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flubba86, in What are people daily driving these days?

Nobara these days. It’s based on Fedora 38.

TheGrandNagus, in PipeWire 1.0 Released For Managing Audio/Video Steams On The Linux Desktop

For a long time, people shat all over pipewire and said it wasn’t viable as a replacement for the existing Linux audio stack, but clearly that hasn’t ended up being the case

flying_sheep,
@flying_sheep@lemmy.ml avatar

I’ve heard nothing but good, and replacing Pulseaudio was painless. It was Pulseaudio that people hated on in my experience

Supermariofan67,

When it was brand new there were some edge case bugs that broke on certain workflows and hardware, but that’s pretty much entirely fixed now and I’m guessing for a long time now it’s been more universally stable than pulseaudio was.

Also, some people just pointlessly dislike anything that’s new, or because it breaks their spacebar heating

Shareni, in Preparing to move from Ubuntu to Fedora

Check out Nobara. I’ve recently moved to Fedora and it skips a lot of the early hassle.

bjoern_tantau, in PipeWire 1.0 Released For Managing Audio/Video Steams On The Linux Desktop
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

I’ve seen so many audio changes on Linux. But Pipewire is the first one without any negatives.

Helix,

Yeah it’s basically Pulseaudio, but better. The devs have done a great job on iterating upon the already pretty good pulseaudio!

gens,

It’s more like JACK for desktop. PA was never good, just obvious bad design.

Pat_Riot, in What are people daily driving these days?
@Pat_Riot@lemmy.today avatar

Threads like this are exactly what keeps a good few of us from ever getting started. Lol. Good fun to read through though. One day I’ll pick a distro and give it a whirl. Till then, thanks for the entertainment.

elia169,

Aren't people just responding to the question being asked though?

homesweethomeMrL,

Lots of aficionados maybe

Pat_Riot,
@Pat_Riot@lemmy.today avatar

Some of us really just want the computer to work. It’s mostly just a fancy tape recorder to me.

Pat_Riot,
@Pat_Riot@lemmy.today avatar

They are. They didn’t do anything wrong. I’m just frustrated.

xohshoo,

what’s the problem? Happy to help if I can

these days it’s pretty easy to just pick one and go, but you can still run into issues, and for people new to linux it can be frustruating for sure. When I started using linux, I didn’t even really know what a terminal was, so a lot of the stuff I would read on forums etc (it was a long time ago) I couldn’t even put into practice. I once got insulted for asking a dumb question with both RTFM and PEBCAC but didn’t even know I had been insulted. Just kept plugging away and eventually got it going. I think PCLinuxOS was the first distro I ran seriously as a “daily driver” and I think that stuck because the community on the forums was the friendliest

kpw,

You sound like those people that "can't use Mastodon" because they have to choose a server first and that's too complicated.

Pat_Riot,
@Pat_Riot@lemmy.today avatar

You sound like those people who bitch about Microsoft having a monopoly on home computer operating systems while gatekeeping the fuck out of Linux. Get fucked, man.

kpw,

Where am I gatekeeping Linux?? Also I don't care what other people use that's entirely their problem.

Thorned_Rose,
@Thorned_Rose@kbin.social avatar

I would just move on. Some people have a bee in their bonnet and can't look past their own problems and see why other folks might find certain discussions useful.

Personally, when I was first looking at switching to Linux (and then through distro hopping) I found discussion like these great as I could see other people's reasons for choosing the distro they did.

blotz,
@blotz@lemmy.world avatar

Not sure why people are downvoting this person. They aren’t wrong that Linux enthusiast threads can make it scary for new users to try Linux out. Unfortunately, I did want to see what Linux enthusiasts are running and why they picked it, which is why I made this thread.

If you are a new user trying to get into Linux, I wouldn’t recommend some suggestions in this thread as advice for picking a distro. When I was getting into Linux, I attempted to go straight into DWM/arch because another Linux enthusiast thread said it was great. Needless to say, I had a terrible time.

It doesn’t actually matter distro what you pick, so long as you have fun with it and it is useable! :)

Pat_Riot,
@Pat_Riot@lemmy.today avatar

I hurt them in their safe space. I don’t know why. My comment was made lightly. I read all the threads. This one read just like the last “where do I start” thread, and that was all I was saying at the time. It got me in a fight with one guy. Whatever. I’m just trying not to have a rough time when I finally pull the trigger so I read. My mistake was chiming in. Lesson learned. I’ll come back when I blow up my machine i guess and let everyone tell me how stupid I was to try whatever it is I finally try. All I want is something that works and software that does what I want. I’m afraid I may be asking too much.

nezach, in What are people daily driving these days?

Endeavouros on Laptop and main PC. Loving it.

reddit_sux, in What are people daily driving these days?

I use Arch BTW…

Joking aside I use Arch on my desktop, Raspbian on RPi1, Debian on homeserver and VMs.

NixDev,

I have 2 PCs running Arch currently. My SBC is running Ubuntu but that is just a print service for my 3d printer. I have a few Ubuntu & Fedora vns for testing and self study

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

Gentoo on desktop, gentoo on Rock64, gentoo on Allwinner A10 device, gentoo on Powerbook G4(don’t ask why I have it). Ah, and OpenWRT on router.

https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2020/9/24/2451747.png

Ultimatenab, in New to Linux, have a few questions

After contemplating for 3-4 years about switching my main rig to Linux, I did it on Friday just gone.

Note for the below, I have a full AMD system.

  • I went with Garuda Dragonized distro as it is gaming focused and has all the game related stuff included.
  • took me less than 30mins going from gaming on Win11 to Linux, but I did the research before.
  • there are a few tweaks if you use Steam but you have Lutris to help you.
  • of the 35 ish games installed, all of them work without issues, but they need updating once you enable compatibility to Proton.
  • the default theme is too flashy but you can select to bring it down a few notches

Technical

  • if you have secondary SSD or HDD, dedicated to games or files like I did, it is advisable to have them backed up to an external drive as you will need to re-partition them from NTFS to use them properly in Linux
  • with Garuda Dragonized Gaming, all drivers are installed but follow the Wizard at the beginning and check all that apply to you. It will save you time.

Good luck and looking forward to having you on Linux!

derrg, in What are people daily driving these days?
@derrg@lemmy.world avatar

Pop!_OS on my desktop and laptop since 2020.

MrBubbles96, in What are people daily driving these days?

Arch + XFCE on my desktop. Have been for a while now, and everytime i try something else, I always come back to it. For my laptop, I’ve been using Gnome + extensions (Arch as well. That way I don’t gotta switch gears and remember two different sets of commands) before i had to take it in for repairs. Was pretty good because of the mousepad gestures IMO.

owenfromcanada, in What are people daily driving these days?
@owenfromcanada@lemmy.world avatar

I’m using Mint, but I’ve avoided using flatpaks (generally downloading DEB packages directly, or adding ppa sources). It’s worked pretty well so far.

I do have a handful of AppImages, but they’re a bit easier to work with.

WeLoveCastingSpellz,

Why avoid using Flatpaks if you don’t mind me asking

owenfromcanada,
@owenfromcanada@lemmy.world avatar

Two reasons: they’re big, and they’re sandboxed.

I was on a 5Mbit connection until recently, so a lot of flatpaks being 1GB+ was frustrating (especially when their native packages were <100MB). And I was using a 250GB SSD, which filled up rather quickly.

And it turns out I wasn’t a fan of the sandboxing aspect. In theory it should be a good thing, but turned out to be frustrating.

WeLoveCastingSpellz,

Thanks for the answer, I bever relized that they were larger

ikidd, in What are people daily driving these days?
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

After years of Manjaro (and I still use it on most of my computers), I’m trying out Nobara KDE to see how it keeps up for gaming. It has a number of optimizations that Glorious Eggroll has compiled and seems pretty fast compared to Manjaro on the same hardware. I imagine I could do all the changes on Manjaro, but I also wanted to see how Fedora runs these days, it’s been a long time since I used it on the daily.

So far, so good.

pr06lefs, in What are people daily driving these days?

nixos + xmonad + xfce-no-desktop here. Its not for noobs perhaps but so stable and confidence inspiring.

markkdark, (edited ) in What are people daily driving these days?

Arch + Hyprland on my Notebook, Endeavor OS + Gnome PC (11years old PC), 2x Khadas VIM3L + Kodi (Coreelec), home server Odroid + Armbian.

pelotron,
@pelotron@midwest.social avatar

<3 Hyprland

Vqhm, in Broke a partition. Is there any way of saving it?

Two tools worth using:

DMDE

Photorec

If the data is extremely important make a back up first.

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