just_another_person

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Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them? (gadgettendency.com)

With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be...

just_another_person,

Or make repurposing a thing.

"Must Try" distros and DEs?

Hey folks! I’m getting a fresh laptop for the first time in about a decade (Framework 16) in a couple of months and am looking forward to doing some low-level tinkering both on the OS and hardware. I’m planning to convert into a “cyberdeck” with quick-release hinges for the screen since I usually use an HMD, built-in...

just_another_person, (edited )

I’m assuming you’re running a Ryzen 7040 series then. No kernel support for the FPGA yet.

Also, Linux is great for gaming. Not sure why you’d limit yourself there.

just_another_person,

Does anyone use this? I’ve yet to find a defining feature list of why anyone should use it aside from cosmetic differences. Does it even have a defining feature set?

just_another_person,

Sure, but that’s what I’m asking about. Why should people try this one?

just_another_person,

It is Gnome.

just_another_person,

Framework

Just moved to Linux: a follow up

I recently made a post discussing my move to Linux on Fedora, and it’s been going great. But today I think I have now become truly part of this community. I ran a command that borked my bootloader and had to do a fresh install. Learned my lesson with modifying the bootloader without first doing thorough investigation lol....

just_another_person,

Nah. This is old school thought. Use an immutable distro if this is your concern, and keep all your files on a NAS, or something else that can replay your files. Local images of your entire filesystem isn’t needed anymore.

just_another_person,

Friendo, I think once you understand exactly what an OS is, you’ll have fewer problems. An OS is just a layer on top of hardware with a lot of scripts and tools that enable that hardware to do things like move files, show graphics, and send audio in a desktop environment. Never issue a root or sudo command unless you understand exactly what it’s doing. Following this one simple rule will save you a lot of trouble, same as any Windows machine.

just_another_person,

This comment isn’t making any sense to me, but good on ya?

Suspension on my laptop (closing the lid) causes Wifi to not be available. (kbin.social)

Hi, this is a long lasting problem that I didn't really manage to fix when I started using linux (Mint, Cinnamon). But now that I've been using it regularly for half a year and I have more experience in fiddling around, I'm trying to get it resolved....

just_another_person, (edited )

I’m not sure what the question here is. Are you wondering which level of suspension you want your laptop to go into when you close the lid?

You should understand ACPI sleep states when trying to setup whatever active states you want your machine to be in when you close the lid, because there is a chain of events that happen when you do so. Your machine may only support one, or a few states (s0-s3) that may not allow this. The first step is above, and the second is understanding what state your machine is being put into once you close that lid, so start there with Mint configuration and how it’s dealing with the lid closing.

just_another_person,

Oh… So like the ENTIRE thing then? Thanks for your comment…

just_another_person,

They need to talk Valve into open-sourcing their OSK. It’s kind of amazing.

just_another_person,

source.android.com/docs/security/app-sandbox

just_another_person,

Secure your network. Worry less about escalations in your containers. You’re thinking too deeply about what is essentially a rabbit hole with a dead end for the most part, and if you don’t understand why in the first place, you should read more to understand exactly what you’re afraid of.

If you’re thinking that on your personal home network (which should be reasonably secured anyway) that someone will get physical access, then get on your network and start scanning everything, then find the ports you have open on every host, then identify the specific versions of the http servers hosting your software, then run exploits to get past any authentication which should be there, THEN have superhax ready to escalate privileges on the container runtimes so they can run remote executions…that’s all they’ll be able to do unless you have volume mounts allowing access to your stuff everywhere in said containers.

If you live in fear of everything, you’ll get nothing done.

just_another_person,

Framework is QA’d so much exactly for this purpose. Read their dev notes and announcements. Fantastic. You’ll have to wait in line awhile though.

Linux Ubuntu Dual-booting horror

Any and all help would be so greatly appreciated. I’ve been battling with my laptop to be able to dual-boot Ubuntu Cinnamon and Windows 10 for about four days now. I’ve probably gone down five or six different rabbit-holes of troubleshooting, GRUB command-line fun, reinstalling and updating the BIOS, trying and failing to...

just_another_person,

You have an EFI bootloader, so your BIOS should be able to detect your Windows partition and just boot it off it’s still in good working order. Go into your BIOS boot menu and see if you can boot to Windows from there as a first test.

Questions regarding Old-new Hard drives

Hi, I seek your help once again. I’m in the need of upgrading my storage now and I found what I consider to be a good deal via Amazon on an older gen enterprise WD drive that supposedly hasn’t been used, but I’ll let the power on hours tell me the truth. The price is about 16usd/TB and I’m wondering if this is a bad idea...

just_another_person,

Reviews, mostly. Don’t buy from new accounts without older AND recent reviews. If this is supposed to be a new product, check the warranty on the drive with the manufacturer before hooking it up, and if something seems fishy, send it right back for a refund. That’s about all I got.

just_another_person,

Huge

Videos stuttering across all applications

For a little over a month now, when playing videos on firefox, VLC, or any other application, I get infrequent stutters. This is with or without hardware accelleration. It’s as if the video pauses briefly. If multiple videos are playing, even across different applications, each of them will be effected at the same time....

just_another_person, (edited )

There are still a number of clock sync issues with the Zen4 chips. I’ve had issues on 6.4/5/6 with similar sounding audio/video that I’ve been able to somewhat mitigate by getting my amd_pstate settings to stop competing with other power tuning tools. Turn off EVERYTHING you have running dealing with cpufreq management, and just let the kernel amd_pstate do it’s thing. No TLP, no desktop tuning tools, just the upstate.

Also, double check that your memory frequencies aren’t bouncing all over the place, and consider under locking in the BIOS to exactly match the channel freq for CPU/mem.

See if that helps.

just_another_person,

GDPR can only extend to their borders, the same that any country’s laws extend to theirs. Why would you expect another country to honor your “home rules”?

Considering Gentoo

I have an old iMac that I am planning to install some flavor of Linux on and while I was looking at various distros it occurred to me that it might be a good exercise to install Gentoo on it. Other than a separate machine for documentation and downloading the necessary packages, what else should I have set up to try this? Has...

just_another_person,

You can easily add Wifi with a USB dongle anyway. Hardly a hurdle.

just_another_person,

You skipped a step or two in your podman setup I think. Look up the rootless instructions, and make absolutely sure you have installed the right uid/gid packages for your distro.

just_another_person,

If you’re asking if seeing logs, and amount they are logging is impacting your boot time, no.

just_another_person,

If you had the log level cranked up to 7, that is debug, and that is both wrong, and not the default. Don’t do that system-wide. Just leave it at INFO, and it’ll be fine. You’ll need it someday, and it doesn’t impact performance.

Adjusting the actual steps a service takes to boot is different than simply adjusting the output (which is one of the most basic and simplest things any running program can do). The pause in boot caused by your network service is an attempt by that service to get a DHCP address before it boots. You can disable that behavior and save a few seconds.

just_another_person,

I can guarantee you that logging output at the INFO level (what you see at boot) is not enough to degrade your system performance enough in any perceivable way to you. That amount of logging is considered quite light, and is normal. Now, if you happen to turn everything up to DEBUG, then you might see a huge uptick in I/O, and perceivable slowness.

Also, you may be confused about how logging facilities work. What you’ve done is disabled the printed messages during boot, nothing. That doesn’t reduce the level of effort your system needs to boot. You’re mistaken.

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