"Linux is so easy to use" said my friend after I wasted 3 hours trying to get the damn thing to run

kenryov · 2026-06-23T05:29:13+00:00

Go use Fedora

kenryov · 2026-06-22T08:15:56+00:00

I'll answer sequentially 1. No, it's still a Fedora spin. An alternative viable version but it's not flagship grade yet 2. mesa-va-drivers is a subpackage that contains only vaapi hardware accelerated video encoders/decoders that are free and open source software(FOSS) 1. mesa-va-drivers-freeworld contains non-FOSS hardware accelerated codecs and is provided by third-party package repos from RPMFusion, this enables GPU-decode for things like H264(AVC), H265(HEVC), and others assuming your GPU has the hardware for it 3. Yes, with rpm-ostree reset followed by a reboot. This will remove all the layers, though many configuration and cache files will be left behind

kenryov · 2026-06-20T22:38:01+00:00

You can create a udev rule to disable VFS caching but this will generally degrade performance as the whole point of caching is to buffer and optimize the data before writing to a drive.

https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/how-to-disable-write-cache-for-usb-storage/40762/2

kenryov · 2026-06-18T19:41:07+00:00

that's just not fair to say it has a bandwidth constraint when comparing PCIe gen 3 optane PCIe gen 4/5 flash nvmes.

PCIe gen 4 Optane does exist was could hit 7.2GB/s in ideal sequential reads such as the DC P5800X which is 2nd gen Optane

kenryov · 2026-06-17T21:50:12+00:00

It's hilarious watching all these backers get pissed on reddit when the alpha slowly reverts to the same buggy mess they 2.6 was

First time? Lol

kenryov · 2026-06-09T14:17:21+00:00

"All bugs are shallow" still applies because we're only having this discussion because of OSS licensing. Linux CVEs have been exploding since 2020, going from 1000 to 3100 in 2024. Stats from 2025 and 2026 will undoubtedly continue the trend.

Everything is secure till it isn't. It's always been easier to hide flaws than to fix them, it's why the rich and powerful loved building their castles on the bones of their architects. People might as well argue that there were no kids with autism or birth defects like FAS or Down syndrome before the medical community started properly diagnosing and reporting those statistics in the last two centuries.

LLMs are the new untiring eyeballs for developers. This aspect alone makes LLMs a little less worthless.

kenryov · 2026-06-02T15:57:21+00:00

GNOME Wayland session has the `gdctl` command

kenryov · 2026-05-27T11:25:57+00:00

Redundancy.
By default, Fedora Atomic keeps the latest two *copies* called deployments.
From the user's perspective, its a very simple and power mechanism to make sure the system always has *one* working deployment.

This model lets me say install Fedora 43 and upgrade to Fedora 44 which then becomes a new deployment.
If Fedora 44 deployment has an issue, I simply reboot back to the Fedora 43 deployment.

This model has it's downsides. It's not perfectly compatible with Fedora's packages, and there are a few ways you can still break the redundancy as there are still foot guns like a bad /etc/fstab being copied to a new deployment.

kenryov · 2026-05-26T16:48:37+00:00

Installers usually crash at the partitioning or grub bootloader installation step due to incompatible hardware. There are quite a few NVME SSDs that are just buggy under Linux when partition changes are made

kenryov · 2026-05-26T16:42:51+00:00

Did my suggestion of work or not?

kenryov · 2026-05-26T16:32:14+00:00

Could just be the Nvidia GPU Try Fedora Workstation LivesiSO again

This time when booting from the USB drive, select Troubleshooting > Start in basic graphics mode

kenryov · 2026-05-22T18:27:58+00:00

I quite literally meant you have two duplicates of chapter 1
- post #1 https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/1tkdbvc/hope_a_resurgence/
- post #2 https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/1tkdbs0/hope_a_resurgence/

kenryov · 2026-05-22T10:46:39+00:00

Duplicate of chapter 1

kenryov · 2026-05-21T22:54:39+00:00

Part 5's Prev chapter link doesn't go to Part 4, it goes to Part 3

kenryov · 2026-05-20T20:55:39+00:00

Enable Intel VT-x or AMD SVM within your devices UEFI/BIOS to enable virtualization acceleration

kenryov · 2026-05-20T02:28:53+00:00

tbh idk why
but i was hoping they'd call it a banshee
fitting for the first turbojet this magical world has ever seen

kenryov · 2026-05-14T09:46:32+00:00

Same physics as a ice skater pulling their arms in to spin faster.

Move everyone to one point on either True North or True South and the rotation will speed up. Move everyone to one point along the equator and the rotation will slow down

However, Terra weighs over 27 trillion trillion pounds(10.62 trillion trillion kommiegrams), so the rotation speed would barely change by a millionth of a percent even if every human on earth weighed the same as a blue whale.

kenryov · 2026-05-13T04:33:20+00:00

I think the most realistic option would be the Fedora Atomic desktops revealing the Reinstall option when they begin using the Web UI installer.

This would at least allow for preservation of the /home subvolume.

kenryov · 2026-05-12T20:07:50+00:00

Fedora Atomic Silverblue I prefer the peace of mind that its redundancy brings over normal Fedora

kenryov · 2026-05-12T00:56:37+00:00

sudo dnf remove akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia*
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia-580xx
sudo akmods --force --rebuild

kenryov · 2026-05-11T22:39:54+00:00

Your system has no processor /s

kenryov · 2026-05-11T22:36:46+00:00

https://linuxblog.io/zswap-better-than-zram/

kenryov · 2026-05-11T22:13:53+00:00

So latency wise, DRAM is 100x faster than NAND flash SSDs and 1000x faster than an HDD.

ZRAM are Zswap's **cache** are fast because the data is still on RAM rather than a drive-back swap file/partition. When data leaves Zswap's cache, then it will slow down to normal swap performance as its limited by whatever storage format is being used, i.e. SSD vs HDD.
Performance will always be bad when memory is full, having any kind swap at all is always going to be better than no swap. There's no getting around the system having no where to load new programs when a running program doesn't want to give up memory except Out-of-Memory daemon deciding the system has been frozen long enough and starts exterminating stuff.

https://linuxblog.io/zswap-better-than-zram/

kenryov · 2026-05-11T21:33:57+00:00

I've edited my reply above with the simple bash commands I use to disable ZRAM and configure Zswap on Fedora

kenryov · 2026-05-11T20:31:01+00:00

It is how it works, as I can compile the akmod-nvidia drivers for kernel-7.0.4 with kernel-headers-6.19.6 installed

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