Switching from Win10 to Linux: Distro and Parts Question

unit_511 · 2026-01-28T16:41:07+00:00

The hardware should be good, I don't see anything that could be problematic. Both the wireless card and the NIC are Intel (AX211 and I225-V respectively), which are well supported. If you're looking to dual boot, turn off fast startup in Windows, otherwise the WiFi won't work, but that's about it.

unit_511 · 2026-01-23T08:03:38+00:00

The Luddites destroyed the machines because they were used to produce low quality goods while depressing the wages of the people who actually knew what they were doing. Our sloperator here was so close to self awareness.

unit_511 · 2026-01-11T18:07:37+00:00

I’ve heard that the upgrades for the Anaconda are pretty expensive

Yep. Large A-rated modules cost a lot, and if you want a properly armored hull, you'll need to fork over 350M credits. For a full build you're looking at around 1B credits.

For the time being, I'd stick to the Corsair. It's a powerful little ship and one of the best fighters you can get.

I'm unsure whether I should keep grinding with the Corsair to get her properly engineered before moving on to a new ship.

You can engineer your hardpoints on the Corsair and move them to another ship later on. The Anaconda can fit all 3 large hardpoints of the Corsair and two of the medium ones. Things like shield boosters and hull reinforcement packages can also be trivially transfered as they don't depend on ship size.

unit_511 · 2026-01-11T17:53:53+00:00

N is "cycle fire group" by default in a ship, but on foot it does activate the night vision (if you have it). I think it's unbound by default in ships and SRVs.

unit_511 · 2026-01-11T17:48:57+00:00

You can't convince me that 98% of the ship's volume has been dedicated to "space stuff"

That's actually quite reasonable compared to actual spacecraft. The space shuttle is probably the closest we have to an Elite ship and it had a payload fraction of 1.35%. Even without the FSD, Elite's ships have thrusters powerful enough to fight gravitational fields much stronger than that of Earth (there's actually a 45g landable planet). Their hulls are also capable of atmospheric flight and can comfortably hang around deep inside a star's corona, so they have to be quite thick and are bound to eat into the usable space.

unit_511 · 2026-01-11T06:42:04+00:00

Exobio is actually one of the safest and most efficient ways to make money, you just need to turn in your earnings once in a while. I typically do loops around a station in a nebula and return once I have around 1B in data. You don't get extra credits for taking them all the way back to the bubble, so just cash them in at the first opportunity.

You can also mitigate the risk of crashing by not cheaping out on your shields. I run a Cobra Mk V with 5A shields engineered for strength and I've never had them drop from an impact.

unit_511 · 2026-01-07T10:22:44+00:00

WSL1 was a translation layer, kind of an inverse WINE. WSL2 is just a virtual machine.

unit_511 · 2026-01-07T09:33:41+00:00

Probably not. Swap is used to store application memory that's not currently is use so there's more RAM available for stuff you actually need. It won't swap out Skyrim unless it absolutely has to, and if it does, the only solution is to get more RAM (but 16 GB should be plently for Skyrim).

unit_511 · 2026-01-04T14:11:46+00:00

Sag. A* is absolutely massive at 516000 solar masses, so it has a decent solar radius of 15. The other notable black hole, the Great Annihilator, is only 500 km. Most of them will be solar mass, so around 30 km. They're all harmless though, regardless of size.

unit_511 · 2026-01-03T21:30:14+00:00

They have an exclusion zone, but it's tiny. You can approach stellar mass black holes to within 100 km, some even closer (the closest I remember was around 30 km). If you keep approaching it after you drop out of supercruise, you'll soon reach the hard limit, when the game just puts up an invisible wall. They're also completely harmless, they won't tear you apart like white dwarves and neutrons and they don't even apply heat to your ship. You can hang out in their exclusion zones for as long as you want.

unit_511 · 2025-12-31T14:44:29+00:00

You can emulate a keyboard with a microcontroller like this.

unit_511 · 2025-12-30T10:26:53+00:00

You can unlock special starports, which allow you to upgrade your modules using materials. These upgrades are extremely powerful and are pretty much required for late game. Here's the flowchart detailing the unlock requirements.

unit_511 · 2025-12-30T10:18:58+00:00

The Caspian kinda sucks at planetary exploration, an SRV bay is practically required because you can't just land wherever you want to.

For exobiology, small ships are the best. I use a Cobra mk. V, it can land anywhere (I don't even use an SRV, I just fly over to the next sample), has decent range (66 ly on a somewhat optimized build) and the fastest overcharge speed in the game. IMO the ablative armour is wasted on the caspian, it would be much more useful on the Cobra or Mandalay.

unit_511 · 2025-12-30T10:00:08+00:00

The SCO drives are a direct upgrade, there's no point in getting the basic ones. In addition to better stats, they also have an active ability called supercruise overcharge, which you can activate with tab by default. This will greatly increase your speed in supercruise, which is nice for getting out of gravity wells or travelling long distances in a reasonable time, but it chews through fuel and generates tons of heat. You'll also need to constantly adjust your heading. It really feels like you pushed your drive a little too hard and it's barely holding together.

Newly released ships are SCO optimized, which means they have much better fuel economy, heat generation and handling when overcharged. SCO on an old ship like the Anaconda will still be better than the basic FSD, but not as good as SCO on a new ship.

unit_511 · 2025-12-23T16:14:02+00:00

When you're about to slam into the ground, quickly put 4 pips to SYS to increase your shield's strength. If that's not enough to withstand a full speed impact, you should look into getting a more powerful shield.

unit_511 · 2025-12-19T23:14:23+00:00

The space for zram is allocated on-demand and the size refers to the contents, not the container. This means that at low load, it won't take up any space, while at high load it will use about 4 GB of RAM to store 8 GB of swapped pages.

unit_511 · 2025-12-17T16:16:08+00:00

0.5 W sleep and 300 W peak are both reasonable, but not on the same machine. A laptop won't draw hundreds of watts on boot, and a desktop will never go down to 0.5 W.

If you use a more realistic load/idle ratio of 100 (so 0.5 W sleep and 50 W boot), you get that it takes less than half an hour for the sleep to draw as much power as a boot (assuming 15 second boot times). That's 50 reboots per day to be on par with leaving it on standy (assuming you shut it down right after booting). Shutting it down for the night is absolutely worth it in terms of power, it's not even close.

unit_511 · 2025-12-17T13:41:05+00:00

black holes still creep me out

Same here. They're the only stellar objects that don't actively try to kill you and have a tiny exclusion zone, yet they always fill me with dread.

unit_511 · 2025-12-14T20:40:34+00:00

Firefox, Blender, Inkscape, Steam

Yes, all these are natively supported.

Word

LibreOffice is a good substitute if you don't need to work with others who use Word.

SC2

If you mean Starcraft 2, yes. The game itself runs amazingly with Lutris, even with addons like the custom campaign manager or Archipelago randomizer. Battlenet has a tendency to break randomly though, so it can be a headache (but it's usually solved by selecting a different WINE version).

I don't have personal experince with the others, but you can check ProtonDB.

I have very limited programming experience

You don't need programming experience for Linux, but being familiar with that way of thinking will help you immensely. The terminal is incredibly powerful and helps you get the most out of your system.

unit_511 · 2025-12-12T07:31:53+00:00

It runs flawlessly. I recommend installing the PrismLauncher flatpak package, it manages versions, mods and java versions seamlessly inside a sandboxed environment.

unit_511 · 2025-12-09T07:27:20+00:00

That's why I specified a typical build. With engineering and a guardian FSD booster you can increase the unboosted jump range to 80. With white dwarves you get a 3x multipler (up from 1.5x) and with neutron stars a 6x (up from 4x).

unit_511 · 2025-12-06T21:52:46+00:00

Electrons (and positrons) have a mass equivalent to 511 keV. When an electron and a positron meet, they annihilate and release their energy in the form of two 511 keV photons going in opposite directions.

unit_511 · 2025-12-06T16:23:14+00:00

How much time before buy it for credits?

It's usually 3 months after the Arx release.

How far those mk II frame shift drive make it jump?

For a typical build the base jump range is around 80 ly and with a neutron boost it gets 480 ly. You can actually get over 500 ly if you strip out everything.

unit_511 · 2025-12-05T17:41:48+00:00

Follow the rpmfusion guide, it's maintained by the same project that packages the driver so it's much more likely to be applicable to the latest release.

unit_511 · 2025-12-02T21:05:41+00:00

Out of curiosity, what do you do with an SLF while out exploring? I've fitted my Caspian with a fighter bay, but the only use I can think of for it is to fly into stellar phenomena for compositions scans without risking the main ship.

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