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1984, in Looking to switch to Linux in the somewhat distant future
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

Pop OS is the best to start with, it’s awesome.

thespezfucker,

heard it works best with nividia’s gpu’s, I have an AMD GPU on a decent laptop, is that good enough?

1984,
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

Hmm I haven’t heard that Nvidia works better than Amd ever actually.

Amd drivers are included on the kernel so it will just work on all distributions. So I would give it a shot, don’t think you will have any problems. :)

LainOfTheWired,
@LainOfTheWired@lemy.lol avatar

So basically nvidia makes their drivers on Linux a pain to install and use and Linux’s creator has called them out on it in the past. So PopOS is known for having tools that make getting them working easier.

AMD on the other hand has open source drivers so they are right in the kernel. So their GPUS are just plug and play like a USB mouse

luthis, in Looking to switch to Linux in the somewhat distant future

To break from the trend (because I recommend Mint as well),

Check out the options on distrowatch.com, test out any live distros you can. When you have some understanding of GRUB then dual boot, and then triple.

Inevitably, you’re going to end up using Arch because it’s so easily managed and you get to choose each component. But it’s better if you have experience with the different components first. I completely missed out on learning RPM (package manager), I went from Mint (apt) to Arch (pacman). I did resurrect a lot of old laptops and desktops with various different distros though, and I learned Gnome and xfce, LXDE, MATE, and i3, xmonad…

There’s a lot to learn but it’s all fun, and it’s all different. When you go to a tiling window manager, you’ll understand why Windows adopted (albeit shittily) tiling in it’s latest version.

thespezfucker,

whoa, actual good info! Thank you kind stranger, i will use this!!!

ndsvw, in Looking to switch to Linux in the somewhat distant future
@ndsvw@feddit.de avatar

Maybe Debian or Ubuntu…? I started with Debian and like it.

Why don’t you try it out? Create a VM and see if you like your distro…

I think, there is even a website for this…

distrosea.com

thespezfucker,

I did make a VM for Ubuntu a few years back, it was fine

Piwix, in KDE Plasma Mobile 6 Porting Underway

Love the look of this, would love to be able to use this on my current phone

smileyhead, in openSUSE Logo Contest Concludes With Winners Selected

I am glad logo on which we knows what animal is on it won.

Quackdoc, in Flatpak can look daunting...
@Quackdoc@lemmy.world avatar

I fell for the lie of flatpak not being bloated, I just nuked flatpak from my PC since I just run arch anyways. Im not sure if repo is safe to remove. You might be able to run rmlint -g and see how much data can be deduplicated on an FS level, I never checked myself since I run f2fs, but if you run an FS with dedupe capabilities it may work for you.

Pantherina,

Flatpak uses ostree just as my system. So probably lots of the files are already deduplicated and it is not as dramatic as it seems.

drwankingstein, (edited )

It’s not as dramatic for me but it’s still bad. I myself freed at least 20 Gb from my computer when I remove flat pack and all of its crap. and migrated my apps to aur myself.

Pantherina,

So you dont have isolation from the system and a working permission system anymore…

drwankingstein,

If I need isolation, I can use fire jail. And I don’t know why I think they don’t have a working permission system. It works perfectly fine.

juli,

Why do you care about 20gigs? A 128gb SSD is 10 bucks.

ShittyKopper,

so, are you paying for it?

grinceur,
@grinceur@programming.dev avatar

i cannot fit a ssd in my phone, and i only have 16gigs of soldered emmc so yeah flatpak isn’t an option for me, i keep my aur packages…

Quackdoc,
@Quackdoc@lemmy.world avatar

I am aware of that, but even with it there’s still a decent amount of waste.

zaphodb2002, in What are you most excited when it comes to linux in 2024?

Getting my Pinephone Pro up and running, and getting away from Google forever, finally. Also I’m gonna make the jump from Arch to either Gentoo and/or Guix, I think.

KseniyaK,

Mee too. Already switched to Gentoo. I also plan on setting up my own NAS.

rah, (edited ) in Installies, a site for managing, organizing, and retrieving shell scripts for installing things on Linux and Unix-based operating systems.

shell scripts for use to install, remove, update or compile apps on Linux and Unix-based systems

https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/f812da3969350cc0b0afd5bf35ca4ffbf08cb696/hub/2019/05/22/1b710a6b-5f4d-4987-a046-c23674b221a3/picard-meme-facepalm.jpg?auto=webp&width=1200

I_like_cats, in What are you most excited when it comes to linux in 2024?

I’m hoping for COSMIC to come out. It looks so promising and the fact that they implemented the panels using wlr-layer-shell is so great. I think more desktop environments should do this for interoperability

radioactiveradio, in What are you most excited when it comes to linux in 2024?

Kde plasma 6

AlijahTheMediocre, in What are you most excited when it comes to linux in 2024?

Hoping to see Gnome make some progress on Mosaic Tiling. Also wish they’d bite the bullet already and implement a SSD fallback and go along with Hex color values and just choose named colors from there.

Hairy_MacBoon, in Kernel 6.6.6 is out 😈

Going to lock this version with versionlock and keep it permanently

taanegl,

How about just fork it, remove all previous tags and commits, then form a cult around the repo.

They say if you compile it at midnight the caves in Russia that are said to emanate the sound of hell starts sounding like a 56k modem.

d3Xt3r, in Kernel 6.6.6 is out 😈

And here’s a customary video of metalhead nerds celebrating.

kib48, in Firefox PiP doesn't stay on top in GNOME

theres an extension for that extensions.gnome.org/extension/4691/pip-on-top/

bizdelnick, in How to automatically assign classes in GRUB?

Scripts that generate grub.cfg are located in /etc/grub.d/. You can edit them to specify classes. In my system (Debian) entries you ask about are added in /etc/grub.d/10_linux and /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware.

RossoErcole, (edited )
@RossoErcole@kbin.social avatar

should I just add the class parameter in these files where it is usually supposed to be, and the files even on updates will not be changed and this will work?

bizdelnick,

These files are not changed on updates. grub.cfg will be changed, but it will contain what these scripts write into it, so if you add classes to them, they will appear in new grub.cfg.

To test that everything works as expected, backup your current grub.cfg and run sudo update-grub.

RossoErcole,
@RossoErcole@kbin.social avatar

daje, grazie! (thanks!)

RossoErcole,
@RossoErcole@kbin.social avatar

I'm not managing to get it to work on the submenu entry, only on the efi one. Don't know why

bizdelnick,

See if this entry generated by another script in this directory.

RossoErcole, (edited )
@RossoErcole@kbin.social avatar

there were 2 scripts that semeed related to that: 10_linux_proxy and 35_linux_proxy.
There is a folder called proxified scripts, and inside it there are two files: linux and os-prober

Here is the text in the linux file: https://textdoc.co/V3atnuEvcG4QlPUp

I'm not sure what to do with it

bizdelnick,

You need to add class to this line:


<span style="color:#323232;">echo "submenu '$(gettext_printf "Advanced options for %s" "${OS}" | grub_quote)' $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-advanced-$boot_device_id' {"
</span>

Insert ${CLASS} before $menuentry_id_option:


<span style="color:#323232;">echo "submenu '$(gettext_printf "Advanced options for %s" "${OS}" | grub_quote)' ${CLASS} $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-advanced-$boot_device_id' {"
</span>
RossoErcole, (edited )
@RossoErcole@kbin.social avatar

What generates is this, so I think it's from the linux proxy 35:

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/35_linux_proxy ###
submenu "Advanced Options"{
menuentry "Ubuntu, with Linux 5.15.0-91-generic" --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-5.15.0-91-generic-advanced-9e121508-86c8-407a-803d-9521d13f0be9' {
		recordfail
	savedefault
		load_video
		gfxmode $linux_gfx_mode
		insmod gzio
		if [ x$grub_platform = xxen ]; then insmod xzio; insmod lzopio; fi
		insmod part_gpt
		insmod ext2
		search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 9e121508-86c8-407a-803d-9521d13f0be9
		echo	'Loading Linux 5.15.0-91-generic ...'
		linux	/boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-91-generic root=UUID=9e121508-86c8-407a-803d-9521d13f0be9 ro  
		echo	'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
		initrd	/boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-91-generic
}

...more entries here
RossoErcole, (edited )
@RossoErcole@kbin.social avatar

it's not working, also I don't know why when I went in that line I have a \ now, that wasn't there before apparently, before $menuentry:

echo "submenu '$(gettext_printf "Advanced options for %s" "${OS}" | grub_quote)' $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-advanced-$boot_device_id' {"

(I've tried adding it also in front of ${CLASS}, leaving it only were it is, and removing it from both)

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