woelkchen

woelkchen, 1 year ago

I don’t need to find people in agreement, just as I don’t need to find out whether people agree with the Earth being round or flat. Sometimes a fact is just a fact.

If you want to argue whether something like Alpine Linux that builds upon musl instead of GNU’s libc is a Linux distribution or not, please take that discussion there. I merely wanted to give OP a suggestion what should work best with his laptops.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

My PC with a 133MHz Pentium 1 processor was pretty responsive all the time back in the day. It’s definitely a solved problem.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

Yes, but I can still play steam, any Valve game and atm any Linux steam game on X11.

I’m not aware of any move by Red Hat or anyone else to remove X11 support from GTK, Qt, etc.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

They would have used a license like SSPL or the newer BSL for that. AGPL keeps it open.

No, the copyright owner can sell proprietary versions however they like. Outside contributions are required to sign Canonical’s CLA. Read github.com/canonical/lxd/blob/…/CONTRIBUTING.md#l… before making claims.

woelkchen, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

I don’t understand how AGPL allows Canonical to make and sell proprietary copies of this software without violating their license. That’s the only way your scenario could happen.

The FSF made an FAQ page for a reason: www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ReleaseUnderGPL…

“To release a nonfree program is always ethically tainted, but legally there is no obstacle to your doing this. If you are the copyright holder for the code, you can release it under various different non-exclusive licenses at various times. […] the GPL is a license from the developer for others to use, distribute and change the program. The developer itself is not bound by it, so no matter what the developer does, this is not a “violation” of the GPL.”

Canonical read the FAQ, many people here didn’t.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

Debian Sid should be fine. I wouldn’t go with Stable − too old.

Personally, I’d go with the Flathub version of Steam and not pollute my main system with 32bit libraries Steam required for backwards compatibility. With the 32bit dependencies as Flatpak Runtimes, the main system stays clean.

woelkchen, 1 year ago

Linux and Nvidia don’t mix well, at least not until Nvidia’s official open source kernel module has been upstreamed to the Linux kernel which will take years.

Breakages, workarounds for breakages, etc. are common occurrences, especially when you want to use a modern desktop using Wayland.

woelkchen, 2 years ago (edited 1 year ago)

Outdated for Linux Intel, still valid for Broadcom, probably not so bad for somewhat recent Realtek and AMD/Mediatek (last I’ve read is that Mediatek WiFi hardware sucks in general and disconnects happen on Windows, so the same happening on Linux would be the fault of the Linux driver).

EDIT: Accidentally wrote Linux instead of Intel.

woelkchen, 2 years ago

But was the cause the Linux driver or the hardware? If the fault is the hardware and the experience on Linux is the same as on Windows, it’s feature parity.

If in doubt, get an Intel WiFi card. Even in otherwise not upgradeable notebooks those are usually not soldered on. Also whatever is in a Steam Deck OLED looks like a good pick.

woelkchen, 2 years ago

I was under the impression SteamOS was tracked as Arch.

No, that’s not the case. A separate listing for SteamOS leads by a lot. If you install pure Arch (or another distro) on Steam Deck or for whatever reason install and launch the Flatpak version of Steam, those won’t get counted as SteamOS but otherwise it’s pretty clear how big the installed base of SteamOS is.

woelkchen, 2 years ago

Hey, we are all freeloaders here.

Speak for yourself. I’ve paid for FOSS to support development on multiple occasions.

woelkchen, 2 years ago

And yet they have a reputation for being easy to use.

That’s Apple brainwashing. Anyone who ever tried to offer remote support via TeamViewer probably knows how Mac users then fail to grant screen recording and input permissions to TeamViewer. Before they do that on their own, they can get any remote support.

woelkchen, 2 years ago

Its insanely popular on distrowatch. I also don’t know why

Distrowatch counts clicks on Distrowatch. People using methods like setting the distro page as new tab page or perhaps even use scripts to boost awareness of obscure distributions is a regular occurrence. Nobody can seriously tell me that PCLinuxOS having been on the top of the DW charts for a long time (it’s still ahead of Kubuntu, Genoo, and RHEL) is because of how freaking popular that thing is. I’m also very doubtful of the current popularity of MX Linux over there. No way on earth is that seriously 2.5 times more popular than Ubuntu.

woelkchen, 2 years ago

Mint has Flathub and the deb ecosystem.

Random debs don’t magically work on all Debian derivatives. Simply getting debs from somewhere is just asking for problems.

woelkchen, 2 years ago

In case of Fedora they would have to upgrade it every 6 months.

The upgrading experience for Fedora Workstation is super smooth, on par with macOS, Android, and so on. Gnome Software just tells the user that a new version is available, the user clicks on the upgrade button and then it’s just waiting a bit and a reboot.

woelkchen, 2 years ago

while cinnamon was built from gnome 3, it has been completely separated from it for a decade.

both are under active development

I followed Cinnamon’s git closely for years. The commit “Renamed files to Cinnamon” was the last commit to the majority of files over years, despite the fact that Cinnamon had several formal releases in that time. It took literal years for its development to actually get off the ground and not just get some light touches in JavaScript files. The slow start reverberates until this day as you can see with its slow Wayland adoption and OP’s “Mint seems rather outdated” comment. IMO Cinnamon isn’t even the best choice for people who want a Windows7-like workflow. Gnome with Dash to Panel achieves the same with less technological legacy.

woelkchen, 2 years ago

within a release or two mint may very well be only based on debian itself, with the way canonical is steering ubuntu.

I expect Canonical going hard in the Snap direction leading up to 26.04. They are desperate given the fact that Flathub got a huge popularity boost thanks to SteamOS. I don’t think Ubuntu remixes will come out unscathed.

woelkchen, 2 years ago

generally I’m turned off by some decisions Canonical makes

Those decision will trickle down to Ubuntu remixes like Mint eventually. Canonical’s plan is to replace as much as technically possible with Snaps. They just barely delayed shipping CUPS itself as Snap but it will come, so even a basic task like printing will rely on Snap. I don’t see Mint having manpower to package everything on their own, even if it’s “just” about porting Debian packages. Might just as well use LMDE right now.

woelkchen, 2 years ago

However, in my opinion Mint seems rather outdated

That’s because Cinnamon is actually a fork of an ancient Gnome release that has since gotten much fewer enhancements compared to Gnome (and Plasma).

I’d have to install media codecs via terminal first which suggests that Fedora is for experienced users.

That is factually wrong: fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/38/ChangeSet#Unfi…

Also university wifi eduroam doesn’t work on Fedora for me because legacy TLS connection is not supported in Fedora (at least I couldn’t get it to work).

When the WiFi relies on insecure encryption, the problem will only be delayed on Mint because Mint’s underlying Ubuntu core is just older. Once a newer security policy comes to Mint, it will have exactly the same problem. The actual solution is for you university to update the WiFi encryption. In the meantime, according to fedoraproject.org/wiki/…/StrongCryptoSettings2#Up… the security defaults of Fedora can be rolled back to an earlier level quite easily.

woelkchen, 2 years ago

Okay, after removing all the preinstalled media players and reinstalling them through Flathub

Technically it’s not required to uninstall the default applications but obviously you’d still wanna do that to avoid clutter.

Fedora should just preinstall everything as a flathub flatpak.

Even though not Fedora-based but that’s pretty much what I have on SteamOS: Firefox, VLC, etc. all from Flathub. Because of the 32bit dependencies, Flathub is my preferred way to install Steam on regular Linux distributions anyway (for obvious reasons not on SteamOS).

woelkchen, 2 years ago

Having lived near such a facility

There is no permanent nuclear waste facility.

woelkchen, 2 years ago

Germany decided to fuck our planet 40 years ago.

I know time flies but that more like 80 years ago.

woelkchen, 2 years ago

for example a system using some sort of Alge

Wait, you’re making a big fuss over the type of natural photosynthesis we should use? Seriously?

People commenting against the carbon capture as featured in the article argue about using natural ways instead and “tree” is just a shorthand for some, just as I used the broad term “plants”.

Now don’t come and start splitting hairs like “But actually, algae are different from plants because the cells that comprise algae are not able to differentiate into different plant parts like stems, roots, and leaves, so I’m arguing for something completely different.”

woelkchen, 2 years ago

Uh huh. They also decay and release their carbon back into the atmosphere.

Not if the dead wood gets into anaerobic environment such as sinking to the bottom of swamps. And I don’t know if you’ve heard of it but wood is also a great building material. So you can literally take the wood, build something and afterwards just not incarcerate it but instead store old wood in artificial anaerobic environments.

woelkchen, 2 years ago

Nope thats not how it works its a circle of Carbon unless we humans add it by burning literal carbon we have from the ground (coal) we need to put it back.

What is coal? It’s literally dead plant matter that didn’t decay in anaerobic environments and that’s what swamps are.

While I agree that artificial carbon capture should be researched, as others already said: it has little practical use until all electricity production comes from renewable sources.