b”). I could probs fix it, but idk if it’d be worth it lol

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