I tried Tumbleweed on my old main PC. When I finally got around to upgrade it, I immediately wiped it and got back to my beloved Gentoo (for which the old PC was getting a bit too slow)
Now I have Leaf on the family PC, because they pretty much only need Firefox and occasional LibreOffice and I’m lazy to try to find a different distro.
My laptop is the same except, I keep a Windows partition because the RGB keyboard controller is only available in a Windows app. That Windows partition exists in a post apocalyptic dystopia where Windows belongs; it has never, nor will ever see the internet. It is blocked my my network firewall. Windows is like a less than useful bootloader options tab.
Don’t know, but I’d just try it out and see if it works. It detected my motherboard, mouse, keyboard, everything. It was just such a relief after trying and failing to get the stock (windows only) software on linux running
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll look into it. I’m a bit skeptical because the changes made in Windows are persistent, the secondary function keys give quick access to some of these features (but only 3 course brightness PWM settings for RGB), but mostly because there is a device on the USB device tree that is unknown to the Linux kernel on mainline-fedora.
Maybe there is some kind of kernel configuration option that just needs to be added, but the bootloader rejects custom keys generated for secure boot. Without my own keys I’m stuck with the shim and can’t run my own signed kernel. It might be possible to set the keys by booting into UEFI with Keytool, but my motivation hasn’t carried me that far into the problem yet. I could be wrong and the unknown USB device could be unrelated, and openrgb could work. Thanks again.
It will depend on the specific hardware, but I can vouche for openrgb. It works for me g502 hero mouse, and my asrok mobo/aio coolers fan RGB. Infact, I have more options than the motherboard gives me lol.
It’s rather slow, for example the window decorations appear before the window content. I also like just some simple animatons to make the desktop feel more modern and fluid.
If you’re after fluid yet lightweight animations then you should definitely check out Wayfire. Yes it’s Wayland and a WM not a DE, but you can get a distro/spin with Wayfire and all the stuff you need for a DE all pre-installed and pre-configured. Wayblue (based on Fedora uBlue) is one such option you can try. And because Wayblue is immutable and has reliable atomic updates, it’d make a great option for you as a school-goer as stuff rarely breaks and you can always rollback to a previous image before the update.
It’s a good reminder of how influenced we are by our surroundings, even when we try to be aware of the effect. Or maybe especially when we try to be aware.
I was staying strong until I saw they were already sundowning windows 10. 10! They just came out with that shit. I have no intention of upgrading to the latest advertising package.
….windows 10 came out in 2015. I wouldn’t say it just came out, 8 and a half years ago. Thats a pretty good run for a retail OS. There was only 5 between the release of 3.0 and 95.
My big gripe with 11 was that it seemed like MS was going to go away from major releases and go to something somewhat closer to a rolling release model. My big gripe with 10 was all the telemetry.
It’s actually pretty telling that from “insert installation media” to “working web browser”, just about any Linux distro is a faster, easier, and less demanding installation experience than 10 or 11.
I don’t think it’ll make much of a difference, but according to the git repo, you should be using wine-ge instead. Also Lutris is another option that does the same thing, but has easy install scripts for GOG, Epic Games, Ubisoft Connect, and EA App.
I get about 4GB of updates twice a month, with a couple gigabytes of updates every week or so because of Nvidia and Flatpak. That’s Manjaro, though.
Fedora slowly trickles their updates into your system, but I don’t think it’s much smaller. You’ll get small updates every day rather than huge updates every month.
Not saying your switch to Linux was bad or anything, but maybe temper your expectations.
The Flatpak issue is specifically because of distributions technicalities related to the proprietary driver. On AMD or Intel this isn’t a problem at all, in fact the block based update mechanism is much more efficient than most distro updates. It’s rather annoying, ur I believe it’s being worked on by the Flatpak devs.
Manjaro chooses to keep software back for a while, so multiple weeks of major updates all come at once. Add to that CUDA, the Nvidia Docker container, and LaTeX, and you easily get multiple gigabytes per update. It’s not really a problem in the age of terabyte SSDs and gigabit internet, even if it does feel quite pointless.
I’ve never really had many issues with Electron on Arch based distros. Arch packages most Electron applications as the required bits for a single Electron package that gets updated individually. On all other distros, Electron does waste a lot of space, though.
It wasn’t the fact that I got updates that bothered me. It’s the fact that this update will take up more space on my disk and not replace previously occupied 8 gb that irked me. Some how, the space occupied by windows jut keeps on increasing.
What blows my mind about windows updates is just how long they take to actually install. It’s not even the reboots that bother me. Just the sheer time frames.
Yeah, that’s always puzzled me as well. Part of the reason is that Windows does a lot more than your average Linux distro, and another part is probably that Linux lacks proper antivirus, but even then Windows Update has always seemed weirdly inefficient to me. It seems to be stuck diffing/decompressing on a single core, barely hitting the SSD until it does everything at once.
Lifetime Microsoft expert here, I have had machines with Linux in one flavour or another for 15+ years at least.
But for ease of use I just keep coming back to Windows… Because I know it backwards and upside down.
The structure of it makes sense to me. And I have ADHD so I have a terrible working memory and Linux relies FAR too much on command console to do anything effective.
But Linux is hands-down the better system to get away from Microsoft’s enshitification of Windows. But I personally like Windows better.
So I will always run both. But if I need to be really productive, Windows Desktop it is. If I need a server, Linux every time. (Unless it’s MS SQL or a website).
I like it, but I’m not exactly a power user and the only other distros I’ve used are Ubuntu and mint. I think if you want a Debian based distro that’s not tied to Ubuntu then Mx is a good choice. I know there’s LMDE too but as far as I know that’s only available with cinnamon, so Mx having KDE plasma is nice too.
There’s the whole sysvinit Vs systemd but I don’t have a dog in that fight and enabled systemd, which Mx makes very easy even though they advise against it.
Also Fedora too: really polished Desktop experience, great choice of DE’s, many Spins for every taste, the installer is somewhat insufferable, overall a great distro, but I just can’t get myself over Red Hat (and the logo makes me feel like I’m working on Facebook OS).
I don’t know what It was expecting but it wasn’t quite that. I was initially going to make a crass joke but decided to read it before… now I don’t want to make the joke.
His writing comes off very strange. Somewhat egotistical and at the same time radically apologetic. I’ve never felt so uncomfortable reading a “technical” writing.
To me, it sounds like a man who does not understand social interactions trying to emulate how he should act, as he’s been taught in therapy for the past however many years in prison. He will never come off as normal because he is attempting to do something that his brain isn’t capable of. It seems very in line with my impression of his past interactions online.
For instance, even if you have an old Intel integrated GPU, chances are you can still benefit from AMD’s FSR just by pushing a few flags to Proton GE, even if the game doesn’t officially support it, and you’ll literally get a free FPS boost (tested it for fun and can confirm on an Intel UHD Graphics 620).
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