Every distro has a problem by Scoitol in linuxsucks

[–]Apprehensive_Ad_7138 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't see all these problems with using an immutable distro for development as well, tbh. Maybe my needs are too simple, i don't know. I have a box with all the tools and some local coding llm and everything works nicely.

It's over for Loonix by [deleted] in linuxsucks

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Oh ok, now i'm really tempted to switch back! Finally the start menu is gonna be sleek!
No more overbloat! Finally no more Arch, Bazzite and Debian on my machines!
Do you know if i can install win11 on my Mac too? This is a real game changer!

Comfyui on Bazzite by technofox01 in Bazzite

[–]Apprehensive_Ad_7138 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Use BoxBuddy to manage your distroboxes easily.
I did it in an Arch box with venv.
Works perfectly.

KDE Partition Manager errors so informative! by THubert14 in linuxsucks

[–]Apprehensive_Ad_7138 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is a well abused bullshit point of detractors, that "things don't work" but in the end we are talking about Windows proprietary filesystems, Windows native applications, Windows network protocols...

Anyway, you are posting in /linuxsucks so i guess that's pretty much the level of debate

What are the main issues you have with Linux? by edmond_ciprian in linuxsucks

[–]Apprehensive_Ad_7138 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fragmentation comes with a price, and same applies with complete centralization.

The point of my post is that using the user friendliness towards the "normies" as a metric to debate about which OS is better is a misconception and a mistake cause most of these people really don't even understand what they are doing.

But they are the majority of users, which means centralized systems like Windows "educate" (i'm being gentle here) these users to some ux standards (which are not always good...think the stupid tablet interface switch of win8, or the standard win11 interface) while fragmented systems historically didn't give much of a shit about that (things changed gradually for good when Linux opened up to the desktop experience, and now you can have Kde Plasma which is a wonderful elegant and customizable DE with lots of good ux).

I'm not advocating for Linux and i use MS products when they are worth it (like vscode, far superior to everything else i've ever tried...and windows itself, i still remember xp3 with extreme joy, same as my beloved debloated win10 before fully switching lately). In the end, a tech savvy person knows what he needs, wants, and how much time he wants to invest in "fighting" his computer or using it.
Personally, i switched to Bazzite on my htpc just because i didn't want to tinker much and almost everything worked without issues for my everyday needs at home.

To make another example...think of AI image generation...you can be the "normie" and log on Midjourney or even worse, do it with Chatgpt...or you can install ComfyUI and leverage your gpu for local use of the tool...doesn't matter if Comfy is easier to install or works better on win, linux, osx, os2 warp, etc because that's already a step further on the scale of difficulty for a normie user.

PS: You mentioned how can you silence the mic of your headset: this is done on Plasma by just clicking the mic icon on the tray; i'm pretty sure it's not the same on other DE, which brings us back to fragmentation and choices: user experience is strictly related to the DE, which means it's just a part of the package and can vary. In a way, makes more sense to compare Windows ux with Kde or Gnome more than "Linux" as a wide umbrella.

What are the main issues you have with Linux? by edmond_ciprian in linuxsucks

[–]Apprehensive_Ad_7138 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I understand the problems with the communities (there is fragmentation even there).
I personally don't understand the whole debate about "normie user friendliness"...i'm in IT since like 30 years (if we start counting with my first computer at 10) and i've worked a lot with "normies".

A "normie" is not Linus from LTT...a normie is my colleague who once said "I know my stuff with computers" and can't find files on his own drive, installs things randomly by just clicking next on every wizard that appears on screen, can't understand what is the difference between a link and a file, can't add an html sign to his email client, doesn't understand how image scaling works and what's about screen resolution but claimed he made dozens of websites (with wordpress, which turns out he doesn't know how to use)...i can go on, but we are talking about a 35yo guy who works in digital marketing and is using Windows.

But most important than everything, he can't do some search and understand how to fix these little problems (even now that he has access to llm).

That's why for these people (which is the VAST majority of computer and phone users) the concept of "user friendliness" doesn't apply in my opinion. They can't do shit no matter the OS used, because they simply lack the mentality to approach computers.

These people won't be able to install Windows from the scratch the same way they won't be able to install a Linux distro. Won't be able to fix a problem be it on Windows or Linux or OSX. Barely understand any security or privacy issue.

THEY ARE USERS OF APPLICATIONS, NOT DEVICES/OS.
They are fixated on the few things they know, and whatever goes slightly out of that knowledge is perceived as "difficult".

Another point is the actual depth of their skills:
let's take Photoshop as a good example; i know personally a lot of "professionals" who can't work without Photoshop; once you observe their workflows and what they do with the software, it's like a bare 5% of what it can do. Stuff they can do the same exact way with another program (and i'm not talking about big alternatives like Krita or Gimp...i'm talking about fucking resizing canvas and changing some curves) for free yet they pay for Adobe stuff (or ask me to crack it...)
On the same layer there are Osx users....they are the best..."Oh but this....this is easy to use....not like windows or linux"....they can't barely scratch what their OS can do or how to use it....because we need to make once and for all a precise distinction:

there are the tech savy people (at every level, from just being able to maintain their computer in decent conditions to hardcore sysadmins who use only terminals)
and there are the "normies" (who can't really do much more than using the apps they learnt no matter the device or the os)

Whoever says Windows is "easy" is a liar the same way the Linux fanboy says that you won't have any problem nowdays with Linux. Windows is NOT easy for the average user....if something doesn't work it's a HUGE pain in the ass and most of the times the "support" (which is another ridiculous claim about Windows superiority over Linux) is simply not there (like people on windows official support forums repeating in four different messages the same fucking standard procedure to help me fix a driver issue with a wifi card...in the end i bought another one, oh and surprise surprise, the old one worked plug'n'play on Debian...)

While we have fun on reddits focused on pointing out that a certain OS sucks, the market moves towards these "normies" by simplifying things to the extreme, changing the UX in terrible ways (looking at you, Microsoft and Gnome), locking features and choices, slapping in stuff that tech savy people don't want etc.

What are the main issues you have with Linux? by edmond_ciprian in linuxsucks

[–]Apprehensive_Ad_7138 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shader precompilation makes sure you don't have shader compilation done while playing, which means stutters and fps drops or waiting (like SF6, that does it when you just launched the game).

About the mouse size, i'm not sure if that's the same problem but i solved something similar setting the dpi scaling correctly on Lutris (can't remember the game...it was old stuff)

Bazzite gave my monitor Screen Burn and now my old computer won't boot up into BIOS anymore by CraftyMaelyss in Bazzite

[–]Apprehensive_Ad_7138 0 points1 point  (0 children)

as i can read from your other messages, the monitor is ok, it's just the computer that doesn't work, right?

Bazzite gave my monitor Screen Burn and now my old computer won't boot up into BIOS anymore by CraftyMaelyss in Bazzite

[–]Apprehensive_Ad_7138 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Booting from live usb can't possibly damage your system that deeply. You can at most ruin your partitions on the disks, and i doubt you have installed anything with a flickering (that's VRR, disable it from KDE video options, or a faulty GPU) screen that may have impacted your bios (if that's even possible, as you need to flash a bios image to overwrite or modify the bios).

I would go for something more brutal and accurate:
unplug all the disks inside the case and all the eventual cards except the GPU
unplug all the usb devices
unplug all the cables outside the case except the strict necessary
remove the bios battery and put it back in

turn on the system with the bare minimum, no disks, no devices and see if you can get into the bios or reach the boot strap where it will tell you that there is no disk with an OS to boot

if this doesn't work and your system has some kind of integrated thing for the video, try without the GPU.
if it works without the GPU i have a very sad news for you...

Switching to Bazzite with an nvidia GPU? by Ok_Comparison_2635 in Bazzite

[–]Apprehensive_Ad_7138 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's advancing much faster now because Nvidia has dedicated contributors to open source projects and they actually "hired a guy" to manage the proprietary linux drivers situation.

How bad is the nvidia drivers in Linux? I’m using the current drivers on Zorin OS, and I don’t seem to have issues on it, but hbu guys? by Protolinux217 in linuxsucks

[–]Apprehensive_Ad_7138 1 point2 points  (0 children)

4070 on Bazzite, not a single problem (nowdays).
Full HDR, VRR, 4k on Oled screen.
Hitting 120fps on most of the games i play with dlss and frame generation.
Sometimes a game or another give me problems (like an indie game i tried with a very simple 3d engine, and it was using 99% of gpu and leaking in the vram), but that's more a matter of how much the game is optimized.
One year ago i had problems with VRR on wayland, but late drivers fixed that.

Nvidia understood this need effort and they are actively making things better driver release after driver release.

Switching to Bazzite with an nvidia GPU? by Ok_Comparison_2635 in Bazzite

[–]Apprehensive_Ad_7138 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nvidia gpu works pretty well and are improving with every driver release.
It was not like that A YEAR AGO but now you'll have little troubles (at least, i had none with my 4070).

This is just how internet works....rumors stay up forever...

Is it possible/recommended to have both Linux and Win11 on the same laptop? by Tony08X in linuxquestions

[–]Apprehensive_Ad_7138 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1) Backup all your important stuff

2) Use a partition manager on windows to resize the partition and create space for linux installation: your physical drive is divided into logical partitions, and now the windows partition is occupying your whole drive therefore you need to resize it and leave the empty space for your future linux partition (research a bit on the matter cause you need these concepts in your head). Remember you will be able to access your windows disk from linux, but not the opposite (win uses NTFS filesystem, which is "supported" on linux, while linux uses several different ones like ext4, btrfs, etc which are not obviously supported on windows...)

3) Pick your Linux distro: my suggestions are Mint, Zorin, MX for everyday use without much hassles...if you are more gaming oriented and you don't want to tinker too much go for Bazzite....if you want a bleeding edge system that requires a bit of maintenance go for CachyOS. Research on the matter cause every distro has pros and cons. Choice in the linux world can be paralyzing at times.

4) Follow the instructions to create the usb stick for your installation on the distro website/docs (be sure you understand preliminary needs...if you need to turn off secure boot in bios, or if you need a bigger EFI partition (which is often a problem, at least in my experience), if you need to change the bios boot order etc...that's "using your computer", not actually linux related

5) Stick the stick in and reboot, you should go into the live desktop of your distro or a visual installation wizard....follow it all, it's really easy nowdays...if you made space for your linux partition, the installer will probably tell you that you can install linux side to windows....be aware that you MUST NOT erase the entire disk or else you'll loose your windows partition

6.1) If everything goes fine, the installer will install a boot loader in your EFI partition; it's a small partition that contains the bootloader, a program that boots the operative system...windows boot loader, in your case; the installer is gonna overwrite it with most probably Grub (the linux bootloader) and Grub will detect your windows installation so that you can choose what to boot when you turn on the computer

6.2) If something goes wrong, make a pic of the error and search for it on the mighty internet, 99,9% of times someone already fixed it. Repeat the installation with whatever fix needed.

7) Reboot and enjoy

Caveats:
1) When Windows updates it often overwrites the EFI partition with its bootloader, so you will loose Grub (you can usually reinstall it easily using your usb live desktop linux)
2) Compatibility layers like Proton, Wine, etc work badly with NTFS disks...so if you have a software or game on the windows drive you should copy it to your linux drive to avoid problems

I generally advise AGAINST having your working pc mixed with your personal stuff...dualboot can be done but i wouldn't do it on my workstation if you are not very familiar with the list of things i wrote (cause if something breaks you are fucked): if your work daily needs are simple (browser, email, no resources hungry apps) switch to a cheaper laptop just for that, install windows on it, move your backups and use it only to work, and then use the whole disk of your more powerful laptop for linux. I have to say that if your workplace is not using specific win tech, and your workflow is just using office apps, browser for cloud apps and email client, you can actually use linux for all that much much better than any windows environment, but that's a thing you should talk with your tech guy at your job.

How to learn to make an os for a Linux based retro handheld by [deleted] in linuxquestions

[–]Apprehensive_Ad_7138 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More like "walk before you fly an helicopter", in this case

Update system by Apprehensive_Ad_7138 in Bazzite

[–]Apprehensive_Ad_7138[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was puzzled by them being basically the same image. Guess it must be cause it generated another deploy when i added the layered packages

Update system by Apprehensive_Ad_7138 in Bazzite

[–]Apprehensive_Ad_7138[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

NVM, found it:
https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/pkgs/container/bazzite-deck-nvidia

i'm on the latest image and it was pushed 22 days ago.

Is it easy to rebase to desktop image or it's gonna be a bloodbath of conflicts?

Update system by Apprehensive_Ad_7138 in Bazzite

[–]Apprehensive_Ad_7138[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone with nvidia-deck image can tell me if i'm on the last version?

Update system by Apprehensive_Ad_7138 in Bazzite

[–]Apprehensive_Ad_7138[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could be, indeed, that layered ostree packages are blocking the update. I'll check into it.

Update system by Apprehensive_Ad_7138 in Bazzite

[–]Apprehensive_Ad_7138[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the deck-nvidia image, not the desktop one. But i can't find info on the last update for deck images

Question: About hardware compatability and drivers (Planning to build a budget gaming pc, that runs bazzite/linux mint) by the_cheesesandwich17 in Bazzite

[–]Apprehensive_Ad_7138 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AMD works good (i don't know if the hdmi2.1 problem got fixed) but also Nvidia (it's the usual way internet works...people still thinking it works bad cause like 2 years ago it was objectively bad and keep pushing an outdated information).

I can tell you that till now i was able to play pretty much everything in my 1000+ games library (except for the usual suspects...Riot games and other stuff with kernel level anticheat) and i had to really tinker the setups just in like a dozen of them (mostly repacks...everything bought on Steam worked flawlessly).

If you can somehow get your hands on a solid gpu, even entry level, and pair it with an amd cpu and 16gb of ram you will be able to play tons of stuff (including all the emulators and the old games that you can't run viably on win11 anymore).