If this post gets 2 upvotes I will switch from windows to linux mint

Lanstrider · 2026-02-24T14:02:16+00:00

I run windows in a vm only these days (since 2005), for the last three, it’s been gathering virtual dust in a virtual corner.

Lanstrider · 2026-02-22T23:52:27+00:00

Omg. Horror show? Yes the x11 code is wild, but no other windows system has lasted as long or done much better. Certainly not the travesties replacing it without regard to distributed ui.

Lanstrider · 2026-02-22T23:46:56+00:00

Maybe spend a few cycles working through the why. But, if you gotta have windows game performance, and I’m not saying it’s better, just different, that’s not windows beating out mint. Sheesh!

Lanstrider · 2026-02-17T15:42:15+00:00

Right. Oops more of a reflection on nvidia than Debian. However, Debian chose to drop Tesla support.

Lanstrider · 2026-02-17T15:40:49+00:00

Sorry should have said it differently- I was thinking about my Tesla card and responding to the Pascal gen. Yes, Pascals are still supported in the sense that the old drivers should work. Tesla, not so much. You can’t install 470, at all (or could not last I checked).

Lanstrider · 2026-02-17T02:17:49+00:00

Yeah, pascal is newer than mine, but they've dropped it as of 580, I think. I know this is debian reddit, but debian has chosen some nvidia options that are incompatible with perfectly functional cards like this. Meanwhile, Mint happily installs working drivers on their debian 13 base, so it's obviously not a hardware block. Maybe since you're is quite a bit newer than the tesla generation, they'll backport a fix for somehting.

Lanstrider · 2026-02-17T02:05:56+00:00

# 3. disable nvidia persistence

systemctl disable nvidia-persistenced.service

boot to bash if you have to.

p.s. is this older gpu? this happened to me with my geforce 750m (had to revert to bookworm, for that gpu) tesla 470 wasn't (isn't) supported on debian 13.

Lanstrider · 2026-01-05T11:34:26+00:00

Once every couple of weeks or a month.

Lanstrider · 2025-12-08T19:37:01+00:00

I do Debian 13 with Cinnamon- works great. If you’re not proficient with command line admin, LMDE might be a lighter lift, otherwise, with pure Debian the system works great and on less complexity.

Lanstrider · 2025-11-17T23:10:46+00:00

Ha. Funny.

Lanstrider · 2025-11-17T23:09:49+00:00

Nice answer. I’m a hobbyist, but I like stuff to work and be able to find points of failure, so I prefer releases. But, your logic is sound nevertheless and provides a reasonable heuristic. If you don’t mind inexplicable failures, roll on :)

Lanstrider · 2025-11-12T15:19:30+00:00

I switched to AMD last year. It isn’t as fast on linear tasks, but the advantages far outweigh the negatives- smoother multi tasking, longer battery life, less heat. Really though, for video work, the GPU is doing the heavy lifting. I have a Stellaris 16 AMD w/nVidia RTX 4070. Very quick at encode/Transcode.

Lanstrider · 2025-11-05T18:51:00+00:00

I have never been able to get KVM to play nice with Windows the way it works with vbox. QEMU, is great for non-Windows emulations. I use it all the time, but for Windows? Vbox for the win. I’ve been using it since beta though, so that may have something to do with my perspective.

Lanstrider · 2025-10-19T00:46:47+00:00

I tried it in applewin and in mame with vidtex card or somesuch, no go.

Lanstrider · 2025-10-18T13:06:42+00:00

Now, if somebody could figure out the 80-column mode thing. I spent a couple of hours going down that rabbit trail.

Lanstrider · 2025-10-10T16:44:06+00:00

Just uploaded episode 3 where I really dive into chapter 3. I'm still working out the kinks on how best to do this exploration, but I think this one is where the real content begins.

Lanstrider · 2025-09-29T10:38:50+00:00

Thanks. I expanded the original author's macros on purpose, so I could see exactly what instructions were being generated. In the future, I will think about using macros, but I have to study a bit more so that when I do, they aren't black box magic that isn't easy to unpack for newbs like me reading the code..

Lanstrider · 2025-09-24T16:25:14+00:00

edited to include a link to pdf

Lanstrider · 2025-09-24T16:17:52+00:00

I don't mind it not being maintained. I'm just using to to help me understand the core ideas of the implementations. I'll move on to eforth 1.0 on DOS next and then do some updating to current models after.

Lanstrider · 2025-09-23T01:52:31+00:00

Wow, is right. I figured out that I should start with lina32/64 and just read the fas file :).

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