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Don't believe anyone who recommends NixOS.
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# ? Jun 6, 2024 06:10 |
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Your choices are Fedora or Ubuntu, don't listen to anybody who says otherwise.
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 19:11 |
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Well, NixOS seems to be the current Flavor Of The Month among a lot of Linux people, now that they've exhausted the possibilities of Arch and Gentoo, I guess. Next month it'll be something entirely different for the frequent distrohoppers.
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 19:18 |
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Well, NixOS seems to be the current Flavor Of The Month among a lot of Linux people, now that they've exhausted the possibilities of Arch and Gentoo, I guess. Next month it'll be something entirely different for the frequent distrohoppers. A guy at a bus stop told me about NixOS back in 2019, but he called it Nix. During the first half of the conversation I was wondering if he was trying to say he was using Unix and thought maybe it was a new kind of BSD. In other words, it's been going around for a while.
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 19:21 |
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ExcessBLarg! posted:I hate to admit this, but this kind of "btrfs vs. zfs" stance that I haven't had time to sort out yet for myself is partly why I still use jfs of-all-things as my main workhorse. The trick is that btrfs vs ZFS is a bad way to think about it. Despite having many things in common they are best for different uses. I kinda get the feeling that btrfs was designed for flexibility first and bulletproof reliability second. ZFS is very much the other way around. So btrfs is best for jobs like a root volume with snapshots, or basic mirrored storage that can grow or shrink if needed. Do you want a raid5 or 6 storage system that is bulletproof but long-term static, for something like a NAS? Do you care about 9s of uptime? ZFS is way better.
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 21:41 |
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Use Arch. Ubuntu is hopelessly outdated and Fedora is loaded with tedious security poo poo
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 22:15 |
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ah, yes, Arch, the distro with the legendarily complete wiki because nothing works correctly out-of-the-box.
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 22:19 |
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Actually it works perfectly but it's a minimal unopinionated install
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 22:23 |
pseudorandom name posted:Don't believe anyone who recommends NixOS. Yeah, the unironic NixOS suggestions for a Linux newbie asking for babies first distro are just wild lol.
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 22:24 |
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spiritual bypass posted:What sort of graphics do you use? Does it run any servers you could connect to over the LAN to see if it's really not online? I'm on nvidia for now and for the near future-- if it continues to be a problem I'll get an AMD gpu and just not look back. And not sure, don't think so to your second question. Bark! A Vagrant posted:I'm having the same issue with gnome + wayland + Nvidia GPU. I haven't gotten around to trying these fixes, but I have a few links saved: Tried the first two to no success. Honestly if this is a GNOME-specific issue I haven't really any qualms with just killing it entirely and going with KDE instead. Still not 100% sold on GNOME's layout anyway. ...it is a GNOME-specific issue, right?
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 23:15 |
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Nitrousoxide posted:Yeah, the unironic NixOS suggestions for a Linux newbie asking for babies first distro are just wild lol. Man wanted the hot new thing. But yeah baby's first distro is pretty much ubuntu or mint. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a fraud and a charlatan.
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 23:24 |
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If it is unsuspending and its just not showing the display, youd see wake-up entries in syslog, right? You could also try the kernel watchdog and see if it trips.
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 23:24 |
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I never could grasp the other distros until I used arch so I essentially started on arch but I also had access to an experienced arch linux user I could tap on the shoulder anytime when I didn't wanna get screamed at on linux forums by the real freaks plus i like the archwiki and find myself using it a lot even on other distros sometimes
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 23:37 |
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Nitrousoxide posted:Yeah, the unironic NixOS suggestions for a Linux newbie asking for babies first distro are just wild lol. FYI, I mentioned NixOS in response to the questions "what is the cool new thing on the block" and "what is this reproducible/immutable stuff". I specifically described it as a hardcore tinkerer's toybox. In no way did I recommend it as a newbie distro and I very much resent that accusation
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 00:33 |
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I continue to be punished for the sin of using nvidia with linux Somehow, when I installed the additional tools for GPU-accelerated computation (cuda) gnome decided it'd prefer to not run wayland and use x11 instead. I'm baffled and spent way too long trying to figure out how to change it back before saying gently caress it. I have some clues, but I eventually stopped myself to try and get some actual work done instead of loving around with config and systemd files. One thing's for sure, I lost more time trying to figure out what the hell's going on than I'll get back in computational speed-ups.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 06:32 |
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If you look at your logs, gnome-shell is crashing and falling back to X11.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 06:37 |
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NihilCredo posted:NixOS is awesome but very much a tinkerer's OS - think of it as the Gentoo of the 2020s, although it has different goals. NixOS is the bees knees. Gentoo comparison is fair in a way, though. I ran it fulltime for a year or two about 8-9 years ago, and then switched off to Ubuntu for a long time, and then back to NixOS about 2 years ago. When I first used it, back before it was cool, it was often painful to get random things working -- you'd have to do it yourself and write the nix and PR nixpkgs. These days it's far more popular and pretty much everything just works out of the box. The thing I like about it is that it's perfectly declarative and I can just leave poo poo alone and it's great, my entire computer outside of browser cookies lives in a git repo, and I can just rematerialize it at any moment if I want/need to. The thing I don't like about it is 1) the inscrutable Nix language still makes no sense to me, despite actively using it 2) nixpkgs can be a clusterfuck -- god forbid you get a bee in your bonnet to upgrade something, you have to go futz with nixlang and patch files and submit a PR 3) flakes? everybody decided to use flakes, but they're optional and given that I don't understand the basics of the language, I especially don't understand flakes 4) choosing between a release and unstable? I run unstable and regret it occasionally, but I guess that's on me All that said, on balance: I'm thinking about switching my desktop back to Ubuntu and just running Nix/Home-Manager inside of it -- however I'll probably never start another software project without the whole thing living in a nix flake.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 07:03 |
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pseudorandom name posted:If you look at your logs, gnome-shell is crashing and falling back to X11. I don't think that's the case as this is the only mention of wayland in my logs after installing the drivers: code:
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 16:28 |
I use endeavourOS on my laptop, and it works no fuss. I like it.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 16:32 |
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What is ubuntu freaking out about here/is this resolvable/should I bother? I recognize it's some sort of power issue with usb 1-2 after googling it a bit. I normally wouldn't care but it seems to be stopping/halting the process of actually booting up. I plan to swap to fedora in a day or two after backing things up. Journalctl -b gave me: code:
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 19:55 |
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notwithoutmyanus posted:Is this corresponding to bus 001/device 001? or bus 005/006 device 002? I suspect the third option - "it gave up on that device, so it's not in lsusb"
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 20:10 |
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The kernel lists devices using bus-port, you need to use lsusb -t -v to see the port numbers.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 21:28 |
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pseudorandom name posted:The kernel lists devices using bus-port, you need to use lsusb -t -v to see the port numbers. Ah. code:
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# ? Feb 14, 2024 01:36 |
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It's the Logitech dongle, and it doesn't show up in the first lsusb output at all.
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# ? Feb 14, 2024 05:13 |
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ah alright, that gives me some ideas on resolving this, thank you!
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# ? Feb 14, 2024 12:22 |
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Next month it'll be something entirely different for the frequent distrohoppers. Custom distro based on "Linux From Scratch." The only path forward is rolling your own build.
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# ? Feb 14, 2024 17:14 |
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Someone posted on Reddit this morning that they want an immutable distro that can use all package management formats (rpm, deb, etc). SMH
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# ? Feb 14, 2024 18:16 |
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AlexDeGruven posted:Someone posted on Reddit this morning that they want an immutable distro that can use all package management formats (rpm, deb, etc). Is that not Vanilla os or am I missing something? Edit : nm I'm confusing it with distrobox, think I learned about both at the same time. keep punching joe fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Feb 14, 2024 |
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AlexDeGruven posted:Someone posted on Reddit this morning that they want an immutable distro that can use all package management formats (rpm, deb, etc).
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# ? Feb 14, 2024 18:31 |
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Does anyone know a fast PDF reader for Linux? I'm opening now a PDF of a whopping 38MB in size, which consists only of full-page scans. I've got 32GB RAM and 24GB of VRAM. Despite this, the default Document Viewer doesnīt let me freely scroll through the document - it keeps a handful of nearby pages loaded, but if I scroll up more than that I have to wait 1-3 seconds as it re-renders the page again (and thrashes my CPU), which is plainly ridiculous. Firefox is much better at this (pages are rendered in half a second or so), but as a card-carrying member of the 'keeps 50-100 tabs open at all times' club, I donīt want Firefox to start up whenever I double click on a PDF from my documents folder.
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# ? Feb 15, 2024 01:02 |
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NihilCredo posted:Does anyone know a fast PDF reader for Linux? Kinda sounds like you know one!
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# ? Feb 15, 2024 01:10 |
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NihilCredo posted:Does anyone know a fast PDF reader for Linux? cruft posted:Kinda sounds like you know one! Firefox Developer Edition? Seriously though, I have used it before on Windows when trying to work with an environment that needed its own HTTP proxy settings and I basically wanted "Firefox, but a totally separate install from the one I already have". Not sure if there is any reason you couldn't do the same on Linux. Eletriarnation fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Feb 15, 2024 |
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NihilCredo posted:Does anyone know a fast PDF reader for Linux? With some 100+mb RPG sourcebooks with tons of obnoxious text-on-fullpage-graphics, Okular is nearly instant at opening the file. Rendering some of the nastier pages takes over a second if you're just paging down as soon as they load (it's doing some pre-loading of the next page, so if you take a moment between page-downs it's instant). But it keeps like 100 pages in memory to instantly go back. I also have Xournal++ which seems maybe fractionally faster to render pages but doesn't keep as many in memory.
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# ? Feb 15, 2024 02:20 |
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I play a board game with a liberally illustrated 800 page rulebook and xpdf handles it swimmingly on my 10 year old elite book.
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# ? Feb 15, 2024 02:26 |
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NihilCredo posted:Does anyone know a fast PDF reader for Linux?
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# ? Feb 15, 2024 02:27 |
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Anarchy Stocking posted:I play a board game with a liberally illustrated 800 page rulebook and xpdf handles it swimmingly on my 10 year old elite book. I need to know what board game this is, thanks
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# ? Feb 15, 2024 04:36 |
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NihilCredo posted:Does anyone know a fast PDF reader for Linux? I used to use PDF-XChange Viewer under Wine to view and annotate long, large documents like textbooks. At the time (from ~2009-2016), I found it faster and much more complete than any open source alternatives. If you can track down the exe, it probably still is pretty good.
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# ? Feb 15, 2024 05:43 |
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NihilCredo posted:Does anyone know a fast PDF reader for Linux? evince has a dconf setting for the cache size; the default is 50 megabytes which is LOL but you can increase it using dconf Editor or just running e.g. dconf write /org/gnome/evince/page-cache-size 1024 for a gigabyte cache.
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# ? Feb 15, 2024 06:16 |
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NihilCredo posted:
The solution here is to always have firefox open!
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# ? Feb 15, 2024 09:00 |
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# ? Jun 6, 2024 06:10 |
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Less Fat Luke posted:I need to know what board game this is, thanks https://www.wargamevault.com/m/product/344879
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# ? Feb 15, 2024 14:21 |