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Pantherina, in What happens when Linus dies/retires?

Nothing. But I would love a microkernel approach like redoxOS. Monolithic kernel is such a bloat?

lauha,

Get on with it then.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Guy: I wish I had a flying car.

You: Invent one then.

pelotron,
@pelotron@midwest.social avatar

My megabytes D=

luthis,

Can’t you compile your own kernel with exactly the things you want? Would be a fun project to do

Pantherina,

True. Funny idea I should totally do this. This is how you learn Linux. Like a kernel for exactly your hardware specs!

luthis,

I have doubts you would see any performance increases, and if you change your hardware you’ll be in for a tough time but it would be a fun learning experience!

Pantherina,

Thats a question I have. I have two laptops, a shitty amd ryzen thinkpad t495 and a fancy soon-to-be-corebooted Clevo NV41MZ with i7-11** cpu. Pretty crazy performance difference although the chassis and keyboard suck. But if I get the keyboard I want to simply swap drives, as there is nothing fancy, this should just work right?

kogasa, (edited )
@kogasa@programming.dev avatar

Swapping CPU manufacturers entirely? I’d just start my kernel config fresh. Pull up the old one next to a new (default ) one and go down line by line. Odds are there are at most a few flags that would need to be changed, but it’s a good chance to reevaluate your previous decisions too.

Pantherina,

I havent made any specific kernel changes, its just standard Fedora :D

luthis,

Um… I’m going to choose to phone a friend on this one…

Oh, …I have no friends who would know.

My instinct is you’re going to need to journalctl -b and see what modprobe and udev are up to.

Overspark,

This used to be the norm, not a weird thing that noone has thought of before. If you do this your kernel will be a lot smaller, boot faster, and be a bit more secure. Once you’re booted it won’t make any meaningful speed difference though.

kogasa,
@kogasa@programming.dev avatar

It makes a HUGE difference in compile time. Which only matters if you’re building your own kernel anyway. It’s a solution for its own problem.

I think it’s a good learning experience though. There is genuinely a lot of stuff in there that you can easily, safely remove, and reading up on all the less obvious flags is fun.

downhomechunk,
@downhomechunk@midwest.social avatar

Yep. When you have an 800mb HD and 16mb of EDO RAM, you only load what you need. The boot speed was unreal at the time compared to windows.

selokichtli, in One single partition for Linux versus using a partition table?

They are probably using timeshift or some advanced feature in btrfs to auto-generate snapshots so they can go back to a working state using one of them.

The way you do it is probably getting old. I say this because I do the same, but to use several distros with a shared home partition, provided I have the same GID and UID for the users. This is not recommended but only once I’ve had a problem and it was easy to solve, so I kept doing it. Installed Fedora recently with defaults in one partition and they use one fat partition (EFI), and one btrfs partition with a logical volume and some unfamiliar partitioning. I think we are maybe missing some new technologies.

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.

dewritoninja, in What happens when Linus dies/retires?

Then the propheciced hurdnus will rise and awaken a new era of foss

nitrogenez,
@nitrogenez@lemmy.world avatar

fuck i really struggled to pronounce that even in my head, jesus.

signor, in Help. Various games stopped working and i have no idea how to diagnose the issues

Have you rebooted your system or tried selecting a previous kernel version upon boot to see if the problem remains?

dynamo,

GZDoom and Orcs Must Die 1 work now, everything else still the same

possiblylinux127, in Yes, Ubuntu Is Withholding Security Patches for Some Software

Frankly this isn’t terrible. I’m sure there was a valid reason.

Oh snap

Skia, in cheapest new computer running linux <$500

Grab any older Thinkpad from backmarket.com and you’re good to go!

theshatterstone54, in Should I install Linux on my smartphone?

For a spare phone if you want to just tinker and have fun, go ahead. For a main devicez just. Don’t. It is very very alpha quality software.

mortalic, (edited ) in AMD+Wayland+dual monitor = Screen flickering

I have this same issue, but not for a TV. Just a normal Asus monitor. If I use my laptop built-in panel and the gaming monitor, it happens less. If I enable a third monitor, it happens nearly every time I try to log back in.

Sleep/standby is disabled on mine cuz no distro I’ve found can work properly with it so it’s just turning the monitors back on really.

It also happens exiting a game sometimes.

I’ve found waiting it out doesn’t work, I have to fight through it to open display settings and disable one of the external monitors, then hit revert. Then it’s back to normal.

Edit adding some info since our hardware is different: Lenovo legion slim Nvidia 4050 ryzen 5 Kubuntu 23.10

Marduk73, in Should I install Linux on my smartphone?
@Marduk73@sh.itjust.works avatar

Ok I’d cut through all of this and focus on your needs: phone with no spying, can’t find rom. I assume you mean your phone isn’t supported for graphene, lineage, or calyxos, or any others I missed?

Easiest way: buy a phone that is supported for the privacy minded os you want.

conc,

Hardest way: buy a PinePhone Pro Explorer edition with all the accessories. Then miss several calls and texts, and brick it 4 times.

zzzzzz,

brick it 4 times

I’d be impressed if the battery lasted long enough for that!

signor, in What is the best distro for gaming?

Just plain ol Fedora. Lots of recommends for Nobara but I doubt the performance increase from the tweaks will make much of a difference with modern hardware. I went down the “gaming distro” path years ago and it’s just not worth it imo. You do you though because whatever distro you’ll still be in go ol’ Linux.

TheAnonymouseJoker, in What happens when Linus dies/retires?
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

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.

sxan, in AMD+Wayland+dual monitor = Screen flickering
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

I was getting flickering when my monitors were on, last tine I tried Wayland a month or two ago. Probably not the same issue, but these sorts of issues is keeping me on X.

piranhaphish, in Locking + unlocking my PC with a BLE-device?

I used BlueProximity for a number of years and it was great.

It eventually became defunct, but that link appears to be a fork to bring it somewhat up to date. I have not tested this new version though since I work from home now.

Guenther_Amanita,

Thanks, I will check that out!

I just saw the original project that was abandoned and didn’t know there was a fork.

Would you recommend installing the AppImage or shall I use another approach, like AUR in Distrobox, COPR, etc.?

ad_on_is, in Help. Various games stopped working and i have no idea how to diagnose the issues
@ad_on_is@lemmy.world avatar

Can you pinpoint what you did to your system before? Did you do a system update? Did you move game files around? Did you add any repositories trying to install something that also updated other dependencies, or alike?

dynamo,

At most i updated my system and kernel, didn’t fiddle with anything else

ad_on_is,
@ad_on_is@lemmy.world avatar

I’m not familiar with mint, but maybe you can see whether you can easily downgrade to the previous version you had. And hold off on the updates until a fix is published for the broken stuff.

But before that, take a look at the mint communities and see whether it’s a known issue and whether there is a manual intervention needed to fix it. Something like “newest update broke some proton games”, etc.

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