I read that a lot, but my RTX4080 works quite well on linux. I’m running gnome with wayland on openSUSE tumbleweed. According to lemmy and reddit, that should be a disaster combination.
I used to have problems and visual glitches with text in flatpaks (like VS code, or Spotify, the text would be bugged), but as of the latest drivers that is fixed.
From my experience on Fedora, my advice is that after a new kernel installs, don’t restart immediately, give it a minute or two to build the nvidia drivers for that kernel. If you are signing them for secure boot i guess the recommended wait is 5 minutes.
I read this a lot as well, and I think for a time this was true, but in my experience with a 1070 and 1080ti, Ubuntu and Fedora worked fine with minor tinkering, pop_os and nobara work out of the box. Currently on nobara, and most apps and games work just as well if not a little better than on Windows. A mate of mine runs nobara with a 3080 and no issues there either.
Running surprisingly well for a beta. I really hope to find some free time and help some more with reporting the minor bugs left during the end of the year vacation time and help polish for the final release.
I just switched back to windows, after using Kubuntu for the past 13 month.
I’m a software dev, I work on a Dell precision 5560 and just got tired of the worst touchpad experience ever, the endless Bluetooth issues, the fact that sleep mode basically does not exist anymore and a bunch of other small things.
On windows I do almost everything in WSL so I still work on Linux, but this way I get a much better desktop experience on my laptop.
I used to be a Windows system developer, think device drivers etc. for what, 20 years? I switched to Linux 18 years ago and never looked back - the whole dev experience is a lot more pleasant, more control, reasonable tools and software installation, proper customization etc.
I believe you didn’t have a Linux problem, you had a problem with hardware manufacturers being fussy about enabling development of proper support for their hardware. Why not look into hardware that is actually readily compatible with Linux? Tuxedo Computers are often recommend, I used to run a Clevo and had a great experience as well.
I believe you didn’t have a Linux problem, you had a problem with hardware manufacturers being fussy about enabling development of proper support for their hardware.
Which is a Linux problem at the end of the day, unfortunately.
My current laptop is also “Linux certified”, whatever that means. I cannot say that linux does not work on my laptop because that is not true. It works. Bluetooth works, touchpad works, like 95% of the time. In that 95% I love linux. However, when the remaining 5% hits, that is freaking annoying. And you can bet the bluetooth issue hits in the middle of an online meeting, and not when you just listen to music. 4K monitors are around since ~2013, still, no user friendly solution for fractional scaling, and the list goes on.
My main problem is that, this 95% was always 95% for me. I have been trying to switch to linux since 2011. I spend 3-15 month on linux and switch back to windows for a year or two. As I see, linux desktop just runs after the desktop market and it is 2-10 years behind. I know that is mostly because of the HW vendors. But knowing this does not make me feel better when my productivity decreases due to these issues.
Why not look into hardware that is actually readily compatible with Linux?
Honestly? Because I don’t believe that 95% is significantly higher on those laptops and I just don’t have ~1500EUR for an experiment like this.
Windows + WSL2 works great. I use a Windows distro, if you will. All the issues I had with my native linux install are gone, and I can still use linux comfortably while working. This is the reality from my point of view.
Hm, I never had any hardware issues in the last ~10 years, but don’t get me wrong, I hear you. I absolutely believe that it is possible to find a combination of HW and SW that will simply not work for a particular use case, and if my productivity would be threatened, I’d also switch in a heartbeat. In fact, I’ve gotten so used to the customizations Linux offered me that I can’t even imagine working on another Linux system without my setup and dotfiles - a different kind of vendor lock-in, if you will.
Anyway, just wanted to put a brand out there that offers some guarantees when it comes to hardware support, in case you (and others) might not be aware of such vendors.
I have had some success in the past with Rustdesk, which works alright amongst all the other options I’ve tried. However, one word of caution is to temper your expectations on the performance side of things. Visually, it is nowhere near a native experience regardless of software or protocols I’ve tried.
It’s unfortunate that Parsec still doesn’t support hosting on Linux. It is the best implementation of Remote Desktops I’ve used so far, and I tried almost all of them.
It’s first-class in every metric, except it doesn’t host Linux (only as clients), sadly.
Install x2go on the client machine. You need X and SSH on the target machine. That’s it, when you connect it will open a new desktop session on the server.
If you want to connect to an existing desktop session you need x2godesktopsharing installed on the target, you need to activate sharing in x2godesktopsharing, and in x2go client you need to select “session type” as “X2Go/X11 desktop sharing”.
May I point out that all a RAID1 does is sync the blocks between two drives. It won’t protect against writing something dumb that would mess up the filesystem, it will just dutifully sync it.
You should be able to back up ext data from a filesystem on a RAID array, unless I’m confused about what e2image actually does. Are you trying to use it on the underlying drive devices by any chance? You have to point it at the RAID device on top of them, something like /dev/md1 rather than /dev/sda1.
This sounds like a good extra backup to have but don’t let it lull you into a false sense of security. It may help recover from a very specific kind of mistake but the recovery may be very specific as well. It’s not file backup.
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