• tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
      6·
      12 days ago

      “my friend recommended I use Ubuntu”

      me (screaming internally, about canonical, about snaps, about bloat): “That… that’s good. Good choice.”

      • tungah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        12 days ago

        I say better for them to make the jump now to Ubuntu and figure out a distro better suited for their needs later on than to remain on Windows while having choice paralysis about what distro to chose.

      • luciferofastora@feddit.org
        2·
        12 days ago

        I still think it’s a decent entry choice. I won’t touch it myself anymore, personally, but Canonical is still better than Microslop. That bar is set so low that even snap can clear it.

      • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        12 days ago

        Yeah, a guy recently said that they’d jump into Mint and I could’ve said that I started on that, too (a fucking decade ago, apparently), but I was considering to tell them they could start with $BETTER_DISTRO right away for so long, that I didn’t end up saying much at all. 🫠

      • robocall@lemmy.world
        1·
        12 days ago

        I’ve been using Ubuntu for years with no desire to switch or learn more. I’ve heard the comments about canonical and snaps, which I barely comprehend. But there’s a chance one day I’ll grow an interest in what you’re talking about, and I know you’ll be there to explain it.

        • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
          0·
          11 days ago

          I’m in the same boat. I started with Ubuntu partly because I wanted to start learning ROS (robot operating system) and the documentation for that at the time mentioned Ubuntu. I’ve heard great things about Mint, which I’ll probably try soon, and when I “upgrade” my gaming desktop to Win 11 I’m partly expecting it to try and fuck with Grub and my Ubuntu partition so I’m going to probably install Bazzite once Win 11 is set up. Hopefully Bazzite is good enough for gaming that I rarely will have a need to use Windows. Sadly there is windows-only software I need. I tried Wine once and it didn’t work.

  • MrShankles@reddthat.com
    3·
    12 days ago

    I mentioned to my dad how much windows 11 sucks to use and he agreed that he can’t stand it

    So naturally, I told him about Linux, which he literally had never heard of before. I told him I’ll show him how to restore one of his old laptops with it, and he can go from there. Knowing him, I can’t wait to see “how cool” he thinks it is that he can just “fix” his own computer

    And I’ve already converted my wife, instead of buying a new MacBook cause hers is showing it’s age. She keeps her Mac for backup, but the main computer is Linux Mint. She’s even started to understand the terminal a little, even though she doesn’t really have to

    Slowly converting family and friends, simply because computers are expensive and windows sucks so hard now

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    2·
    12 days ago

    Just have a friend who finally decided switching yesterday. She picked my distro recommendation too which makes me feel all validated.

      • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
        1·
        12 days ago

        She wanted something that was an easy transition from Windows without having to learn a new interface. She is competent enough to install her own OS but wants to spend what little spare time she has on the computer gaming and not troubleshooting and maintaining. So I recommended she tries a few but primarily Bazzite with KDE and she liked it.

        Heck, I’m running Fedora KDE right now but if I ever had to change I’d probably pick Bazzite too. Immutable sounds great for my purposes. I have zero intentions of messing around with my kernel.

  • jaschen306@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    10 days ago

    Cool, does anyone know how to hack it so my HDMI connector can actually hit 240hz? Apparently HDMI is a closed standard and only Windows/Mac has the license to go that high using HDMI.

  • MithranArkanere@lemmy.world
    0·
    12 days ago

    If only there were a distro as lazy as using an Android device.
    Every time I mention this, someone comes along and mentions one or another distro, and then the caveats that keep it from being as lazy as using an Android device.

    • glibg10b@lemmy.zip
      0·
      10 days ago

      Android needs the same sort of hardware-specific configuration that other distros need. It’s just that the phone manufacturer takes care of that for you

      • MithranArkanere@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 days ago

        I wouldn’t be lazy if I cared about how the cake is made. Wait, bad analogy. I do like cooking.

        But I hope you know what I mean. Have someone else do it. Have the user just install and plug things and they work, absolutely nothing else to be done, no need for research, asking a friend, wizards, troubleshooting tools, or tutorials.

        Lazy.

    • Urist@leminal.space
      01·
      12 days ago

      What exactly do you mean? Like a distro that just works well on a phone? Yeah proper Linux phones aren’t quite there yet.

      But any of the commonly recommended distros work out of the box on PC at this point, there’s less fiddling than with windows at this point in my experience

      • Owl@mander.xyz
        1·
        11 days ago

        What exactly do you mean? Like a distro that just works well on a phone? Yeah proper Linux phones aren’t quite there yet.

        I think they meant distros that are for desktop but as easy, convenient, simple, to use as android, ios or even maybe macos

      • MithranArkanere@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 days ago

        Yup. It’s getting closer, but not quite there. This is one of the things that AI could probably help with. Grabbing all drivers and solutions done and shared by everyone across different distributions and repositories, and putting together all the adjustments and final touches needed upon installation, obfuscating the process from the user. Something that a phone with specific components and characteristics doesn’t need, unlike a custom-made computer.

      • blackbeards_bounty@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        0·
        11 days ago

        I think he means, Android runs Linux and doesn’t/can’t be tweaked for the most part. Because you don’t have root. So yes it’s opposite of what most Linux users seek, but it sure seems to be stable for years. So you can be lazy “admin’ing” it

      • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.todayEnglish
        0·
        11 days ago

        That setup is working fairly well these days though, NVIDIA Optimus configurations have been doing fine for at least a year now. Granted, my laptop is AMD + NVIDIA not Intel, but I don’t think that matters.

        • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
          0·
          10 days ago

          seriously how. I have no idea where the fucking profile configs go, I followed the instructions on the debian wiki and duplicated my login screen in a shittier resolution.

          The best “solution” I have is dumping this into the games command line on steam, but it STILL uses the intel grfx card as well as the nvidia one. playing videos for more than 5 mins overheats the intel processor while the nvidia one does fucking nothing

          __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD_PROVIDER=NVIDIA-G0 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only

          How the fuck do I use this?

          EDIT : The below doesn’t work.

          I’m thinking about following these instructions to disable a pci device, but i’m scared of bricking this fucking computer (again) and wasting another weekend re-installing the os instead of working on projects

          https://gist.github.com/pjobson/9e5f7349cf4f28bc82f82ea980047778

          I get two fucking folders presented when I scan for the PCI folder :

          lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 05)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6th-10th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 05)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 630 (rev 04)


           ls -la /sys/bus/pci/devices | grep 00:02.0 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 18 02:53 0000:00:02.0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 18 02:53 0000:02:00.0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:02:00.0

          EDIT :

           00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #4 (rev f1)
          • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.todayEnglish
            0·
            11 days ago

            I’m not sure on Debian, as Debian tends to sit on old releases of stuff for a long time. On Arch with KDE Plasma Wayland or GNOME Wayland, I just install nvidia-open-dkms and let it do its thing. Vulkan automatically uses the NVIDIA RTX 3070 in my Razer Blade 14 2021, no weird hacks or command line arguments required. Also, NVK is also quite usable, so I have set up rEFInd configs to boot with either NVIDIA driver loaded or nouveau. NVIDIA Settings is an antiquated tool and pretty useless if you’re using Wayland.

            • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
              0·
              10 days ago

              this laptop is from 2017/8 so it’s also old AF. I’m not using wayland for as long as I can, as wayland breaks my shit and leaves me mad. X11 on plasma until I upgrade the plasma package… and then we’ll see.

              • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.todayEnglish
                1·
                10 days ago

                Wayland works much better than X11 on all of my systems, it works better for render offloading due to better synchronization and it allows for variable refresh rate and HDR. It did take NVIDIA way too long to implement decent Wayland support though.