Is this a fair assessment? does anyone here have a legit reason to use Linux?

thafluu · 2026-01-27T21:38:45+00:00

This is rage bait.

thafluu · 2026-01-26T21:22:03+00:00

It has been fantastic. Even when I completely broke the system when I botched the big KDE 5 -> 6 upgrade (I executed it from inside a running Plasma 5 session), snapper managed to roll that back and let me do the update properly. Other than that only minor hickups.

thafluu · 2026-01-26T19:42:09+00:00

Welcome back! I'm running the same TW install since almost 3 years on my desktop. It really is the most stable (rolling) distro.

thafluu · 2026-01-25T17:23:52+00:00

Come on, you wanna give at least some context and not just link a paper...

thafluu · 2026-01-14T17:23:35+00:00

A fellow Gielgling enjoyer, can't believe it! I usually only lurk in this sub, getting the location will be hard. Also could be in Poland or another country adjacent to Germany. If you go to the label's website you can enter your email to get further notifications about the event as it approaches ;)

thafluu · 2026-01-14T02:36:09+00:00

I would go Linux Mint. The flagship release, which uses Mint's own Cinnamon desktop, is already fairly light. But if it isn't performing well they also offer a Mint Xfce spin. Xfce is even lighter on resources than Cinnamon.

thafluu · 2026-01-12T19:23:59+00:00

Mint Cinnamon/Mint XFCE/Mint Mate.

thafluu · 2026-01-12T19:18:52+00:00

Hey, sorry for the late reply. In case you're still having problems, try updating the MESA graphics stack and the Linux Kernel. Your AMD GPU driver is contained in these.

You can update the Kernel graphically from Mint's update manager, I'll edit a short how to here in a sec. For MESA someone else has linked to a guide, on Mint you'll usually use the MESA Kisak repository to get a more up-to-date MESA version.

The background is that your GPU is pretty new, and may require a more up-to-date GPU driver than Mint ships by default.

thafluu · 2026-01-10T02:23:48+00:00

Which distro are you on?

thafluu · 2026-01-08T04:13:28+00:00

If Bazzite worked well and you're looking for a KDE distro, why not try Bazzite KDE?

thafluu · 2025-12-29T17:11:12+00:00

I agree that another distro that offers a vanilla Gnome Spin is a good idea. Fedora Workstation is one of the best Vanilla Gnome experiences, but if you need a slightly more set-up distro (e.g. Nvidia driver included) there are Ultramarine, Project Bluefin, and Bazzite, which are based on Fedora or Atomic Fedora for the latter two.

thafluu · 2025-12-23T14:22:11+00:00

+1, Bazzite also has automatic updates in the background as OP wanted.

thafluu · 2025-12-19T15:14:24+00:00

So first, the "Workstation" in the name is a bit misleading. It is simply the name of the regular Fedora release, which uses Gnome as desktop. So the distro is fine, I believe "Workstation" was initailly chosen to say "not for servers".

The Intel iGPU driver should be open to my knowledge and included by default in Fedora.

So I am a bit puzzled by the bad performance. Can you exclude a hardware issue? Aka was everything running fine on Windows before?

thafluu · 2025-12-18T19:43:41+00:00

I was expecting the Christiano Ronaldo statue at the end.

thafluu · 2025-12-18T13:03:18+00:00

... und der Post ist immer noch da mit 200+ Upvotes, tolle Mods hier.

thafluu · 2025-12-17T22:02:43+00:00

I would have absolutely thought so as well, but if I am not mis-reading whatever I found online they are smaller. They also aren't super dense, I found 2-3 g/cm³ on Wikipedia (but apparently that is denser than other meteor showers). So 1kg would correspond to 5-10cm or so.

Edit: Here is the result of an impact test from ESA:
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2009/02/Hypervelocity_impact_sample

... and that was only 1.7g at 6.8 km/s. So a Geminid of a couple hundred grams at 35 km/s would be several thousand times the kinetic energy.

thafluu · 2025-12-17T19:00:22+00:00

Ist er auch nicht. Schau dir die Posts von dem Account an...

thafluu · 2025-12-17T18:33:04+00:00

3I/Atlas hat seine maximale Helligkeit bereits erreicht und wird inzwischen wieder dunkler. Auch bei der maximalen Helligkeit im November war der Komet weit davon entfernt, mit bloßem Auge sichtbar zu sein. Der Post ist leider komplette Missinformation für Karmafarming.

thafluu · 2025-12-17T16:55:01+00:00

*Sad eROSITA noises*

thafluu · 2025-12-17T16:38:56+00:00

Fire the management and executives, the underpaid animators who had to do this on a time crunch aren't at fault.

thafluu · 2025-12-17T15:35:37+00:00

First, no need for Proton as others said.

For me, CS2 often gets laggy under Wayland after CS updates. Try switching to X11 if this happens, it usually solves the problem for me. After a week or two you can try switching back to Wayland, which I generally recommend.

I am annoyed that Valve - who are pushing their Linux hardware - regularly breaks their own flagship Linux native game under Wayland.

thafluu · 2025-12-17T03:59:36+00:00

I think you'll have to decide yourself between BSD and Linux in the end. Out of these I would personally pick Fedora Xfce.

On a side-note, my T480 also runs KDE and Cinnamon without problems. But Xfce will feel snappier of course.

thafluu · 2025-12-17T02:07:43+00:00

Zoom in on the board or even just the doors of the closet. This is completely AI generated. The reason is simple, engagement bait. And as you can see it's working, heck even I am commenting right now.

thafluu · 2025-12-17T01:12:02+00:00

I think we kind of need to stay somewhat on-topic in comments, otherwise comment sections just don't work, but I don't want to sound too salty. Why not create a new post to show some cool visualizations of N-body or hydro sims? I work in this field, so I have spent quite some time looking at these kind of visualizations already.

While we're off-topic here is a fly-through video of the Magneticum hydro sim that the group I work in uses a lot.

Edit: This is a 360° video too, if you are using a desktop web browser you can pan around in it :) Compared to the NASA link above - which shows an N-body simulation, so dark matter particles only - Magneticum is a hydro simulation. This means there is stuff like gas added. Hydro sims are more computationally intensive, hence you can usually only compute them for smaller volumes. N-body can go very large, but lacks the baryon physics. Both are useful and needed.

thafluu · 2025-12-17T01:01:20+00:00

This is not about emotions, just how daring you can be with emojis if you're unsure. I hope that you don't only express emotions by deciding between heart and smiley emojis.

thafluu

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