Glad you were there to help at least. I imagine being robbed and murdered and dying in the rain would rank towards the high end of the “worst Christmases ever”. If nothing else today will be one of your more memorable ones.
I appreciate what glorious eggroll does. And I’ve had no issues with the few games I’ve played on Steam.
I’ve been running Nobara for several months and it has been very stable though I find it is lacking a little polish around the edges in some areas. Kind of like how Mint was when I first started about 10y ago.
I’m trying out Fedora now for a while. On kernel 6.5. I was on 6.1 in Nobara. I have one game that’s crashing now (it wasn’t crashing in Nobara … go figure). So I may have to go back to Nobara or try to figure out what they did with Nobara vs Fedora that would help.
When Mint gets to kernel 6.x some day, I might jump back. (5.19 doesn’t support my GPU). Overall Mint became very polished. I hardly ever ran into weird issues. Although I do remember feeling Cinnamon blew up every so often.
When you’re talking to an open source dev, just remember that they are literally giving you their time for free, and they are people who don’t like to be treated poorly....
Likewise (related to aid) churning out liberty ships at the rate of 3 ships every other day to counter lost cargo ships was totally superfluous and not at all crucial for England.
This isn’t Linux, but Linux-like. Its a microkernel built from the rust programming language. Its still experimental, but I think it has great potential. It has a GUI desktop, but the compiler isn’t quite fully working yet....
One of us could probably put that together pretty quickly lol
But if we did want to build a new distro recommender… Maybe there are like 5 or so questions that would be relevant.
Just off the top of my head some possibilities:
If you’re a beginner, Mint is a good choice. One could argue Ubuntu (noobs don’t gaf about snap if they even know what it is). I think noobs would want good GUI tools and a very popular, very polished distro. So issues are infrequent but finding answers is easy.
Into gaming? There’s a few distros that come up like Nobara. (I’ve seen Manjaro mentioned but idk).
If you want something that looks kinda like macos there’s Endeavor. Does anyone recommend that one these days? I don’t usually see it mentioned.
Idk.
You’re probably right, an rng that chooses between a few distros might be better lol
so im not sure if this is update related or storage related. somewhere online told me to check ‘page faults’ and theyre at 16998 MINFL and 114 MAJFL. i ran out of storage on my ssd so i clesred half of it by deleting timeshift snapshots (and disabled it). it’s still running like a slug. once an application is open, it’s...
PS: if the disk fills up after deleting files (with rm) then some process may be the cause. Use the iotop command to show what processes are doing the most reading and writing, similar to top but for io.
If you haven’t you can also hunt down the biggest directories either with a disk usage analyzer or command line. Cd into whatever to level directly (your home dir) then: sudo du -dk | sort -n
I agree with the other comment to beware and look at getting a new drive in case this one is shitting the bed.
If it were my system I would look for any signs of disk related errors in the logs (likely would show in /var/log/syslog or maybe kern.log).
Also, did you empty your trash (if you used GUI to kill the files)?
You verified the disk has free space right? (Via df or whatever GUI tool, maybe disks or the file manager)
Another thing I might look at out of curiosity is disk io stats. Is the disk swamped with IO for some reason? We’re assuming the bottleneck is disk io but then again maybe something else weird is going on.
So a few years ago I got a set of stickers from Jet.com that had funny sayings on them. For example: “Open quickly (might be a puppy)” and “Shake thoroughly. (But seriously, don’t shake)”. I couldn’t find any online, so I figured maybe I’ll make my own. What are good things I could put on them?
As the kids say: Mood. Several months ago when I was binging the show, my growing discomfort at the thought of cases going unsolved drove me to go look up the statuses; at least a few have been solved. Most haven’t though. I hope closure comes one day for each of them.
So, who or what ruined Christmas this year?
When Windows 10 dies, I am going to jump ship over to Linux. Which version would you recommend for someone with zero prior experience with Linux? **Edit: Linux Mint it shall be.**
Whom also likes to game every now and then ;)...
Don't be that guy. (lemmy.world)
When you’re talking to an open source dev, just remember that they are literally giving you their time for free, and they are people who don’t like to be treated poorly....
It can't be stopped (startrek.website)
He's ready for anything (startrek.website)
Your average Wine enjoyer (sh.itjust.works)
Redox OS - an OS built entirely out of Rust (www.redox-os.org)
This isn’t Linux, but Linux-like. Its a microkernel built from the rust programming language. Its still experimental, but I think it has great potential. It has a GUI desktop, but the compiler isn’t quite fully working yet....
Why would I need backlit keys anyway? (lemmy.ml)
Came up with this late at night. Not while being anywhere near a laptop though.
Construction worker at the Hoover Dam, USA, 1931
A self-care reminder (startrek.website)
Christmas in Gotham [Safely Endangered] (startrek.website)
Website safelyendangered.com
Could we add "Distrochooser" to the sidebar? (distrochooser.de)
Quite a few posts about selecting a distro to use. Maybe it’s time to make that link a little more prominent?
Face the consequences - Work Chronicles (workchronicles.com)
Original: workchronicles.com/face-the-consequences/
How time flies (lemmy.world)
It's big! It's heavy! It's wood! (lemmy.world)
It’s better than bad! It’s GOOD!
27 December 2023 (sh.itjust.works)
linux mint became super slow
so im not sure if this is update related or storage related. somewhere online told me to check ‘page faults’ and theyre at 16998 MINFL and 114 MAJFL. i ran out of storage on my ssd so i clesred half of it by deleting timeshift snapshots (and disabled it). it’s still running like a slug. once an application is open, it’s...
A quality paint job (lemmy.world)
Variety | Vin Diesel Sued for Alleged Sexual Battery of Assistant in 2010 (variety.com)
Christmas Stickers
So a few years ago I got a set of stickers from Jet.com that had funny sayings on them. For example: “Open quickly (might be a puppy)” and “Shake thoroughly. (But seriously, don’t shake)”. I couldn’t find any online, so I figured maybe I’ll make my own. What are good things I could put on them?
I always expect the story to be resolved for some reason (startrek.website)